<TITLE>17. Par 75-77</TITLE>L-75 And so, he believed in it. And he had his wife to keep praying. So no matter what happens, just keep praying. He said it got darker and darker in the room. And finally everything went black.
And he said he was dreaming. He thought he was back in Oregon again. And he was... The boss told him, of the lumber camp where he used to work, said, "Paul, go up on the hill and fell me a certain tree, a certain size, and bring it down here."
He said, "All right." Said he run up the tree--hill and he could smell the pine, and his lungs breathing in, you know, the odor, how a--a person that lives in the woods can only enjoy. And said he'd felled the tree, and trimmed it up, and stuck the axe in it, and got a hold of the tree and he just couldn't lift it up. Said he put his knees together and bent his back. The a strongest part of the man is in his back and muscles. He'd lift and lift. And said, why, he could lift a tree twice that size. But somehow he wrestled with it, and he wrestled with it, and he wrestled with it, and he just simply couldn't do nothing with it.

L-76 That's the way a lot of people does. They just--they take a Word, and they try to run it here and make it here, or make it there, and wrestle with it, and wrestle with it, take it through seminaries, and cut it down here, and make a Greek word out of it here and a Hebrew word out of here. And the first thing you know, it becomes like that, and not a Word of God. See? You just wrestle with it and wrestle with it.
You take it over to Dr. Ph.D. John Doe, and ask him what he thinks about it. And over to Ph.D. Sam Doe, and ask him what's he think about it. And he said, "Why, it's mental telepathy." The other one said, "It's fanaticism."
And the first thing, you just wrestle with it and wrestle with it. "Well, I was down at the meeting and--and honestly, I seen the Spirit of God come down. I heard someone speak in unknown tongues."
"It's the devil."
"Yes, and I heard people shout."
"Oh, it's excitement."
"And I seen a man stand up on the platform, and by the power of discernment tell people who they were, and out in the meetings, and what was wrong. And just the way the Bible said Jesus done it, to show the sign of the Messiah. Well, I'll go ask my pastor."
He said, "Ah, it's telepathy." See?
You just keep wrestling with it and wrestling with it. That's all. You'll never get nowhere.

L-77 Finally, Paul said he got wore out. So he set down. His strength was depleted. He just set down against the tree and leaned back, said, "What has happened to my strength?" 'Course that was the fever on him, was doing that. And he said, "I'm--I'm just at the end." Said after while he heard a real sweet voice, said, "Paul."
He said, "Is that my boss?" And said when he turned, it was his Boss all right. Said he never seen a sweeter face in all of his life.
He said, "Paul, what are you wrestling with it for?" He said, "You see that stream of water there?"
Said, "Yes."
Said, "That stream of water goes right down around the hill here and comes right out to the camp." Said, "Why don't you just throw it in the water, and get on it, and ride down?"
"Oh," he said, "I never thought of that."


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