<TITLE>07. Par 24-28</TITLE>L-24 Now, I'm going to speak... Now... Yet, wasn't it strange here that Philip, that great warrior who'd seen those great mighty works of Christ, went and got Nathanael and brought him up there to the place, and saw the manifestation of the Scriptural proof that He was the Messiah, and then he said, "Now, You show us the Father and it'll satisfy."
Now, did you notice the--the next verse, the 9th verse, said, "I have been so long with you, Philip, and you know Me not?" How I think that would be for us this afternoon, that God in His mercy has manifested Hisself so many times to us, and yet we don't recognize it.

L-25 Now, I'm going to speak on four ways to see God. Now, a lot of people try to place Him way off as a historical affair, but let's just look at God in four ways. And I think that if God can be shown positive, without one shadow of doubt, that God in four different ways is standing right here this afternoon, that ought to be convincing, oughtn't it? Four ways of seeing God, I'm going to speak of, God in His universe, God in His Word, God in His Son, and God in His people. And now, I could take a dozen more; but those four things I want to rest upon for the next thirty minutes, God willing.
Let's take first now, God in His universe. Who made the universe? We're told that it stands in space. How can it revolve around so perfect, more perfect than any instrument?

L-26 I'm wearing a three hundred dollar watch that was give to me by Dr. Guggenbuhl in Switzerland. He give it to me 'cause it's got an alarm, for interviews and so forth. And it's a--the Vulcain Cricket, one of the best that Swiss makes. But yet, it'll lose time, gain time. It isn't perfect. Anything that man makes is imperfect; but all that God does is perfect. See?

L-27 Notice, how He can make that world turn just around; the sun ever exact, gaining so much, year after year, day after day; moving around the equator, moving around, its orbit. And everything, and make those stars and things, till they can predict the eclipse of the moon twenty years away to the minute. So perfect...
And what's holding it up? Which is up and down? How do we know? Them on the South Pole to us, is looking that way, saying it's up; and we on the North Pole is looking this way, and that's down to South Pole. Which is right?
How perfect it floats. Spin anything in the air and see if it'll stand there two revolutions without moving out of its orbit. But God perfectly holds the whole universe in His control. We believe that, that God does that. No other power, nothing else could do it but God, God alone.

L-28 And did you ever go out here to the sea, and watch that big angry sea, those big white waves dashing in there, angry? You know, almost four-fifths of the earth is covered in water, and one time it covered the whole earth over. How it would like to get a past there if it could. But you notice, it'll just come so far.
Why? God's got a watch dog watching it. That's the moon. The moon controls... God set it there to control the sea. If that moon would ever move a few inches out of its orbit, the whole world would be covered with water just in a moment. Watch when he turns his head to see what the other side of the earth is, in the evening when--the mornings, and so forth, how the tide goes out.
And here it comes in angrily again, but the watch dog there says, "That's your boundaries. Stay right there." And yet there's enough water out there, with the curvature of the earth, to wash the whole thing around. But God has a control. Amen. Oh, how great Thou art, how great Thou art. How He does it, how He--it's beyond our means. How we could spend hours on that.


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