<TITLE>16. Par 68-71</TITLE>L-68 Now, she had a lot of opposition. She sure did. But her faith didn't have any. You know, faith don't have no opposition. No. You might have a whole lot, but your faith doesn't if its real true borned again faith. Her faith had no opposition.
Now, she was a pagan. Let's give a little drama here so the kiddies will get it. The next morning I see her get up, and take her bath, and get ready. And her little maids got her ready. Remember, she's a queen. And she takes off over to the temple to say her morning prayers, and, oh, everything she had to do, you know; and meet the holy father, and all of them, probably kiss his rings and his feet, and so forth, and do all of her religion.
And while she got up there, she said, "Holy father, I wish to--to say something to you. I understand that up in Palestine, they've got a God up there that's living in a man, showing Himself through a man."

L-69 "Hmmm, my daughter..." There's your opposition. "Now, that's just nonsense. Those people are always that kind of people, always something going on. There's really nothing to it. About crossing Red Seas, and all these kind of things, there's nothing to it, child. If there was anything going on like that, your own god here would be producing it. It would be upon your own priest." See? But you see, God has ways of doing things. "It would be right here in your own organization. If anything took place like that, it would be right here."
If I can hear that little queen; she might had a good answer to him. She might've said, "Now, listen. My mother served in this temple. She read all of your books. She taught me all the books. Her mother taught her all the books. Her mother taught her all... For generation after generation we've seen statues, and idols, and heard of stories. But we haven't seen one move of anything yet. And they tell me that there's something up there that's real. There's something's real. You can see it with your eyes and watch it move through a man called Solomon."

L-70 "Now, looky here, daughter. You're a queen. You wouldn't mix up with such a bunch of people like that. You wouldn't do that. You just couldn't afford to lower your prestige."
"Prestige or no prestige, something tells me that I must go. Someone brought me a scroll, and I read that that's what their God is, Jehovah, and He's reacting Himself in that man. Now, I haven't seen one of those idols move yet; but we find Him in a man."
"Oh, nonsense. Now, look, daughter. If you do that, though you be queen, I'm high priest. I will have to excommunicate you from this loyal faith that your great-grandmother, mother, mother, mother and so forth, all served in this temple."
"Well, you might as well take my name off the book right now, because I'm going."

L-71 You know, there's something about it. When God gets a hold of a human heart, there's nothing going to stop them. That's right.
Now, she goes back. She had a lot of opposition. She had to first forsake her church. Then she said, "Now, let me think. If that is right... Now, I'm only taking somebody else's word. If that's right, I'm going to take some money up there and support it. But if it isn't right, I'll bring it back."
Now, that would do good for Pentecostal people to hear some of that. Support radio programs that make fun of you (That's right.), radio programs that make fun of you--and your own men begging for money (That's right.) to support his own program. That's right.
If it's of God, stay with it. If it's not of God, get away from it. "If God be God, serve Him," said Elijah. "If he isn't God, then find out Who is God and then serve it."


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