<TITLE>08. Par 33-37</TITLE>L-33 That's what it takes. And every man that ever goes to the pulpit ought to have the place in his heart, a backside of the desert. God gives all of His children that experience, where you meet God and talk to God, and He talks back to you, and you know there's something real.
All the doctors of divinity in all the world, they might explain this away, and talk that away, but they'll never be able to take you away from that backside of the desert experience, where you meet God face to face.

L-34 Then, when Moses had met God, he afterwards took the children of Israel through the fires of hell, for he endured as seeing Him, Who is invisible, not by His teaching, but by the experience he had.
Abraham, after he was called from the--out of the valley of Shinar, the land of the Chaldeans and the city of Ur, after God talked to him, spoke to him when he was seventy-five years old, and told him, Sarah being sixty-five, "You're going to have a baby by Sarah."... After God spoke to him, he had an experience, and he could call those things which were not, as though they were, no matter what anyone said.

L-35 Could you imagine that old couple, Abraham running downtown with Sarah to do a little shopping--almost a hundred years old--"Buy up all the birdeye, and the pins you can get a hold of, honey, we're going to take a trip now. You're going to have a baby. We'd better may go see the doctor."
"Doc, wife and I are going to have a baby."
Say, "How old are you?" "Why, the old man's off at his head. (See?) There's something wrong with him. We, maybe, had better send him to the psychopathic ward. Some psychiatrist could talk to him."
God has talked to him! And he could call those things which were not, as though they were, and got stronger all the time. He had an experience, he knowed there was a God Who talked. And he was fully persuaded that He was able to keep anything that He promised. Amen. The word, "Amen," means "so be it."

L-36 And notice him, after the first twenty-eight days, he goes to Sarah; he'd lived with her since she was a little girl of about sixteen, and here she is an old... She could been a great, great grandma. And he said after the first twenty-eight days (Now, remember, she was many years past menopause.), "Sarah, how do you feel?"
"Not a bit of difference, darling."
"Well, bless God, we're going to have it anyhow." A year passed, "How do you feel, Sarah?"
"No different."
"Praise God, it's going to be a greater miracle. We'll have it anyhow." Twenty-five years passed, "How you feeling, darling?"
"No different."
"Praise God, we're going to have it anyhow, 'cause I talked to God, Who talked back to me, and He's able to do anything that He promised to do." And He's the same Lord God tonight, if you ever met Him.
Experience companies faith. It calls anything contrary to the Word as though it was not. The Word comes first.

L-37 As I stood there, behind the curtain tonight, listening to Dr. Vayle; it was after that Philip had brought Nathanael, or went to find Nathanael, after Philip heard Jesus tell Peter what his name was, and what his father's name was, it was after that that he recognized Him. He had an experience; he'd heard Him tell that. Said, "Come, this is the Messiah."
Nathanael couldn't believe it. So he walked up into the Presence of the Lord Jesus; and Jesus said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there's no guile."
Said, "Rabbi, when did You know me?"
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." It was after that that Jesus said, "Because I told you this, do you now believe? You'll see greater things than this."


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