<TITLE>17. Par 55-58</TITLE>L-55 Zacharias stayed right there on the platform, and the Angel left him. And he was stricken dumb.
Now, the Angel said, "Your cousin, Mary, is already six months, as it is to be with a mother." And said, "Now, this holy Thing that's born in you, will be the Son of God."
You know what Mary said? I wish we had more Marys here now. Mary said, "Behold the handsmaid of the Lord. Be it unto me according to Your Word." Oh, my.
She never questioned; she never questioned. And another thing, she never wait till she felt life. She didn't wait till she was positive. She didn't wait till she'd seen that something ceased by her. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

L-56 Glory. That's good enough when God says so, that settles it eternally. That Word was good enough for her. She said, "Behold the handsmaid of the Lord. Be it unto me according to Thy Word," and started to rejoicing over it, not wait... See, she had to believe the impossible. She had to believe something that never happened. That's what we have to do. We have to believe the impossibles to see new life. Amen.
But when you believe the impossible... If the doctor says you've got cancer and you're dying, you've got to believe the impossible to see a new life take a hold of you. Amen. If the doctor says you'll never walk, you've got to believe the impossible to see new life to come into you, new life in them fibers. And, oh, God, bring forth a new hand, a new arm, new lungs, new stomach, whatever it is. God will do it if you'll take Him at His Word.

L-57 Now, she had no evidence of it at all, only His Word. Oh, I like that. I think right now, stop just a minute. As I said, I don't preach to everybody that lives right on the highway. I have to go down the lane sometime to pick up somebody.
Remember the harlot, Rahab. She didn't... When the spies brought the report about Joshua being a great man of God, and God had told him how, "I'll be with you as I was with Moses."
She'd heard about how all the Amorites and so forth down in there had fell victim, and how he'd killed Agag and so forth; Moses had. But she never said, "Wait a minute till I see Joshua. And let me see him perform some kind of a miracle, and then I'll believe."
No, sir. The word of the spies was good enough for her. Hallelujah! She become the great-great-great-great grandmother of our Lord Jesus Christ, too. That's exactly right. She married a--a officer out of Israel, and out of that come a son which was Boaz. And out of Boaz came Jesse; out of Jesse come David; out of David come Mary. Hallelujah!
Why, a Gentile, uncircumcised by the heart knew, believed the message and received it without any evidence at all. She heard that there was a God...?...

L-58 Oh, I feel religious. She believed the message. She took God at His Word, believed immortal. The great grandmother of our Lord Jesus Christ... Because she took God at a word... And look she had to come out of, being a harlot in a city.
 Oh, what can wash away my sins?
 Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
 What can make me whole again?
 Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
 Oh! precious is that flow
 That makes a harlot white as snow;
 No other fount I know,
 Nothing but the blood of Jesus.


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