<TITLE>16. Par 68-73</TITLE>L-68 When I go to India, and see them little babies laying there, and their little bellies swelled up from hunger, and a mother laying on the street dying: in the places like that, and see hunger and starvation. Come here, and see enough raked off in garbage cans to feed them; see these women go out, and pay eight dollars for afternoon-lunch, something like that; and nibble over it a few minutes and talk some society of some sort, and dump it out in the garbage can. That would feed some hungry Korean children. And then we call ourself a Christian nation. We're fed well.

L-69 The Pentecostal people go around, and they go back, and they go through it; and see Oral Roberts' type of meeting--what God does with Oral; come back, and sees this other one, and this other one, and this other one--all God working. Then, first thing you know, they just set back, and just take it common.

L-70 Like an old salt one time, coming from the sea, and he met a poet, an English poet. And he said to the poet... The poet had wrote many poems about the sea. And the old salt said, "Where goest thou, my good man?"
He said, "Oh, I'm going to the sea. I have never seen it, yet I have wrote of it from what I've learned of books." He said, "But I've never actually seen the sea. I long to smell the salty, briny waves. I'd like to see the blue sky reflecting in its blue waters. I long to hear the scream of the sea-gull."
The old salt, standing there with a big pipe in his mouth, spit, and said, "Well, I've lived on it for fifty years, and I don't see nothing so thrilling about it."

L-71 Why? He'd seen it so much until he was--it become common to him. And that's the way the people... They see in this last days--when the Bible speaks exactly what the Holy Spirit, and what Christ will do at the appearing just before the coming--and they see the thing taking place, and say, "Oh, pretty good. I guess that's all right." Oh, my. It ought to shake our hearts. It ought to make us persistent to try to get the Message to the people before it's too late.

L-72 "Lord, I'm wanting only crumbs." Remember, she'd never seen a miracle. She was a Greek. But she'd heard that there was a miracle, that Jesus performed miracles. And she knowed if He could perform miracles for one person, God was the Creator of all things, and all people, and He could do it for her. She never seen a miracle, but yet she was believing for one. And we see them day after day and night after night. She'd never seen it.
She was like Rahab the harlot when the spies come over. She never said, "Now, wait a minute. Let me go see Joshua. Let me see how he wears his clothes. Let me see how he combs his hair. Let me see him do some miracles." She never asked for that. No. That's the reason she was justified, because she accepted it by faith.
She said, "I have heard..." Amen. "I want that God to be my God." She heard. And when she heard, it was God's moving. And she knowed it was God, because she'd seen the sign of a God that could conquer all the kings' powers in the world. She was ready to receive it. Yes. Oh, my.

L-73 Watch what that did to Jesus. He said, "For this saying... For this saying." See, she had the right approach to God's gift. You got to approach it right. When you're setting out there, when you're in church, when you're at the altar, wherever you are, you've got to approach God in the right manner. Favor... Faith always admits the truth.
Martha, let's speak of her just a few minutes. Martha--we always think she was so dilatory about getting her house cleaned when she was going to entertain Jesus. Mary, a little lazy side, just set around and listened. Jesus, of course, said she listened to the better things. Rut Martha showed her color what she was, what was in her heart. She knowed that Jesus was the Son of God.


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