<TITLE>07. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 So young John said, "We'll start a testimony meeting while we're waiting. I'd like to be the first one to testify," 'cause it was just burning in him.
I remember a sister, used to be in our church. She'd sing a little song: something I forget what how she--what you called it, but something another, "Running, running, running, and can't stand still," or something like that; "just got over, and can't stand still," or something. But she certainly had a real jubilee all to herself with it, whether the rest of them did or not. She was having a great time with it. So it... That must've been the condition that John was in. Let's just stop now, and listen to them testify.

L-27 John said, "Brethren, there's one thing that I'm thoroughly convinced in. We can tell the world from today on that we're not following some kind of a quack. We're not following some false prophet, some puffed-up something that--that knows nothing, but we're following God. We're not following some false prophet."
"I can call back the days when I was a little boy, and I used to play in the springtime on the hillsides. And I remember my pretty Jewish mother used to call me in, and--and set me on the porch that looked out towards the Jordan, rock me to sleep in her arms. And she would tell me the Bible stories. And she'd show me where Joshua, the great warrior, crossed the river under the power of Jehovah rolled back the waters. And in the springtime the big muddy flood stood still, while our people crossed into their own grounds in their own land, when they'd come up from slaves out of another country: been down there living like slaves, and now they'd been brought into their own country."

L-28 "And she told me how that God provided for them in their journey; how that for forty years out there in the wilderness, without failing one time, God put bread down out of the heaven upon the earth every night for them to get it fresh every day."
"And I used to say as a little boy, 'Mama, it's a strange thing. I do not understand how God does that. Does He have a night shift working up there, and the heavens is all full of bakeries that He bakes the bread, and the Angels bakes it, and runs down the ladder and spreads it all over the ground for His children?' I remember I'd ask Mama that."
"And she would say to me, 'My little boy John, of course you understand as a child. But you know, Jehovah don't have to do those kind of things. Jehovah is a Creator. He doesn't have to have ovens, and bake bread, and go through the procedure that we do. But He is a Creator, and all He has to do is just speak the Word and the bread is there.'"

L-29 "And brethren, today when Andrew went down there and got that five little biscuits from that little boy that was playing truant from school, and gave us that lunch... And when I saw Him take that bread, and break it, and feed five thousand people, I knowed that wasn't a false prophet. There's some connection there with God, because God alone can do it. That must been God. And did you notice, He just looked like Jehovah when He stood there picking up that bread?"
"And you know, I slipped around behind the rock, and got up above, and looked over, and I said, 'I wonder where He's getting it?' And He picked up this biscuit. And when He broke the biscuit, I watched the end of it, and He handed it out to one of you brethren. When His hand started back, there was the same biscuit again, whole. So He--He didn't have to--to bake it any more; it was created right in His hands. So it must have been Jehovah, and--for He was a Creator. I seen the way He acted. It was Jehovah. I know it is. And He's not nothing false. And I'm thoroughly convinced. And that little boy, how I noticed his little eyes as he looked up."


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