<TITLE>17. Par 61-64</TITLE>L-61 Now, "Days of miracles is past."... She was persistent. Another fine sister met her on the corner perhaps, said, "Where you going this morning?"
"I'm going to meet Jesus of Nazareth."
"Oh, He--He isn't of our denomination."
"Don't make any difference. I got a daughter has need, and she's going to be healed. I'm going to get her."
"You know what? I tell you, I know your husband's a businessman here in the city; he will leave you. As sure as you go, you're going to have a divorce case."
She was still persistent. She was going, anyhow. She was very perseverant.
Some of them said, "You know, Melinda, when you come to church the next time, you're going to be the laughing stock of the church, because you're going down there just to make a sap out of yourself, mix yourself up with that bunch of holy-rollers. And there--there you are. See, you're going to be classed as one of them. Everybody in church will laugh at you when you go next Sunday."
She was still persistent. Nothing going to stop her. She's going on anyhow. What? Faith had anchored. She was perseverant; nothing was going to stop her. She was going to go on anyhow. Yes.
And then, here come one of the elders of the church and said, "You know what? If you go down to that meeting, I'm telling you what's going to happen. You're going to be churched. That's all there is to it. They'll put you out of the church. As soon as you associate with that bunch of people down there with that fanaticism, you're sure going to be put out of the church.
She was still perseverant. She was going. Nothing was going to stop her. She's going to get there.

L-62 Away she went. Finally she arrived. Now, she thought it was all over. That's it. So when she comes to Jesus, she said... She heard the rest of them calling Him, "Son of David." She said, "Thou Son of David..." Now, she was a Gentile: no "Son of David" to her, Him, that. Said now, "Thou Son of David, have mercy upon my daughter." And she met a disappointment after she got to Jesus. Oh, how strange, but she did. She had a disappointment.
Jesus let her know, that, "I'm not sent to your race. I'm only sent to the Jews." Oh, my. Wouldn't that have knocked some of the wind out of us Pentecostals. Not her, she had a hold of something. Said, "I'm not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. I'm not sent to you, your race, your kind of people, I'm not sent at all."

L-63 After she'd passed through all these barriers to get to Him, and then when she got to Him, hearing Him say that "I'm not sent to you, your race," will that stop faith? No, sir.
And then He said, "By the way, you're not nothing but a bunch of dogs." Oh, my. Would that--would that have knocked us Pentecostals. Oh, my. We'd have blowed up like a frog eating shot. We'd have... Why we would've... It would've been terrible. We have...
But she wasn't a hotbed plant. She didn't have to be sprayed like a hotbed plant. She wasn't a hybrid, like some of the crop of today. She had a hold of faith. Hallelujah. The trouble of it is today, we got too much hybrid stuff. Exactly.

L-64 I read a piece in the "Reader's Digest" not long ago, where people--our women eating this hybrid beef, hybrid corn, and all that stuff, corn flakes, that they're growing narrower in the hips. And twenty years from now, if something isn't done, science says that the woman cannot have her baby. It's a killing. Anything that's hybrid is wrong.
I come down... I seen a great big sign on, said, "Funk's (or something like that) Hybrid Corn, the best." Great big, fine ears, but it's no good. It's not worth nothing. You try to plant it over and see what will happen.
Now, that takes science and proves their own argument's wrong about the origin of man. You take anything and cross breed it, hybreed it, and it can't breed itself back again. You take a--a mare horse and breed it to a jack, and it will bring forth a mule. But that mule cannot breed back and get another mule. It kills it right there. That's right.


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