<TITLE>21. Par 243-252</TITLE>L-243 He doesn't change. His first decision has to always remain that decision. That's the reason He deals with one individual, not with a group. One! He can't change it. Well, I got a whole lot to say here, but I...

L-244   Jesus' death was a phenomena. It was a paradox. The resurrection was a paradox. We believe that. Everybody knows the resurrection was a paradox, that God raised Him up from the dead.

L-245 The new Birth is a paradox. That's right, can change a man's being! We could preach a sermon right here in a little bit, see, how a paradox, to take a man that's a disbeliever, unbeliever, has nothing to do with It, and all at once change from a renegade to a saint, a prostitute to a sister. It's a paradox. No one can give him a medicine, or a shot, or a dose of medicine, or anything else; It takes the hand of almighty God, and that alone, to change a man. Well, it's a paradox, when a man is born again, that's right, a paradox anew.

L-246   It was a paradox when God chose a hundred and twenty ignorant fishermen, to take the news, the Gospel at Pentecost, around the world, instead of the--of the great Sanhedrin Council that was trained for it, those who had trained and waited, and waited for the thing to happen. And God revealed Himself to a bunch of fishermen that couldn't even sign their own name to a piece of paper. A paradox, that God chose such as that, instead of taking the--the Ecumenical Council of that day, to do it.

L-247 It'll do the same thing today. "He is able of these stones to rise children unto Abraham."

L-248   The prophets visions has always been a paradox, how that those man, by inspiration, could foretell things that never fail. That's a paradox, how that something beyond the human mind, that you cannot comprehend. They're two, conscience and sub-conscience; that God gets into the sub-conscience, which is the real, and foresees, takes him out and sees things that was way back in another age, brings him down to present tense and tells the future, and it never fails, any time. A paradox, indeed! Incredible, but it's true. It happens just exactly. What we seen Him do last night was a paradox, incredible to the human being. We can't explain it.

L-249   A certain Baptist church that my little family went to, the other day, and they had been down at the meeting in Tucson. The pastor got up, not knowing that the boy that goes with my daughter is a member there. And he said, "You know, I just learned, Brother Branham's father and mother travel in a--in a circus. And said, "They were magicians, and that's a little trick that he does." See? I guess it was a trick that heals the sick? I doubt whether my father and mother ever seen a circus. They never seen an automobile till I had one. See? They never knowed nothing about it.

L-250 But, you see, the devil has always got to say. They told Jesus, "They do this by Beelzebub." They had to answer something to their congregation. Why don't they search the Scripture and see This is predicted today. It's Jesus Christ the--the same, yesterday, as He was yesterday He is today, and will be forever. But that's it, see, that's just the--the way they try to do it, the Pentecostal uneducated, the prophet's visions. Jesus alive today, after two thousand years, is a paradox, too. It certainly is.

L-251 Now I must close, 'cause it's getting late. You believe in paradox? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Certainly.

L-252   May I say this. One time an old druggist friend, kind old man, he said, "Brother Branham, I'm going to tell you something." Said, "I--I know your ministry," and said, "I--I'm going to tell you." Said, "It might sound ridiculous. But," said, "I haven't told it to people, 'cause they wouldn't believe it. But," said, "I'm going to tell it to you."
I said, "Go ahead."


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