<TITLE>18. Par 71-74</TITLE>L-71 Peter, the little critic, one day to his brother Andrew, went to church, went up to the Galilean coast, he'd been seining all night, and had went up there to see Jesus, got him a chunk of wood and set down. I imagine as Jesus went to speak, Peter moved up close. And Jesus looked at him and said, "Your name is Simon. You're the son of Jonas." And from that time he was a changed man. Sure, he had met God.
Paul, the little hook-nosed Jew, crabby and sassy as he could be. Oh, the great church, they had made their choice: Matthias, sure. He was the one; they cast lots. He never done a thing. That was the church's choice.
But God took a little Jew that was sarcastic as he could be, just molded him around. He had met him on the road one day and knocked him off his high horse and he wallowed in the dust. That's right. Said, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?"
Said, "Lord, Who are You?"
Said, "I'm Jesus." Back to the Pillar of Fire again. You see? "I'm..." Jesus said, "I come from God and I go to God."

L-72 Now, do you understand? He was the Pillar of Fire, the Logos (any of you brother knows), that led the children of Israel, the Angel of the covenant led the children of Israel through the wilderness. That was the Christ, the Anointed. It was made manifest upon a Man.
And when It was here on earth, we look what It done. And immediately He said, "I come from God, and I go to God." After His death, burial, and resurrection, His ascension, Paul met Him on the road down to Damascus, and what was He again? Back to the Pillar of Fire. That's right.
Now, if that Pillar of Fire is right... If It's here, It'll do the same works that He did. 'Cause It's the same nature. See?
Now, we notice. And on his road down, he met Jesus. He was a changed man. From a sarcastic little Pharisee until a godly saint, a messenger to the Church. Paul, what a difference there was in him.

L-73 A blind man, Bartimaeus, set by the gate one day, crying. The crowd went by. Maybe some of them knocked him over. "Get out of the way." I can hear a priest say, "Say you, Galilean so-called prophet."
Little Zacchaeus had been set in a tree before and hid hisself, said, "Rebekah told me He was a prophet, but I doubt it." Hid hisself all over... Here come Jesus around the corner, stopped right under the tree where Zacchaeus was, and said, "Zacchaeus, come down. I'm going home with you for dinner." Hmmm. Knowed right where he was and knowed what his name was. Sure, He's still Jesus. You can meet Him tonight, just the same as you met--he met Him then.
When He went out of the gate of Jerusalem, started the other way, what happened? There was old blind Bartimaeus standing at the gate. Zacchaeus was a changed man. He wanted to make restitutions for all the evil he had done. He met God.

L-74 There, when He come out of the gate, there was a blind man setting there. I can hear the priest, the head of the ministerial association saying, "Now, get out of here you fanatic. They tell me you raise the dead. We got a graveyard full of them up here, come up and raise some of them." See, but God doesn't clown for people. Jesus just did as He said, as the Father showed Him. Saint John 5:19 said, "Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself; but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise."
And I imagine Bartimaeus got just a little bit disturbed. And he said, "Who passes by?"
And "Oh, keep still." If--if you go mark the place, it was about two hundred yards from Him.
"What's all the noise about?"
There's something strange, everywhere Jesus is, there's is a lot of noise. Where God is, makes a lot of noise. I don't know why it is, but they do. Anything without noise, without emotion, is dead. That's scientific. And if your religion hasn't got a little emotion to it, you better bury it (That's right.), 'cause it's certainly dead.


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