<TITLE>02. Par 14-24</TITLE>L-14 My watch could just not have happened. Anyone with their right mind would know that watch, jewels, and timing, and regulations, and springs, and--and hands, it just could not have happened. It's impossible for it to happen.

L-15   Look at the rest of the creation, how it's set together. We know it could not have happened. How much greater is a man than the watch! The man designed the watch, and timed it, and put it together. So if it's impossible for that watch to be just happened, how much greater is it that you and I just happened to be here? There has got to be a creator behind us. If we watch His great creation, how it moves, and how He lives in it, lives in it.

L-16 We notice the leaf, how a leaf hangs on a tree. And around about the middle of August, without frost or anything, the life leaves it and goes down into the root. The leaf drops off and goes right down on top of the ground. Now what's the matter? There is some Intelligence that speaks to it. The tree has no intelligence of its own. So the life goes down into the root of the tree, to hide from the cold weather. If it... If it stayed up there, it would die, the winter would kill it.

L-17   Now what does the leaf do? It lays on the ground and rots. What does the life do while it's in the root? It sucks back the substance from that dead leaf, the calcium and whatever goes into it, and rises up again in the spring, and comes right back to its place again, bringing another leaf. It's a testimony; death, burial and resurrection.

L-18 The sun rises of a morning, like a little baby born. Eight or nine o'clock it's in school. Ten o'clock it's out of school. Twelve o'clock it's in its middle age. And then it starts dying, dies again and sinks in the West. Is that all of it? Rises up the next morning, to testify; life, death, burial, resurrection. Everything, all, God lives in His creation. He does that and has done it through all ages.

L-19   Now, one only way that we'll find out if God still lives. We can see Him in His creation, but how did God ever display Himself to people that...

L-20 Someone says, "Well, where is God? You talk so much about Him."

L-21 In Africa, in the mission fields there, and among the--the Afrikaans, they use the word of amoyah, which means, "an unseen force," like the wind. "Your God," he says, "the unseen God, He--He is like the wind. He's the power, but we--we don't see Him."

L-22 Well, I believe that we can see Him. Because, we find in the 12th chapter of Saint John, some Greeks came to see Jesus, and they said, "Sirs, we would see Jesus," and they were taken to Him, by one of His disciples. And Hebrews 13:8 said, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever." And if He can be taken in them days, to be seen by one of His disciples, why can't we of His disciples, tonight, bring the seekers to His Presence, if He is the same yesterday, today, and forever? The Bible says He is, "He is the same yesterday, today, and forever."

L-23   Now, I know this sounds rashel. But if you'll just bear with us a few minutes, I believe that I, by God's help, with His Word and according to His Word, I can bring Him right here before you. And then, that, what a consolation! That's what we're here for. We Christians are here to find consolation, to--to bring, to come in the Presence of the God that we know, that can raise us up like He does the leaf, that can bring us back.

L-24 Is it just a myth, is it just some words put together, is it some Jewish fables, or is it a Truth? Where there is so much error, there has got to be a Truth somewhere. Where there is a bogus dollar, I'll say there is a real one made off of it. And where there is so much impersonation, and so many things that we see today, there has got to be a genuine God somewhere.


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