<TITLE>14. Par 48-50</TITLE>L-48 I can see her now. She's thought it over. Now, she had a lot of things to hinder her. Any person that comes to Christ, don't you worry, the devil's going to give you plenty to hinder you. He don't want you to get there. You're going to go through some obstacles to get there. The first thing you know, why, I can imagine she went back up through the palace. She set down; she studied it.
I can hear her say, "Now, I've read all the scrolls that I could find on that ancient God of theirs back there, that Israel's God, Jehovah they talk about. I've got their scrolls here in our library, and the priest used them to criticize Him. But if that Jehovah is doing that to a man, that means that Jehovah is a living Spirit that's in a living person. He's interested in a living being. He ain't some idol or some marble statue. He is a living Person. So therefore, we're going... I'm going to go up to see him."
Now, she says this: "Now, the first thing I'm going to do, I'm going up first to draw my own opinion about it. I'm not going to take somebody else's word, for they're criticizing: one saying this, and one saying that. Now, let me go and find out for myself." I like that. I like that.
"Let me go and see for myself whether it's right or not. Let me look it over. I'll--I'll compare it with these scrolls that I read. If the Spirit that's on that man compares with the scrolls on here, I'm going to say Jehovah's with him then, and He's a real God. But if it just... Jehovah says one thing and it don't come to pass, and these things are not right, then they're no more than our idols here. So I'll go up and find out for myself."

L-49 Now, she said, "Wait a minute. I've been a great tithe payer around here, so..." (Now, I'm not plugging for ministers and so forth.) But she said, "If it's so--if it's so, I'm going to support it. I'm going to take some gold, and frankincense, and silver. If it's right, it's worth supporting. If it isn't right, then I'll bring my money back."
She ought to come and preach to the Americans sometimes: support things that laugh at you, and call you a holy-roller; and yet you support it. That's right. But there you are.
She said, "I'll find out for myself. And if it's right, it's worth everything that I could do to support it."
And that's the truth. It's worth... not more... Not ten percent of your money, it's worth your whole life. It's worth all the things of the world to you, if it's right. It's that Pearl of great price.
If God still lives... If Jesus Christ is the Son of God living today, and living tonight, He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, then it's worth every bit of our time, our talent, our everything. We should sell out to everything, say good-bye to everything, and serve It. If it ain't, well, let's just go join something and go ahead, and get with a good crowd, and live a pretty decent life and go on. But if it's right, let's--let's get with it. So that's what she thought.

L-50 So she loaded up the camels with gold and frankincense. Then the thought come... You know, Ishmael's children was in the desert in them days, and they were robbers. And they were really fleet men too, real fleet riders, murderers, out there in the desert. And she had--she had a long ways to go. Now, she started off with her little maidens and her eunuchs, little handful of them to cross the Sahara desert.
Now, brother, I have respects for that woman. She didn't... You know, something about it: if you--God's really speaking to your heart, you don't notice fear. If--if God spoke to your heart and told you He's going to heal you tonight, you don't care what the doctor says is wrong with you. It just takes--it just takes all the fear out of it somehow.
She didn't care. She was going up to see if it was right or not. So she started across the Sahara Desert. Now, look what that little woman... She probably had to travel by night. Them direct rays of the Sahara Desert... And remember, she... it taken her...


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