<TITLE>13. Par 57-61</TITLE>L-57 How do you know? Taste and see. Give God a chance. See if He will take it, and give you glory for your misery; see if He will give you happiness for your gloom; see if He will give you health for your sickness; see if He will give you the Holy Ghost for your theology. Try it and see. Taste and see the Lord is good. Let's give Him a chance.
And the queen said, "I'll go see for myself." Now, I want you to notice what a sacrifice. When you come to see God, you don't just come on a flower bed of ease; you have to make a sacrifice. It's a sacrificial way. It's a way of death. You have to die out to come to Him.
You have to forget all you ever knowed in order to learn of Him. Empty out that He can fill us. You don't mix it now. You have to empty out.

L-58 So look what she did. She got a caravan of camels. Not only that, but she come with gifts. She said, "If it's true, I'm going to bring gifts." And she loaded it with gold, and spices, and cinnamon, and costly array. And she set out, a three month's journey through a hot, burning desert. Would you pull that kind of a sacrifice to see a gift of God in operation? Just wondered tonight how--if she's going to condemn us.
Some won't walk across the street. But she went three months with slow camels, a lady. And look at the perils was in the way. Them deserts was full of robbers. With all that treasure on, how that the robbers could have surrounded her and a took her life, but she was willing. There was nothing going to stand in her way. She laid aside all of her theology. She come with an open heart and she come the rough, hard way. She come to see if the gift of God really operated. And she came. And when she finally arrived, she walked up to the palace; Solomon greeted her.

L-59 Now, she didn't come just to stay one night. She come to stay till she was convinced. But we'll go one night and say, "Oh, I heard that guy speak. I've seen this preacher. Oh, I know about our...?... Oh, his own idea." See? You don't even give him a chance. God ought to work on that hard heart and all that stuff that's been piled into you, He's got to get that out first; get you emptied out before He can ever get to you.
She unpacked the camels, and so forth, and fixed the beds, and got ready. She was going to camp awhile. She was going to stay at the meetings. She was going to be convinced that it was neither right or wrong. If she ever seen it in operation, she said, "I'll believe it."

L-60 So after she had been there for a while, and she had seen the gift of God in Solomon, she said to Solomon; she said, "I have heard many things, and I..." In otherwise like this. "I've heard many things of you, I could hardly believe."
But God did miracles with Solomon there with his gifts, till the Bible said there was no more spirit left in her. And if you'll notice how that's spelt there in Second Kings, it's spelt with a little "s." That's carnal spirit, not capital "Spirit," carnal "spirit" little. "No more spirit left in her."

L-61 All the doubts was gone. Yeah. All over. She's saying she made her confession. She said, "I have heard that the Lord God of Israel was with you, and I've come to see. And now I am convinced above any shadow of doubt that your God is the real God. And God has anointed you to lead His people, and I even see more than what I heard about.
Jesus said, "She'll raise up with these generations and condemn it. And I say unto you," He said, "that greater than Solomon is here."
And I say to the audience tonight, that the queen of Sheba will raise in the judgment with the people of Chicago, and because you've listened to criticism, and not tried to find out for yourself, and will condemn this people.
You don't have to...?... on a street car or automobile, come right to the door, and see the Lord Jesus moving among His people.


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