Now, in them days I can see Simeon, the old man walking along down the street, and saying, “Well, I’m going to see the Christ before I die.” Could you imagine some of those scholars saying, “Don’t pay no attention to the old fellow. I believe he’s just…He’s got old now, and his mind’s kindly went away from him. And the poor old fellow, he’s a good old man. But you know, an old man like that isn’t going to…Why, we’ve looked for Him for age, and look at the condition of the world today. Why, we know He isn’t coming now.” But Simeon had one reason that he believed that: the Holy Ghost revealed it to him. There’s the thing. God had told Simeon that he wasn’t going to see death until he had seen the Christ. And he believed what the Holy Ghost said was the truth. Now, can you do that? Now, the same Holy Ghost that led Simeon, is the same Holy Ghost that’s here tonight. There’s not no two Holy Spirits, are they? Just one Holy Spirit. Now, look at him. Now, he had to believe something more than you believe. See? People are getting healed every night, every day, and all over the world, big healing campaigns everywhere. They’re getting healed. But Jesus or Christ had never come to the earth. But it was prophesied that He would come, and Simeon had the promise of the Holy Spirit, that he was going to see Him.

Expectation, 1951-07-14, Flint, MI, §21