I'm Going The Distance - Part 9
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The following questions were received from members and guests at RLCC and responded to by Pastor Sarah Utterbach the morning she announced to the congregation that Pastor Clinton H. Utterbach was asleep in Christ. 

QUESTION: Pastor Sarah, I wanted to just share a little bit about the vision that the Holy Spirit gave me during prayer in the leadership meeting last month. Once I shared it I realized there was another piece to it. I thought originally it was just to be shared with leadership, then the Holy Spirit said, "No, the people need to hear it also." Now I better understand.
SWU: We know in part, and we prophesy in part.
Q: In a vision, I saw an arm and I understood it to be the arm of Pastor Clinton. I saw a nurse bathing his arm, and as she rubbed down his arms, his skin was coming off, just like a snake moving out of his skin. It didn’t hurt him. Big pieces, not flakes, but big pieces were coming off Pastor Clinton’s arms. Then I could see this new skin, and it was smooth. And I believe I heard the Lord say, "I’m making him new. I’m renewing him. I’m giving him a new body." Then the next part of the vision was, I saw Pastor Clinton standing at the top of the aisle in his white suit, and he was just behind the last pew because the church was packed all the way around with no space to squeeze in anyone.
When he stepped to the side of that last pew, Pastor Clinton lit up. Just the middle of him lit up. I understood that to be Christ in him. As he started to walk, what I also understood by the Spirit is if he never understood his purpose before that point, he did now. It was a message he had to teach us. I understood there was something he was going to share.
But as he stepped to each pew, the light of Christ inside him moved to and affected every person. It was just like when you get a chill and shiver a bit. When that happened, then every person understood their purpose. They not only understood their individual purpose, they also understood their purpose for being at RLCC. There was a message he had to teach, yet he never opened his mouth.
SWU: How many times have we heard Pastor Clinton say that he saw a vision of many people coming to the classrooms upstairs? Dressed in their native clothing, he said they just sat in the presence of the Lord as they were taught. One by one, each person got up to go out and obey what God was telling them to do. 
When I left the hospital that Friday night, I knew that it was only going to be a matter of hours or at best a day and he wasn’t going to be here. He was too cold, and this was not normal. He was definitely alive because he was moving his arms and his head and all. But I could tell that the spirit was ebbing out of him.
So I went home and went to sleep. I slept like a baby not because I won’t miss my husband in the bed beside me, but because I have Jesus with me all the time. I can’t fall apart because I don’t have the physical part of Pastor Clinton. I do have the spirit of Pastor Clinton because Pastor Clinton left here with the Spirit of Christ in him. And the Spirit of Christ is in me. Besides, Clinton and I were connected in the Spirit not just by the flesh.
Q: As he walked, the light in him went all around to the people in every row. He never spoke the message. He didn’t have to speak it. By the time he reached the floor, we knew what the message was. He stood in the pulpit, and the place erupted. Then he took his fist and just pounded on the podium, and the people stood up. Then, they went out because the sanctuary was filled with light. And this light moved out to the parking lot and to Route 59 and to Middletown Road and out into the world. He was no longer there. That’s what I realize now. He was not there.

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