It is Thursday evening and day two of the five-day meetings in Beaumont, Texas. The service is being held at the Municipal Auditorium for the second consecutive night.
Here are a few highlights from, “When Their Eyes Were Opened, They Knew Him.”
And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.
And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.
But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.
And he said unto them,
What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?
And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?
And he said unto them,
What things?
And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:
And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.
But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.
Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre;
And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.
And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.
Then he said unto them,
O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.
But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.
And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.
And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.
And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
He is the Eternal One, and then these things that's happening now are only the attributes of God's thinking. At first, it has to be a thought, and then a Word. And a Word, when a thought expressed, is a word. And then, It spoken, It has to happen. And the whole thing is God unfolding Himself in His attributes, and then God being made material, tangible, that we can talk to, speak with, in His whole Church Body and everything.
Anything that was Eternal never did begin and cannot end. So you were only in His thinking, your name, who you are and what you are. That's the only way you could ever have Eternal Life, 'cause you always was.
We have a right, with the Blood of Jesus Christ, our Token, that we are a purchased of God. That, God has paid our redemption, through Jesus Christ, and we have a right to hold that Token over anything that we ask, and receive it. God said so! That settles it. If we could just believe all the Scriptures!
Now that's the trouble today, the reason I think He don't appear to so many of us, is because we don't talk about Him enough. We've got other things we got to talk about.
There is only one sane thing, and that's Jesus Christ the Son of God, and His Gospel has the answer to every thing. Our books of psychology, and all these things, are nonsense. If it's contrary to this Word, throw it away. God's Word is right, and all others are wrong.
Notice, inside, He opened their eyes to Who He was, Who He was. Now if He can get inside of you, tonight, to your faith line, He can open your eyes, to show you Hebrews 13:8 is right, that, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." If He can get inside and open your eyes, He will do the same now.
Which side are you on, tonight? Now you've got to be either associated with the Pharisees, or associated with the apostles, or the believers.
Honest to goodness, the whole world, look like it's got a pressure on it. Just, I don't know how to explain it, but it's here. Friends, wake up! It's later than we think.
Jesus was God in man. That's the reason He discerned their thoughts, God in man! Repeated it again, said it would be repeat again in the last days.
A gift is knowing how to get yourself out of the way, and let God do what He wants to do. See, it's knowing how to relax yourself, that God can use you in the way that He wants to. Just get yourself out of the way.
The rest of you believe? Stand up on your feet now. What about you getting up? I don't care what's wrong with you, raise up. Raise your hands and give Him praise.
Lord Jesus, they're in Your hands, in the Name of Jesus Christ!