<TITLE>16. Par 140-154</TITLE>L-140 Now, here, she had to take on the disgraceful part to lay down, be called anything she wanted to. She could be called a prostitute, you know. She could be called a ill-famed woman, yet she wasn't. And she was following exactly the rules that was laid down to her. So she goes down and covers herself over with the cover that he had on. Oh, where'd she go? To the tomb. Where'd she go? Where he was resting. That's where I found it:
Down at the cross where my Saviour died,
Down there for cleansing from sin I cried,
There to my heart was the Blood applied;
There is a fountain filled with Blood
Drawn from Immanuel's veins;
Where sinners plunge beneath the flood,
Lose all their guilty stain.

L-142 Mark the place where he laid down and lie down there with him. Are you ready to go to Calvary this morning, as I said last Sunday? Have you marked the place in your life? Have you brought yourself to that place where Jesus was crucified?
"Oh, we appreciate that." But what about your crucifixion? Are you ready to take the way with the disgraceful name, as being a holy-roller, or a religious fanatic, or whatever, whatever the price is? Have you marked the place, so you go there and lie down with Him, say, "Lord, here I am"? Then what? Pull the same cover that was on Him, over you.

L-145 A woman once said to our Lord, "Lord, grant unto my two sons, that one will set on the right hand and on the left hand in the Kingdom."
He said, "Can you drink the cup that I drink?" That's the bitter persecution.
"Yes."
"And can you be baptized with the same baptism that I'm baptized with?" Lay down, pull the same cover over her...
Elijah was taken up. And Elijah throwed down the same cover that he had to cover Elisha with a double portion of his Spirit. Same thing, it's a double portion. Same power, no more, no more--more, no greater, just a double portion of it.

L-149 Like Moses, when he was tired, his father-in-law said to him, said, "You're wearing yourself out. Pray, God, to take your Spirit and put It on others." He prayed.
He took the Spirit and put It on seventy others, and seventy begin to prophesy. They didn't have any more power. They had more machinery; that's all. They just had more machinery.
That's the way it is today. One man can't do it. God's got His machinery working everywhere, but it's the same power, same power, same Holy Spirit, same Jesus.

L-152 Now, took the blanket, the Holy Spirit... When she died out to herself, marked the place where he died, and where he laid down to rest, then she laid down, and took the blanket that was over him and pulled it over her. And the man woke up, said, "Who's there?"
He said--she said, "I'm Ruth, the Moabite, thy handsmaid."
And he raised up; he said, "I perceive and know that you're a virtuous woman." Amen. Oh, doesn't that just send little shivers through your soul? "Thou art a virtuous woman."

L-154 And what did she answer back? "But thou art a near kinsman." Amen. "Thou art a near kinsman. You can do for me. You can put me to rest. I've come here and laid here, not for an immoral woman. I've laid here, not to be a showoff (to show people I can speak with tongues, and show people I can dance in the Spirit, and show people I can shout), but I've come here because you are a near kinsman. Not to show that I can do something big; but you're my kinfolks. I've come because you're a near kinsman. And you're the only one can redeem me."
See the attitude of the--the convert to the Christ to the church? See, see? "Thou art my near kinsman."
And he said, "Thou art a virtuous woman. And I am thy near kinsman. Now, cover yourself up, and lie down until morning. Whew. Just cover up in that blanket; I'm your Kinfolks. Lay there until morning, resting." Amen, amen. "I am your near kinsman; rest." Amen.


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