<TITLE>15. Par 37-39</TITLE>L-37 The devil's just trying to scare you out of something. He's trying to put something off somewhere else, say, "Some of these days you'll be this." You are now. Now, we're sons of God. Now, we're seated together in heavenly places. Now, we have all powers in heavens and the earth. See? Now, we have it. Not in the millennium, we won't need it then. We got it now. We're... Right now we are the sons of God. "It does not appear what we shall be, but we know we'll be like Him."
What you are here is a reflection of what you are somewhere else. "Those who He called, He justifies." Is that right? "Those who He justified, He has glorified." Already in the Presence of the Father, we have a glorified body. Whew! Wasn't that deep? All right. We'll find out whether it's right or not. "If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting." Is that right? That's right. So right now, and what we are there, is a reflection. Here, what we are here, is a reflection of what we are somewhere else. So if your deeds are evil, you know where it comes from. You know where your other body's a waiting.

L-38 Now, you say about that grease on the hand. Well, one day Paul... The Lord told Paul he had to go down and appear before Caesar, and got shipwrecked out there. And the Lord give him a vision, told him what was going to happen. Fourteen days and nights, no stars, moon, or nothing, didn't worried Paul, 'cause he knowed what the Lord said. He said, "I saw a vision last night. A man stood by me, and told me that I was going to--be taken before Caesar." And said, "I seen in a vision, the ship was going to be wrecked on a certain island." But said, "There ain't going be nobody's life lost." Said, "The Lord done told me so." Said, "We're going to be of a good courage." I can see that little Jew shaking his hands, and a screaming to the top of his voice. The ship just pitching as hard as it ever did. Didn't bother him; he knowed what the Lord said. You see?
So when they got on the shore, there was a big storm been on there, and the rain, cold. Paul was picking up some sticks and he--he throwed some in the fire, and a big dangerous snake grabbed him right through the hand. Why, it never scared Paul. He looked at it like that, so full of the Holy Ghost, his whole inner body just charged with the power of God; he looked at it, and shook it off in the fire, and said, "I've got to go before Caesar. What you bothering me about," like that and went walking on. It didn't bother him. See? Didn't scare him a bit.

L-39 I want to ask you something. You love me? I'm going to let you in on a little something. I've never told this to a audience. What would you think of a fellow that one time was a patrolling or walking through a field, and a hideous, big bull got after him, very dangerous. The fellow never saw it till it was right on him. And the bull threw his horns on the ground, great big long horns, and he run right there to a big...?... and he got real close, and the man was a man with the Holy Ghost. And so he knew there's no tree to run to; there's no fence to go; what could you do? But all at once just something happen. He said, "Now, bull, you can't hurt me, 'cause I'm God's servant." See? "God made you, is the Creator. Now, in the Name of Jesus Christ go over and lay down under the tree." And not a bit a scared. And the bull runs up to about five feet, or ten feet, and he stops. He looked this way, and that way, just as depleted and walked over and laid down under the tree. Went on.
Could you believe that? Well, it's the truth anyhow. Well, that's no more than the Lord throwed Dan--had Daniel throwed down there in a lion's den. The lions started lurking, Daniel just turned his back to them, said, "Lord, if You..." like that, and the lions come up, and just backed away and went off on--and set down, laid down.


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