<TITLE>10. Par 35-38</TITLE>L-35 Now, Peter called it the holy mountain, because the holy God had been on this mountain. And before God does anything usually on the earth, He usually speaks of it out of heaven first. Did you ever notice that? He always speaks from heaven first. The supernatural always manifests itself and then comes down--and to the people.
If you notice, before Israel was called out of Egypt... Moses had tried to do that, believing that he was the person that was to give the--the message. But he had tried to do it by his own will, by an intellectual standpoint, but before the time was right.
But when the time got right, there was a Visitor came down from heaven. It was God Himself. He came to the burning bush, and He spoke to Moses before He sent him out. I believe that every man, before he goes out on the field to preach the Gospel, ought to first have an experience with God before he goes, because in this intellectual day, as the Bible tells us will come this day, "For they'd be heady, highminded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof."

L-36 And they've got intellectual giants in the world today that can almost explain away everything that God said to be true. They can take it from a theological standpoint, intellectual. And if you just take your own mind of thinking, reasoning like Eve did at the beginning, they can explain everything of the Bible away from you.
But if a man, or a woman has ever been on the backside of the desert in those sacred sands where no intellectual can stand, and there come in contact with the living God, no devil, or scientist, or anything else can ever explain that away. You were there. It happened. You know it's the truth.
There's no one can take it away from you. You met God. And I believe that God, in every age sending forth a messenger, always first, meets that person on a sacred ground, because it's got to be so. There's too much of evil to try to explain all the supernatural away. And where there's a supernatural God, there's going to be supernatural things happening, because He is supernatural.

L-37 Now, God spoke first to Moses before a supernatural thing taken place of His miracles. And also, God spoke to John the Baptist before the coming of Christ. Always... Said, "He that said to me in the wilderness, 'Upon Whom thou shall see the Spirit descending and remaining on, He's the One that'll baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire.'" See?
Now, John really come from a priest's family. His father, Zacharias, was a priest, and he died when John was just a young boy. Instead of John going and following the same line of ministerial thoughts that his father had, the job was too important. He just couldn't do it that way. He had to go in the wilderness and wait there until he heard, first, from God, because he was to be the one to introduce the Messiah. And them days they'd had all kinds of signs for a Messiah. They'd had this, that, or the other, and this will be it.

L-38 No doubt the Pharisees had come and say, "We got Dr. Jones up here. He's one of the finest men. I know he's got to be the Messiah. That's it, because he's such a brilliant man. He takes so well with the people. He dresses so nice," and--and so forth. Each one would've had a man.
So but when God gets ready to do anything, He calls somebody aside and speaks from heaven first. Then they know exactly what they're talking about. They don't have to fear anything or take anything of anybody's ideas. They know exactly what's required, and they go get it. That's the message that God always speaks first.


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