<TITLE>14. Par 52-54</TITLE>L-52 Notice. So this little woman, she was--her heart begin to beat to go. Now, she had some things to do before she went. Now, the first thing she had to do was to go get permission from her church to leave to go up there. Now, that was a hard thing to go to a pagan priest. I can see him, when he--she walked up, and--and she bowed to him, and called him the (whatever she did), the holy father, or whatever it was, walked up to him, and bowed, and he bowed. And he--she was the queen of the land.
She said, "I understand through the caravans and so forth (and some of them has brought me scrolls down from up in Palestine), that they're having a great meeting up there. And there's a man up there that's been anointed by their God; and that God is acting His own Life through that man. Sir, holy one, I would like to go see."

L-53 Could you imagine him giving her permission? "We're not cooperating with that meeting up there." Oh, sure. All kinds of words could've come. "Now, if there's anything would've went on, it would've went on right here in your own church. And after all, that's just a bunch of nothing. We heard of them crossing seas and everything like that. But it's a bunch of holy-rollers, or (excuse me) fanatics, or something, you know, up there. They... There's nothing to it. Don't you believe it, nothing to it. If there's anything going to go on, it'll go on right here amongst your own church. Right here it would be. If there's anything--anything that a god would do, our god would do it."
I could see that little queen rear herself back. She'd say, "Sir, but I want to go. I want to be convinced." I like that kind of a courage. "I want to be convinced. I've got their scrolls here. I want to go to see if that Spirit that's in that man, is just exactly what these scrolls say that that God is. So then, if it is, it's that God speaking through the man."
"Now, looky here. Here's great god Dagon, here's great god so-and-so, Jupiter, the sun god, and all these others we have around here."
She'd say, "Yes, my great-great-grandmother served them; my grandmother served them, and all; my mother served them. And what have they done? They're dumb idols. I've never heard them speak a word or do a thing."

L-54 It's about like some of these dumb creeds that we're serving today, and so forth, and things that's got no more life to it... You talk--talk about a God, a God that was, and send a boy to school, and teach him to be a minister, and tell him about a historical God. What good's a historical God of yesterday if He isn't the same God today? If a God full of mercy could meet the people's needs yesterday, if He ain't the same God today, He's a poor God. He had respect of person.
What good does it do to feed your canary bird all kinds of good vitamins to make good strong wings and big heavy bones, and put him in a cage so he can't fly? Same thing as send a man away, and take all kind of schooling, and everything, and learn what one God was, and what all He did, and what all He did there; but then turn around and tell him, "the days of miracles is past, no such a-thing." That's not even intelligent to me.


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