<TITLE>09. Par 34-37</TITLE>L-34 She saddled up her camels, and--and took great loads of silver, gold, myrrh, frankincense. She's got ready to make her start. Now, she might've thought this: "If it's true, I'll support it. But if it isn't true, I'll bring my money back home." (That's a good thought for America.) Maybe I oughtn't to have said that. I'll just wait a minute, let it soak way down.
If it's God, support it with prayer, with all that you've got. Do everything that you can to press it forward, not so much with money. Little money now and then helps it, of course, but it--when it's needed, help. But the main thing is, keep the money as far out of it as you can. Put yourself in there instead of your money. God wants you on the altar, not your money. It's better for you to be... And this... I...
This Easter, coming on, always just makes me kindly halfway, spiritually sick. My spiritual gastronomics can't dissolve that, when they go up and put a big pot of lilies on the altar. God don't want lilies on the altar; He wants you on the altar. Altars wasn't built for lilies. Cain thought so. You see what happened. The altar was built for you. You are the gift that wants to be on the altar.

L-35 And she said, "If it's not so, I'll return back with my money." Now, when she got her camels all ready... And of course there's none of those people down there wanted to go, perhaps. And remember, she had a long journey, and she had to cross the Sahara desert. And she didn't have an air conditioned Cadillac. She had a camel to ride on, in that hot boiling sand.
No wonder Jesus said, "She'll stand in the day of the judgment and condemn this generation." She come plumb across that desert. Taken her three months to do it. And some people won't walk three minutes across the street to see the manifestation of the living God, living among His people, but will class them as a bunch of holy-rollers. There you are. No wonder this nation's due for judgment.

L-36 There... She had to cross that desert. And remember, the sons of Ishmael was in the desert in that day, them fleet riders and great robbers. What a easy prey for that little army that she had with her and a few maids along, the lady setting upon a camel. Perhaps had to travel by night. The--the direct rays of that sun would burn her up, nearly, in the day time. Hunting and seeing if they could follow a star by night to a certain water hole out in the Sahara, coming across... Oh, she had a lot of things to think about.
But listen, let me say this: When God ever speaks in a human heart and begins to draw them, there isn't enough devils out of hell to stop them from getting to it. They'll go to it. "My sheep hear my voice." Something begins to dig in a man's heart. "There's a God somewhere. I'm in search for Him." He will search, and move, and hunt, and turn over until he finds It.

L-37 And as David said in the days gone by, "When the deep calleth to the deep..." If there's a deep calling, there's got to be a deep to respond to it. Listen, if there no Scripture telling me that there was Divine healing, you people setting here tonight, I'd still believe that there was.
Look. Before there can be a--a creation, there has to be a Creator to create the creation. Maybe that's Greek to you, but listen.
Here--here some time ago, I read in a paper, a city below us--where a little boy was eating the erasers off of pencils. And the teacher was all disturbed about it and sent word to the mother. The mother found the little fellow out on the porch, eating the pedal off of a bicycle: rubber. So, she taken him down to the clinic, and they examined the little fellow, and they found out that his little body needed sulfur. And sulfur was in the rubber. But before he could desire sulfur, there had to be some kind of a sulfur out there to respond to that desire, or he'd a never desired it.


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