<TITLE>07. Par 84-97</TITLE>L-84 He had--he had been a great teacher, Paul had. He was taught under Gamaliel. And a great teacher he was, of his, under the denomination of his Pharisee background. And he was taught, schooled, and he had a great background.

L-85 I think, when he received the Holy Ghost, and went down into Egypt for three years, I think that must have been where he got to taking the Scripture and comparing It with the revelation that he had had, to see if It was right. And you know the great, famous book, of Hebrews, none other could have wrote it but Paul, because he knowed how, those types and antitypes. What a beautiful lesson!

L-86 And now, Paul had met Jesus one day. Met the... Met Him, face to face, on the Damascus road when he was going down to persecute the Christians.

L-87 A--a great brawler giving out great threats, and doing things against the Church of God, making havoc of It, even persecuting It unto death. And one day on the road down...

L-88   The reason he had this Christ-centered life is because he, personally, now laying aside his teaching, he personally met Christ.

L-89 And that's the only way that you're ever going to know Him, is to meet Him. See? Now, "To know Him is Life," not even know His Word, as good as It may be. Yet, you've got to know Him. "To know Him is Life."

L-90 And Paul had not had this experience yet. And he said, one place here, "The life that I now live..." Showed that he had lived a different life, one time. His life had been changed.

L-91 And when your life is changed, it makes you do things you ordinarily would not do. And, it makes you say things you wouldn't ordinarily say, a man that's got a Christ-centered life.

L-92 Why, Paul stood right in the midst of the people, those Jews, and so forth. He was... one speck of fear about him. He knowed Who he had believed. And he--he had a--a life that he would by no means have did it, if he hadn't have found something that was genuinely and had anchored him.

L-93   I think, any Christian should be that way, every believer. You should never... I think, especially, ministers should never try to enter the pulpit until they have met God upon those sacred sands where there's no philosopher can explain It away. You met God, and you know it, and there's nothing can ever hide It away from you.

L-94 Now, we have times that we have great scholarship, and nothing against that. That's all right. But, all that goes good. But you, personally, have got to meet God, to a place that no one can twist any Scriptures. You were there. You, you're the one that met Him. You had the experience of it. You know Him. See?

L-95 I think, every minister, especially, and every believer, should--should take this place, this position, to first meet Christ, personally. And it makes you do things, as--as I said, that you ordinarily would not do. It makes you say things that you ordinarily would not say. Yet, It is something that you're centered to, or tied to. It's something that you know, like Paul, that you--you met something that was different than that you ever seen in your life. See?

L-96   It's just like a ship. See? A ship has--has an absolute, and that ship's absolute is the anchor.

L-97 Now, when that ship is in a tossing waters, where easily could be throwed against a rock, or--or bursted up; or hit ground, where the--the water is not deep enough; and the great swells, coming up, will flash the ship, turn it over.


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