<TITLE>06. Par 19-21</TITLE>L-19  When I landed in India, the bishop of the Methodist church and many of them met us, they said, "Brother Branham, don't come over here as a missionary; we know more about the Bible than you Yankees ever will know." And that's true. It's an eastern Book. We're trying to understand It with a western education. He said, "But what we hear that God has visit you Yankees with a gift that'll make God real and make His Bible live again. That's what we want to see." That's when tens of thousands times thousands came to Christ at one time. They want a living reality.
If God is so great in another age, why ain't He the same tonight? What good is He if He's history and not present?

L-20  And this little queen had the same subject. "We got gods in the temple that was supposed to been from sometime. We got the best educated priest there is. But there's... They speak and their god doesn't answer. But I hear that there is a God..." Faith cometh by hearing. "I hear there is a God Who loves His people and is manifesting Himself among His people. I'd like to go see Him." Oh, that blessed holy thirst in a man or a woman's heart to thirst after righteousness, the Scripture said you shall be filled.
Now, look what she had to do. Well, if she went to her priest and said, "Would you excuse me for a few months, I wish to go up in Israel to see if this God lives that they're talking about, that sent a gift in His servant called Solomon. I would like to go up there and see it, see it manifested."
Well, of course those priests would not let her go. "You know, our church is not cooperating in that revival up there." But if that great holy thirst is in the woman's heart, she'll go anyhow. That's right. Nothing can stand in the way.

L-21  So God had been speaking to the little lady's heart, and she knew that she'd be excommunicated. But what could she be excommunicated from? What did she have to lose? She only had a bunch of creeds. And now she's going because she's heard that there is a God Who lives and acts among His people. So she started making ready.
Now, the first thing, she had a lot to come up against, first place, being a woman. Another place was, another thing, that there was a long journey between her country and the country where the gift was. If you'll count the miles, it's estimated that it taken three months for her to get there, not in a air conditioned Cadillac, but on the back of a camel. No wonder Jesus said, "She'll stand in the judgment and condemn this generation." We won't come across the street to hear with Cadillacs and all kinds of transportation. And each of us are going to stand in the judgment with that woman. She had three months on the back of a camel. But she was determined to see whether it was right or not. If her priest told her they wasn't cooperate, well, that--that would've settled it. But she was going to see for herself. She was going to do like we said in the message last night that Nathanael--or Philip told Nathanael, "Come and see if any good thing could come out of Nazareth." Don't stay home and criticize; come find out. Don't go critical; set down, take the Scriptures and see if it's right. That's the only way to know truth. "Search the Scriptures, for in Them you think you have Eternal Life; and They are They that testify of Me." That's what Jesus said.


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