<TITLE>12. Par 37-39</TITLE>L-37 Oh, brother, what we need is Bible salvation, and back to the old hewing lines, back to the Bible. And here was old Jairus over them; it was around his heart. They had him in a general meeting, and they had taken a vote whether they should let Jesus of Nazareth ever come over in their country.
No! Had nothing to do with Him. "And any man that professes faith in Him, he will be excommunicated right away. Now, Jairus, do you understand?" And in the meeting, little Jairus couldn't even say, "Amen." I guess that's right (See?), but in his heart he wanted to believe it all the time.
"So," he said, "Now, Jairus, you remember this. If anybody comes of your congregation and professes that any miracle has been done by Jesus of Nazareth, excommunicate him right away. Now, you know that was a Jewish order. Yes sir. Take him out of the synagogue. You know the High Priest, the bishop and the district superintendent and all of them come from place to place, making a proclamation; and if anybody receives Jesus of Nazareth would be excommunicated right quick."
So, you know, when you're really a secret believer, way down in your heart you want to say, "I want that old time religion, but you know, you just... So many around that don't believe in it. God will make a way for you to get it. Yes, He will. He will make a way.

L-38 So He made a way for Jairus. And one day his little girl got sick. You know God can get right next to you with your children. And so his little girl got sick.
Well, the reasonable thing for anybody to do when a child gets sick or anybody, send for your doctor. And the doctor come, looked her over, and said, "Well, I'll give her my herb tonic, and I'll see what we can do."
The next day come back, she was getting, oh, my, sicker and sicker all the time, fever getting higher all the time. So when he come back the next day, and he listened to her heart beat. He said, "Oh, my. Her heart's beating faster, Jairus. Now Pastor Jairus, I'm sorry to tell you, but you know, I've tried about every remedy I can on that girl, and there's not a thing I can do for her. She's getting sicker all the time, and I'm afraid that--that you're going to have to give her up, Jairus."
He said, "Oh, doctor, you don't mean to tell me that I'm going to have to."
"Yeah, Jairus, I'm sorry, but I am... In my medical profession let's me know that there's nothing in the world that I can do in my medicine for her. The only thing that I can say is, 'God, be merciful to her soul.'"

L-39 That doctor was... Done all that he could do. He walked away from the house. I can see little Jairus walking up-and-down the floor. All the time in his heart, he was thinking, "If I only knew where Jesus was. If I only could find Jesus." All right. Walks back and forth. So he thinks, "I believe I'll go over and see the... My district superintendent to see what he thinks about... If I should send for Jesus of Nazareth."
Now, that was in his heart. He had faith that Jesus could do it. Have you? He had faith that He could do it. So he thought he'd go over and see the district superintendent to find out if it would be all right to bring Jesus over.
So he went to see the head man of the synagogues and so forth. They said, "Why, Jairus, why, it's ridiculous. Why, we're disciples of Moses. We know Moses done miracles; but, Jairus, do you know that's been hundreds of years ago? The days of miracles are past. So there's no such thing as that in this day. The only thing you can do is we come over and give her the last rites of the church, and let her die in peace. That's the only thing to do. That'd be the will of God. If your doctor can't help her, it's the will of God for her to die."


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