<TITLE>04. Par 31-37</TITLE>L-31 I said, "That may be all right, all the outward motions. He might be identified as a believer with the believers. But until he is regenerated, born again, I'd advise that young man to never marry a woman. He'll make Hell on earth for her, until that gentle, sweet, forgiving Spirit of Christ comes in. Then that will be a paradox in itself, to take the very nature of a boy that's bred between father and mother. And yet, in his intellectuals, he is trying his best to overcome it. He can't do it. He'll never overcome it. Christ will have to overcome it. When he lets Christ in, then he's already overcome then. It'll be a perfect paradox, when a man is born of the Spirit of God.

L-32   I've seen critics stand off and make fun, and carry on, of a Holy Ghost revival. And after a while, God get a hold of that same man and change him, and here he stands right in the pulpit preaching the same thing that he once hated. It's a paradox, how that God can take the unbeliever and make a believer out of him.

L-33 Now I wonder, if a man thinks that miracles is passed, I wonder what kind of a scientific medicine you could give such a person to change that disposition in them, to take that hatred and malice and strife, out? There is no one can explain it. But it's a paradox, because it's a miracle of God. When a man is changed from the person that he is, to a new creature in Christ Jesus, he becomes a new creation. He is no more what he used to be. He is absolutely a new creation in Christ.

L-34   This world itself, that we're living on, is absolutely a paradox, how it was formed. We find out, in Hebrews the 11th chapter and the 3rd verse, that, "The world was framed together by the Word of God." Where did God get the material to make this world? How did He do it? The Bible says that it was "formed and framed together." All of its structure and its part was put together by the Word of God. If that isn't a paradox, I don't know where it is. Where could we produce and say He got the material, when there was no material? He had to speak it into existence. It's a paradox, that this world is here tonight.

L-35   Another thing, it's a paradox of how it stays in its orbit, hanging in space. How can it hang there in that one place, spinning this a way, about eleven hundred miles an hour? Twenty-four or twenty-five thousand miles around, and goes around every twenty-four hours, so perfect it doesn't miss a second. So perfect turning, that better than about a... Better than a thousand miles an hour, it's turning around like this, hanging in space. If it would go up or down, any, why, my, it would--it would interrupt the whole system of God's solar system. And it goes around the equator, around the orbit so many, a year's time, it never fails, the seasons just exactly.

L-36 Tell me what holds it up there, what turns it so perfect in time. You can get a watch; I don't know how much you might pay for one, a thousand dollars; and that watch, within the space of a month, will lose minutes. They haven't got anything that can work so perfect, but yet this world turns perfect. Why? It's God doing it. It's a paradox. God commanded it to do that, and it does it.

L-37   How about the moon? Yet millions of miles away from the earth, and yet it--it controls the tides on the earth. Millions of miles away, its influence, of standing in its space. Standing in its orbit, it influences the earth. Each planet influences the other, by staying in its place.


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