<TITLE>07. Par 19-21</TITLE>L-19 One night I had an altar call at the Tabernacle many years ago. And there was a fine young fellow who was a Bible teacher at a class down there in a certain church. There was a lady down at the altar just crying and going on. He said, "Oh, my." He said, "Do you mean she has to do that?"
And I said, "I didn't say she had to do it." But she was doing it.
He said, "Well, I'll never get it if that's what it takes."
I said, "Don't worry. You won't." That's...
Naaman said, "Isn't the waters up here in my country a lot better than they are down there?" But that was the Word of the Lord. He went... He didn't have to go dip, but he went back with his leprosy. That's right. So... As when if he obeyed God's Word, he got rid of his leprosy. So that's what God sometimes makes us do things we don't want to do sometime. It was mighty hard for me in a few things too, but it, He had to take the starch all out of me. He knows how to do it too, in a real way.

L-20 And so, I can a notice Jairus had a social standing among the people, and he'd get out that day and no doubt he was the talk of the country. "That fanatic, that's preaching divine healing, that Jesus of Nazareth... Nonsense. The days of miracles is passed. Since our fathers were in the wilderness, such things hasn't taken place. The man is a spiritualist. He's a mind reader. Look at him stand there, look out over the audience, and tell different people different things they're thinking about. Ha. Away with such stuff." That's what they say.
Little Jairus setting back there, "I believe Him, but, yeah, I can't say nothing. You know, I got a prestige I got to hold up." All right. And the first thing, you know, he was walking around one day and every time anybody go to talk about Jesus, he'd kinda keep quiet. He didn't want to say too much about it because he was a secret believer. Then one day his little girl took sick. You know God knows just how to work on you sometimes. Um-hum.

L-21 His little girl got sick. So well, I guess the reasonable thing to do, he probably called in the doctor. And the doctor said, "Well, we'll give her some of these homeopathic drugs," or whatever they was practicing with, "and she'll be all right in a few days." So he give her the drugs and she got worse. And they called the doctor, maybe two or three times, and she continually gotten worse. Then now the blow comes. The doctor walks out the door with Jairus and says, "Hate to tell you here, fellow, but your little girl's at the point of death. She's going to die. There's nothing in the world can help her. All of my medical knowledge has--I've give it every bit to you, and still, the little girl is going to die. There's nothing can be done. She's just going to be called home by Jehovah. So might as well get ready and get the grave and the shroud and everything ready, 'cause she's going to die."
Oh, I could imagine seeing little Jairus' heart shaking like that. Way down deep under there was a little thought, "Wonder where Jesus is?" Sometimes it has to get about like that at your house to make you wonder where Jesus is, to quit that stuff you're doing, and come and find where He's at.


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