<TITLE>06. Par 50-58</TITLE>L-50 Death had struck the little home. They had sent for Him. What a broken up home that was! The Man that they had confidence in, the Man that they loved, the Man that they had seen heal the sick, and make the blind to see, and prophesy, and know the thoughts of the heart, and tell the people what would happen, every time! And He fit the Scripture, to the dot, just exactly, so much, till them Scripture-loving people believed Him. See? And there was some of His most loyalist friends, and He let that happen. See? He let that happen just to see what they would do. No doubt, that was what was in the Father's mind about it. All hopes gone. The Man that they trusted in, turned out that He wasn't what they thought He was, or to--to be. And they were in desperate. Lazarus, their brother, was dead.

L-51   They could not go back to the church, because they had already accepted Jesus, "the fanatic," and they had been excommunicated, and have their letter, as it was, today, from their church, that they could no more come back. And they were left without church. They were left without a friend, looked like. The people of the city had turned them down. Their good friends that used to associate with them in church, had no more to do with them, because they accepted Jesus, "This radic' fanatic."

L-52   So, then, the Man that they had confidence in had flatly turned them down and would not do them a favor. And they sent the second time. And He still turned them down; and let the man die, and be embalmed, and put in the grave, and buried.    Now, you talk about a dark hour, that was the darkest hour that little home had ever seen.

L-53 And then Jesus come along. That's Him, in that dark hour. He let's it happen, sometime. The darkest of hour, then Jesus come along. His Presence always brings new hopes.

L-54 This may be the darkest hour for some of you people. Might be, the doctor has give you up, with cancer. And the man has done all he can do to save your life, but it's beyond his--his knowledge. He has no more to work with. He's done all he can do, and you're going to die. It may be the darkest hour you've ever seen. But, just remember, it's in that dark hour when He comes along. He comes along. Then, when He comes, it brings new hope. It brings new hopes when He comes. His Presence brings hope.

L-55   Martha, she went out. She had always showed her colors, that she wasn't just exactly seen as loyal as Mary, because Mary was listening to the Word, but, Martha, when she was cooking dinner for Him, and things. She showed what she was right then.

L-56 Cause, when Jesus come back to town, no doubt but what many of them said, "Now, after the boy is done dead, and buried, now this holy-roller preacher slips back into the city." No doubt that when Martha started out, some of them said, "Look, there she goes now. If I was in her place, I'd give Him a piece of my mind. I'd tell Him about it when I'd get there. Oh, no doubt but what she will. We'll go watch her do it." If she had, this story wouldn't be reading the way it is, tonight.

L-57 Now watch her. Here she goes. She might have passed by the--the--the pastor of her--of her first church. And he said, "Now, let's find out what happens now. See? He slipped away. When the hour, the crucial hour, come, He slipped away."

L-58   Now, Martha, no doubt, was a Bible reader, or she would have never accepted Jesus, at the first place. She could not accept it upon the psychology of the people, or upon the basis of the religion of that day. She could not accept it upon the church, because the church hated Him. And the religionists hated Him. And all of them hated Him. So, she must have been a Scripture reader, and she had read in the Bible.


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