<TITLE>18. Par 76-78</TITLE>L-76 Now, I want to ask you something, quickly now, 'cause I see we got to hurry. I want to ask you something. What generation was He talking about? How many knows a Scripture always has a compound answer? Sure it does. "Out of Nineveh..." "Out of Egypt I've called My Son," Matthew 3. Run that reference back; it was Jacob his son He called out: also Jesus His Son. See?
All right. Now, if He was talking about a wicked and a adulterous generation, it was this generation. A wicked and a evil, an adulterous generation. And He said they would receive a sign. Now, put on your caps. Put on, open up your heart. Besides that, put a spiritual funnel out to catch it. Remember, He said, "This wicked and adulterous generation would receive a sign." What kind of a sign? "The sign of the resurrection." You get it? Christ alive tonight among us doing the same things that He did. "A wicked an adulterous generation will receive a sign of the resurrection." That's exactly, exactly what the Scriptures promised, "will receive a sign of the resurrection."
Now, quickly to my closing thoughts. Wish we had more time, but we haven't.

L-77 Then He come to Solomon. "In the days of Solomon..." Now, give me your undivided attention for about ten minutes. In the days of Solomon it was a golden age. God gave a gift to the earth. It was a gift of discernment. Solomon had a discernment. How many knows that? And he could discern, because it was from God. The Word of God was with Solomon; he could discern. Well, all the people rallied around that gift. Oh, my, and any minister knows that was--that was Israel's golden age: no wars, and they built the temple, and everything was at peace and everything, the... 'Cause they received the gift that God sent.
And them days they didn't have television, thank the Lord. But they... And the--the only they had to--to carry news was from lip to ear. And every caravan passing through would hear about this great gift. They'd go over to Solomon's church and look at it, then go back and take it the nation, till his fame scattered everywhere.

L-78 Way down in Sheba, mark it on your map how far it is, plumb down across the Sahara Desert, people coming through down there. There was a little queen down there, and she heard of the fame. Everybody would come through, would pass through Egypt saying, "Oh..." or pass through Israel, would say, "You should go up into Israel. Oh, their God is a living God. He's moving among them. They got a man up there is anointed with His Spirit. And he does things that a man can't do. It's a supernatural." And the little queen begin to hear of it, everybody talking of it.
What if we'd just go talking about our God like that, how He gives the Holy Ghost, and peace, and joy, and understanding? Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful? Now, "Faith cometh by... [Congregation says, "Hearing."--Ed.] hearing the Word of God." Now, her little heart begin to hunger. You know, you can't talk about God 'less it make your heart hunger if there's anything in you anyhow. So her little heart begin to hunger, "Oh, I wonder if that is true?"
Next caravan come through, "Have--have--have you been up in Israel? They tell me they got a revival going on up there."
"Yeah, yep, yep, yep."
"Did you see it?"
"Yeah. Oh, I tell you; I never seen such. Why, there's not a human being on earth ever was known of. That wisdom, that discernment is perfect."
"Did you see it?"
"Oh, it worked on me. I know it was. See? Sure, it was wonderful. Oh, you ought to have seen it. Oh, that man, he--he... Why, it couldn't be the man; I--I felt his hand. I shook his hand. He wears clothes like we do. But he's anointed with the Spirit of God, and he gives God all the praise. He said God give him the gift to lead the people. Oh, how everything's glorious. You should see it."


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