<TITLE>19. Par 65-68</TITLE>L-65 The queen of Sheba, she waited till she seen it. She said, "Now, it's a long... She was a heathen, you know. Said, "If I go up there, all these things, what I'd do?" and so forth. "I understand that--that there's a--that their God is living in a man called Solomon, their king. They've loved him so much they've made a king out of him. And I... If--if he's God... If I--I read these words. If--if that sign is in that man, then that man's talking about God. I'll go up and see."
So she saddled up her camels, and took out across the desert, and got up there, and pitched her tent out there, and waited, you know. And she waited. And the first day, maybe, she set way back in the back of the church. And she seen Pastor Solomon come out in--in the temple, and all of his men around him. And, oh, they had a great thing there. Now, she wanted to be sure that she was right.
So then, the first thing you know, he noticed that discernment was just perfect. Finally her prayer card was called, and she got up on the platform. And the Bible said there was nothing that Solomon didn't know about her. That's right. She didn't presume any more.
She said, "All I've heard is the truth, and more. It's greater than what I was even told." She said, "Blessed is the men that's here with you and can see these things happening day by day. Just let me take a little bit of ground out of here, back down here, so I can kneel on it when I go back. Let your God be my God." She wasn't presuming nothing. She watched and waited till she seen the true sign of God.

L-66 The woman at the well, she knowed there was a Messiah coming. She knew what He would do. So no matter what they did... She didn't presume, but as soon as she seen that, she looked, and she said, "Wait a minute. You must be a prophet." (He looked like just an ordinary Man.) Said, "We know there's One coming; the Messiah will do such-and-such things."
He said, "I am He."
Then away to the city she went, presuming nothing. "Come out, you fellows, and bring your--all your doctrines, and bring all your creed books, and so forth, and let us see if this be the Messiah. Let us... It--it possibly could be." She didn't presume nothing. She said, "Come, see Who I have found." Amen. Right. "Come, see. We found it." There's no mistake about it. She wasn't presuming nothing. She knowed what she was talking about. She knowed she was right.

L-67 The disciples--the disciples at Pentecost, what if they'd have said, "Now, wait. Let's see. It's a... Let's see. Jesus give us a commandment. So He told us to come up here. We know our Lord can't lie. (Look how innocent, how sneaking, sin is.) Now, He told us we would receive the Holy Spirit when we come up here. 'I'm going to... Listen to this, doctor. Oh, you know... Andrew, come here a minute.'"
"Yes, yes, sir."
"Matthew, what do you think?"
"Oh, John, come over here. Now, you know our Lord can't lie."
"True."
"He told us to wait up here until we had been received the promise of the Father, and we was going to receive the Holy Ghost. You remember, He raised His hands upon us, and breathed upon us, and said, 'Receive ye the Holy Ghost?'"
"Yeah. Uh-huh."
"Well, I'll tell you, brethren. I believe we got her. I presume we've got it." Oh, you miserable hypocrite. See? "I believe we got it. I think we ought to accept it by faith."
You Baptists. "We accept it by faith." By faith, nothing, it's an experience.

L-68 I can see Peter, that trained man standing up there, lived with Jesus. He said, "Wait a minute. That's not Scriptural."
"Well, I presume we have it."
"Nonsense."
"We ought to start our ministry. Well, we done been here nine days. What are we waiting on?"
"He said, 'until,' didn't He? Until. Not nine days, ten days, or fifty, or a hundred. He said, 'Wait until.'"


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