<TITLE>03. Par 18-25</TITLE>L-18 And somebody is watching us. You may not think that, but there is eyes watching you. And your life is influencing somebody. Maybe it's a little child, and that child may grow up to be another Finney, or Moody, or so forth. We don't know. But your--your life is influencing someone.

L-19   And our setting tonight is quite a great setting on this, because just reading it this afternoon, when I was studying, I was thinking how great God was.

L-20 This morning, when my son and I were kind of walking around the--the block, there was so many people. We went down around Times Square, for they said they were going to tear it down. I think the con-... the--the work's already begun. So I was looking at that, and we were taking some pictures. And the people, crowding! I said to my son, Billy, I said, "Where they all going? What's the hurry? Here they are, down beneath us, a running; and here, a running; and up above us, a running. I... Where is everybody going in such a hurry?"

L-21   And as we stood, we thought this, "How can God know the thoughts of every person? And how could it be that all the--the billions in the earth, and yet God knows every time you bat your eye?" He is infinite.

L-22 And if you just want to know, and just to satisfy that, if it ever comes in your mind, go out and look up at the stars and wonder how He controls all of those, then you see what a little job this would be. When those stars, you can see a hundred and twenty million years of light space, through a glass; you know how fast light travels, why, you could run a row of nine's around the state of New York, couldn't break it down in miles. And beyond that is just as many stars as there is on this side, there at Mount Palomar and Mount Wilson there in California, it may be seen.

L-23   Think how great He is, and how He holds the earth! This earth, or one of those stars would move from its place, millions and billions of miles away, it would affect this earth. That whole solar system has to stay just at its place. And, see, everything God made, like that, obeys God. But when God made man, man seems to want to know more than He does, you see; it's, we're the only ones out of place. They stay in place. And they have to stay in place, to coordinate with each other.

L-24   For instance, the moon, if the moon would ever move out of its place, the earth would be filled with water, in a few moments. See, the--the moon is--is rather like a watchdog of the sea. "He set its bounds, that it can't pass." And when the moon turns from the earth, here comes the tides in. If the moon didn't catch it around the other side, it would cover the earth. See? So the moon stops and--and he turns his back to look around the other side of the world, and--and here comes the waters coming in real fast, and then he turns again. He is Jehovah's servant. Sea stops and goes back to its place again, because it sees the perfect moving of Jehovah.

L-25 Oh, if we in the church, as the members of the Body of Christ, could only work in harmony like that, you would see a great and mighty Church of the living God, all in one array, filled with the Holy Spirit. Wouldn't it be wonderful? Every member of the Body functioning just exactly to its place, every gift to its place, every gift helping the other, every member helping the other, that would be wonderful. That's what we want to see. But we'll see it someday, and if it be right.


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