<TITLE>17. Par 74-78</TITLE>L-74 Why, brother, that old rotten jawbone of that mule... You'd hit one of them big brass helmets with it, why, it would've splattered in a thousand pieces. Sure. But it was a paradox. God was on that old jawbone. Hallelujah. If He can get on a dead one, surely He can get on ours that's alive. Notice. A paradox, it was indeed. And he took that jawbone and beat the helmets right down like that, till they mashed down a thousand Philistines: paradox.

L-75 Jesus, when He was here on earth, He walked on the water. Explain that to me. Scientifically tell me how a man can walk on water: paradox. One day He took five biscuits and two fish and fed five thousand. What kind of a atom did He turn loose? Now, that wasn't even fish alive. When He broke that bread, broke it off of a piece of biscuit... When He handed it out, time He got his hand back again, there was another biscuit there, already raised, the wheat in the field, already cooked, all the grease in it (See?), seasoned. Here was a piece of fish, He broke it off, and another piece of cooked fish. Amen. Hallelujah.
That element is given to us, if we'll just abide in the Word. Stay there. I believe we're on the verge of seeing it happen. Live true to the Word. There you are. He had cooked fish. That was a paradox.

L-76 It was a paradox when He went to choose His church, that He chose fishermen instead of priests. That's contrary to nature. Look like He'd had a great big church, with all bunch of ministers all shined up and polished up, and knows their theology, and got all their Ph.D's, and everything. That's where He come to. But He just bypassed the whole bunch, went down and got some fishermen that couldn't even sign their own name. The Bible said that Peter and John was ignorant and unlearned. That's who He got for His church. That's a paradox. Certainly. Yes, sir. He chose fishermen, instead of men--instead of priests.

L-77 Now, we find out that on the day of Pentecost... It's strange that He chose a bunch of unlearned people, and sent them up there with a commission at Pentecost--not to go to some seminary, but to wait until they was endued with power from on high. If that man Peter, and John and them, wanted to preach and they were ignorant and unlearned, look like He'd said, "Boys, there's a fine school right over here. You go till you learn your ABC's. Then after you do that, you'll take your grammar school. Get it all, that through. Then you'll take four years of high school, then four years of college, and then about four or five years of Bible School. Then you can go out."
But He said, "Wait in the city of Jerusalem, for I'm going to send the promise of the Father upon you. And then you'll be witnesses of Me (Luke 24:49), witnesses of Me in Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth." That's still His requirement.

L-78 You know, I've had some experience (I'll hurry) with pagans, pagan religions, idols. I've been in Africa, India. I've seen the fire-walkers when they was standing up there with a great big old image there, with big eyes (rubies) like that, and big rubies in the ears. And how those poor people... They're not hypocrites.
Farmers come out there, and they get ready for that. The priest blesses them, pours the holy water on them. And--and they take big fishhooks with balls, about that big around full of water, and just hook their flesh full of them, doing sacrifice to an idol. Then they take, put them in their ears, sew their mouth together, put a lance up through there. If they've lied, put their nose and mouth together and pull it down. And then walk through fire, a strip four or five feet wide, thirty feet deep sometimes, all the way across for thirty yards, through that fire, getting themselves ready for that, for an idol. Now, idolatry is a bad thing.


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