<TITLE>09. Par 88-101</TITLE>L-88 One day in high school, I know I was talking to the high school teacher there, of--of the Bible, and--and I asked him this question about Joshua. He said, "The turning of the earth made the gravitation, and the gravitation held the--the world up."

L-89 And I said, "Then, why then, (you teach the Bible), did Joshua command the--the sun to stand still?"

L-90 He said, "God winked at his ignorance, see, and stopped the world."

L-91 I said, "You just got through telling me..." Now, he didn't believe in the miracles of God. See? And he said... "You just got through telling me, 'If the world ever stopped, it would stop its gravitation, then it would shoot like a comet through the air.' I said, "The Bible said that the world stood still here for twenty-four hours." See? See?

L-92   It's a paradox. But, God did it, anyhow, (what?) by a man; not a god, not some great Angel coming down from Heaven; a man, with faith in the mission that he was given, to take that land. The Word of God was behind it, "I give you this land. And everywhere the soles of your foot shall set upon, that I give you. It's yours." Footsteps meant possession. And the sun is what...

L-93 The--the achievement he was trying to do! See? His enemy was routed, and he knew, if the sun ever set, them kings would get together and they'd come back upon him with double forces. So, the sun was going down, and Joshua, a man, commanded to do this. Said, "Sun, stand still."

L-94   Whatever God did, I don't know. But the sun stood still, the moon over Ajalon, because a man, a human being, a human being was in the line of duty. In the line of duty, he commanded the sun to stand still. And if we're Christians, we have to believe This to be the infallible Word of God, everywhere. He stopped the world, stopped the sun. Whatever He did, it stood still for twenty-four hours. I believe it.

L-95 Jesus said, in Saint Mark 11:22, "If you say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you said will come to pass, you can have what you said."

L-96   But that takes motive and objective. Of course, you got to have a reason for it. You can't have faith unless you got some reason. As I tried to say last night, some people's faith is in their textbook, some people's faith is in something else, but depends on where your faith is. I want to believe God's Word, what He says is true. Then I've got to see whether it's His will or not. Then, if His will, I got to check out my objective to it, and then my motive in doing it.

L-97 If I do it because I say, "Well, I'm going over the mountain here. There's a mountain before me. There's a million people on that side, perishing. I got a hundred million over here I'm preaching to." Well, if I can't get over, around, or under the mountain, or nothing, and yet something in my heart keep telling me, "Go over the mountain. Go to them. Go to them," and I can't get over it. Now, Jesus said, "They shall move this mountain." See? If...

L-98   Now, the thing of it is, is first, what if I say... Now, first, I never--I never created that in there. Something created that. It's for a good cause. Because, why would I go to one million, when a hundred million here, perishing on this side? But it's something in my heart, saying "Go over on that side."

L-99 Now, the first thing, I'll have to say, "Well, if I go over there, this side can only pay me so much a month. And over there, they..." See, my motive is not right. My objective is not right. No.

L-100 Well, what if I say, "No, I don't care about the money. But when I get over there, someday, the--the ages to come, they'll put up a great big monument, say, 'Brother Branham, the great missionary'"? Then, still, my motive is not right.

L-101 But when I don't care if they ever know who went over there, "He's just in my heart," then I'll speak to that mountain. It'll happen. See? It's got to.


<A HREF="P10">Next Page</A>