<TITLE>18. Par 196-207</TITLE>L-196   It was a Man when He come down off the mountain, that night, and was hungry, looked all around over a fig tree, to find something to eat. He was a Man when He was hungry. But when He taken five biscuits and two fish, and fed five thousand, that was more than a man.

L-197 He was a Man when He was laying out in the back of that boat, that night, where ten thousand devils of the sea swore they would drown Him. And that little old boat in that storm, like a bottle stopper out there somewhere, floating up-and-down like that. He was a Man when He was asleep, He was tired, virtue had went out of Him. But when He put His foot up on the brail of the boat, and looked up and said, "Peace, be still," and the winds and the waves obeyed Him, that was more than a man. That was God in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself!

L-198   He was a Man when He died on the cross, crying for mercy. That's right. But He was God on Easter morning, when He broke the seal, was in the tomb, rose up and ascended on High, (yes, sir) ever living to make intercessions. Every man and woman, that ever amounted to a hill of beans, believed that. Yes, sir.

L-199 He is the same yesterday, today, and forever! "Believest thou this?" [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Yes, sir. He is just as great right here among us, tonight, as He was then. Believest thou this? ["Amen."] He is the same Healer, tonight, He was then. Believest thou this? ["Amen."] Sure. He can't fail. Be persistent. Hold your position in Christ, your confession. Hold fast your confession in Christ.

L-200 She was persistent and she got the resurrection of her brother.

L-201   The Shunammite woman was persistent in the presence of Elijah. Elijah come by and blessed her, and told her that she would have a son. The son got about twelve years old. Out in the field, he must have had a sunstroke. This woman had been very kind to Elijah. She was a Shunammite woman, and she came from the land of Shunem. And she find out... She said to her husband, being a rich man, she said, "I perceive that this man that passes by here is a holy man." She said, "Let's do him some kindness." Said, "Let's build him a little room on our side of the house here, when he comes by, and put him a little bed and a pitcher out there, so he can rest himself."
And her husband said, "That would be very nice."

L-202 "So you do something to these little ones, you do it unto Me," Jesus said.

L-203 So he said, told his servant, Gehazi. Said, "Go ask her, can I speak to the captain, or what can I do for her?"
She said, "No, I dwell among my people. I'm all right."
And Gehazi, Gehazi said, "But she hasn't got any children."

L-204 Said, "Go tell her." There come a vision. Said, "Go tell her, about this time she is going to bear a child." And she did.

L-205   The boy got about twelve years old. His, his father being old. He was out in the field, one day, must have had a sunstroke. It was about noon, begin to cry, "My head! My head!" He sent the boy in. And he laid on his mother's lap until he died. Look what an appropriate place, she took him out in that room where that prophet had laid on that bed. See?

L-206 And she said to the servant, "Saddle a mule, and you take out to Mount Carmel. Up there is a den somewhere, where this preacher is living. He was the one who had the power to see a vision, said that I would bear this son; and if he is close enough to God, he is God's messenger of the hour. And I know, if he could tell me why, if I'd get to him, he would tell me what God took the child for. Let me get up there." She said, "If anybody salutes, don't you salute. And don't stop; just keep going."

L-207 Oh, I like that! The urgent's time now. People are dying, we oughtn't to be fooling around on the road. Get going. And she was persistent.


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