<TITLE>14. Par 75-80</TITLE>L-75 Now listen, church, I love you. And I want you to listen to me now. As Brother McCulley used to say, I'm going to say something. Always put the Lord before you, and don't you do nothing that you wouldn't do in His Presence, because He's watching over you. See? The Lord is encamped about those who fear Him. He don't... He just stays right near you. And He knows everything you're doing, and you must recognize that. When you start to tell a lie, don't do it. Remember, God is listening at you. If you start to do a little cheat, don't you do it; God's looking at you. If you start to take His Name in vain, don't do it; God's listening at you. Start to smoke a cigarette, He's watching you. See? His... We used to sing a song,
All along on the road to the soul's true abode,
There's an eye watching you;
Every step that you take,
This great eye is awake,
There's an eye watching you.
Remember, do like David, put the Lord always before your face. Then your heart will rejoice and your flesh shall rest in hope, for He promised it. Yes, sir. He knew that he'd raise up because God had promised it. All right.
When we come into His Presence, we're changed, never to be the same. Look all down through the ages of every walk of life, at men. Look at Abraham. You say, "Well, the changed life is just for ministers." Oh, no. The changed life is for everybody. See?

L-77 Now, Abraham was a farmer, but when he heard God's Voice speaking to him, and saw that vision, he was a changed man from that time on. He separated himself from his kindred, from all of his associates, and walked as a pilgrim and a stranger in a strange land the rest of his life, dwelling in tents; because he clearly confessed that he was seeking a city whose Builder and Maker was God. He knowed there was a God, and there was a city somewhere whose Builder and Maker was God. That's what Hebrews 11 tells us, that he was seeking a city that's Builder and Maker was God. He was a changed man, yet he wasn't nothing but a mere farmer. But he saw a vision and come into the Presence of God, and he was a changed man from then on.

L-78 Moses, he was a shepherd, but he was a changed man when he come into the Presence of God. He was a coward; he was running from Pharaoh, with a whole army behind him. But with a stick in his hand, he went back and took the whole nation. See? Why? He come into the Presence of God. He was a changed man, a shepherd.
Peter, a fisherman, knowed nothing about fishing--or knowed nothing about God, only thing he probably knowed was how to catch fish. But when he come in the Presence of God, and see the great Creator Who could create fish, when He told him to let down the nets for the draught. There wasn't any fish there; he just pulled his nets up. But he said, "At Thy Word, Lord. I believe that You're the Son of God, and if You let--if I let down the net, You told me to do it at Your Word, because You and Your Word are the same, I'll let down the net." And when he begin to pull, he said, "Depart, Lord, I'm a sinful man." See, a fisherman, after Peter met Christ he was never the same any more. He, afterwards, was so true to God, he was given the keys to the Kingdom. Yes, sir.

L-80 Paul, a self-styled Pharisee, educated and trained in all the religion of the--that there was in the world in that day, one of the highest knowed scholars in the land, but when he come before that Pillar of Fire one day, the God that he had persecuted, ignorantly. He was a Pharisee; he didn't believe that God was a Man. He knowed God was the Pillar of Fire; It led His people out of Egypt; It had been with them all along. But when He saw this Pillar of Fire, he fell on his face. And that he heard a Voice saying, "Saul, why persecutest thou Me?"
Said, "Who are You, Lord?"
He said, "I'm Jesus." He was a man that said, "How have you been baptized?" He had been in the Presence of God. He was a changed man from then on, he had been in the Presence of God. It changes a man.


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