<TITLE>17. Par 192-204</TITLE>L-192 Did you hear the news tonight, how that, in this very state, I forget how many hundred teachers, school teachers, were proven to be homosexuals. Tonight's news. Oh, it's rotten to the core, everything. The government, they claim, and the government officials, there is nearly forty percent of them, proved, homosexuals. My office is piled with letters, mother crying, that their boy is living with boys. And, see, it's just the day we're living in. Everything!

L-193 Nations are breaking. Israel is awakening. She is in her homeland. The fig tree is putting forth its buds.

L-194 Oh, the church is asleep in Laodicea. And Jesus, trying to get some cooperation, and can't even do it!...?... See? Yet, with all the things that the Scripture says, the church snoozes right on away, in a bed of worldliness.

L-195 Oh, church, if you can't understand the Word, just open your heart and see if He don't identify Himself like He did then, "the same yesterday, today, and forever."
Let us bow our heads a moment.

L-196   Heavenly Father, sometimes maybe... I don't mean to be rashel with the people. I don't mean to be rough. But, Lord, it's the expression of a carpenter, "How can you make the board stay on, unless you clinch the nail?" So I pray, God, that they'll understand that it's just through Christian love that--that we try to drive This down. It might be the visitation of some people here, for the last time that they'll ever be permitted. It might be the last time that we'll ever meet together. This city may never have another revival like it.

L-197 Yet, sometime, they'll be going on, "having a revival," they claim, and the church has done gone, done sealed away, the door. Noah was in the ark when the door closed behind him, seven days before the rain ever come, that nobody could enter the ark. The world went right on, just the same.

L-198 And someday it might be the same thing, they might wake up to what Jesus said, when the disciples said, "Why does the scribes say, 'Elias must first come'?" Jesus said, "He's already come and you didn't know it."

L-199   So could it be, the Coming, and catch away. One of these days, they'll get into the Tribulation. They'll say, "I thought the Bride was going. The church going in the tribulation?" Sure, the church going in the tribulation, but not the Bride. "Why is this supposed to be first?"

L-200 And then the Word might be, "She's already gone. You didn't know it." They'll be going on, having church, just the same.

L-201 God, let the people, tonight, though they don't understand the Scriptures, It may be riddle to them, but just let each one say, "Then, Lord Jesus, You Who are present, come in and abide with me. I--I have need. I read in the Bible where a woman touched Your garment, and You turned around and told her what her trouble was, and said that her faith saved her. And I read in the Bible this much, that You are now 'a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities,' and You're 'the same yesterday, today, and forever.' Now come into my heart, Lord, and reveal to me. Though I have walked, and I've loved You, but I really haven't never seen it done. So I pray, God, that You'll do it for me, tonight."

L-202 Grant it to them people, Father. And may our eyes be opened, all over the church, and we'll see that lovely, sweet resurrected Lord Jesus, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Grant it. May our eyes be opened, for the Kingdom of God's sake, in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.

L-203   Now, to let you out on time, I wouldn't have time to call a prayer line up here, although they maybe got prayer cards. You don't need to be up here. God is just as great, out here, as He is anywhere.

L-204 He's, you think, omnipresent? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Certainly, He is. He's omnipresent because He's omniscient. Now, He comes back again, 'cause He, by being omniscient, He knows all things. So, therefore, He--He is everywhere, by being omniscient.


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