<TITLE>05. Par 13-15</TITLE>L-13 Let's look along the line. But way down there I see a little girl standing, about eighteen, nineteen years old with a veil over her face, holding two turtledoves: a peasant's offering, poor man. And she's got a baby in her arm. And some of them says, "Say, that's that Mary; that--that's that illegitimate child there. See? She says... She's not even married to that Joseph there and she's got this baby before he was born. Don't stand near her. Get in back."
Just reminds me of the chaste church, today. "Stand back, get away from them." See? "Standing back, give them room."
But look in that mother's arms. That Baby's not wrapped in fine linen. The baby's wrapped in swaddling's cloth. You know what swaddling's cloth is? What they told me there was what the--a ox plows with, and the--the yoke rubs him on the neck. They just wrap that cloth around there; that's called swaddling cloth. And in the manger, they didn't have nothing to wrap the baby in, so they just unwrapped this old swaddling's cloth (It was hanging on a peg or something.) and wrapped the Child in it.
Think of it: some of we people, the way we dress and act and carry on, and the very Saviour of heaven with a rag wrapped around Him.

L-14 She was holding her baby. In her little innocent heart she knew Who that baby belonged to, no matter what anybody else said, she knew Whose it was. And every man tonight hold's that baby in his heart, they know what they are, no matter what the rest of the world said.
The people stayed back. And there she's holding the little Baby, wrapped in swaddling's cloth: the Redeemer of the world, the very God of heaven made flesh among us, wrapped in swaddling's cloth. She was rocking the little Fellow in her arms and playing with Him. She knew in her heart that God gave her that Baby by the Holy Spirit.
They moved up a little farther and the priest called another one. They moved up, like standing in a prayer line.

L-15 Let's look over there in a prayer room, about a half a block away. I see an old preacher by the name of Simeon, setting there reading the Scriptures, "All we like sheep have gone astray. The Lord has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all." And about that time, if God had give Him the promise by the Holy Ghost that he wasn't going to die until he seen the Christ, when the Christ appeared, was time for God to call him. I see the Holy Spirit say, "Simeon, stand up." You believe in being led by the Spirit?
I can see Simeon stand up and say, "Yes, Lord."
"All right, start walking." Here he goes. "Obedience is better than sacrifice." Starts walking out, he don't know where he's going, just the way the Holy Spirit leads him. Here he comes out through the temple, down around the mobs of people. First thing you know he comes to that long line of them babies. Here he comes walking, led by the Holy Spirit. My, come right on down and stopped before this little woman that had this little disgraced Baby, as they thought. Picked the little Fellow up in his arms, the tears running down his white beard, he said, "Lord, now let Your servant depart in peace according to Thy Word, for my eyes have seen Your Salvation." What was the matter? He was expecting to see Christ, 'cause the Holy Spirit told him he'd see Christ.


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