<TITLE>12. Par 46-50</TITLE>L-46 It didn't said a thunderhead of Fire now, it was a Pillar of Fire. And where It stopped, they stopped. And them priests watched It. And whenever It moved, they sounded the trumpets. If it was midnight, three o'clock in the morning, twelve o'clock noon, they all packed and away they went.
They followed the Pillar of Fire. They kept in the will of the Lord by doing so. How beautiful. If they ever lost that Pillar of Fire in the New Testament... I mean in our age.
Through fifteen hundred years of dark ages, they failed to see It. But there was a fellow one day by the name of Martin Luther. He saw the Pillar of Fire and away he went on the first reformation.

L-47 But you know what? He organized his church so tight, it begin to be it was only the Lutheran church. You was either Lutheran or you wasn't in it. Pillar of Fire won't hang over nothing like that. So away It went.
Luther couldn't follow It because he'd all... Luther had been dead for years and another round of--of servants or apostles of the church and another round and another round weakened down, just like the disciples. And the Pillar of Fire moved away from the Lutheran church.
Luther couldn't go because he had all of his rituals and everything wrote up. Then there was a little fellow by the name of John Wesley in England, saw it and away he went. And he had a revival that saved England, United States, and the--the English known world, in that day: the Wesley revival.

L-48 Wesley, George Whitfield, oh, Asbury, many of them, they had that great revival. And then the first thing you know, they got so organized down, till they begin to get after a few rounds just as cold and starchy as they could be. That's right. The Pillar of Fire won't hang over that. So away It went.
And a bunch of people called Pentecostals seen It. And away they went after It. And they built them a church under It. But you know the sad part, the Pentecostals are so organized the Pillar of Fire is moving out again and they can't go. That's right. But the Pillar of Fire is moving anyhow. God said It would. That's right.
They had the sign of the Fire by night and a Cloud by day that led them.

L-49 Now, tonight here in God's house where that same Pillar of Fire is here in the house, right here now... 'Cause It was the Angel of the Covenant, the Lord Jesus Christ. When He died, He rose again, and He lives forevermore. He promised the things that He did, would we also, and greater, for He went to the Father. Is that right?
He never claimed to be a Healer. He said, "I do just as I see the Father doing; that's what I do also." Is that correct? We had it last night, and--studying it: Saint John 5:19, "I do nothing of Myself..." When they probably criticized Him about not healing all those down there at the pool of Bethesda... He just healed one man on a pallet.
God showed Him where the man was; He went and done what God told Him to do and went on. See? And He said, "I can do nothing in Myself. But what I see the Father doing, that I do also. The Father worketh, and I worketh hitherto." All right.

L-50 Now, that was the Pillar of Fire made manifest here on earth, following the will of God. Now, tonight after nineteen hundred years, we have that same Pillar of Fire in our midst. You bought a picture of It awhile ago. I say it with reverence.
Scientifically proven... If I would die this very night... Now, that Pillar of Fire has nothing to do with me. I'm just a man. That Pillar of Fire is in the Church, not only with me; It's with every one of you. It's all of us.
That was just a Divine a vindication. You know the story. the Baptist minister challenged me on Divine healing, and come over there and said that I wasn't nothing but a religious proselyte, and I ought to be run out of the city, and he ought to be the man to do it.
Many of you probably was there. How many was at the Houston meeting? Let's see your hands. Sure, they're all around.


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