<TITLE>02. Par 4-7</TITLE>L-4 Let's bow our heads just a moment. And now, Lord, I don't know what to say. But... And managing this meeting in this way... But I pray that You'll give me grace tonight, and give me favor with the heavenly host and with this people, that I might teach them of Thee. And now, Lord, I commit myself to Thee and ask that You'll bless. For I ask in Jesus' Name. Amen.
I would like to... Being raised in a--a fundamental church, and I'm still believe in fundamental doctrine. But I--I think all things in the Bible, we should back to the beginning in Genesis to pick it up. If you want to find anything that's going on today, if you'll go back to the beginning... "Genesis" means "the beginning." It's the seed chapter of the Bible.
And now, in the beginning God made the--everything, and then everything evoluted from that one thing. For instance, recently standing upon a mountain, looking down across the prairie, the difference how the trees varies. Up here there's hemlock, a little lower down there's spruce, fir, and then on down to pine, then in the quaking aspen. From there you go on out into sagebrush, then out in the grass, then the desert.
Each one of those plants had a beginning. Now, look. Each one of those plants, if I could take it down, a layer by layer, I would come to one germ, a germ of life that made that plant. The same kind of a germ, a different nature: everything after its own kind, bird after bird, dog, human, whatever it is after its kind.

L-5 And I take one tree, it raised up, drop off a few cones and another tree comes up from it, evoluting, right down. The human does the same thing, the animal the same way. The birds lay their eggs, and male and female, and go on the same way they poll, the same way through flowers, through trees. But I take each tree back, everything, right back to the beginning where the first germ started. Then I'd be back in Genesis, wouldn't I?
Well, now--now, as the naturalists say today, and chronologists, and many. They say that there's a great controlling spirit somewhere. And it just said, "Let there be." And--and that was all there was to it. And it all created from a--a beginning of a spirit, or life. Now, that isn't intelligent.

L-6 Why did He say, "Let this one be a palm tree, and this one a apple tree, and this one a hickory tree, and that one a oak tree"? See? Every one's different from another. What did it? It shows that this great Being that spoke this into existence was not only a great Being, but It was an Intelligence. And It's the resource of all intelligence. It's God.
He said, "Let there be a palm tree." What difference is there in a palm tree and a hickory tree now? See? There's no... Why, my they... The same as night and day. See, they never... If He's... If it'd just been something that just happened, everything would've been one tree. But to show how He made trees for different places, shows there's an intelligent behind it that elected these things to be at certain places. Just like He elected...

L-7 God is a God of variety. And all Christianity is based upon the resurrection. If I drop this letter on the floor... Now, resurrection is not put this one in its place, but resurrection is bring up the same letter that went down in its place again. Is that right? Therefore, Christianity is based on resurrection, that when we come back to this earth again, I won't be some kind of an angel with wings a flopping. I'll be a man just like I am now, resurrected.
And in the resurrection there'll be... We'll different from one another. Some of us will be black-headed, some blondes, and some red-heads, and so forth. God is a God of variety. He doesn't make everything the same. He makes big mountains, and little mountains, and prairies, and lakes, and deserts, and He makes the big trees, and little trees, and white flowers, and blue flowers, and pink flowers. He's a God of variety. His beings are made up in a variety.


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