<TITLE>09. Par 90-105</TITLE>L-90   But a genuine thoroughbred horse knows who his papa was, who his mama was, who his grandpa, great-grandpa, great-great-great- great-, all the way back. He knows where he come from.

L-91 So does a genuine born-again Christian know where he come from. His origin wasn't with John Wesley, Luther, or somebody else. It begin on the Day of Pentecost, when God Himself came among His people. And He is the Word made manifest. You can tell him the Word, and he'll say, "Amen!"

L-92 The other one say, "I don't know about That." See that donkey, hybrid? See, it don't know where he is going, he don't know where he come from. He is in an awful shape.

L-93   That woman wasn't that type. She wasn't no hybrid plant. She had got a hold of something. You didn't have to baby her and spray her, and say, "Now, darling, please, now let me beg you. You should come down." No, sir. Nobody. Everything trying to hinder her.

L-94 A real Christian fights for his position. He has to stand alone, him and God, and he fights every inch of ground, so you don't have to baby them around.

L-95 That's what's the matter with the Pentecostal church today, we got Pentecostal babies that's just been sprinkled and sprayed with this and that, and the other, till it's run out to a bunch of hybrids. What we need today is a housecleaning, from the pulpit all the way to the--the janitor, and a starting over again, and get some genuine faith born into people. Yeah.

L-96   No, she wasn't a hybrid, as a so-called crop of believers is today. What did she do? She admitted He was right, the Word.

L-97 And faith always admits the Word is right. Amen. If your faith don't punctuate every Word of God's Word, with an amen, there is something wrong with your experience. The Bible said, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever." If it don't say amen to that, then there is something wrong. Jesus said, "The works that I do shall you do also." If it don't say amen to that, then there is something wrong. If it don't punctuate every Word of God's promise, with an amen, there is something wrong.

L-98   She admitted that He was right. She admitted she wasn't nothing but a dog. But she was after crumbs.

L-99 Wouldn't be us. Oh, no. We have to be set up on a seat, and, "If they don't minister to me the first night, I'll not go back the next night."

L-100 Now, see, oh, what a difference she was. Put back, and shoved back, shoved out, put outside, whatever it was, she was determined. She was persistent, perseverant. Something on the inside of her, told her that she was going to get it regardless of how long she had to wait, what she had to go through. She would get it anyhow. She was after the crumbs. She didn't want a full-course dinner. She said, "The dogs eat the crumbs under the master's table."

L-101 That's the way to do it. Don't take the high seat; take the back seat. Don't do... Just be the little person. The way up is down, always. "He that humbles himself shall be exalted. He that exalts himself shall be abased." The way up is down, always.

L-102   Remember, she had never seen a miracle. She was a Gentile, but she had faith.

L-103 She was something like the harlot, Rahab. She said to the spies... She didn't say, "Wait till I see how Joshua combs his hair. What, how does your generals all look? Or what kind of a swords do they use? What instruments have they got? What kind of warfare?" She said, "I have heard that God is with you. That's good enough for me. I want mercy." She believed.
"Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing of the Word of God."

L-104   Watch, "For this saying, for this saying," Jesus said, because she was persistent, and coming.

L-105 Now, at first, she called Him, "Son of David." Now if... She had, as a Gentile, had no claims on Him as the Son of David. But when she said, "Lord," He was her Lord, but not Son of David, to it.


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