<TITLE>10. Par 39-41</TITLE>L-39 John says, "When I was a little boy, I can remember when my mama would get me on the porch. We were raised down near Jericho. And in the springtime when I'd pick my mother a bunch of flowers... And--and I'd see her pretty brown eyes as I would bring them to her, and she would put me in her arms, and rock me, and sing me songs about God. And she used to tell me Bible stories. And how I loved to hear those Bible stories."
"And she told me about just down below the ford there, the great mighty Joshua stood there one day and commanded that water to move back, in the month of April, when the waters was flowing down. And the Jordan held her peace while our people walked into the land that they were promised."
"How that he met the great Warrior, when he pulled His sword standing against the gate. And he, Joshua, the great warrior, pulled his sword to meet the Man, and he said, 'Who are you? Are You for us, or are You our enemy?'"
"And He said, 'I'm the Captain of the host of the Lord.' And Joshua threw off his helmet, fell down on his knees."

L-40 "And I remember Mama telling us--telling me, rather, as she rocked me, she said, 'Listen, John, my little boy, always believe God. One day when our people were slaves down in Egypt, great Jehovah God sent His prophet down there. Following, we did, a Pillar of Fire, our people, and they come out in the wilderness without anything, just what clothes they had on. And God brought bread down every night and laid it out on the ground. And our people eat bread in that wilderness for forty years.'"
"And I used to be enthused as a little boy. I said, 'Mama, does God have a whole big row of ovens up there in heaven, and a bunch of Angels working night work, that they get up there, and bake all this bread, and run down, and lay it on the ground?'"
"She'd say, 'No, son. You understand as a child. God doesn't have to have bake ovens. God is a Creator. And all that God had to do was just speak the Word, and the bread fell on the earth.'"

L-41 "And now, my brethren," he said, "today when I seen them bring that little boy up there with those five little biscuits and two fishes, and I seen Him break that bread, and multiply that to feed five thousand people, I knowed that was no false prophet. He had to be associated with Jehovah God, because here again, the very God that we believe in was right here doing His same works again. He was creating bread. It must be the same God that led our people into this land. Sure."
I want to ask you. That little boy, probably playing truant from school with that little biscuit or two in his hand... See, that little biscuit didn't mean nothing. It could only take care of him as long as he had it. As long as it was in his hands, it wasn't very much. But once placed into the hands of Jesus, it fed five thousand.
And that little faith that you've got in God, as long as you hold it to yourself, it won't mean very much. But once give it to Him, see what takes place. If there would happen to be a scientist along, I'd like to ask you, what kind of an atom did He let loose there? Not only was it fish, but it was cooked fish; not only wheat bread, but it was cooked bread.


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