<TITLE>14. Par 64-69</TITLE>L-64 So when he was on his road down to Damascus one day, with some orders in his pocket from the--from the church bishop, to go down and destroy all that bunch of holy-rollers that were screaming and shouting and--and jumping up-and-down, and speaking with foreign languages, and--and healing the sick, and... "Why, it's a bunch of devils said the theologians. Go down and arrest them and bring them back up here in chains."
"Sure, at your service bishop." Oh, my. Oh, he was a great man. He had a D.D., Ph.D., you know. So he jumped on his horse, and away he went with the company with him. But on his road about high noon something floored him. And he wallowed in the dust like a mad man, frothing, and he heard a voice saying, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?" What was it? Not some theol... theo... theologian speaking to him, but a voice from heaven. "Why persecutest thou Me?"

L-65 And he turned over in the dust, and his frowns all full of dust, and tears rolling down his checks, perhaps, he said, "Lord, Who are You?" And when he flashed his eyes he become as blind as a bat. There stood the big Pillar of fire before him, and a voice coming from It said, "I'm Jesus Who you're persecuting. Your man-made teaching's been wrong." What was it? There was an open vision, the Word of God was made real. Oh, brethren, that's what we need today, is some more like that.
I just want to thank the Lord... These little girls in the wheelchairs last night come a walking up today in the--without the wheelchairs for the glory... The Lord bless you, girls.
What did it? The same Jesus that spoke in the supernatural voice back there speaks yet today.

L-66 "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?" Saul was a changed man. And people ought to be changed today when they can see and hear the voice of the living God speak like He did when He walked in Galilee. Oh, sure.
"Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?" What did it? Did He take him down to a seminary and teach him some new theology? No, He did not. What did He do? He spoke to him. And their was a literal voice speaking through a cloud. What was it? The same God that thundered off of Mount Sinai.

L-67 In the meetings and the places where the Holy Spirit does come, you hear a human voice changed, and not knowing hardly ABC's, but Christ can take that voice and speak out the mysteries of the almighty God. It ought to change every man and woman that sets in the Presence of His Word.
"I heard a voice," he said. Oh, we so slumber. I hope we'd not--will have to made any plainer than that. But we so slumber in our churches, in our theology, in our thinking, and in our ways of life, until we fail to hear that voice when it speaks.

L-68 "Oh," they say, "it might be telepathy, it might... you know. Might be this, that, or the other."
What if Moses would've said, "Say, wonder if that was a demon in that bush." No question to Moses. He heard the voice.
If you say, "Oh, that might be just my conscience telling me that."
If you're a child of God, you'll know it's His voice. "My sheep hear My voice. My sheep hear My voice." They'll know.

L-69 There was another by the name of Peter, who had become saved and had also be filled with the spirit. And he still wanted to hang on to the traditions of the elders. All he'd knowed would been hearing the Word. And one day on a housetop, when he wanted to keep the traditions of, "Don't meat--eat any meat, and the Sabbath's, and so forth..." There's a many a good person still tries to hang on to stuff like that.


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