<TITLE>07. Par 19-21</TITLE>L-19 Listen, we could all take a lesson from Mary. She never waited till she felt life. She never waited for anything positive. His Word was enough for her. She started on her way rejoicing, saying, testifying, she was going to have the baby before any visible sign appeared. That's the way a real believer takes God at His Word, and starts testifying, giving God praise as soon as you can settle on the fact that God said so. That's what makes the difference: God said so.
Let's follow her a few minutes while we're on her. She's takes up into Judaea. And she goes up the mountainside. And Elisabeth was her cousin. Jesus and John were second cousins. And Elisabeth was up there then, at six months it was with her, to be mother. But the little baby had never moved yet. That's altogether subnormal. Anyone knows that. Elisabeth had hid herself. Maybe she was setting back in the little cabin, making some little booties and things for the baby. And she looks out the door and she sees the pretty little Mary coming, running, that little Jewish maid, and just as hard as she could come. And she pulls back the curtain, and she seen that it was her own cousin. Oh, I can see her run out just as quick as she can, grab Mary around the neck, and begin to hug her and kiss her.
I like to see women act like that. I like to see men give a good old fashion handshake.

L-20 Here sometime ago, I was with my wife downtown. Some lady said, "Hello there, Sister Branham."
And I said to her, "Didn't--didn't you speak to that lady?"
She said, "I spoke."
I said, "I never heard you, and I'm sure she didn't."
"Oh," she said, "I--I smiled."
And I said, "Now, honey, a little old silly grin don't take the place of 'How do you do' or something." Oh, you know, people are too cold with one another today. We're just--today--used to be you could go out, and--and somebody get sick, the neighbors would come in and help them. Had real fellowship. But today, you don't know your neighbor's dead unless you read it in the paper. There's something there; the people are getting too far away from one another. We need fellowship, God be merciful to us.

L-21 Mary runs out and grabs Elisabeth and Elisabeth grabbing Mary, and they were both of them sweetly embracing each other and talking. And I can hear Elisabeth say, "Oh, Mary, I never seen you look so pretty. Your eyes are so sparkling, and your--your face is so pretty. You made such a darling woman. I suppose maybe you and Joseph are still going together?"
"Yes, we are still together."
And she said, "You know, Mary, that I am to be a mother?"
"Yes, I know it. I know it, and I'm to be mother too," said Mary.
And she said, "Oh, I see. You and Joseph is already married."
"No, Joseph and I are not married."
And such an astonishing look must have come on Elisabeth's face. "You mean that you're to be mother and you and Joseph are not married?"
"That is right." Oh, and the smile on her face...
"Mary, what's the matter?"


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