<TITLE>09. Par 36-40</TITLE>L-36 Let's watch what Simeon did. Now, you wouldn't have to be here. You could be at your altar in your own church, in your own home. You could be at your altar or somewhere you'd make your altar. God will meet you where you want to meet Him. But you've heard that others are being healed. So therefore you've come to see... I trust that you did. If you didn't, God have mercy on your sinful soul, for you're only taking the seat of someone who would've come sincere.
Notice, then if you've been led by the Holy Spirit, it's the same Holy Spirit that made the promise in the Bible, has brought you here. Watch the way He did. When the Holy Spirit spoke to his heart, he raised up, not knowing what he was going to do. It's by faith. He walked to the temple, out into the outer court, and he noticed the women lined up. Then the Spirit begin to lead him. He goes over to the women, starts down along the women...

L-37 Watch, there's a little girl not over eighteen years old, and she's standing with a Baby in her arms and the rest of the women are keeping their distance from her, because she had a bad name: the Child was born out of holy wedlock, so the world said, so the church said.
Mary was to be mother before Joseph married her. And the Child, the women along, the rich women, they had their little babies in fancy needlework of pink and blue, with little lambs to offer for their purification, but this little lady, poorly dressed, of a peasant home, standing with a little Baby in her arm, wrapped in swaddling's cloth...
If I understand swaddling cloth--so they told me, there--it was the... where they got it was off of the yoke of an ox that had been plowing; it was hanging in the stable where Christ was born. And they took this swaddling cloth and wrapped Him in it, says the Scripture.

L-38 And the women, all keeping their distance because they said, "This certain person, this baby is born out of wedlock, and we will have nothing to do with it. We'll not keep our... We'll keep our distance from such."
Oh, God, have mercy on our sinful, ungodly spirits and souls, when we will try to keep the distance between us and God, and Truth, and love, and power. What a sinful, ungodly thing it is. And they kept their distance.
And then, here comes this old priest that had been considered a fanatic, because he said he'd saw an Angel. And He'd told him he wasn't going to die till he found the Christ.

L-39 What do you think that orthodox church, standing there by the tens of thousands, the greatest church in the world, all their scholars, and priests, and so forth, standing there, and here comes this old fanatic, as they wanted to call him, coming out, not knowing where he was going, led by the Spirit, right down that line, and come right straight to that little virgin and stopped, and took that ragged-dressed, little Child, that they thought was illegitimate, picked It up in his arms, with the tears running down his cheeks, and said, "Lord, let Thy servant depart in peace, according to Thy Words, for my eyes have seen Thy Salvation."
Do you think the church believed that? No, sir. First thing, it was a fanatic, a priest that said he saw an Angel. The next thing... Look what it was out of, the poorest of poor. Why, they could not believe that.
And they don't believe it today. Humans doesn't change, and God doesn't change. God takes his man, never His Spirit. The devil takes his man, never his spirit.

L-40 What if you had to take those priests place in hell tonight? There wouldn't be enough prayers in all eternity to save you. You'd be gone eternally, 'cause you had refused.
You say, "I wish I'd have lived in that day." You'd take the same attitude.


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