<TITLE>03. Par 9-12</TITLE>L-9 And I seen here not long ago in Louisville, when I seen Dr. Mordecai Hamm and many great theologians that I know, which is far better preacher than the young thirty-eight, or forty year old red-headed evangelist, walked out to the platform passed those men, and they took a back seat, and stood there that night. Wasn't one tenth or one hundredth of preacher that the man was setting behind him, though he had the program of God, and put it over, Billy Graham. I've noticed those things.
And in noticing them, then I come to this conclusion. No matter what you are, God's got to furnish the audience. And no matter, if I could stand here this morning and bring the dead to life, and to bring the cripples to their normal condition, and yet, God is not in the program it would go nowhere. God has to be in the program. And any man is known... His character is known by his works. No matter who he is, his works prove his character.
If you take a man, no matter how good he tries to be, if his works are evil, all his goodness won't mount to nothing. And a man's word is his characteristic. A man that his word is no good, then you'll never have confidence in that man, because his word's no good. So therefore God, our Father, His character and His works prove what He is.

L-10 Now, we know that this world come here by some great Creator. It could not have just happened to be. Now, I want this, just a few moments, to be just as simple as possible, but I want you to get it in praying that the Holy Spirit will move it right into the light that it belongs in.
Now, if you would just look and see the trees growing, and the--the limbs, and the leaves how they come and go, and the flowers, the spring, the fall, the winter, the summer, something's got to be behind that. There could not be a tree unless there could be an intelligence to make it a tree. No matter what kind of a life would be in it, there has to be behind that, an intelligence to make it what it is. Now, think; that's straight. Now, don't let it go over, think of it deep.

L-11 For if you notice our Scripture lesson, Jesus said, "If you will say in your heart..." not in your intellects; it'll never work there. No matter how much you try to make it work, it won't work, 'cause it's intellectual and has an end. But when anything's eternal, it has no end, and it had no beginning. Anything with an end--beginning has an end. But it's just those things which has no beginning. And only God has no beginning or no end. And then to have these things that has a beginning, there had to be something without a beginning to start the beginning.

L-12 The first tree that was ever made, that--like the one that Jesus cursed here. Said, "No fruit grow on thee from henceforth. No man eateth from thee."
There had to be somewhere that tree had to have a beginning, and it had a ending. When the word's that from the lips of the One, Who gave it the beginning took it to the end. So you see how eternal His words are.
But we have just accepted the Word on the intellectual basis, and seen so many total failures, till it has brought people to a place that they just hardly know what to believe. They're just got a lot of loose ends to their--their religion. They run out on limbs this a way, and limbs that way, which comes to the end, and here they come crawling back.


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