<TITLE>08. Par 28-30</TITLE>L-28 Mr. Wood looked over to me and I shook my head at him. And I said, "You mean if you can see something like that happen, then you will become a believer?"
He said, "Yes, sir."
Said, "Yes, sir, that's very nice." And squirrel blood all over me, and dirty, whiskers about that long, camping out there in the woods on two weeks... Then, I said, "How old is this apple tree?"
He said, "Oh, it's about thirty years old." Said, "I planted it there about thirty years ago."
I said, "Yes, sir, and it produces apples each year?"
Said, "Yes, that's right."
I said, "I wonder, sir, it's only about the first or second week in August, and all the leaves are falling off of that tree. What's the matter?"
"Oh," he said, "the sap's gone down into the roots."
I said, "What made the sap go down?"
"Why," said, "if it stayed up, the winter would kill the tree. The sap's up in the tree, it would kill it."
I said, "Then, something caused that sap to go down in the roots to hide so the winter wouldn't kill it."
"Yes, sir, that's right."
"Now, it comes up next spring, bringing you more apples?"
"Yes, sir, that's right."
Well, I said, "Tell me, sir, if you can tell me what intelligence makes that sap leave that tree before we have even a cool spell and go down into the roots to hide through the winter, I'll tell you, it's the same One that told me to go tell that woman over there that she'd be healed."

L-29 He's the same God; He works in all natures. You can see God anywhere you look. The sun brings forth all botany life, plant life.
The little seed... Did you ever lay your sidewalk in the wintertime, lay a big rock down, make your sidewalk, pour concrete three or four feet apart, or wide, rather, pour it down the long strip? Where is the most grass at the next year? Right around the edge of the concrete. Why? You can't hide life. When that sun begins to shine, that life will come forth. A little seed laying way back in the middle of this sidewalk will press its way around, out through that concrete, over and around, under rocks and sticks and everything else, till it gets out and sticks its little head up to praise God. You just can't hide life. It'll bring forth life as sure as that springtime comes and the warm sun begins to bathe the ground, all plant life lives, if it's got life in it. That's s-u-n.
And there's only one thing that can bring Eternal Life: That's when the S-o-n comes, the Son of the living God. Nothing has ever died in Christ Jesus. You might bury it in the sea, or wherever it might be, it'll come when that Light begins to shine. He is the Light. He is the only true Light.

L-30 The sun, s-u-n, is the only true light that we have to walk by. These lights are artificial light, and it shines in darkness. We don't have to walk tonight by artificial light. We are children of the day, not children of the night. We have Christ, and He's the eternal Light. And we walk in Him, for He is the Light, the Way, the Truth, and the Light. "No man cometh to the Father, except by Me." That's why we ought to get to Christ. That's the reason He was different from anyone else. He's the only One that has these things to give to us. So where could we go? Go, get some light somewhere, some other light.
You know, evil things travel at night. Snakes, bugs, all kinds of insects, they fly at night because it's evil. But let the sun rise, they take to a dark place just as hard as they can go. Why? They are of the darkness; they don't want light. That's the way the world's getting today; it doesn't want the real true Gospel Light. The real Light of God shows a man's needs.


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