<TITLE>19. Par 74-77</TITLE>L-74 Nothing to your church letters anyhow. Don't do you one bit of good. God wouldn't never recognize one at all. Only those who's got their name written on His Book up there by the Blood of His own Son is the only one God will recognize.
And here they'd went. Now, remember, and Lazarus died, the darkest hour that home ever seen. Now, they'd left their church, put out of the synagogue to follow Jesus. He had disappointed them.
Now, doesn't life get that way sometime? Look like everything in the world happened. But remember the Bible said, "All things work together for good to them love God." It's got to be for the good.
Then first thing you know after all this happened, then Jesus... He heard... He said, "Lazarus is dead. Lazarus sleepeth," He said first.
The disciples said, "Oh, well, if he sleepeth, he doeth well."

L-75 He said, He told them in their own words. You see? "Lazarus is dead and for your sake I am glad I wasn't there, but I go wake him." Here He goes down. I see the Father had already showed Him what to do. That's the reason He stayed those three days. That's the reason that when this time was up, what was going to happen.
Here He goes in. Now, look. It seems like that Martha and Mary had a right to upbraid Him, and we'd say now here, "scold Him." "Why didn't You come?" But Martha, as she'd been dilatory in many things, but when she heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet Him.
I can hear the old Pharisees standing on the corner there, going, "Ha. Ha. Now, where'd that holy-roller go, that Divine healer? There's His buddy laying sick. He's dead now. Why didn't He come? Uh-huh, I told you it was all mental telepathy anyhow, told you there is nothing to it."
There they are standing on the corner. Here comes little Martha. Say, "There--there--there's one of them now. We stuck her out of the synagogue. You think you're coming back."

L-76 "Go on with your old synagogue." She was making her way to meet Jesus. She had something to see to Him. I believe Martha had read that story in the Bible, that where that Shunammite woman come in distress and she had to go get her--the prophet. And the Shunammite woman believed for that dead baby, that God was in His prophet. She said, "If God is in His prophet, then surely God is in His Son." That's right.
So she said, "Now, the Shunammite women said, 'All is well. Just let me get to the prophet, and she'll understand.'" I like that about that Shunammite woman. She said--she said, "Go forward and don't you even check your going unless I bid you."
I like that. "Go forward." Yes, sir. And when she got to the prophet, the prophet said, "Here comes that Shunammite," and said, "she's grieved; but God's kept it from me." He said, "Is all well with thee? All well with thy husband? Is all well with thy child?" Oh, I love this.

L-77 She said, "All is well." Amen. Oh, I feel good. Run through a troop, leap over a wall. Look. Said, "All is well." Why? Her baby laying there a corpse, her husband screaming, and frantically walking up and down in front of the house, the neighbors all... "All is well." Amen. I like that. What had it?
She had come to the--the God's representative, that prophet, Elijah. She come up to him. She said, "All is well."
"All's well with you?"
"Yes."
"All well with your husband?"
"Yes."
"All well with the baby?"
"All is well." Then she run up and fell down at his feet begin to reveal what...
He said, "Now, I don't know what to do." Told Elijah, take the, or Gehazi take his staff and go on, but Elijah went over there and woke the baby up and give it back.


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