Now, we see He never did ordain us to go make denominations. He never did ordain us to go make creeds. But He warned us against such. “For whosoever shall take anything from It or add anything to It, the same will be taken out, their part, in the Book of Life.” See?
So, we’re not ordained to do nothing but stay with that Word. And if a man is sent of God, he’ll stay with the Word, because God can only send by His Word. See? See, He must stay by His Word. Then when we come into His Presence, when a man once comes into the Presence of God, he’s changed forever, if there’s any changing to him. Now, there are those who could walk in the Presence of God and pay no attention to It. He wasn’t ordained to Life. But if he was predestinated of God, as soon as that first move hits, he knows it. That catches fire.
Look at that little prostitute down there that day at Samaria, that woman. She was in a bad shape mentally and physically. We know that. But as soon as she seen that sign done, of the Messiah, she said, “We know Messiah is coming to do this. Thou must be His prophet.”
He said, “I’m that Messiah that was wrote to come.”
She recognized it. She never asked one more question. She started right quick with the responsibility, to know that if she had found that and come into the Presence of God, she was responsible to tell somebody else about it. Hallelujah! Right. Any man that comes into the Presence of God is responsible before God, from that minute on, to tell somebody else. Look at Abraham, look at Moses, look at Peter, look at Paul. The moment they come into the Presence of God, recognized themselves “sinners,” and sealed their testimony with their life. Look at the little lady, she couldn’t stay no longer, she went to the city and told the men, “Come, see the Man that told me the things I’ve done. Isn’t this the Messiah?” They could not deny It, because It was Scriptural. Certainly. Yes, they’ve got to do it, a man, when we got a responsibility of telling others as Moses did, as Peter did, as Paul did. After these things, you’ve seen It and come into His Presence, you’re responsible for the Message to get to somebody else. You just cannot sit still with It. You must take It to someone else.
I remember an old sister used to be here, Brother Graham Snelling’s mother, she used to sit right here in the church, and she would sing, “I’ve just got over! I’m running, running, running, and I just got over and I can’t sit down.” She had just found something. I went over to a little colored church over here in Louisville, and all of them was standing up, singing, “I’m running up the King’s Highway, just found It, and took up the Highway!”
There’s something about it, when you find Christ, you cannot hold your peace any longer. The rest of your days you are a changed person, for when life and Life comes together, it makes a bright Light. True. When the bulb connects with the wire, if it’s a correct bulb, it’s got to give light; when the current and the bulb gets together, there’s nothing to do but scatter light. It has to do it. And when a man or a woman is predestinated to Eternal Life, and they see the current of God catch that bulb, it’ll throw Light everywhere it can. You might not be over a ten watt, but you’ll scatter what Light you got. If you ain’t a five-hundred watt, scatter ten watt Light. Give your Light! “Let your light so shine before men, that they might see your good works and glorify the Father which is in Heaven.” Yes, sir.
In His Presence
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