<TITLE>16. Par 59-62</TITLE>L-59 Oh, my, sent for the pastor, he ignored him to come. What would you do? "Oh, bless God, I won't fool with that old pastor any more, I will go over here and join the Assemblies, or I will join this one, or I will join that one."
That's the reason you can't get nowhere. That's right. Now, they never told me to say this, but brother, if you can't have faith in your pastor, get rid of him. That's right. Your pastor can help you today if you got faith in him. But you've got to believe him. Believe him to be a man of God. Sometimes he can't come every time you snap your fingers, not supposed to, he's supposed to follow what God says do. That's right.

L-60 Now, but they said now... They sent again. And when they sent again, why, He just went farther. My, what a condition. Lazarus really got sick, and he died. They took him out and embalmed his body. Took him over and laid him in the grave. Jesus knew then that he was--he was dead. So He told His disciples... You're acquainted with the story. Here He comes back to Jerusalem. Now, I can hear some of them say, "Yeah, we hear that holy-roller is on His road in here, that Divine healer again. Boy, he's done dead, oh, if He'd have been here, He'd a healed him, sure."
But little old Martha, I kind of like her. She'd been so dilatory about things, but you notice all the time while Mary was so much about doing things, Martha set at the feet of Jesus and listened. It's paying off now. So here she takes off; she heard that Jesus came. So here she come down through the streets. I can imagine and see the critics saying, "Where you going now? What's it all about this time? Going out to see Him I guess."

L-61 She just pressed right on through, never paid any attention. She got out to where Jesus was. Now, naturally, she had a right to upbraid Him, look like, to say, "Why didn't You come to my brother?" Listen close. "Why didn't You come when we called You? Now, we left the church. We left everything; we left our priest; we went against his will. We kept You in our home; we paid You of our money. We fed You with our food. We give You clothes. And when my brother was sick we send for You and You turned Your back on us and went away."
Every bit of that would've been the truth. But, brother, let me tell you something now. It's your attitude towards any Divine gift, your approach to that attitude determines what you're going to get out of it. You just come to God in the wrong way. Jesus just come walking into the city.
But she didn't do that. She ran out to Him, and she fell down at His feet, and she said, "Lord (That's what He was.), Lord, if Thou would've been here my brother would not have died."

L-62 Oh, I like that. She knew that was God's Son. Now, I think where she got that, she must've read back in the Bible where there's a woman one time, a Shunammite. And she didn't have no children, and--and Elisha blessed her, and she had a baby. And the baby got about ten or twelve years old, and one day, I think the little fellow must've had a sunstroke. About eleven o'clock in the day, they come in hollering, "My head, my head." And the father sent him back. And he went in, and at noon the baby died. And she'd built a little place there for the prophet to stay in.
And watch that mother, how appropriate. She took the little dead boy, packed him up in the prophet's room, and laid him on the prophet's bed: Good place to lay him. She said, "Saddle a mule now, go forward, and don't you stop 'less I bid you." Now, I like that.
All right, her husband said, "It's neither new moon or a sabbath, so the prophet will not be there."
She said, "All will be well."


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