<TITLE>09. Par 113-126</TITLE>L-113 The first twenty-eight days passed. He said, "How you feeling, Sarah?"
"No different."
"Glory to God! We're going to have it, anyhow."
"How do you know?"
"God said so. That settles it."
The next month, "How do you feel?"
"There's no difference."

L-114 "Well, it's a greater miracle than ever now. It's two months late." See?
Twenty-five years, "How are you feeling, Sarah?"
"No different."
"Glory to God! We'll have it, anyhow. God said so."

L-115 And then we call ourself the Seed of Abraham. What God says, God is able to perform, to do what He said He would do. I can't keep my word all the time. You can't neither. But He has to, to be God.

L-116   So, we find out that this man did not believe that, this little businessman of the city of Jericho. He had a great business. He thought he was doing all right. He had favor with the priests and with the synagogue. He had favor with the churches, and the Kiwanis, and--and many of the organizations of that day, as we would say. Still, that doesn't mean God, yet.

L-117 Prosperity never means God, always. Sometimes it's vice versa.

L-118 God said, "When you were setting in the field," told Israel, "in her own blood, then she was willing to serve Him. But when she got sufficient, she thought she was, then didn't want no more to do with Him, turned her back upon Him."

L-119   Isaiah got that example from Uzziah the king, 'cause Uzziah was a great man as long as he kept humble before God. He never played politics. He stayed with God, and God blessed him. His kingdom was next to Solomon's. But, when he got self-centered!

L-120 That's what's the trouble with the people today. Don't you never let that happen to this businessmen's organization, or you're gone to the dust like the rest of them. Whenever a people gets to a place till--till prosperity begins to blind their eyes from the Word of God, they're on the rocks.

L-121 Uzziah was a great man, but he tried to take the place of a preacher, one day, to go in and burn incense. And the high priest, with scores of other priests, come told him, "You're not supposed to do that. You're a layman."

L-122   And you businessmen remember that, too. We preachers have enough hard time keeping this Thing straight. It's not for laymen. Laymen has their part, but the pulpit is for the minister that's ordained. "God sets, in the Church, men for these things."

L-123 And then we find out that he took the censer and went in, anyhow. And God struck him with leprosy, and he died a leper. See, when we get exalted up!

L-124 Zacchaeus was almost in that condition. He was prosperous. He stood in good with the rabbi. He stood in good with all the societies. So he thought, if he got in some trouble, he'd get backed up, the Sanhedrin was right for him. He stands at the gate. He is going to do something now. He is going to walk out and take this Guy, and tell Him to His face, "You're a false prophet. There nothing to You. You're just only taking a mental telepathy, and deceiving the people." See, he never stopped to read the Word.
That's where the mistake is made today.

L-125 If Israel would have did that instead of doing what they did, they'd been better off today. But they had to be done that way. It had to be fulfilled, their eyes to be blinded, that we would have an opportunity. Hadn't been for that, where would we been? Notice.

L-126   But when he got there, he finds out that he can't even see nothing. He can't see the street, there is just so many people gathered around, everywhere. So he thinks, "You know what? He's going up... They tell me, Rebekah told me, that, today, He was going to eat at--at Lavinski." I hope there's no Lavinski here. But, his restaurant, his competitor. Uh-huh. "So he was going to eat over to his restaurant, perhaps. So I know, to get there, we'll have to go down, turn off of Straight Street here, down Hallelujah Avenue," we'll call it.


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