<TITLE>19. Par 69-71</TITLE>L-69 Here not long ago I was supposed to speak in Chicago, and a certain minister, because of the differences he... I didn't belong to his organization. They'd made a bid, and the people wanted me to come speak for them. I couldn't have done it anyhow, but he said, "Oh, no." Said, "He's a regular crank." Said, "He's... All he does is bawl out people," and so forth like that.
And he got some great big doctor of divinity, come. He come up with enough papers and intellectual sermon that would've done anything. He got up there, chest swelled out, great big turned-around collar, and begin to speak, you know, with his words so fluent, like that. And oh, my. And he found out it didn't go with children of God. They just set there and looked.
And after while he found out it didn't go, so he closed up all of his notes, and went down off the platform with his shoulders all humbled down like this.
There was an old saint setting over in the corner, punched the other one, said, "If he would've went up the way he come down, he'd come down the way he went up." That's just about the way it is today, brother. We ought to come down. We got to come down to the Holy Ghost again, down to the Bible, back to the real Word of God.

L-70 This poor little woman, she had all kinds of things to hinder her. When she got to Jesus, she--He called her a dog, and said, "It's not meet to take the children's food and cast it to the dogs."
And watch. If that'd been one of us Pentecostals, "Well, I'll never go back and hear that holy-roller again. Yes, sir. People was right."
But what with her? Not her. She had a hold of faith. She had something she was going to achieve: the healing of her daughter. No matter what He said. Look, the--the truth, and the humility will always admit the truth is right.
She said, "It's truth, Lord. I am not of Your people. I'm not a Jew, and I am nothing but a dog. That's exactly right, Lord. And it's not meet for You to take the children's bread and give it to us dogs. But, Lord, the dogs eat the crumbs under the children's table." She was only after crumbs. When we're not invited to crumbs, we're invited to the table. But she was after crumbs.
Remember, she was a Gentile. She'd never seen a miracle. But something had anchored in her that she believed in one. She didn't have to see nothing done. They wasn't... He didn't have to prove to her He was Messiah.

L-71 She was like Rahab the harlot. When the spies come and found Rahab the harlot, they didn't... They--they... She didn't say, "Bring me up Joshua. Let me see how he wears his clothes, how straight he stands. Is he handsome? Does he comb his hair? How does he..." She didn't want... "What...?... Let me see him do it."
She said, "I have heard. That's enough for me. I've heard." She was persistent. She said, "I know we're going to be destroyed. What can I do? Show me favor. Let me save my father's house." Oh, her name's infallible. She's one of the great-grandmothers of our Lord Jesus Christ, certainly, because she believed.


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