<TITLE>05. Par 16-18</TITLE>L-16 "You know what, brethren," he might've said something like this, "It reminded me of the Bible stories that I used to hear my mother tell me about. When I was little Jewish boy, I remembered my pretty, little mother and how she used to tell me, 'Honey, when our people came up out of Egypt, we were slaves one time, and when we had a great prophet rise up among us, Moses, who God sent to us to help us be delivered from our afflictions of the bondage... And Moses, of course, could not make bread, but when we had two and a half million people out in the wilderness, where there was no wheat or nothing to make bread out of, Jehovah rained bread down out of the heavens for us.'"
"And I used to wonder. I'd say, 'Mother, has Jehovah got a big bunch of Angels up there and a big lot of ovens that He bakes His bread? Where did He get this bread at, mama? Or could we look up in the skies, and see the fires from His oven each night when they were baking it?'"
"Mother would probably have said something like this, 'No, son, you're too young to understand. Jehovah don't have to have ovens. Jehovah is a Creator. He just creates the bread, and it falls down to the earth.'"

L-17 Young John when he was standing up in the boat testifying to the brethren, confessing his supreme faith in Jesus, said, "He must've been some connection with Jehovah, because He created bread like Jehovah did. So, to me He truly is the Messiah, because He's the Son of God, He--He can create and make bread and--and do just as Jehovah did. So that settled it with me when I seen Him break that bread and those fishes; and not only just raw fish, but it was cooked fish, ready to eat."
I'd like to ask my listening audience tonight what kind of a atom did He turn loose then, when He had cooked fish and--and cooked bread, and took five biscuits and two little fishes, and fed five thousand people, and took up baskets full left over? What did He do? What would science say about that today? What kind of an atom, or molecule, or whatever they want to call it, to let loose then."
But He did it, and little John was convinced that the Bible stories that Mother told him about Jehovah. That same Jehovah was manifested in a Man called the Lord Jesus Christ, 'cause no one else could've done it. He was the Creator.

L-18 Well, Simon, you know how he is, he's always ready to testify, and just like any other normal Christian who really knows God, knows the Lord Jesus, is ready to give his testimony right quick. And as we spoke something about him last night, I might rehearse his testimony.
He said, "Why, brethren, when I used to seine this sea here with my father years ago... And I know you all knew my dear old Pharisee father. I was a great man of church and believed in God. Always of a morning before we'd go to fish (we depended on it for a livelihood), so he'd have me kneel down with him and pray out here on the bank for our fish for that day; and God never did let us down."
"I remember when his hair begin to turn gray, and I knew soon I was going to have to depart with my old dad. One day I remember he took me, set me down on the--the brail of boat and said, 'Simon, my boy, I want you to remember this. All Israel has looked for the coming of the Messiah; and as the time draws near, each man has always thought he'd live to see the day He would come; and I've thought the same. But I'm getting old now, and I suppose I won't get to see it. But Simon, as a Bible believer, as a believer in Jehovah, I want to instruct you, my son.'"


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