<TITLE>13. Par 47-51</TITLE>L-47 Oh, this little lady was ordained to Eternal Life. And as soon as she heard this, something caught fire in her little pagan heart. She begin to wonder about that. Next caravan come through, she couldn't hardly wait. She'd have her eunuchs to go out, and get them, and bring them in.
"Which way did you come?"
"We come from the north."
"Did you pass through Palestine?"
"Yes. Oh, I know what you're going to ask me: about their God."
"Yes, that's right. Did you see it?"
"I saw it. It's the truth. Why, they love that man so well, they made him the king; and their God, they got a supernatural God that's displaying Himself right through that man."

L-48 Now, anyone knows... I'm going to turn this off in just a minute. It's just really--really time. I... Is it all right just a minute? Anyone knows that heathen worship is... The heathen brings out the idol. A priest brings him wine. He eats to this idol. Then he gets out in the temple, prostrates himself before this idol, keeps working himself up like that, until actually he believes that he can hear that idol speaking to him. Now, that's absolutely heathen worship. You brethren know that by taking history.
Now, look how God does. He turns right back around, and don't... See, they think that the--the life, the spirit, that ought to be, that really belongs in that idol, comes in that idol and speaks back to them. Why, it was said that pagans in the old days could prostrate themselves in such a way, they claim they could hear the gods talk out of them idols.

L-49 But see how much different Christianity is, how mocker that is to it? God don't take an idol; He takes a man. And if a man will prostrate himself in the Presence of God, God puts Hisself in the man, and the man becomes the living creature that God's a living in, not a dead idol, but a man.
God never used idols. He always used man. God don't use machinery, mechanical devices. It's... He uses men, individuals. Excuse me. I didn't mean to holler that loud. Notice. I'm not excited though. I know right where I am. That's right. I just feel good.

L-50 Notice. Then this God had come down, great Jehovah, and was manifest Himself through a man, that they knowed it was more than man. There was something about him that was--was different. And the people all worshipped God, and believed God, and they built the temple. They done great things in that day.
Notice. This little queen begin to hear of it. Faith cometh by hearing. Her little heart begin to beat fast. She must go up and see it. So after while so many come through testifying, everybody telling how them people were one heart and one accord. There was no differences in them. There wasn't one walking around, say, "Aw, he don't belong to mine. He--he's a Pharisee. I don't think... I'm a Sadducee." Nothing of that. They was one heart and one accord. That's the way you have to be.
Oh, oh, if our churches could only get that way, brethren. If our churches, our differences, could just be... All right, it's all right as long as you believe, and have God, and have your--your churches, and things. But oh, let's be one accord, one man, one Onward Christian soldiers, just one unit of God marching on to victory, receiving everything that comes in the Name of the Lord: that is, the Lord's Word promised to send us. Believe it; act upon it.

L-51 Now, first thing you know, her little heart got to beating so that she just couldn't stay... She couldn't sleep at night. She just had to go see it.
There's something or other about when you ever hear about God. Man knows that he come from out of the dark curtain, somewhere beyond here. They know that when he dies, he goes back through that curtain. Where did he come from and where did he go? Man has always longed to see what was behind that curtain. Exactly. So when he sees something rise from behind that curtain, and illustrate something that's been promised from over there, it ought to thrill his heart.


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