SHOW'M JESUS!             DO 2074           1/1/86
--Dad's New Year's Message for 1986!

         1. THE LORD IS REQUIRING THIS GENERATION & MOST OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME, TO BELIEVE BY FAITH IN HIS WORD, JUST TO BELIEVE THE WORD, just to believe what He said. "Faith comes by hearing the Word of God"--today! (Rom. 10:17) Faith in the Millennium will be coming by not only hearing the Word of God, but seeing! You'll see the Kingdom of God on Earth! Nobody will have to convince you then that there's a God & that Jesus Christ His Son is the King of kings ruling the World, you will see the evidence of it on every hand.
         2. BUT MORE BLESSED ARE YE, WHO THOUGH HAVING NOT SEEN, YET HAVE BELIEVED! (Jn. 20:29) That is a principle of the spiritual Kingdom of God, that He is going to bless those who have simply believed by faith in the spirit & the Spirit World, including the death of Christ for you. You weren't there at the cross, you didn't see it happen, you don't know anything about it except somebody told you.
         3. THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN BE SAVED TODAY IS BY THE WORD, GOD'S WORD! But the Millennial Kingdom will come & that era of faith & belief will come even by having seen. But they will not have as great a blessing as you have, because you believed though having not seen.
         4. ONE OF THE BASIC FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE OPERATION OF THE SPIRITUAL KINGDOM OF GOD & THE SPIRIT WORLD, is that you must believe though having not seen. You just heard somebody tell you the Gospel about the Love of Jesus, maybe they showed you the Love of Jesus too, in their life, in their face, in their deeds, & you believed.
         5. BECAUSE THE ONLY PROOF YOU CAN SEE TODAY IS IN THE FACES OF THE WITNESSERS! And they look in our faces & they see it! Because you are the Word! As a witness you become the Word of God! So the only way they can find faith is by seeing the Word in you & hearing the Word through you. Every one of you, every witness is the Word! You're all little Jesuses, in a way, because you all have the Spirit of Christ, you all have Jesus in your hearts, you all manifest the Love of Christ, so you're all supposed to be like Him, & you are!
         6. YOU ARE CHRIST'S, HE SAYS, YOU BELONG TO HIM! (1Cor.3:23) Your body is His!--Your mind, your heart, your life! Just as Jesus was the Word of God when He was on Earth, you are now the Word of God while you're still here on Earth! You carry the Word of God & the Word of Salvation just as much as Jesus did.
         7. THAT'S ALL PEOPLE TODAY ARE GOING TO GET! THAT'S ALL THEY DESERVE! They do deserve at least some chance. But there are billions that have never even had a chance to hear the Gospel, to really know what it takes to be saved, or even understand what Jesus did on the cross. There are still billions of people that have never really had a chance to be saved, because they have never really heard the Gospel, much less seen the Gospel in you.
         8. AS DWIGHT L. MOODY SAID, "THE ONLY BIBLE THE WORLD READS IS BOUND IN SHOE LEATHER!" I guess he must have gotten that lesson from selling shoes. But I'll tell you, he began really preaching the Gospel & he was a great personal witness. That was his great strong forte long before he started preaching in churches. He was just an ignorant young shoe clerk that never even finished school, but he was winning more souls than the Christians in the churches! So then they started coming to him to find out how he did it. He'd just tell'm, "Watch me while I'm selling shoes, watch how I witness." Because a man led him to the Lord personally. Moody would have never become a great soulwinner & preacher of the Gospel if it hadn't been for an unheard-of little nobody called Charles L. Varley. But Moody heard the Word of God & he saw Jesus in Charles L. Varley!
         9. LOTS OF PEOPLE SAY, "I SEE A LIGHT ON YOUR FACE! I see something in you that I've never seen before!" That's the one little confirmation God gives. Someone has said, "You can't prove God exists, you can't put God in a test tube & prove to me that God is." I want to tell you right now, He's put Himself in you, & you are the living, visible proof that there is a God, just like His Creation! But you go even beyond that. Just your very bodies are the proof that there's a God! But your love, the light in your eyes & on your faces & the wonderful spirit that people feel from you, proves not only that there's a God, but that God loves them.--You're the proof!
         10. EVERY ONE OF YOU IS THE LIVING PROOF OF SALVATION! You're all test tubes that prove not only that there's a God, which even the whole World can see just by His Creation & see there's a God, but that Jesus saves! They can look at you & see the living proof. But not everybody in the World has had that opportunity, not everybody in the World has ever heard the Gospel. They may have heard of Jesus but they don't really understand who He was or what He did. If we don't reach them now, they'll get a chance in the Millennium. But they won't be as blessed as you are & as the ones you're reaching now with the Gospel.
         11. YOU'RE GIVING THESE PEOPLE THE MOST MARVELLOUS OPPORTUNITY TO BE THE MOST BLESSED OF ALL PEOPLE that will live in the future of the Universe, because you were the originals, the ones who believed without seeing! That's a great work to have done, to have believed without seeing.
         12. JUST THINK, YOU'RE GOING TO BE THE EDUCATORS, THE GOVERNORS, THE RULERS OF THE WHOLE WORLD IN THE MILLENNIUM! We are going to run the educational system of the World! We've got to re-educate the whole World that's left. Because they'll be the ones who never really heard how to get saved, didn't know the Gospel, really didn't understand Jesus, never had an opportunity to make a choice. They're the only ones that deserve to be spared & to live on through Armageddon into the Millennium.
         13. YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE ALL KINDS OF PROOF THEN, NO PROBLEM, & THEY'RE GOING TO BELIEVE BECAUSE THEN THEY HAVE SEEN. But right now you've got the tough job of trying to get people to believe, though having not seen. They may not realise it, but they're seeing the living proof right now when they look into your eyes & your face & they hear your words. You have become Jesus Christ to them, the Word of God! "Christ in you, the hope of glory!" (Col.1:27)
         14. I'VE HEARD ABOUT PEOPLE THAT WERE LOOKING AT US & THEY SAID, "WHY, YOU'RE JESUS CHRIST!" Who knows? Maybe they saw Jesus! Maybe the Lord revealed Himself to them. The Lord will let them see Jesus in you if He's merciful to them. But they're seeing the only Jesus they will ever see until they get to Heaven--in you! You are not only Jesus to them, but you are the Word of God to them! You are the walking Bible! Every single one of you is the living Word of God, because you have Jesus & you manifest Him & His Word.
         15. THAT'S THE WORD THE LORD HAS FOR YOU AS WE BEGIN THIS NEW YEAR! I want you to remember that the only thing that people are going to see to help prove to them that there's a God & there's a Jesus & there is Love is what they see in you! And the only Word they're going to get & pay any attention to is the Word they hear from you. Because most of the sinners are not going to be reading the Bible or even our Letters or lit.
         16. BUT THE ONLY REAL PROOF THEY'RE GOING TO SEE IS YOU! All the rest has to be faith. And even God plants that seed of faith in their hearts to help them believe in you by His Spirit. They have to believe in you before they can even believe in the Lord! I've often said, they have to fall in love with you first before they can fall in love with the Lord, because you represent God to them! You are the only Jesus they'll ever see till the Lord comes! And you are the only Word they'll ever hear!
         17. SO THE BIGGEST JOB YOU HAVE TO DO THIS YEAR IS TO GO AROUND SHOWING JESUS TO THE PEOPLE! And you who are in selah Units, if you don't actually do it in public, you're doing it right at home by making it possible for thousands of our Family to show Jesus!
         18. YOU ARE JESUS & YOU ARE THE WORD OF GOD TO THE WORLD OF TODAY! Do you understand? Don't be afraid of being called Jesus! He lives in you, right? So if they see any Light, if they see any Love, if they hear any Truth, if they find the way, they've found out through seeing Jesus in you & hearing His Words through you.
         19. SO THAT'S THE BIGGEST JOB WE ALL HAVE IN THESE LAST DAYS, TO SHOW JESUS TO THE WORLD--in our faces, in our actions, in our eyes, whatever they want to call it. They really feel the difference! It's just something they see & feel & know! I'm telling you your future for this year, & that is to be the Word of God to the nations!--To be the Love of Christ to the World! The biggest & greatest thing you can do this year is to let others see Jesus in you!
         20. WHEN JESUS WAS HERE HE WAS ONLY ONE JESUS, BUT NOW THERE ARE MILLIONS OF US all over the World that ought to be showing Jesus to the rest of the World! They should be hearing Jesus through us. "Greater works than these shall ye do!" What greater work can you do than that, than to show Jesus to others & let them hear Jesus through you & let them find Jesus through you to save an immortal soul forever! That's the greatest work anybody can do!
         21. MIRACLES, SUPERNATURAL THINGS, GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT, ALL THESE THINGS ARE FOR JUST ONE PURPOSE, they are tools of the Spirit, that the Spirit uses in you to either give the Gospel to the World or give spiritual food to the Saints, to the saved. But it's all for the purpose of winning souls.
         22. SO IF HE'S GIVEN YOU A BEAUTIFUL BODY, A BEAUTIFUL FACE, USE IT AS A TOOL TO WIN SOULS! If He's given you a strong, fine, handsome male body to be a demonstration of the power of God, use it to win souls! Let others see Jesus in you! Let others hear Jesus from you! And you will still have many many more souls won who will be more blessed than anybody else throughout all Eternity, because they believed, though having not seen or heard Jesus in any other way except through you!
         23. IT'S A BIG RESPONSIBILITY! THE ONLY JESUS THEY'RE GOING TO SEE & HEAR IS YOU! That's our job for this World's last generation. This is the last time they're going to see Jesus or hear Jesus before He comes, & that's in you & through you. That's a very great privilege that you have, to show them & let them hear Jesus through you, & it's a very great privilege for them to believe in what they see in you & what they hear from you, even though not having seen Jesus nor God, though having not seen the Spirit World or Heaven, not even as much as you have. They are especially chosen, especially called, especially blessed, for "though having not seen, yet they have believed."
         24. THAT'S THE GREATER WORK THAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO THIS YEAR! The greatest work you can do is to be responsible for the salvation of more souls! PTL? (Sings:) "Let others see Jesus in you, let others see Jesus in you..." "I crossed over Jordan to Canaan's fair land, let others see Jesus in me!" Can they see Jesus in you?
         25. AND LET OTHERS HEAR JESUS FROM YOU! That's your job, Family, for the rest of this time that God gives you here, the privilege of letting others see Jesus only in you & hear Jesus only from you!
         26. SO LORD BLESS YOU & MAKE YOU A BLESSING TO MANY MORE THOUSANDS OF SOULS TO BE WON THIS YEAR. TYL! Help us to win them even faster than we won them last year! May they see Jesus in us! May they hear Jesus through our Family throughout the World, & through other Christians too, Lord, who really love You & are preaching the Gospel & really witnessing & winning souls, all Thy great Family everywhere who are faithful. Bless thy missionaries around the World who've left their native lands & comfort & pleasure, sacrificing to live in a foreign country as ambassadors of Thy good will. Make them a blessing and may we win many many more souls this coming year as others see & hear Jesus in us!--In Jesus' name we ask for Thy glory. Amen!
         DO OTHERS SEE JESUS IN YOU?

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