<TITLE>04. Par 14-16</TITLE>L-14 Turn in to your Bible now, so we can read some of His Word. My words will fail, because they're man's word. His Words will never fail. So just read in the Word... Let's turn to Matthew the 15th chapter and begin with the 21st verse, if you will.
Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre of Sidon.
And behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coast, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David, my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
But he answered her not a word. And His disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away, for she crieth after us.
But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Then come she and worshipped him, saying, Lord help me.
But he answered and said, It's not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
... she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat... the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is Thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
I want to take, or draw a text from that, if I should call it that, for about thirty minutes but to speak. I want to take one word that I'd like to use to build a--the context around it, and that's the word of "Perseverant." Now, "perseverant" is to--means "to be persistent." And Webster says that it's to be--to be persistent, persistent in making a goal, persistent in what you're doing.

L-15 Men of all ages that has faith in what they are trying to achieve has been persistent. You have to be persistent. You cannot just set back and say, "Well, I'll see what Joe does about it." You can't do that. And before you can be persistent, you have to have faith in what you are trying to achieve. And if you haven't got the faith, then you will not be persistent.
Now, men through all ages has tried that, but--and has been persistent. But what you've got... To be persistent, first, is to have faith, and then you've got to know from what source you're drawing your faith from.
Now, many men has been persistent in the wrong thing, and they've always come out wrong. Nimrod wanted to build a tower. He was persistent, but he never got to finish it. Nebuchadnezzar wanted an immortal city, but he didn't--he didn't ever achieve it. But you see, you--first thing you've got to do to be persistent is to get set straight and right.

L-16 Some time ago a precious friend of mine, a doctor, he came up to my house, very fine man. If you'd like to write to him about this, name's Dr. Sam Adair, corner of Wall and Maple Street, or Wall and Market Street, Jeffersonville, Indiana. He has a clinic. A very good friend of mine; we're school boys together, one of the finest doctors we got in the east.
And the house was full of people being prayed for, and people coming in, and how they come in from everywhere to be prayed for. And my wife come back, and she said, "Billy, Dr. Adair is here."
I said, "Put him in the den room. We got people in these other rooms that... Put him in the den room. I'll be with him as soon as I can."
And there was a man there from the Walnut Street Baptist church in Louisville, with cancer in the spleen. They'd taken this operation, was no good, the man was dying. And he was saved and healed with the cancer. I was dealing with him at the time to see what the Lord would speak to me about him.


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