<TITLE>05. Par 11-14</TITLE>L-11 I wish to read tonight just for a quotation out of the Scripture. And tomorrow night, if the Lord is willing, I've got a message that's come on my heart in the last few days on my road up here, that I'm trusting that tomorrow in my room, that the Lord will let me to speak on it tomorrow night. I trust that He will.
Tonight, it seemed good to the Spirit that I should speak a few words on Matthew the 12th chapter and the 42nd verse, just by way of introducing.
And tonight, I shall do something in my services tonight, the Lord willing, by a revelation that come to me in Maine, last week. And this is the first time I am to un--to undergo to try to do these things the way that I was instructed, to my honest and sincere belief, by the Holy Spirit that was in my room about three weeks ago--or hardly that long.

L-12 Now, the reading of the Scripture, Matthew 12:42:
And the queen of the south shall rise up in the day of judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

L-13 And now, I want to speak on this great instance. In the setting of the Scripture tonight, the Lord Jesus had been upbraiding the Pharisees because that they would not repent. And they come to him and said, "Master, we would seek a sign from thee."
And I hope that my congregation tonight, can clearly understand that they had already received many signs, but they did not believe them. If they'd--Jesus had said, "If you had've known Me, you would have known My day." For the Scripture plainly had spoken out of the kind of signs that would be following the Messiah.
Last evening, we spoke on some of those: how that Philip recognized the sign of the Messiah and went to Nathanael. And Nathanael being a member of the church in that day, as soon as that great, outstanding sign was done before him, if anyone can remember, it was because Jesus said, "Before Philip called you, I saw you."
And Nathanael said quickly, recognized that to be the Messiah, and he said, "Thou art the Son of God; You are the King of Israel."
And Jesus said, "Because I told you that, you have believed Me? You can see greater things than these."

L-14 Then we took Him to the 4th chapter and found out there, that a woman of another nation, she came. And oh, if we only had the time to go into it, to notice that the first one to recognize that sign was a Jew. The Gospel went to the Jew first. And the Jews all represented the remnant of the 144,000 that's to be called in the last days, which is returning into Jerusalem now by the thousands to receive the Messiah at His coming for His Bride.
And the second time this miracle was performed was on a Samaritan, a woman, a castaway, a type of the Gentile church: a castaway. And she said, after a little talk with Him... He asked her for a drink, and so forth; then He said, "Go, call your husband."
She said, "I have none." That's true with the Gentile church, the called out, the mixed breed.
And He said, "Thou hast said right, because you've got five husbands."
And as quick as He told her that she had five husbands, she quickly--those big, bright eyes sparkled, and looked at Him and said, "Sir, I perceive that Thou art a prophet, for we know..." There you are. "We, the Samaritans know that when the Messiah cometh, He'll do these things." But she couldn't understand Who He was.
He said, "I'm He that speaks with you."
Now, if that sign was done before the Jew and before the Samaritan, there's only one class left: that's the Gentile. And the resurrected Christ is obligated to perform the same sign before the Gentiles. Won't you believe Him?


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