<TITLE>21. Par 73-75</TITLE>L-73 Now, see, pagan worship is to prostrate yourself before the idol, the imaginary god, and believe that the imaginary god is talking to you. Christianity is vice versa. God takes a living man that prostrates himself before Him, and speaks His own Words through the living man, not through an idol. Just turns right around from pagan worship, idol worship, to Christian worship.
Now, they said, "They got a man up there that's their God that they worship, speaks through that man with discernment. Oh, it went everywhere. All nations feared them. They sent in gifts and everything. No wars in time of Solomon. No. He was--he was... They thought he was too smart. It wasn't him; it was God, the Holy Ghost in him that makes him smart.

L-74 Now, that news came way down across the earth into the land of Sheba. And if you'll measure on your map, it's a long ways down there, across the Sahara Desert. And this little pagan queen, she was a heathen. And people coming in, saying, "Oh, you ought to see up there in Palestine. Such-and-such, and such-and-such." My, how they'd think that about that.
Now, you know, faith comes by what? Hearing the Word of God. Now, the little woman would say, "What?" You know God in her, she believed that there was a God. And so when that faith begin to touch her, that there was One, she begin to look for Him. And everybody would come in. When they come into her kingdom (camel caravans going through, you know, traders, and so forth, with silks and linens and so forth, and produce, and whatever they had, coming through), why, she'd call them into her palace and say, "Did you come through the way of Palestine?"
"Yes."
"Is it so?"
"It's so. It's so. You never... Them people are one heart and one accord. You never seen such in your life. Their God has given them a gift and displaying it through a man. And they've made that man their king. Oh, my. They all believe it. Every one of them."
"Well, did you get to see it?"
"Yes."
"Is it so?"
"Sure, it's so."
Oh, my. She wants to see it then, you know, when you hear about it. Now, She decided that she was... She got all the scrolls, and she begin to read what that God was. See, she was a heathen, and she begin to read what Jehovah was, see His nature. She said, "Then that must be Jehovah's nature that's displaying Himself in this man, because Jehovah, they say, is all wise, and He foretells things."

L-75 So now, being the queen, she had a lot to go through with. She had to go over to her pagan priest and ask permission to go from her church. Well, you know what? I imagine that pagan priest, said, you know, "But you see, look here, girlie. You're a queen. You can't go down with that illiterate bunch, you know. You can't do that. You're a queen. And they... You know what? Why, you know, it would... You would get out of your own class if you got down..."
And she said, "But, sir, I want to go. Something tells me I want to go."
"Oh, but you... we... You can't do it, child. You cannot do it. Now, listen. We know they say all these kind of things up there. They crossed the Red Sea, and it dried up, and--and they rained bread out of heaven. But it just legends. There's nothing to it."
You hear that same old devil talking today. The devil takes his man, but never his spirit. God never takes His Spirit either. He might take His man, but the Holy Ghost was on Christ, come back by the church to the end of the world to do the same thing.
Notice. Now, them big old scholars and things of that day, and that great big old bunch of Pharisees, they still live. Their spirit's right on others. You see? And God's Spirit still lives just the same, confirming His Word, going on. Depends on what you want to believe. That's all.


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