<TITLE>06. Par 23-26</TITLE>L-23 And he was referring to Solomon. Solomon, God gave Solomon, just a man that had his ups-and-downs and his differences just like you and I do. But God gave this man a gift, because He was going to make him--present him to the church. Now, if the church had turned him down, Israel would've never have had that golden age. And anyone knows that Israel prospered more under the reign of Solomon than any other king they ever had. The temple was built. The world bowed at the feet of Solomon. And he wasn't a war man. He was a man who was empowered with a gift of the Holy Spirit. And all of his kingdom recognized it. He had a gift of discernment to discern things. And when this great gift was manifested, all the people with one accord to give thanks unto God and was looking for it to come.
Would it not be a great thing tonight, if all of the church of the living God, would recognize the Presence of the Lord Jesus Christ, the all sufficient Gift to the church, and the working of the Holy Spirit?

L-24 I was reading an article today in the "Coronet" about old time religion coming back. And how it begin to bring and talk about the Pentecostal church. Now, we Baptists and all the rest of us has to recognize that the Pentecostal church is the fastest growing Protestant church in all the world. In all their differences, and all of their misunderstanding, yet they come from a little tin can alley, until they possess the best churches in the land. That's right. In all their faults, if all of the Oneness, and the Trinitarians, and all of the little isms would get out of that great church, she'd rise as a mighty conqueror. But they're so split and divided. Satan's got them shooting at one another, instead of all their guns turned on him. And they shoot at the Methodists; they shoot at the Baptists; they shoot at one another. And the selfishness, the motives are not right; the objectives is not right. But in the spite of all that, the blessed Holy Spirit dwells among them. That's right.
And then the strange thing to be, that they can't recognize the Holy Spirit's work, and all come together and unite their efforts for the Kingdom of God. The Baptists is just as hungry for the Holy Spirit as you Pentecostals are. But you're so broke up and have brought so much disgrace because the Baptists and Methodists and so forth, are scared to take a hold of it. And it's by your actions that's brought this thing. Every mortal being has some hunger in him for God.

L-25 Now, everybody was with Solomon, one accord. And look how the news of that swept out. All across the lands, around the world, every heathen nation knew that Israel had a gift in their midst. He wasn't a prophet; he just had a gift. And they recognized it. And the church recognized it. The nation recognized it. And all the other nations, by that, knew that it was real.
Wouldn't that be nice tonight if the great church of Jesus Christ, where there's millions times millions of heathens going to hell every year, because we don't recognize the gift among us...

L-26 Notice this just a little bit. And as the news swept up, way down in the land of Sheba... If you'll mark it on the map, it was a long ways across the Sahara to the utmost parts of the known world in that day. There was a little heathen queen, and everybody come by must have told her, "You should go up into Israel. Oh, they've got a man up there who is--has a gift of God. And they say it is most outstanding."
The travelers come by. "Oh," one would say, "I seen the difference, and this great man through his spirit of discernment of their God, settled the thing."
Faith cometh by what? Hearing, hearing the Word, the Word of the living God. And how they must've longed to get up there to see it. Finally the little queen decided that she would go and find out for herself all she had heard.


<A HREF="P7">Next Page</A>