<TITLE>21. Par 72-75</TITLE>L-72 And here, Elisabeth had hid herself. And then when little Mary... I can see her coming up the path, hard as she can, you know. And Elisabeth was back there making little booties and crying, because little John, you know, is--is six months, and he was dead. He hadn't never moved in the womb yet.
Here come little Mary up, and she runs in. And Elisabeth pulls back the curtains in the little adobe window up there and sees Mary coming. So they were cousins. She run out to meet her, and throwed her arms around her, and said, "Oh, honey, I'm so glad to see you."
"Oh, I see of course you're to be mother."
"Yes, I'm to be mother." Said, "But I--I'm a little scared." She said, "It's six months with me as a mother, and there's been no life yet, and I'm just a little bit worried."
Mary, with her little eyes a sparkling, little sixteen or eighteen-year-old girl, said, "I'm going to have a baby too."
"Oh, you and Joseph is already married? I'm glad to hear it."
"No, we ain't. We're just engaged. We never been married yet."
"And you're going to have a baby? What's the matter? What about this?"
She said, "Yes, I met Gabriel, the Angel. I met God. And He told me that this holy Thing will be called the Son of God. And said I should call His Name Jesus."
And just as soon as... The first time that that word "Jesus Christ" was ever spoke out of a mortal lip, a little baby in the womb of--of Elisabeth become alive, and begin to leap and jump for joy. That's right.
And her faith... Said... She was filled with the Holy Ghost, and she said, "Whence cometh the mother of my Lord? for as soon as thy salutation come into my ears, my baby leaped in the womb for joy."
And if the--if the first time that "Jesus Christ" was ever spoke by mortal lip made a dead baby come to life, what ought it to do by a church that claims to be borned again of the Holy Ghost? Amen...?... Why? They'd met God. Something had happened.

L-73 Oh, sure was that Simon Peter... That man had been taught by his father that when Messiah cometh, He will be a prophet. And Simon was a fisherman. But one day when he walked in the Presence of Jesus Christ, and He said, "Your name is Simon, and you are the son of Jonas. And I'll call you Peter from now on," he knowed that was the Messiah. He was a changed man from that day on. He was going to catch men instead of fish: make him fishers of men. Because he had met God, he recognized It to be the truth. He met Him.

L-74 It was Paul, Saul of Tarsus, who was on his road down: ecclesiastical, taught under Gamaliel, the great teacher; knowed all the ins-and-outs of the Pharisee religion, and so forth. He was on his road down, arresting all those holy-rollers that was carrying on like that, had papers in his pocket to arrest all those that was down at Damascus.
And all at once the great Pillar of Fire swung around him, and he fell to his feet. Oh, he got up a different person. Why? He had met God. Something had changed him right there, when he heard Him say, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?"
Said, "Who are You, Lord?"
He said, "I'm Jesus, and it's hard for you to kick against the pricks."

L-75 There was a blind man one day, setting by the roadside begging. But he met God. He was setting there thinking about... Where old blind Bartimaeus was setting, he was thinking, down there at the river several hundred years ago, Joshua, that great warrior, crossed with Israel there on dry ground in the month of April, when God took His mighty hand and held the waters up. "Oh, if I could only lived in that time, I would've walked down there, and said, 'Joshua, pray for me.' But alas, the priest tells me days of miracles is past."
"Oh, just think. Right down this road, this cobblestone road where I'm at, there come Elijah and Elisha, arm-in-arm, walking down to the Jordan to clear the Jordan up. If I'd only been living here in that day, I'd have walked out and said, 'Prophets of the Lord God, pray for me.' But alas, the days of miracles is past, the priest says."


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