<TITLE>12. Par 42-45</TITLE>L-42 And the grave looked back at him, and death looked back at him and said, "Paul, we're going to have you in a few minutes."
But that Mainspring was still ticking. He said, "Death, where is your sting? Grave, where is your victory? Show me where you can scare me. Show me where you can make me take the cross off. But thanks be to God Who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
You see it? What is it? Who are you? How big are you anyhow? Or how... Who are you anyhow? Walk around the town, you and I, and a hundred and fifty pound body is only worth eighty-four cents. But brother, you act like you own the country. And that don't exclude preachers. That's right.
"Oh, I got the biggest church in the city; I don't have to...?..." You might not have to do that, but you might have to repent someday. That's right.

L-43 "I'm a Presbyterian; I don't..." All right, go ahead. See? That's all right. I don't mind you being a Presbyterian. God doesn't either. But if you just got that Mainspring in there, that's the main thing: that's the main thing. If you have, you won't feel that way about it.
I was asking a doctor the other day (Oh, a few months ago.). I said, "Doctor, I want to ask you something. Is it true that I renew my life every time I eat?"
Said, "Yes, sir."
I said, "Then is it true that there's sixteen elements of the earth in my body?" I'm made up of sixteen elements. That's right. It's...?... calcium, potash, petroleum, cosmic light, and all sixteen different elements goes together, and it makes you.
"Now, I want to ask you," I said, "when every time I eat then, I renew my life?"
He said, "That's right."

L-44 I said, "Why is it, I'm eating beans, potatoes, and meat, and bread, just like I did when I was sixteen years old. Every time I eat I got bigger and stronger. And now, every time I eat, I'm getting older and weaker. If you're pouring water out of a jug into a glass, and it gets half full, and then more you pour, the farther down the water goes. Tell me by science how that's done."
It cannot be explained only by God's Word. What is it? It's an appointment, and you're going to meet it. That's right. It was appointed unto man once to die, from that to judgment. And death set into you when you was about twenty-two to twenty-five, and no matter how good you treat yourself, how much Max Factor's puts new lips and a little thing on, it won't do one bit of good. Sister, you're going right back to that appointment. That's right.
You might wear a tuxedo and shun a man with a pair of overalls on, but my brother, you're just a little bit of potash and calcium mixed together; that's all. And you know that: made out of the same kind of material.

L-45 Then look. When you took a notion, your mother did, to have a little boy in her home, her and daddy, or a little girl, did they call up the doctor and say, "Doctor, I want you to scrape up off the earth some potash, and calcium, some petroleum, and each day come and make him with brown eyes, and brown hair, and make it wavy, and fix little sis with the long hair and the manicures, or whatever it is." I wish... Did he do it that way? No, sir, he couldn't do it. Though you are the dust of the earth, yet God made you and He's the only One that can make you.
How does He do it? Through the food genes. Where'd the food come from? The earth.


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