<TITLE>14. Par 43-45</TITLE>L-43 So notice, while he was there, the radio was on in the little confectionery in Henryville, Indiana, where we were... And old Doctor Spurgeon, a very fine friend of mine. And so the radio was on, and the agriculture hour was on, and the little 4H club in Louisville, Kentucky, had a machine over there that they had made a machine that could reproduce a grain of corn so perfect that you couldn't tell it from one growed in the field. Said, "You take a handful out of the sack, that's growed in the field, handful out of the sack, that the--that the machine produced, mix them together, and you'd never tell them apart again." Said, "You'd cut them open, the same amount of calcium, the same amount of moisture, the heart just right, it'd make the same corn meal, and the same corn bread, the same corn flakes, just exactly." Said, "There's only one way you could ever tell them apart; that's bury them. And the one that the machine made rots and never lives again, but the one that God made lives again, because it's got life in it."

L-44 You can take a man that looks like a Christian, acts like a Christian, but if that man hasn't got the Word of God in him, if there isn't a germ of life in there to germitize that, he will never rise in the resurrection. That's right. 'Cause he can't rise; there's nothing in there to raise him up again: a seed.
Now, when you bury a seed, you farmers, you take and go out here and plant your corn, you don't go out every morning and scratch it up, and say, "Let's see now, is it growing? Anything happen to it? No." Put it back down. Late the next day, you say, "I want to see if it's getting along all right." scratch it up again; it'll never grow like that. Well, the thing you do with a seed, you commit it to the ground, cover it up; that's all you can do about it. It's up to God to do the rest of it.
Well, that's the same way it is with the Word of God. If you'll take any Divine promise God made in His Bible, put it in your heart, and water it every day with praises of God, that's going to come to pass, it'll grow, if you don't quit fooling with it, if you'll just leave it alone. Don't say, "Let me see, can I move my finger any better today, do I feel any better, is my headache a little bit better? " Oh, no, it'll never be that, just commit it to God, and walk away, and leave it alone. That's God's seed. It'll grow.

L-45 Sometime ago, I was up at Minneapolis, Minnesota, and I got a scorching letter that morning. And it had been a snow storm that night, and I went back in a little old cheap hotel, and I always try to stay in a place. I don't believe Christians ought to ask for the best that there is in the land. A Christian ought to be humble. I--I think that's--even if you could afford it, I still think you ought to be an example. My Lord didn't even have a place to lay His head. The foxes had dens, and the birds had nests, but He didn't have a place to lay His head. Come to the world, borrowed a manger to be borned in, come through a borrowed womb, went out in a borrowed grave. My, and the God of heaven, and we ought to show some humility too.


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