<TITLE>09. Par -</TITLE>L-13-2 And the minister stood to his feet and said, "One night on a rocking sea, when a little ship was about to go to the bottom; all hopes of being saved was gone. They saw Jesus, the Son of God, come walking on water. And one of the apostles by the name of Peter, said, 'If that be You, Lord, bid me come to You on the water.'"
And He said, "The Lord said to the apostle, Peter, 'Come on.' And he stepped out of the boat, sir, walking just as good as Jesus was walking on the water. But when he got scared, he begin to sink before he got to Jesus."
The judge said, "The case is dismissed."

L-13-3 We need Holy Spirit leadership, not intellectual men. Saul, the son of Kish, was then made captain over the people. And he taken two thousand men, and Jonathan taken a thousand, and Jonathan went down to a garrison and smote a bunch of Amorites, Ammonites rather. And when--when he had smote them, Saul sounded a trumpet and said, "You see what Saul has done." He begin to get puffed up.
Just as soon as a man gets to be some great Doctor of Divinity, or gets a little something behind his name, he becomes more or less a know-it-all. God's men are humble men. God's people are humble people.
When you see someone who says they have received the Holy Spirit and begins to separate themselves, seemingly not having the faith, going about trying to be something that they're not, just remember, they haven't received the Lord Jesus.

L-14-3 Then we find that the enemy set in, and he was going to come into a little bunch of God's people and was going to pluck out the right eye of every man. That's what the enemy always tries to do, is pluck out both eyes if he can, so that the people cannot see what they're doing. That's what Satan tries to do today to every Christian: pluck out his spiritual sight, that he can only follow the intellectual sense of things and not the sense of the Holy Spirit leading him.
So then when they did that, when the great defeat come, then Saul cut up two great ox and sent them to all the people. And I wished you would notice here. When Saul sent the pieces of the ox to all Israel and said, "Let every man that will not follow Samuel and Saul, let him, this ox be as this." Do you see how deceitful he tried to represent Himself with the man of God? How--how unchristian it was. The fear of the people was because of Samuel. But Saul got them all to follow him, because that the people feared Samuel. "Let them come after Samuel and Saul."

L-14-5 And how many times today have we heard it: "We are the great church"; "We are the Church of Christ"; "We are the Church of God"; "We are the--the so-and-so." It makes the people get a fear and think that that really is where God's a-working. And they don't want the leadership of the Holy Spirit; they'd rather follow men like that, because they like to live their own individual life. They like to believe what they want to believe.
Do you see the Holy Spirit is our Judge? God never give us a pope, or a bishop, or anybody to be a judge. The Holy Spirit, the Person of God in the form of the Holy Spirit is our Judge and our Guide.


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