We are speaking of the term "Great Salvation", and the definition of that is "much more" Salvation: that which is exceedingly, abundantly above - MUCH MORE! Much more than what? Much more than even it has been said to be! Much more than the administration of angels could describe it as being - MUCH MORE! And the whole Eternal Plan of God has to be seen from the centrality of The Cross. If you take The Cross out of God’s Eternal Plan - it ceases, it vanishes. Everything is tied to, predicted by, and fulfilled in The Work of The Cross with regard to The Eternal Plan of God. And The Cross - being His death, His burial, His resurrection; is distinctly HIS: not some death, some burial, some kind of resurrection. No - HIS death, HIS burial, HIS resurrection: that is The Work of The Cross, and it is central to The Eternal Plan of God.

But now we will go to Hebrews 1:2 and deal with the Mystery made manifest: the necessity of seeing. What God hath done - the necessity of seeing with the eyes of our understanding: seeing with the eyes of our understanding. Paul’s epistles to every church are along this line. Paul starts out each of his epistles: "A servant of", "An apostle of" - in relation to the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul never speaks except out from his relation to the Lord Jesus Christ. Think about that! He never speaks, he never writes or does anything except out from a relation with the Lord Jesus Christ - a distinct, a particular, a peculiar relation with the Lord Jesus Christ. And whatever relation he is comprehending; that’s the tenor of that letter. That letter is going to express Paul’s relationship with the Lord. He states a particular relationship: "Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be separated unto the gospel..." Now you might as well get ready that the rest of this letter is going to present Christ as the gospel. And it’s that way in every epistle: however he identifies himself to Christ, and all that greatness of Christ - the rest of that letter is going to express Christ in that way. And in everyone of his letters you won’t get out of three chapters until he is saying, ‘my prayer for you, my desire for you, the will of God for you is that YOU COME TO SEE THIS, that you come to see: that the eyes of your understanding be enlightened, the mystery which hath been made manifest.’ All of those things come from a root word meaning "see, shown, revealed, given sight, made plain, exhibited". That you see: the necessity of seeing.

And here’s where the great difference comes: Many have HEARD, but few have SEEN what they have heard. So they have substituted their own imagination for seeing, and their preaching becomes an expression of that. If you’re by yourself camped out in the woods at night, you can’t see outside the circle of light of your own campfire. You hear a sound - and what you heard was real, and whatever made that sound was true - a true sound is made. But without seeing you don’t have any idea what it is. You know you heard something - what you heard was true, but you can’t see what you heard, so you start wondering what you heard. And pretty soon you are imagining what you heard: that’s everything from spooks to grizzly bears, depending upon where you are. And if you hear it again, all it does is fortify your imaginations - then you KNOW that’s what you heard! And the more you hear, the more your imagination is fortified, because you’re blind as a bat; you haven’t seen anything, but you’ve heard. And without seeing you will inevitably substitute your imagination; it is automatic as breath - you will substitute your imagination. Then you will fortify your imagination, and then you will swear you heard such and such - you’ll say it!

Someone will say, ‘ did you see it?’ You’ll say, ‘I didn’t have to see it - I heard it!’ Somebody can take you out and show you, after all of that, what you heard, and nine times out of ten you’ll say, ‘no sir, that is not what I heard. I know what I heard.’ They can show you the truth after the fact, after the imagination has already set in, and after you’ve already preached it. They can show you the truth, but you won’t believe it - that’s the course of things. That’s how you can hear terms, and hear things, and still come up speaking something other than Christ, because sight is necessary to the mystery being made manifest. Made manifest - made known: that means the mystery seen, shown. The mystery was heard for years, the mystery was heard from all the prophets. They all spoke; and what they spoke was true, but what they spoke was not seen: it was HEARD but NOT SEEN. And in the course of time imaginations replaced it. So that when He Who was what they spoke - showed up, came - in all the fulness of what they said: those to whom the prophets spoke looked at Him and said, No sir, that’s not Him! And they became blind leaders of the blind: not deaf - BLIND!

I used to wonder how can people hear all this and then come up with what they are saying? It’s because they don’t see! They hear, but they don’t see. They hear all these terms. They hear "in Christ", "Sonship", they hear "Body Ministry", they hear "we’re the House of God." They hear all these things, but they’re just blind: they never see these things in the face of Jesus Christ, because the only place you can see God’s Word is in the face of God’s Word. "God who, out of darkness...(2 Corinthians 4)...shined out of darkness..." Not shined into darkness, but shined out of darkness. "...THE light of THE knowledge of THE glory in THE face of Jesus Christ." You’ve got to see what you hear of God in the face of the Lord Jesus. And if you never do you substitute your own face, you substitute your own seeing - you substitute your imagination. And you start preaching an imaginary city, an imaginary place, an imaginary life, an imaginary this and that. And the more you hear that word the more you imagine what it is, UNTIL that word comes to be realized in Jesus, UNTIL that word comes to be realized in His face. It’s the same way with holiness: how many holiness preachers are there, and how many preach the same thing? They all preach holiness: but to one holiness is not watching television, and to another holiness is a woman not having short hair, and to another holiness is a preacher not wearing a necktie or a ring, and to another holiness is not going to the movies... Everybody has heard of holiness but we see fifteen million things.

God says HOLINESS and points to HIS SON!! Holiness - in His Face! Righteousness - He points to HIS SON! The only problem with that is eye can not see, and ear can not hear, the heart can not understand in the natural the reality of those things in Christ; because it’s a spiritual realization to which we must come. We all want to substitute natural realization for spiritual reality. ‘Show me how to be holy. Don’t show me Who my Holiness is: show ME how to be holy.’ That’s what the Law wants, that’s what we want: just give me ten things to do, and I’ll do it! Don’t show me my Holiness that demands everything and replaces me. Don’t show me my Holiness - just show me a way to be holy - and we’ll substitute imaginations. I’m always hearing people say, ‘Oh, so-and-so preaches the same things, I’ve heard him. But from experience I’ve found that those who are hearing, seeing and speaking are few and far between! It doesn’t make any difference what you are hearing: the words - unless you are seeing. And unless your speaking is a combination of both hearing and seeing, then it is not true. It’s simply a figment of your imagination. You are saying the terms, but you are looking at something else.

Let’s look at this in the scripture. Hebrews 1:1-2, "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son..." The original translation reads: "...hath AT THE END of those days..." What days? The days in which He spoke in sundry times and diverse manners. Hath at the end of those days...done what? Spoken IN SON. It’s just that way in the original - hath spoken in Son. The scripture says He hath gathered all things up in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are in earth, hath set them forth in Him - hath spoken in Son. All things that had been spoken previously in time segments and in different ways through types and shadows, through holidays and festival days, through times and through objects - He hath said IN SON. He has summed it all up, and has said it in His Son. It took all of the vastness of the types of Salvation - from Adam to Noah, from Abraham to Jacob, from Israel through all of its administrations of Kings, Priests, Prophets, and you name it. All of that God used to speak - hath at sundry times... different time elements, time bytes. He spake in days: Holy Days, High Days, Sabbath Days. He spake in weeks: Festival weeks, Feast weeks. He spake in months, He spake in years: Sabbatical years, Jubilee years. He spake in time. And with every time there was an object to point to. Every day had an object to point to. If it was a Feast Day there was a sacrifice to point to, and a Priest to offer it. Everything was in a time and in a picture - that’s how God spoke.

But at the END of those days, He hath spoken in Son, and He has said in Son what He could not say perfectly before. Why could He not speak perfectly in The Testimony? Because He could not show THE ONE of Whom all these things were speaking. It wasn’t because He didn’t speak: "...hath spoken...sundry times...diverse manners" - God did speak. But what He said could not be seen except in a type and in a shadow. Therefore it could not bring to perfection. God could say "Holiness", but He’d have to show a type of it. But at the end of those days, He said "Holiness" - AND HE REVEALED HIS SON! It’s a shame that most people still say ‘holiness" and look for a type and a shadow. We’ve just created our own types and shadows; out of the imaginations of our own hearts we have created these things. And it’s just as though God had never spoken IN SON at all; it’s just that we’ve substituted types and shadows, and we’ve brought them over. We have substituted our imaginations. Why? Because in most cases we still haven’t seen WHOM God hath said.

That’s the reason why all of Paul’s epistles are on the necessity of Christ being revealed, Christ being seen, the eyes of understanding being enlightened. It’s always along that line - he knows they’ve heard, he just knows they haven’t seen WHO they’ve heard, so they’ve substituted their own imagination for it. And it is as automatic as the sun comes up: you’ll do that! And the more you hear the thing preached, the more you will reinforce your imagination. You’ll say, ‘don’t tell me, the Bible says this!’ And you’ll turn and read the word. ‘See, here it is... Be ye holy... I am holy.’ And you will preach that scripture, and you’ve never seen the Holiness of The Lord! You just know it’s holiness, but when you see The Holiness of The Lord, it isn’t your television set you get rid of, it isn’t your necktie you get rid of...My God, you fall down on your face as a dead man before The Holiness of The Lord! And you don’t stand back up except in the knowledge of Him! And all of your self righteousness stays there, along with the rest of your types and shadows! Because you’ve finally SEEN what The Lord has SAID. And then you stand up SPEAKING nothing but CHRIST!

That’s what I’m talking about - that’s the idea. At the end of those times... So God hath spoken in all those ways, but we know that what He has spoken has not been able to make perfect. He used picture objects to illustrate His Words. He would say "glory", the glory of the Lord, and He’d point to fire and smoke. There are people to this day who think the glory of The Lord is fire and smoke, because that’s the object He used in The Testimony. Smoke filled it, fire came down upon it and The Lord said - "My glory!" But hath at the end of those times.... He hath spoken in Son. And He hath said "My Glory" - and HE REVEALS THE SON IN YOU! It doesn’t have anything to do with fire and smoke now. It’s THE SON HIMSELF! MY GLORY!

But we still have people in the Church who will say, ‘the glory of the Lord came down!’ Where did it come from? Down from where? That’s the type and the shadow. HE IS NOW IN YOU!! The glory that Israel expected is in you - Christ in you, the expectation of glory. It’s not your expectation: Israel’s expectation fulfilled in you! The glory that’s been expected, the glory that has been spoken of - that glory is come! Behold Him! See Him! Behold the glory of The Lord! He hath spoken IN SON! If the Son hasn’t been revealed in you, you still haven’t seen the glory of The Lord. You just know there is one, so you add your imagination to it, and all of a sudden the glory is something you feel, or the glory is some place you are going, or the glory is this, that or the other. And you’ll preach the glory, but you’ll have no idea what you are preaching. Glory is preached all the way through the Old Testament, but it finally comes to be fulfilled in The Person of Christ. It isn’t seeing glory, it is seeing Him Who is The Glory! It is seeing all things in the face of Jesus. That’s the only thing that will transform the soul. Hearing will not do it. Seeing transforms the soul: "Beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, we are changed..." That’s the only thing that will transform.

You can hear until your natural ear or spiritual ear falls off; except you turn to see what you have heard; except you turn to see Him Who you have heard; except you turn to see The Voice that spake...You don’t turn to see WHAT He said, you turn to see Who said it. You turn to see The Person of The Voice, not what He said. You’ve heard what He’s said - you want to see Him Who said it, because you’ll never understand what He said until you see Who said it! Never - because what He says and Who says it are always the same! There is but One Word of God! He never says something and then He shows up to be something else - no, He is always the seeing of exactly what He says. There’s only One Word. In Him, hearing and seeing agree in One, and then we who have both heard and seen, speak the same thing and have the same judgment. We speak The Truth as it is in Jesus.

That’s the only way it can happen. You say ‘I can hear it and preach it.’ No, you can hear it and preach your imagination of it, and that’s what you’ll always do. A large part of The Church today is following after the imaginations of some preacher, because he’s saying the right words, but he hasn’t seen The One of whom he is speaking - preaching a glory and hasn’t seen Him; preaching a relationship and hasn’t seen Him; preaching an anointing and has never seen Him. So he just imagines what the anointing is, and gullible Christians sit, and because they hear the word "anointing" they say this is of God, he’s using every scripture in the Bible - isn’t that wonderful? And nothing is said about Christ, nothing is realized in Christ, nothing reaches out and changes lives - nothing! Because only SEEING can do that. If you can hear this, it may cause a heart to turn to see.

I’m not telling you that you haven’t heard anything. I’m asking - have you seen what you’ve heard? Because if you have not, you can not hear without seeing and keep from substituting imaginations. You will imagine something unless you’ve seen what you’ve heard. And then you’ll set out in the scriptures to fortify them, and to find a theology for it. And being the imagination of the heart of man, it is always something that will cater to man and to the flesh to please man, because that’s what man’s imagination does! Finally he imagines himself to be God, and shows himself to himself to be God! That’s the end of imagination. The end of Truth is Christ in the midst of the Throne ruling in the Kingdom of God. That’s the end of all Truth, but the end of all imagination is man in the temple of God showing himself to be God. The end of it is either Christ - or the end of it is man; it’s Christ exalted, or it’s man imagining that he is - showing himself to be. And it starts out with hearing The Truth.

I’ve often said this gospel, except Christ be revealed is the most dangerous thing that exists. The Truth being heard without being seen is the most dangerous thing in existence, because automatically The Truth heard and not seen will produce perversion equal to itself. See, people who are bound up in what we call "denominational" stuff don’t bother me. But those who claim to have The Truth...and there are many different movements of them... they are the ones that bother me, because they’ve got all the right words, and they’ve never seen Christ. And they are perverting multitudes - multitudes! They are fortifying multitudes in imaginations, to the point that if you could show them The Truth, they would still say - no sir! Why? No - because of imagination. Henceforth God has allowed the imagination to carry them away.

Oh yes, and you see the corruption of that Beast nature that comes out of imagination just in the verses of the epistles that we are talking about now. The imagination is the most wicked thing on the face of the earth. What men do in their imagination is absolutely unspeakable! But the point is - it never remains unspeakable: sooner or later it is spoken. And it is spoken as Truth, because imagination has convinced the deceived that it is. Why? Blindness - hearing but not seeing. " I certify you brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man." (Galatians 1:1-11,12) God revealing His Son in me (verse 16) that I might preach Him... It wasn’t with Paul a message heard, but a PERSON SEEN. That’s what it’s got to be. It can not be a message heard in any respect: a message heard on Sonship, Kingdom, this or that. No, it can not be a message heard - but must be a Person seen! WE ARE THE BODY OF A PERSON! The House of a Person! Salvation is a people involved in a relationship given of God, worked of God, with a Person, in a Person, by a Person! It can not be a message heard on Spiritual Life, on heaven, on this or that - but a Person seen. Herein the mystery which was hidden - not unspoken - hidden, is made manifest to His Saints! We have seen Him! I can not impress upon you enough the necessity for Christ being revealed in you. Only then are word searches worth anything. Otherwise word searches only fortify the imagination. Greek and Hebrew just fortifies the imagination. Except Christ has been seen, hearing fortifies the imagination. We must see this! Oh - "...hath spoken in Son."

He would say "My dwelling place" and point to a tent. "My Sanctuary" and point to a room behind the veil. "Hath in the end of those days spoken in Son." My Sanctuary - and He reveals The Son! "In that day you shall know I am in My Father, you are in Me, and I am in you." What day? The day that He says "House" and reveals The Son! The day that He says "dwelling place" and reveals The Son! At that day you shall know. At the seeing - day means "seeing", day means "light". At that day you shall know! You have heard, now you shall KNOW - at that day!

That’s the difference between hearing about a day and seeing Him. Everybody’s heard about a day, and everybody preaches one. But God would show you one! He would show you The Day. By The Light thereof He would show it to you in the face of The Son. You’ll find everything in That Day that the scriptures declare That Day to be. You can go through a scripture search on "That Day", but except you see that in the face of The Son, all you’ve done is a word search on That Day, because That Day comes in the revealing of The Son, That Day comes with the revealing of The Son! The Father says "day" - and He reveals The Son! He doesn’t reveal The Sabbath anymore or Saturday anymore or a third day or an eighth day - now it’s just The One Day! He says "day" - and He shows you The Son! Glorious Day!

Until you see it’s just a word, and you’re going to imagine it to be all kinds of things. You’re going to have your doctrines on this Day and that Day. And every definition of That Day is going to be another day, rather than just an expanse of the nature and Person of Christ in That Day; such as "The Great Day", "The Day of Judgment", "The Day of His Coming", "The Day of His Wrath" - that’s all the same day! How many days do you think there are anyway? You are children of The Day - The Day is The Lord. He is The Light of The Day, and in That Day you will face Him in all the facets of His character, and in all The Finished Work of The Cross. So to some it is "This Day", and to others "That Day", but to all it is "The Day of The Lord". If you just keep learning Him, sooner or later every facet of it is going to be faced in Him. It’s The Day - glory to God! That mystery which is NOW made manifest - the seeing. The law and the prophets were IN PART until the vision, the seeing, the thing spoken of should come. 1 Corinthians 13:9 and 10 says that which is "in part" shall remain until that which is perfect is come. And we don’t have to speculate at which in the scripture is perfect there - at WHO is perfect there.

Peter picks it up in 2 Peter 1:16 where he says we are not standing here declaring to you cunningly devised fables. We are declaring to you that we have seen what the prophets said. Therefore Peter says we have a more sure word of prophecy. That does not mean they’ve got another prophecy that is better than what Isaiah gave. The actual translation explains it: "We have the prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Hosea, Amos etc.), we have the prophets made more sure, made more certain." How could the prophets be made more certain, Peter? Because we have seen HIM of Whom they spoke! We heard - NOW WE HAVE SEEN! And in seeing Him what we heard is made more sure! We heard about a city, now we have seen the reality of it, and the light of it - in the face of Jesus Christ! We have the prophets made more sure! We haven’t devised imaginations, fables, and cunningly devised stories. We declared to you what the prophets said - because we have seen Him!

And until we have seen Him of Whom they have all spoken, to you and I they are yet "in part". But when that which is perfect was come, and is come...well, at the fulness of the time, God sent forth His Son. HE IS COME! The prophets in HIM are fulfilled, and when He is come - in you - the prophets will be made more sure. I never appreciated the scripture until God revealed His Son in me. I thought I did, but I didn’t. When He revealed The Son, and I began to see Him, THEN the scriptures were made more sure to me. When The Son is revealed the whole Bible comes alive because now I’m not reading it in Braille - now I am seeing by The Light of God; I am seeing what He hath said! Now there is no room for the imagination, because we are clearly looking into The Face of Truth.

So all the law and the prophets were in part, until the vision; that is, until the seeing, the thing spoken should come. IN CHRIST IT HAS COME! To understand what God says, we must see what God says - not in type, but in reality of Person. It’s the same thing in any spoken language. You all know the principle that applies to this. Even in the learning of something, you can listen to a tape, but if you can read along with it and at least see the words that you are hearing, how much greater is the comprehension of the thing? That is so in the natural. We can hear what is being said, but so often we are not seeing the point of reference. We can look at one thing, and others are looking at something else; you are describing it, and they are not understanding because it’s not fitting what they have been taught and what they are looking at. Until we all see the same thing... All of a sudden you turn to see, and you think, ‘Dear Lord, that’s what that scripture meant! How did I not see that before?’ Yes, well you finally turned to see what the Lord is saying. You finally turned to see HIM in Whom God hath spoken! He in Whom God hath spoken must be SEEN to be understood. Then we speak.

Habbakuk 2:2-4, " And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith." Verse 14, "For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea." The word "vision" here means "the act of seeing". What has been said will be seen; what has been heard and seen will speak. The seeing shall come - wait for the vision! The vision here means "seeing" - seeing that which has been said, seeing that which has been written; seeing - it shall come. In the end the vision will come, in the end the seeing will come. "Hath at the end of those days spoken in Son" - to whom it has been made manifest - this mystery. Therefore Paul says, seeing we have such ministry, we speak plainly and with boldness, declaring these things to thee. Yes, because we have both seen as well as heard.

I want us just to consider: HEARING - SEEING - SPEAKING. The Mystery of Great Salvation - God hath spoken. Now if you are hearing a word, and seeing nothing - you should be quiet! Not jump up, run out and preach, or teach, or form another denomination or movement. Because if what you are hearing is God, He will reveal The Son to those who wait for Him. If what you are hearing is The Lord, then what He is saying is The Son; but until He reveals, until He shows IN SON what He hath said, you will substitute your imagination. Look at James: he goes to the place of seeing, he goes to the looking glass, the mirror, the vision. But he will not wait there, he will not abide there. He runs in and he runs out, and a true translation of the Greek there says the problem is he misses the most excellent man. He misses the man most excellent and sees himself, and he deceives himself and he goes out his own way. Now something had to get him to the mirror. Hearing gets our attention, but seeing transforms our soul. Then we speak - not as of ourselves, but out from that which we have both heard and seen. And after all, God is not trying to give us a message; His whole purpose with His message is to transform our souls into that same image. He doesn’t care that I’ve got a new sermon to preach. He doesn’t care that I’ve found another verse in the Bible that has another word in it that I can build my imaginations upon and get another Bible conference out of it.

What does He care? He isn’t giving us messages. God, who at sundry times gave messages, has now spoken IN SON. Not to the end that we would merely hear something, but to the end that in hearing we would see, and in seeing we would be transformed into that same image; that our speaking would actually be the conversation or manner of our life, not our Sunday morning sermon. So if you hear a Word, and you don’t see anything - BE QUIET! Just be quiet, because it’s going to happen to you. If you’ve ever really truly been dealt with by The Lord, this will happen to you. The Word will begin to come, a thought will begin to come, and it’s so easy to build on it... ‘Man, I’ve got a sermon this morning!’ But the whole point of The Word is that we might wait for the vision, that we might wait to see Him, that we might turn to see The Voice. Look at it in the pattern in that book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Look - it first was heard, and then was seen, and then was spoken. That’s a true pattern. That’s the way it is in The Son.

Many times I will hear a thing in the very depth of my soul, and I have learned by God’s omnipotent grace and mercy to wait until I see, until I understand, (You understand by seeing.) until I see what I’m hearing. Many times the Lord will capture me in a verse. Well, the first thing you do is look it up in the Greek or the Hebrew and you do all the word searches, and that’s okay because you’re hearing. But then you have to say - okay, now what? Then you begin to say, ‘Oh Father, just show me Your Son!’ Then the scales come off and you see Him! You see Him - and now you can speak, and you’re not just quoting a verse; you’re not just saying what Paul said. No, you’ve SEEN what Paul SAW. You’ve seen Him! You’re in agreement because you’ve seen Him. There’s a real thrill to this! This is the thrill Peter had. We can say we saw what Paul saw. Peter said, ‘Oh my God, I saw what Isaiah talked about! We’ve seen Him, we’ve seen what Isaiah said, we’ve seen what Jeremiah said - we’ve seen HIM!’

This is what’s happened - we lost sight. Hearing was reduced to doctrinal statements which were reduced further to traditions of man, which were reduced farther to denominational divisions, and finally reduced to sermon material. That’s what happened to hearing. Vision was lost - and never regained. Along the line The Reformation came and there was some improvement on hearing, because The Reformation was NOT in the face of Jesus Christ; it was against the Catholic establishment; it was against traditions and doctrines. Some hearing was restored, but that’s all that was restored - hearing, and that, not perfectly. They heard ‘faith’: "The just shall live by faith." They never SAW faith: they HEARD faith. Even great warriors such as Martin Luther and those men - acute hearing. They turned their attention and it cost them denomination ties - it cost them, because hearing will cost you. But seeing has an altogether different cost to it. Hearing may change your mind and change your viewpoint, change your doctrine and get you kicked out of a congregation, but SEEING will cost you the very life of your soul! So during the Reformation hearing was improved, and they began to speak what they heard, but the result of those movements - the Wesleyan Movement, the Episcopalian Movement - all of that: look at the end of that. It’s scarcely more than the thing they rebelled against! Hearing without seeing - still no revealing of The Son. You can trace the Pentecostal Movement from the early 1900's the same way. This is where we got all our cockeyed ideas about holiness. Again - hearing, hearing: they heard some things, but HIM in Whom all these things heard must be seen - still not revealed.

I tell you, anytime God begins to improve hearing, it’s because He wants to give full vision, He wants to give sight. We are hearing now...if we’ll just turn to see, we will experience the transformation. We don’t need to hear any more until we see what we’ve heard. Too often I’ve heard people tell me, ‘Good Word, brother.’ And that always bothered me, but I never knew why until the Lord captivated me in this - it is all reduced to a thing HEARD. And everybody has heard something different depending upon what they are seeing in their imagination. ‘Good Word, brother.’ They haven’t seen the Lord, they just heard a Good Word. It’s not that we shouldn’t congratulate one another, but there was always something that was pierced when I heard that in meetings. Something was vacant, something was empty there and didn’t make me feel good. To me it was ‘good sermon, good lecture; good teaching.’ Well, okay, great. ‘Good Word’ didn’t make it any better, but then I began to realize we’re full of hearing; we’re just not seeing. And we don’t see because we’ve so substituted imaginations and reinforced them, that now we can’t see! Because we’ve presented our imaginations as The Truth, and now we can’t see. Let’s not get that way, let’s wait until we see what we hear.

If it costs our life - it costs our life - so what? Let’s wait to hear, let’s wait to see, because it is the seeing that transforms: beholding we are changed. Not hearing the glory: BEHOLDING the glory, we are changed. This is the coming of The Lord, this is The Lord in His coming, This is The Lord in His appearing. It is The Lord Who transforms. We should hear: "Behold, He is come! Yes - we should hear. But now we must turn to see HIM WHO IS COME or immediately we will substitute an imaginary object for His coming. Hearing becomes a matter of fact, Seeing becomes a matter of Person, and Speaking becomes a matter of Spirit and Truth. The fact of the matter - you can convince by hearing: it is fact. But it must move from fact to PERSON; it must move from principle to PERSON. It must be the revealing of The Son - the necessity of seeing.

So the three elements of The Mystery made manifest are: HEARING - SEEING what we hear - SPEAKING (making manifest) what we have both heard and seen. You will find these elements in all of the teachings of Paul, and you’ll find them in this order. I won’t really go on the negative side of this: hearing but no visions. Then it’s imaginations which brings about the seeing of images; images which are worshiped by and supported by, and given voice by false prophets. Hearing becomes tradition: blind leaders of the blind. In place of vision, and in place of speaking Truth you simply maintain the lie.

You can go through the scriptures and see. I am amazed to see the necessity of this. Hearing produces waiting - we wait until the Coming of The Lord. When The Lord is come - we speak. HE IS COME! These elements are essential: to the Mystery? No - to making MANIFEST the Mystery! The Mystery is there in Christ whether we ever see it or not, but in making manifest The Mystery these elements must come together in One; these elements must come together IN SON.

" Father, we thank you for your multiplied grace and mercy in Christ Jesus our Lord, in Whom we have redemption, even forgiveness of sin, the love of God without bounds. Oh, the Work of The Spirit unto full realization of Christ, in Whom we have all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, the fulness of the Godhead bodily; in Whom we have the complement and the completement of our very Salvation. We thank you for Your Grace." Amen.