<TITLE>23. Par 183-190</TITLE>L-183 "I'm a man of unclean lips." He went down to the altar, and he said, "I'm a man of unclean lips, Lord. What can I do, what can I do, for I have seen You manifested right here? I see an Angel shake the thing. I seen him speak, and something moved back yonder." Amen. (I hope you're not asleep.) Oh, my. Speak and something happened. Glory. What happened?
Then we find out he confessed his sin, and just as soon as he done it, this great voice that'd been speaking flew down, took his hands--took the tongs, picked up a coal, placed it upon his hands, come laid up on Isaiah's lips, and cleansed him.

L-185 Notice, he never sent him off to get a Ph.D. degree. He never give him a book of rules to learn; but He--God was showing the prophet that His cleansing power was by fire off the altar. Amen. God's cleansing power today is not recite a creed or join a church; it's the power of the Holy Ghost and fire that comes down and cleanses a man from all of his unbelief. Amen.
God's way of cleansing a prophet is by fire, not by creed. What would a prophet know about a creed? He's going to be used of God. The Word was going to be made manifest through him, so He couldn't give him a creed. He'd be holding on to that creed. So He took the fire off the altar and cleansed the prophet.

L-187 Confession first, then cleanliness by the fire. Glory to God. Oh, watch. Confession first, cleansing second, commission third. Amen. There you are. First confessing, "I'm wrong." Second, cleansing: justification, Sanctification, and the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. See? Confession, cleansing, commissioning: "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel. These signs will follow them that believe." Amen.
After confession come cleansing; after cleansing comes commissioning. Preach the Gospel, heal the sick. No matter what people said he...
Finally that precious little prophet died under persecution by being sawed to pieces with a saw.

L-190 Remember, it was when Isaiah made his confession that he was wrong. He'd been altogether wrong; he'd been leaning upon his creed (See?), leaning upon the--the man, a man-made affair. He had saw a king that was a great man; he was a religious man. But he saw that all men will fail. See? But when he changed that, and looked up here, and saw a vision Who God was, then he said, "I want to confess that I'm wrong. Them old creeds won't work no more, 'cause they're done dead and failed. (See?) They're leprosy stricken, but I've seen the glory of God made manifest." A creed can't manifest that. A creed can't say it that way. A creed can't do it that way. It takes Christ to do it that way. And as soon as he saw that, he said, "Now, I've been altogether wrong, Lord." And then come the cleansing; then come the commission. Oh, my.
It was then that the cleansed Isaiah... When God called, "Who will go for Me," and it was Isaiah that said, "Lord, here am I; send me." The cleansed prophet...


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