<TITLE>07. Par 29-34</TITLE>L-29 Now, to our text: Joshua. As you read on through the chapter, you'll find that the Bible says that there never was a day like that before or after, that when God listened to a man. I've got a teen-age girl: Rebekah. She's in high school. And here some time ago I was reading that. And she said, "Daddy, there must be a mistake there somewhere."
I said, "No mistake. Not a... No mistakes in the Word of God."
She said, "Daddy, the... Joshua never stopped the sun, daddy." I said... She said, "He stopped the earth."
I said, "Rebekah, he stopped the sun."
She said, "Daddy, he couldn't have done it."
"Why," I said, "you think God's Word makes a mistake, honey?"
Said, "No. I don't believe that, daddy. But I believe Joshua just didn't understand."
I said, "Knowing God well enough to perform a miracle like that, and yet he didn't understand? He knowed what he was talking about."
She said, "Daddy, the sun's already stopped. It doesn't move. He stopped the earth."

L-30 I said, "He wasn't talking about that missile. He said, 'Stand still over Gibeon; and in the valley of Ajalon, hold still.' And the sun never moved off of Gibeon, or Ajalon for twenty-four hours. He wasn't talking about that missile out there. He was talking about the sun crossing the earth. He wasn't concerned about that. He was concerned about enough light to bring the enemy of Israel down." The sun is what he was talking about--the sun--the reflection of the sun. That's the sun he was talking about.
God's Word doesn't make no mistakes. What it says, It doesn't need any--somebody's interpretation to twist it around and make It say something It doesn't say. Just take It for what It says, because It's God's Word.

L-31 Now, yet that being there, the writer that wrote this Book and said there never had been anything like it... That same God that stopped the sun said this in Mark 11, 11:22 and 23. He said; Jesus said, when He was speaking about the tree, "Verily I say unto you, if you shall say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you have said will come to pass, you can have what you've said."
Now, it just wasn't for Joshua only. It was for any believer that can take God's Word. First, you've got to have the right motive and the right objective, the right reason for it. Now. But it was a paradox.

L-32 We know... Many of us know... I've seen, myself, such things like that happen: creative things that I know has happened. The impossibility... If I had time to linger on it, but I haven't, of scientific proof of the impossibilities of creation. Only God Himself could do it, 'cause He's God. A God that could perform a paradox there is still the same God today that still can make a paradox. That's right.

L-33 Noah's time, in Noah's day it was a paradox. You remember, there had been no rain on the earth till the day of Noah. God watered up through the springs and so forth. But Noah begin to build an ark. What was he doing? Before the paradox ever taken place, Noah made preparations for it. Oh, may I say this afternoon, if we here today will only prepare for a paradox... The One Who can bring a paradox is with us. The God Who all of His works is paradox, past understanding, incredible, but true, He can bring a paradox.

L-34 Noah got ready for it. I'd imagine in his preparation times that people said, "Wonder what that old crank is having out there, up there pounding away on an old wooden ship. It's never rained. It's a... There is no such a thing."
I'd imagine science could come out to Noah and say, "Looky here. We have instruments that we can shoot the stars, and there's no rain up there. How in the world can your words be true, when it's going to rain, and there's no water up there?" But you see, if God has said it was going to rain, He can make rain. So he got ready for it, made ready the par--for the paradox. And it rained.


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