<TITLE>09. Par 37-41</TITLE>L-37 Israel asked for a mighty king. They wanted a king to deliver them. That's what they expected God to send to them, was a king to deliver them, a mighty king that would march like David. The Son of David would rise up, come down the corridors of heaven, walk down to the earth in a full Angel salute, and the Father would look out of the heaven and say, "I'm sending down to you now the Messiah." And they had it all fixed up that that's the way He was supposed to come.
But what did they get? They got a baby instead of a mighty king, a baby borned in a--a little stable, the side of a hillside, a little cave stable with straw, and the manure from the animals, and a baby. But it was a answer of their prayer. He was exactly what they needed; but they wanted it in their own way. They wanted it the way they--they thought was best. But God knows how to send it in the way that He knows is best, because He's an infinite God, and He knows just how to send it.

L-38 He knows your needs. He knows how to bring it to you. But the trouble of it is, because it don't come the way you think it ought to come, then you're all discouraged, and you hand it back to Him. Let's ask Him, and believe that He will send it just the way He wants to send it, and accept it upon the basis. That's right. See?
If you ask Him, don't make Him a liar. He can't lie. He promised, "Ask the Father anything in My Name, I'll do it." Now, God can't lie. Ask Him and it shall be done. "Seek, ye shall find; knock, it'll be opened." We believe that. Certainly we do.

L-39 They got a manger. So what did they do? Had this little Babe in a manger, was that the mighty King? They refused Him. Yes, sir. Why? He didn't come the way they expected Him to come. And friends, you might think that was a horrible thing. It was. But you know, we're guilty of the same thing. We are guilty of the same thing. We ask God for things, and then we walk around and... And if He don't just pour something on us and give us something that we think we ought to have, then we just hand it back. See? Don't do that. Ask Him. Stay right with it. Yes, sir, hold on to it if you know it's real.

L-40 And what's more real than the Word of God? And the Word of God is made flesh, and dwelt among us: Christ. And now Christ sent the Holy Spirit, and He is God in Spirit. So then, hold on to it. If the Holy Spirit's here and give us that promise, stay with it. What's the matter with us Pentecostal people who profess to have the Holy Ghost and afraid to trust God anywhere nearly? What's the matter? We're expecting it in a--some other way.
I think that what we're doing... I tell you the truth, I think we're expecting it--God to come in and bloom us out in a great big organization of this type and that type. And when you do, you build complex against the other fellow. The thing we ought to do, brother, is forget about that. Your organizations are fine, but what we want is borned again Christians with salvation in their heart, and the power of the Holy Ghost in there to love one another and to stretch out; and to have feelings for one another, glorious feelings, hopes of feelings, and brotherly affections that binds us together. That's what God wants us to have. He's the infinite God, and He cannot change. His words, He cannot change them.

L-41 Now, watch. So they refused Him because He didn't come the way that they--he--they expected it to be. And we notice, but He did come in the Scriptural form. He come exactly according to the Scriptural plan. And each one of these did also, at the right place, at the right time, and in the right way. God always does it in His way, and it's the right way.


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