<TITLE>10. Par 42-46</TITLE>L-42 And when she goes up to the temple... Now, she didn't go up just to set a few minutes to find out. She didn't go just to stay one day; she had to hurry back to her kingdom. She went to stay 'till she was convinced. That's the way to do it. Just stay until you're convinced.
She unloaded the camels, and pitched her tents, and so forth, and she held her treasures back, and so forth till she would set in on the meeting for awhile to find out if it really was the truth, of what she had heard. Sure, she had faith to believe it was right, but then she wanted to see whether it was right or not.

L-43 So as she went up to the meeting the next morning where Solomon set and they brought to him the things, she begin to watch Solomon and know that he was just an ordinary man. And she seen the great discernment of the Spirit of God working through the man. She watched it meeting after meeting. She camped and watched. And finally when she was thoroughly convinced, she goes and gets all of her treasures, everything that she had, and she laid them at the feet of Solomon. And she said, "All that I heard those saints testify about is true, and more than I heard them say is true."

L-44 Why? It was more because it had come to her then, a heathen woman. Let her stand in the judgment against Presbyterians of today, Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Pentecostals, Nazarenes, Pilgrim Holiness, Seventh Day Adventists, Christian Science. Let them... Let her stand in that day as a heathen she was, against people that's supposed to read the Bible daily and pray. Watch her testimony against these of this day. Yes, sir.
She was a heathen woman. But she come, and when she found it was the truth that that great gift God had given, she knew it was the truth then for she had seen it with her own eyes. And Jesus said that she'll rise in the day of the judgment and condemn priests, and preachers, and so called religious people. She'll rise in the day of judgment and condemn this generation who was calling Him a devil. Think of it.

L-45 Think of it today that we're living. My brother, sister, and my friend, God, always in every generation He declares Himself. If the people would unite together around Christ and forget their little differences, what a great thing it would be. But in this day when He comes to show Himself again, every way, more than He did then...
Jesus stood on the banks of the Galilee, and He stood in Jerusalem, and in--in the city, and He declared, "There's nothing I can do within Myself. First the Father shows Me, and I do what He says. But if I..."
They seen that He could do that, so they thought He was a spiritualist. But when they seen it come to pass, they knowed it couldn't be a spiritualist. But their great church status and so forth held them back from accepting it.
Nicodemus expressed it well when he said, "Rabbi, we know You're a teacher comes from God, for no man could do these things and miracles that You do except God be with him. We know it."

L-46 Well, why don't you accept it? Why don't they turn the Sanhedrin loose, Pharisees and Sadducees, and all, and say, "Go. This is the Messiah." Because it was their denominations and their pride and so forth [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] that wouldn't let them go to an unlearned Person as they thought. He had the learning of God. He didn't need the learning of the world. So God had worked in Him, as He had to do Moses, get all the learning of the world out of him first before he could get the learning of Christ in him. And today we try to poke the learning of the world in, and poke the learning of Christ out. That's right. Overshadowed with all kinds of degrees...
Now, today, friend, God still lives. Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And now, what do you say there, "Behold, I say unto you, a greater than Solomon is here." And they called it the devil.


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