<TITLE>13. Par 37-39</TITLE>L-37 I looked at the nice little needlework on every little babies jacket. But this little young lady there with the little blushing cheeks, a veil over her face, she rocked her baby, not in needlework but in swaddling's cloth.
You know what swaddling's cloth is? It's the--the wrapping on the back of the yoke of an ox where he's plowed. They didn't have anything to wrap Him in, and so they just took the wrapping off of a ox in the stable, wrapped Him up. That was the King of heaven.
And here He is with His darling mother and the church persecuting and making fun. "Don't stand near her." But in her poor little mother heart she knew Who that baby belonged to. And no matter how much a borned again Christian is laughed at today, in their heart they know what they got cradled there. Don't make any difference what the world says. They know.

L-38 I can see her as she pats His little cheek. Although He's got wrappings off of the back of a ox yoke on Him, but it's her baby anyhow. No matter what they say, she knows in her heart the Holy Ghost said that. She holds Him in her arms. She's just as proud of Him, as they move up, and everybody is keeping their distance. And as one saying, "I wonder what's the matter with it? That must be an extremely poor child there. Look how it's dressed?"
And then we think that dressing means something when the King of glory was wrapped in swaddling's cloth. But we have to have the very best of clothes, our hair all fixed up pretty before we can sing in the choir, and... Shame on you.
And she holds Him to her bosom. She kept her head down. She wasn't noticing what people were saying; she was interested in what God had said. That's the way every believer is, not what people is saying, but what God has said.
As she moves over, as the line moved up, there is a greater than Solomon. There's the Cornerstone of the temple. There's the Lord of glory in His own temple. Look how He's looked at. Could you expect much better today? Certainly not. The world's crueler today than it was then. But there she goes.

L-39 Now, if God has made a promise... Listen, I want you to get it, and soak way deep on the left side under the fifth rib. If God has made a promise, God's duty bound to keep that promise.
Now, God promised Simeon by the Holy Ghost that he was going to see the Christ. God's duty bound to that promise. God makes a promise, God keeps it.
Now, here's Simeon over there, perhaps, reading Isaiah. "All we like sheep have gone astray. The Lord laid upon Him the iniquity of us all. Surely He has borne our grief, carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him, smitten, stricken of God, that He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquity; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; with His stripes we were healed." "Lord, who is this Person that the prophet speaks of? Could that be the Messiah that You told me I would see?" And He's standing out in the temple in His mothers arms.
Just then the Holy Ghost said, "Simeon."
"Yes, Lord."
"Stand on your feet; start walking." Amen. God keeps His promise. "Time to move, Simeon. The time has come. You been longing; the deep's been calling to the deep. Now, the deep is in the building to respond to that call."


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