<TITLE>13. Par 140-146</TITLE>L-140 Peter and John, when they passed through the gate called Beautiful, the Lord spoke to them about a lame man laying there. There was no uncertainty. They didn't have any education. They didn't have... They didn't even belong to a church. They didn't belong to a denomination. But there was no uncertainty about their experience. They had the positive. They didn't have money. They didn't have membership. They didn't have education. But Peter said, "Such as I have, I will give it to you. In the Name of Jesus Christ, rise up and walk." They had hidden power. They dressed like other men. They walked on the street. They eat like other men. But they'd had a blessing inside of them, that give them a certainty to know where they were standing. Said, "I don't have any education. I don't belong to any church. I don't know any theology. I don't have any money. The only thing I have, I will give it to you if you'll accept It."
He said, "What is it?"
He said, "In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, stand up and walk." No uncertainty, not, "Stand up and try, and see if you can move your foot," not, "Stand up and try, and see if you'll get better." But "In the Name of Jesus Christ, rise up and walk now." There you are.

L-143 The uncertain sound is a--gives the uncertain sound, what will happen. Oh, my.
Stephen had so much of that blessed in him, said, when they was stone Stephen. Oh, my. He had so much of the blessing in him, so much of the hidden power, till Stephen become another person, looked up and seen Jesus standing at the right-hand of God, and never even felt a clod when it boned him in the head.
Why, I can see Stephen there. He knelt down, and His enemies, spitting on him, and everything else, and clodding him. He raised up, and looked up to heaven, and he said, "Father, lay not this sin to their charge. I forgive them, Father." So much of the blessing on the inside of him, what happened? I tell you, then the heavens opened up. That little Spirit was on him, opened the way through the clouds, through the stars, through the mist, until he seen Jesus standing at the right-hand of God. He said, "Behold, I see heavens open."

L-146 Brother, I'd rather have It than all the education, all the money you could pile before me. All my education, I will drop here. All my mental theology, I will leave here. All my wealth, I will leave here. But the hidden power, that thing that made the certainty of the Gospel, will take you to heaven, and carry you through the valleys of the shadow of death. Amen.
He knowed what he was talking about. Said, "I see heavens open." He had a blessing. He had a hidden power. And he didn't feel any clods after that. They was hitting him on the head with the rocks, hitting him on one side, the other one. Poor little Stephen, like a baby, laid up in his mother's arms, and God, and He rocked him to sleep on His bosom.
The Bible didn't say Stephen died. The Bible said, "Stephen fell asleep." God have mercy. Brother, that's what I want at the end of the road. Put him on the bosoms of God and rocked him to sleep, said, "See, son, where I'm taking you."
He had a blessing. He had hidden power, not a rabbit's foot, not a charm in his pocket, but something in his soul that changed him and made him a different man.


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