<TITLE>18. Par 206-214</TITLE>L-206   She wasn't like people of today. You say one thing that don't... somebody don't agree with, they haven't got the patience as long as a second. See? So that's the reason they get nowhere. But she wanted to be satisfied. Now, she didn't come to say, "I'll just go up there," like people do today, "and the first word that evangelist says, that's a little contrary to what I believe, I'll get up and walk out." See? Well, maybe they do that. See? But it shows poor raising, in the first place, and it shows poor manners. But, anyhow, people do that today. Because, they feel they don't have to do it. They don't. But you have to meet God, and you'll have to answer.

L-207 Now we find out that this woman, she got, come, just not to stay for one message, she come to stay till she was convinced whether it was right or wrong. And she taken her place, and she waited.

L-208 And then the first one come up before Solomon. She noticed that the wisdom of that discernment told that person just exactly all the secrets of the heart. Her heart begin to jump. She knowed that there was something real. And the next case come by, was the same thing. Then she begin to thirst, herself.

L-209   She had many problems, the Scriptures tells us, that she wanted to know about. And as she come, finally, maybe she got her a prayer card. Maybe her number was called, we'd say it, just for saying it. But when she got before Solomon, however way it was, when she got up before Solomon, the Bible said that there was nothing that wasn't made known to Solomon that he didn't reveal to her. All the things that she had, hidden in her heart, Solomon revealed it by the Spirit of God. And when she seen this happen, all the--the life almost was gone out of the little queen.

L-210 She stood up among the people, and she said, "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel. Blessed be the Lord God Who has chosen Israel for His people, and has put His Spirit upon His king and has showed this wisdom." Said, "Blessed are the men that's with you all the time, that see this great gift operate. Blessed are you, and to see you." She wanted, even, to take some of the dirt from--from up in Israel down to her country. She was thoroughly convinced that it was God. And she said, "All that I have been told about it, I didn't hardly know whether to believe it or not. But now I seen it work on others, and now it's worked on me, and I know that it's right."

L-211   No wonder Jesus said, "She'll rise in the Day of the Judgment and condemn this generation. And, behold, a greater than Solomon is here." Solomon was a man with a gift of discernment. Now, Jesus Christ is here in the form of the Holy Ghost, with--with all the Divine gifts in the whole body of Christ, being made manifest. All the things that He promised to the Church, is being shown unto us.

L-212 And some of us care so little. Some of us are so: we keep looking ahead. As long as Satan can make you look ahead for something over yonder, you're passing over the very thing that God has given you.

L-213 Listen to this remark. "Man is constantly praising God for what He has done, and looking forward to what He will do, and ignoring what He's doing." That's the status of mankind. He's always did that, and the same thing is tonight. Men look over, and look back, and see what God does; and talk about a great God back yonder at Pentecost, and looking for a great Day of a Millennium when He will come again, and ignoring His very Being in the presence of His people, making ready for that Millennium. They ignore it. It's just the nature of people to do that.

L-214 Satan gets among them, to hide their eyes from the very thing that God sent to them. That's all he has to do. You go to church as much as you want to, do whatever you wish to, but to ignore the very things that God sends to us, why, we're--we're turned--turned down.


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