<TITLE>12. Par 116-131</TITLE>L-116   "And you know," she said, he said, "my great-grandmother served that idol, that statue, or my grandmother and my mother, all my people served them statues, and there hasn't one of them showed one speck of life. They're just... I don't care how many scrolls you can read, and what more, they haven't showed one speck of life. And they say, 'This is Life.' And this is... I am concerned about it."

L-117 Well, I can hear him say, "Now, look, if you go up there, I am going to have to excommunicate you. I'm going to take your... You're a charter member here, you know. And if I... And you've got some dignity, and you'll lower your prestige if you go amongst a group like that." See?
"Well, let it be prestige, or not!"

L-118 You know, when God goes to gripping at somebody's heart, there is nothing going to stand in their way. They're going to get there, anyhow, and God is going to see to it; I don't care if it's husband, wife, child, preacher, pastor, whoever it is, when hunger comes for God.

L-119   Now we find the little lady, when she got ready, she said, "Well, I'm--I'm going, anyhow."

L-120 "But we'll excommunicate you. Your name will not be on here."
"Well, you just might as well take it off, because I'm going."

L-121 So now then, she had to pay a price. So many of us don't want to pay the price. We would rather hold onto some creed.

L-122 Now, the woman no doubt had studied the scrolls of this religion. She had seen that that was the nature of God; and that God, the all wisdom God, was gifted to a man, that God Himself was expressing Himself, not through some dumb idol, but through a man.

L-123 How that paganism is a perfect type, or an anti-, or a type of Christianity, how that the pagan worshiper will fall before an idol and prostrate himself, in such a way, that he--he believes that that idol talks back to him.

L-124 Like the--the--the Navaho Indian. They had the turtle for a rain god, with the mud on his back, and they made that an idol. And make an empty shell, and they would call out, and they could hear their own voice echo, and they thought that was the rain god talking back to them.

L-125   What a difference it is to Christianity, though. We prostrate ourself before a supernatural God that's not an idol, and we are filled with Him and become His idol, His living image of Him, working, walking on the earth as a living representation of the God that we serve. God in a human being! It's contrary to paganism; they fall before a Mary or a Joseph, or some saint, or something another like that, that's been dead for years. And, but, you see, the Holy Spirit comes into the living being, not into a dead idol; but into the living being, and works through that living being, not through an idol. "Ye are the temples of God." See?

L-126   So we see that God doesn't change, He does the same thing tonight as He was doing in the days of Solomon. He give Solomon this gift.

L-127 And we find out, now the little woman has to get ready. Now, she had many things to confront her. She had a lot of circumstance and a lot of hindrance, but not her faith. Her faith didn't have any.

L-128 Now she thought this, "I'm going up there. And if I go, and if the thing is right, I'm going to support it. If it isn't right, I can bring my gifts back home."

L-129 You know, she ought to talk to some Pentecostal people. That's right. Uh-huh. That's right. Go out here and call yourself Pentecost, and support radio programs that make fun of the thing you believe in? And it belongs among your own people, to help support the program of God. See?

L-130 Now, but she took the money, gold and frankincense, and so forth, and she loaded some camels.

L-131   Now, another thing, she had a--a dangerous journey. Remember, the children of Ishmael was in the desert, and they were robbers. And how easy for that bunch of robbers to fall in upon this little queen, with a few eunuchs along as guards, and slay those and take all this treasure.


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