<TITLE>24. Par -</TITLE>L-39-4 Jesus stood there a stoop-shouldered, perhaps, turning gray when He was yet not over thirty years old. The Bible said He might've look like forty. Jews said, "You're a man not over--over fifty years old, and you say you seen Abraham?"
He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." My, oh, my. St. John 6.
Then we come to find out, here He stood by the grave. He knowed that vision had to strike; He knowed it had to be, "Take away the stone." He was stinking, wrapped in grave clothes, been dead for four days; his nose had already fell in, that much time.

L-39-6 There He stood there; straightened up His little body, "I am the Resurrection and the Life. He that believeth on Me; though he were dead, yet shall he live." Tell me a man could ever make a statement like that. "Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?"
She said, "Yea, Lord." Though He'd failed her, seemingly. When she called, He didn't go; she called again; He didn't go. But here she says, "I know that Thou art the Christ that was to come into the world."
He said, "Lazarus, come forth." And a man that'd been dead four days... Why? What? Christ had the absolute. He'd saw the vision; it couldn't fail. That's right. It couldn't fail. He was absolutely sure.
And Martha was absolutely sure. If she could get Him to recognize what she believed in Him to be, she'd get what she asked for. Right. There they was, the absolute; it tied in with the Word, and that was it.

L-40-4 Every man today does in his own sight what he seems good, because there is no prophet.
Look in the days of the Judges. Look at in the days when (I believe it was Elijah or Elisha, one. Yeah.), that the dead baby... The--the Shunammite woman, she made...
Elijah was God's man of the day, not just some good intelligent teacher. Why, he was an old guy that walked along and. Was you... Just come to--come to your door today you'd probably run him away. A whole nation hated him. Jezebel and all the rest of them hated him, because her--she set in the White House and made all the women do the way she did; and all of them had pattern after her; and--and Ahab was turned--his head was turned by her power. We haven't missed it too far today, just about the same; and there--there you are. They was all popularity and all... they was all snowed up.

L-40-7 But that little old Shunammite (not Shunammite woman but little... Yes, I believe she was a Shunammite), when she come and seen that that power was in Elijah, she said, "I perceive that he's a holy man." And when that baby was laying dead, she said, "Saddle that mule and don't you stop." She went up there... She knowed... And I like that, the way she come; she got to her absolute, her tie post.
Elijah said, "Here comes that Shunammite. She's grieving, but I don't know what's wrong." See, God don't show His servants everything, just what He wants them to know. So he said, "Her heart is grieved, but I don't know." He said, "Run, find out, Gehazi, and see what's wrong."
He said, "Is all well with thee? Is all well with thy husband? Is all well with thy son?"
Look at her. Oh, my. This is it. She said, "All is well." Why? She'd come to her absolute. "All is well." And she knelt down. Fell first at his feet, and Gehazi raised her up. That's not right before his--his master, raised her up; and she begin to tell him.


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