<TITLE>12. Par 32-33</TITLE>L-32 And she watched Solomon as he--the people were brought before him, and his great spirit of discernment proved a hundred percent every time. Hallelujah. I know you think I'm beside myself. Maybe I am. But if it is, I have lost my earthly possessions and my earthly treasures, and laid them up in heaven in Christ. And she said, "I'll watch it."
And as she seen it come before that great mighty gift (not the man, he was just man)... But she watched that gift of God, and she saw it time after time as it worked perfectly. And when she got ready to go, she went up to Solomon, and she said, "All that I have heard has been right, and more than I every heard is right." There you are. "It's all the truth. Now, I'm going to support it." And she poured in the cinnamons, and the spices, and the rich treasures, just as you would when you say, "If it's the truth, I want it." Then pour in every treasure that you've got: all your heart, all your soul, all your love, all your devotion, all your thoughts, all your songs. Everything that you have, give it to Christ, if He's truly the Son of God and has raised from the dead. Support it with everything you are. Support it un--so you become so salty until the people of your community will say, "If there ever was a change, it's in that person there." There you are.
"I... If I'm ever a Christian. I want to be like that man or woman, for they have love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, gentleness, patience, meekness, and so forth. The nine fruits of the Spirit dwells within them. They're not easily provoked. You can't make them mad at you; they will not become angry. They're so loving that in their very presence you feel Christ." There you are. There you are. That's what the church needs. Not because you can argue your religious standpoint, that doesn't mean it. It's your life that proves what you are. That's what proved what God was when He come down; it was His grace that proved that He's a God of grace to visit the children of Israel.

L-33 But it was His divine holiness that required Moses to take off his shoes, because the occupant of the house that he come from proved that it was a holy place. And God is holy. And it showed that His divine love and grace brought Him to His people. And it showed His holiness, that Moses had to cover his face and take his shoes off to stand in His Presence. Certainly it does. Your life proves what you are by the fruit you bear. Jesus said, "By their fruit you shall know them." Not because they can argue religious standpoints, not because they belong to the best church, they're in the best standing in the church, they're the best in the community, but what they are by life and that alone.
Then a character like that when that woman had received it and said, "I believe everything that I have seen. It is true, and God is real." And she accepted it. Then Jesus said about her, hundreds of years later; He said, "She'll raise up in the day of judgment, and would condemn this generation," for she came and stayed, and looked with a honest heart, and believed. And when she was convinced she accepted it, being a pagan.


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