<TITLE>20. Par 69-71</TITLE>L-69 There was a time also when... I'm thinking of a--of somebody else that met God: was a little virgin. She had something to believe: Mary. Never been a baby born in the world without a father and mother. We know that. So we find out that Mary, a little virgin, on her road down to the well one day, a great Light shined before her. She looked, standing there in the Light, and there stood Gabriel, the Archangel. Said, "Hail, Mary. Blessed art thou amongst women," and told her just exactly what was going to happen.
A few days before there, He had met a priest, and her cousin's husband, Zacharias. And he was standing at the altar waving incense, and Gabriel appeared and told him that he was going home to be with his wife and have a child, and was going to call his name John.
That priest said, "How can this be? I'm too old. It can't happen. No, it can't happen."
He said, "I'm Gabriel, that's sent from the Presence of God. My Word will be fulfilled in their day. You'll be dumb till the baby's born." But here He comes to this little virgin.

L-70 Now, Zacharias would've had a... would've had plenty of--of examples, for he'd found out that there was Hannah. She had a baby when she was old. Sarah had a baby when she was old. Plenty of examples in the Bible, but still he was callous from it. But Mary had to believe something that'd never happened, but she had met God. Said, "How will it be?"
He said, "The Holy Ghost will overshadow you. And that Thing that will be born in you will be called the Son of God."
She said, "Behold the handmaid of the Lord." What? She had met God. She couldn't hold her peace. I imagine she took that jug back to the house, and took out testifying everywhere, and her little cheeks flushing, saying, "I'm going to have a baby. I'm going to have a baby," up into the hills of Judaea.
She heard about her cousin, Elisabeth, was going to have a baby up there. And so, I can imagine... You know, she'd kept herself penned up now for quite awhile. She was about six months with Elisabeth. There's six months difference between John and Jesus. And so, she'd been penned up for about six months, stayed in, not like some of these women today.

L-71 Excuse me. You'd listen to your doctor, and I'm your brother. But see, these women that's to be mothers out here with these little shorts on, and... It's a disgrace to humanity. Honest, I don't believe a dog would do that. And there, these women out here acting like that... It's--it's the most pitiful thing I ever seen in my life, most ridiculous thing.
And then some boy see your girls out like that... And then let them insult them. And then you want to send them to penitentiary. You're the cause of it by sending her out like that.
And you men let your wife go out like that. Shame on you. The matter, ain't you got no more respect for your wife than that? Now, no, I don't want to get on that.
Notice. That's a bad thing for me. Now... I lose too many friends. But I know I'm staying in friendship with Christ, because it's written right here. That's exactly right.


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