<TITLE>12. Par 62-68</TITLE>L-62 Isaiah, that mighty prophet, when he confessed his sins, he said, "Woe is me, for I'm a man of unclean lips." A prophet. "I'm a man of unclean lips, and my congregation's unclean." See? "The people I preach to, they're unclean. I'm unclean. And woe is me. But here comes a bunch of Angels down from the Glory of God, fanning back the--the clouds, and I look up there and see His train filling the whole heaven. And I watched these Angels that's never knowed what sin was. They never even knowed what sin was, and they're in the Presence of God; they got two wings over their faces; they got two wings over their feet; and they're flying with two wings; and they cry day and night, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God." Whew. That'd make you feel kind of unholy, wouldn't it? Now, what did he do? He said, "Woe is me."

L-63 And when he confessed his sins and said, "Woe is me," the Angel went over and took the tongs, picked up a coal of fire which represented the Holy Ghost and fire, and come over and laid it on the prophet's lips, and said, "I've cleansed you." Then the wings winnowing their way like that, moved away the curtains of time, and he heard God say, "Who will go for us?"
But after he found out that there was a way to rid sin, God wanted somebody to go for Him, and he said, "Here am I, send me." He had been in the Presence of God, and had confessed his sins, and been cleansed from his sins, and was ready for service. Amen.
As the poet caught that, said,
Millions now in sin and shame are dying,
Listen to their sad and bitter cry.
Hasten, brother, hasten to their rescue;
Quickly answer, "Master, here am I."

L-66 When I think of Africa, India, and around the world, millions of heathens screaming and crying for mercy, and who will go? Not pass them a tract, but bring them Jesus Christ. Somebody in His Presence, like Moses, who could go down there and show them true deliverance, not make them join a church, or shake hands and have a creed, but bring deliverance to their soul; some good godly man. Yes, Isaiah confessed his sins and was cleansed.

L-67 After Jacob had wrestled all night in confessing his sins, you remember the place he was? It was called Penitel, P-e-n-i-t-e-l, Penitel. The word "Penitel," in the Hebrew, means "the face of Almighty God." Jacob, the little shyster had run all... His name was "Jacob," which means "supplanter," that's deceiver, had run all of his life, away from God, but when he got one time in the Presence of God at Penitel, in the face of God, he got ahold of God and wouldn't turn Him loose. God, we need more Jacobs. He held on to the face of God in the Presence of God, he stayed until it was sunup. God said, "Let Me go, because the sun's arising." And he stayed in the face of God until sunup, but he went away justified and saved. Sun.

L-68 Oh, what a great thing it was now to know that he had wrestled through. That he had seen signs of God, he had had dreams about God, but this was one time he was in the face of God, in the Presence of God. Think of it, friends, now as we hurry up.
In the Presence of God a man's changed. Jacob was changed. Now, he could walk with God. Yes, he was a different man than what he was when he went up there. The battle was now over. Yes, sir. And he begin to build an altar. He hadn't been used to building altars, you know. But I tell you, when you come in the Presence of God, you want to build an altar somewhere. You want to find somewhere where you can pray. He built an altar. He was cleansed, and God had won.


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