<TITLE>16. Par 69-73</TITLE>L-69 Now, this little old woman says, perhaps, to this priest, said, "I've been here all these years. You've talked about all this. I haven't seen one time it spoke; I haven't seen one person that acted any different; it's always been the same old thing, and there's no life in it at all. And if there's somewhere that there is a God that can give life, I want it.
I say "Amen" to her. Yes, sir.
"I want to find it."
Well, first thing then, it costed her her membership. So she took her membership under her arm. Now... So I think maybe she might've walked down the road. Now, that little lady had some things to confront her. And now... to go up there.

L-70 And now, the first thing, she said, "I'm going up. And I've read all the books of what this Jehovah should be. And I'm going up to see for myself." And then, she loaded down some camels with some gifts. And she said, "If it is so, then I'm going to support it. If it isn't so, I'll bring my money back." Boy, she could teach some of us in America some lessons, couldn't she? Yes, sir. If there is anything to it, it's worth everything. If it isn't, it ain't worth nothing. Get away from it.
And she said, "If this thing that Jehovah claims to be... If He's manifest Himself, and I can see it with my own eyes, then I'm willing to give everything to it. But if it isn't, I can just bring my gifts back." Now, remember, with all that gold and stuff on them camels... She had hundreds of miles to go, and you know what? Esau's children was in the desert, and they were robbers. And what an easy prey it would be, with all that money, for just a group of those robbers to fall in on that little lady and slay her and them few little guards, eunuchs, she had with her, and take that money.

L-71 But you know something? When you are going out to meet Christ, and determined to meet Christ, there's no danger you understand at all. You don't care for nothing else. You've got one objective and one achievement, and that is to meet Christ. Oh, if the world could get to hungering like that. She wanted to meet Christ, and that was her main objective, or, meet Solomon, the gift, and see if it was God. And she didn't know any danger. She didn't know.

L-72 Somebody said one time... I seen a woman got up and started shouting, and she run around. Honest, she hurdled about four chairs. And some of them said, "Looked like that woman would've broke her neck."
I knowed her. She was a common little housewife down there. But I said, "She wasn't thinking about that." She'd just crossed over, and she just couldn't set down. That was all. She was running. She was on fire. I said, "She just had to run." And so, she wasn't thinking about the danger; she was going on.
Like you'd say, "Well, now, if you don't--if you don't do so-and-so and so-and-so, you're going to die." You don't notice that. You take God's Word for it, and you just keep running on. And she had to go on.

L-73 And now, remember, if you'll draw on your--watch on your map, from where Jerusalem was all the way down to Sheba, that's across the Sahara desert... And it just takes a camel three months to get across there. Now, she didn't go across in a air-conditioned Cadillac. See? She had to cross on a camel, and taken three months to do it. Now, that's when she was really hungering for God.
The trouble with we Pentecostal people today, we got everything laying right in our lap, and we just look at it, and say, "Well, I guess it's all right. See? That's pretty good." But when you have to pay a price like that, you really enjoy it when you get it. See? That's right.


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