<TITLE>11. Par 96-100</TITLE>L-96 Oh, to the eternal God and to His testimonies, if we could only look around, you see God on every hand, watching Him testify daily. How do we willfully, ignorantly stumble over those things, that simplicity? Why, every tree preaches to us. Every flower preaches to us. Every garden preaches to us. The whole world is a-preaching to us. God is God, and we see His glory, and yet we so willfully stumble over it, and exchange these things, and cast our eyes from such things, and our imagination to vain things of the world to satisfy the lust that lives by the spirit that we let dominate our lives. How we ought to get rid of that spirit and get the Spirit of God.
All nature, all everywhere, testifies, the heavens, the skies. So many things, I--setting in my study yesterday I wrote down; I won't have time to go to it. But you can just look around to any thing that God created gives testimony to His glory. Anything, any creation of God gives testimony to God and for His purpose: shows the great supreme Intelligence.

L-98 I have stood on top of the mountain and watched the pygmy spruce, just about so high, that the sheep eat, the wild sheep, and see that pygmy spruce up here. You go down a little farther, and then you hit into the hemlock, a different nature, different specie that lives in a different place; on down a little farther, and you hit the pine, on down a little farther into the quaking asp. Out of that you go into the buck-bush, the brush, on down to that into the grass, and on down into that, into the weeds. And on down into the desert, where nothing... Each one, a cell and a life of its own, speaking of its environment and where it lives, only an intelligent God could do such a thing. Each one, a individual life. See the palm tree in Florida, see the oak tree in--in central America, and the quaking asp on the mountains in the Rockies; each one, a separate life giving testimony to the glory of Almighty God.

L-99 Watch the great sea when you stand by it. And its angry billows breaking the bank, with such anger, till it dashes and jumps like an angry dog at the end of a chain. It would drown the world if it could; it would be tired of its sin. But God set a watchman up yonder in the skies called the moon, and He set the boundaries of the sea, that they could not pass any more. And that watchman watches it day and night. When He turns His back, to look around towards God, to see what God looks like, here comes the tide sneaking in; but when He turns His face again, away goes the tide. He's watching that boundaries, and he cannot go. When he turns his back, the tide would slip in; but when He turns His face again, the tide runs back. God's put a watchman. What does it do? It gives testimony that the God of Genesis, the God of the Bible remains God. It's a testimony that He is.

L-100 We could call some more of the old testament prophets, how they give testimony of the birth of Christ. For instance, in Isaiah the 9th chapter, Isaiah 9:6, hundreds and hundreds of years before it happened the prophets give testimony. And they said, "Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given." How did they know it? How could a man that's borned of a woman know such a thing? How could a man, hundreds of years before it happened, tell exactly what would happen, "Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given"? Told His Name shall be called Counselor, the Prince of Peace, the Mighty God, the everlasting Father, told where He'd be born. The prophet under inspiration said, "Thou Bethlehem of Judaea, are you not the least amongst all the princes? But out of thee shall come the Governor."


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