<TITLE>14. Par 40-43</TITLE>L-40 And when He died, buried, resurrected, about a few weeks later Saul was on his road down to Damascus, and a great Pillar of Fire, that led the children of Israel, fell before him there, put his eyes out, He said, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?"
Said, "Who are you, Lord?"
He said, "I am Jesus and it's hard for you to kick against the pricks." What was it? He come from God, dwelt in flesh, returned back to God. That same Pillar of Fire, that same Holy Ghost is with us tonight, doing the same works, the same signs, the same everything else, proving that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. The woman could touch the hem of His garment. Oh, the man can be told who he is, what he's done, how to get out of it, all by the power of the living God that dwells among His people. Amen. All right. Just speak to the Rock.

L-41 Let's look at some people that spoke to the Rock. Let's find out what taken place. The first man ever spoke to a Rock was a man that got tied up in some theology. He made hisself a set of fig leaves, Adam. He thought, "That'll do just as good as anything. But when he come face to face with God, he found out he was naked. What did he do? He spoke to the Rock, and the Rock made a way of escape for him, the Rock that was in Eden.
There was Noah, another man who had preached, and the people ignored and laughed at him. One day he spoke to the Rock, and the Rock took him in the ark, and tucked him away in His arms, and rode him above the storm, and drowned the persecuting world. Yes, sir, Noah...

L-42 There was a man named Daniel once who was in the lion's den. He went out into Babylon, and he said in himself that he was not going to defile himself with the king's meat. He wasn't going to have anything to do with the world, though he had to live among them people. But he wasn't going to defile himself; he purposed in his heart he wasn't. And one day the king throwed him into the lion's pit because he was walking in the line of duty; but he spoke to the Rock, and that Pillar of Fire come down and kept the lions off of him all night long because he spoke to the Rock before he went to the pit.
There was the Hebrew children who wouldn't bow down to the images of King Nebuchadnezzar, and they throwed them into the fiery furnace, and they spoke to the Rock and the fourth Man was standing in the fiery furnace there, the Rock of Ages. Hallelujah. David said, "If I make my bed in hell, He will be there. If I take wings of the morning and fly away..."

L-43 Notice Hagar. She'd been put out of her home. She had a little nursing boy, Ishmael. She went out into the desert, no place to go, the water had run out, what could she do? She'd been raised in a home that was acquainted with the Rock, and what did she do? She didn't want to see the baby die, so she took the little fellow, and laid him under a tree, and went off a bow shot, and fell down on her knees, and she spoke to the Rock, and the Rock poured forth His waters, and the baby was saved. And to this day, Barsheba still stands there, that fountain, that I..., "God Who has seen me." She spoke to the Rock for her dying baby. Can you speak to the Rock tonight? Are you on speaking terms with Him? Do you know anything about it?


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