<TITLE>09. Par 44-49</TITLE>L-44 Cornelius, he was a great man, a honorable man. He built churches. He respected the Jews because he knowed that their religion was right. And he paid alms, and he prayed every day, but when the Holy Ghost come (Something had been added to the church.), he needed a Guide. God sent him the Holy Ghost. He sent It in the person of Peter, "But while Peter yet spake these Words, the Holy Ghost fell on him." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
God used the Guide through Peter. He used It, because He guided Cornelius to the right way. And while he was yet speaking, the Holy Ghost fell on them Gentiles. Then he said, "Can a man forbid water, that these should not be baptized?" See, still the Guide speaking, not Peter. Because that was a bunch of Jew--or Gentiles, unclean, dirty to him, and he didn't even want to go. But the Guide said, "I'm sending you." You do things that you don't think you would do when the Guide gets completely control, when you let Him guide you.
Oh, how wonderful it is to be led by the Holy Spirit. He is the Guide. All right. He spoke through Peter and told him what he must do. Then when they all received the Holy Ghost, he said, "We can't forbid water, seeing these has received the Holy Ghost like we did at the beginning." And they baptized them in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Now, Who led him to do that? The Guide that was in him. Didn't Jesus tell them, "Take no thought what you're going to say, because it's not you that's speaking; it's the Father that dwelleth in you; He doeth the speaking"? Amen.

L-45 The eunuch, coming down from Jerusalem... And God had a Guide in the world at that time, the Holy Ghost, and He had a man down there that was filled with this Guide. He wasn't even a preacher; he was kind of a deacon like. And he was down there healing the sick and casting out devils, and causing a big stir; great joy was in the city. He had hundreds of people gathered around him, and the Guide said, "That's far enough; let's go back this a-way." He didn't dispute with his Guide.
Don't never dispute your Guide's Word. Follow Him. If you don't, you come up lost. And remember, when you leave Him, you're on your own, so we want to keep close to the Guide.

L-47 So on the road, He said, "Leave this bunch now, Philip, and go out into the desert where there isn't anybody. But I'm sending you out there, and there'll be somebody when I get you out there." Here come a lonesome eunuch, he was a great man to the queen down in Ethiopia. So he was coming down, reading the Book of Isaiah. And the Guide said, "Go near the chariot."
And he said, "Dost thou understand what you read?"
He said, "How can I understand when there's no man to guide me?" Oh, my. But Philip had the Guide. Amen. And he started from the same Scripture and preached to him Christ. Amen. Guide... Not tell him some creed, he told him about the Guide, Christ. And he baptized him out there in some water. Sure, it was. Oh, how I like that.

L-49 When Israel left Egypt for the promised land, in Exodus 13:21, God knowed that they had never traveled that way before. It was only forty miles, but yet they needed something to go with them. They'd lose their way. So He, God, sent them a Guide. Exodus 13:21, something like this, "I send My Angel before you, the Pillar of Fire, to keep you in the way," to guide them to this promised land. And the children of Israel followed that Guide, the Pillar of Fire, night, Cloud by day. When It stopped, they stopped. When It journeyed, they journeyed. And when He got them close to the land, and they wasn't fit to go over, He led them back into the wilderness again. He wouldn't go with them.


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