<TITLE>13. Par 43-46</TITLE>L-43 All right. Then there come the ministerial group. Oh, my. That's a bad one to pass. "Now, looky here... (I've called her Lydia. I hope there's not a Lydia here, but it might be all right. I hope you have the same faith she had.) So then, when Lydia got to the ministerial association they said, "One thing to it. You know you're a member up here of our church, and that's a Pentecost..." or some kind of a group down there, you know.
Anyhow, said, "If you go down there we're going to give you your church records, your letter. We're going to take you right off the book. You cannot come back to the church any more. We're just going to send you away, and you'll be a laughing stock. Your husband will put you away in divorcement, And he will marry a better looking woman than you are," and all these things.

L-44 But that didn't stop her a bit. Church letter or nothing else didn't stop her. Why? She had heard. "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing of the Word of God." She was perseverant. She crowded right on through every barrier.
Now, she arrives at Jesus. Now, she thought, "It's all over now." That's the way some people think when they get the Holy Ghost, "It's all over." It's just beginning. That's when you need to be perseverant, (See?) when you arrive. When she arrived at Jesus, Jesus said--give her a real hard shaking. I believe He knew she was coming. So when she arrived, He turned around to her and let her know that He wasn't sent to her race. Oh, my. What a letdown that would've been.
Oh, but what did it do? That didn't stop her a bit, not at all. Still she called Him Son of David. 'Course, the Gentile has no hold on Christ by the name of Son of David. No, no. See, the Son of David was under the Kingship, and Christ is the King of the Jews. But to the church, He's not the King; He is the Lord. Amen. He's the husband, as Sarah called Abraham her Lord. He's Lord of the church, but King of the Jewish race.

L-45 So when she worshipped Him and said, "Lord, help me," Jesus said, "But you know, it's not meet for Me to take the children's bread and cast it to you dogs." Oh, my. If that would've been a modern Pentecostal, she'd have turned that little nose up and said, "I'll never go to a meeting like that again." Why? They don't have the hope that she had. That's right. She had the hope. She had heard, and faith had caught it. She had a reason; she had a need. And she just wasn't going to turn loose. That's right. I like that. Yes, sir. Still she held on, although she was called a dog, and a race that was lower than dogs.
Said, "I'm not sent to your race. I'm only sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
And she said, "Lord, help me."
He said, "It's not meet for Me to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs." Oh, my.

L-46 She wasn't a hotbed plant, to have to be babied. No, no. No, no. She wasn't a hotbed plant, had to be baded--babied. She wasn't a modern hybrid, so-called believer of the crop today. She had a hold of something. Not, "Well, I'm Methodist, and I don't have to take that." "Bless God, I belong to the Assemblies. I belong to the Church of God. I don't have to take that." No, no. That's a hybrid type. You're bred into some organization. But a real true, thoroughbred Christians is born of the Word of God and holds on, no matter what takes place.


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