<TITLE>02. Par 4-7</TITLE>L-4 Now, New York is known for one thing, one gre--many things but one great thing: it's known for its fine apples you raised up here. Wonderful apples New York has, and I received an invitation for Elizabeth today, and I thought that was Elizabethtown when I looked at it, and Elizabethtown is where I taken one of my first big game hunts from Elizabeth over to Newland in the Adirondack, and up in there they have beautiful fruit--apples.
Now, did you know, did you people understand, that that little apple tree when it's just about--at about three-eighths of an inch high, that every apple that'll ever be in that tree, that you'll ever take off of it, the hundreds of bushels is right in it then? If it isn't, where does it come from? Every leaf, the hundreds of pounds of leaves that'll occupy that little tree is right in it then. Did you know that? Every blossom is right in the tree right then, every color is right in the tree. All that that little tree will bear through its--its stay here on earth is in it when it's just a little slip about like that. If it isn't, where does it come from?

L-5 We--we lose the value a lot of times of things by trying to look at it in the way of material. See? What is it? That little tree is set out. A little slip is set out, and you have to water it, and it has to drink, and it has to drink more than its portion; and it just drinks, and the more it drinks, it--it drinks till it pushes out limbs. Then it pushes out leaves. Then it pushes out buds. Then it pushes out apples. It just keeps drinking and pushing. And that's the way that we are.
We are planted in Christ Jesus, the inexhaustible Fountain of Life, and we just drink and push, drink. Everything that we need when we're filled with the Holy Spirit, every healing, everything that we have need of in life's journey, is given to us right then. It's all your personal property. Just drink. That's all. Look and live. That's all. Then you can easily see the resurrection, can't you?

L-6 My wife said here sometime ago. I was combing what few hairs I had left. She said, "Billy, you're getting bald-headed."
I said, "But honey, I haven't lost a one of them."
She said, "What?"
I said, "I haven't lost a one of them."
She said, "Well, tell me where they're at."
I said, "Well, I'll ask you one thing. And you answer me, and I'll answer you. Where were they before I got them? They come from somewhere, and wherever they was before I got them, they're there waiting for me to come to them."
What's your body made out of? Potash, calcium, a little petroleum, cosmic light, atoms. Well, God just gathered them together, and (Whew) blowed in them and that was it. That was all of it. There you were (see?), and you just turned back to what you was before you was in form like you are now, till the resurrection's just calling back, and then He give you a beautiful thing, some of you that's getting old like I am. See?

L-7 Did you know when you just first married your wife, you remember how she looked and how pretty? Remember how dad looked? One morning you got up and you looked at those beautiful eyes of mother and you said, "Mother, there's a little wrinkle coming under your eyes?" See?
She said, "Yes, dad, I begin to notice a gray hair or two." What is it? Death set in. See? But when you walked down to the altar as young in your twenties, why she was your sweetheart and your bride. Remember how each looked, how straight dad stood and now he's stooped over? See? See how mother was. Look at her now. See? But then when the picture was drawed, God said, "That's it right there; that's the way I want it. Said, "Come on, death, but you can't take them till I call for you to." So then death set in, and gradually you started dying, but in the resurrection all the deaf, dumb will not appear in the resurrection. It's what God did.


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