<TITLE>09. Par 30-34</TITLE>L-30 As Brother David duPlessis was telling us awhile ago about Saul of Tarsus, a murderer, who held the coat of the murderers that--and witnessed, and give witness to the death of Stephen, the martyr. He had letters in his pockets to go down to the--the head councils of the churches, and arrest the people that were making too much noise, shouting and praising God. He was a great man in the sight of the Pharisees. He was a Pharisee of the Pharisee.
But one day he was on his road to Damascus, and he met God. A Light shined around him, and from that time on, he was no more Saul of Tarsus, but he was Paul, the humble one, the meek one, because he met God and it changed him.

L-31 There was a leper laying at the gate. All the remedies of the medicine could not heal him. His putrified sores had gotten so great, till his hands was beyond raising up any more. And his feet, he could hardly drag them. His case was hopeless. But he met God one day coming out the gate, and he fell down, and worshipped, and said, "If Thou will, Thou can make me clean."
And He said, "I will, be thou clean." And from that time, he didn't have no more leprosy, because he met God.
There was a blind man setting by the side of the road. And he could not see the daylight from dark. There was nothing could help him. One day Someone come walking out of the city of Jericho. And when he met God... And from that time, he could see. His sight come to him. The sight of light had broke into his eyes and he could see again, because from that time, when he met Jesus, he was a different man. He had his sight. When a person meets God, something happens definitely.

L-32 There was a young man one time, no doubt a good citizen of the country. But spells come on him. And he was so bad, till the prison house couldn't hold him. And they bound him with chains, and he had a legion of devils in him, that he could break the chains and free himself. And the devils drove him to a graveyard where he stayed in there, and took the slabs, and get so mean he'd cut his own self. Oh, he was a terrible fellow. When those spells would leave him, no doubt he'd think, "What am I doing here?" And about that time, the devils would come to him again and cut him and tear him.
But one day, he met Jesus. And from that time on, the maniac of Gadara had his ri--right mind, clothed, setting at His feet. He could go back home as a gentleman. He could return to civilization. He could go back to his loved ones. He could say, "From that time, I've been changed." Yes.

L-33 One day yonder on Calvary, when God and death met face to face, when life and death come together... But that's when Life--Christ, pulled the stinger out of death. And since that time, death hasn't had no stinger in it.
I'm so glad of that. God... Death and God met together. Death hasn't been the same. It ain't got no stinger to it now. The Christian believer can walk right into it's face and say, "Oh, death, where is your stinger? Grave, where is your victory?" Why? They both met God. They haven't been the same since then.
No man can be the same. Nothing can be the same when it once meets God. You'll never be the same.

L-34 I can remember laying here on the hospital bed. The doctors give me three minutes to live, my heart beating seventeen times to the minute. I met God. Since then I haven't been the same. Something happened to me. No one could tell me any different. Bill Branham died; I met God, and Something come into me. I've never been the same since that minute I met Him. He changed me. He made me something different. It wasn't taking a New Years' vow, but I met God.
Men and women, when you meet God, you're changed. We make our New Year vows tonight, go back tomorrow morning to break them, next day to break them. But what we need to do is not a New Year vow, but we need to come face to face with God and have Eternal Life, be borned of His Spirit.


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