<TITLE>11. Par 38-41</TITLE>L-38 Now, my contention is this, if there be strangers here. I don't get to my own church long enough to know who comes here. This is a little tabernacle, you visitors, where I have--was brought up, in my first and only little tabernacle. It's in this city here that I've lived among the people. If you're strangers with us, ask somebody along the city; go to the police force, to the mayor of the city, and anyone, and find out if any Christian here ever seen one of those visions ever fail. It can't fail. It is God. See? It's God.
And right yonder on the river, many, many, many years ago, when we was baptizing from my first little revival, there where this Angel of the Lord here, come down and hung over where we was at, and He said to me this message will go around the world, and would start a revival that'll sweep around the world, and it'll be just before the coming of Christ the second time.

L-39 And when the--Brother Davis, Doctor Roy Davis, many of you know him, who ordained me into the church, into the Baptist Church, when he said I had a nightmare, how would I, with a seventh grade education go and preach to kings and potentates and monarchs around the world. I can't tell you. But God said so, and I believed it. And He's let me live to see it, that it's been done. And a great revival now, of revival fires are burning on every hill around the world, waiting for the coming of the blessed Lord.
Great forerunners of these things... There's a great runner in the world today, evangelism, such as Billy Graham, like John the Baptist, who goes forth plowing into the things, and is laying the axe at the root of the tree, doing no miracles; neither did John. But he preached the Word.

L-40 But immediately after he, come along, the Lord Jesus, not such a great preacher, but forming signs and wonders. Said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then believe Me not. But if I do the works, if you don't believe Me, believe the works." Then He said, "I do nothing in Myself, but what I see the Father doing also." And what did He do? He told the woman of her sins. He told Philip where he was before Nathanael--Nathanael where he was before Philip found him, under a tree praying. He told Peter what his name was. He told the woman with the blood issue when she touched His garment, all these things. And He said, "These works that I do, shall you also; more shall you do; for I go to My Father." One woman touched His garment and He got so weak. There was no one else touched, as far as we know. That's all we have. The Bible's all we had to go by. But now we can see it done time after time, by sinners saved by grace. Why? Because His Word said, "More than this shall you do."

L-41 Now, He died; yea, He rose again, and He's alive tonight. He said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." The vine doesn't bear fruit; it purges the branches and the branches bears fruit. He has no hands but mine and yours. He has no eyes but mine and yours, because He's returned into Spirit. The Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel, It was the Angel of the covenant, Jesus Christ. The Bible said so. Any Bible reader knows that.
And He said, "I come from God; I go to God." And He returned back to God.
You say, "He went back to that Pillar of Fire?" Absolutely. "Does the Bible say so?" Yes, sir. Paul, a little after His resurrection, met Him on the road down to Damascus as that same bright Light that put Paul's eyes out. And no one seen It but Paul.
It was a reality to some and not to the others. I know by an experience, that same Lord Jesus is not two feet from where I'm standing right now. That's right. The visions come and you see it. And it was so bright till it put his eyes out. He said, "Lord, Lord."
He said, "Why are you persecuting Me, Paul?"
He said, "Who are You, Lord?"
He said, "I'm Jesus," the Light.


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