<TITLE>17. Par 57-60</TITLE>L-57 And He's right here now. See? And now the only thing, when I know it's close, I just yield myself, and then you do--you pull. See what I mean?
But now when God... Say now, God's going to use His gift, I take it back to the carnival. Then here come the ringmaster along, say, "What's the matter?"
I say, "Well, I was looking over the fence."
Say, "Well, you're a pretty tall guy, I'll just lift you up." So then when he does that, he lifts me right up with his hands like this and by the nape of the neck and says, "You see, here's the--a--the carnival coming this way, and there's all these circus; and it's going to go through here and go out there, come back down. I'm not tired when it sets down." He showed me the whole thing. See?
I'm not tired. He lifted me up. Then I come out of them kind of visions, it don't bother me. But when you go to pulling, you're pulling from the strength. See what I mean? Do you understand me now?

L-58 Now, that's what the woman done. Reason He felt weak, the woman pulled from God, the things that she wanted from Christ. Now, quickly, we're going right to the point.
Gifts and callings set in the church are to magnify and to make a people ready. Now, I'm coming to my text. I went way around it, but just about five minutes now and the text. Now, listen real closely.
Now, God gave a gift in the time of Solomon. And Solomon had a gift of wisdom. He was smart by wisdom of God, not of his own, but of God. He asked God for that, and God give that to him.
And if any gift of God will be recognized to be the truth... And everybody going around was finding out what this was, the talk coming about it, and oh...?... You read II Chronicles the 9th chapter when you go home.
And then, way down in Sheba, the queen, a wonderful woman... Listen close now. Everybody, perhaps, come by was telling her, "You should go up to Palestine, the great God of heaven..." Now, she wasn't... She was a pagan.

L-59 "Well, the great God of heaven had blessed a man and give him a gift. And he's named Solomon. You should see the power of his gift of the God of Israel." So many people telling her, you know, faith cometh by what? Hearing.
Everybody come by. A traveler passed by through Sheba, why, she'd, why, she--she hear of it. "Oh, we come through Palestine. It's great. God has given a great gift up there."
It kept on till the queen said, "You know what? I believe I'll go, see for myself." There's the way to do it.
Don't stand off and say, "I don't believe it."
See where her name is tonight? Immortal, she's saved. But her actions (What?) towards God's gift... That's the reason Martha got her brother, his soul, back to life: her faith and actions towards God's Gift. That was the way the woman got her blood issue healed. Her faith towards God's Gift.

L-60 And the queen of Sheba, she said, "Now, I may be wrong, but all this if it is the truth what I hear, it must be marvelous. So I'll go."
Do you realize what that woman had to do? She was probably at least three months in the desert, a woman, not with an air-conditioned room, but setting on a camel. Do you realize what a sacrifice?
And tonight, we can hear of God's gift and won't walk across the street. No wonder she'll raise up and condemn this generation. But she wanted to know. It was worth more than life to her. Now, whenever she took riches and--and gifts to give to it, if it was so. Now, this little woman set out with all these riches, spices, and talents of gold, and everything to give to the cause of God if it was so. She didn't know it was so. She just heard. So faith cometh by hearing. So she goes to the meeting to find out. Look what she had to risk.


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