<TITLE>19. Par 25-25</TITLE>L-25 I went back up there. I went into a place. I read the Bible, I cried...[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... no light in there so I had to close up the Word, and go back. And I started praying; I said, "God, please. I'm a Christian. I love You. You know I love You. You know in my heart, and You know me better than I know myself. I love You. And I'm told by the clergymen, and the so forth, that the devil, a spirit's moving around me, and Lord, I don't want to have that around me. You know I don't. You know I love You. And I believe You with all my heart. So why do You let my life be plagued like this? Why would You do it? Why don't You set me free of that so I can go preach and feel free of that?" And on like that. And I was begging to Him.
I was long about two or three o'clock in the morning; I was praying, and crying, and begging. And I stood there a little bit, and I was standing looked out a window, went back. I thought, "Well, it won't be long till daylight. I... When daylight comes," I said, "I'm going to leave the cabin, and going up in them knobs and get back up in my cave. And I will stay there." As Buddie Roberson, said, "Till He finds a pile of bones when He returns. Or something had to happen."
I stayed there and I prayed; I walked back, and for the first time in my life, it seemed like something now here's... Hear it now. Not be vision, but seemed like something telling me, "Could those ministers be wrong? Maybe this is right."
Well, I begin to think. I thought, "Maybe they are wrong." Well, I thought, "Well, then if they could be wrong, how does these devil possessed people, fortunetellers, and things, telling me all about this, and them holy men of God don't know nothing about it?"
Then this come to my mind. When Jesus was born, it was star gazers, Magi's that saw the star and followed it to Bethlehem. Is that right? No holy men saw it. Magi, star gazers, wise man, and them in the... Them on the towers of the astronomers, that watches the stars all the time, they never seen the star. But the Bible said there was a star there. It was given for the Magi's to see. Is that right?
It had already appeared while I was baptizing down here; it's right at the end of Indiana, the other end of Indiana there, where thousands were standing on the bank, when I was standing there baptizing. I started to say, "Father, as I baptize this boy with water for the remission of his sins, then Lord Jesus You give him the Holy Spirit." The seventeenth person, I started to baptize, a Voice screamed from heaven on a bright afternoon, coming whirling down out of skies, here come this Light going, "Whew." The papers packed, "Mystic light appears over local Baptist pastor while baptizing." Come right down and hung over where I was and stood there. People fainted and went on, then went right back up into the heavens, and every one of them standing looking at It. There It was.


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