<TITLE>08. Par 70-82</TITLE>L-70 She hid herself. And little Mary come up before she was to be mother, and went up in the hills of Judea to see Elisabeth. And while Elisabeth had hid herself, no doubt, one morning, looking through the curtain, she saw this young lady come, running, and she recognized it to her--her cousin, Mary. And as women then, they loved to see one another, they meant so much to each other, she run out, perhaps, and throwed her arms around her and hugged her, and was greeting her.
And she said, "I understand that you are to be mother."
"Yes."
She said, "You know, I am to be mother, too."
"Oh, you and Joseph are already married?"
"No, we're not married."

L-71 And she seen she was showing to be mother. She said, "You mean, dear, that you and Joseph are not married yet, and you are to be mother?"
"Yes."
"How will this be?"

L-72   "The Holy Ghost will overshadow, is to... has overshadowed me. The voice of God said so." And said, said, "I know that you're to be mother, too."

L-73 She said, "Yes, but it's already six months with me, and I--I'm worried because the baby has not moved yet."

L-74 Now, anyone knows that that's altogether out of ordinary; two or three months, and life is felt. But this had been six months, with no sign of life. Now that baby was dead, six months with no life. She said she was worried about it.

L-75 She said, "But the Holy Ghost has come upon me," Mary said to Elisabeth, "the Holy Ghost has come upon me, and has overshadowed me; and said I would have a son, and He would be the Son of God, and I'd call His Name 'Jesus.'"

L-76 And just as soon as that human Name of God, "Jesus," was spoke by a mortal lip, out of a human being, a dead baby come to life in the womb of a woman, and received the Holy Ghost. And if that will do that to a baby, dead in the mother's womb, what ought it to do to a born-again Church? The first time the Name of Jesus Christ was ever spoke by a mortal lip, a baby dead in its mother's wombs came to life and received the Holy Ghost. "Whence cometh the mother of my Lord?" said Elisabeth. "For as soon as your salutation came to my ears, my baby leaped in the womb for joy."

L-77 And today we claim to have that Holy Ghost, and cowardly with It, afraid to move out. We've got to get persistent. If we got the real genuine Holy Spirit, we will be persistent.

L-78   Now going a long ways, get away, I get away from my text. And here it is almost time to start the prayer line now, and I haven't even got to my text. This is too short.

L-79 This woman that we are talking of, this Syrophenician woman, she was a Greek, and she had heard about Jesus. Now, "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word of God." And she had heard.

L-80 And, somehow, faith finds a source that others don't see. A--a doctor might say, "Child, I've done all I can do for you." He is at the end of his road. That's all the man can do. He sees the thing is advanced and there is nothing he can do about it. But, you see, faith finds a source that he don't know nothing about. Science won't prove it, because faith...

L-81   The whole armor of God is supernatural. What is the armor of God? Love, what is love? Scientificially prove me there is such a thing as love. Where is it at? You, how many loves, raise up your hand; love your wife, love your brother, love your friends? Well, I want somebody, some science, to prove to me what part of you is love. Where do you buy it at, what drugstore? I want a bunch of it, love. Joy, you got joy? Peace, long-suffering, gentleness, patience, what is it? It's all supernatural.

L-82 God is supernatural. You don't scientifically prove God. You believe God. You believe it. If you don't believe it, then, a man that says "everything that's not scientifically, is unorthodox, it's not right," then that man can never be a Christian. He has to believe. By faith we believe God; not by education, not by theology. "But by faith you are saved."


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