<TITLE>12. Par 50-52</TITLE>L-50 Martha came up and said, "Lord, if Thou would've been here..."; not, "Why didn't You come?" But "If Thou would've been here, my brother would not died. But even now, Lord, whatever you ask God, God will give it to You." She let off the pressure. Though her eyes were streaked with tears, though her feeble body was worn, but she could say this, "If You'd have been here, my brother would not have died. But even now, whatever You ask God, God's going to give it to You." I like that. Yes, sir. And she got what she come for.
Why? She come up into His Presence. Not all steamed up, "Why didn't You come when we called You? We left the church. We forsaken our denomination. We come out to walk with You. And we thought You'd be a Deliverer. We've seen You heal the sick. And Your own friend, You let him die. And me send for You." That'd been a modern Pentecostal version. No, no, not Martha. No, sir. She said, "Lord (That's what He was, her Lord.), if Thou would have been here, my brother would not have died. And even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You."
"Oh," he said, "thy brother shall rise."
She said--she said, "I know, Lord, he--in the last days he will rise."
He said, "I am the Resurrection, and Life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." He wanted to see how much pressure He could put back to her, but she wouldn't receive it.
"Yea, Lord: I believe that You're the Son of God, that is to come into the world." The pressure was off. Why? She'd found the Refuge. She'd found the hiding Place. Even in the midst of death, she found the Refuge.

L-51 Now, there is a refuge in time of death. You believe that? Let's look down in Egypt the night of the Passover. There it was down in Egypt, to these slaves. And there was a time come when God got sick and tired of the way people were treating His people. And so what did He do? He required a--an atonement to protect His people. He always makes a way to protect His people, if the people will just receive it.
And now let's just take a case down in Egypt. It's nighttime, and I notice. And here comes... The night comes. There never was a night like it since they'd been down there. Oh, it was a horrible night. Everything was black and dark. The moon didn't shine. The stars didn't come out. Oh, what a horrible night. Everything was weary.

L-52 And a little boy goes to the window and looks out. He said, "Daddy, you know the little Egyptian boy that I played with down the street? Look, there's two big black wings hanging over his home. There's his mother in the street; she's screaming, 'My baby's dead, my firstborn.'"
Then he grabs his daddy and says, "Daddy, don't you care for me? Don't you know that I'm your firstborn? "
I can see that father just as calmly take his little boy by the hand, and walk over to the door, and say, "Son, you see that blood on the lintel? You see that on the post of the door. See?"
"Well, daddy, what's that got to do with it?"
"Son, that's God's promise. Just let off the pressure now. He said, 'When I see the blood I'll pass over you. When I see that blood I...' That's God's promise. So those wings won't come."
The little boy goes to the window to look again. Said, "Daddy, here he comes." His father was just busy at something else. The Angel moves down towards the door, but when he saw the blood, He bypassed it. See?
Why is it? Letting off the pressure. God promised it, and it's by God's promise. He always keeps His promise. That's right.


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