<TITLE>08. Par 33-37</TITLE>L-33 Jesus was so much human, so much man, just a carpenter's Boy, no education of the world that we know of, poor man. Where did He get this learning? He must've used "his, hain't, and tote, and fetch, and carry, like we would today, some--some grammar that wasn't polished up. Said, "What school did he come from? Where did he get any learning? Isn't this the carpenter's son?"
Why, He's so human 'till--so real and so humble until it went over the heads of the people. They didn't understand it. If it would've been Caiaphas, the high priest, or some great polished scholar, oh, they'd said, "Yes, your honor, honor reverend father. Yes, we--we believe that."
But God brings it down to humility, and it passes the heads of the people. That's right. That's the way He's always done it.

L-34 Now, the queen wasn't going to see an angel; she was going to see a man that God had given a gift to, that was really proving to be true, so as she heard. So she had to get ready to go.
Now, that desert was a long trip if you measure it on your map. It would at least take her three months to make the trip on the back of a camel. Well, you say, "Chicago is a little too far for me. I live on the north side, way down at the Lane Tech High School, and it's wintertime. If you would just bring it up here to my church or across the street, I'll probably visit once." And you're going to heaven? Oh, sure. Yes, sir.

L-35 You love the Lord. Your works prove what you do. By your fruit the people are known. If anything is laid in your lap, you don't appreciate it anyhow. It's something that you have to struggle for and sacrifice for (Certainly it is.), that you get joy out of.
Now, the little queen had something to confront. She had to ride three months over the desert, not in an a air-conditioned coach now, but--or neither in a Cadillac, but on the back of a camel through hot deserts. For what? God had been speaking to her heart, and she was determined to see whether this gift was right or not. There you are. She went three months to find out where it was, and people can't set in a meeting three minutes to find out whether it's right or not. That's the difference. No wonder Jesus said, "She'll raise in the last days and condemn this generation." That's right.

L-36 Three months over a hot desert, three minutes in a plush seat, what a difference. Come on a camel or in a Cadillac, you get the difference? What will this generation answer at the day of judgment when the queen of Sheba rises? Certainly. What will the church say that turned the gift of God down when that bunch of Israelites back there accepted something that wasn't half as great as what it is now? What will it? Ask.
Solomon went nowhere. They come to Solomon. They were hungering. They were thirsting. They were believing. And God was working. Today we're filled, and fed, and have need of nothing, as we say, and the Bible says, "Know not that you are poor, wretched, miserable, blind, and naked, and don't know it." That's the bad part. You don't know it.

L-37 If a man was naked out on the street and blind and knew it, he'd try to help himself. But when he doesn't know it, that's the pitiful part. Then the man is not mentally right. And the church is not spiritually right; only it doesn't know it. Jesus said, "If you would've knowed Me, you would've knowed My day."
Notice. Then she had another thing she made in her mind. Now, I don't know; I've never seen it yet, as I said last night. After you have seen the work of God, then God will--can punish you justly because you rejected it. And she had never as yet seen the work of God. But she said, "If it's right, I'm going to support it with everything that I've got." So she loaded camels down with gold, and everything else, and myrrh, and frankincense. If the gift was really right, she was going to support it. That's right.


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