<TITLE>03. Par 9-12</TITLE>L-9 So we find out, that God doesn't altogether meet in large counsels of man. One time He met with five hundred. He met once with seventy, then with three, and even to one. Jesus said, "That wherever two or three are gathered in My Name, I'll be in their midst." That's one of the outstanding things that makes Him God to me.
I've had the privilege in my ministry to meet great men, kings, monarchs, potentates, great men. And I would be trembling when I met them, for fear that--that I might say the wrong thing. But I find out, when I come to men which really are big men, they are the humblest and the meekest. They make you feel that you're a great big somebody. But it's that fellow who thinks he's a big man that you can't get along with. Oh, he's just so big you can't touch him. That's the way it goes.
But God, the King of heaven, so condescending, that He will come to the lowest prostitute in this city on this cold night, if she would only ask. To the beggar on the street, anywhere that there is a need, and a sincerity towards Him, God will come.

L-10 In this case, He had three men, Peter, James, and John. And He was just about to reveal something that He was going to do. God always, before He does anything, He always sends a forewarning of it. And may I say here, that's the reason that we're here tonight. And that's the reason that great efforts for a revival is made the world over; God's getting ready to do something. And always before judgment He sends mercy. And if you spurn mercy, nothing's left but judgment. For you have judged it the way you have regarded the message. You refuse the message, nothing left but judgment. But God always shows beforehand what He's going to do.
And we see Him take three witnesses, Peter, James, and John, and go up into a high mountain, and there was transfigured before them. Now, three is a confirmation. Did you notice when He raised up Jairus' daughter, He had Peter, James, and John, and put the rest out of the house. A witness is three. "In the mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be established."

L-11 And this is just a little thing on the side, but it always appeared to me, that Peter represented faith, James, hope, and John, charity: Hope, faith, and charity, God's earthly witness. And that is also wrapped in every ministry that comes from God, faith, hope, and charity: faith to perform His Word, hope for the people, and love for all.
Then not only that, but this event was so great that there's always something goes on in heaven at the same time. There was three earthly beings: Peter, James, John. And from heaven come Moses, Elijah, and Jesus. And God the Father was looking upon the scene, three heavenly witnesses, three earthly witnesses. God was going to do something. And it had to be witnessed in heaven and it had to be witnessed on earth what He was going to do.

L-12 Oh, that must have been a great hour for those apostles. Peter later on called it the holy mountain. Now, it wasn't a holy mountain, insomuch that the mountain was holy; it was the holy God on the mountain. It isn't the holy Church; it's the Holy Spirit in the Church. It isn't a holy man; it's the Holy Ghost in the man. Peter said, "The holy mount" where the holy God descended. And they heard His voice.


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