<TITLE>13. Par 42-45</TITLE>L-42 Now, Martha had been kinda dilatory, but she showed herself there what she was really made of. She run right out to Him, passed all the critics, and she run, and fell down before Him. Now, if it'd been us today, she'd say, "Pastor, I want to tell you something. Why did you leave us in this kind of a shape? Now, my poor brother's laying out there dead four days." See? That's the reason God can't do nothing through educated people, know so much. See?
Oh, you got it all worked right. You know where everything should be. But Martha just knowed to run out to Him. Watch. She fell down...?... Him, she said, "Lord..." That's what He was, "Lord..." Amen. I believe she'd read the Shunammite woman when she went down to the prophet; she knowed the God was in that prophet. If she could ever get to that prophet, she'd find out why her child die--or child died.
That's the reason she said when she got to the prophet, he said, "God did for me. I don't know what you're worried about." Said, "Is all well with thee and with thy husband, with the child?"
The woman said, "All is well." Amen. I like that. She come to the spot. Amen.

L-43 Martha said, "Lord, if Thou would've been here, my brother would not have died." He said, "Thy brother shall rise again."
She said, "Yes, Lord. I know he will raise again in the last day." He was a good boy. The Jews believed in the general resurrection of the last day, especially the Pharisees.
She said, "I know he will raise in the last days."
He said, "I am the Resurrection and Life. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live."
She said, "I know that whatever... He's dead and buried. He's rotting out there in the grave. He stinketh now." But said, "I know that even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You."
Oh, my, something has to take place. "Even now, Lord, even now, though he's dead, though he's in the grave, though he's stinking. But I know that You're just exactly what You said You was." There's a penitent soul before the Creator. The wheels are coming together. Something's got to happen. Faith in the Word had loosed her. "Even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You."

L-44 Maybe you've been at the hospital. Maybe the doctor says you're going to die. "But even now, Lord..." Can You speak to Him, He's setting at the right hand of God making intercessions on your confessions. "The doctor says I'm going to die, but even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You."
You say, "They tell me I'll never see again. I'm blind. But even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You. He's the High Priest of your confession, setting at the right hand of God, making intercession on what you profess. And you've got a right to profess any redemptive blessing that He's died for. He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity, the chastisement of our peace upon Him and with His stripes we were healed.
"Even now, Lord, I don't care what the doctor says, what the science says. But even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You." You believe it? Even now, whatever You ask Him, He will do. Something's got to happen.

L-45 There was a heart full of faith looking at that beautiful girl with the tears rolling down her cheeks, mixed up with her hair, she said, "Even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You."
Said, "Where you buried him?" Amen.
Went down to the grave, weeping. That's right. He was a man when He was crying. But when He spoke to a man that had been dead for four days, His soul was a four day's journey. I don't know where it was, neither do you. But wherever it was, corruption knew its Creator, and the soul knew it Maker. And a man had been dead for four days stood on his feet and lived again; that was more than a man. That was the Divine God of heaven speaking through His Son.


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