<TITLE>07. Par 35-38</TITLE>L-35 Now, notice, in the desert in them days the children of Ishmael was there, and they were robbers. She had to think about that. She could've been robbed. So she said this, "I'm going up to see for myself, and if it is the truth, I'm going to support him with all I got." And she ladened her camels with gold and frankincense. She really brought an offering.
If it was truth, she wanted to support it. If it wasn't the truth, then she could bring her gifts back. But then what a--a shock that would've been for those Arabs in that day in the desert to have caught that little caravan coming through there with her little soldiers, and this little queen woman setting up on top of a camel, and her little maids around her; just to rode in and shot them down and taken all that great treasure to themselves.
But if there is a hunger in your heart to see God, there isn't enough devils in all torment to keep you from seeing Him. He will make a way where there is no way if you really want to see Him and honest in your heart.

L-36 She had to think of those things. But when faith takes the preeminences, there is no more room for fear. It casts it away. She had one alternative: that was to see if that gift was right. So she ladened her camels with gold and costly things, and she got up on the camel and started perhaps traveling by night, being cooler across the great Sahara desert, as she come up through the sand. Oh, what a price, what a journey, but what an ambition tops it all, because in her heart there was something hungering and thirsting to find if there really was a God that could answer.

L-37 Now, she wasn't a Christian. She was a pagan. So she was coming up to find out about this God. It had been represented to her in a marvelous way: One Who performs supernatural. So here she come. And then when she got to the palace gate... She never come just to set fifteen minutes and say, "I'll watch and see how it goes on. If I don't like it, I'll turn back." She unloaded the camels, pitched the tents, and stayed till she was convinced.
Oh, if man and women would only do that instead of drawing your own opinion and slipping out in a few minutes 'cause the preacher said something just a little different from your theology. If you'd just believe and set there, God will reveal Himself to you. "Oh, I attended one night; I didn't think much of it so I just come away."
Not her, she said, "I'm going to see it through." I like that. See it through; prove it. Find out whether it's the truth or not. If it's not the truth, have nothing to do with it. But if it is the truth, it's worth every ounce and every effort that we can put forth to serve the true and living God.

L-38 So she got up there, unloaded her camels. She came to stay till it was over. And I can see the little queen, as it was. On the first morning when the meeting was set, Solomon came out and took his seat. And while he was setting there, they brought to him hard things. And I can see her as she stood back in the corner or somewhere in the great palace yard there. And Solomon setting and the people come, she seen the Spirit of the living God moving in human hearts and giving the discernment of right and wrong.


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