<TITLE>03. Par 21-29</TITLE>L-21 I said, "She was as poor as poor could be, but nobody could ever come to her door, or need, but what she would give to them. The neighbors, no matter what trouble they was in, Mrs. Ford, any hour of the night, was there to help them, do anything she could, with what she had to do with."

L-22   And I said, "Above all that, I had the privilege one time of seeing that seed germitized by the Holy Spirit. She was born again of the Spirit of God." I said, "Now we're going to plant her, in a little bit, in the ground. And who intelligently could stand up and say she will not rise again?"

L-23 "If you say she won't rise again, the leaf didn't go down to the bottom of the tree before the frost fell, to hide itself, to come back next year with a new leaf. If that lay, that sap stayed up in that tree until the frost and freeze hit that, it would kill that germ of life in that sap, and the tree would die. But some intelligence... It has none of its own. That's botany life. It has no intelligence. But something controls it. Before we have a frost or anything, in that country, way in August, them leaves go off the tree because the sap leaves the tree and goes back down into the roots, way beneath the ground, to hide that germ of life, to bring it back again next year with some more fruit."

L-24   What does that? What intelligence? That same intelligence controls our life. That's right. And before we could say there's no resurrection for a little saint like that setting there, that served God sixty-five years... I was thinking of her laying there in that oxygen tent, and her breath just coming. My, she'll rise again someday. She's just got to. That's all."

L-25 Before you could say she would not, you'd have to say there is no springtime, there is no resurrection of the seeds, there is no summer and winter, there is no rising and setting of the sun, there is no such a thing as the Word of God. Why, it would be crazy to say such a thing. There is a resurrection. And just as sure as that world floats around, around in face of this sun again, that sun will... is give commission by God, to raise up with its warm rays, that botany life.

L-26   And just as soon as time floats around, till Eternity breaks again, and that S-o-n rises out there, something is going to happen. All them lives that's germitized in Him will rise again. It's just got to. There's no way of any other way. See the Creator expressing Himself in His creation? See? That's what God is doing. And we could look out, anybody that's--that's half intelligent, could look out and see that God, that Christianity is based upon resurrection.

L-27   Now, if I drop this piece on the floor, now, it went down. And I come over here and pick up something similar. Now, that isn't resurrection. That's replacement. But, resurrection, is to bring this same one up. And we're coming back again. Just... You plant a yellow grain of corn, it'll produce another yellow grain of corn. See? And we go down, a mortal, raise up an immortal. And we're so glad of that today. And that's... Our whole Christian hope is built right there, right there, alone.

L-28 So, to come together and set in Heavenly places like this in Christ Jesus, what a privilege it is to all of us, young and old, looking for that time when Jesus shall come.

L-29   Now, with a congregation like this, and the Spirit of God in here the way It is, I could speak on till nine o'clock tonight, or eight o'clock, time to do down to the Foursquare church, and still be feeling good. But we got to give away. They don't want the beans to scorch, and so forth, you know. So we just come in for a little time of fellowship, and be here. This lovely brother and his little flock, that you're sojourning here. And we come in to share under your tree, to set down and have a little fellowship.


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