<TITLE>14. Par 126-135</TITLE>L-126   And now notice, in that great hour when all hope was gone, of survival, they seen Somebody come, walking on the water, walking up. And the thing, the sad part, listen close, the only thing that could help them, they was afraid of. They said, "It looks spirity. It might be, you know, a spirit."

L-127 If that hasn't happened again! They're afraid of It. They're afraid of fortunetelling, they're afraid of some kind of a devil power; when Jesus said It would happen in this day. The only thing that can help them is Jesus Christ. Not another denomination, not all of them joining together; that's just going to make it worse than ever. The only thing that can help you is Jesus Christ.

L-128   And when He promised to return in the last days, in this form, and do this, promising (just like before the promised son returned to Abraham, the first seed) the royal seed of Abraham, Jesus would... said would see the same thing. Before the promised Son, God would manifest Hisself in flesh and do exactly like Jesus did, like He said He would do, just like said would be done in the last days. And here all those promises, that we could lay them out, by dozens, right here before you, that this is supposed to take place.

L-129 And the churches, which ought to be with arms out, to receive It, "I'm a little afraid of That. It don't belong to our group, see." And they're a scared of It. The only thing that can bring them to Christ, is Christ Himself, and they're afraid that It's scary. "Oh, I don't know. That might be spirited, you see. And I don't know about It." A scared of the only thing that can help them.

L-130   And in that dark hour of distress, those elected church, that group sitting out there, scared that it might be spooky, they didn't want to have nothing to do with it. Then come that sweet Voice, "Be not afraid. It is I."

L-131 He is the Word. Isn't He? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] He never changes, to be the Word. Now can't you hear the Word say, tonight, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Be not afraid; it is I"? ["Amen."]
Let us bow our heads.

L-132   Heavenly Father, the--the evening is hot. The hours are dark, how that the Fire has gone from the altar. You're gleaning across the field. You said, "The Kingdom is like unto a man that took a net and went to the sea, cast it in, and when he brought it out. The Kingdom was like that." Lord God, someday that last fish that's in that water! You said, "They taken all kind." That Gospel net catches all kind; it caught turtles, crawfish, spiders, serpents, scavenger fish. We don't know what it catches, but there was some fish there You were after. You're the One that's the Judge. But we realize, quickly the turtle, the crawfish, and all, get back to the mudhole again, back to the waters. But someday that last fish that's ordained, predestined to come, that last part of the Body, will be drawed out of that lake.

L-133   You throwed out a net in the days of Luther, and Wesley, Alexander Campbell, John Smith, Calvin, Knox, Finney, Sankey, so forth; in the Pentecostal age, the days of F. F. Bosworth, and Frochman, those great men. You throwed out nets, the days of Billy Sunday, on down through the age.

L-134 And now You're still combing through the sea. Is there one of them sitting here tonight, Lord? If it is, may they be like that little woman at the well. Even in her prostituted state, she still recognized that You was the Messiah. She saw that sign. That was it. She said, "I perceive You're a prophet." She had no idea that it could be Messiah. She said, "We are looking for a Messiah," in other words. "We know when the Messiah cometh, He'll tell us these things." And You said, "I am He." That was it.

L-135   Now, tonight, Lord, let them see that, "It is I; be not afraid. It's My promise." Heal the sick, Lord, save the lost, fill the empty.


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