<TITLE>05. Par 25-29</TITLE>L-25 Now, the next thing she did do... Could you realize what that woman had before her? She had three months of desert road to travel on the back of a camel, three months over the burning sands of the desert. She had a price to pay.
And another thing, being a woman. And all that travel. And also, in the desert at that time the son's of Ishmael was there. And they were robbers.
And the woman had made up her mind that she wasn't going empty handed, and she loaded camels down with wealth. She brought frankincense, gold, silver, myrrh, perfumes, the greatest that there was in her kingdom. For she thought this in her heart: "If It was of God, she wanted to give God the best she had."

L-26 And if this Christian church today would only think that in their heart. The God of heaven deserves your best of everything that you have. The best of your time, all your devotion, and everything that you are, you owe it to God.
We give God just... maybe a few minutes on Sunday. Set and go to sleep while the Sunday school teacher is teaching, go home and think we've done our religion for the week. What a disgrace.
I know, I got a name of being hard. I'm not hard. But what it is, I've got to stand in the judgment with each one of you.
Tomorrow morning, this tape recorder would cry out everything that I said. And if there's a little tape record--corder here to cry out the things that I say tonight, what will it be at the judgment bar, when God's great tape recorder of my life turns on? and your recorder? and the world recorder? and the great television screen that's on the sky and your life is before God and the entire world? I'd rather be right here now, and be honest.

L-27 If God is God, He's worth everything you are. If Christian religion is right, it's worth everything that you can do for it. Support your church. Support your pastor. Support your missionaries. Do everything that's in your power to do, and give God the best you've got.
That little heathen said, "If That is a God Who has raised up this mighty gift, then He is God. I will give Him a gift, to the best I got. And she loaded these camels with gold, and frankincense, and myrrh, and silver, many precious things.

L-28 Now, she took a little band of men with her. They wouldn't have been a handful. They wouldn't have been a half hour's battle with that great massive group of the Arabs on the desert.
If they knowed she was crossing there with all this wealth, they would've rode in and massacred the group. But she thought this: "If It is of God, then God surely will take care of me on the road." I love that kind of faith. If it is of God, put your soul at His hands and move forward. He will take care of you. You don't have to worry. He will see that you arrive all right. No matter what your neighbor says, and what this one says, and says you're a sissy because you've become a Christian. Don't you notice that? God gave the call; God's obligated to see you through. Believe Him.

L-29 And away she went. Now, she didn't cross in an air-conditioned cadillac, but setting on the back of a camel. Finally she arrived at the gate. Now, she didn't come just to spend one night in the revival. She come to spend, or to stay until she was thoroughly convinced.
Some people come to a healing service. Say, "Well, if I get a card and get in line the first night, all right. If I don't, well, I've got to go back." There you are.
"Well, I went over last night. I guess that's enough. I don't have to go no more." She come to see the thing through. Blessed be the Name of the Lord for that type of faith that's determined not to be defeated. Then you're sure.


<A HREF="P6">Next Page</A>