<TITLE>18. Par 60-62</TITLE>L-60 "For this saying (the crumbs), oh, go find your child now." Now, He never went to pray for it. He just said it, and that's all she wanted to know.
I can imagine her saying, "Thank You, my Lord. Blessed be Your holy Name." Go right back...
All them critics standing on the street, "Hey, what did you get?"
"My daughter's healed."
"How do you know? She was having a fit when I left up there."
"That don't make a bit of difference. I got it."
"Why?"
"He said so." Amen, amen.
She met the pastor of her goddess down there, and he said, "Why, you know what? I've got your letter wrote out."
"I'll save you the trouble. Don't even bring it to me. Just throw it in the fire anyhow."
"Why?"
"I'm on my road. I've got my request. My daughter's healed." Amen. Remember, she was the first Gentile that a miracle was ever performed on by Jesus Christ. Yeah. Faith admits the Word is right.
Now, we've got to hurry, 'cause it's going to get late, and we don't want to stay here too long. Oh, it's just getting good now. Amen.

L-61 Martha in the Presence of Jesus, with a dead brother... She'd read the Word, how the Shunammite woman went to Elijah. That was God's Word. You believe that? You believe Elijah was His Word? The Bible said, "The Word of the Lord came to the prophets." And that was God's Word. So as soon as she got to the Word, she found comfort. That's right.
And Martha, she knowed that Jesus was that Word. And she got to the Word to find comfort. She was persistent. Maybe when she went down the street, someone said, "Uh-huh, now He's slipped back in town since your brother died, that one that you believed in." But she was persistent. She walked right on down.
When she got to Him she never upbraided Him. She said, "Lord, if You'd been here, my brother had not died. But even now," oh, brother, "even now, whatever you ask God, God will give it to You." That's persistent, brother.
He said, "Oh, sure. Your brother will rise again."
She said, "Yes, Lord, I believe that. He was a good boy. He will rise in the general resurrection the last day."
Jesus said, "But I am the Resurrection and Life." Amen. "He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." He seen she was persistent.
Like Elijah saw the Shunammite woman. She said, "As your soul never dies, and I--I'm not going to leave you; I'm going to stay here till I find out what the will of God is."
Oh, brother, if you'll just take that Bible and set down and see if your creed's right, if you'll just see if the Holy Ghost is right, just read through the Bible. And be persistent; hold on to that promise when you get it. You believe in healing, hold on to that promise. Be persistent. Be a real Christian. Yes, sir. Sure, be persistent.

L-62 When Peter had been taught of his father... I'm going to leave my regular run of Scripture here. I'm just going to say something again, 'cause it's getting late.
When Peter had heard of his father, Simon... No doubt him and Andrew out on the ships there many times with his father... The old gray-headed man was dying, said, "Son, I've always believed I'd live to see the Messiah. But there'll be a big grumble about it, you know, just like there always is when God does something. There'll be this, that, the other. But I'm going to tell you; don't you take any other evidence but our Scriptural evidence. For the Bible said, that, 'The Lord our God would raise up a prophet unto us likened unto Moses, and that prophet we should hear.' And we know what that Messiah is going to be."
And when Peter walked up there, kind of a little doubting, 'cause Andrew had to go get him... And so, when he went and got him, said, "Come. Come over here tonight and listen to Him a few minutes."


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