<TITLE>01. Par 1-3</TITLE>53-1104, Deep Calleth Unto The Deep, Sports Center, Owensboro, KY, no tape
L-1 ... friend of mine, runs herds of cattle in there for the...?... oh, eight or ten years, up on the Arapaho Forest. And there's something about nature that calls out. Any man could look right in the face of nature and say there's no God... And how that God makes the hills... We were walking (The snow was beginning to melt.), walking along the side of the mountain. This great, tall, gruff man, at eight years ago when I met him was a perfect infidel, said there was no such a thing as God. And oh, it was about thirty minutes later, led him to Jesus Christ. He is a humble Christian.
He turned and threw his arms around me, and he dropped his gun on the ground, had been crying. He said, "Billy, I--I brought you up here for one purpose"; he said, "I wanted to go to church today." 'Course you have to know their language. It was a church, just as much as I was ever in, in my life: a big, great cathedral of the forest.
And there, both of us on our knees, with our heads bowed to the ground, miles... We'd walked thirty miles that day to get to the summit. In this great cathedral where the winds were blowing, God was there. And both of us weeping like babies. Why? Something inside of us called for that. And if there's something calling for that, there's got to be something to respond to that.

L-2 Some time ago, let's say fifty years ago, or a hundred years ago, we'd say: if someone would've said there was such a thing as electricity or lights, they'd have been laughed at. But there was a man named Benjamin Franklin, who got a kite, put a key on the end of it, and went fishing in the sky, because there was something in him that told him that when this light would flash, it would light. So they'd...?... took some time; he knowed it was static electricity. And he caught it in a bottle. And many of you all people, remember in your grammar school education, when he got it in the bottle, he begin to scream, "I got it, I got it." He'd had it, but he didn't know what he had.
That's the way many Christians are today. When he gets saved and gets--Jesus forgives your sins, you say, "I got it," but you don't know what you got. That's as far as Benjamin Franklin took it. But what was God doing then? He was fixing to reveal to the world electricity. He had a Benjamin Franklin to do it.

L-3 Then He had a fellow by the name of Thomas Edison, wasn't satisfied with, "I got it." He said, "If--if I've got it, it's got benefits for me." As David said, "Who... Forget not all of His benefits." So Thomas Edison, tireless nights, tried tens of thousands of wires. And he'd try one wire; it wouldn't work on that kind. He couldn't get the current to follow the wire. He tried another, another, another. Was he defeated? Certainly not. He couldn't be defeated. He couldn't be; there was something inside of him told him that that would light. And he believed it with all of his heart. And before... If he believed it like that, it--it's got to happen. There's a deep a calling to a deep; there's a deep to respond to it. There's something had to light. With a cup of coffee and a sandwich, he'd work all night. If one wire didn't work, he wasn't discouraged, like many of you Christians get.
We ought to be ashamed of ourselves calling ourselves Christians who believe in the great Jehovah. The promises that He gives and the benefits He's got for us, and the first little discouragement we throw it away. But not Thomas Edison, he believed that they would light. No matter if he was called crazy, but that didn't stop him. He believed it would light. And he kept on until he proved that it would light, and he gave the world electricity.
Well, electricity's been here all the time. We've always had electricity, but they didn't know nothing about it until we had a Thomas Edison and a Benjamin Franklin.


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