<TITLE>10. Par -</TITLE>L-16-1 Now, since meeting Him face to face on the road to Damascus, that was--meant so much to Paul. Now remember, he was a scholar beforehand; he was a mighty man in the Scriptures, but he didn't have any tie post but the Sanhedrin that would back him up, and a--and a diploma from a great teacher. He was a great man in his field, but he was waving. Only thing he had, his absolute would only be as strong as his organization was; that's all the stronger it could be. And he was working faithful to that, and was taking Christians, and binding them, and making havoc of them, and even stoned Stephen.

L-16-2 I think later in his life, the reason he went to Jerusalem, when the prophet told him, "Don't go up there, Paul, for chains and prison waits for you."...
And Paul said, "I know it; but I'm not only going to Jerusalem as a witness, but I'm going there; I'm ready to die for Jesus Christ," for he knew what he had done, and his ambition was to seal his testimony with his own blood, die a martyr, because he killed one of God's martyrs.
And now, he was on his road down to Damascus with all of his education: set under that great teacher, Gamaliel, and how that he had been taught in all the Jewish religion. And yet with all that, he was flimsy, and he--he did not have the ability to do certain things. And all of a sudden, there was a Light and a roar maybe in a thunder, and he was smitten and fell to the ground. And he--when he looked up, there was a Light shining that blinded his eyes. And what a strange thing that was.

L-16-5 No one else saw the Light, just Saul. It was so promised--so real to him, until It blinded his eyes; he couldn't see, totally blind with that Pillar of Fire blaze him right in the face. And he heard a Voice saying, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?"
He said, "Lord, Who are You?"
He said, "I'm Jesus; and it's hard for you to kick against these pricks. Rise now, and go into Damascus; and there one will be sent to you."
Then when he raised up from there... And there was one, a prophet, down in the city who saw in a vision, while he was praying, and he came. Ananias came and come in to Saul, laid his hands upon him, and he was healed by Divine healing. He rose then, was baptized, washing away his sins, calling upon the Name of the Lord; and then he had a absolute. He was never the same after that. He went straight from church to church, from place to place, trying to build up that which he had tried to tear down.

L-17-1 How the nation... How the Christian world this morning needs that type of absolute. Those who treat creeds and traditions has tried to--with doctrine of men to disqualify God's Word to being the same yesterday, today, and forever. They need an absolute, an experience of meeting on a Damascus road, the living God Who can heal the sick, and raise the dead, and cast out devils: a genuine absolute.
Paul knew that something happened; there was no one could take it away from him. Nothing else mattered; he was tied, and that was it. No matter what come, he knowed he was tied. Christ-centered life... Oh, the life that he had lived was a different life.


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