<TITLE>16. Par 158-170</TITLE>L-158 And then, see, he saw something real. And, yet, he was a prophet. He was a... The--the prophet is who the Word comes to. But he had never went out into a sphere no more than what he had been looking at, his hero, Uzziah, looking at the pastor, the--the big fellow. And when he seen the failure there, of the Word, and seen the Word rebuke the man because he was usurping an office that he had no business to be, then what happened? He looked up, and he saw the Lord.

L-159   Can you read between the lines? Can you see what I'm saying now? The Lord Jesus that promised, "As it was in the days of Lot, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man." The very God that wrote the Bible, said, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." And He said, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he also." Do you get what I mean?

L-160 Then that honest-hearted man saw the Glory of God, he saw It in action. And he cried out, as a sinner, and confessed himself to be a sinner. He had never seen anything like that, so real, before. He confessed that he was a sinner.

L-161 Then what happened? When the prophet got ready to confess, then come the real cleansing.

L-162 Until the people gets ready to confess, there is no need of having these healing services. If you will confess your sins, confess your unbelief, confess the things that you are doing wrong, then God can do something. But until there is a confession, there can be no cleansing.

L-163   And as soon as Isaiah said, "Woe is me! I'm a man of unclean lips, and I dwell with people of unclean lips." Then come the confession, that, then come the Cherubim with the Fire. Did you notice? God never used a seminary to cleanse him with. He never used a--a book of laws to clean him with. He cleansed him by Fire.

L-164 God always cleanses His servants, when He is ready to put them in duty, by the Holy Ghost and Fire. God cleanses by Fire; not by books, not by education, not by intellectual conception, not by denomination. But by the Fire of the Holy Spirit, God cleanses His servant.

L-165   Then notice, then, after the confession, after the cleansing, then come the commission. Then was the commission. After confessed and cleansed, it was then that the clean Isaiah answered God, and said, "Here am I, send me." After he was cleansed, confessed, cleansed by the Fire, then that clean Isaiah was ready for work. He was ready to be an example. He was ready to--to have to put his life out, that others could be influenced by him.

L-166 But until he had confessed it, until he was cleansed, then he was a very poor influence, just as a puppet for the king.

L-167   Now he is cleansed, now he is confessed and cleansed, and called and commissioned to be a prophet. And God let him write the entire Bible, in sixty-six Books of the Bible, there is sixty-six chapters of Isaiah. He starts out in Genesis; the middle of the Book come John the Baptist; and goes plumb over into the Millennium reign, in Isaiah 65 and 66, that's right, the Revelation. He wrote the entire outline of the Bible. Why? Because he humbled himself when he saw the Presence of God.

L-168 What did he do? And his, after he did that, and humbled himself and was cleansed and set aside, and cleansed and commissioned, he has influenced millions of people. Here is his Book, here is Isaiah's Writing that's influenced men from that time down to this. His influence goes on.

L-169 The Bible said, "Their works do follow them." As the Holy Spirit told John, on the Revelation, or on the Isle of Patmos, "Thou must prophesy yet before kings and nations and people." The Book of Revelation is still prophesying. "They rest from their labors, but their works follow them." Their influence that they had, still follow them. See? Certainly, it is.

L-170   And now, today, we find the same thing, influences. We've got to influence.


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