<TITLE>15. Par 51-52</TITLE>L-51 You know how long it takes to get across there on camels? Ninety days--three months. She crossed that desert not in a air-conditioned Cadillac, some air-conditioned coach; like some people lives here around this United States, they wouldn't go across the street to see it. But she crossed the desert, ninety days on a camel, with the danger of everything there was. Not looking for nothing, but her little heart was beating to find out whether that really was a living God or not. She took for it. No wonder she'll rise in the generation, in this generation and condemn it.
She came from the utmost parts of the earth--world, under the utmost conditions against her, to come and find out whether it was the truth or not.
Nowadays instead of coming to find out, they'll come in church, maybe set down. "I'll set just a minute. (Some good neighbor asked them to come.) I'll sit. If he don't say the things that I like, I'll get right up and go out."
Oh, you miserable hypocrite. Oh, yes. I don't mean to hurt you, but I--I--I... It's better to scorch you a little than have you burn. So that's--that's--that's true. I don't mean to hurt you. I don't mean to do that. I love you too much. But I'm just trying to make a point to you. See? Oh, my. It's so miserable to live like that. I'd hate to live like that.

L-52 And then, there she come and across the desert. She had all that difficult. And she had ninety days to travel, maybe travel at night, because it was so hot she couldn't travel in the daytime. And all those robbers; with all that money, and everything. And the only thing she did was one objective: that was to find out whether there was a living God or not, whether that truly was a living God or not.
Why ain't the people that honest today? Why don't they find out? This Jesus that we all talk about, and have creeds about, and all kinds of creeds and things, let's... Is He living? Where is He? What happened to Him? The Bible said, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. The works that I do shall you also." Where's it at? When He comes to the city, why--why, people laugh at it, make fun of it. Newspapers send out a foul report about it. Oh, brother, no wonder there's a bomb hanging in the shelters yonder for us. That's right. But not for the Church, remember, it'll be gone. In a moment, in a twinkling of an eye she'll be changed and caught up.
Across the desert she came. Finally she arrived at the temple gate. Now, she never come just to sit down just a few minutes, and say, "I'll see now. I'm going in. If he don't talk just like my pastor, I'll just pick up mine and go right back." See? No. She come to stay till she was convinced. She built a camp and just stayed right there in the court. I like that.
"I'll just stay to the end of the revival. I'll search out all the Scriptures, and see if it's right or not. I'll just not take my first conception of it; I'll just go in and find out. I know what Jehovah's supposed to be. I know what His promises is. I know He's the discerner of the thoughts of the mind. I know all these things; the Word of God's quicker, sharper, powerful than my two-edged sword, piercing even to the sunder of the marrow of the bone, and a discerner..."


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