And as he drew near to me, I
felt that glorious attraction.
Sir, we would see Jesus, sir.
We would feel Jesus.
We would have his presence come into our
gathering tonight, that all might feel him and
know him.
What are you looking for?
Sir, we would see Jesus.
We would have that hope that we too
would see Jesus.
He would reveal himself to some of us
as to the disciples in the maze road.
He would appear and walk with us.
Some, he might come into a locked chamber
and there reveal himself.
If we could transport ourselves back into that
first century and we were all alive with
the apostles and with these early Christians, immediately
after his resurrection, at this very day of
his resurrection, we would hope that we too
might be privileged to see him in his
resurrection hour.
I would love to see Jesus like that,
but it's as though in the back of
my consciousness, it's as though there comes almost
a voice steadying me and a word comes
in.
Yea, though we have known Christ after the
flesh, yet know we him so no more.
Don't you realize that he said, Lo, I
am with you always, even to the end
of the age.
And though your human eyes may never see
the form of the Lord Jesus, there is
an inward, not just an eye, but there
is an inner heart.
There is an inner being that can reach
out and you not only see the Lord
Jesus, but you feel the Lord Jesus, and
you are one with Christ in an indissoluble
union.
You are part of Jesus Christ.
You are one in Christ and with him.
I believe you who are baptized in the
Holy Spirit can have a closer union.
You can be one with him, baptized in
the Holy Spirit.
What spirit?
The Holy Spirit.
The spirit by which Christ was raised from
the dead.
Having that spirit moving in power within you,
dominating your life, leading you, directing you, controlling
you.
What spirit?
Stay in ponder.
It's not the spirit of a great man.
It's not the spirit of a great leader.
It's the spirit of Almighty God.
You know, as we go along the road
and we're attacked by the wicked one, and
we're sometimes mauled in the battle, and our
wounds run red with blood as the claw
marks come down our spiritual being, and we
grow weary at times by the way, bloody
but unbeaten, arises a longing to just feel
Jesus, and I feel tonight I could have
gathered the whole company in my arms, and
I know that there are needs here, and
there are wounds, and there are putrefying sore,
and he's there at the sheepfold with the
oil of healing, and each as it comes
through the gateway is the touch of his
hand, and he feels for the wound, and
he pours in the oil, and he makes
you whole again.
Relax.
He wants you now.