<TITLE>06. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 And sometimes, some of your own household will be the one that'll discourage you first, when you're claiming God's promise for yourself.
But then any man that's deeply sincere, as you, you, or any of you here tonight, would be to come in here for this meeting, deeply sincere, God's under obligation then to you. If you've made your effort, God's under obligation to make His effort.
So down from the east came the little prince, Elihu. Wish we had time to break that word down: Elah, elah, lah, God, Yahweh. Break it down and show you a representative of God, which really meant Christ come down to Job in the deepest of his distress. And he didn't accuse Job of being a secret sinner.
He begin to tell him, not about... He said, "Now, look, Job (We'll break it down so the children would understand it.), you considered," in the 14th chapter here, you said of Job there, when he was writing...
Said, "Look at the tree. It falls. Wind blows it over. Why, it grows again." Said, "A little seed falls out of the flower and the rains come and have a funeral procession and bury it and... rots in the ground. Little old seed breaks up, and the pulp runs out. And after while the seed's gone; the pulp's gone, the flower's gone, the stalk's gone." That's not the end of it. There is a germ of life there that'll live again.

L-23 Here some time ago, I was setting with an old Methodist minister by the name of Spurgeon. We were having some ice cream together, and the agriculture hour come on, the little 4-H club. Many of you here belong to it. And they'd... Or perhaps you do.
They had got a corn, a machine that would put out grains of corn so perfect that you could take a handful out of the sack that was put out by the machine, and a handful out of the sack that was growed in the field, and mix them together, you could never tell them apart no more. Take them to the laboratory and cut them open, probably the skin looked that thick under those big glasses.

L-24 Had the right amount of moisture, the same amount of calcium, and--and every ingredient that went in it. The heart was laying in the right place. It would make just as good a corn patties. It would make just as good a corn flakes, eat just as well as this other one.
"The only way you could tell them," he said, "was bury them." And the one that man made rotted away and that was end. But the one that God made had a germ of life in it. It lived again.
I said, "Brother Spurgeon, you better kinda hold my hand. I might embarrass you." Well, that'd make any... That'd make a Baptist or a Methodist, either one, shout, wouldn't it?
See, when two men may belong to the church, one--both of them look alike and could give one another a blood transfusion, but one has Everlasting Life, the other one has not. Both of them go to church, pay their tithes, both religious. But one has Life and one has not. You get what I mean?

L-25 Job had noticed that, that germ coming back. He said, "But a man goes to his grave. His sons come mourn. He perceived it not. And they do honor and he understands it not." Said, "O that Thou would hide me in the grave until Thy wrath be passed."
Elihu, in this way got to him. Said, "Now, Job..." Watch, here it is, said, "Job, that flower never sinned. That's the reason it dies and comes back, dies and comes back. But man lays down; he never comes back." But He said, "There is coming a just One someday, Who will be able to stand in the breach, put His hand on a sinful man, a holy God, and bridge the way. And He will be the life connection. Then man shall rise." Oh, my.


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