<TITLE>07. Par 19-21</TITLE>L-19 God meets in councils of men. One time, He met with five hundred, once with seventy, with twelve, and with three. He's met even where even one was. That's what makes Him God. He's so concerned, that He will meet with any individual, anywhere, that that person would call on Him: Down into the belly of the whale for Jonah; up into the mountain for Elisha; down in a lions' den with Daniel. He's God.
And here we find Him now taking three men Peter, James, and John, and He goes up into the mountain. Peter later on referred to that mountain as a holy mountain. But Peter did not mean this, that the mountain was holy. It was a holy God on the holy--on the mountain that made it holy.
It is not the holy church; it's the Holy Spirit in the Church that makes it holy. It isn't the holy man; it's the Holy Spirit in the man that does it. Not a holy man, there's no such a thing; it's a Holy Spirit. And Peter was referring to this as a holy mountain, because a holy God met them on this mountain. It was a sacred sand.
And let me stop here this afternoon and say this: that each one of you people that's been borned again of the Holy Spirit, You remember the very hour where the Holy Spirit, the very spot where He met you. And when doubts come, and fears begin to rise, there's always that certain place, that you can come back to that time where you met God, and the devil can't tread on those sacred sands. It's where you met God and you talked to Him. Though fears and things rise, it has nothing to do with it. You know you met God on those sacred sands.

L-20 Peter was in the mountain. And when God gets ready to do anything, He just never, oh, just loosely does it. He always confirms everything He does. Aren't you happy for that today, that our God makes every word manifest? He doesn't speak idle words; He told us not to. But He speaks every Word just exactly.
And as He goes up here now, He's fixing to do something. And I know many of you brethren this afternoon, take this text through the coming of Christ the second time, and it certainly does refer to that. But I want to take it on another view this afternoon, 'cause all the Scripture just ties together, every Word.

L-21 And now notice in this, when He took them up there. He took Peter, James, and John. I like to refer to them as hope, faith, and charity. James is hope. Peter is faith. John is the disciple of love, charity. Hope, faith, and charity...
Then not only was there three earthly beings; there were three Heavenly beings: Elijah, Moses, and Jesus. God's going to display something. Now, you say, "Jesus?" Yes. He came down from heaven. He was a heavenly Being.
Now, He wanted to display something. Now, what I think He was trying to display was this. And let's take a little trip back in our minds in the Scripture and think of back in the old days. And I think, maybe it would help some of us this afternoon to look into this.
Now, the church feels, especially the Pentecostal people, when you was borned again of the Holy Spirit, you felt like that settled it forever. And that's where you made a mistake. You were just then beginning.
People think, "Well, praise the Lord; I got the baptism of the Holy Ghost; that settles it. That seals me into the Kingdom; I'm a son and daughter of God." That's true. But that don't have nothing to do with your inheritance yet.


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