<TITLE>14. Par 148-163</TITLE>L-148   I'll be like the fellow said one time, he went to preach a revival. He said he preached on repentance; the third night, repentance; fourth night, repentance. He preached a full week on repentance.

L-149 And the pastor of the church and some of them, got back and told him, said, "Brother, we--we really admire your sermon. But haven't you got another one?"

L-150 Said, "Oh, yes, sir." Said, "I got another one. But let them all repent, then I'll preach on something else." So, yes, sir.

L-151 Let the church get started on its ABC's. Then we'll go to algebra then, how--how to be prophets, and get gifts, and so forth like that. But let's first learn this first step, first. Learn to walk before you can run, you know. So, and if you're weary with the footman, what are you going to do? All right.

L-152   But we--we want to remember our Lord. That's what you got to remember, that it's Him you're serving. You don't get these gifts just to have a lot of fun out of them. That's right. After all, there's many that talk about gifts, that I'm sure, from the way they act, they don't know what it is. See? See?

L-153 The gift, gifts of God, and things, are not something that's just played with. The gifts of God are gracious, and they're weary. They're wearisome. Didn't Ja-... In the Presence of God, is not shouting. The Presence, that's just God's blessings He pours upon you. See? But the Presence of God is a troublesome thing.

L-154 I don't want you to forget to get that tape, if you can, Sirs, What Time Is It? And remember that.

L-155   Jacob, when he laid on that pillow, rock, one night. And the Lord appeared to him in a vision, and he saw Angels descending and ascending. When he got up, he said, "This is a dreadful place, none other than the house of God." Dreadful place!

L-156 When Isaiah the prophet had prophesied for many years, under Uzziah. And when Uzziah was taken away from him, because he tried to usurp the part of a priest, and he was stricken with leprosy and died. And Isaiah probably had been forty years old, fifty. And he had been a prophet, oh, ever since a baby, because prophets are born. "Their gifts and callings are without repentance." And there he was, a--a prophet of the Lord, down in there, praying, one day, and confessing his sins down at the altar.

L-157 And all of a sudden, he came into the Presence of God, and seen God setting in the Heaven, and His train. He saw Seraphims with Their holy faces shaded with wings, and Their feet covered with wings, and flying with wings, crying, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty." Yeah.

L-158 And Isaiah remembered then that his little journey wasn't very much. What did he cry? He knowed, his--his gift, he hadn't acted right with it. He was far away. He said, "Lord, I'm a man of unclean lips, and I--I--I dwell among people with unclean lips." And then the Angel... See, it's a dreadful thing. He said, "Woe is me."

L-159   It's not the thing of blessing, and shouting, and screaming. That's good. Now, remember, I'm not condemning that. But, I'm telling you, that's not what I'm talking about.

L-160 It's the power and the Presence of God, which brings such a holy fear, until you're paralyzed in His Presence. You'll always remember. You remember it.

L-161 And Isaiah remembered, as long as he lived. I imagine, when the saws was cutting through his body, he still remembered those Angels crying, "Holy, holy, Lord God!" Certainly.

L-162 Jacob, in his last hours, could remember those Angels ascending and descending, and it was such a dreadful thing to him.

L-163 It's not what people think it is. It's something different. What we need to do is come into His Presence, remembering Him, that He brought us here not for frolic, but for service, brought us in here to--to work for Him.
He had something to remember.


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