<TITLE>16. Par 138-147</TITLE>L-138 I was eating one of his apples. Little old yellow jackets was getting on them there, you know, in the fall of the year in August. So I had this little apple, and I'd eaten on it. And I said, "That's a very good apple." I said, "How long has that tree been there?"
"Oh," he said, "I planted that tree there, thirty or forty years ago, or something another."
"Yes, sir." I said, "I would just like to ask you a question." I said, "How in the world... I see those apples have dropped off that tree, and its leaves are dropping off, and here it is only in the middle of August." And I said, "We haven't had not even a cool spell; we haven't even had a frost or anything, and yet them leaves are dropping off of that tree. Why is that?"
He said, "The sap has left the tree."
"Oh," I said, "where did it go to?"
He said, "Down in the roots."
And I said, "Then how long will it stay down there?"
He said, "Till spring."
And I said, "Then it'll come back up, and bringing you up new leaves for a shade, new apples to eat."
He said, "That's right. Exactly right."

L-142 I said, "Well, I want to ask you something, sir. You talk about these fellows that don't know what they're talking about." I said, "Could you explain to me what Intelligence makes that sap leave that tree? If it stayed there through the winter, the tree would die. You'd kill the tree. The germ of life is in that sap." So I said, "It would kill the tree. What Intelligence makes that sap go out of that tree, down into the roots, and stay until springtime, and then come back up again, and bring some more apples?" I said, "Put water in a bucket and set it on a post, and see if in August it'll go down to the bottom of the post and come back up in springtime. See?" I said, "There is some law; there is a law of nature. Some Intelligence set this law in order. Not only that, but that same Intelligence has to operate that law, that runs it down into the root of the tree and comes back."
He said, "I never had thought of that."
I said, "Can you... If you can ever find out the Intelligence that makes that sap go from that tree limb down into the roots and come back, that's the same Intelligence that told me over there that night, 'Go, put that handkerchief on the woman.'"
He said, "And you're that preacher?"
I said, "Yes, sir, that is right."

L-144 Last year I was over (He's gone away.), and when His widow was sitting on the porch, peeling apples off that same tree... Brother... First they was going to run us out; they didn't know who we were. And I went and told her about it, that we had permission from him. And told about it, said, "He made a full confession of Christ before he died."
You see, what does that tree, what Intelligence runs that down? It's a law. It's a law that God has set in order. And that law is God's law that will take care of the subject. Amen.
You know, I don't care how, much you cry out, and say--say now, "It ain't going to... The sun ain't going to shine no more this summer." It'll shine, anyhow. How much you're going to say, "I--I--I ain't going to let nighttime come." It'll come, anyhow. Because this thing that we live on, called the world, is controlled by a law of God.

L-147 Now, brethren and sisters, I want to ask you something. Then if we are borned again of the Spirit of God... God don't have little weak parts and big strong parts; He's altogether God! And if you had enough of God in you, till It was just barely a shadow, that's enough power to make a new earth. That's enough power to make a new moon and a new system. It's God, and it's strong. And right now in every believer in here has Life Eternal, which is God's Spirit in you; enough power that'll raise up the dead, that'll heal the sick, that'll set orbits in conditions. But you're... It's controlled by a law, that Spirit that's in you. You are sons and daughters of God. That same Spirit that you've got in you, will raise yourself up at the day of the resurrection.


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