<TITLE>19. Par 174-187</TITLE>L-174 He didn't walk out and say, "Yes, glory to God! Hallelujah, that's good enough for me. Praise God, I'm going out." Or, he didn't go up and say, "I'll not listen to That. I had a mental allusion. It isn't according to what the priest says." No.

L-175 He took lesson to it. He saw what God was trying to show him. Why? The spiritual seed was already in him, like it was in the woman at the well, like it was the others. They were ordained, foreordained to this. And he saw the reason. He saw Uzziah in the leper house, a great man who tried to impersonate something. He saw God sitting there, and he saw how God dressed His servants and how He sent them out. Caused him to say, "I am a sinner." Then it come the time for the cleansing, after confession, "I am a sinner."

L-176   The prophet, a man who had been in the king's palace, known to be a prophet. Do you hear me? Caused this ordained prophet, the vision of the Lord caused him to cry, "Woe is me! I am a man of unclean lips. I live among un-... people that's got unclean lips. And my eyes has seen the order of the Lord." Oh, minister brother, can you see it? "My eyes has seen the order of the Lord."

L-177 Then come the cleansing. Here come the Cherubim with a coal of fire off the altar, that he had took with his tongs, the tongs from the altar, put it in his hands. And took back Isaiah's head, because he was ready to confess, and confess that he was unclean, because he had looked to some bishop or somebody for his example, instead of looking towards God.

L-178 Instead of looking towards the Word, you looked towards your creed, still puts you back, "a man of unclean lips."

L-179 And the Angel come with Fire, placed it upon his lips, and said, "Now you're clean."

L-180   Notice the order. He never brought him a book, a catechism. God doesn't prepare His servants by books and catechism. He prepares His servants by Fire, cleansing Fire, Fire from the altar.

L-181 And he cried! When he cried out and said, "Woe is me, for I've done wrong; I've put my example, my trust, in a man. And I see the order of the Lord." And he cleansed him with the coal of Fire.

L-182 Now, isn't it wonderful how the man recognized himself being a sinner? And look how God did as soon as he recognized he was a sinner. He confessed to being a sinner, confessed to his wrong. And he saw what God did and how He did it, how He cleaned him by a coal of Fire. Not a declaration of creeds, not a--a bunch of beads, not some historical affair. He cleansed him with, present tense, living Fire.

L-183   And the Bible said that, "The promise is unto you, and to your children, to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." This same Holy Ghost, this same Jesus that come in the form of the Holy Ghost, on the Day of Pentecost, is the only cleansing process God knows anything about cleansing His servant.

L-184 He seen the order. He seen what God's servant, prepared, how he was to act. He seen the way God got His servant ready, how He set it in order.

L-185 Notice then the following, after the cleansing, after, the commission. After he had did this, followed, then what? The commission. After confession and cleansed, it was then that the clean Isaiah answered when the Lord said, "Who will go?" Said, "Here am I, send me."

L-186   Young man and woman, your life before you, let's you and I go down to the altar, this morning. Let's go down to the house of God, for a few minutes. Businessman, housewife, minister, let's go down to the house of God.

L-187 There is something wrong somewhere. See? You've had too much more, and so much carnal impersonation in the world, Christianity. Young folks, I feel sorry for you. You don't know which way to turn. One says this, and one says that, and one says it's a "Hail Mary," and the other one says it's something else, and one says join this church, and join that. It's all wrong, for God has thoroughly showed that the thing is dead.


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