<TITLE>07. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 And now, I see them as they stopped to rest just a little bit, pulling their oars in, and wiping the perspiration from their face. It must've been... I'm going to say young John, after they set catching their breath for a few moments, because they had quite a distance yet to go--most of the night to pull. And then, catching his breath, looked around, and said, "Brethren..." And this testimony meeting they are going to have now. And he said, "Let us have a testimony meeting while we're waiting. And He will catch up with us after while, and let's have a testimony meeting."
And I--I'd like to do that tonight, while we're talking about Him. Surely, He will catch up with us after while, along here somewhere. And--and let's just talk about Him a little while. Let's hear the testimonies they were having.

L-27 I can hear John say, "I would like to testify first," because John was a young fellow. And he said, "You know, we can never be skeptic any more. We just simply can't do it, because what we seen today. We know that no matter how many Pharisees, or how many Scribes say that this is wrong, we know it's right. We are not following a false prophet. We are following the Lord's Christ."
And he said... I might've said something like this: "Years ago, as a little boy, I was raised down close to Jericho. And I can remember the days when I'd play out there on the hillside in spring. I can still see that pretty little Jewish mother of mine. When dad would be gone out in the fields to work, she used to rock me to sleep in the afternoon. And she'd set out on the--the porch, and rock me to sleep, and tell me Bible stories.

L-28 "And she'd point down to the ford, just below Jericho, and say, 'John, don't forget. Remember, there's where the great, mighty, Joshua crossed the sea, or the... in the month of April... or the Jordan. And great Jehovah held the waters back, while we come into the promised land. And right down along that road going there, the great prophet Elijah and Elisha walked arm-in-arm. They crossed Jordan.'"
"'John, don't forget when God visited His people in that wilderness there. He kept them for forty years, and every day a miracle happened. John, we're told now that the days of miracles is past, but the great Jehovah made bread and rained it down on the earth to feed about two and a half million of our people. For forty years they seen that miracle.'"

L-29 And John might've said something like this, as we listen to him. "Brethren, I've watched Him along as I have been following Him. But today I seen something. I used to ask mama, 'Mama, where does God have a--a night force up there that--and big ovens up in the heaven that bakes all this bread, the Angels, and then pours it out on the ground for His children?'"
"'Why,' she said, 'no, John. You know our God can create that bread.'"
"Now, I've always believed that story. And today, when I seen Him take those five loaves and feed five thousand, that settled it."
I can hear him turn, and say, "Matthew, did you see the looks on His face? Why, He looked like He wasn't surprised at all, that little boy."
Matthew said, "Yeah, I seen him. Really, he'd played truant from school, (Well, we called it hooky,) and had run off. And I asked him... I--I looked around. I seen no one there that had anything to eat, but he had his lunch under his arm. And I asked him if I could have it. And he said, 'Well, I brought it for my dinner. But if it's to go to that Man that I've heared talk, He can have it.'"


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