<TITLE>14. Par 64-68</TITLE>L-64 What a great man Elijah was, and how he went up there, led by the Spirit of God and challenged Ahab. Said, "Bring up all your priests down there, and let's see who's God." Now, that's the way. Let's put it to a showdown, see who's God. And they got all the priests out there. They killed their sacrifice, and lanced themselves, and jumped upon the altar screaming with all the sincerity in the world. "Oh, Balaam. Answer Balaam. Answer."
Elijah walked around and said, "Maybe he's gone on a fishing trip or something. Holler just a little louder." He knowed he wasn't no god in the beginning. But then just about the time the evening sacrifice was due, Elijah killed the bullock, and laid it upon the altar, walked out there led by the Spirit of God, and said, "God, I've done all of this at Your bidding." Amen.
I tell you; devils will tremble, and sinners will wake, when men and women submit themselves to God and are led by the Holy Ghost. What a difference it is.
Now, so he made the offering, and he said, "God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, hear me." And about that time the Fire of God begin to fall because he was led by the Spirit of God.

L-65 Men and women, that those that are--are led by the Spirit of God. No condemnation to them. They're in Christ, walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.
Look at little old Mary. One day she was a little--little old girl about eighteen years old, living down in a real mean city, but she was a virgin. She lived right; she did right, acted right, and God was looking all over the world to find a woman that He could put trust in. And He found all the women setting up singing the great hymns up there at the church, and their big plumes in their hats or whatever they wore in them days.
But a little, old, poor girl, coming up from the well with a bucket of water setting on her head, God said, "I'll just take her."

L-66 And the Lord spoke to her and told her what she was going to do. She was going to have a baby knowing no man. She said, "Behold the handsmaid of the Lord. Be it unto me according to Your will." In other words, what... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
"Don't know no more how You're going to do it. I don't know a man. I don't know a man after the nature of--of human life. I don't know how You're going to do it. I couldn't prove it scientifically, and I'm not going to the doctor to ask Him anything about it. I don't know how it's going to be done, and I don't care what anybody else says about it, if You said that it's so, it's so." And she took God at His Word.

L-67 And if you're going to be led by the Spirit of God, you can't page this Bible and say, "The days of miracles are past and no such thing as Divine healing," and all these other things, and then walk by the Spirit of God, and be led by It.
God's Spirit will testify of every Word in there to be the Truth. Amen. God will speak of His Own. Yes, sir.
So you know what? She never waited till she felt life. She never waited till she was positive. She didn't wait any longer than no more than the Angel told her. She started rejoicing, saying, "I'm going to have a baby." Amen.
She took God at His Word. She was led of the Spirit of God. She become the mother of the Lord Jesus Christ. She took God at His Word.

L-68 Little Martha, she was a kind of a dilatory little child, and so she always wanted to make the house look clean. She had to clean up everything, make everything look of spotless while Mary listened to the Words of Life.
But I imagine Martha was listening too, 'cause she proved it one day. One day when her brother was dead, had been dead four days, stinking, nose had done fell in, skin worms crawling in and out of him, eating him up in the grave, she heard that Jesus was coming. That's a good message. She heard Jesus was coming, and she knowed if she'd ever get in contact with Jesus, her worries would be over.


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