<TITLE>16. Par 164-175</TITLE>L-164 "I want to see it, myself. And I don't see those idols. I hear you read all kinds of books, and prayer books, and so forth, but what is it? I never see a move of anything that's alive. It's all dead, some theology or something. My heart is hungering to see. Where is there a God? Where is He?"

L-165 Oh, may the world hunger for that! Where is He? If He ever was God, He's got to still be God. If He didn't, He died. See? "He is the same," the Bible said, "yesterday, today, and forever."

L-166   Now notice, her heart begin to hunger now, so she had a good idea. She said, "I'm going to take quite a bit of money, and some frankincense and stuff, myrrh. And if that thing is right, I'm going to support it. If it isn't right, I'll leave it alone."

L-167 She could sure teach Pentecostals! Support something that calls you a holy-roller and everything else, see, and you still support it. See? Oh, my! And the gift of wisdom is supposed to be in the church. Now notice. That's for the pastors to say. Now notice.

L-168 Then she says this, "I'll take my gifts with me. And if it isn't the truth, I can bring my gifts back." That's good. Now the little lady got ready to go. She taken a few eunuchs, all this money, and her maids.

L-169   Now just think the distance she had to travel, to find out whether this was right or not. See? Measure it on your map, from Palestine down to Sheba. It's exactly ninety days, three months on the back of a camel. She didn't... She had difficults. She couldn't come in an air-conditioned Cadillac like we do. But, she, she come all the way from the uttermost part of civilization, the world at that time, to hear the wisdom of Solomon.

L-170 And people live across the street and won't come to hear something that's greater. No wonder Jesus said "she'll rise in the last days and condemn this generation"!

L-171 She had troubles in the way. Remember, the sons of Ishmael, them fleet riders out there were robbers in the desert. How easy it would have been for a great band of those Ishmaelites to fall in upon that little queen and kill those half a dozen eunuchs, and take all their treasury.

L-172   But there is somehow or another, that when the heart goes to hungering after God, troubles don't look like anything. You've got your mind set, no matter what anybody calls you. They can call you whatever they want to, they can say what ever they want to, they can try to put every stumbling block in your way; but if you're thirsting for God, you're going to find It somewhere. That's all, see. Nothing is going to stop you. Husband isn't going to stop you. Wife isn't going to stop you. Church isn't going to stop you. Pastor isn't going to stop you. There is nothing can keep a saint away from his God, if he really wants to see It. No.
She never even thought of it.

L-173   You don't think either, what this one is going to say, and what mother is going to say, and dad is going to say, or husband is going to say. When you come to find Jesus Christ to be reality, and you hear that He is alive, there is nothing going to stop you, when that hunger, that seed that's been predestinated before the foundation of the world. When the Light strikes that, it's coming to Life that quick.

L-174 This little woman was that type of seed, yet being an alien, a heathen.

L-175 Now, now remember, she probably had to travel by night, it was so hot on that Sahara Desert. And--and she had traveled by night. Maybe reading the scrolls. "Now, we'll find out what the prophet said here about what God was. 'I'll reveal the secrets of the heart. And if there be one among you, spiritual or a prophet, I the Lord will make Myself known to him, speak to him in visions. And what he says comes to pass, hear him.' I'll find out when I get there. That's what that God is. I'll find out."


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