<TITLE>33. Par 250-255</TITLE>L-250   Could you call that rich man's life a life worthy of the Gospel that he heard? Though he was a believer, could you call that kind of a life... Amongst the intellectuals and entertainments, that night up there on the... as the sun went down, giving a toast, and maybe some priest saying a prayer, up on top of there. And he had the entertainments, and a beggar laying at his gate down there. And he give his toast, and talked about his great faith he had in God. And before daylight, the next morning, 'fore the sun could get up, he was in hell. That's right. There is your intellectuals.

L-251   But Paul, when the Light struck him, let's compare his life and see whether it's worthy. What happened? When, Paul, the Light struck him, he forsook all his knowledge and got away from that intellectual group, and he walked in the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Glory to God! Wit, as smart as he was, he never even used big words.
When he come amongst them Corinthians, he said, "I never come to you with the wisdom of man. I never come to you with swelling words, because you put your faith in that. But I come to you in simplicity, in the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that your faith would be in there." There's a life. Watch it.

L-252 He never used his education. He never walked with the intellectual bunch. He walked in the Spirit of Christ, humble, obedient to the Word of God, when It was very much contrary to their creeds. But Paul saw the Light and walked in It (that right?), letting the Life of Christ reflect Jesus Christ to the age that he lived in, that the people might see the Spirit of God in him.
And the humble believed it, so much, till they even wanted to bring handkerchiefs in. They take them off of his body. And they believed it, so much, he's such a representation of Jesus Christ, till, whatever he touched, they believe, was blessed. Yes. What a man that was, give his life, his riches, and everything he had! His education; forgot all, to walk down with fishermen, and beggars and bums on the street, to let his lights reflect the love of Jesus Christ.
He said, "I been striped across the back, forty and nine times; don't bother me. Also, I bear in my body the marks of Jesus Christ." The poor little fellow in such a terrible condition, he said, "I bear in my body the marks of Jesus Christ." What a different from this great dignitary with the priests all around him.

L-253   And when he was at Rome, and nobody standing by him. And they was building a block, to cut his head off, out there. There's where she told it. Oh, my! He said, "There is laid up for me a crown, that the Lord, the Righteous Judge will give me at that Day; and not only me, but now all them that love His appearing." There is a life worthy of the Gospel, or, a son.

L-254 He stood for Christ. He let the Gospel reflect through him. Before he did, he went and learned the Gospel. Went down in Arabia and stayed three years, and took the Old Testament. And showed, by the Old Testament, that He was Jesus Christ. And he let It reflect through him, to a humble bunch of people. That, he, when... He said, "I know how to have a belly full, and I know how to be hungry and wanting."
A man with an education like him, and a scholar like him, standing by the... with a scholarship from Gamaliel, one of the greatest teachers there was of the day, and stood arm-and-arm with the high priest. Brother, he could have been worth millions of dollars and had all kind of buildings. That's right. But he said, "I..."

L-255 He didn't even have but one coat. And Demas saw a man with such a ministry as that! Second Timothy, the 3rd chapter, he said, "Demas has forsaken me, and all other men, loving this present world." Said, "When you come, bring me that coat I left up there. It's getting cold." A man with a ministry like that, and could only have one coat? Glory to God!


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