<TITLE>10. Par 34-37</TITLE>L-34 And notice, they wondered around, and they sent for Jesus, but He didn't come. They sent for Him again, and He didn't come, but He knowed what He was going to do. He knows tonight, what He's going to do. It's not lost with Him: He knows exactly what He's fixing to do. He's going to raise a people up, just as certain as I'm standing in this pulpit. He will raise the people for His Name's sake out of the Gentile generation. He will do it.
It's the Jews' time's right at hand now, and of--the Gentiles are ending out, because they just went on out. They're rejecting Christ; they're rejecting their signs; they're rejecting everything that's called godly, and brand it as some kind of telepathy or devil power and do... They're blaspheming the Holy Ghost and sealing themselves away from God. And God will take that minority, after while, and raise it up into a powerful church, and then turn the Spirit to the Jews, and take the Gentile church home. Exactly right. She's in the making now. Oh, how, we're at the end time, nearly.

L-35 Jesus, He knew. And after while He said, "Our friend, Lazarus, sleepeth. Why, the disciples thought He was taking a little rest. He said, "Well, if he's a sleeping, he's a doing very well."
Well, He said in His--their words, so that they would understand, said, "He's dead, and for your sake I'm glad I wasn't there (See?)--for your sake, I'm glad I wasn't there." Because they'd been asking Him to--to heal, to heal him, but He knowed He couldn't do it, because the vision was yet--after those four days He knowed that was the time the Father told Him. How beautiful; he said at the grave, "Father, I thank Thee that I was already heard, but I just say it for these that stands by." See? He already knowed what He was going to do. He said, "I'll go wake him."

L-36 Now, I can imagine that little home was really broken up. The breadwinner gone, sadness... Oh, it's wonderful when you got a sad home or a sad heart, and then Jesus appears all at once, isn't it? I can imagine seeing Martha, a beautiful little woman with a black veil over her face, and little Mary and them holding one another, saying, "What will we do? Papa and mama's gone, and our precious brother... Now, we have left the church, and we're excommunicated from them, and come out to follow Jesus of Nazareth. And He's pulled away and left us, somewhere."
I can hear a critic come by and say, "Hey, where's that Divine healer, that prophet of Galilee? Where's He at now? See, when it really comes the time for Him to do something, He's gone." There it is. See, God just loves to do that, just to let people--just let people show what they are, that--just trying them to see what they really are. He gives them a blessing. He appears, shows Himself, introduces Himself to the people, just to see what kind of a reaction they'll take, just to see what they'll do about it.

L-37 Now, we find then, after a--a few days, four days, poor Lazarus was dead. They buried him. Second day, third day, fourth day... Now, anyone knows corruption sets in after three days: the nose falls in on the face, first. And then corruption sets in; the skin worms begins to eat the body. They laid him in the ground, put a big rock over the top of the cave where they had him. And every once in a while, the young girls would go out and kneel down at the grave and cry.
And after while, the news got around, "Jesus has come. We seen Him moving into the city." Oh, that little Martha, that had been so, seemingly, so dilatory about it, she proved then what she was made out of. Here she comes. She's coming on her road then, run out seek Him. I can hear some of them along the road say, "Well, I guess you're satisfied now, that your religion was false." She just ignored them and went on, passed right on by all the critics. She went down till she seen Him, maybe setting down at the street corner.


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