<TITLE>03. Par 18-26</TITLE>L-18 Now, this great saint here was Columba. He was a great man of God. Now, I've got his history kinda written down here. First, the fourth church age, "Thyatira," it means "to be laxed, loose, or hazy." See, it was just a illegitimate time from 606 to 1500.
The star was Columba, from Ireland and Scotland, which was a nephew to Saint Martin; and lived about sixty years after Saint Patrick, and so his ministry begin about sixty years after Saint Patrick. His...
He never did accept the Roman doctrine. He was a great man of faith. He rejected the Roman teaching, never did go to Rome, and rejected it altogether. As I couldn't see where they'd ever canonized him, like they did Saint Martin and them; they didn't canonize him and Irenaeus because they were still in that church that had signs and wonders of Pentecost, but believed. He never took the Roman teaching, on their teachings. He took the Bible for the teaching after his godly mother, the sister of Saint Martin, and never took the Roman teachings at any time. He taught that signs of Mark 16 should follow every believer. Amen. I... That's the kind of guy I like, believers. Yes, sir.
He--he heard God's audible voice calling. That's another good sign too. See? Then nothing could stop him after that; he was gone...?... he was on the road when he heard the audible voice of God.

L-23 One miracle... I got several wrote down here, but if we just take this one. One miracle was that when he had went to a certain city that the Lord had sent him to, and the city didn't want to receive him, so they went out there and tried to--took the musicians, and so forth, and closed the gates and tried to drown him out by playing, the musicians. And he begin to preach, and it drowned out the musicians and the gates come open; he went on in and preached anyhow. He got the whole bunch converted.
Here's another little one I'd like to just kind of speak about. He went into a city. They had their cities walled in those days, of course. So he went to the city, and they turned him out. He was going away, and the chief's boy fell violently sick, and they sent down the road after the good saint. He come back and laid hisself across the dying boy, and he come to life.

L-25 His church was filled with the Holy Ghost; he would have nothing less; for every member of his church must be filled with the Holy Ghost. And he protested and highly hated the hierarchy of Rome. I believe he was the star of the age. What was he doing? With speaking in tongues, the baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus, carrying out the very things that they started. If the God is infinite, and that's the way He set up His church at the beginning, it has to remain the same, and it has (even in the minority) all the way down; almost squeezed out here, comes back again through Luther.

L-26 Now, we want to start now, and see if we can start to get some of these verses off now as we begin at the 18th verse.
... unto the angel of the church of Thyatira write;...
Did you notice these--these addresses? These messages are addressed to the angel, or the minister bearing the Light of that church age. See? Now, last night we found out in the closing of this other church age of--of Pergamos, that the angel of the church (in the overcoming of this church age) would receive a stone. And in this stone...
Now, we've took that stone and symbolized it, means a "rock." What is it? The angel would be one like Peter, called "stone."


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