<TITLE>15. Par 161-173</TITLE>L-161   Let us take a look at those faithful ones at Pentecost. They were all in the upper room there, and they was all scared. They had, they had the--the title, alright, but they were afraid. "And all at once there came a sound from Heaven," the abstract sent down to them, "like a rushing mighty wind, filled all the house where they were sitting." And they were so quickened by That, till all their cowardliness they were... One of them was even afraid, they even denied he wasn't a Pharisee yet, or he wasn't a Sadducee yet. But when that Holy Ghost fell and baptized him into Jesus Christ, he became flesh of His flesh, bone of His bone, Word of His Word. He was a new creation. He was a new person. It quickened his body.

L-162   Look what It did, what It does to you when It comes in. It don't make you go out and say, "I'm Methodist. I'm Baptist. Oh, I know I oughtn't to smoke. I oughtn't to have this. I oughtn't to wear these kind of clothes. I oughtn't to do this. I oughtn't to do that." It so quickens you till you have to do it. It quickens your mortal bodies.

L-163 Look, It quickened their bodies, until they flew so close to Heaven till It quickened their body to speak in a language they never heard of before. It quickened their bodies, they spoke in new Heavenly language. They were quickened into the Presence of God, by the baptism of the Holy Ghost. God's quickening power baptized them into that. They were in the place of worship then. They were where they could worship. The Sanhedrin or nothing else ever could bother them, because they were quickened. They were new people. That's after they was baptized.

L-164   Look at little Stephen. He come into God's provided way, was quickened by the power of God; come into the gate, God's provided way. And even when they went to kill him, stone him to death, he said, "I see Heavens opened, Jesus standing at the right hand of God." That's quickening power. He was quickened up into His bosom.

L-165 There was Philip, another one full of the quickening power. We find him down there at Samaria, holding a great revival. This great quickening power, after he was in Christ, come where he had thousands of people listening at him. And He said, "Now leave here, Philip, I want you to go out into this desert, Gaza, here. I got a man out there, want you to meet." And no question, no question at all, he was full of that quickening power. He was in Christ, he was in the provided place where God could talk to him. God spoke to him. There was no question.

L-166   Say, "Well, He spoke to me and told me I was going to be healed, but, I don't know now, I feel awful bad today." Oh, my! "Well, He told me I had the Holy Ghost, and sometimes I sure doubt it."

L-167 Philip knowed exactly the Voice of God, 'cause he had come God's provided way. He didn't question God, about, "Well, God, I got so many here, I have to stand. I have to see the state presbyter before I can do it. I have to go talk to the bishop," wasn't nothing about it. He minded God, right out into the desert he went!

L-168 He found one man, a eunuch, an Ethiopian, a colored man coming down, reading the Scripture in Isaiah. And he said, "Do you understand what you're reading?"
Said, "How can I unless someone would teach me?"

L-169 Philip got up on the chariot and begin to talk to him about the Lord.

L-170 He said, "Here is water, what hinders me from being baptized?"

L-171 He said, "If thou believest with all thy heart, all thy soul and mind, strength." Got off the chariot and baptized him.

L-172 And Philip was so full of that quickening power, till, He caught him out of his sight. Think! In his mortal body, his physical being was caught up, out of the sight of the eunuch. I believe that to be the truth. God could take him somewhere else, where He had need of him. He was caught up.

L-173   You know, death can't even take that thing away from you, when you're in Christ, in God's place.


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