<TITLE>23. Par 291-303</TITLE>L-291   I walked out in the water, and I took a candidate, about the seventeenth person, to baptize him. I had around five hundred, after my revival, to be baptized. And I walked out in the water with this person. I started to raise my hand. I said, "Heavenly Father, as I..."

L-292 And about that time, Something shook me. I thought, "Where is it?" I looked around. Everybody had their heads bowed, oh, as far as I could see. Way back up on the banks, there was, oh, cars and people piled all over the walls, and things. I looked again. I heard a Voice say, "Look up." And I was afraid to look up. I was just a kid. We got the picture of It.
I said, "Father..."
Something said, "Look up."

L-293 I put my hand down. This young fellow, I was to baptize, looked at me in the face. He said, "Well, Brother Bill?"
I said, "Did you hear That?"
He said, "No."
I said, "Heavenly Father..."
He said, "Look up."

L-294 I looked up, like this. And coming down from the skies come a Pillar of Light whirling around, a Voice coming from It, roaring, coming down. Said, "As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of Jesus Christ, so are you sent." O God! I watched that Light. I had seen It, since a little boy.
I tried to tell people. They said, "You're out of your mind."

L-295   But the scientific research, the late George J. Lacy, when he examined, when they took the picture of It, there It was, just the same. It showed in the picture. Scientific proof proves that It's right. To me, it's never told me one thing but is exactly on this Scripture.

L-296 When, I seen that Fire and heard It, and seen everybody screaming, fainting, and falling, looking there, and pointing to that Light. The paper, the Louisville paper, packed a great article. It went on Associated Press, all through Canada, everywhere, "Mystic Light appears over a local Baptist minister while baptizing." Mystic, "hard to understand." How many times have they took It? Practically every person in here, I guess, got it in your home. It's there in Washington, D.C., copyrighted as "the only supernatural Being was ever photographed, scientifically photographed."

L-297   What was It? That same Light, that same Voice, spoke and said, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever." It's the same Voice. To me, It's the same Pillar of Fire was back yonder, because It's doing the same works. Jesus said, "I come from God and I go to God. A little while and the world sees Me no more." He came. He said, when He was here on earth, at the feast, He said, "I AM THE I AM." You say...

L-298 "Well, You're not over fifty years old, but, You said, you say You 'saw Abraham'?"
He said, "Before Abraham was I AM."

L-299 There He was. What was It? That Light, that Fire, that God, that Spirit. God is a burning Fire. He is a Light. And there It was, in, manifested in Jesus Christ. It returned when Jesus rose up from the grave.

L-300 But on the day He met Paul, coming down to Damascus, He had turned back to God again, for He said, "I am Jesus, Who you persecute."

L-301 Brethren, don't be asleep. Don't you see that that same God is among us right now, proving Himself, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever? That's my Absolute.

L-302   He's never told me one thing... If He told me one thing that was contrary to this Scripture...

L-303 I've never had nobody to stand before me yet and dispute It. Fellow said he was going to, one time, and he didn't do it. He didn't show up. He had better sense than I thought he did. He knows better than to do that. You know, the fellow that raised up one time in a meeting, to do it, was paralyzed. They packed him out.


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