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[Music] I'm gonna start on "Anything You Say". [Music] [Music]

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♪ Hallelujah, I love to praise ♪ ♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah ♪ ♪ I love to praise, I love to praise ♪ ♪ I love to praise, I love to praise ♪

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♪ You are holy, praise ♪ [Chorus of voices] [President George W. Bush] The presentation of salvation to lost souls.

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I again, as always, I am grateful, thankful to be present tonight. to always have the opportunity to come this way. It's always a pleasure of mine to do it. Three things I know.

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One is I know I'm among friends. Amen. And I know I'm coming to the church of a fine pastor and preacher. Amen.

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And then thirdly, I know that the Lord will be pleased with revival services. [Audience "Amens"] There's no question about that. And so, for that reason, I'm always grateful to God and thankful,

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thank this pastor for inviting me to come and to share with you. Now I've been coming down here I guess for some 19 or 20 years to Austin, maybe not to this particular church that long, but I've been coming that long to Austin and for the first time tonight I got lost.

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You know sometimes maybe it's not good for you to turn where you've been turn it off. Things change, you know. I've turned just where I've been turning and goes when I ended up I ended up out at the airport. I saw a fella and he led me back to I-35. He said, "Now which way you want to go?" I said, "I want to go like you going to San Antonio." He said, "Well, you turn left." And he said, "Don't get off it until you get to San Antonio." [Laughter]

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But it's always wonderful and I'm thankful to God for the privilege. I solicited your prayers this week. I'm sure that's what all of us will be doing. All of us will be praying that God will get a hearing,

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that God will come in and he will be with us. I guess I better not say that God will come in, but that we will be aware of his presence. Amen. That we'll be aware of his presence.

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I don't plan to keep you too long tonight, but I do have a message I want to share with you here tonight. I always say this is, first night is our night, and then we go out after that and try to bring in someone to the fold. The 14th chapter of John, Gospel of John, 14th chapter of the

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Gospel of the Book of John, and I would like to read five verses beginning with verse 5. Well, I might read more than five verses, but I will begin with verse 5. Thomas said unto him, "Lord, we know not whither thou goest, and how can we know the way. Jesus said unto him I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me. If ye have known me ye should have known my Father also. And from henceforth ye know him and have seen him.

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Philip says unto him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it suffitheth us." And Jesus said unto him, "Have I been such a long time with you? And yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.

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And how sayest thou then, 'Show us the Father?'" Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself, but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the work. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me, or else believe me for the very work's sake.

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Jesus said unto them, "Have I been such long time with you, and yet thou hast not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father." He that has seen me has seen the Father. I want to talk from the subject tonight. God is already here.

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God is already here. Have I been such long time with you? Thou has not known me, Philip. He that has seen me has seen the Father.

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God is already here. Now, I don't believe, I don't think that Jesus was disappointed in Philip because of his requests. For this request had been made many times. the quest and the question about God.

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And that question and request has been made through the ages. But I feel the reason why that Jesus was disappointed in Philip is because he had been such a long time with him and had not realized that the requests had already been granted.

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For God is already here. And it is true with Christians. Many of them have been in the Church such long time, And yet they haven't altogether been definitely aware of the presence of God upon them.

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"Such long time," he said with me. Amen. You were with me, Philip, when I called the disciples beyond Joann. It was you Philip that brought Nathaniel to me You said to Nathaniel we have found him

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Jesus of Nazareth Nathaniel asked you could any good thing come out of Nazareth And Philip you told him come and see And now you asking me to show you the father

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It was you Philip who was with Andrew when the Greeks came up and wanted to see me Philip you and Andrew were the two that brought me the message And now you asking me to show you the father [Audience responds]

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You know, you can be with God a long time, and if you're not really, if you're not really scrutinizing in your reading of the Bible and prayer, you will still be unsatisfied with your religion. [Audience responds]

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Some Christian people in the church today and they're not fully satisfied With their religion. Of course the religion says yes So many people have been with him such a long time Now these questions show me God and where is God

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Where does he operate? Where does he live? All of these have tendency to put God far removed in some distant, remote, and unknown place. Whenever we do that, you know, sometimes we say, "Come on God, be with us now. Come by here."

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You know. And we put him so far away. We put him so far until, "Look, old baby, the weather's bad, he won't get here tonight." [laughter]

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You know, yeah. You know, the weather might hinder him. He's so far. And we said, "Yes, well, we had a pretty good church." And so the Lord came by right on the end.

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[Laughter] Said, "Looked like the preacher got in the spirit." Said, "Lord came by right on me." [Laughter]

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But he didn't stay long, you know. [Laughter] But, but tonight we, we are taking a second look. And we are coming up with, with, with, with the understanding

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that God is already here. He's already here. He is way up in the sky some trillions of miles and we love to think that he's sitting down looking on us or plowing at us or laughing at us at times and when trouble arise many times we say like Joe, "Oh if I knew where I might find God." Amen.

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Philip's question unfolded the long unanswered mystery. "Lord, show us the Father and it will suffice us." When one is not able to spiritually visualize God, it fills his belief with doubt.

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Everything about us and our fellowship is done in anticipation. When we have doubt in our belief, when we are not sure if God is with us, if we are not sure about God and not aware of God's presence, then we will go through a whole service with anticipation, hoping that we're going to feel the spirit, hoping that we're going to have a good time, hoping that things are going to be all right,

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because we have doubt in the first place about the awareness of his presence. Therefore, we believe that and consequently we'll worship with anticipation, our hope, amen, and our looking for God, our faith will be anticipated simply because we are not certain about visualizing God's presence. Amen. We will be unsatisfied. And many times we will spend an entire worship service anticipating his presence,

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hoping that he will come, looking, waiting, and watching for God to come in. Amen. Philip, have you been such a long time with me? And have failed to see the Father?

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Hipley, Lord Jesus. You've been all this time with me, and you've failed to see the Father. You've been walking with me, and you've heard me talk about him. And now you're asking me to show him to you.

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We must know him. We must know God. As a permanent companion. and not as a visiting deity.

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Amen. For God is already here. We must know him not as one who visits occasionally. Help me, Lord Jesus.

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We must not know him as somebody who might come by tomorrow. But we must have an awareness of him who is a permanent companion. For he said, "Lord, I'm with you always, even to the end of the world." He's with us always.

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Help me, Lord Jesus. God is already here. In fact about it, God was here before we got here. Am I right, children?

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Touch me, Holy Spirit. For I understand that God is omnipresent, which means He is everywhere at the same time. Am I right, children? Help me, Lord Jesus.

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He's here, and if you left home, He's there. If you got out of your car, He's in it. Am I right, children? And when you get in your car, He'll already be there.

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When you get home and open your door, you are already there. God is already here. [Audience chatter] Just be aware of His presence. Everybody here, just have that awareness that God is right here now.

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And whatever I want, just ask Him, and He will answer. Whatever I need, just ask Him, He will give it to me. God is already here. Philip, have you been such a long time with me?

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And have not seen the Father? Shame on you, Philip. But walking all this time with me and haven't seen the Father? And he went on to tell them, said, "I'm in the Father, and the Father is in me."

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And he said, "What's that I do? I speak not of myself, but the Father that dwelleth in me, he does the works." And then it went on to say, "Now you either believe that I'm in the Father, or the Father is me, or you believe me for the good of the works sake." I know you've seen some of the works. I know you were there, Philip, when I fed the five thousand. And I know human beings can make three thousand people with two fishes and five litters of milk.

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Now, if you don't believe that, at least believe that. Am I right? If you believe that, then will things be alright? Help me, Lord Jesus. Now, you know, children, I said some time ago, and I love to say that,

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you see, He said, "When you see the Father, you see me." Now, the Father revealed himself through two great events. Amen. They are his birth and his death.

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The Father was revealed through the birth of Jesus Christ and through the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. He was revealed to great events, and it was set so everybody could understand it. He did it so we would know that he had come down with us.

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Am I right? With God's Spirit, the only way he could get close to us was to wrap himself in human flesh. You see, God was Spirit. And the Father being Spirit, he did all he could do working with Moses.

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He worked the best he could with prophets. He would hide himself around the hills and cover himself up with smoke and fire and speak out of the smoke to Moses and tell Moses to tell them. But they didn't believe him. They told him, said, "We want to see him." So he was running up there talking with him, coming back. How do we know he said that?

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So God had to reveal himself. Am I right, children? Well, the only thing, the way he could do it, would be to wrap himself in human flesh. Help me Lord Jesus.

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So the Bible says, "The Word became flesh and came upon us." And who held his glory? Am I right, children? He had to reveal himself.

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So then he was very God and very man. Now by the Father coming into flesh, I'm not going to be long tonight, but as much as the Father came into the flesh, that didn't water him down. That didn't weaken God's Spirit by coming into the flesh.

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Because the one thing about it, he handled it very good. You see, they never did blend. Oh yeah, the flesh never did enter ever into the divine. And the divine never did enter ever into the human. I know I'm right. They were blended. Now they blended well. They were very compatible.

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They had a beautiful balance, that way on Jesus. They cooperated with each other. They worked with one another. They were bad fellows. They slept together. They got up together. They walked together. But they never did spill over into one another. [Laughter]

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Help me, Lord Jesus. Bear with me while I talk. And that's the way it is with us as Christians. My Christianity ain't got no business spilling over into my humanity. Am I right?

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My Christianity ain't got no business liking what my humanity does. Come on with me, children. I know I'm right. Heck, my Lord Jesus.

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Whatever my humanity do, Christianity got to vote against it. Am I right? If I didn't vote against it, I wouldn't have nothing to keep me. I know I'm right about it. Help me, Lord Jesus. It doesn't spill over. The Bible said it wasn't blended. But it also said that they worked in harmony. Amen, whenever he got ready to express himself, amen, on Mary's side, he just turned off his father's side.

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Help me Lord Jesus. Whatever he wanted to do, he just turned one off, turned on the other. I remember when he went to sleep back on the ship. Amen, he got sleepy on Mary's side. Am I right? Not on his father's side, but he got sleepy on Mary's side. And he lied down to sleep on Mary's side.

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And they woke him up and said, "Caross, we perish!" And he got up and turned on Mary's side, and turned on his father's side, and said, "Eat me still!" [Crowd noise] [Man 1] That God! They worked in harmony together!

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And then when he got through working for his father and got the water calmed, and the wind ceased, then he went on back to sleep on Mary's side. [Crowd noise] They never did bleed him.

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Help me, Lord Jesus. I'm glad of that, aren't you children? I'm very glad of that. Now listen, first of all, I said,

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the two things that I want to mention and then close, is that the Father revealed himself to us first in the belief of his Son Jesus. Amen.

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Now when the Holy Ghost came to Mary and stated to her, announced to her that she would conceive and bear a child, he already had the name. Am I right? He didn't go around and pick around among the cousins and all and say, "What do you think we ought to name?" He already had the name. He said, "Now, where he can see you, you're going to name him Jesus." Am I right about it?

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And they put that on the Emmanuel, and he said, "Which means, by interpretation, God with us." [Audience] Yes, that's right. [Priest] That's what it means, God with us. He came down here to be with me.

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[laughter] What a mighty honor, don't you? If President Carter would come to Austin today, he would come to get with the dignitaries. And then tie her up on the street, and that's as close as he'll let you get there.

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But when the father came, he came to be with me. [laughter] Isn't that beautiful? God with us.

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Nobody has to tire no rope. He said, "I'm come boldly to the throne of grace, and I can find grace in a time of need. I don't have to go to nobody else.

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I'm going straight to God." Beautiful, isn't it, sir? He came to be with us. Yes he did. He came to be with us. The divine in it the human. And that is called incarnation.

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Amen. All we know, amen, all we want to know about the Father, the Son reveals it. Am I right? The folk of that day admitted that they didn't know who he was. There's always been some hang-ups on that. They said they didn't know who he was. He tried to have a room, they didn't let him in.

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They said we don't have no room here in the inn. Because they said we didn't know who you was. He had to go down to the stable and was born in a stable. Because they didn't know who he was.

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They had trouble identifying him. And people today got trouble identifying God. Am I right, children? Help me, Lord Jesus.

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The incarnation was an act of the Father coming to be with us through the Son. So He revealed Himself to us through the Son. And then, secondly and lastly, Christ showed us the Father through His death on the cross. Am I right?

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Amen, I think that scripture goes something like this, in Corinthians I suppose, "God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself." Am I right? Yeah, God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself.

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Now if you want to know what that means by reconciling, it means that he was making friends with the Lord Jesus. It means that he was making arrangements for my salvation. It means he was talking to the world, telling them that there comes a Christian who is going to come home.

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Come home, tell him the world how that Christian is going to act. I'm telling the Lord that I'm going to protect him now. Who will make an arrangement for my salvation. He was on the cross.

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Am I right, children? I'm glad he died upon that cross. Bringing into agreement our harmonizing the two opposing factions. That's all he was doing.

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In this case, he was making peace between God and man. And in doing so, he did it all through Jesus Christ. In that I turn, God was in Christ making arrangements for my salvation. Just as holiness has been dissatisfied for a long time.

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just to say somebody got to die. Nothing less than death would pay the price for my sins. Am I right about it? Before God, before the Father came, in the flesh,

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he said other things to see if they could pay the price for the sin that Adam had made. He said two tarot cards. And my wife's a lady.

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And they surrendered without a blemish. And told them to pick the best lamb they had out of their flock and lay him on the altar to be set up for a sacrifice. And my wife's a lady.

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They tried everything, but justice kept them quiet. Nothing but death. Nothing but death. I don't want no news, I don't want no sacrifices.

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Somebody's gonna die, somebody from heaven must die. Am I right, children? Oh, God came down from that cross and, am I right, children? Somebody said they believe he died, but I'm saying he did die.

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Am I right to you, oh Lord? Somebody asked me, wonder why did the Lord turn his back on the Son? But he said, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" He wasn't turning his back on his Son, but he was turning his back on the sin that the Son had on his shoulders.

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Am I right to you, oh Lord? He died, yes he died, am I right to you? He died until all was understood, that this must be the Pharaoh. This can't be a human being died, because when he put his head in the box of his shoulder,

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The centurion looked at him and cried out, "Soldi!" [BLANK_AUDIO]