<TITLE>18. Par 192-204</TITLE>L-192   And about eleven o'clock one day, he was stricken down, with a paper in his hand. And he looked up, and he saw a Pillar of Fire. You know, he--he had to recognize That. Paul knowed better than to worship idols or evil spirits. But being a Jew, he knowed that that Pillar of Fire was the same Pillar of Fire that led His people out of Egypt, and here It was.

L-193 When Jesus was on earth, He said, "I came from God, I go to God." After His death, burial, and resurrection, and ascension; here He was, back to God again, the Pillar of Fire.

L-194 And He said, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me? You got a paper in your hand. You're a great man. You come from a certain organization, the most staunch organization and--and honored organization in the country. You got a paper in your hand, but you're doing wrong. Why you persecuting Me?"

L-195   Watch this Jew say, "Lord!" He knowed Who It was. There you are, the same Pillar of Fire that led Moses and talked! He had never had the opportunity of ever seeing Jesus, so he said, "Lord, Who are You that I'm persecuting?"
And He said, "I am Jesus."

L-196 And there on his back, you know, he--he tore up the paper, and he said, "What can I do?"

L-197 He said, "I got a prophet down there, and his name is Ananias. Now you go down the street called 'Straight,' he'll tell you what to do."

L-198 So the Lord spoke to Ananias. And come up, said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus that appeared to you in the way and wanted you to take out this policy, I come to deliver it to you, by laying my hands upon you." He was a changed man. Watch the difference. What the... See?

L-199   After Paul had seen the clear vindication, that this wasn't no other person but the same Person. God and Christ was the same Person. It wasn't some foolishness, because He saw that the Word was the Pillar of Fire, had been made flesh, to redeem; and here it was back, the Pillar of Fire again, that God and Christ was the same Person. And here He is, and back as the Holy Spirit, now called, because He had been upon a man. He saw It clearly identified, and--and been vindicated. "Lord, what will You have me to do? What must I do?" Now, remember, that was a religious man, and a businessman. "What will You have me to do?"

L-200 What a difference there was between the young businessman, rich, and this other young fellow, Saul. One, the price was too great.
"Well," you say, "Paul didn't have nothing to give up."

L-201   He had his church, his brethren. He was a fugitive from the church, after that. He had to run. And finally his own church took his life; they killed him. And we find out, persecuted from city to city, and was stoned, almost dead once, and so forth; his own brethren. And he said, "I would become a curse for them." He didn't despise them. When he received the Holy Spirit, he loves them. He wanted to save them. Don't isolate yourself; go to them kind. Paul would be made a curse himself; because it was the Spirit of Christ that was in him, that was cursed and hang on a tree for His Own.

L-202 And we find out what a difference between this young man, the rich ruler, the businessman, and Paul.

L-203   Paul had to give up his education, all of his theology that he had learned, through years and years of research and teaching. He had to forget it all. He told the Corinthians, "I never come to you with smart, high words of wisdom, that your faith might be in the wisdom of man. But I come to you through the power and the demonstration of the Holy Ghost."

L-204 That's the thing we need today, friends. That's the policy I'm talking about. Not some join church, or put your hand on that; nothing against it, that's alright. But this is another hour, that's all I'm trying to sell you. To join some church... I'm trying to tell you that there is a policy and a fountain that's open for sin and uncleanliness. What is sin? Unbelief! Unbelief in what? The Word! "He that believeth not is condemned already." Right.


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