<TITLE>06. Par 18-21</TITLE>L-18 Now, way back in the east country, in the O--in the Orients, there was some people looking for the coming of the Messiah. They were called Magi's. They were wise men. They watched the stars. Before God does anything on earth, He shows a sign in heaven, before He does it on earth. Before He sends judgment, He sends an angel and gives a message. He did in the days of Noah. Here He is in the days before Jesus, and I believe He's here now before His second coming. Believe Him, friends.
So the wise men was watching, because the Bible said, the prophet Balaam, he said, "There will come a star out of Jacob." And they were watching for that star. Now, they found it. After they'd looked for twenty--about twenty-five hundred years, generation after generation, finally there it appeared. And they started towards Jerusalem. And look at the trip they had: deserts, valleys, mountains. And how did they go? They never went by a compass; they go--and they didn't go in a scientific way; they followed God's directions by His sign. And they was led directly to Jesus Christ.
As the star appeared for them, the Holy Ghost has appeared for you. Don't go the mechanical way, putting your name on the book and let that settle it; be born again. Receive the Holy Spirit. It leads you to Christ. It leads you to a deep life, a Spirit-filled life, happy life.

L-19 I remember, years ago before I was married, there was a--a--a--a young lady I went out with. She said, "Billy, let us go to the show."
Said, "I don't go to shows."
She said, "Let's go to the dance."
I said, "I don't dance."
She said, "Will you smoke?"
I said, "No. I don't smoke."
She said, "How do you have any pleasure?"
I said, "I have more pleasure in five minutes than you do in half your life."
A few--few nights after that I was preaching to a large audience of people. The girl was setting in the audience. I offered Jesus to the audience. Hundreds of sinners come forward, weeping. I motioned to her. I--I said, "Come here. You want to know where I have pleasure? Here's my pleasure, better than anything in the world." She went down to the altar and got saved too. See? It's the greatest thing in the world to follow the Holy Spirit to a complete surrendered life.

L-20 Just recently, there was some people crying in one of my meetings. And they were asked what was the matter. I guess there was ten or twelve of them. They seen that Light. And then a newspaper reporter, or, rather, for a magazine, he said, "I..." He said--come to me, and he said, "I have been following you for a long time. I want to get that picture too." He said, "Why didn't I see it?" Said, "I believe they didn't see it."
"Oh, yes," I said. "It's possible they can see it and you can't."
He said, "Oh, no. If my eyes are human, just as much as theirs are, if they can see it, I can see it too."
I said, "Oh, no. God hides Himself from people and reveals to others." Perhaps somebody's in a guessing now.

L-21 Look at this star. How many believes that the wise men followed that star and saw it? You believe they did? I have read all kinds of history, and there's never was anyone else that ever seen that--that light except the wise men. They kept time by the stars. Look at the hundreds of cities they passed over, and the men up on the tower watching the stars; and here come the wise men looking at it; and the other astronomers couldn't see it. Why? The wise men were looking for it. That's the reason; they was expecting it.
Are you expecting something tonight? Are you expecting to go home well? God... Then you'll do it. You get what you expect. If you come to the meeting to find something to criticize it, the devil will show you plenty. If you come for the good of it to be saved, the Holy Spirit will speak to you. You come expecting to be healed, the Holy Spirit will see to that. You get what you expect; so be expecting.


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