<TITLE>07. Par 27-31</TITLE>L-27 Now, if you've got any speck of spirit about you, you're interested in knowing about God. 'Course those that are dead in sin and trespasses, they might be preachers, but that doesn't mean anything. Those Pharisees were priests too, teachers: dead.
My mother, an old southern woman, used to have an expression, "You can't get blood out of a turnip." It has no blood. So how can you teach supernatural things to people who have no conception of supernatural? That's our nation as a people. Oh, we're so suspicious.

L-28 Now, notice what taken place. And as the little queen heard, it roused her curiosity, and she said, "I'll go and see for myself. I'd like to visit that campaign. I would like to go back and sit down for awhile and just watch and listen with an open heart." I wish everyone in Waterloo felt that way. She said, "I'll go; I'll not go critical. I'll just go and see if the things that they tell me is true."
Now, look what that little woman had to confront. The first place, she was a woman. And she had a long journey. And the desert was full of robbers. Not only that, but she took something with her. She said, "If it is true, then I'm going to support it." So she ladened--so she ladened her camels with gold and frankincense and spices, perhaps the best she had in her kingdom. But to us, we take God at second place, third place, even last place. But she was putting God first place, and now a heathen, pagan. And she ladened the camels.

L-29 Now, look, she had at least three months journey before her: three months, not in a air-conditioned train, neither in a great Cadillac, but she had to ride on the back of a camel. Some people won't come across the street. Some has nothing to do with it at all; you couldn't go pick them up in a Cadillac and drive them a city block. Oh, they want nothing to do with it, no, sir. "My church has nothing to do with that kind of stuff, get it away." Not even got the--the intelligence and not enough spirit to even come and see for themself. And if they would set down a minute, they'd criticize everything was done. But God will move just the same, because He's got to do that in order to rise and condemn that person in that there--in the resurrection. Search the Scriptures and see if that ain't God's plan always.

L-30 Oh, if it'd come with flowers, if it come in high pomp, great glory where it... Not no disregards, but some great well known evangelist, or some great famous doctor of divinity. Oh, they'd like to be represented, where the mayor of the city would come out.
The same thing was thought when Jesus was borned in Bethlehem. They never sang hosannas when the King was born, but the Angels sung it, not the kings and potentates, but the shepherds on the hillsides. He wasn't borned in a fine decorated hospital room with pink dressings hanging down. He was borned in a stinking manger. How could they ever go to hear a Man like that, no matter what He done. You see what pride and selfishness does? It shuts you out from the Kingdom of God. I wonder sometime, as we think, what will happen to this generation.

L-31 Then as the queen, she ladened her camels; she took all these things. And on the desert, what would she confront? A little woman with a little bunch of men marching along with her. Why, the sons of Ishmael was out there, the robbers of the desert. And she was ladened with gold. She had to think about that. But if in her heart she was hungering to find out whether that gift was real or not, God made a way for her.
And God will make a way for every man or woman who's hungering and thirsting for righteousness sake. God makes a way. Don't be a scared that something's going to happen; it won't happen. Go anyhow. Be determined to press in to see the Kingdom of God.


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