<TITLE>04. Par 19-24</TITLE>L-19 I met a doctor the other day. I said, "Doctor, is it true every time we eat, we build blood--blood cells in our body that makes us grow?"
He said, "That is true."
I said, "I ask you a question. I'm eating the same kind of food now that I eat when I was sixteen. When I was sixteen, I eat the food, I grew, got stronger, bigger. And now, I eat the same food, perhaps better and more of it, and I'm getting older and weaker all the time." I said, "Explain that." It's not scientific.
If this glass has got water in it, and you pour more in it, it just keeps filling up, filling up. But why is it, it gets to a certain spot, and you keep pouring water in it, and it keeps going down? Because God has said. That's why. God has a way. Just like that flower, it started up; it come to its maturity, then it starts wilting away, but it comes back again.

L-20 Now, when God told Abraham when He met him there in a body, he had to wash the dust off of His feet. The Bible said that was God... And He turned His back to the tent; He said, "Abraham, where is Sarah?"
Said, "She's in the tent."
He said, "And according to life, as it is with women, I will visit you." And Sarah heard it. And when Sarah heard it, she laughed in her heart, not out loud. The Bible said that He had His back turned to the tent where Sarah was, and He looked at Abraham, said, "Why did Sarah laugh?"
See what I mean? God knows all things. He knows what you are. He knows what's wrong with you. That always been a sign of God...?... see, foresee, foretell. Look at the woman at the well, when Jesus told her she had five husbands. Why--why she said, "I know when Messiah cometh He will do these things," but she thought He was a prophet, but He told her He was the Son of God. And He's the same today. That was the Son of God back there with Abraham, exhibited in a body. Oh, I hope you see that.

L-21 Now notice, then God told that, that would be the next month then. And the next month it was with Sarah as it is with women, after it had ceased forty years. I want you to notice another little thing here. I know, my brethren, you're going to criticize this, but I want you just to be quiet for a moment, and look this over after you get home. Watch what God done to Abraham there, when He give him the promise.
Now, we all know that something had to happen to Sarah. She was nearly a hundred years old. Now, when you read the Bible, if the only experience you got come out of some school or some seminary, you lack something.

L-22 Listen, first you've got to be borned again of the Spirit of God. If you're not, you'll never understand the Word of God. God has said so. God said, "I have hid this Bible from the wise and prudent, and will reveal it to babes such as will believe." If you want to get anything from God, just be a baby. Open up the Bible. Fall in love with Jesus.

L-23 Now, when my wife writes me a letter, well, I read it. And she starts off, "Dear Billy, I am setting here tonight. I am thinking much about you." That's what she's saying on the paper, but I can tell what's between the lines, what she's reading.
The Bible, you must read between the lines, because God has hid It from those who just read the word alone. I am quoting Scripture that He has hid It from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and will reveal It to babes such as will learn. All that's ever read that in the Bible say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Then it's the baby that'll humble himself, not be puffed up, but be humble, and say, "Lord, I believe It."

L-24 A friend of mine, John Sproule, he came over to France for a little visit. I believe it was Alsace Lorraine. And he walked into a garden, and there was a statue of Jesus...

