<TITLE>11. Par 30-31</TITLE>L-30 She come prepared. And now look what a hard trial. The devil was putting all kind of scares in front of her. "The sons of Ishmael, the Arabs will rob you." They were robbers. And the devil would say to you, "You're going to get off in some fanaticism. Don't you do it. You'll get into some error. It'll rob you of your experience if you try it." That's just the very words of the devil today. But the woman was determined. She knowed if it was truly the sign of God, and God's gift, God was obligated to show it to her, for she hungered to see it. She went anyhow, no matter what anybody else said, what the eunuch said, or what her advisor said; she had her own personal feelings that she wanted to find out.
I wonder what your advisors would do? I wonder what the people would say at your church if they knew you were setting here tonight? It might be criticized. Your name might be took from the book. But if you're determined to find out whether it's the truth or not, God bless you. God's obligated to show you that Christ is raised from the dead, is alive tonight. And He isn't accepted by a mental conception; He's accepted by new birth, borned again, and you become a part of God. "I give unto them Eternal Life." And that word "Eternal Life" comes from the word "Zoe" which means God's own life. And you can no more perish than God could perish, because He has accepted you and adopted you into His family, and you're a part of Him. Oh, there you are; that makes the difference.
How do you know that you are? "Then these signs shall follow them that believe." Then you can believe the supernatural. Then you could open your eyes of understanding. You can see the Gospel unfolding around you then. First you must accept it; then you're borned again. Then you become a new creature.

L-31 So she come across the desert. And as she got closer, her anticipation begin to rise. The devil said, "Now, what if it isn't so?"
"Well," she said, "I've at least made an effort. If I don't see one thing, then I'll make this to my God, that I made an effort." But if she come and the gift is true, and really of God, God's obligated to prove it. So she entered the courts of Solomon and as she did she went up and...
Now look, she never come just for one night; she come to stay the whole meeting through. She was going to see it through. She was going to stay until she was convinced. She brought her maids and her eunuchs and everything right with her in her little band. And she unloaded right out in the--the palace courts there; she unloaded the camels and things. And she said, "Now, I'll go and set in the meetings, and I'll watch, and I'll see for myself if it is of God. Then if it is, I'm going to accept it."


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