<TITLE>12. Par 52-56</TITLE>L-52 And He said, "The queen of Sheba, a heathen country, pagan, come and heard the wisdom of Solomon, yet being a pagan, and she will rise in the judgment, and condemn you bunch of preachers, because she come from the uttermost parts of civilization to hear the wisdom of Solomon. See?
He was upbraiding them because many signs had been done of the Messiahic sign, and they still refused to hear it: hard-hearted. Oh, they were indocumated. Oh, my, my. They had B.A. and B.D. and all kinds of degrees, but they failed to see that He was the Messiah. They failed to recognize it, though the Scriptures said that those things would be.

L-53 And may I stop here a minute and say... My manager said a few weeks ago, "If God doesn't send judgment upon this United States soon, to be a just God He will have to resurrect Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize to them." That's right.
It's become one great, big, vulgar house of prostitution, the worst in the world. Divorce rates are higher here than anywhere else in the world, and naked, half-dressed woman on the streets, and drinking, and carousing, and every one of them church members nearly.
Oh, you pastor, that'll stand and let your congregation get by with such as that. More damnation will be heaped upon you, and God will require their blood at your hands. Then make fun of Divine healing and the power and the resurrected Lord Jesus proving that He's alive... You hear?

L-54 Now, look what a price that queen of Sheba had to pay. You know how long it taken her to travel? Three months.
When Solomon's gift was recognized among the people that he was a gifted man, that God was with Solomon, everybody come from everywhere to see Solomon, because he had a Divine gift that was in operation, and it proved itself. The Bible said, "God will testify of His gifts." He always has. He always will.
Now, might be a lot of things said that wasn't right, but God will testify of His gifts. You don't believe the Holy Spirit is a gift of God, let It come on you one time. God will testify of His gifts.

L-55 Now, everybody would come down into this country several hundred miles from Palestine across the desert. Everyone would come by... The queen of Sheba kept hearing, "Oh, the great God of the Israelites has anointed a man and give him a gift. His names's Solomon; he's the king up there. Everyone must pass by." And all at once...
Jesus said this when He was here on earth, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him." He said, "You got eyes and you can't see; you got ears and you can't hear to fulfill the Scriptures." God had did that.
Now, He said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first." But somehow down in the heart of that queen of Sheba there was a desire to see this great gift of God. She wouldn't... She'd take the other man's words, but she wanted to see it for herself.

L-56 That's just exactly what Philip told Nathanael. Said, "Come and see for yourself." One will criticize it. Don't take what somebody else says. Come, see yourself. The--the Scripture says, "Taste and see the Lord is good." Try it once.
A boy one time eating an apple where an infidel was debating that there was no God... The boy peeled the apple, quartered it and put it in his mouth and started eating. He said, "What do you want?"
He said, "I want to ask you a question."
He said, "What is it?"
He said, "Is this apple sweet or sour?"
He said, "I don't know. I've not eaten it yet."
He said, "That's just what I thought." And went back and set down.


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