<TITLE>09. Par 85-97</TITLE>L-85   And that's the way we do, brethren, in our church life. We get into a swing of one certain creed, or one certain thing, and there we stay. See, we swing with the rest of them. We swing with our organization.

L-86 We swing with our community. It's just a natural. Paint your steps red, and watch what your neighbor does. They'll do it, too. Uh-huh. One of you sisters get a certain kind of a dress, or a hat, and watch what your neighbors does. See? It's a--it's an impersonation. It's a matching time.

L-87 We don't care whether our trousers match our coats. We want our experience to match the Word, see, and God.

L-88   But walking down the street, Billy said to me, said, "Dad, how does God ever know who they all are?"

L-89 I said, "All right, son, look right straight up towards the skies." And I said, "See those two little stars up there, almost together?"
"Yeah."

L-90 I said, "If one of them, science tells us, if one of them would start to the earth, at a million miles an hour, it would take it millions of years to get here. That's how far it is away. And yet those two stars are closer to each other than we are to the star, or we're probably closer to the star than they are, to us."
He said, "How does God ever do it?"
I said, "He is infinite." See?

L-91   We just heard a lecture from Einstein, on this galaxy and the constellation. And he said, "If a--a person could leave the earth..." One of his great speeches, last ones. "If a person could leave the earth at the speed of light, that's eight hundred and... a hundred and eighty-six thousand miles per second; a hundred and eighty-six thousand miles per second, and would travel a hundred and fifty million light years, he would arrive there. And then it'd take him a hundred and fifty million light years to come back." That would be so many billions of years, you could run a row of nines around the earth and not break it down, in talking about years." You know how long he had been gone from the earth? Fifty years, in our time.

L-92   We're in such a hurry! What if a little ant started from Tucson, to come up here to Bakersfield, how far you think he would get in forty years? Probably a half a mile. See, it means so much to him; to us, it meant twelve hours driving; to a jet plane, just a few seconds; to God, nothing.

L-93 Jesus died yesterday afternoon, He was crucified. Paul died yesterday. "One thousand years is as a day with God," as it was, not even that, but if you want to count the time. So those apostles, and things, died yesterday. We are hurrying; we ain't got but a little bit of time to stay here. Then you think, when you look at Eternity...

L-94   Einstein, the great philosopher said, or the great scientist said, that, "There is only one sensible way to explain the origin of this earth, that was found in Hebrews, the 11th chapter and the 3rd verse, 'By faith we understand God framed the world, out of things that... ' He spoke it into existence."

L-95 How does it stand in the skies, never gets out of its orbit? How that everything in heaven, and that constellation, if one of those stars would move... I know you go out at night and say, "I seen a star shoot." No, you seen a weather light. A star don't move. If that star would move, we would move with it. Everything in heaven is so much in harmony, it holds one another together.

L-96 What if mankind could be that way, to hold the church together? That we could all be in harmony with the Word. See? Only one way, let God be His Own interpreter, and we will be. See? God is His interpreter of That.

L-97   Now we find out that in this is simply a paradox. There is no doubt but what that's one of the great paradoxes. Now, there has been so many paradoxes, as we come. Things, it--it's incredible, but yet is true.


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