<TITLE>06. Par 23-26</TITLE>L-23 She never took the second thought. If you take the second thought, saying, "Well now, wait a minute. If the Holy Spirit would come upon me the way it does some of those people, and my boss tomorrow would let out a few curse words standing in my presence, why, you mean I might walk up to him and have to tell him, 'Now, here, it's not right for you to do that. You're cursing my Lord. I don't appreciate that,' he might fire me." You just let the Holy Spirit come on you once, God will take care of the rest of it. He will have everything prepared. Don't take no thought for tomorrow. Tomorrow will take thought for the things of tomorrow. Today is the day.
She was determined. She's got on these camels, and they had to travel perhaps by night, 'cause the desert was so hot in daytime. Pressing on. Satan on every little mirage out in the desert, saying, "You can't make it; it's false. There's no need of going. Why, you're laughed at; you're excommunicated from your church. What if you get up there and start acting like those people? Well then, you'd be throwed out sure enough. And think of your prestige; you're a great person here in Los Ang... or Sheba. You have a great name. You must remember you come from a great high standard of people. And here you're going with a bunch of polluted up there in Israel. Why, you shouldn't do that."
But she was determined. There was something inside her... of her moving her. The deep was calling to the deep. Something calling to... She was thirsting and hungering for a taste of the righteousness of Almighty God. She'd pull through anything to get to it.

L-24 She finally arrived at the gate. Now, she didn't come to stay just for one night, or set in and wait till the pastor preached a little bit, and said something was against her theology, and then she'd pick up her hat and go home. That's the modern trend of it. "If I'll go over there... But just let him say one thing that's against our creed; I will get right up..." That shows poor raising to begin with.
Then, she said, "I'll--I'll just go in. If--if I don't like the way they conduct the services, I'll take my camels and turn back"' Jesus never would've said about her what He did if she had had that attitude.
If you come to criticize, the devil's going to show you plenty to criticize. If you come to find fault, the devil's going to show you plenty of fault. But if you come hungering and thirsting for God, the Angels of God will direct you to the spot to find it.

L-25 She unloaded her camels out in the--the parking lot. She went in with this determination, "I'm going to stay till I am satisfied and convinced whether it's right or wrong. I've heard about these things. Now, I'm going in to find out." No doubt but what she brought many scrolls, reading the Hebrew language, and so forth, and--of the promises of this Hebrew God. See if what Solomon was talking about was corresponding to the Scriptures that this God had made promises of these things. So she had a general conception of what it was going to be.
And any man that... Any man at all that reads the Bible could walk into a church, in ten minute's time could almost tell whether it's right or wrong. As I said this afternoon, "It wasn't so from the beginning."

L-26 They left Jesus at Nazareth, or at Jerusalem at the Feast of Pentecost. If the first branch, which was in the Vine brought forth a Pentecostal branch, the second branch is like the first one, because it's getting its life from the same resource. And if the--we are in Christ, and He is the--the Vine and we are the branches, this Church should be another Pentecostal church filled with the Holy Ghost, and dominated by the Spirit of God. We left Him at Pentecost. We got to go back.
She had read, found out what Jehovah was, what His Word was. Search the hearts, the discerner of the spirit, promising that someday a great God-prophet would come that would be the Redeemer, and He'd give gifts to men, and so forth. She had an idea what it would be.


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