<TITLE>20. Par 89-93</TITLE>L-89 If we just humble ourselves now before God, believe with all of our heart... Here sometime ago, a great intellectual man come up before a bunch of Pentecostals. He was going to make a Pentecost--a intellectual speech and tell the people where they were wrong, and all about this, and such and such. And he had it all--a real speech. But he walked up with his chest out, you know, and "Me, the big guy, with so many degrees," and so forth like that.
And he started talking to Pentecostal people, and the Pentecostal people didn't take it. See? So he seen he was defeated, so he--he folded up his notes. Nothing had been said about the intellectual speech, but trying to say that the Pentecostal phenomenon of speaking in tongues was wrong, the Pentecostal miracles they was talking about was wrong; that didn't hit with them people. So he was so humiliated till he took his textbook and walked off the platform.
There was an old saint setting out there. He said, "You know what? If that man would've went up the way he come down, he'd have probably come down the way he went up." So that's--that's about right. See? See, humility--to humble ourselves before the Lord.

L-90 It really is a paradox. God is a paradox. The visions are a paradox. We just can't explain them. How that God can show things that was, which is, and shall come, it--it's beyond any of our research. The old prophets' visions back yonder hundreds of years ago and we see them happening yet today. It is a paradox.
It was a paradox, when Andrew went and got Peter (His name was Simon then.), brought him up before Jesus, and told him, said, "You know, our daddy told us there'd be all kinds of isms going on before the real Messiah come. But he told us, according to the Scripture, that Messiah was to be a prophet. 'The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet unto--liken unto me.' Now, the Messiah is going to be a prophet." The Jews all believed that.

L-91 The Bible said, "If there be a man among you who's spiritual or a prophet, I, the Lord will make myself known unto him in visions. And what he says come to pass, then hear him." Right.
So when Andrew took Peter up there, and He looked around to Peter, Jesus did, and said, "Your name is Simon, and your father is Jonas," Peter knew right then that that was a paradox, that God was... Absolutely the only one that knowed him and his old father would have to be God.

L-92 When Philip went down and got Nathanael, and brought Nathanael back up before Jesus, and he come in the Presence of Jesus, and Jesus said, "Behold an Israelite in whom there's no guile," that stunted him.
He said, "How did You know me, Rabbi?"
(Listen.) "Before Philip called you when you were under the tree, I saw you." What eyes, fifteen miles around the mountain. He saw through the mountain, through time, and saw Philip under the tree.

L-93 When the woman at the well at Sychar came out there--a beautiful young woman, perhaps, to get some water. Maybe the... She had to come out when the rest of the decent women was gone. Jesus was setting over, a little panoramic something like this. And so, she said...
He said to her, "Woman, bring Me a drink."
She said, "It's not customary. We have segregation here. You Samaritans, us Jews, we have no dealings with one another. Not right for You to ask me, a woman of Samaria, such a question."
He said, "But if you knew Who you were talking to, you'd ask Me for a drink."
She went to talking about the well, how deep it was, and what the fathers had said, and so forth. What happened? In a few minutes He--she said...
He found her trouble. He said, "Go, get your husband and come here."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
Said, "You've said the truth. You've got five husbands--had five. And the one you're living with now is not your husband."


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