<TITLE>13. Par 132-145</TITLE>L-132 But, you know, when you are hungering and thirsting for God, you don't see any danger, you don't see nothing. You are trying to get to God, and God always sees that you arrive there.

L-133 She wanted to get there. That's her heart's desire, so God was going to see that she got there. Now, she never thought about the danger.

L-134 You don't think about the danger. You don't think about the criticism. You don't care what somebody else says. If your heart is so hungry for God, the only objective you have is get to Him. Don't make any difference how you have to get there. Just get there! Now, she had that same objective.

L-135   And now, no doubt, she got all the scrolls and was reading up, as she went along. They must have traveled at nighttime, because, that Sahara Desert, that direct rays of the heat is very, very hot.

L-136 Now just think, she had how long a distance she had to go, to see the wisdom of Solomon. If you measure it on your map, it's a long ways down there, about three hundred miles. And you know how long it took her? Now, she didn't go in an air-conditioned Cadillac, but she went on the back of a camel. And it took her ninety days, three months, to get there.

L-137   No wonder Jesus said, "She will stand with this generation and condemn it." Some of the people live across the street, won't even darken the door where the same thing goes on. That's right. Amen. No wonder she will stand in the Judgment with the generation now, and condemn it. No, when we got air-conditioned Cadillacs, and trains and planes, and every way, God just put it right in your hands and still we won't do it. And she come all that distance to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and a greater than Solomon is here, the Lord God Himself! Notice!

L-138   Then we find out that she started across the desert, reading those scrolls, finally she pressed on until she got there.

L-139 She probably come up into the yard, the palace yard or wherever it was, and pitched her tents, which was customary in them days, with her little maids and her eunuchs, pitched.

L-140 And then let's just think, the next morning, the bell rung and--and all of the trumpets sounded, the singing went on, and she got in and got her a seat way back in the back. She come to find out what it was, truth or not. She wanted to find out for herself. She wasn't willing to sit way down there. If she heard this great thing, she wouldn't take what somebody else said about it. She wanted to find out for herself.

L-141   Like Philip told Nathanael, in our lesson last night, said, "Could anything good come out of Nazareth?" Or come out of... I'll think of the place in a minute, where he come from. Said, "Could anything good come out of Nazareth?"

L-142 Said, "Come and see. Don't stay there and criticize. Come, find out for yourself."

L-143 If we could only do the same thing tonight. Come, see! Take your Bible, check what you see going on. "Search the Scripture," Jesus said, "for They are They that testify of Me." He is the Word. And the Scriptures Itself is the Word, so It testifies of Him when the Scripture becomes Life to you, when It's made manifest in you.

L-144   Now we find out that she had read the scrolls, and she knowed the nature of what Jehovah was: all wisdom. And when she pitched her little tents, tucked her gifts back in the corner, find out whether it was right or not. If it's right, it's worth everything she has got. If it isn't right, take it back.

L-145 And I think the same thing tonight. If this plan of salvation that we're contending for is right, we owe everything that we got, our life, our time, our everything else. If it isn't right, then find out what is right; 'cause you've just got this one life, and it'll soon be over. Search the Scriptures, first, and see if it compares with the Scripture.


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