<TITLE>06. Par 24-27</TITLE>L-24 And we notice then, they had begin to create a desire, till finally, she said, "All this that I've been hearing, I believe I'll go up and find out for myself."
That's a good way. Don't set across and say, "Well, my church isn't cooperating." Go anyhow. She did. She was on her road, whether they were Pentecostal or--or Presbyterian, it didn't make any difference to her. Her heart was hungry, because God was a leading her. And sons and daughters of God are led by the Spirit of God.

L-25 Notice, this little woman. Now, being a woman, she had a lot of difficult before her. Now, she said, "I'm going to take enough food and so forth to stay, and I'm not going up there just for one night and hear the preacher preach, and if I don't like what he says tomorrow night, I won't go back."
She was going to stay till she was convinced. That's the way to do it, stay till she was satisfied. She was going to examine it by the Scriptures, and see whether that gift was right or not.
And notice, she said, "If it is right, I'm going to support it." She took a lot of gold and frankincense. She was going to do something about it. If it was real, it was worth something. If it wasn't, she was going to bring her gold back. That's the way to do it. It's the truth.
Now, I'm not plugging for offerings for churches and things, I'm just telling you that it's not only worth--it's not only worth your money, it's worth your time, and your life, and your devotion, and everything that you are, if it's right. Your testimony, all that you are, it's worth every bit of it, because it costs what He had to bring it to you.

L-26 Now, she got ready. Now, the first thing, she was a woman. Now, she had to cross a desert. Mark the time. You know how long it taken a camel to cross from--from where her palace was to Solomon's palace? It taken three months, three months, not in an air-conditioned Cadillac, but on the back of a camel, through the hot sun. Oh, my, and some here in America, won't walk across the street to see it. They're not concerned, but she was; something was digging at her heart.
Oh, God knows His own. "All that He foreknew, He's called. All that He called, He's justified. All that He has justified, He has glorified. No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first."
So you see, the Gospel can be preached in the power and the demonstration of the resurrection, and people's hearts can be so hard till they're not even concerned any more. See the condition of the day we're living in? But there's where we're living. I'm saying this, because I appreciate, tonight, your sacrifice not through a desert, but through a slick streets, and over roads for hundreds of miles. It shows that God still draws the people. Regardless, they come, regardless; weather doesn't stop them.

L-27 And she came, and she... And another thing she had to do, remember, she being a woman and ladened down with gold, and the sons of Ishmael was in the desert and they were robbers. What an--what a setup that would been for them, a little woman with a few guards around her, setting on the back of a camel, perhaps, had to travel mostly by night, because the desert is so hot in the daytime, no water, just what she could pack on the camels. Oh, she had a lot to confront, but she was determined.
And if a man or a woman is determined, God will go with them and see that it comes to pass, and they get their desires. If something is thirsting, if the deep calls to the deep, there's got to be a deep to respond to it. Before there was a fin a fish's back, there had to be a water for him to swim in first. Before there was a tree to grow in the earth, there had to be an earth first for it to grow into.


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