<TITLE>04. Par 16-20</TITLE>L-16 That moon millions of miles away from the earth, how can it affect the earth? How can it draw a line? Why don't that sea run in a few hundred miles and then stop? Because God set its boundaries. It cannot pass that. And He's got a watchman to see that it doesn't pass it.
And anyone knows when the moon goes down, the tide goes with it; rises, it rises with it: another paradox. No one can explain it. We don't know how, what effect that that moon upon the earth would have, and what would it do to the tide? It's a paradox.
We can plant a seed in the earth, and that seed will lay in the earth all through the winter. Like a wheat, that wheat seed is composed of a skin on the outside. Then the inside is a pulp. And in that middle of that pulp is a germ. That's right. That's the way you're composed.

L-17 You've got... made up of soul, body, and spirit. The outside, which is the body, is controlled by five senses. You enter that body by five senses: see, taste, feel, smell, and hear. Inside the body is a soul. That soul has five gates: conscience, and so forth, memory. But inside of that is a spirit. That's what controls it all. There's only one gate to that, and that's free moral agency, to act: to receive, or refuse.

L-18 And that seed planted in the ground, then what happens? The winter comes on and bursts it. The skin's gone; the pulp's gone. And that germ of life, you can't find it. But in the springtime it comes back again.
Here sometime ago I was down in Kentucky squirrel hunting. And I... we'd dry weather and we couldn't find any squirrels. So we went over in the knob part of the country.
Mr. Wood, a friend of mine, said, "Well, Brother Branham," said, "I know a man over there that's got lots of timber, and there's some big hollows down deep. It'll probably be damp; we can slip through those."

L-19 And while I was over there, why, we pulled up to a house, and he said, "I wouldn't get out, 'cause this fellow's an infidel." Said, "He just doesn't believe in God, and he curses the very thoughts of God."
I said, "All right. I'll stay in the car."
So then, we pulled up, and he walked over under a little apple tree where the old man was setting, about seventy-five. And he spoke to him, and called him by name. He said, "My name is Bank Wood." He said, "I would like to know if we can hunt on your place."
The old fellow looked at him, said, "Are you Jim Wood's son?"
He said, "I am."
He said, "Help yourself, anywhere you want to go; plenty of room here. I got five hundred acres of woods." He said, "Well, how is Jim getting along?" Talked just a moment.

L-20 Brother Wood said... Now, he was a Jehovah Witness that his boy, crippled, one leg drawed up under him, was healed in the meeting. He's a contractor. So he just quit contracting, moved next door to me, been there about ten years. Now, all of his people, by visions--every one of them, even readers in Jehovah Witness movement, is every one filled with the Holy Ghost. So then we standing there, he said, "I brought my pastor with me."
And this old fellow said, "Wood, you don't mean you've got so low-down, till you have to bring a preacher with you everywhere you go?" And I thought it was time for me to get out of the car then.
So I got out of the car and walked around where the old gentleman was setting. I said, "How do you do?"
He said, "How do you do, sir?" And he said, "And you're a preacher?"
I said, "Yes, sir. I'm supposed to be."
And he said, "Well," he said, "I think not much of those fellows."
I said, "Well, they're pretty good fellows, most of them."
He said, "Well, that's the kind I haven't met yet."
And I--I said, "Yes, sir."
And he said, "I believe..."
I said, "What makes you say that?"


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