<TITLE>15. Par 147-162</TITLE>L-147   Well, "faith cometh by hearing." The little queen's heart began to hunger to go up and find out about it. See, she was ordained to Life.

L-148 Notice now, the first thing to do now, her being a pagan, she had to go get permission from her priest, to go. So I can imagine see her go over to her priest, and say, "Holy father, I hear they're having a great revival up there in--in Palestine. I'd like permission to go up and see for myself."

L-149 "Now, my child, now you don't want to get mixed up in some... After all, we're not cooperating in that revival, so you--you cannot go. See, that's just a bunch of nonsense. There is--there is nothing to it. Them people claim they've come through a Red Sea, and they done all this, that. There is nothing to it. If there was anything like that happening, it would be right here in our church." We still got pagans.

L-150   So we find out that she begin to hunger. She said, "Now look," she said, "they tell me, that, 'Their God up there is represented in a human being, and his wisdom is beyond anything. His discernment is wonderful.'"
"Oh, there is nothing to that."
She said, "But I--I might..."

L-151 "Well, look, you're a queen, you can't be associated in a bunch of people like that. That's, you can't do that. That bunch of people, known all over the world as religious fanatics. You can't do that."

L-152 But, you see, when God goes to dealing with the human heart, there is nothing going to stop it. Husband, wife, children, pastor, nothing else can stop it when a person is really hungering for God. They're going, anyhow. So she got ready, to make ready.

L-153   Well, he would say, "Well, I'll just give you... I'll--I'll have to excommunicate you from our fellowship."

L-154 "Well, you can just do that. I'm going, anyhow. I'm going to find out for myself about all this, and see."

L-155 She had brought up scrolls and she had read what Jehovah should be, about His prophets and what he must do, how that the Word of God would make manifest, how It would know these things when it was represented, veiled in human flesh, what it would do. And she had read all these things.
So I'd hear Him say, "Well, look, our book says this," he said.

L-156 "Yes, look, I... my great-great-grandmother stood in before them same idols. She stood and said prayers, day after day. There never was one move, one mutter, or nothing else. And I am tired, this old dead form. I want to go see if there is a living God." It's too bad we ain't got more of them queens today.

L-157   So she got ready to go. Now when she come to this spot where she must go, now, remember, she had a great difficulty. It wasn't as easy as it would be to you. Now notice what she had to do.

L-158 Here is another thing I want, don't want to leave out. She said this, "I'm going up there, and I'm going to take some money. I'm going to take some gifts. And if it is the truth, I'm going to support it. If it isn't the truth, then I can bring my money back."

L-159 That woman could teach Pentecostals. Yes, sir. Support things out there that laugh and make fun of Divine healing, and yet you support the radio programs instead of your own church, that's right, and laugh and make fun of the very things you believe in.

L-160 But she said, "I'll take it. And if it isn't right, I can bring it back."

L-161   Now remember, with all this wealth on there, on these camels. And now remember, the fleet riders of Ishmael was desert robbers, was out there. What an easy thing would have been for them to fall in on--on this prey, and, why, they would have killed them few eunuchs was with her, and took that money and been gone.

L-162 But there is something about it, when you are really determined, and God is revealing Himself, you're determined to see Christ, there is no danger before you. You don't even pay any attention! The doctor says you're going to die, you don't even notice it. When you are pressing, you know there is something there.


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