<TITLE>09. Par 96-110</TITLE>L-96   So, turned around. And it was for about--about the middle of August, and it's real hot and the leaves was beginning to fall off the trees. And he had a nice apple tree there, and--and apples all on the ground. And I said, "You mind if I have one of them apples?"

L-97 He said, "The yellow jackets are eating them." How many knows what a yellow jacket is? So, said, "They're eating them. You might as well."

L-98 So I got one and rubbed it on these old dirty pants, you know, and took a bite. I said, "That's a fine apple."
Said, "Oh, yes. I planted that tree there, forty years ago."
I said, "Uh-huh."
"That, yes, sir, I planted it out."
I said, "Bear like that, every year?"

L-99 "Yes. We sure... We can several bushel of apples off of it, every year. We dry some on top the shed."
I said, "Yes, sir." I said, "That's very fine."

L-100   I said, "Now, a strange thing." I said, "You notice we haven't even had a frost. We haven't had a cool spell or nothing, and yet all them leaves are dropping off that tree." I said, "Wonder why that is?"
He said, "Well, the life left the--the leaf."
I said, "The life left the leaf?"
He said, "Yes."
I said, "Where did the life go?"
He said, "Down in the root of the tree."
"Oh." I said. "What did it go down there for?"

L-101 And he said, "Well, to keep out of the winter." Said, "You see, it gets about twenty below zero here." Said, "If--if that life was up in the tree, the life would die. It's got to go down into the root."

L-102 I said, "Oh, I--I see. Uh-huh." And I said, "I want to ask you a question." I said, "You know that tree don't have any intelligence, because it's just a tree, a part of botany life." I said, "What kind of an intelligence tells it, before the frost falls, 'Get out of there, right quick. Run down the root and hide. If you don't, you're going to die.' What intelligence does that?"
"Well," he said, "that's just nature."

L-103 I said, "Well, I'll tell you. Take a bucket of water and set it on the post out there, in August, let me see all that water run down the bottom of the post, and then come back up again in the spring."
Said, "I hadn't thought of that."

L-104   And I said, "You think on that while I go squirrel hunting. And then, when I come back, if you will tell me what Intelligence tells that sap in that tree, that life, 'Go down in the roots and hide, till spring, then come back again.' When you find out what Intelligence works that life up and down, through that tree, at the seasons, I'll tell you what Intelligence told me that woman was going to be healed."
Said, "Told you?"
I said, "Yes, sir." I said...
He said, "You're not that preacher?"
I said, "I'm Brother Branham."
He said, "Can you prove it?"
I said, "Sure." I said, "I guess I don't look like it."

L-105 Said, "No, I admire that." He said, said, "You look human."

L-106 And I said, "Well..." I said, "Well..." I said, to that, "Well," I said, "all right, sir."
And he said, "Are you the minister?"

L-107 I said, "Yes, sir. The same God that can speak to a tree, can speak to a man." And there I led the old fellow to Christ.

L-108 A year later, I come back. And he'd went to meet the Lord. And the wife told me, said, "Brother Branham, he died in victory, praising God."

L-109   What was it? He seen God speaking in His universe. Of all the things that he had seen, and yet the very nature of a tree declared to him that there was a God. See? And he found it, and found Jesus Christ as his Saviour.

L-110 Oh, how you can see Him in the sunrise, see Him in the sunset. Everywhere you look, you can see God. As I said, the other night, "If He's in the inside of you, you can see Him out there."


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