<TITLE>14. Par 59-62</TITLE>L-59 She had many hindrances, if you'd happen to go to thinking about it, but her faith didn't have any. That's it. If your faith don't have any hindrances, it's different. She had; but her faith had no hindrances. Faith doesn't know no hindrance. Faith only knows one thing: its goal. That's all.
Someone might've said to her, "Now, wait a minute. You are a Greek. You have no business..."
"You're a Methodist. You oughtn't to go over to them Pentecostals."
"You're Baptist. You shouldn't go there. See?" But that didn't hinder her. She was persistent. She was very perseverant.
And there might've been another group come up to her and said, "Now, wait a minute here, darling. You know what? The days of miracles is past." But that didn't stop her. Why? Faith had took a hold, and she was still persistent. She was going anyhow.

L-60 And then there's another group. Some of the women of her church might've come around, and said, "Dear, do you know what? If you go over there... Your husband is a deacon over here. He will leave you. That's all. There'll be a divorce in your family."
But faith had caught a hold of something, the Word of God, and she went anyhow. She was perseverant. She wasn't going to take "No" for an answer. Faith had caught a hold of something. I wished it would do that tonight, every person here, faith take a hold. It knows nothing but truth. That's all.
Now. Well, there might've been another group that come up and said, "You'll be laughed at. You'll be called holy-roller. If you ever go over there you'll be branded one of them." But you know what? She was still persistent. She was going, regardless of what she was called. Faith had took a hold.

L-61 Now, there... here might've come up a bunch of preachers to her of her own faith, and said, "You know..." or the faith that her people belonged to and would said, "You know what? If you go, you'll be put out of your church." But still she was persistent. She was going to get there anyhow, regardless of what anybody said. She wanted to get there.
Finally she arrived. Like Noah, she arrived. But when she arrived at Jesus, she thought all was finished then. And many times people think because that God blesses you, gives you a fine meeting, or gives you a big stir of faith right quick... The Lord speaks to you, and call you out of the meeting, you think, "Oh, that's just it." But remember, there's some disappointments there too. God tries every child that comes to Him, every son.

L-62 So when she got to Jesus, she thought all be over, you know, when she got to Jesus. But quickly He turned, with a great disappointment, and said, "I'm not sent to your race." Now, after she'd had to pass through every one of these barricades, and she'd hurdled them every one by her faith, and she'd got to this Jesus of Nazareth... And as soon as she got there and went to crying after Him, He ignored her, walked away. And then finally He turned around with a rebuke and said, "I'm not sent to your race. I'm just sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
What a rebuke. If that'd been some of our Pentecostal people, they'd have said, "Well, if that's the way He feels about it..." And then, besides that, she said... She recognized... And He said... Another thing, He said her race was a bunch of dogs. Oh, my, the very audacity. Wouldn't that have shook a Pentecostal?
"Bless God, I'll go to the Assemblies now, or over to the Church of God, or the Foursquare. If you don't... I'll leave the whole bunch and go to the Baptists. If they won't have me, I'll go to the Presbyterian. I'll finally wind up a Catholic, I suppose." See? Oh, sure. "They won't call me such a thing as that, say I'm a dog. No."


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