<TITLE>17. Par 68-70</TITLE>L-68 So he said, he got to thinking more about it and thought, "I might die. And I--I wouldn't want... Oh, she's a darling." He turned around real quick, and run up the street, opened up the gate and run in, jerked open the door, and couldn't see her anywhere. He heard something going, "Sniff, sniff," and looked standing behind the door, and she was standing with her head up against the wall, crying.
He just turned her around, and kissed her, said, "Bye, sweetheart."
She said, "Bye." He went out the gate and turned around, said, looked back, she was standing at the door.
And he said, "Bye."
She said, "Bye."
"But" said, "she waved just like she did the first time. But" said, "the last time had a feeling in it." So that's just about the way it is. We--we--we got to bring it from your heart.
That's the way with our religion. If there isn't a feeling in it of Divine worship to Christ, that you believe Him to be the Son of God, that you love Him with all your heart, no matter how you might say the Apostle's Creed or the Doxology... You might--you might be able to sing like a mockingbird, but if it hasn't got a feeling in it, God won't notice it. That's right. You've got to have a feeling of godly worship in your heart.

L-69 So I'd imagine when Elisabeth caught Mary, I can hear her say, "Oh Mary, why, you're so beautiful."
"While, Elisabeth, you haven't changed at all."
"No. Well, thank you. Well, uh, Mary, um--uh, I guess you heard the news?"
"Oh, yes. I heard the news. You're to be mother."
"Oh, yes. Yes, that's right."
She said, "Well, you know, I'm to be mother too."
"Oh, you and Joseph are married already?"
"No, no. We're not married."
"Oh, you're marrying some... You've married someone else?"
"No, I haven't married yet."
"And you're to be mother?"
"Yes. Uh-huh."
"How do you know?"
"God said so." That's it. That's it.
"What is it going to be? How you going to have it?"
"The Holy Ghost will over His--overshadow me." And she said, "And you?"
She said, "Oh, it's already four--or six months with me as a mother." Now, listen. You listen to your doctor, now I'm your brother. Now, that's subnormal. See, life is about three to four months. Said, "It's six months with me, and there's--there's no life yet." Said, "I--I am all together worried."
And she said, "Oh, the Holy Ghost overshadowed me, and said I was going to bring forth a Son too."
"Oh, you are?"
"Yes."
"Oh, Mary, it can't be so."
"Yes." And she said, "I should bring forth a Son, and I'd call His Name, Jesus." And as soon as she said, "Jesus," the first time that that Name, Jesus, was ever spoke from a human lips, the little baby John received the Holy Ghost and come to life. And begin to leap in his mother's wombs for joy.

L-70 If the Name of Jesus Christ will make a dead baby leap in it's mother's wombs, what ought it to do to the borned-again Church?
Said, "Whence cometh the mother of my Lord? For as soon as thy salutation came to my ears, my baby leaped in the womb for joy." Oh, my. What? John met God in his mother's womb. He was always a changed man.
Jesus said, "What did you go out to see? A reed shaken with any wind? Not John." Said, "A man that's got his collar turned around? And--and got all this fine clothing on, the gentleman of the cloth?" He said, "Them kind kiss the babies and make speeches at schools and in king's palaces." You know, the intellectual... Said, "What did you go to see? A prophet?" He said, "More than a prophet, for this is who, who it was written, 'I'll send My messenger before My face.'" Said, "Of all that's ever been borned of a woman, there's not a greater man than John the Baptist." Yes, sir.
What was it? He received the Holy Ghost in his mother's womb. He met God in his mother's womb. He was changed from his--before he was born, he was changed.


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