<TITLE>18. Par 181-195</TITLE>L-181 The same thing Isaiah did. He said, "I'm a man of sinful lips, and I dwell among sinful people." Oh, what a condition he was in!

L-182 Peter said the same thing, and he humbled himself, got down on his face and asked the Lord to depart from him. He said, "Fear not, Peter, from henceforth you're going to catch men." And he got in action right quick.

L-183   One time, there was a blind man that Jesus healed. It didn't take him very long to go in action; he went in action, spreading His fame everywhere. Someone come up and said, "Why, who healed you?" the priest did. He--he said, told him Who healed him.

L-184 First they asked the father and mother. And the mother said... Well, now, they was afraid, because if--if anybody confessed Jesus, why, they was going to put them out of the synagogue. And they put it back onto their poor son. They said, "He is of age. Ask him."
And he said, "One, Jesus of Nazareth, healed me."

L-185 He said, "Why, give God praise!" Said, "We, we are. We don't know nothing about this Jesus of Nazareth." Said, "He is a sinner. Don't give Him no praise; give it all to God. And now we don't know whence He come."

L-186   Well, this blind man had a very good question for them. And he said, "It's a mighty strange thing. That you all are the spiritual leaders today, and this Man opened my blinded eyes, and I was born blind, and yet you don't know where He come from. See, now that's a strange thing."

L-187 Could I say the same thing? The very God that promised to come upon His church, in this last day, and they haven't got the answer. The one who receives has got the answer.

L-188 Said, "Whether He is a sinner or not, I can't say that. But one thing I know; where I was once blind, I can now see."

L-189 Once I was a sinner; I'm saved by the grace of God. I know something happened to me. I... there is something happened. You can call it "holy-roller" or you can call it whatever you wish to, but It saved me, thirty-some-odd years ago. And it gets better all the time, so I--I enjoy it.
Someone said, "You done gone crazy."

L-190 I said, "Well, then leave me alone. I'm better off this way than I was the other way, so just let me stay the way I am. I feel better this way, and doing better. I can do more." Yes, sir.

L-191 He went in action right away. Yes, sir, he spread His fame everywhere.

L-192   The people at Pentecost, as soon as they seen that God kept His promise! Jesus said, "Behold, I send the promise," the Scripture, "the promise of My Father upon you. But tarry ye," that's wait, "wait up at the city of Jerusalem until you're endued with Power from on High."

L-193 Not the first prayer line, or the first time through, but just stay there until it happens, see. "Until," not one day, two days, or ten years, "just until it happens." Stay until!

L-194 And when they was filled with the Holy Spirit, they went into action right quick; out into the streets, and screaming, and dancing, and acting like drunk people, and speaking in other tongues, and what a carry on! They was in action right quick; as soon as they humbled themselves, went in and closed the door, and waited on the Word of God.

L-195   Oh, what we seen, friends! I know it's getting late and I don't want to keep you any longer. But, look! What we have seen, in the--in the last few years, ought to put every one of us into action. It ought to put us in action. What? First, make us reverent, humble, and in action. And love burning in our hearts, trying our best, to seeing a lost world. And seeing the signs that God... Even down, as far as I know, to the very last one that the Church is going to receive before the fire falls from heaven. The same Pillar of Fire that was seen back there in the wilderness, the same One that struck Saint Paul down, is the same One even that's got Its picture taken of It, right here doing the same thing It did there, same Messiah.


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