<TITLE>06. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 I'd imagine Peter, with that old greasy fishing apron around him like that, and Jesus said, "You're Simon, so follow Me and you'll become fishers of men." I'd rather hear that than anything I know of: just, "Follow Me."
Oh, you say, "Now, wait a minute. He--I.... You haven't got your degree..." He don't need no degree. He just wants to follow Christ. That's right. That's right. "Just follow Me." He wouldn't even know his own name if it was laying before him. The Bible said he was ignorant and unlearned. Not only unlearned, but he was ignorant: both ignorant and unlearned. But when he passed through the gate called "Beautiful," and he said to that man, "Look on me..." he said, "Silver and gold have I none, but what I have, I'll give you. In the Name of Jesus Christ, rise up and walk."
Somebody in the church begin to play the part of a hypocrite, and they come into the line one night, a certain-certain thing, he said, "Why did the devil put in your heart to lie to God?" The man fell dead: Ananias. Sapphira come in, the same thing again. How God...

L-23 And then those people looked to that old fisherman, and you know what they did? If he'd have had some great degree to go by, he'd--he'd have had something to glory in, but God took nothing and made something out of it. That's the way God does: just takes the nothing to make something.
And when you being--can become nothing in your own sight, you're becoming something in God's sight then. And always remember this, friends, the way up is down. "He that exalts himself shall be abased, but he that humbled himself shall be exalted."
So just love Him with all your heart and forget all you ever knowed about all other things but Jesus Christ. Just go ahead and love Him and work for Him; serve Him. If He wants you to be the doormat, well, you just be the doormat and that... It's whatever He wants you to do, you do it. God bless you now.

L-24 What if He was here tonight in a visible Person? Just as sure as He walked on the Sea of Galilee, He's right here. He promised to be. And what did He do? What'd He say He would do after He raised from the dead? The Bible said He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that true? Well, if He's the same, He'll do the same thing. Now, He didn't heal no one; very much contrary: He claimed He didn't heal. He said, "It's not Me; I only do what the Father shows Me. When the Father shows Me a vision, I go do what He tells Me." Other words, "I don't do nothing till He tells Me."
Saint John 5:19 said, "The Son..." After He passed all those crippled people, and blind, and halt and lame, didn't heal any of them, healed a man with a--laying on a pallet, for Jesus knew he was in this condition. Sure, the Father had showed Him. All these things, it was just that way.

L-25 And then He raised from the dead. He said, "The things that I do, you'll do also. And greater than this..." That's more, of course, not greater. Look at the things He did. "But more than this shall you do for I go unto My Father." And when He's raised from the dead, He said, "I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the world." He was with your great grandmother and grandfather. He was with your grandfather and grandmother, He's with mother and dad. He's with you and I. He'll be at the next generation to come, if there is one. The same yesterday, today, and forever.


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