<TITLE>15. Par 41-41</TITLE>L-41 Little Stephen, after he'd come under the Blood, stood there and preached until his face shined like an angel. I don't believe it shined like one of those lights. Certainly not. An angel isn't--that don't always have to mean a shining light. An angel is a messenger, somebody that knows what they're talking about. I believe when Stephen stood up there that morning at the Sanhedrin courts, when they had him, trying to condemn him and so forth, he said, "Which one of your fathers hasn't condemned the Holy Ghost or turned It away? Which one of them didn't..." said, "You stiff-necks, uncircumcised in heart and ears," knowing it would cost his life... What did he care? He knowed what he was talking about. Why? He'd come under the Blood, and been up there at Pentecost, and was under Shekinah Glory; and he didn't care what anyone said. Death didn't mean nothing to him. He was so sure and so filled with the Spirit, till they begin to run up on him and gnash their teeth and bash--break his head in with the rocks and things like that. Even death didn't even hide his fellowship. He raised his hands and said, "I see Jesus." Amen.
Whew. Now, you don't believe Baptists shout? I'll show you in a minute. Let me tell you brother. Even death could not--could not hide it. Death could not do nothing. You couldn't hide him from the fellowship, because he still maintained that perfect fellowship with Christ, even when the rocks was beating his head in. He...
And Paul standing there (Saul, it was then,) holding his garments, looking at it... It never did get away from him. He seen that that man had something, although he was so full of creeds and theology and learned stuff, till... He looked at that man, and he seen that man had something that his creeds didn't produce. He seen the glory of God upon his face when Je--or when Stephen looked up and said, "I see Jesus, standing at the right hand of God," still having fellowship in the hour of his death, because he come by God's appropriated way, by the Blood of Jesus Christ, and had entered into the Shekinah Glory, where real fellowship was, real fellowship. The praises and powers of God...


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