<TITLE>02. Par 229-238</TITLE>L-229 Did you know that Peter and John, of the Bible, were so unlearned till they couldn't even write their own name, and wouldn't know it laying before them? The Apostle Peter, who had the keys to the Kingdom, wouldn't know his name signed before him. Think of it. The Bible said, that, "He was ignorant and unlearned." So, that gives me a chance. Amen. Yes, sir. That goes right on down, to find that God could do that to a man.

L-230 Now, and we find out, as soon as Paul had a great experience... I want to ask you. Is it an experience to come to Christ? Does everybody have an experience? [Congregation says, "Yes."--Ed.] Yes, sir. Yes, sir. It's a Birth. It's an experience. And so we were in a Lutheran College, not long ago...

L-231   I had the privilege this afternoon, late, supposed to be there at twelve o'clock, for dinner with--with Tom Haire. How many ever heard of him, the famous, Irish, prayer warrior? And he's been with this Brother Epp, on his program, and appear here in many places in America. And I had dinner with him today. And we were... I was just about three hours late. It was about three-thirty, quarter to four, when we eat. But it was all right. And we were discussing on these things, of how that Jesus Christ is the Head of all things.

L-232   Now, when Paul found this out, he had this experience. And then before he would accept this experience, it must be back to the Bible. And we find out that he--that he left and went into another nation, and there he stayed for three years, searching the Scripture, to see if his experience was right.

L-233 Now, we realize that he had a great thing to face. He had to come back and tell his church, all the people, the very things that he had persecuted was right.

L-234 Did you have to do something like that? Certainly, nearly all did, have to go back and say, "Them people that we called 'holy rollers,' come to find out, they were right." See? That's it. We just had to turn around. And the things that we once hated, we now love. It's a conversion, a strange thing.

L-235   Ah! I made that statement, of "holy-roller." There is no such a thing. There's no such a thing. But, they call people that, holiness people. But there's no holy-rollers. There's no such a thing. There's no record of any church ever recorded like that, as far as I can see, of the nine hundred-sixty something, different denominations. There is no such a denomination as holy-roller. It's just a--a name that the Devil tacked on the Church.

L-236 But they call them, in that day... How many knows what they called them in the day of Paul? Heretics. You know what heretic means? "Crazy." It's crazy people. So, I just soon be called a "holy-roller" as a "heretic." Wouldn't you? So if they--if they was called that, and rejoiced!
And what did Jesus say for us to do about it? He said, "Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad; for great is your reward in Heaven, for so persecuted the prophets before you." They did it.

L-237   Said to, "Be exceedingly glad." Anything exceedingly is "lifted way up," real happy. And the disciples, when they was found worthy to bear the reproach of the Name of Jesus, they rejoiced with great joy that they could bear the reproach of His Name.

L-238 And today, many people today, if they would happen to call them a holy-roller, they would cow-down, "My! Maybe I was wrong, to begin with."
But they was happy about it, "Oh, my, to bear the Name!"


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