<TITLE>07. Par 22-24</TITLE>L-22  So the little woman said in her heart, "I'm going up there, and I'm going to find out for myself. And if--if it is so, I'm going to support it." She took camels laden with gold, and stones, and frankincense, and myrrh, and all kinds of costly gifts. If it was really God, it's worth supporting. If it isn't God, it's not worth supporting. The woman had something.
Now, it had to be real. She said, "I got some things in my heart. I'm going to find out. So she loaded up her camels and got all of her servants ready.
Now, here's another thing confronted her. With all that gold on those camels and all that costly stone, and she had the desert to go through for ninety days, three months, on the back of a camel. And in the desert Ishmael's children was there, which was robbers. What a setup that would be for them. How easy could they run in on that little woman with her little caravan there of a few soldiers, eunuchs, temple guards, and just slaughter them down. But you know, there's something about faith doesn't know any fear. If faith is calling, you don't consider any fear, any doubt. You just go on. God's calling you; nothing can stop it. She never thought about the fear because she was going to see an true and living God Who was manifesting Himself.

L-23  And away she went on the camels. And when she arrived at the gate... Now, she didn't come just to go over and... She pitched her tent, and the next morning she took her position to watch the gift of God work. She said, "Now has come the time. I've come for a long ways, so I am coming now to see whether that gift really works or not." And she didn't come just to stay a couple of hours; she didn't come just for one meeting. She didn't come... She said, "Now, I'll going in and set down, and the first time that preacher says anything that my church don't teach, I'll get up and stomp out." That either shows illiteracy, or not the right kind of a raising, or a controlled mind by a devil. That's the only thing it declares.
She come. No matter how different it seemed, she was going to see if it worked. We can talk about a lot of things, but does it work? That's the thing.
So she just camped out at the gate. I like that. Stay till it's over. Find out about it. I can see her with the Scrolls, reading Them down, seeing the promises that God had made, see if these things compared with It. There she was.

L-24  What do you think taken place on that first morning to that little queen way back in the congregation, when she seen a man, or a woman, or someone come up before Solomon, just a man, and saw that great gift of discernment go to work? She must've said, "That's just the way I heard it."
And she stayed day after day, till her turn come. And when she stood before Solomon, the gift of God worked on her, for she said Solomon made known to her every question in her heart. And she believed. And she stood among the people, publicly and openly and said, "All that I heard about you is the truth and more than that I heard is truth." Jesus said she'll rise in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the utmost parts of the world to see a gift like that, what about now when we've got her experience? We got thousands of years later with all kinds of an experiences of the living God. God still lives. He's just as real today as He was then.


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