<TITLE>04. Par 26-36</TITLE>L-26 Now, resurrection is not replacement. Resurrection is bringing the same thing up that went down. If I should drop the Bible from the--the stand, on the floor, and catch some, another Bible, and replace it, that's replacement. But, resurrection, is bring the same Bible up that went down. And that's what resurrection means, "to be--to be raised up."

L-27   And, God, the great Creator Who has expressed Hisself through all of His creation. And we are a part of His creation, just as those flowers are, just as the trees are, all other nature. We are a part of His creation.

L-28 Now, God is a God of variety. He doesn't have everything just the same. He doesn't have just all mountains. He has desert, plains, grassy fields. And He has yellow flowers, white, blue, pink, different colors. He has large men, small men; and dark-headed, brown-headed, red-headed. He's the God of variety, for everything is to serve His purpose. He's got everything to serve His purpose. And everything that does serve His purpose, correctly, there is a resurrection to it.

L-29   Now, that might be hard to think or to comprehend, at once, but let's think of it, being that we got this here before us, this afternoon.

L-30 Now, here's the flowers. They're expressing what they come here on earth for, to help cheer the--the weary room, this afternoon, where this lovely young brother lays, asleep. And those flowers, we notice.

L-31 Like you women here in Kentucky. I--I'm from here, myself. And--and I notice you plant your flowers around your house, and--and the summertime they bloom up so pretty, and brighten up your home. And then, maybe, in the fall of the year, all of a sudden, a frost hits them. That's death. Now, whether they're already the petals are dropping, or whether they're young flowers, or whatever they are, when frost strikes, it takes them all. That's death. It's no respect of person, ability, age. It just strikes. And where it hits, it takes. Then we notice the petals drop from the little flower, then, and out of the flower drops a little black seed.

L-32 And now this may seem juvenile. But that's the way you find God, is in the simple things, not the--the complicated things. God has made it simple, if we just could see it.

L-33   Now, God has a funeral procession for that flower; seems strange. But the little seed is laying on the ground. Then the fall rains come, like tears dropping from the sky, and pats down upon this little seed, until it buries it.

L-34 And along comes the cold winter. Now, the petals are gone. The stalk is gone. The bulb in the ground, the roots is dried up. Oh! The seed, when the winter freeze, it freezes the seed. It bursts the seed open, the pulp runs out. Now we're getting along, February or March. There's no petal, no stalk, no seed, no pulp, no nothing.

L-35   Is that the end of that flower? Not by no means. There's a little germ of life, somewhere, within that seed. That, you might get the dirt in your hands, and take it to the laboratory, and let the--the--the scientist examine it, back and forth, and he'll never find that germ of life. God hid it. But just as soon as the--the world rocks around in the solar system, until it... till it gets around to where the sun begins to strike the earth again. You could not hide that life.

L-36 If you laid a concrete walk, down through your yard, on top of the grass, where's your next... the most... Next summer, where is the most grass at? Right around the sides of the walk. Why? It's that life that was laying beneath that--that concrete. And when it comes springtime, though a rock laying on it, it will not hide it. That life will weed its way right through. That's what makes so much grass around the edge of the walk. You cannot hide life. It has to come up because God has put the sun, s-u-n, over this, the botany life, and it controls botany life.


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