<TITLE>06. Par 45-53</TITLE>L-45   Jesus, when He was on earth, anointed with That that they saw, notice, He said, "I come from God," the Spirit, the Light, the Pillar of Fire, "and I return to God." And He was made flesh in order to die for our sins. Then after His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension, after He ascended up; on the forty days, he ascended up; and on the fiftieth day, He returned back in a form of a Pillar of Fire, among the people, and separated Himself, like tongues of fire, and set upon each of them. And then they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and begin to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

L-46 See, God separating Himself; God first in a great Pillar of Fire; God manifested in a human body; now God separating Himself among His people. The Pillar of Fire breaking up, and setting upon each of them, like forked licks of blazes, cloven tongues set upon them, forks of fire, cloven tongues like fire set upon each of them. And they were all filled with That, and begin to speak with tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

L-47   Now, you see, we are not a divided people, we've got to be in unity, because each one of us holding a part of God. And we must come together, and then the Pillar of Fire is manifested in the wholeness, in the fulness of It; when His Church sets together in Heavenly places, then the fulness of the power of God is in His Church. Each one of us holding spiritual gifts and spiritual offices, coming together, brings that Pillar of Fire back again.

L-48 And Paul recognized that being of the Lord, and he said, "Lord, Who are You, if I'm persecuting You?"

L-49 He said, "I am Jesus, and it's hard for you to kick against the pricks."

L-50 And Paul was commanded to rise and go down in the street called, "Straight." And there was a prophet there who came up, by the name Ananias, and saw a vision, and baptized him. And he was went down into Arabia, for three years, to study the Scriptures, to see about what this Pillar of Fire was that appeared to him.

L-51   Now we find that Paul, the rest of his life, had that for a tie post. He had met God, face to face, and was commissioned by God. What a tie post! What an Absolute! That was the end of all arguments. That was the end of everything for Paul. All strife, everything was gone. I don't care what the Pharisees said, the Sadducees said, or anybody else; he met God vindicated by the Word, that settled it! That was the rest of his life. Because he had seen God manifested, and had been proven to him that It was God, by the Word, and by the shape and form that He was in, and by an audible Voice that spoke to him exactly what it was. Now, that was a great thing. No wonder he could say, before the--the Agrippa, "I was not disobedient to the Heavenly vision." He was tied to it. There was something real, something that he knowed, something that nobody could take away from him.

L-52   Now, today, if we're trusting only in a education, or a--a mechanical way of--of education to explain the Bible, then we've only got it from a--a mental conception. But no man has the right behind this pulpit, to preach the Gospel, unless he has come face to face with It.

L-53 Like Moses, on the backside of the desert, no matter how well he was educated, whatever had taken place; his fears and flustrations left because he stood on a sacred ground with God, that nobody could take it away from him.


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