<TITLE>07. Par 56-65</TITLE>L-56 And the next day, Mr. Sidney Smith, the mayor of Durban, called me and said, "Go to your window, out towards the Indian Ocean, you'll see something you never seen." And that was the police escort coming down with seven of those big van loads, with hundreds of people walking behind it, the day before was in the stretchers and cots and the carriers that they had, singing, "Only believe, all things are possible." A week before, there, they were in war with one another, native war. And there they was walking, arm in arm, hand in hand.

L-57 Why? They recognized the God of Heaven had appeared before them in the form of His Word. And we intellectual Americans sit. They'll raise in the Day of the Judgment and condemn this generation, for what we've seen.

L-58   Reminds me of a woman in Louisville, Kentucky, not long ago, had a little baby, walking around in the ten-cent store. And she was doing little things, trying to get it to notice, and the little baby kept staring straight out. And finally she picked up a little bell, anything that ought to attract the attention of a little fellow about that size. And she shook the bell, and the little fellow just stared right straight in front. And she begin screaming, and fell over, and some of the people come to help her. She said, "Oh, no, it can't be! It can't be!"
Said, "What's the matter?"
Said, "The doctor said the baby was better."
Said, "What's the matter with the baby, lady?"

L-59 Said, "Well, it took a spell about six months ago, that it just sits and stares. No matter what it is, ought to attract the attention of that baby, it won't attract its attention, and it just sits and stares. The doctor told me he thought it was better. And I brought it down here, to pick up little gadgets that ought to attract that child, and it doesn't. He still sits and stares."

L-60   That's the way the church is getting! God has shook every promise in the Bible, before them. Still we just sit and stare, looking. "What? Show me a sign, will you?" And it's going on all the time, right around us. Bringing the Presence of God, it ought to illuminate us. When God made a promise, He stands by that promise. Yes, sir.

L-61 After Jesus had so proven His Messianic sign, that He was that Messiah, yet in face of all that, "Show us a sign." See, they didn't recognize, they were staring straight ahead of them. It wasn't in them to believe.

L-62 "You," as my old southern mother used to say, "you can't get blood out of a turnip, 'cause there is none there."

L-63   They still didn't recognize Him, so blinded by their creeds and--and--and so forth, that they had that day. They never knew the Scriptures of the promise, because the creeds had covered it up. Their creeds and traditions of that day had covered up the Scripture promise. If they had been taught according to the Scripture, that that was supposed to be the sign that followed the Messiah!

L-64 How many believe that He come in His right sign? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Sure, He did, He come according to the promise. But they had been taught a creed, "We believe in this, and we believe in that. All of them believe in God. All of them..."

L-65   Today, we Americans, especially, we think that we're going to be excused because we build big churches, and have fine pastors and things. Remember, if that was so, God is unjust if He takes us in like that; for, Cain and Abel, the two first worshipers outside of Eden, they built an altar to the Lord, both of them made sacrifice, both of them offered gifts, both of them prayed, but one was right and the other one was wrong. Notice, we must have the Truth, and the Truth is God's Word, always. Now it's the same today, people become so blinded. They say...
I say, "Are you--are you a Christian?"


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