<TITLE>12. Par 32-33</TITLE>L-32 And he laid his hands upon him, and prayed as he--God asked him to. And Paul's eyes was healed. And he took him right down to the river and baptized him, calling on the Name of the Lord, washing away his sins. And Paul was called to the Gospel. That's the faith that was once delivered to the saints.
Paul standing up there one night, being a prisoner in the... going to the galleys of old Rome. I stood in the place where they chopped his head off and pitched him out a window into the ditch...?... There Paul, in prison, going out, was put on an old ship, going over laden down with wheat. And on his road out there, he told the people, said, "I feel that we shouldn't loose from here, from Crete, and go out there." He said, "I'm afraid you're going to cause some trouble."
"Yeah, who is this prisoner anyhow? Get him on the board." And fourteen days and nights in the great hurricane, all hopes of ever being saved was gone. They was tossed back and forth, and the compass needle broke. Everything, the mast fell, and what a--what a condition. The old sails was ripped into threads, and every man was screaming and crying; and all hopes that they'd ever be saved was gone. Here was Paul with his chains on his hands and on his feet.

L-33 One night he went down into the gallery, perhaps, up in the bulkhead, crawled back in a little place and closed the door, a secret closet, and begin to pray, perhaps, all night long. The next morning, hear some chains rattling, coming up the steps, here comes Paul, standing out there shaking his hands, the callouses from the chains because of preaching the Gospel, contending for the faith that was once delivered to the saints, with them chains on his hands.
Look. If he preached it and contend for it, God will reward him with it. There he is with his hands like that, said, "Just a minute. Just a minute. Be of a good courage, every one of you." And the old ship tossing back and forth. "Be of a good courage. For the Angel of God, Whose servant I am, stood by me last night," might've been a Pillar of Fire, I don't know what It was. Might've been the same One come to Peter and took him out of prison. I don't know.
But said, "The Angel of God, Whose servant I am, stood by me last night, saying, 'Don't fear, Paul..." Said, "Everyone, gentlemen, I saw a vision last night. The Angel of the Lord came to me, and told me not to fear. For I must be brought be Caesar, howbeit, this little ship is going to wrecked on a certain island. And watch, I've got to stand before Caesar, and God has give every one of you that sail with me, is giving you to me. Wherefore, brethren," he said, "be of a good cheer, for I believe God. It'll be just as it was shown unto me." The faith that was once delivered to the saints, what was it? The Spirit of Christ in the apostle. Is that right?


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