<TITLE>20. Par 205-217</TITLE>L-205 And when he got the revelation that God and Christ wasn't two different people, they were the same-self Person, then he was ready to make an investment. I wonder if we could see that same thing today. When Paul seen then, being a Jew, that, "The very God that led me through, led my people through the wilderness, there He is," and calling His Name "Jesus."

L-206 From "I AM," He was the I AM. And "I AM" is everlasting, it's Eternal. Not "I was, I will be." But "I AM," present tense, all ages, "the same yesterday, today, and forever."

L-207 Then Paul cried out, "Lord, I want to make an investment. What will You have me to do? What will You make me do, Lord? What must I do?" Oh, my! "What can I do?"

L-208   And he went down to Arabia for three and a half years, and took the Scriptures, to find out if That wasn't the same God. And he came back. And all he has been trained for, all of his--his denominations had passed away from him, all of his--his potentials of his education.

L-209 And he said, over in Corinthians there, "I never come to you with intellectual words, because you would base your... you--you would base your thoughts upon me, of being an intellectual, a great man. But I come to you in the power and manifestations, demonstrations of the Holy Spirit." If that isn't the same thing Jesus said in Mark 16, "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel," means to demonstrate the Power! Cause, just preaching of the Word, alone, won't bring it. You've got to accept It, and then It demonstrates, "these signs shall follow them," because it is the Word. See?

L-210   Now we find that Paul, then, it paid off for him, with great Eternal Life.
What a rashel decision now!

L-211 I'm closing, if God help me. You're such a fine audience. I know I've wore out your--your patience. Forgive me. But just trying, I'm...

L-212 I am not sufficient to stand here to--to talk about a thing like this. It's more. I--I cannot, I can't bring myself into the spot, and I--I put myself to be a teacher. I--I couldn't do that, because I--I--I haven't got the intellectual knowledge. But I have a revelation that's exactly with the Word, and the Word lives back and produces what It's saying It'd do. See? See? Neither did the apostles; only Paul, and he said he had to forget those things that he knowed, see, to make his investment.

L-213 And maybe you might have to forget that, "I am so-and-so. I belong to this. My mother belonged to it." You might have to forget that, if you want to make an investment. So wouldn't it be rashel? You wouldn't want to do like this young businessman, what a rashel thing that fellow did when he turned away from such an investment.

L-214   That, now, I'm not asking you to invest your money. That's up to you, what you do with that, to some missionary society, or whatever it is, to send missionaries. I don't know about that. God will take care of that.

L-215 I'm talking to you about the policy of Life. "Come, follow Me. Take up your cross. Let everybody call you what they will; but you--you come, follow Me." Now he wasn't quite willing to do this. He made a very rashel thing, just exactly like the people of the Laodicean Age today, in the policy. They are not willing. They don't want to.

L-216   That's like the rich young man. What if I could follow him just a few minutes? Let's do just for a minute, watch. A few, just a little bit later on, we find this rich young fellow. Let's watch his end, and then we'll close. Look at him. We follow him, and he was a businessman. And did his business prosper!

L-217 So, businessmen, remember, prosperity don't always mean that you're a Christian. The devil... You know, David, I believe, one time said, "I seen the wicked spread forth like a green bay tree, but God said, 'Did you ever behold him at the end?'" That's the difference. Look at the end of the road.


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