<TITLE>12. Par 19-20</TITLE>L-19 Remember, friends, your approach to any Divine gift will determine what you receive from it. See? What if Martha, that day, when she seen Jesus, and she went out there, and would rebuke Him and said, "Why didn't You come when we called You?"
Jesus had seen a vision about Lazarus. Do you believe that? Sure. Look, 'fore Lazarus got sick Jesus went away. They sent for Him. He just kept on going. They sent again, and He just kept on going. Well, if that'd be your pastor, you'd never speak to him again. But see, He was working the will of God. Then when He went away, after while He stopped, and He said, "Well, our friend sleepeth." He knowed just exactly how many days it would be. The Father had done told Him. Said just how many days it would be before Lazarus would be alive again.
He said, "Our friend Lazarus is dead. And for your sake, I'm glad I wasn't there, because you'd be after Me to go heal him. But I go wake him."
But when Martha met Him, look at her attitude. She went up there, looked like she had a right to upbraid Him. But she didn't. If she would the story would never been told. She fell down at His feet. She said, "Lord (That's what He was.), if Thou would've been here, my brother would not've died. But I know now, yet he's dead four days, the skin worms is done crawling in, the nose has fell in, so forth. If You'd have been here, my brother would not have died, but even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You." That's the way to come (See?), humble. She said...
He said, "Thy brother shall rise again."
Said, "Yes, Lord. He was a good boy. He will raise in the last day in the general resurrection."

L-20 He said, but... He wasn't much to look at. The Bible said, "There was no beauty we should desire Him," little skinny-like Fellow, perhaps. But when He straightened His little self up, He made a statement that no one ever could make, or never would make, or can make from hereafter. He said, "I am the Resurrection and Life. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall not die." Said, "Believest thou this?"
She said, "Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the Christ that was to come into the world, the Son of God." There you are. There's a broken-hearted woman wanting something, patiently standing before a Master of circumstance, and saying, "Every hope is gone, but in You, there's nothing too far gone. You're the Son the of God. I don't care how many's making fun of You, or whatever about it; I believe that You're God's Servant, His Son."
I believe she'd read the Bible, and see where that Shunammite went to Elijah, fell down at his feet, for she knew that if she could ever get to that prophet... And they tried to make her leave. And she said... He said, "Go, lay this staff (like Paul laying handkerchiefs), lay this staff upon him."
But she said, "As the Lord liveth and your soul never dies, I'll not leave you." She stayed right there. She knowed that God was in His prophet, and He was the voice of God there on the earth, 'cause He was God's prophet in that day. There was none like him on the earth. And she stayed right there with him. So he went. And she got what she asked for. She might not have knowed. She only thing... She wanted to know why the baby was dead. See, just tell her. She, about losing the child, that--that was... She hated to do it. But she wanted to know why. And Elijah couldn't tell her, so he went to the child. He never prayed for the child. He just laid his body on the child. And the Spirit of God that was in that prophet, come onto the child, and he sneezed seven times and stood upon his feet.
Now, I suppose that Martha said, "If--if God was in His prophet, how much is He in His Son? So I'll go humbly and reverently and kneel down."


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