<TITLE>12. Par 115-127</TITLE>L-115 When the Hebrew children went into the fiery furnace, that's against all scientific understanding, in that great age. It was unscientifically for a man to be throwed into a furnace, that was, that the man taking them up there perished, and they fell into the furnace and lived in that furnace a while, and the only thing it did was loose them from their shackles. That's a paradox. It was unexplainable, unreasonable, but yet it's the truth.

L-116   Here is Joshua, that we're speaking of. How that that man, just an ordinary man that just come through a--a--a group of creeds that the man had formed, and laws and ceremony, with nothing in them that says anything about giving man power to stop the sun. But here, with a commission from God, "I'll give you every piece of ground the soles of your foot sets upon. I'll be there." And the enemy was routed.

L-117 The sun was going down. If them kings had time to get theirself together again the next day, he would surely lose man. But Joshua knew he needed sunlight. And he looked up to the sun, and said, "Stand still over Gibeon. And, moon, stand there over Ajalon." And for the space of a whole day, that was all night long, the sun stood still and the moon stood there. That's a paradox. A man walking in the will of God could do such a thing, for he was in a... he was again in a--an Ephesus, in a--an Ephesian with--with the Gospel. Sure, it was a paradox.

L-118 Moses with a stick in his hand, to go down and deliver the children of Israel, was a paradox, when Egypt had all the armies and their well-trained man. It was a paradox.

L-119   The virgin birth was a paradox. How could a virgin, against all scientific understanding, a woman that knowed no man, could bring forth a child; and not only a child, but Emmanuel, Who proved to be exactly what it said it would be. How could that happen? It was a paradox. Because, God spoke to His prophet, hundreds of years before, and the prophet obeyed the Word of God, and the Word was spoken. "And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." And we believe that. Certainly, it was a paradox.

L-120 How that He could walk on water, that was a paradox. A human being, according to the size of your feet, couldn't do that. But He did. What was it? Unexplainable, but it was yet a paradox. God did it. We believe it.

L-121 Feed five thousand people, with two fish and five biscuits? But He did it. Multiplied not only fish, but cooked fish; not only bread, but cooked bread. How could He turn water to wine? All a paradox!

L-122   He healed the sick, which, with leprosy. Which, they don't have anything, to this day, science don't, to cure leprosy, but Jesus healed it with His Word. It was a paradox.

L-123 And He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. His Word still heals the sick. It's a paradox, certainly.

L-124 He raised the dead, after mortal life had gone from them; Lazarus, the woman's son at Nain, and Jairus' daughter. He raised the dead, with His Word, because He is the Word.

L-125 And then another great thing, in closing, to prove that He was Messiah. To prove what He was, He had to come in order, and answer, to the Word. And the Word said, when He spoke to the prophet. "The Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet like me."

L-126   There had been many man raised up. And there had been, for hundreds and hundreds of years, they had no prophet. Oh, they had had priests and great man, and as we read the history between the time of Malachi and Matthew, four hundred years, there had been great man. But there was no prophet.

L-127 And then when He come on the scene, to prove that He was that Ephesians made manifest, John announced it. But Jesus was That, He was the Word manifested, Himself.


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