<TITLE>15. Par 152-163</TITLE>L-152 "Oh, you should see it! Nothing like it! Those people has got a revival up there. You... It's a nationwide affair. Oh, they're having a wonderful revival. And their God has anointed their king, and he has got a gift of discernment. And you've never seen anything like it. There is nothing can exceed that wisdom. He can tell anything. It's--it's beyond the wisdom of a man. It's a discernment from God." And they all, why, they heard.

L-153   You know, "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word of God." Not hearing that we're Methodist, Baptist, or Pentecostals; but hearing the Word of God, see. "Faith cometh by hearing."

L-154 And when they, she would hear, hunger set in. Well, now, she decided, after she had heard all this, before she would say anything about it, that she would go see for herself before she passed her comments. Oh, wouldn't that be nice if we'd all do that? See? Though no doubt that she got up many scrolls, the Bible, of the prophets, of what they had prophesied, to see the nature of their God Jehovah.

L-155   Now this little queen had many things to confront her before she went up there. The first thing, being a pagan, she'd have to go to her priest, to ask permission, because she was a queen and a member of the church. So I can imagine her going up to the priest, and saying, "Father, can I go up to Israel to attain some wisdom from this great man, Solomon, who their God has bestowed wisdom upon?"

L-156 I can hear him say, "My child, I never would have thought such out of you. Our denomination is not cooperating in that revival." But you know how it would be today. I'm making it now from the sublime to the ridiculous, of course. But now it would be the same spirit today would say that. See, the same spirit would bring, grant it that way. Then she... "You mustn't do that, you see. Because, after all, those people are... They're fanatics. They believe in all kinds of signs and things. But, well, you see, everyone knows that they're a bunch of fanatics. Like seas drying up, and all these kind of things that they've had, there is none of it true. See, it's just a tale that's been told, or a song that's been sung, or something. And there is nothing to that."

L-157   But, you know, when real faith strikes into a heart, they begin to hunger. They want to see.

L-158 There is not a person living but what like to look past the time, the curtain. "Where did I come from? Who am I? And where am I going?" Of all the fine books that's been read, the great master selections that's been made, there is only one Book that reveals who you are, where you come from, and where you're going. That's it. That's it. And It also lets us look past the curtain, to see it.

L-159   Now when they seen this take place, she heard about this, then she said, "I'm going to go anyhow." So no matter what the bishop says, or whatever it was, she's going to go anyhow, determined, because she wants to see something real, something.

L-160 Well, then the priest might have said to her, said, "Now look, daughter, you're a queen, you mustn't associate with such people as that."
"Regardless, I'm a human being that's got to die, too."

L-161 "Well, now, if there was anything like that going on, it would be right here in our church." Course, that spirit isn't dead either, see. "It, it has to come through ours, or it isn't right."

L-162 Well, she might have said, "I've been here since I was a little girl, dedicated. I've seen all these idols and statues, and so forth, and you've talked about them being gods. My grandmother belonged here, and my great-grandmother, and my great-great-grandmother. And there is not one of them that showed anything, any sign of life. They say that That's 'Life.'"

L-163   There ought to be some more people with that kind of an idea like that queen had, right here in New York and all over the world.


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