<TITLE>07. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 You know, faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word of God. And you know, the Bible said that, "We are the salt of the earth." And if the salt is still got it's savour in it, and contacts, it is a savour. But if the salt has lost it's strength, if our testimonies are so irregular, and one day we're up and the next day we're down, and this way we're believing, and the next day we're not, how can a sinner man find anything if we're not true? See? We must take our stand for God, and ever remain until death sets us free.

L-29 And this little queen hearing this, she said, "Oh, I wonder if that really is true?" So finally, she made up in her mind that she'd go and see for herself. I like that; just don't take somebody else's word about it; come, find out for yourself, like Nathanael did last evening in our message.
So as the enthusiasm begin to draw her closer, the time come when she set that she was going.
Now, remember she had a lot of opposition against her. She was a pagan. And what do you think the bishop of her pagan church would say, if she told him that she was going up into another country to hear another preacher? What do you think taken place? Now, she had all of that to confront. Well, maybe the pope of her church, or some bishop, or something of these--of her temples, would say, "Now, just a minute, queen, you will pollute our whole nation, if you go there."

L-30 But you know, there's something about it, that when God goes to speaking to a heart, there's nothing can stop it from finding out what's calling, when God goes to calling. And she would say to the priest, I suppose, "Sir, I'm just going up to find out for myself. Here we are here, worshipping an old bunch of dead creeds, that's been handed down to us, and we see nothing else but some theology and some writing on some tablets or something, but they tell me that their God is real and manifests Himself right out before the public." I like that kind of a God, not a God of history, a God that's present tense, a God that's the same yesterday, today, and forever. What He was yesterday, He is the same today in every way.
And she said, "I want to go find out."
"Well, if you go, we'll excommunicate you."
"Well, you just as well get ready, for I'm going anyhow." So she said, "Now, if I go, and I find out that it's true, then there's one thing I'm going to do: I'm going to support it with everything I got." So she ladened down some camels with gold, and myrrh, and frankincense, and costly things. But first, she kept her gifts until she was going to find out whether it was the truth or not, whether it was just a little fly-by-night, or a little--some kind of an emotion that raised up. She wanted to know whether it was the truth. If all these things she had heard by the word, if they were made manifest and proved to be right, then she was for it. That's a good sensible approach.

L-31 If the Word says so, or something promised, and that promise is kept, then there's nothing to say, but you must believe or be turned aside, unalienated.
Notice, and she ladened her camels, and got everything ready to go. And now, remember, she had a long journey before her. She just didn't have to come from across the city; she had to travel about three months over a burning desert. Measure the distance from Palestine down there. And she didn't have a air-conditioned Cadillac either or some great air-conditioned coach to come in. But she had to sit on the back of a camel, but if her heart, something in there was calling, she's on her road regardless of the circumstance.


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