<TITLE>13. Par 47-51</TITLE>L-47 Let's take another character. I was going to speak on the little Greek woman for a moment. See, she had a lot of opposition. See, the first thing, she--it might've been... She was a Greek; she wasn't a Jew. No doubt the people... "'Course, now wait a minute. Remember, your denomination ain't sponsoring that."
Didn't make any difference to her. She had heard. She had need. And when you got need, and you hear that there's something to help you, nothing going to stop you. If God's calling at your heart, you can't stop it. Nobody can. No, sir. You're going anyhow.
I can imagine all the sisters of the church said, "Well, you'll be a reproach amongst the people." That didn't stop her. She went on.
Another group met her, said, "Your husband's a businessman. He will leave you if you go down to that bunch of that holy-rollers." That didn't stop her. She went on anyhow. She was persistent.

L-48 It pays to be persistent when you know what... Anybody that can achieve anything will be persistent. Men through all ages has been persistent if they ever amounted to anything. Washington, the father (called) of our nation, at Valley Forge he was persistent, regardless of how much the Delaware was froze. He prayed all night. He knowed he had to cross that river, and he crossed it. Regardless of what took place, he crossed it anyhow. He was persistent.

L-49 And after this woman got to Jesus, look there. Here's what real faith does. When you find a jewel, when you find this policy, I don't care how many people try to discourage you, whether if they put you out of your church, whether if they do whatever they want to, you still are persistent. You want the policy.
That's the way Jacob was. It didn't make any difference what he had to do to get that birthright, he wanted it. And we get in that condition, we get desperate. Then we're persistent. "Well, I tell you. I, ahhh... Mama was Pentecostal. I'd pray through tonight, but I see, oh, so tired." Hmmph. You need some of the toxin, what you need--something to make you persistent.

L-50 She rushed in. She fell down before Jesus, and she said, "Thou Son of David..."
He was no son of David to her. She was a Greek, Gentile. He didn't pay any attention to her. And then finally He turned to her, and He said, "I'm not sent to your denomination. I'm only sent to the lost sheep of Israel. That's all I'm sent to."
She said, "But Lord..."
Now. Now, she got right: not Son of David, but Lord to her. "Lord..."
He said, "And another thing, you're nothing but a bunch of dogs, and it's not meet for Me to take the children's bread and hand it to dogs."
Oh, wouldn't the Pentecostal blowed up at that. "You think I'll let a Baptist tell me that and get by with it? No, sir. Or a Oneness, or a Trinity, or a what? No, sir." You'd have stuck your nose up in the air and went away. But not her. She had to make an investment. She had need for an investment. Amen. No matter she...

L-51 The real genuine faith will always admit the Word of God is true, no matter what the circumstances is. She said, "It's the truth, Lord, You wasn't sent to us. It's truth, Lord, that I'm nothing but a dog. But let me give You my side of it. I'm not looking for the blessings that they got. I'm looking for crumbs."
"Now, Lord, if You'll let me polish up and get down there, and put me deacon in the church; if You let me be state presbyter, I'll kind of consider it." You hypocrite. You don't get it. You want to come for crumbs. You want to come and...
"Lord, if You'll give it to me without speaking in tongues; or if You'd give it to me without shouting; if You give it to me without this other stuff, just let me receive it... Just--just gradually pour it into me, Lord, in a nice polite way."
God don't do it according to your way; He does it according to His own way. See?


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