<TITLE>16. Par 121-128</TITLE>L-121 ... I profited in the Jewish religion above many my equals in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the tradition of their fathers.
Now, remember, not the Word of God, "the tradition of the fathers," tradition of the church, in other words. "I guess I was a Methodist to the core; I was a Baptist to the core; I was a Pentecostal to the core." Oh, you are? I want to be God to the core. Yes, that's it. See? See? All right.
... traditions of my fathers.
But when it pleased God,... (Oh, oh, Paul, here you come.)... who separated me from my mother's womb... (Who even brought me to this world),... and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me,...
How is that? "The Holy Spirit in me... It pleased God to take me, Who separated from my womb, and give me the Son (which is the Holy Ghost in the form of the Spirit) in me, to reveal Hisself in me." Oh, my. Whew. I--I--I believe I want to shout just a little.

L-123 Look, let me tell you, brother. When it pleased God... Oh, hallelujah. When it pleased God... A drunkard father, a mother... God bless you, mom, I'm not saying nothing against you. But a mother that knowed no more about God than a rabbit knowed of snowshoes. And a father that laid drunk on the streets. And with not even shoes to go to school, and long hair down my neck, and everybody hated me because I was a Kentuckian over here in Indiana. And how, oh, how it was just a stinking sight. But it pleased God. Amen. It pleased God, Who separated me from the womb of my mother, that He might reveal His Son in me, by making a minister of the Word, that would stay right straight with It, that would show visions and signs and wonders and miracles. And, oh, my...

L-124 See what He was talking about? It pleased God to do that. How? Listen close. "To re..." Take the 16th verse now.
To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with the church:
"I never went to any bishop and asked him what I ought to do. I never went to any flesh and blood, any organizations, or anything else. I never had anything to do with them. I never conferred with flesh and blood. Neither went I up to Jerusalem to all the great holy priests, and the holy fathers, and all those, and said, 'Now, you know, I had a vision; what must I do about it? I saw the blessed Lord Jesus in a vision.' They'd said, 'Get out of here, you... What's... You holy-roller. Well, what's happened to you?' No, I had all their degrees to start with." Had...

L-126 And Paul said over here; I can show you in the Scripture, that he said he had to forget everything that he ever learned, and count it as nothing, that he might know Christ. Oh.
Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and turned again unto Damascus.
And after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
And as we read on, we find out that he and the apostle Peter never seen one another in life, never knowed one another, never seen one another, but when they come together they were preaching the same Gospel. God's got a school. Yeah.

L-128 Here was Peter, stood up on the day of Pentecost, said, "Repent, every one of you, be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins, you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost."
Philip said, "Oh, how glorious this is. I got to do something too. Down to... I got a call down to Samaria. Went down there and got to testify in the street. First thing, a sick person come up, laid hands on him, and begin jumping and leaping, said, 'Glory to God, here we are.' Started to having a big meeting." He said, "You all need the Holy Ghost." He said, "What you got to do, you've got to be baptized in Jesus' Name." So he took them, every one, out there and baptized them all in Jesus' Name. Said, "Come on, Peter, lay your hands on them now." And they got the Holy Ghost. Peter, up at the house of Cornelius, the same way.


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