<TITLE>08. Par 24-27</TITLE>L-24 Then when the Holy Spirit, the Angel of God, Gabriel goes down into the city of Nazareth to little Mary, He gave to a--a widower.
Here she is with the oriental type, probably with a water on her head, packing it up to the washing, walking along the streets. And all at once a Light flashes before her. She stops. She thinks, "This is strange."
Then something begin to materialize in that Light. She looked standing there, and there stood the great Archangel. Said, "Hail, Mary." It frightened the little virgin. Said, "Blessed art thou among women." She was frightened. It would frighten you. It frightened me. There He was, said, "You're going to have a baby, knowing no man." She didn't argue about it. Said, "The Holy Ghost is coming upon you, and--and overshadowing you. And the Holy Thing will called the Son of God."
She said, "Behold, the handsmaid of the Lord. Be it unto me according to Thy Word." Instead of arguing and questioning, and going along like Zacharias, she just took God at His Word. God, give Zion tonight some Marys that'll take...

L-25 She went out testifying that she was going to have a baby, knowing no man, before she had any physical evidence at all. Oh, my. What did she have? God's Word. That's all that she needed. She went out, said, "I'm having a baby."
"Have you felt life?"
"No, sir."
"Are you positive?"
"I'm positive."
"Well, if you haven't felt life; there's nothing. How do you know you going to have it?"
"God said so. That settles it."
"Are you going to get well?"
"Yes, sir."
"Have you got any evidence?"
"Yes, sir."
"What is it?"
"God said so." That's right. It's good enough for me.

L-26 Look at her. I see her taking those...?... up yonder to see her cousin. John and Jesus were second cousins. Elisabeth was Mary's first cousin. So the Angel told her about Elisabeth. So she goes up there to find Elisabeth. Here come Elisabeth out to meet her, and hugged her and kissed her. And she said, "Oh, I understand that you're to be a mother."
Said, "Yes." Now, let's dramatize this just a moment. "Yes, I'm to be a mother. That's right."
"And God has visited you in your old age."
"Yes, I'm going to have a baby. That's right. And it's six month with me now. But I'm just a little afraid; there's no life as yet." See, that's all subnormal.
"Well," she said, "listen, I'm going to have a baby too, for the Angel of God Who told me that--that you was going to have a baby, said I'll be overshadowed by the Holy Ghost. And the Child that'll be born of me would be called... I shall call His Name Jesus."
And as soon as she said that salutation in the ears of that woman, the little baby John was laying dead in his mother's womb, begin to leap and jump for joy. Just as soon as...

L-27 The first time that the Name of Jesus Christ was spoke through mortal lips, caused a dead baby in his mother's womb to come to life and received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. If It'll do that to a dead baby, what ought It to do to a borned again Church? I don't understand. Oh, my. He said, "If they hold their peace, the rocks will immediately cry out." That's taking God at His promise.
"How do you know you're going to have it?"
"God said so."
And when the nine months rolled around, the baby was born, 'cause God said so. "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray believe you receive it." God said so.
The Word of God will defeat Satan anywhere, any time, anyplace. Do you believe it?


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