A Greater Than Solomon Is Here Now (64-0306)

 

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Let us remain standing just for a moment, while we read the Word of the
Lord. You who would like to turn to the Scripture reading tonight, turn
to Matthew 12, beginning with the 38th verse.

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Let us bow our heads. With our heads and hearts bowed in His Presence,
is there a request in here tonight, that you'd like to be remembered in
prayer? If so, just raise your hands and signify by that, "God, hear my
request." Now, pray silently while we go to prayer.

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Our heavenly Father, we are deeming this one of the most grandest
privileges that we have this side of glory, is to meet in the
congregation of the people who believe in You, that where we can expect
Your Presence, because it's according to Your promise. You said, "Where
there are two or three gathered in My Name, there I am in the midst.
And if they can agree upon any certain thing, and ask, they shall
receive it." Lord, the greatest thing that we could agree upon tonight,
that You would just meet with us, that we might behold Your Presence,
sense It in our spirits, and know that You're here. And in Your
Presence, we feel that we can pour out our hearts in supplication. And
as we meditate upon Thee, may we feel this great sense of the answer of
our prayers, as we are asking now in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. You may
be seated.

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I want to take the subject, the Lord willing, with some Scriptures I
have written out here, for just a few moments before we go to prayer
for the sick, upon the subject of: "A Greater Than Solomon Is Here
Now."

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We find in our beginning of the Scripture tonight, where our text is
found, that Jesus was disputing with the Pharisees. He was rebuking
them, because that they had not understood Him. A Man, that the
theologians that had been trained, looking forward for the time of His
appearing, and then when He arrived, they misunderstood Him and had
called Him a devil. They said that the ministry He had was of the
Devil, because He could discern the thoughts that were in their hearts,
and by this they thought Him to be some kind of a–of a witch doctor or
some like a fortuneteller; and anyone knows that's evil spirits. And
then, to call the work of God an evil spirit was blasphemy.
And He had told them He would forgive them for it, because the Holy
Spirit had not come as yet to tender up their hearts and to–to make
them in condition so that they would understand God. They were hearts
was far away from God. And all they know was cold theology of the law,
and they had not yet received the Holy Spirit. But He said, "When the
Holy Spirit has come and does the same thing, to speak against That,
it's never forgiven in this world nor the world to come."

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And I was thinking as I was reading this this afternoon, and meditating
upon it, of how that–that they, one of them here, come to Him in a
roundabout way, and asked Him, said, "Master, we would see a sign from
Thee." In other words, the Jews were always to–taught to believe
signs. The Jews seek signs always, and the Greeks wisdom. And we find
that these Jews was relying upon a sign.
Now, what a–a very witness against this Pharisee, that him supposingly
knowing the Scriptures, that the sign of the Messiah, Jesus had already
performed it, and His eyes were so darkened that he didn't recognize
it. Jesus had… Jesus had given him the true Scriptural Messianic sign
that was promised in the Scripture. But he was looking for some other
kind of a sign.

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And how true that stands with teachers of today, and people of today.
They can see something that is solid and in the Scripture, promised by
God for the day. And then they can see that, but yet they are looking
forward to something; they want to see something else, and not taking
the sign of the time.
He told them once, said, "You can discern the skies when it's lowering,
red. You'll say, when it's lowering and red, 'tomorrow will be foul
weather,' and so forth." But said, "You can discern the–the signs in
the skies, but the signs of the time, you don't understand. For truly
the Scripture had said that this Messiah would be a prophet.

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We know that God's way of doing things was always sending a prophet to
a-vindicate His message: never has failed. Never will fail. God cannot
change His way. What His first decision is, it must ever remain that
way. What He says is true.
God never did deal in great groups. He always deals with an individual.
That's how He's taken a people out of the Gentiles for His Name: just
an individual, one here and there for His Name. He deals with an
individual, not by groups.

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And we find that the reason they believed this, that a prophet must be
a identified witness of God. For when he said anything, and it come to
pass; and he said again, and it come to pass; and whatever he said, God
vindicated to be true, then He said, "Hear him, for I am with him."
Now we find that Moses, who they claimed to believe in, had told them
that, "The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet liken unto me, and to
him the people must hear. And all that didn't believe this prophet
would be cut off from the people."
We find that to be true. "He came to His own; His own received Him not.
But as many as did receive Him, to them gave him the power–gave them
the power to become sons of God."

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How we find these Pharisees looking right, and Sadducees, upon exactly
what the promise of God said that He would do. And there they was still
seeking a sign, not knowing that that was the true Messianic sign that
He was to give.
Philip understood it, when He told him where he was the day before. He
understood that was the Messiah, said, "Thou art the Christ, and You're
the King of Israel." And so he–he recognized that because he was given
to that. He was…
Jesus said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him. And all
the Father has given Me will come to Me." No matter how much we try to
get in any other way, it's got to be God. "It's not him that willeth,
or him that runneth; it's God that showeth mercy." God is the One that
does the choosing. "You haven't chose Me," said Jesus, "I chose you."

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And now we find that the antichrist, in the last day will deceive all
that dwells upon the earth, whose names were not written in the Lamb's
Book of Life from the foundation of the world. Your name was put in
God's Book before the Lamb was slain. When His program was laid out,
the whole thing, you were recognized in that program because you got
Eternal Life. The word eternal, never did begin and neither can it end,
and you are an attribute of God's thinking before the world was ever
created. That's the only way you can have Eternal Life. And that Life,
that He was thinking of you, is in you now. There's no way to separate
it. It's in there to stay.

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Notice now, these Pharisees, yet being religious teachers, great
scholars of theology, and studied the Book day and night, failed to see
that Messianic sign, and was here trying to ask Him for a sign.
That I might further the thing, to let you know that God always gives
signs. Because He's supernatural, He always deals with people through
signs, Scriptural signs.
In the Old Testament, when they had a–a question, someone dreamed a
dream, and there was no–no prophet there, they took him down to the
temple, where they had what they called the Urim Thummim. You Bible
teachers understand what I mean. It was the–the breastplate that Aaron
wore, that had the twelve stones that represented the twelve tribes of
Israel. They hung that up on a post; and then when this prophet, or
this dreamer, or whatever it was, told his vision or his dream,
regardless of how real it seemed, if them supernatural lights didn't
come up, making the Urim Thummim on that breastplate, it was rejected.
God refused it.

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There must be a supernatural sign from God to vindicate. No matter how
real, how deep it was in theology, how great it sounded, it still–if
God's supernatural sign didn't vindicate it, it wasn't so, to the Jew.
Now, the Old Testament, the Aaron's plate was done away, with the old covenant.
But in the New Covenant, God still remains with the Urim Thummim. That
is, if a prophet, dreamer, theologian, or whatever it is, speaks
something that's contrary to the Word, and God don't echo it back
through the Word, I'll let it alone, for It's God's Urim Thummim. And I
believe it with all my heart, that It's God's Word.

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And God is His own Word. "In the beginning was the Word, the Word was
with God and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled
among us." He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He still… God
don't need any interpreter.
We interpret; we say, "This, there… This is that, and this is that,"
and so forth. God don't need an interpreter. He's His own Interpreter.
God don't need us to interpret His Word. The Bible, It's written, and
It said It's of no private interpretation. God said in the beginning,
"Let there be light," and there was light. That's the interpretation of
it. God said, "A virgin shall conceive," and she did. That's the
interpretation of It. It doesn't need anybody to interpret.
God said, in this day, these things would happen, and they are. It
don't need any interpretation. It's God doing His own interpretation.
It happens. No matter how much we try to twist It, and say it don't
mean this, and don't mean that. It means just exactly, and God is His
own Interpreter. He vindicates His Word, and that's His interpretation
of It, because it's brought to pass.

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Now we find these fellows there, in Matthew the 12th chapter, 38th to
40th verse, and they were asking Him, "Master, we would seek a sign
from Thee."
And He was upbraiding them because they had not believed Him, and had
called the very Spirit that was upon Him, an evil spirit, in their
unbelief, because that they couldn't identify Him among their–their
clergymen. They couldn't identify His–where He come from. They didn't
know what school He come from, whether He was a Pharisee or a Sadducee;
and was constantly trying to tear down their institutions of–of
theology, and calling them a bunch of snakes. And, why, they couldn't
identify Him anywhere. And so, "Where did this man come from? We know
not whence he is." And they didn't realize the very sign, that He was
the Messiah, was there.
Now, like that little woman at the well, we spoke of night before last.
She recognized it, and it did something for her. And those who
recognized it, it–they were the seed of God that was to be called in
that day.

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God, and always in all times, has always give spiritual gifts to His
people. That's how He's identified and known, by spiritual gifts. And
when God sends a spiritual gift to His people, and that spiritual gift
is rejected, then that–that people goes into the darkness of a chaos.
Every time, through the ages, when God sends something to the people, a
gift, and they turn it down, that people is rejected by God because
it's rejected God's mercy.
Oh, what a safety it would be tonight, how much greater it would be
than all the bomb shelters and–and all the places we could think of,
if this nation, which is called a Christian nation, could accept the
gift of God that's been given to it: the great Holy Spirit poured out
in this last day. And how that if this nation would accept That, it
would be more safety than anything they could get into. But they turned
It down, so there's nothing left but chaos and judgment.

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All ages, He gave these great spiritual gifts. And notice. Always the
coming of a spiritual gift, a true gift… I want to speak one night on
"The Voice of the Gift," but if the Lord willing. But always these
gifts are usually announced by prophets. And then when you see a
prophet rise on the scene, that shows that judgment is at hand. Now,
it's a sign when you see identified prophet of God rise on the scene:
in the days of Jeremiah, in the days of Daniel, in the days of–of John
the Baptist, in the days of the Lord Jesus, and all down through. When
a prophet raises on the scene, it's time that God's going to speak His
Word. The nations reject it and then chaos sets in.
That's the way it was in the changing of the church ages, each time,
when the message was rejected. And God giving these gifts and messages
to the people, and they turn them down, then there's nothing left but
judgment.
God is just. He will not send judgment before He offers mercy. And
mercy is foretold, and how it will come, but the people usually is so
all mixed up, and in their minds, and so many different manmade
schemes, till they don't recognize It. And that's the way it always
happens.

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Now we find that He told them that, "A–a wicked and an adulterous
generation seeks after signs." How many times the unbeliever has taken
advantage of this, about Scriptural signs, and don't believe it.
God always speaks with signs. He forever has. He forever will. As long
as there's a world, He'll still speak by spiritual signs. He's foretold
they would come.

⁴⁰ Now many of the unbelievers take that, when He said, "A wicked and–or, a weak and adulterous generation seeks after signs."
Watch,
He was speaking in a compound prophecy here. He was also telling them
that they were a weak and adulterous generation, and also telling them
that any weak and adulterous generation, and one that would come, would
receive a sign. Notice, He said, "A weak and adulterous generation
seeketh after a sign; and there shall be no sign given to it, but the
sign of Jonah. For as Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three
days and nights; so must the Son of man be in the heart of the earth
for three days and nights."

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What was He saying here? He was saying, that a wicked and adulterous
generation would receive the sign of the resurrection. And what other
age have we ever come to, any more than it is right now, to a
Christ-rejecting, wicked, perverted, adulterous generation? And they
will receive a sign, the sign of the resurrection, that Jesus Christ is
alive tonight just as much as He ever was. He has raised from the dead,
making Him the same yesterday, today, and forever. A weak and an
adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and they'll get it; and the
sign will be the sign of the resurrection. Now, of course, He was
speaking to them, that He would raise up from the dead.

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Many times, Scripture has its common–or its compound meaning. Like in
Matthew 3 it said, "That it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the
Lord by the prophet, saying, 'Out of Egypt I called My Son.'" Now if
you refer that back, it's to Hosea, and he prophesied that, "Out of
Egypt He called God's son, which was Israel." Jacob was God's son, and
He called him out of Egypt. That's where the reference runs you to. But
also, Christ was His greater Son, and He called Him out, Israel being a
type.
And so that being a type of rejecting Christ in that generation, this
is a greater type; for that generation that rejected the resurrection
had pardon, but this generation who makes fun of the Holy Ghost is
impardonable. We're… Greater is he that rejects the Holy Spirit than
he that reject Jesus Christ in the days of His flesh on the earth.
Jesus said so, "You speak against the Son of man," when they said He
was a fortuneteller or some evil spirit, said, "You speak against the
Son of man, it shall be forgiven you. But whoever speaks a word against
the Holy Ghost, shall never be forgiven them in this world," that is,
call the working of the Holy Ghost an evil, unclean thing, when they
see the work of God being done.

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Yes, Jonah was a witness of the resurrection, as he was in the belly of
the whale for three days and nights. Many people try to condemn Jonah,
and say that, "Oh, he… Everybody, he was a Jonah." Jonah was a
prophet. He was walking exactly in the will of God. When he took that
wrong ship and got out there, that had to be done, it must be that way
to show forth the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He had to play that,
just the same as Hagar was put out, that the free woman would not be
heir with the bondswoman. These things had to happen; they were shadows
and types of the things to come.

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Now we find out, He comes down then, after speaking of Jonah, and He
comes to Solomon's age. Now, we all know that Solomon's age was the
millennium almost of the Old Testament. It was the greatest time of all
Israel ever had, was under the reign of Solomon; no wars to speak of,
and they had a great time. God gave Solomon, which was a son of David,
gave him a gift of discernment, and now, he could discern the thoughts
in the people's heart.
Now, how that Hebrew standing there ought to have recognized that.
Solomon had a–a gift of discernment, and he could discern the thoughts
in their heart, and they all rallied around Solomon, and yet here stood
a greater than Solomon. And Solomon was the son of David, but he was
the lesser son of David by the flesh; and Jesus was the Son of David by
Seed of the promise, the royal Seed. And here was a greater than
Solomon standing there doing the same thing that Solomon done, only
being a greater than Solomon, and they called it Beelzebub.
You see the interpretation of the Scripture? No wonder He said what He
did, "A wicked and adulterous generation will seek after a sign; and
they'll get it, the sign of the resurrection."

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And in Solomon's age, there was a great revival on. I'll kind of give
it in illustration, so the young can understand it. There was a great
revival that was going on in the days of Solomon. God gave a gift, and
the whole nation rallied around it. Everybody come to it. They believed
in it whole heartedly.
Wouldn't that be a wonderful thing if it happened amongst the people
tonight, if all America, all people that call themselves Christians,
would rally around God's gift in this last days, the pouring out of the
Holy Ghost upon the people? That's God's Gift in this last day, is the
Holy Spirit. Christ, in the form of Spirit, He's here with us now.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if all the churches that profess to be
Christians, would rally around this great gift that God has given us?
Why is it? They've got it off in all kinds of isms and creeds and
dogmas, and you can't tell what is what. It's exactly the way they've
always done it. But God promised it to be straightened out to the Seed
anyhow at the end time.

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Now notice in this, we find that all of them rallied around that great
gift, and Israel blossomed like never before. All nations feared
Israel; they were afraid to come over there, because they knowed that
God was with them.
And I tell you, you talk about shutting up communism and everything;
just let America come back to God, back to her gift, back to the Holy
Ghost, and people will have to quit hollering about communism. It's so
worm-weeded in until even communists has anticommunist setups, to find
out who they are. The thing has to be that way. But let them come back.

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Here not long ago in Finland, Brother Lindsay, I believe, he–he was
here last night, was with me when it happened. A little boy, that I'd
seen in a vision here, was raised up from the dead, over there. Many of
you, I guess, still have it wrote in your Bible, as I crossed the
nation, saying what he would look like, where he would be, and so
forth. And he was raised up from the dead, according to the Word of the
Lord. He'd been killed by an automobile accident. Many of you remember
the case. And standing there when he was raised up from the dead…
That night, going down to the Messuhalli, Brother Lindsay and I, and
Brother Moore, and many of the men, trying to get down to the
Messuhalli; where they let so many thousand, let me speak to them, then
turn them out and speak to more. On the road down, they had four or
five city blocks was all blocked off. People was in the–in the streets
to watch us coming in and going out. And in there, there'd been a
little girl on crutches, one leg shorter than the other one, been
healed, and many things had been done.

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Then this little boy being raised up, it went on news. They don't have
rock-and-roll and stuff in Finland, or they didn't then. There was only
news and things was worthwhile, they had on radio. And that had went
all the way down into Russia. If you live in Russia, and forty miles
from your home, your birthplace, you've got to have a visa to show your
business. And the–the Iron Curtain… We was right… We walked right
down to it, where the machine guns was setting in the street just out
of Kuopio. And that night, this news had went down, and the streets
were piled by thousands times thousands of Russians.

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Here was those communistic soldiers, Russian soldiers, those wrap,
little round caps on; and six little Finnish boys, right after that
war, they'd never been old enough to shave yet, they were slick-faced
boys, big old boots on, big long coats, walking down the street, with
these sabers and things, watching so I could get through the crowd to
get in. Here stood those Russians standing there. When I come by, they
come to attention, hold like that, and the tears run down their cheeks.
And when I passed by, they grabbed them Finnish soldiers, and pat them
on the back, and hug them. Anything that'll make a Russian pat a Finn
will settle wars. They said, "This we will receive, a God that can
raise up the dead."
That's what's the matter tonight, friend; it's exactly. What's made
them communistic, is because the clergy has letdown on the Word of God.
They taken all the money and have nothing to give back in its stead,
just like a lodge or anything else. That's what is wrong with the
world.

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Then we find that in the days of Solomon, they were all rallying around
this great gift that Solomon had from the Lord. And the people were
coming and going. All the nations feared Israel. Instead of trying to
make war with them, they brought in peace offerings. They were not
afraid, so much, of their men; they were afraid of that God that they
were all in unity with.
Oh, what a thing that would be to this nation tonight, if we'd all be
in fear of God, if we'd all respect God, and receive His gift of the
Holy Ghost and rally around It, every church break down their creeds
and throw them out the door, and get down to the altar and stay till
the Holy Ghost come to identify His Word in the last day.

⁶¹ Some of them trying to say, "Why, it's just for the Jews to get It. That's all there was to It."
Peter
said, on the day of Pentecost, "Repent, every one of you, and be
baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you
shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost; for the promise is unto you
and to your children, to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord
our God shall call." As long as there's a seed waiting in the earth to
be called, there's a Holy Ghost to call it to it. That's right. It's
still just the same.
But we find out, when It comes, It's rejected. That's the reason the
nation comes under condemnation. That's the reason things are going the
way they are tonight.

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And we find in Solomon's time, it wasn't so. All of them rallied around
that gift of discernment that Solomon had. And the nations all feared
God. And news spread out everywhere, "Oh, you should come to Israel,
their God has raised up a gift among them and they've made him king.
And his wisdom, his discernment is beyond human reckon-ation; it's
beyond. 'It's in the realms of gods out in there,' the heathen would
say. And we don't understand how it is, but God, their God has
represented Himself in one of their believers. And, he–they've set him
up on a throne, and they all listen to him." You know, the news
scattered then not by television, telephone, and so forth, it was lip
by ear.

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Finally the news broke plumb down across the Sahara Desert, all the way
into a little country called Sheba. They had… It was a heathen
country. They had a little queen down there, was no doubt a–a nice
little lady. And the news came to her that God was giving a great
revival up there in the land of Israel, and great things were taking
place. And they had a man up there anointed with the Spirit of their
God, that even his wisdom surpassed anything that man could think of.
You know, "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word of God." That
stirred her little heart. She begin to think about it. And now, as
every caravan came by, no doubt the little queen would send out her
soldiers, and say, "I would like to speak to the person, in private, if
they have come from Israel. "
"Yes, queen, we have been up in Israel, and, oh, it is marvelous. You
should see it. There's nothing like it. It's beyond man's
understanding. You know, all of them are in one accord, every one of
them is right around that gift that their God has given them, and they
all believe it with one accord. Oh, it's the most grandest thing; and
there's nothing withheld. God just reveals everything. If any nation
would start over there on them, why, the God of theirs would reveal
where they was coming, and–and ambush them before they got there. Oh,
it was just a great revival going on."

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Then, you know, the little queen begin to get hungry to see it herself.
You know, there's something about it, man knows that he come from
somewhere; and he's here; he don't know why he's here; and he's going
somewhere; he doesn't know where he's going. And there's only one Book
in the world that tells us who you are, where you come from, what you
are, and where you're going, and that's the Bible. It's the only one
that tells you, and it's God's Book. It's God Himself manifested in
Word form, called a Seed. That Seed in the right kind of ground will
produce every promise that He made, 'cause it's God Himself. But it has
to be watered by faith to make it come to pass, like any other seed.
The germ is in it. Know… Notice now.

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We find that in this doing, the little queen begin to hunger and thirst
for God. Oh, if–if the gifts of God could only create a thirst in the
people's heart for Him, like it did to her.
Now, we find out (so that the children, little fellows, there's a whole
row of them setting here and different places), that they might
understand, we'll give it kind of a drama for them, so they'll
understand.

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Now remember, she was a pagan. So in order to do this, and being a
queen, she would have to get permission from her pagan priest in order
to go. And I can imagine seeing her go over to him and make her vows,
and say, "Great holy father so-and-so, we know the Israelites has got a
revival up there, and their God has represented Himself in the form of
a man, by a great gift, that he knows the secrets of the heart. And
they tell me that He is the Word, and the Word is a Discerner of the
thoughts of the heart, and they say it's operating in a man. I would
like your permission, most holy father, to go up there, and to visit
and see for myself."
Well, I can imagine her answer coming back. "We don't have any
cooperation in that revival," or that's the '64 version of it. But
anyhow, they–they say, "They don't belong to our denomination. They're
not of our people. We have nothing to do into it at all. You shall not
go. And they're nothing but a bunch of–of cranks. They hear all kinds
of rumors about them coming through a Red Sea, and all that kind of
stuff, but there's nothing about it. Here's our great god, see him
standing on the side of the wall? They were so-and-so, and so many
times they've done so-and-so." The little queen went away disgusted.

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But, you know, there's something about it, if God begins to put a
hunger in a human heart, there's just nothing going to stand in its
way. Whether there's cooperation or not, or whether there's anything,
she's got to find that. Like I said about the little woman last night,
being persistent and perseverant. See, something gets ahold of you, and
you get ahold of something. Like Jacob, the son of–of God; Jacob,
God's son, got ahold of Something one night, and It got ahold of him;
and he never let It go until he achieved his purpose, blessed of It.
That–that's the real thing. And when man impersonates something, it's
never works out right. But if you can get ahold of that Something, and
that Something get ahold of you, it's going to happen.

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If you come here tonight for healing, and let the Holy Spirit get ahold
of you, and you get ahold of It, you're going to get what you ask for.
There's no way of keeping it from you.
If you come believing that Jesus Christ saves, and there's a saving
power gets ahold of you, and you hold to it, you're going to get saved.
If you believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit
gets ahold of you; He'll baptize you, and you get ahold of Him; you
won't have to move from your seat; He'll fill you with His Presence
right there where you are, just as He did, "While Peter yet spake these
words, the Holy Ghost fell on them that heard it." Something got
ahold…

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Something got ahold of that little Syrophenician woman we spoke of last
night. No matter how many hindrances she had, she still was going
anyhow. Something got ahold of this little queen we're talking about
tonight, a pagan, a heathen. So was this little Syrophenician, a Greek,
a pagan, idol-worshipper. But Something got ahold of them, and they got
ahold of Something.
There's always difficults in the way. Satan throws everything in the
way he can, when he sees a real move of God get started. He'll do it to
you. He'll put everything, all the hindrances he can in your way.

⁸¹
Remember, the woman had a lot of hindrance, but her faith didn't have
any. Faith has no hindrance. There's nothing going to stop it, no
matter what anybody says. If you've got that right hold on God, God's
got the right–right hold on you, there could be forty doctors standing
here telling you was dying and you wouldn't believe one word of it. No,
sir. No, sir. There could be forty clergymen standing here, like Ahab's
four hundred, withstand; if you're a Micaiah and got ahold of God,
God's got ahold of you, and you see it vindicated in the Word, there's
nothing going to stop you. You're going to stand there anyhow, because
Something has got ahold of you.

⁸²
It's revealed to that little woman, that there was a God somewhere. I
can see her go read those Hebrew scrolls again, roll them up and put
them down in the–the jar, and walk back to that pagan priest, and say,
"I want to tell you something, holy father. It might be so, the things
you're saying. But, look, my grandmother worshipped that idol; she read
that catechism you got. My great-grandmother read it; my mother read
it; all my people read it, it's all about something that did happen.
I've never seen a move of it yet. But they tell me they got something
up there that's real, moving right now; not some history, but something
that's now going on."
"Now looky here," he would say, "my child. If you go, I'll
excommunicate you. And you have no business, as a queen, associating
yourself with such people as that." That same old devil still lives.
There is no better crowd in the world to get into, than a borned again
church filled with the Holy Ghost. I don't care where it's at, if it's
in a alley or wherever it is. It's the best crowd. It's a heavenly
group, notice, believers who believe in God.

⁸⁵
Her heart was thumping heavy with anticipation. She wanted to see. She
had heard about it. She knowed nothing about it, but she wanted to see
it. And I can hear her say, "Well, you can just take my name off the
book if you want to. Whatever you say, and them idols, and them books
and things, I see you keep telling about something, telling about
something. It's never moved. I've never seen a move of it yet. I want
something that's real," and she gets ready to go. Too bad we ain't got
more of them little queens today. Right.
So then we find out that now, in order to go, she used a very good
tactic. I'd like for everybody to think of this. Now, she said she
didn't know. She had read all the scrolls to find out what Jehovah was,
to see the way He had worked in days gone by. "If that be so, then He'd
identify Himself with this man as they said he was, then that was
Jehovah. And if it was Jehovah, and He was the true God, the God of the
living, not some statue or monument of some creature that lived or
didn't live; this was a living, present God right now," so she wanted
to get ready to go. Now, she said…

⁸⁷
She packed up a lot of money. She took gold, and myrrh, and, oh,
frankincense, I suppose, and silver. And she'd laden camels with it.
Now, she said this, "I'm going up, and I'm going to look into it
myself. And then if it's so, I'll support it; if it isn't so, I'll have
nothing to do with it."
You know, she could teach Pentecostals something. See? A lot of them
support a program that laughs and makes fun of you. You support a
program on the air that makes fun of the things you believe in. And
that's right. Yes, sir. Because it sounds right. Sure, "There is a way
that seemeth right unto a man," Jesus said.
But notice her, she said, "If it isn't, then I can bring my gifts
back." But she was going to see for herself and be convinced. She had
read the scrolls; she knowed what Jehovah was, and she would see. If He
was, He is, then He's still Jehovah.
That's good today. Jesus Christ is what He was, and He always will be.
He never changes. The Bible said He's the same yesterday, today, and
forever.

⁹¹
We find the little woman then, talk about hindrances, then this might
have come through her mind, "Remember, I've got to cross the desert,
and that's a very long trip." Measure it, from Israel, from Palestine
down into Sheba, across the Sahara Desert. It would take a camel about,
I think, the caravans, taken them ninety days, three months, traveling
constantly, to go from one place to the other: three day–three months,
to go. And just think, she come across that hot desert. She had that in
her mind; she had to do it, across that hot desert, all the way up
here, to find out if this truly was God.
No wonder Jesus said she'll stand with this generation and condemn it.
She didn't have a air-conditioned Cadillac. And some people here in
Dallas won't come across the street to hear It. That's right. No wonder
she'll stand in the last days. But stand over somewhere and criticize
It, anywhere else they do it. Said, "She'll come from the utmost parts
of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and a greater than Solomon
is here." Notice.

⁹³
She had that to confront her. She probably had to travel by night, so
hot on the desert. The direct rays of the sun upon that Sahara Desert
would take the hide right off of you, and there she had to travel maybe
by night.
Another thing, remember, she was loaded down with offerings and things.
The sons of Ishmael were fleet horsemen. They were robbers on the
desert. How easy it would've been for Ishmael's children to come in
like a flood, and cut them two or three little eunuchs she had with
her, her little group of soldiers, eunuchs, and her little maids; cut
them down and left them lay there, and packed off tens of thousands
times thousands of dollars worth of jewels, besides the costly
frankincense and myrrh, and stuff that she was bringing for a gift.
But there's something about it, if your heart is set to see God, and
Something's got ahold of you, you don't know no danger, you don't know
no defeat. There's something; you're going to get it anyhow no matter
what the difficult is.

⁹⁶ Sure, it looked like a very setup for the robbers. Any of them could've come, but she didn't take the thought of any danger.
She
didn't take the thought whether she could get up and walk, like
somebody afraid to rise from a bed or a cot, or something or other, "I
don't know (See?); I'm afraid to do it." She didn't have that kind of a
fear. Something had ahold of her.
And if Something could get ahold of us in this same manner, something's
going to take place. Now, you can't do it until That gets ahold of you;
you'd better not try it. But when That's a hold of you, it's going to
happen.

⁹⁹ Notice, here she is; she never thought of how many robbers there was on the desert.
Or,
again, when she got up there, would she be received, or not? She was of
another denomination, you know, so would she be received, would she be
welcome at the meeting? She wasn't asked to come. Holy Spirit worked on
her, to come, so He was the One doing the leading; so to satisfy that
feeling that she had, that she longed to know…
Remember, it's your life. It was her life. You've only got one time to
settle it, and maybe tonight is your last opportunity. You turn Christ
down tonight, you may not have another opportunity.

¹⁰²
And that might've been her last opportunity. She realized that: was her
cold, form religion she had, all right, or was there truly a living
God? She had seen nothing in her own religion, but she'd heard there
was Something in the other one, and she'd read of what He was. She
wanted to see. It was her life was at stake.

¹⁰³
It's my life tonight, I have to face this. I have to come to the
judgment, so do you have to come to the judgment. It behooves us to set
in our seat, lay on our beds, or wherever we are, and consider this
thing deeply. Because you don't know what time your card's going to be
taken out of God's rack up there, and you'll answer at the judgment.
Whether you're a church member or whether you're not, that has nothing
to do with it. You're going to answer anyhow, and you'd better be dead
sure of it. Check your experience with God, see if Something really has
got ahold of you, that brings you back to this Word, away from creeds
and forms, and so forth. He promised it in the last days, there'd be a
turning again of the hearts of the children to the fathers." We believe
that. Notice, we find it in this day now.

¹⁰⁴
And she take no thought of fear or anything was to bother her. She
wasn't thinking about that. The idea was, she wanted to find out if It
was real or not; so across the desert she went. And not… She had a
hard time doing it. Anything that you have…
That's the trouble, we Pentecostals, we just got everything handed to
us on a platter, everything we want. The pastor don't come just on
time, "I'll leave the Assemblies and join the Church of God." And, you
know, it's just… We just so babied around.

¹⁰⁶
Reminds me, there was an old salt, one time, coming from the sea. And a
poet went down, had never seen the sea; he'd wrote about it, but never
seen it. The old salt met him; he said, "Where goest thou, my good man?"
He said, "I'm going to the sea. I'm a poet. I have wrote of the sea. I
long to smell the brine, and see its great briny waves leaping around,
the gulls a singing, and blue sky reflecting itself in the sea.
The old salt puffed his pipe four or five times, looked down, and spit.
Said, "I was born on it seventy years ago. I don't see nothing so
attractive about it." He'd lived on it so long till it become common.
That's what it is with us tonight. We've lived in the Presence of God
so long, till It's become common to us. We ought to wake ourself up and
realize that Jesus Christ is alive and has raised from the dead.

¹¹⁰
This was all to be a new experience for this little queen. She was
persistent. She wanted to see it. Certainly, she was persistent. She
had to persist to leave her nation. She had… All of her prestige, she
had to leave behind. What of all of her card society and all she
belonged to, all the stitch and sew circles, and things that she
belonged to as a queen, all the celebrity that she knowed? She'd be a
laughingstock to that group. But what difference did it make to her? It
was her soul.
It's your soul. It's my soul. What difference does it make to a
Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, or Oneness, Twoness, Threeness, or
whatever it is? It's my soul that's concerned. It's your soul that's
concerned. It's God's Word that's being vindicated.

¹¹²
We find her; she–didn't make any difference to her what anybody said,
or what her celebrity, what her friends, if she had to leave everything
there was in the world. If it was real, she was ready to go to it.
She'd give her kingdom, anything else. If it was real, she wanted to
find God. There was something in her heart.
We find out, across the desert she came. Finally, day after day, ninety
days, three months, the caravan finally arrived at the gate.
Now, she never come like a lot of people do in meetings today. Many of
them come and they'll say, "Uh, I hear they got, uh, somebody told me
they had… Uh–huh. Well, I'll go over." And they'll set down just for
a moment. Watch them. You see them everywhere. They'll say, "The first
word he says that's contrary to my belief," out the door, they're gone.
"I'll never go back to hear another one again." See, they just don't
set long enough. That's it.

¹¹⁵
What about when, Jesus, when He was setting before His seventy there,
and He had seventy, and He had the whole multitude? He was a great Man.
"He was a Prophet," they said, "the Galilean Prophet." One day He
looked upon that great crowd standing around Him; He said, "Except you
eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His Blood, you have no Life
in you."
Could you imagine the physicians setting out there, what they said
about that man? "Why, he'll make vampires out of us. Drink his blood
and eat his flesh?"
He never explained it. He didn't have to explain it. He had to shake
off the parasites that was around Him. Instead of trying to baby and
put their name on a book, He was shaking them away. He had no reuse for
them. So we find out, there He was, He said, "Except…" He never
explained it.

¹¹⁸ Watch, those disciples set still. They never said nothing.
I
see the doctor and see the Pharisees, said, "See, the Man is out of His
mind. He's crazy, wants us to cut up His body now and eat it, and drink
His Blood? Human vampire, well, we–we couldn't do a thing like that.
Oh, that's crazy. The man's out of His mind," walked away.
Then He looked around to those theologians setting around Him, them
seventy, and He said, "What will you say when you see the Son of man
ascending up into heaven from whence He came?" Them Doctors of Divinity
looking around, said, "The Son of man ascend up into heaven from where
He came? Why, we know Him; we've been to the stable where He was born.
We seen the cradle He was rocked in. We know His mother. We… He
fishes with us. He hunts with us. He's out here on the hills. He wears
the clothes that we do, eat the food. And this Son of man, where did He
come from? He come from Nazareth. This is too much for us." Away they
went. He still didn't explain It. See?

¹²¹ He looked, and He looked around to the twelve, said, "Will you go also?"
Now,
they couldn't explain it either, but Something had ahold of them. See,
they knowed. That's when Peter said those memorial words, "Lord, we
have seen the Scripture a-vindicated by You. Where would we go? We know
that Thou has the Words of Life. Thou art the Fountain of Life. We are
satisfied of This."
Jesus said, "I chose twelve of you, and one of you is a devil." See? He
had no bones, was polishing, and babying, and pat them on the back, and
baptize them secretly, or something another.
He had… He was God made flesh on earth. He was the vindicated Word of
God. And those who hungered, come. Those who did not hunger, could not
come. Said, "All the Father has given Me will come." How can you come
then unless He has given–been given?

¹²⁵
Now, notice, we find this little queen, she finally arrived. She didn't
wait just like those people did. Some of them followed her along.
There's always three classes of people; believers, make-believers, and
unbelievers. The unbeliever will get up and walk away; the
make-believer will stand around for a long time. There all three of
them was. The unbeliever, the crowd; the make-believer, the group that
turned away last. But there was a genuine believer who could not
explain it; they knowed nothing about it, but they knowed that He was
the Word. That settled it.

¹²⁷
There we find the little queen. She'd brought a whole lot of food, many
pieces of bread, and a lot of stuff. She brought her tents and things.
She throwed her things off of the camels, and things, out in the yard,
the court of the temple. And she pitched her tents, and was there to
stay till she was convinced whether it was right or wrong.
No doubt, day by day, she had read those Scriptures. Nighttime, they
probably had to travel by night. In daytime she'd set back under those
palm trees, in the oasis in the desert, and read what Jehovah was, what
He was supposed to be. Now, she would know Jehovah. If He was in that
man, she'd know His action; she'd know whether it was right or not. So
she was all posted in the Scriptures.

¹²⁹
She didn't go there and say, "Now, if he says anything different than
what my priest says, I'll just pick up my camels and go away." She was
going to stay till she was convinced.
Oh, if men and women would only do that today, take the Scripture, see
if the Holy Spirit's for today, or not, see if these things we're
talking about are predicted for this hour that we're in. But she did;
that's the reason Jesus said her name is infallible–not infallible,
but it's immortal. She'll stand in the day of judgment and condemn
Dallas, Texas. She'll condemn the United States in the day of the
judgment. For she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear
the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. A
resurrected Jesus Christ is here in the power of His resurrection.

¹³¹
Notice. And she pitched her tents. I can imagine that morning (for the
children's sake now.) the bells rang, the trumpets sounded, and church
was on. They had church every day. Think of it. They loved to go to
church every day. So they, church started, I'd imagine the little queen
went way back in the back and set down. And after while all the
trumpets sounded; the hymns was sung, and everything.
After while, Pastor Solomon came out, set down. How all the people
regarded him, because they loved him. He was God's servant. And they
come out; there wasn't one saying, "Hm, if he was just this; if he just
belonged to my group." No. There was only one group, and that was–that
was them, so there they was.

¹³³
And then we find out, someone come up. And the first thing you know,
Solomon revealed the secret of their heart. I imagine the little queen
said, "Now, wait just a minute." See? "My, that sounded real." The next
one come up, found the same thing. Oh, her little heart begin to jump.
She–she wondered.
So she must've got a prayer card and waited. Excuse that expression;
but, you know, just to make a point. See? She might've got a card, and
she waited. One day her card was called, and she come up before the
Holy Spirit that was working through Solomon. And the Bible said there
was nothing hid from Solomon. The great Holy Spirit revealed everything
that she had need to hear; He revealed it.
And here was the Holy Spirit, Its fulness in Jesus Christ, doing the
same thing; and those Pharisees saying, "Show us a sign. Heal this man
out here. Do this, and say this. And what'll be this, or that?" See,
they just don't understand.

¹³⁶
This little queen standing there, and the Bible said that nothing was
held back from Solomon. He revealed all the things that she had need of
knowing. He told her all about it.
And when it did, she didn't have to take somebody else's word; she'd
watched it and she believed it. Then she turned to the audience, and
she said, "All that I heard, when I heard it, I wondered. But all that
I heard is so, and more than I heard is so." See, it was her turn; she
had seen it. It was worked on her. She knew it was real. And she said,
"Blessed be the Lord God Who has made you His servant. Blessed be
the…"
What was it? The poor little woman had lived there, all those creeds
and idols, and one time in her hungry heart… Any real believer wants
to see God in action. If He ever was God, He's still God. And she seen
something that was real, not put-on; genuine real. She served God the
rest of her days, for she seen something that was real.

¹³⁹
Oh, friend, we've seen so many, "Join this creed, this Moslem; this
whatever it is come to this; and this, that, and the other," and all
kinds of sensations and things. Surely the world ought to be hungry
tonight for something real, see something that's genuine. Not some
mythic bunch of flowing blood, or scratches, or oil, or something
that's not even Scriptural; but a real Jesus Christ Who promised that
He would live in His people in this last days, and do the things that
He did, something that the Scripture says would take place in these
days.

¹⁴⁰
All these little creeds, "Well, if you know our creed, you know…"
See, you're–you're–you're looking back to what Mr. Luther said, a
great man of his day. Sure. No more than some of these women here,
seventy-five years old, trying to be sixteen, looking back and trying
to dress like they're sixteen, cut off their hair and wear shorts, and
make… Anybody who drives, looking through a rearview mirror has a
wreck. That's what's the matter with the church today, it's looking
through a rearview mirror to what it was. No wonder it's wrecked up.
Don't never…
Paul said, "Pressing to the mark of the high calling, I go forth. I go
forward." I know Mr. Moody was a great man, Mr. Wesley was a great man,
the Pentecostal move, the Baptist move, were great, but let's press
towards the mark of the high calling in Christ. Don't look through a
rearview mirror, forty years ago. Look what is tonight. Look what the
Scripture promises tonight. He did promise them in that day, but we're
living on above there now. We're going on.

¹⁴²
And what if Wesley would've looked back and seen what, Luther? See? But
he didn't look what Luther said; he looked what God said. What if the
Pentecostal looked back towards the Methodist? See where you'd have
been? There you are, the same thing, you organized and cramped it down,
you can't move anywhere. Now the Spirit of God just moves right on out,
takes It on somewhere else.
Every time they do it, a manmade system where you get all worked up
like that, it's again like the gainsaying of Korah, how Dathan and them
wanted to get a big bunch of men and make an organization out there.
God said, "Separate yourself, Moses, from them, and I'll swallow them
right up in the earth." And that was a type of the journey today, and
you know it, on the road to the promised land. And there they was. They
couldn't believe that anointed message of God that was moving right on;
and they wanted to start something themselves. It's always that way.

¹⁴⁴
Israel's most rashal move they ever made, when they rejected grace in
Exodus 19 and took the law. And Dathan made the awfullest mistake he
ever made when he said, "There's more leaders in here besides you,
Moses."
And–and had been a-vindicated that he was God's manifested Word. He
had took dust and turned it into fleas. And everything that he'd said
had come to pass. And God was with him. A Pillar of Fire had
vindicated, hanging above him there, and still they wanted to start
something else. That's just manmade.
That's the way it is today. That's where the church has got. That's
right. Oh, church of the living God, don't you want to see something
real, something real?

¹⁴⁷
A little story before praying for the sick. I like to hunt. My mother,
you know, is… she… Her mother drawed the pension. She was a
Cherokee Indian. I… And my conversion never taken the love of the
woods. I love it. That's where you see God. That's where I first saw
God, was out there in the woods. There's where He meets us. There's
where He does the talking. There's where those seven Angels met. Did
you… On, "Sirs, What Time Is It?"…

¹⁴⁸
Brother Borders and I was setting there the other day, when that
(stand) come down, a whirlwind out of the heavens, even tore the rocks
out right above where I was standing there, what He said. See? And
there, oh, many men, Brother Sothmann in here somewhere, one of the…
Terry, I believe over here was present at that time. And the things you
seen in the wilderness out there… I love to hunt. I do that just to
get out, not to kill the game, but just to be in the woods.
I used to hunt with a fellow up in New York, up in New Hampshire,
rather; he was a–a fine hunter. His name was Burt. He was an
Englishman. And his–his parents established, or cut that, where they
call Jefferson Notch, through there, and over to Carroll Notch, and
separated that in the early days. There was a little Indian about him
too. But he was one of the best shots I ever seen and one of the finest
hunters. You never had to worry about going out and hunting him up; he
knowed where he was at. I used to love to hunt the white-tailed deer up
there. And they… And I'd go up every fall and hunt.

¹⁵⁰
And he was such a fine hunter, but he was the cruelest man I ever met
in my life. He had eyes like a lizard, and he just… Them kind, you
know, like the women try to paint their eyes today, kinda lizard-like.
Well, he actually had that kind of eye. And it don't look like human to
me. See? So I–I always kind of hated to look at him. He was so
slimy-looking like that, you know, look them eyes sideways.
And he loved to be mean. And he'd shoot fawns (that's little baby
deer), just to make me feel bad. And he'd say, "Oh, preacher, you're
like the rest of them. You're chicken-hearted. You'd be a good hunter
if you wasn't a preacher."
I said, "I'm hunting souls, Burt." And I said, "You got one that's lost."
And he, "Aw, get next to yourself." Said, "Billy, you're all right,"
but said, "don't talk that kind of stuff to me." So he'd–he'd shoot
those little fawns, and–and I–that'd just make me feel so bad.

¹⁵⁴
Now, it's all right to kill a fawn if the law says so: now, the size or
sex, just whatever the law says. I was game warden for many years. But
look, Abraham killed a calf and fed it to God, so there ain't nothing
about killing a fawn, if the law said. But not just shoot them, just
let them lay there, and act smart about it; that's wrong; that's wrong
in doing it. So I just said that to justify my hunting brothers here
(You see?), so that you'd see what I'm trying to mean.
Now, notice this, that we find that this man… One day I went up
there, wife and I were together. And–and he'd made him a little
whistle that blowed and sound just like a little baby fawn crying, you
know, a little funny bleat they make. Well, as long…

¹⁵⁶
I had been working, and I hadn't got through in time in a meeting, and
I went up to hunt with him. And there'd been a lot of hunting going on,
and the first time a gun fires in that country, them white-tail… You
have–you thought Houdini was escape artist (See?); he was an amateur
to them. And the first thing you know, they'd all hide. And if a
moonlight, they'd graze at night; or get under a brush pile or
something, and they–they wouldn't move.
Then we see that day, I said, "Burt, you're–you're not going to use that whistle?"
He said, "Aw, preacher, you're so chicken-hearted." Said, "Get next to yourself."

¹⁵⁹
And we started out, and we put some sandwiches in our–in our shirt.
And we was hunt–was going to hunt till about noon, up around the rims
of the top of the–of the Presidential Range, and then separate and
come back down. If we got a deer, we knowed where it would be hanging,
we'd go pull it out in a day or two; and hang it up. So there was
about, oh, four inches of snow, or six, something like that; it was
good tracking time. And we started off, got along about, up the
mountain, not a track, there wasn't a thing. The moon shining at night,
the deer… [Blank.spot.on.tape–Ed.]

¹⁶⁰
Burt was in front of me, leading the way, and so I was walking along
behind him. And he just kind of set down, like that. The snow was dry.
And he started reaching back. I thought he was going to eat the
sandwich, and we'd just part from there, 'cause we was way high in the
mountain then. And he reached back here.
And I started getting my sandwich, and I started finding a place to set
my rifle down. And–and I started to get my sandwich, and I looked
around.
He brought this little whistle out. That, I thought, "Boy, that's a
dirty trick to do that." So he took this little whistle, and looked at
me, and them lizard eyes, and looked up at me. He put that little
whistle in his mouth like that. And I said, "Burt, you wouldn't do a
thing like that, would you?"

¹⁶³
He said, "Oh," and he blowed like that. And to my surprise, about fifty
yards from me, just across, a great big doe stood up. Now, the doe's
the mother deer. And there she was, her big brown eyes, and them ears
peaked up. See, she heard. Now, she was a mother (See?), and her baby
was crying. And so no matter whether the rest of them come out or not,
there was something in her. She was a mother.
So Burt looked like that, and he blowed it again real low. And that
deer walked right out into the opening. Now, that's unusual, very
unusual, walk out like that. And she was looking around, with big head
up, and her eyes looking around.

¹⁶⁵
After while, when the hunter reached up and got the gun, she seen the
hunter. Usually they'll just flash and gone, you know how it is,
quickly. But, you know, she never moved. She just stood and looked at
him broadside, had turned her head and looked. My, I thought, "Burt,
you can't do that."
See, she wasn't putting on something. She wasn't hypocritically. She
wasn't acting. She was–born in her she was a mother. And that baby, I
don't care if it costed her life, it was in trouble, she was trying to
find that baby. It was in trouble. She was, the instinct in her, she
was mother. And she saw the hunter. But her mind wasn't about the
hunter; it was about that baby in trouble, that little fawn.

¹⁶⁷
And so he pulled the safety down on this .30-06. Oh, he was a dead
shot. He leveled that rifle down. I–I just had to turn my head. I
couldn't keep from it. I–I couldn't look at him. Thought, "Just a
couple more minutes, and he'll blow her loyal heart out; trying to find
her baby, it's in trouble, knowing that hunter laying right there in
the bush." And he'd blow that loyal heart plumb through with that
hundred-and-eighty-grain bullet in there. And I–I… He was such a
dead shot. He leveled. I thought, "I just can't stand to look at it." I
turned my back.
And–and I–I said, "Lord, help him, that he won't do that."
I–I felt so sorry, that poor mother standing there hunting for her
baby, and I knowed she wasn't putting that on. She was a mother. She'd
have run, any other time. She wouldn't have got up, and us going by.
But there was something in her.

¹⁶⁹
And I waited, and I waited, and the gun never went off. Well, I
wondered, "What's the matter?" And I waited, then I turned around real
slow. And I seen the deer standing out there, still was looking at him.
And I looked at the gun barrel; it was going like this. He just… He
was trying to hold aim, and he couldn't do it.
He throwed the gun down on the ground, and looked around at me, and
them big eyes had changed. The tears was running down his cheeks. He
grabbed me by the trouser leg; he said, "Billy, lead me to that Jesus
you're talking about."

¹⁷¹
What was–what was it? He saw something real. See? That little mother
deer had to display a loyalty, a real loyalty that made that cruel
hunter there that had the wickedest heart I ever seen. It wasn't a
sermon I preached. It was what he seen, something that was real. It
wasn't put-on. It wasn't a sham. That was a genuine mother seeking for
her baby, and that led him to Christ. He's a deacon in the church there
now, a wonderful Christian, because he saw something that wasn't put
on. It wasn't a make-belief. It was real.

¹⁷²
Oh, brother, sister, if this church, if this people, tonight, if you
and I… There's something real, not a put-on. You might see some
putting it on, but there's a genuine thing. There's something in a man
that makes him live for God. There's a genuine Holy Spirit tonight,
brother, that's not a put–on. There, it's a genuine thing.
And how many in here would like to be as much Christian, and as loyal
to Christ, death, persecution, anything else, you'd love to be as much
Christian as that deer was a mother? Would you like, wouldn't you like
to be that? I would long to be that kind of a Christian, that even like
that little Syrophenician woman last night, was that kind of a
Christian. This little queen we're talking about tonight was that kind
of a Christian; when she saw something that was real, she was ready.
God help us tonight to receive something real: Christ.

¹⁷⁴
Let us bow our heads just a moment, while we pray. And I wonder, in the
building tonight, if there's–if there's any here, while you're real
quiet, there's any here that would like, and don't know Christ as your
personal Saviour, and you would like to know Him as your Saviour, would
you raise up your hand? One, two, three. God bless you. God bless you.
God bless you. God bless you. God bless you.
I wonder if there's some here tonight, that's claimed to be a
Christian, maybe a member of a fine church, of a great bunch of people,
but yet you know down in your heart that you haven't got Christianity
in your heart, borned into it. Just like that mother was–deer was born
to be a mother; she was mother through and through. And you'd like to
become a real Christian, like that little mother deer was a mother,
would you raise your hand, say, "Pray for me, Brother Branham"? God
bless you. God bless you. All around, up in the balconies, I see your
hand.

¹⁷⁶
Heavenly Father, little did I know on that cold November day, standing
there, snow all down my neck, wet, to see that man laying there, how I
talked to him, held his hand, cried with him, but told him about the
Bible and everything. And he said, "Oh, you're perhaps right." But to
see You have to send around something so real, that right in the way of
nature, that–that he–he just couldn't keep from seeing that there was
something real. And now he's Your servant, Lord.
Now there's many here tonight. Some of them raised their hands, Father,
that they never have been a Christian, and they want to become one.
God, just don't let them be one of these, just run and join church, or
take some form, or creed, or baptism. But let it be born in their
heart: Christ.

¹⁷⁸
And those who have joined church, they–they're seeking, Lord, like
perhaps the–the little woman, the little queen we been talking about.
they… She–she's hungering for something. And–and they are too,
Lord. And when she seen something that was real, that identified God in
human beings, she was ready then. And she said, "Blessed be the Lord
God of Israel." She wanted no more to do with pagan forms.
And, Father, many here tonight, no doubt, is in that same state. If
they can just see something real… And You told us when You were here
in the world, that what would take place in this day. And we're told
that You're the same yesterday, today, and forever. And we know how You
was identified, how the Pharisees failed to see it. Lord, the same
groups today are failing to see it by belonging to church, joining,
having certain forms of creeds, and so forth. They–they fail to see
the Messiah, the great Holy Spirit identifying Himself with the people,
as you promised You would.

¹⁸⁰
Grant, tonight, Lord, that each one of these will realize and will see
Your Presence. And may it come into their heart, the text, "A greater
than Solomon is here tonight," that's Jesus Christ, the resurrected Son
of God, ready to come and to convert, and to make hearts new, and to
put in them a born experience of God. Just like that mother doe,
something that she had nothing to do with, by the grace of God she was
chosen to be a deer, she was chosen to be a mother, and a loyal mother.
And You told us we were chosen before the foundation of the world.
I pray, God, that You'll let every one of those who has that drawing in
their heart, like the little lady did, to find God, that tonight
there'll be something real happen, that they'll see, and serve Him.
"For a greater than Solomon is here." We ask in Jesus' Name. Amen.

¹⁸²
Now, reverently, silently, just before we come to the altar. Please, no
one move around. Just be real reverent a moment. This is a solemn hour,
solemn moment. Decisions are being made. Many raised their hands. I
believe you were deeply sincere in that, when you said that.
Now, you've heard about the Bible; you've heard about Jesus; you've
heard He was the Son of God. You've been taught that He raised again,
and you are taught that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

¹⁸⁴
Now, is this Holy Spirit that we talk about, is that Jesus Christ?
Sure, It is. See, He's God; known as God, the Holy Ghost. It ain't
another God; it's the same God. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is not
three Gods; it's three attributes of the same God (See?) just the same
God in three forms. You see, in other, was three offices, like, you
know; when He served as Father, and then as Son. It's God
condescending, coming from One Who cannot be touched (even to touch the
mountain, he had to die), till we could handle Him in flesh.
And now He's in you. He sanctified you with His Blood, that He might
live in you. "At that day, You'll know I am in the Father, the Father
in Me, I in you, and you in Me." See? It's God above us, God with us,
God in us. See?

¹⁸⁶
And that's Christ tonight the Holy Spirit. He's the same. And you
are… He's the Vine, and you're the branches. Have faith in Him.
And if He will identify Himself tonight being among us… Now, if he
stood here with scars, that would be a human being; that's flesh.
Anybody can impersonate that; a human being can disfigure himself. Or,
maybe, we don't know what Jesus looked like; we just got the–the–the
artist's idea, the psychology of it, what He looked like; Hofmann had
one kind, Sallman another, and how many more…
But how would you know Him? It would be of His Life.
Because if a man stood here with thorns prints in his hand, and
whatevermore, that would be an impostor; 'cause when Jesus Himself
comes, every eye shall see Him, every knee shall bow, and every tongue
confess it. Certainly.

¹⁸⁹
But His Spirit is here. See? And if we can just let our own minds drift
into His. "Let the mind that was in Christ be in you." He is the Word.
And the Bible said, "The Word of God." Which, how many knows that Jesus
was the Word? In the Bible, Hebrews 4, and the Bible said, "It's
sharper than a two-edged sword, and a Discerner of the thoughts of the
heart." Now, that's what was in Solomon (the Word, God), reason he
could discern their thought. That was in Jesus. See? That's what's here
now, same Thing.
Now, you out there. I ain't going to call no prayer line, 'cause I'm
going to make an altar call. There might be some here that's never been
in one of the meetings. I don't see a person in the building that
I–that I know.

¹⁹¹
Someone was telling me that it was about thirty last night, or better,
called. Do you realize that one time a woman touched His garment, and
He turned around, and the same thing taken place, and–and virtue went
out of Him, Him the Son of God? But He said, "Greater than this shall
you do, for I go to the Father."
Now, you just believe and have faith, each one of you, all around here,
in these cots, stretchers, wherever you are. Believe! Don't think
you're hopeless.

¹⁹³
Now, if I could heal you, I'd do it; but I cannot heal you. I can lay
hands upon you, and I intend to do that, to everyone having them cards.
And they give out cards every day. So I intend to do that, but that is
that's–that's just to signify that I believe with you.
But, look, why don't you just touch Him? The Bible said He's the High
Priest right now, that can be touched by the feeling of our
infirmities." Is that right? Well, if He is a High Priest, then He
would certainly act in the same way He did then. Would He not? He
certainly would act the same way He did then. All right, now you touch
Him by faith.

¹⁹⁵
Now, heavenly Father, the meeting is Yours. But I have taught tonight
on this little woman seeing something real, when she seen that spirit
of discernment upon Solomon. And we are sure, Lord, that Your Words are
true. You said that would return again, like it was in the days of
Sodom just before the coming; and You was the same yesterday, today,
and forever. The works that You did, we'd do also. And You're a High
Priest tonight that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities.
How much more do we need?
How much did those Jews need, to see that He was a Prophet? A virgin
conceived, and all these things, but, they–their creeds blinded them.
Lord, there's some here come like, maybe not from Sheba, but they've
come from many places. I pray, God, that You'll identify Yourself
tonight real. And then identify Yourself in them, as the instinct of
that mother in that little deer did that day. We are Yours, Father.
Speak to us, in Jesus' Name. Amen.

¹⁹⁸
Now, I want you to have faith and believe, each one of you, all around
everywhere. And just pray. Now, don't… Just look and pray now, and
just believe. See, this might not, the Holy Spirit not–might be
pleased with doing this. If He doesn't, I'll call up a prayer line. But
just stand here. Somebody out there, even if you… I don't want you
with prayer cards. Just–just anybody just–just pray. 'Course I
wouldn't know, but you just pray and see. Just say, "Lord Jesus, I know
that man don't know me. He knows nothing about me, but I know that I do
believe."

¹⁹⁹
Your faith is unconscious. Don't press now or jump. You jump away from
it. It's right with you. Just relax yourself and believe. Just believe
now and have faith. [An exhortation is given–Ed.]
Amen. And be reverent; just have faith; just believe. Sometimes your
faith is unconscious, you have it and you don't know it. That little
woman had it; she didn't know it.

²⁰⁰
How many of you has ever seen the picture of that Angel of the Lord,
that Light? It's–it's taken right here in Texas. It's been taken, all
over the world now, but…
What do you think, sir? You believe, setting right here at the corner?
Looked like you were looking so eagerly. Have many things wrong with
you. You have complications, many things. Now, when I said that, a real
strange feeling come to you, didn't it? If that's right, raise up your
hand. I'm a total stranger to you, I don't know you. That's right. You
know what? That Light just settled right down over you. See? That's
what you felt, kind of a real sweet feeling. I was watching It (See?)
come right down.

²⁰²
Now, yes, you're here; you want to be prayed for before you leave the
building. If God will reveal to me what your trouble is, and you
setting there, and me here, would you believe it to be God? It's a
hernia, one of your great things. That's right. Is that right? If God
will tell me who you are, what your name is, you got a good contact
with Him now, will you believe me to be His prophet, or His servant?
Excuse me, that's a stumblingblock to a lot. You believe it? Your name
is Mr. Sturgeon. If that's right, raise your hand. Believe it, and be
healed.

²⁰³
Here's a little lady setting right back there, dark-headed, right out
here in the aisle: yes, you. You was amazed when that was said. Now,
right at this time you begin to feel kind of strange (See?), real
sweet-like something around you. If anyone will look, if you can see
It, kind of an amber-looking Light coming down upon the little lady.
Now, what her trouble is, she has headaches that bothers her real bad.
That is right. If that's right, raise up your hand like that. And I
never seen her, in my life. That's true. That's right. Headaches
bothers her, like a migraine, but they're going to leave you. Amen.
Believe.
Now, the… There's a man setting right next to you there, and he is
looking right at me so earnestly, and that Light is moving right over
towards him. And the man is suffering trouble with his eyes. But if
he'll believe, God will heal the eyes and make them well. You believe?
All right. I never seen you in my life. You're a stranger to me.

²⁰⁵
Say, that young fellow sitting right next to you there also, he suffers
with trouble with his head. That's right. Uh-huh. Yes, sir. I never
seen the man in my life. God knows that. See? All right, you believe.
The man setting right next to you with glasses on, looking this a
way… Yes, you're wearing glasses, but that really isn't your trouble.
You got something wrong with your back that you're wanting to be prayed
for. If that's right, wave your hand like this, sir. All right.
That young fellow setting right next to you there, right next to you.
He's had a lot of troubles, that young man has (Yes, sir.) with the red
tie on. You've had a lot of troubles in your family and things, kind
of… Your wife is a nervous type of a person, and you're suffering
with some kind of a pressure in your head also. That's THUS SAITH THE
LORD. That is true. That's right. You just believe. Don't you doubt,
but you believe.

²⁰⁸
Here's a woman sitting right back here. Don't you see that Light move
back there and settle down right here? She's suffering with a eye
trouble and her bladder. Oh, she's going to miss it. Lord God, help me.
Her name is Mrs. Chambers. Believe with all your heart, Mrs. Chambers.
Raise up to your feet. Raise up, so that the people see who you are.
I'm a stranger, never seen her in my life. Yes. It's over now. Jesus
Christ makes you well.
Now, if that isn't Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and
forever, where is He? Did He promise to do it? All that believes it,
raise up your hand. All right.

²¹⁰
Do you want to be a real Christian, you that raised your hand awhile
ago, like that old mother deer was? While the Holy Spirit's here, and
the anointing is all over us, why don't you just make your way, and
come stand right here at the altar, just a minute. If you're seeking
God for salvation, will you come here, and just come here at this altar
and stand here with me just a minute? Raise up. That's it. That's
right. God bless you. Anybody in the building, anywhere you're at, will
you come? That's right. Come right now, you that wants to find Christ.
You'll never be no closer to Him until you meet Him. He's here. He's
identified, something real. You joined church. A lot of you church
members now, you've joined church, but that's all you had; you want to
see something real. If that isn't exactly what Jesus Christ identified
Himself to be…

²¹²
Look at this little child coming here, crying, the tears running down
his little face. No wonder, they're tender. They haven't been pulled
through everything. Another one coming down the aisle, another one in
the back, coming down, little children, when the adults has passed
theirs by. Won't you come? Come right up here now and stand around the
altar. You church members, you people that wants to have an experience
of Christ in your heart, won't you come here? If He knows your heart,
and you know you couldn't hide it, won't you come right now and stand
here, just before we go further. Come here, stand here for a word of
prayer. Will you do it?
Come, show, stand for Him. You stand for Him. If you're ashamed of Him now, He'll be ashamed of you there.
Remember, He is here. The Scripture said this would happen, and here He
is identifying Himself as being here. If you're a church member and
don't know Christ as a real experience, won't you come at this time?
Now, I'm not much to persuade people. Only thing I can say is tell you
the Truth, and of Christ's Presence, plus His Word being made
manifest…

²¹⁵
Up in the balcony, you that raised your hands; sister, brother, if you
want to come down, we're going to wait right here. Come right on down
and gather around the altar, just for a word of prayer. Let the world
know, let Jesus know that you're–that you're not ashamed, you want to
be a real Christian. Won't you come while we're just waiting a moment
or two?
Church member, lukewarm, backslider, won't you come stand along with
them now? Come here and stand along, you who haven't, if you haven't
got an experience with God, that you're borned in the Kingdom of God,
like that…

²¹⁷
What more do you want to see? Remember, I tell you in the Name of the
Lord, if you regard me to be His servant, this is the last sign that
the church will see according to the Scripture. That was the last thing
that Abraham seen done before the promised son arrived. And we are the
royal Seed of Abraham, and Jesus promised the royal Seed to see the
same thing that Abraham seen, just before the Gentile world burned.
Don't put off for something else, Satan trying to get you to look over.
Come now, while…

Won't you come and accept it now? I'm waiting just a moment, somebody else might come and stand here for prayer.

²¹⁹
Now, I'm going to ask ministers here, brethren, come down and stand
with me, around, while we pray; and ministers out there, who's
concerned, and some of these people in your neighborhood, that would
come to your church or–or something that, that you are interested
in–in souls coming to Christ, and you believe this to be Jesus
Christ…
Now, remember, I am not Jesus Christ. I am your brother, a sinner saved
by grace. I'm like you are. But it's Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit
that's here with us, keeping His Word. He don't have to do this,
He–but He promised He would do it. Jesus didn't have to heal the sick,
but the Bible said He did it, that it might be fulfilled which was
promised of Him.
Now, we don't care what brand of church that you belong to; if you
believe that Jesus Christ is present, you believe that there is a
borned again experience of the baptism of the Holy Spirit…

²²²
Ministers, move right up in among these people here. Come right up
among them, laying your hands on them. We're going to offer prayer for
them. I'm asking our congregation to be just as reverent as you can for
a few moments. How do we know what the Holy Spirit will do? That's it.
Move right in, mingle yourself right with the people. Come right around
them, each one.
Now, remember, there's only one thing you can do, is accept what He has
promised you. Have you seen the reality of the resurrection of Christ?
Now, I'm going to ask the congregation if they will stand just a
minute, in reverence and respects to… Each one of you believe now.
Confess all that you've done; that's all you can do, and then ask God
to forgive you, and accept it, believe it. Now, let everyone pray in
your own way.

²²⁵
Our heavenly Father, we come to You, with penitent souls. How the
little story about that mother deer struck down deep, that people
wanted to do something, or see something real; like the queen of the
South, who came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the
wisdom of Solomon. And a greater than Solomon is here: the Saviour of
mankind, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Save them, Father. Forgive their
sins. Wash their souls in the Blood of the Lamb, and give them an
experience of being borned a Christian. No other animal, no nothing
else, could've done that, but the mother deer. That's what she was.
Give us that experience, Lord, now of a borned again experience in the
Kingdom of God, while the Holy Spirit is there. Grant it, Lord. Grant
it, Lord.

²²⁶
Now, close your eyes, raise up your hands, and say–make your
confession, saying, "Jesus, I now believe. Take me as I am. There's no
more I can do. Heal my sick body. Take me, Lord. I believe You're here;
the Holy Spirit is here identifying Itself. Save me by Thy grace, Lord.
It's all I know how to do. Through Jesus Christ's Name."
Brother Grant, will you lead us in prayer?

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