<TITLE>16. Par 60-63</TITLE>L-60 "Why," she'd say, "but listen. I understand, that--that he is not someone that--that we talk about. Now, you've talked about these idols here that we serve, and I've never seen one of them move all my life. And you keep telling what they are, and what they're going to do, and what they will do, and what they did do. I've never seen one move of it; only thing I've got is just some words here I've been reading about it. But they tell me that their God is alive. I want to find something real."
That's the hunger of every human heart. They want to find something real. They know they come from a somewhere dark, and they enter in here, and go back to that land again that they don't know. They're looking to find something a passed the curtain. And that was her heart.

L-61 Well, I can hear the priest tell her now, "Daughter, if you go up there, we'll excommunicate you from the church. We'll just take your name right off the book, and you won't be--you won't be a member of this church any longer."
But you know what? If the hunger of God comes into a human heart, there's nothing in the world going to stop them. That's right. When the heart begins to hunger...
David said in the Bible, "When the deep calls to the deep..."
Now, if there's a deep calling, there's got to be a deep to respond to it. You believe that? Now... In other wise like this, if before there... Well, I read sometime here a few years ago in a paper, about a little boy eating erasers off of a pencil in school. Teacher would give him another pencil, he'd eat the eraser off of it. And his mammy found him one day out eating the pedal off of a bicycle on a [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... had to be a--a sulfur to respond to that crave. You see what I mean?

L-62 In other wise, before there can be a creation, there has to be a Creator to create the creation. And as long as you're here today (you people that's sick) hunting for Divine healing, because you believe that there is a God that can heal the sick, that shows there is a fountain open somewhere for healing. Being that you're wanting more of God, because that there is a fountain somewhere where you can find more of God... When the deep calls to the deep, there's got to be a deep to respond to that call.
Now, the little queen, hearing about a living God Who was living with His people, it created a thirst. "Blessed are they," said Jesus in Matthew 5, "that do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled."
There's a respond when you thirst; there's something to quench that thirst. Our creeds, our denomination will never satisfy that thirst; you've got to find the reality of a living God. And the only way you'll ever do it, is be filled with His Spirit. That is the quenching of that thirst. He is the satisfying portion to His church, the all-sufficient One, that satisfies every longing. When a man leaves the things of the world and comes to Christ, he finds that all-sufficiency in Christ, when he finds Christ.

L-63 Now, then she begin to thirst, and the... 'Course the priest told her she could not go. But you know, there's something about it; if a person wants to find God, there's nothing going to stop them from it.
Now, the little lady had some hindrances. And every person that tries to come to Christ will find hindrances; it's everywhere. You just start it one time and find out. Start a closer walk with God, find out what will happen; just try it. The devil's at the door to stop you every way.
Now, the first thing: She was the queen. And she had a long ways to travel; she had to leave her church; she had to forsake her--her priest; she had to forsake her church.
But Jesus said that, "Whosoever will not even forsake father, mother, husband, wife, children, and all and come after Me, is not worthy to be My disciple." It's a forsaking, a sacrifice to give up.
You say, "Well, I'm... I... You know, I belong to the certain clubs; I belong to these parties, and--and we all do..."


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