<TITLE>05. Par 16-20</TITLE>L-16 How little it was for Abraham after he had endured as seeing Him Who was invisible, how after he met God and had an experience of talking face to face with God, that he could call those things which were not as though they were. For he had an experience; he had talked to God face to face. That's what we need is a personal experience with the living God.

L-17 How that Moses, after having forty years of religious training by his mother, how having forty years of military might in his hands, of how to whip a nation, how to conquer, and it taken God forty years to take it out of him. But once out there in the wilderness alone, one day he come face to face with God in a burning bush, and he was better equipped in five minutes after he had talked with God, than eighty years of schooling had done anything to him.
He was a coward dying a thousand deaths. And after meeting God he wished he had a thousand lives to die for Christ. He was ready to go; there was nothing could stop him. Though he had no army, though his education was no good to him; he couldn't fight. He had no swords. He didn't have any warriors, any chariots to back him up as far as the world knew. But he'd come face to face with God with an experience, who had the armored Angels of all the eternities to stand by him. And as Moses went his way down with his wife straddle of a little old mule, and a long whiskers hanging down, I believe that ten thousand times ten thousands of Angels rode along down those dusty roads with him. He had an experience.

L-18 It was down at Dothan one time, when a young fellow, a--a prophet's servant... And he went down with him to Dothan. And while the prophet slept, the great Syrian army come and encompassed--encamped about the great walls of Dothan. And when he woke up the next morning, he had never had an experience. He said to--as he seen the great army looking for Elijah; he said, "Oh, my father, the whole armies have gathered and surrounded here. They're looking for you." It didn't shake that old prophet one bit. It might've been cancer; it might've tuberculosis; it might have been a stroke, but it didn't shake that prophet. He looked at him and he said, "Son, there is more with us then there is with them."
He said, "I can only see you and I."
He said, "Open his eyes, God, that he can see. Give him an experience." And when his eyes opened he looked, and the whole mountains was full of chariots and fire and horses of fire, around that old sainted prophet. He had an experience; there was no more doubt in his mind then.

L-19 It was Samson with the jawbone of a mule that killed a thousand Philistines, because he had an experience that he was borned again. He had an experience that he was a Nazarite and the God of heaven was with him.

L-20 It was Philip who had seen Jesus in former experiences, who went and found Nathanael around behind the mountain. And he said, "Come, see Who we have found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
And the man being very orthodox, he said, "Now, could there be any good thing come from Nazareth?"
He said, "Come and see." Why? He had been with Jesus. He knew that there was something about the man that was more than a match for anything the devil could stand up.
Oh, listen closely. And as they go around the mountain, Philip is beginning to talk, and Nathanael's speaking with him; and he said to him, "Now, when you get there, I have seen Him when Peter come up, and He didn't even never see Peter in all his life; but when he got there He said, 'Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas.' Knew his name and knew who his daddy was." Oh, he couldn't believe that. But Philip had once been with Him, so he knowed to persuade him how it could be--how He did it. So when he walked up into the Presence of Jesus of Nazareth, he'd come then to believe.


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