<TITLE>11. Par 106-114</TITLE>L-106   And that's just a little galaxy, when God blew them off His hand! The Bible said! And Einstein finally wound up with this, "There is only one way that any man can explain the origin of this world, that's found in Hebrews 11:3. 'We understand that the worlds were framed together by the Word of God.'" That's exactly right. Science cannot even touch it. And then you say you don't believe in a miracle? How could you do it?

L-107 How could any scientist ever explain Noah's rain, when there never fallen a drop of rain upon the earth until that day? But Noah said there would be a rain! And when Noah's rain come, contrary to all science; there was no clouds up there, never had been no rain up there. They could prove that there was no rain up there. And then when God opened up the heavens and poured out a--a gusher that washed the earth away, that was a paradox; how that it's certainly unreasonable, unexplainable. But we know that God did it, because the Bible said so. And we have evidence on the earth, today, that it was so. God did it. That was a paradox.

L-108   When God took an old man, by the name of Abraham, at the age of seventy-five years old; and his wife, sixty-five, many years a past the time of life, a menopause. And when He took that man and gave him a promise, at seventy-five years old; to this woman that he was married to, his--his half sister. And he had lived with her since she was a girl; they had married when she was probably a--a teen-age girl, and here she was sixty-five years old. And said, "You're going to have a baby by this woman."

L-109 And what if Abraham would have said, "I--I--I don't believe in paradoxes. I--I just can't accept that"? It'd have never happened.

L-110 But, you see, when you say you believe anything, then you've got to put it in action. Then Abraham was commanded to separate himself from all unbelief, and walk with God alone. And instead of getting weaker, he got stronger. And when he was a hundred years old, and Sarah was ninety, the baby come.

L-111   How could Abraham take his son, way back three-days' journey, probably ninety miles from any civilization, up on top of a mountain where the Lord had showed him, go offer his own son, Isaac? Isaac packing the wood up, as we know, which is a type of Christ. And up on this mountain he was to offer Isaac as a sacrifice, and when he fulfilled everything that God told him but stabbing his own son to death, through his throat, when he pulled the knife out of the sheath and raised his hand to obey God, to the word! For the Bible said, that, "He knew that God could not make a promise 'less He kept it. And he received him as one from the dead, that He was able to raise him up from the dead and give him to him again."

L-112   And when he was ready to obey God, to its fullness, He caught his hand and said, "Stay your hand, Abraham." And there was a ram hooked in the wilderness, around the vines, with his horns, on top of that mountain, where there is lions, wolves, hyenas, jackals, and the great ferocious beasts that eat sheep. And then he was way up on top of the mountain where there is no water. How did that ram get there? Abraham had picked up stones all around, to build a--an altar. But there was the ram, anyhow. It was a paradox.

L-113 And any man that believes God and takes Him at His Word, no matter what the situation is, God will perform another paradox, to keep His Word. For, Abraham called the place Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord has provided for Himself a sacrifice." He still can cause a paradox to happen. He can do that this afternoon, if you'll just take Him at His Word.

L-114   Daniel, from a den--den full of hungry lions, how could it be that that man... How could it be that that man, on a group of hungry lions, stayed in the cave with them, all night, without any harm? The Angel of the Lord, unseen to anyone else, was standing there. It was a paradox. Something had to keep that lion from getting to him.


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