<TITLE>17. Par 176-183</TITLE>L-176   Notice now, after a while she finally arrived at the revival that was going. It was a revival. So, she arrived. Now she didn't come just to say, "I'll go in and sit down a few minutes. And if I hear him say one word that my creed doesn't agree with, up I go!" No, she is going to be at the Judgment, to judge that type, see. She come to stay until she was thoroughly convinced.

L-177 If we could just do that, just be reverent and sit still, and say now, "This is something that might look like it could be right. I don't know. I'm not going to criticize. I'm just going to sit still, and I'm going to watch. And then I'm going to compare it with the Scripture and see if it's right." You owe that to yourself.

L-178   Now, she come from the utmost parts of the world. She went out into probably the courtyards of the temple, and she set up her tents and whatmore. And maybe... Now I'm going to drama this for the young folks, and so forth.

L-179 Maybe that morning, when the church opened up, the trumpet sound, the priests blowed the trumpets and the music played, and so forth. And all the--the children begin to gather in, and maybe she got her seat way back at the back. Usually that's the way it happens. And she got way back at the back. Well, she watched when pastor Solomon came out. And he... They introduced him and he spoke to the people and read the Scriptures, and they prayed. And then the first case come up. Now she'll say, "I'll just see how much discernment this is."

L-180   And when she saw that discernment, I guess the next meeting she moved a few seats forward. Maybe she... And that, this, if we... If it sounds sacrilegious, forgive me. Maybe her prayer card wasn't called just that one evening, see, she had to wait a little while. I'm trying to get something to the people, you understand, see. And maybe it wasn't that, but, however, finally she watched case after case, and she was convinced.

L-181 But wait till it happens to her. That's the one she wants. And the Bible said that, "When she was brought in the presence of Solomon, that there wasn't anything, any question in her mind, but what Solomon made known." God revealed to her, revealed to Solomon, all the things that she had need of in her life. And when he did this, it happened to her then. And she stood up, and she said, "All that I have heard was right, and more than this." She said, "And blessed is the men that sit here daily and see that great gift working, that great sign. Blessed are the men who are with you here and see this things daily." She accepted God. She had seen something real. Her heart was put to buzzing. She found something that was genuine, something that wasn't a dead creed, something that wasn't an idol. It was a living God.

L-182   Now, no wonder Jesus said that, "The queen of the South shall rise up in the Judgment, with this generation, and condemn it; for she came from the utmost parts of the earth, to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here." And even in the days of the Lord Jesus, the Emmanuel, God made flesh, "God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself," He was the living Word. And in that day, even telling them that criticized His ministry of that type, that He would forgive them. Said that, "When the Holy Spirit came..."

L-183 You've got two thousand years more education to the Bible than they had there, two thousand more years that the Holy Spirit has been moving on the earth. Now, if she condemns that generation, what will she do with this generation? A greater than Solomon is here! The little lady saw something real.


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