<TITLE>15. Par 132-143</TITLE>L-132   What one senses of one person would declare, it would declare to another. That's the reason that people can set in the--in the meeting, and look at the work of the Lord, and get up and walk out, and make fun of It; and the other holds to It, with all their heart. It's a paradox, how God could make men, of the same flesh. It's a paradox, to see how God does it, even in this day. It was a paradox for Paul.

L-133 You know, Paul never did see Jesus in physical form. He had to accept the revelation just like Peter did. Peter never knowed Jesus by physical form.
He said, "Who does man say I the Son of man am?"

L-134 "Some of them said, why, You are 'Moses,' and some say You're 'Elias,' and 'Jeremias.'"
He said, "That's not what I asked. What do you say?"
Peter said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."

L-135 He said, "Blessed art thou, Simon, the son of Jonas. Flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but My Father which is in Heaven has revealed it. And upon this rock, I'll build My Church, and the gates of Hell cannot prevail against It." There you are, a paradox. When He was standing there, and didn't know Him in human flesh; but he knowed Him by His works and revelation, see Him fulfill exactly what the Scripture is.

L-136   That's the same kind of a paradox that brings a man from some old cold formal creed, into a living God. It's a paradox, to see the same man read the same Bible, and deny It, while the other one will believe It and accept the evidence of it. Yeah, it's a paradox, when he can see It working on the other fellow, sure he ought to know that it's the same God. His creed is wrong, if it's contrary. If God is vindicating His Word, then your creed is wrong. Amen. Don't mean to be so rude, but that's the Truth, a paradox.

L-137 I said, "Thirty minutes," and it's just exactly that. I got about six pages of notes here yet. Paradox, do you believe in it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Amen, I believe in it. And I'll stop.

L-138   Let me tell you something. Listen. Here sometime ago, down in the South, where I come from, I was having a little bit of ice cream, one day. An old druggist friend of mine, a real old born-again saint, he was a real man. Hadn't seen him for some time, and I was going through the city, and I stopped to see him. And I seen his name up there, and I thought, "Well, there, he has got this business here, and been there for years."

L-139 I went up, went in, and there he was, setting there, looking down over his little glasses, you know, and looking over his little glasses that hung down on his cheek. And he said, "Well, if it isn't Brother Branham!" And he raised up, and come put his arms around me, and come pat me. Told his son, said, "Go get us some, some ice cream." We was standing there. "Have a cup of coffee?"

L-140 I said, "No, sir. I'd talk you to death, if they'd give me a cup of coffee." I said, "Makes me nervous." I said, "I'll just take some ice cream."

L-141   So, we got some ice cream out. And--and the girls was back there, and so forth, in the store, and we set and had a little fellowship around the ice cream.

L-142 He said, "Brother Branham, I--I want to tell you something." Said, "I--I been a little reluctant to tell other people." We got to talking about the Lord and His goodness. And the old fellow crying, and tears running down his cheeks, and he said, "I--I want to tell you something." Said, "It--it may seem strange to--to you," he said, "but I believe that a person like you would understand it."
I said, "Well, go ahead, brother. What is it?"

L-143 He said, "Back in during the time of the depression," he said, "my gray-headed son there was just a young man." And said, "We were here in the--this business then," and he said, "but people were poor and didn't have nothing to eat. And to get an order, to get medicine or something, they had to go and stand in line."


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