<TITLE>02. Par 5-7</TITLE>L-5 Tonight I wish to read some of God's sacred Word found in Saint Luke the 1st chapter and the 37th and 38th verse. I believe I will read the--the 36th verse also.
 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she has also conceived a son in her old age;... this is the sixth month with her, which was called barren.
 For with God nothing shall be impossible.
 And Mary said, Behold the handsmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
The spring sun was rising high in the Judaean skies as she started up the street that morning with the water pot under her arm. And her little youthful mind was thinking of the day before, how that at the--the synagogue, where she and her espoused husband had sit and listened to a--a sermon from the Rabbi. And how in his talk he had explained to the people why they were settled in that land, that it had been a promise that God had made their father Abraham hundreds of years before, that they should inherit that land. And how that when God made a promise that He could not go back on that promise.
And that they had come through the Red Sea as on dry ground. And how that before that, that God taken them out of the hands of the enemy.

L-6 And God loves to take His children out of the hands of the enemy. He's proved it the way He did little Ricky here.
Took them from the hand of the enemy, and by great signs and wonders and fed them in the wilderness for forty years... And they came out of the wilderness, a forty year journey with not a feeble one among them. Even their clothes didn't wear down. What a great God that they had.
But at the end of his message he ruined what he had been talking about when he said that, "Those great days of Jehovah dealing with people like that, it wasn't necessary no more. They had become settled down in their homeland, and they didn't exactly need miracles no more. They had good doctors for their sickness (which is certainly all right), and that they had a--they were better off, they had their homes, and they just didn't need the God of miracles any more."
But somehow that didn't satisfy the thirst and hunger of Joseph and Mary. You see, they were engaged to be married soon.

L-7 And as custom was, that after service is over, why, he would go home with her sometimes to her home. For where her home was, it's just across the hill where Joseph the carpenter was building a special little house. You know, it had to have that little special touch to it. Because it was the one he was going to bring his little bride to. The doors had to shut just perfect. The windows had to be plumb, for that was where he was to spend his life with his little wife.
And after the noon meal, they would go out on the front porch, perhaps, and look across towards that little home and dream of the time that when they would be together happy living at the house, and how the roses would be around the windows, and so forth. Then on this certain Sunday afternoon, Joseph said, "This seems to be a strange day."


<A HREF="P3">Next Page</A>