<TITLE>15. Par 142-152</TITLE>L-142 And--and Saul of Tarsus, on his road down to Damascus, he was striken down by a Light. And when he did, he looked up. And that Jew would have never called anything "Lord" if It hadn't have been that Pillar of Fire. He saw that Light there, and he said, "Lord, Who are You?"
He said, "Saul, it's hard for you to kick against the pricks."
And he said, "Who are You, Lord?"
He said, "I am Jesus." See, the Pillar of Fire again.

L-143   Look at Saul, humbled himself in the dirt, see, in the Presence of God. Humility! Struck off of his feet, laying on his back perhaps, looking up.

L-144 And that Pillar of Fire moving around there, he saw and knew. As a teacher from under Gamaliel, the great teacher of that day, he knew that God had led His people in a form of a Pillar of Fire. And that Fire, Pillar of Fire, had been made flesh and dwelt among them, and had been crucified for their sins, "and I come from God; and go back to God," and here He was, still in the Name of the Lord Jesus.

L-145   And then we find then in that, later just before that, John the Baptist, the greatest of all the prophets. All the prophets spoke of Him coming; John said, "This is Him." He, he introduced Him to the world. And John standing there in the water, when he was baptizing, and he--he was saying, "There is coming a time when the daily sacrifice will be taken from the temple, and there will be a Man be a sacrifice." And John was sure that he was going to see Messiah.

L-146 You see, when John was called, his father was a priest. But usually a boy followed, in them days, and do in the Orients yet, the occupation of his father. And ordinarily he would have been a priest. But John never went to the school. Cause, John was born, from his mother's womb, "full of the Holy Ghost."

L-147   When, Elisabeth had conceived and the baby was dead in her womb. When Mary was visited by the Angel, Gabriel, and told her that her cousin Elisabeth, who was past bearing, would also conceive. And Mary run up to meet her. And she had hid herself, and she was worried because the baby hadn't moved for six months, and that's subnormal. And so she seen Mary coming, she run out and met her, and hugged her. And she said, begin to talk. And--and she said, "I know she was going to be mother." She said, "Yes, and I--I am going to be mother, too."
"Oh, I guess you and Joseph are married."
"No, no. We're not married yet."
"And you're going to be mother?"

L-148 "Yeah. The Holy Ghost overshadowed me, and said that Holy Thing that would be borned of me, in me, would be the Son of God, and I should call His Name 'Jesus.'"

L-149 And just as soon as that Word "Jesus" was spoke the first time from a human lip, a baby that had never been had life in it, yet, received life in its mother's womb and begin to jump for joy. And if the Name of "Jesus Christ" will bring life to a dead baby, what ought It to do to a borned-again church that claims to be filled with the Holy Ghost? See?

L-150   Now what kind of a boy should this be? He was to announce the coming Messiah. Malachi 3 said he would. "Behold, I send My messenger before My face."

L-151 Now, if he'd have went down to the seminary. Some of those ministers down there, said, "Now, John, you are to announce the Messiah. Why, you--you know that Uncle Joe here, or--or--or Father Jim, or some of them, you know he's got all the--the--the--the qualities of being the Messiah. That's him, John." That, that, see, he'd have been influenced by man.

L-152 He went into the wilderness, and he stayed with God. That's the best seminary I know of. Because, his job was too important for some men to be telling him, and taking him out to big social affairs. See, he had a--a work, he was cut out for something. And John knew that when he come out, preaching, that the Messiah was on earth then.


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