<TITLE>15. Par 113-118</TITLE>L-113 Let's read on, see how Paul got it, see how--what I'm trying to say to--to you this morning.
For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I just pleased men, then I not be the servant of Christ.
How can I expect anything, how can a man that loves God, and a preacher, especially, expect to do anything but be hated by men? Men will hate you. Well, they said... Jesus said, "If they call Me, the Master of the house... I'm the Master, the greatest of all of you. I'm the One can perform more miracles and do more with the Holy Spirit than all of you, 'cause I got the whole Fullness in Me. And if they called Me Beelzebub, how much more are they going to call you?" But said, "Don't take no thought what you'll be saying, for it'll not be you that speaks; it'll be the Father that dwells in you, do the speaking at that time. Just stay right with the Word." And He... When He got through writing the Book, He said, "Any man that'll take one Word out of this Book or add one word to It, the same will be taken out of the Book of Life, for him." God help us to stay right with It.

L-115 Now, the next verse, let me read now, read quickly now.
But I certify... (That's take you to judgment.)... I certify you, brethren, that the Gospel which was preached of me is not after man... ("Now, I'm neither Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, or Pentecostal.)... it was not after man.
Neither... For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it,...
"I never received it from man, no seminary, no doctor, no divinity, no school of education. I never received it that way. I never taught it that way. I never found it that way. it never come to me that way." How did it come then, Paul?
... taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
"When Christ revealed Himself to me, that He was the Son of God, when that Pillar of Fire fell upon me that day, I said, 'Who are You, Lord?' He said, 'I'm Jesus.'"

L-118 Now, look. I'm going to show you what--what happened to him. Now, right now if a fellow had experience, they'd want to give him ten years to learn Greek, and ten more years to learn something else, and by that time he's gone. Look...
... neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
For ye have heard of my conversations in times past in the Jewish religion,...
"I was a big doctor, boy. I had it." He was taught under Gamaliel, the highest teacher that they had in the land. How many knows that Gamaliel was one of the great--greatest teachers? Yes, sir. "My Jewish religion, boy, I had it down; I knowed all how to say the Apostles' Creed and all those things. You see? I knowed how to say all the morning prayers and to bless the people." See?
... how that beyond measure then I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:  (How that I tried to stop that bunch of holy-rollers. See, see?)
And I profited in the Jewish religion...
"I was a great man. Boy, I really... I profited; I showed them I could smash them down, 'cause I killed Stephen and a whole lot of other things I done. See how I done." How that beyond measure he persecuted.


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