<TITLE>04. Par 14-17</TITLE>L-14 He preached the Gospel in such a way till he stood in Boston, Massachusetts, in a little bay window, because there was no church could hold his crowd. And he stood there with such mighty force, and preached hell such a place, until working men with their baskets under their arms, fell into the street and screamed for mercy in the Presence of God. Great preachers who's been able, by the Word of God to bring the Presence of God to an audience... Far be it that men would ever be so seared in their hearts till they could never recognize the Presence of God. Far be it.

L-15 When the first man, as soon as he had sinned and done something wrong, and when God came into His presence, or he came into the Presence of God, Adam, he could not stand in the Presence of God. He run and hid himself in the bush and tried to cover himself with a fig leaf, because he knowed he was standing in the Presence of Jehovah, the Creator. That was the reaction of the first man, after he had sinned and tried to come into the Presence of God with sin upon his soul. He could not hide, because he was tender yet. Sin had not took ahold like it has rooted into people's hearts today, but he was very conscious that he was standing before His Creator. Now, he hid himself in the bushes and would not come out, and could not come out until God had made a preparation for him.

L-16 We could go back, and take in Genesis the 17th chapter and the 3rd verse, when the great patriarch Abraham, when he came into the Presence of God, and God spoke to him (in the 17th chapter) in the Name of Almighty God, Abraham fell on his face. That great patriarch, servant of God, could not stand in the Presence of God, though had served Him for twenty-five years, faithfully. But when God moved into his presence, the patriarch fell on his face because he couldn't stand in the Presence of God.

L-17 In Exodus 3 we find that Moses, the great servant and prophet of God, when he was back on the backside of the desert, that man was a holy man. He had been born for the purpose. He was born from his mother's wombs to be a prophet. He had tried to get his education and do everything he could to deliver his people, because he understood that he was to deliver his people, but when he had understood it by a theological standpoint. He was trained. He was well scholared. He could teach the Egyptians wisdom, which was the most smartest people in the world. He knowed all the ins-and-outs. He knowed the Scripture from A to Z. He knowed the promises that God had made. He knowed them from an intellectual standpoint. And he was a--a great military man. But one day on the backside of the desert, when he come into the Presence of God, he jerked off his shoes and fell--to his feet, knowing that he was on holy ground. He could not stand upon his feet when he come in the Presence of God; he fell to his face like Abraham did. He could not stand in the Presence of God.


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