<TITLE>08. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 Now, he had a bunch of church members come, and set with their backs turned to him for seven days. What a conciliation, accusing him of being a secret sinner, but Job knowed he hadn't sinned. You know what's in your heart. Everybody does.
And while he was setting there with his back turned, their back turned like that, Job in his misery, but this little fellow didn't try to accuse him. He didn't accuse him of being a--a secret sinner, but he said...
He tried to tell him about someone Who was coming that would stand in the breach and would bridge the way. I often thought of Job 14 there, that how that God speaking to him concerning the--the flowers and everything. How the... Job watched. He said, "There's hope in a tree if it dies. It'll live again."

L-30 Did you ever notice? That's where... My first Bible was in nature, and God does dwell in His universe, in His nature. You take, you women, around here your flowers in a yard now. After while in about another month, the frost will hit the little fellows. Oh, some of them will be young, just coming up, and some old, and different ways, but when the frost hits it, it's gone. It bows its little head, and the petals drop off of it; the leaves drop of it; the little seed goes out of it. Then they have a funeral procession. The skies just cry down the fall rains. It's just tears drop out of the skies and buries the little seed.
Along comes the cold winter, freezes maybe four or five inches deep, and then the little old stalk's gone, the bulb's gone, the leaf's gone, the petal's gone, and the little old seed, little black seed in there is swolled up and bursted and pulp run out.

L-31 Now, everything's gone. Bulb, seed, everything else is gone, but that's not the end of the flower. Just as sure as that warm sun begins to shine down, although the pulp's gone and everything else, there's a little germ of life laying there that no man has ever found and never will. That flower will live again. And if God made a way for a flower to live again, how much more has He made a way for a man to live again. 'Cause he's made in God's image.
Oh, I think it's wonderful to watch God in His universe, how He moves, moves among nature and so forth. The...
Setting not long ago, talking to an old Methodist preacher, we was having some ice cream together; and the Agricultural Hour come on, and I...

L-32 They said, "Why, the little 4-H club here has perfected a machine that can turn out corn so perfect that you can't tell it from the--the grain of corn that's growed in the field." Said, "You can reach in a sack and get a handful that's growed out of the--out of the field, and one out of this machine, and mix them up, there's no way at all to tell them apart again. Take them down to the laboratory, cut them open, and probably the skin would look that thick. The same amount of moisture, potash and calcium and everything is in every grain just the same. It'll make just as good a corn bread, make just as good a corn flakes out of either sack. The only way you could tell a difference is bury them. Both of them will rot, but the one that man made is finished. The one that God made has a germ of life in it, and it lives again."
I said, "Hold my hand, preacher. I'm going to embarrass you." For there is a time when man... You can take two men. Both of them look alike, both of them act like Christians, but one of them's got a germ of life which is the Holy Ghost. He will rise in the resurrection. The other one will lay there. That's right. Amen.


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