<TITLE>02. Par 5-7</TITLE>L-5 Now, the Gospel is not altogether the Word. This is the Word of God, and all things must be based upon this Word. If it isn't, it isn't true. This is... But Jesus said, "Go ye in all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature." Now, He did not say "Teach the Word," He said, "Preach the Gospel."
So the Gospel consists more than teaching the Word, for Paul, confirming that, said, "The Gospel came to us, not in Word only, but through power." Demonstrations of the Holy Spirit would come and demonstrate the Gospel, bring the Word to a living reality.
If you just receive the Word by knowing the Word, that doesn't do you any good. "The letter killeth; the Spirit giveth life." Then you must be borned again, and then the Holy Spirit quickens the Word to you. In other words, like a grain of corn, if it's laying in my hand, it's just a grain of corn, it'll never be nothing else. But bury it, it comes contaminated, molds, and then it brings up another grain of corn just like it.

L-6 I used to look at flowers. I just love flowers. I don't believe there's anyone who could look right at a rose or flower, and say, if he's mentally balanced right, that there is no God. For all the science in the world couldn't make one little thing like that: all of our scientific research. They can make something looks like it, but they can't make that. No more than they could make that, they can make one looks like it out of paper, but it hasn't got life in it. That's got life in it. That's the secret, the life. God is Life.
You watch the little flowers how that they... Summertime you woman around here now, I notice sometimes passing through Jonesboro, I notice you have a lot of beautiful flowers. I love that. And in the fall of the year, some of them are still young. You plant them late in the summer and they are young, old, middle-age, but when the frost comes as death, it kills them all, young old alike bows its little head and submits itself to death. Then the petals drop off; the leaves drop off. And out of there drops a little black seed. Then they have a regular funeral procession, God does, for the flower. He sends the fall clouds over, and they cry. The rain falls down and buries the little seed underneath the ground. Then the cold winter comes, freezes it. The pulp bursts... The little seed bursts open, the pulp runs out. The ground is all froze over with ice.

L-7 Well, now in the spring of the year, the flower's gone, the petal's gone, the bulb's gone, the--the seed's gone, the pulp's gone; everything's gone. But that's not the end of the flower. When that warm sunshine begins to bathe upon the earth, there's a little germ of life somewhere, hid away, that no science can find. It reproduces the same kind of a flower that went down.
If God made a way for a flower to live again, how much more He did for a man to live again. The whole basis of Christianity is based upon the fundamental fact of resurrection.
Now, if I should drop this on the floor, now to pick up this off the floor, would not be resurrection, or pick up something that looks like it, wouldn't be resurrection. Resurrection is to pick up the same thing that dropped down.


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