<TITLE>04. Par 13-18</TITLE>L-13 What a disappointment it's going to be at the judgment, when men who's thought that they were all right, because they had faith to heal the sick, they had faith to operate a gift, and had great meetings, great evangelistic services, and won souls. Jesus has forewarned us of those things: "Many will come to Me in that day and say, 'Lord, have not I cast out devils in Your Name, and in Your Name done many mighty works.'" Then He said He would confess to them, "Depart from Me, you workers of iniquity; I never knew you."
It takes more than the power of gifts. It takes more than joining church. It takes the birth of the Holy Spirit to break down our walls and to unite us together as one great Christian body moving for one objective and one goal.

L-14 They did that in the days of Solomon. Why, everybody came by, they would speak of it as something great. Solomon had a gift of discernment--wisdom. And people coming by would say, "Oh, don't you leave," they would say to the passer-by, "until you come and see what the Lord our God has done for us."
Would not that be wonderful to hear it again tonight. Come and see. Our God is a living God.

L-15 The news made headlines. The only way they had to send news then, was from lip to ear. And that news swept out all over the world, the known world, that there was a great God up in Israel, Who was manifesting Himself through His servant, Solomon. And all the people with one accord was rallying around it: unity. There's power in unity.
Then the news finally come to the little queen, all the way across the Sahara Desert, way down in the utmost parts of the known world of that day, down into Sheba. Why, every traveler would come by that's passed through Israel would say, "Oh, you should go up there and see those people. Why, they're just as bold as they can be. They know there's not a flaw about their religion."
That's the way we want to believe it. There's nothing wrong with the Holy Spirit. It's a perfect Gift of God to the Church.

L-16 And they would keep speaking about the great things that Solomon would do.
Now, faith cometh by what? Hearing, hearing the Word of God. And you know, when this word kept coming to this little queen, she begin to believe that it was the truth, and she begin to thirst to go find out about it.
Oh, Jesus said, "Ye are the salt of the earth." But if the salt has lost its saviour, or its strength, it's henceforth, good for nothing, but to be cast out and trod under the feet of man--made roads out of.

L-17 Well, I do not wish to be critical, but to a certain degree, we are letting this great blessing go to that. The strength of the Holy Spirit should be in every member of the Church. What do you mean, "strength?" The power of the resurrection. The life that Jesus gave for the Church should be operating in every member of it--the body. The strength... Salt will only save if it contacts. But it must contact. And if the Church gets that burden on their heart to contact someone, get someone saved, then the strength's coming back into the Church again and into the people.
And this little woman... First place, she had a lot of--of difficults. The odds, as we would call it in the world, was against her. The first place, she was a woman. And then, she was a pagan, a worshiper of idols. And being in her position, the queen, she'd have to ask release from her own church before she could go up and attend that revival.

L-18 Well, you can imagine what the pagan priest would say to her. "Now look, my dear, do not be carried away with such a little fantastic things. If there was any God to be made manifest, we would have it right here in Sheba. Our church would have it. We'd be the ones that was doing it."
If that isn't a good attitude towards many peoples today. I trust that you don't think that I'm criticizing. I'm just making a declaration of facts.


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