<TITLE>22. Par 82-85</TITLE>L-82 And from that time, he got rid of his letter and became one of them. From that time... Yes, it changed him.
Ananias laid hands on him by a vision that he saw, and he received his sight, took him down to the Damascus river and baptized him. He become the--a saint to the Gentile church. God...
Now, look here. How... What he said... When Paul got converted, perhaps the church said, "Oh, look what we got now. We got this great big Paul. We know that that man set under Gamaliel; he's one of the greatest teachers in the land. And he's a Pharisee; he's... Oh, he's a great man. We'll put him up at Jerusalem, and we'll make him the head of the church up there. And we'll take Peter... 'Course the one that's got the keys; he's ignorant. He can't (The Bible said he was a ignorant and unlearned.)... And he's got the keys, so we'll just send him out to the poor dumb Gentiles. That's--that's the one we'll send him too. Because he does a lot of miracles, but this great intellectual man; we'll bring up here at this intellectual crowd."

L-83 Huh, the Holy Ghost sent Paul out to the dumb ones, and made him forget all he ever knowed, and took Peter (the dumb one) and sent him up to the educated ones. What was the matter? They met God, and from that time on the intellectuals didn't count. That's right. From that time on, the record was changed. How God does things just contrary to man's thinking. Oh, my. It... He don't... He does things so simple. Yes, Paul was a changed man.
There was a blind man (we preached on the other night) setting at the gate, begging for alms. And he met God and from that time on...?... There was a maniac over in Gadara, who would tear his clothes off of him, wanted to live in a graveyard. (That's a good place for demons.) So he was laying out there, and they put chains around him. He was so powerful. Look at a man...

L-84 Did you ever see an insane person? Why, he's three times the strength, or four. And if a soul surrendered to the devil would give you four times your strength, what would you be to surrender yourself to the Holy Ghost? How many thousand times your strength it would be. Don't be scared. Why? He walked in the Name of the Lord Jesus; that's the anointing. Meet God and find out what takes place.
This maniac run out there. The devil said, "Go get that little old skinny looking guy coming up there, His shoulders stooped down." Said, "Go get that little old fellow down there. Look at all them people looking around him." Said, "Go down and get him."
Here he run out, and when he did, he met God. And from that time on, he put on his clothes; he was in his right mind. What? When he met God! Friends, there's times when you meet God, it changes every man.

L-85 For just a moment, I'm going to make a confession now. I want you to listen to this. I have been a minister thirty-one years. (I'm closing after this testimony.) I've never been afraid of death since I been a Christian. But what scared me, or worried me, was the time, if I died before Jesus come, I didn't want to be a--a spirit. I--I'm always afraid of anything that looks like a spook; I--I'm--I'm scared of it. So, I--I--I thought when I was... I--I know this body. I thought I'd go to be with the Lord, but maybe I would see one of my brothers. And there they'd go by like a little white cloud, a spirit, the soul of that person.
I'd say, "Oh, there--there's my brother. Oh, if I could just shake his hand. He hasn't got any hand; it's rotted down in the grave. If I could say, 'Hello,' but he ain't got... I can't got... I ain't got no tongue; my tongue's rotted down in the grave. If I could embrace him, but I haven't... I--I'm a spirit."
Oh, that scared me to death. I--I just didn't like that. And I--I--I'm an illiterate person, and I--I can just barely read, got a seventh grade education. And so then I thought, "Well, my if I could just... I hope I live till the Lord comes."


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