<TITLE>16. Par 171-182</TITLE>L-171   And this poor woman was the same. She--she wanted, she knowed that she was going to get it. There was no doubt. No matter what she had to climb through, she was going to get it anyhow. So Jesus couldn't even turn her back, by calling her of the wrong race, calling her a dog, "It wasn't right to take the children's bread and feed dogs," and so forth like that. But still she went right on after it, anyhow, because she was persistent. She had a need, her daughter was dying. Others had been healed, so why couldn't her daughter be healed? And that was the God of creation.

L-172 Jesus said, "For this saying, the devil left your daughter." Oh, my! She had the right approach to God's gift.

L-173   Do you know God does things sometimes just to--to do things a different way, and just to find out what people will do? Now it's over your head, you haven't seen it and haven't noticed it, but I done something just now to do something. And that so helped me. And I watched it work. See, you say things, you change your--your--your attitude, you change your voice, you change sometimes your sermon; watching and seeing certain things, then watch and see how it acts. Because, the prayer line is fixing to come up, it would be better for that not to be among you. See? See, just to see it happen, then you change yourself and go back somewhere again. See? God did that very thing. He still does it, noticing.

L-174 She had the right approach to God's gift. And remember, she was the first one, the Gentile, that God ever done a miracle on. She was the first Gentile.

L-175 Faith admits the Word is Truth. And it's reverent, very reverent, and that's what, and perseverant, and that's what it is.

L-176   Martha, when she went to meet Jesus. Now if there is anyone had a right to condemn, it would have been Martha, 'cause she had sent for Jesus to come pray for her brother when he was in a serious condition, dying, and Jesus... They had left the church, they had come out of the old dead movement that they were in, and had followed the Lord Jesus, believing Him to be the anointed Messiah. And then His very friend, Lazarus, that He come up with... And they had been excommunicated from their church and from society. And His very friend that He come up with, was laying sick, at the point of death. The doctor could do him no good.

L-177 And she sent for Jesus, and Jesus just simply ignored her sending. And He went to another city, and He did the same thing there. They sent again, and He just ignored it and went on.

L-178   And then after Lazarus was dead, and had been buried four days. His face had already fell in, by that time, that hot country. The nose falls first, as I'm told, and probably his flesh had already fell in. Because, after seventy-two hours, corruption sets in the body, and so we find out.

L-179 I got to bury a man in a few days, Wednesday. And he died last Wednesday, and they just locked him up, and just waiting there for me to come to preach his funeral. Probably they couldn't hold him out any longer, because his--his face would fall in. See?

L-180 And that's what was happening to Lazarus. He was already dead.

L-181   And then after he was dead, and it was all over, then here come Jesus slipping into the city. So then they knowed they was going to get criticized, because perhaps was already criticized.

L-182 But Martha, she had been very dilatory, seemingly; about fixing a place for Jesus to sleep, a place for Him to eat, and so forth. Even asked Jesus, one time, to make her sister come help her. But down in her heart, faith struck. While Mary sat still, crying, and doing nothing about it, and give up; Martha slips out of the--out of the house, and down through the city. No doubt, she met some on the street, said, "Where is that Divine healer that you had around here? What about Lazarus now?" She passed right on by them.


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