<TITLE>05. Par 26-36</TITLE>L-26   In the days of Noah, He chose a farmer, just a common farmer, to announce the destruction of that age. Just a common farmer, not a clergyman, just a farmer! In the days of Noah, He took a--a... Pardon me.

L-27 The days of Moses, He took a runaway slave, not a clergyman. And He let him get out till He was satisfied, out in the backside of the desert, and lose his education, and appeared to him in a burning bush, and sent him down with a crooked stick in his hand, to take over a nation that had... that He had run him from.

L-28 See, God takes the simple things to identify Himself through. See, taking His, It's just His Word. He made the world out of the things that--that does... has not appeared.

L-29   A few days ago I was at the Morris Auditorium, one of our great New York campaigns, and I was hearing a lecture on Einstein speaking of this galaxy, that said take a hundred and fifty million years of--of light time, to go out to it, and a hundred and fifty million years to get back. And then, just think, a hundred and fifty million light years, that would be three hundred million light years. And then when you got back here, you'd only been gone fifty years. Think, why, how fast light travels, a hundred eighty-six thousand miles per minute, and think of how many billions and trillions of years it would take to go out there and come back. A hundred and twenty... three hundred million light years. And that's just to a galaxy in the constellation that God just blew from His hands, and He made the aeons of time in light years beyond that, and there looking down upon them.

L-30   Then this Russian said that's he was about a hundred and fifty, two hundred miles, up in the air, and said he never seen no God or Angels. How simple can man get? And then think of all them billions and trillions of years; and only fifty years from here, what did he do, broke into Eternity.

L-31 They say this astronaut that just went up, was up so many hours, went so many, seventeen times around the world, or whatever it was, they said it never even... it wasn't one second in his life. He was traveling with the time. So, you see, you break into Eternity. That's the greatness of God.

L-32 Our minds cannot fathom how great He is. And yet when He gets ready to reveal Himself, He makes it so simple, takes the simple things to do it, the simplicity of it.

L-33   David, he seemed to be the--the... All Jesse's seven sons, he was the last one to be brought before the prophet. Why, even his own folks could have laughed, they couldn't imagine a little ruddy-looking David, a little stoop-shouldered, ruddy-looking man to be the man that would be the king of Israel. He might not have looked like a king to those people, but he sure must have looked like it to God, 'cause they... He anointed him king, anyhow. See, He took the simple of David's family, or Jesse's family, to--to make kings. Something that the world had turned down, the... he had turned, sent him back to take care of the sheep. He brought forth his--forth his first son, a great strong stately-looking man, probably could stand erect and look like a king of Israel, and that's the one they thought would look good with a crown on his head, that's the one with the... wear the--the kingly garment and could pack the staff, and whatever must be done to a king. He--he looked good to the eyes of the people.

L-34   But the prophet, with the anointing oil in his hand, said, "Haven't you got another one?" And he brought them, one by one, until finally he said, "Haven't you got another one?"

L-35 He said, "I've got one, but perhaps he wouldn't be nothing. He's just a little dried up sort of a fellow, we got him out there herding sheep."

L-36 He said, "Go get him." And as soon as he fell in the eyes of the anointed prophet, he poured the oil upon his head--head, and run to meet him. Said, "This is the one God chose." See? See, it's not tinsel always, of the world. It's God's choosing.


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