<TITLE>13. Par 54-58</TITLE>L-54 Paul on his road down to Damascus was stricken and was blinded in his eyes. And down in Damascus, the Gospel had been preached down there. And there was a man by the name of Ananias, who had received the Holy Ghost, some little Full Gospel pastor down there by the name of Ananias. And he'd received the Holy Ghost. And he was in his room one day praying, knowing nothing about anything else. And he was a prophet. And the Lord spoke to him and said, "Ananias."
He said, "Here I am Lord."
He said, "Go up to the street called Straight. Give him a vision, and said, "Go, lay your hands upon Saul, that he might receive his sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost."
He said, "Lord, I've heard great things about him. That he--that he threatens the church, and arrest them, and so forth."
And he said, "Behold, he prayeth." That changed it.

L-55 Here went out Ananias, up through the streets of maybe some other avenues, till he gets a street called Straight. Come down along the city fountain looking around saying, "Now, let's see. According to the vision it was a such and such a house. I'll have to look at it. There it is right there."
Walked right in. There laid a man rolling in there, blind from being stricken down from the Pillar of Fire that hung before him, Shining like the sun in its brightness. And he said, "Brother Saul (Amen.), the Lord Jesus appeared to you in the road...?... say that Saul, or the one had a vision... The Lord came, told on me." There you are. "Said for me come, lay hands upon you, that you might receive your sight."

L-56 Now, what if his priest said, "Say, I got and old fellow across the street here for you to lay his hands on him and give him sight." He couldn't do it. He only could do what God showed him to do. Amen.
Said, "Lay your hands upon you that you might receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit." Hallelujah. He laid his hands upon him in obedience to the commission, what God bid him to do, the power of Jesus Christ in the resurrection. And everything God told him happened on the minute. That the way God does it yet. That's the faith that was once delivered to the saints.

L-57 Paul later on, how many we could call of the character and such things happening with the saints. Paul was out on a little old ship. He told them not to loose from Crete. But they went out there. And fourteen days and nights, every hope that they'd ever be saved was gone. The ship was water-logged. And there it was bouncing through the waters, the people screaming. They wouldn't eat. Knowing that they'd never see their wives and families again.
Paul, just as scared as the rest of them, walking about with chains on him. Any minute the old ship would capsize and go over. That'd be the end of it. No moon and stars, fourteen days and nights, her pitching back and forth in the storm, no way to hold it nor nothing...
Little old Paul thought perhaps he'd pray through, for he... All hopes was gone. He was a man. No matter how much he was acquainted with God, all hopes is gone.

L-58 Paul went down in the bulkhead somewhere to pray and stayed all night. The next morning, this little Jew run out and said, "Be of a good cheer." What's happened? "For there stood by me this night, the Angel of God, Whose servant I am, saying unto me, 'Don't fear, Paul, you've got to be brought before Caesar; and lo, God has give all these that sail with you.' How by... it must... This little old ship I saw in the vision last night, that it must be broke up on a certain shore. Wherefore, brethren," He said, "be of a good courage, for I believe God. It'll be done just as He told me it was."
That's the faith that was once delivered to the saints. Paul...?... preaching, looked upon a man and perceived his faith and said, "Stand up. The Lord Jesus makes you whole."
Do you got that faith in your church? If that what's operating, then contend for it, earnestly contend for it, for the faith that was once delivered to the saints.


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