<TITLE>06. Par 47-57</TITLE>L-47 Lord Jesus, take the Word now and feed our hungry souls. We are waiting patiently, Lord. We are under great expectations. Like at the last day of the feast, how the people rejoiced! We're thinking of Simeon in the temple, promised by the Holy Ghost that he would not see death until he seen the Lord's Christ. And there it was, on that great day, when the women come in to have their children circumcised, offer the gift for purification, and it was at that time that the--the Jesus was brought into the temple. And Simeon, maybe off somewhere in a side room that morning, in the office, but the Holy Spirit made him the promise. And here was the Messiah in the arms of His mother, the little Fellow out there wrapped in His swaddling cloth.

L-48 And Mary, them keeping their distance away from her, because she had a--a bad name, so thought the people, "the Baby was born out of holy wedlock." No one wanted anything to do with that woman. But in her heart, she knew What she held in her arms. And, Father, may our heart tonight cradle that same hope. No matter what the world says, we know What has entered our life.

L-49   And at that time, Simeon, the one that said that he... The Holy Spirit told him that he would see the Messiah. Yet, old, well-stricken, an old sage, honorable man, but he believed the Word of the Lord to him. The Holy Spirit coming to him, and, he going, led by the Holy Spirit, down through the building, around this great string of mothers. With two and a half million people that time, overnight there might have been as many as several hundred babies born. And there they were, standing ready for circumcision and purification.

L-50 And how the Holy Ghost led him right to this little rejected person! Reaching over, picked the Messiah in his arms, with tears running down his beard. He said, "Lord, now let Your servant depart in peace, according to Thy Word, for my eyes have seen Your salvation."

L-51 Staggering through the building come an old prophetess, to whom the Word of the Lord comes to, and also prophesied of Him; blinded in eyes, but not in spirit. She knew That was the Messiah.

L-52   Lord God, may our eyes come open to the fact that He is still the Messiah. And may we embrace Him, tonight, for we have confessed that we are pilgrims and strangers of this world. This is not our home. This is not our land. We are a different acting people because we are borned from Above.

L-53 And we who hold this promise in our heart, may we see the promise that Jesus made to His Church, that we would see just prior His Coming, as we see the days of Noah returning, "eating, drinking, marrying, given in marriage, and immorals of the land." Then He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, to the Gentiles, before the fire fell, that God came down and was manifested in flesh, by knowing the secrets of the heart's of the people." And He promised the same thing to return. May we have the privilege tonight, Great Holy Spirit, for we humbly ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.

L-54   [A sister speaks in another tongue. A brother gives an interpretation--Ed.] Amen.

L-55 Oh, I think now to be conscious of the Spirit near us, Light. Break out of the shell of the hour we're living, and the time, and be conscious of the Spirit of God now among us.

L-56 Let us turn to the Book of Judges, the 16th chapter, beginning with the 23rd verse, as we read the Word.

L-57 And as you are turning, I might say, my thinking in choosing this chapter to read this afternoon, at the closing of this meeting, might be something brought forth which would be constructive to the Church. And always I wait to see what the Holy Spirit will say, in the room, as It strikes me. I might jot down different Scriptures and things, then wonder what it will be when I get there. "What will He say concerning This?"


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