But there is one Place that we can meet, all of us, as believers, under the Blood of Jesus Christ. And that's the only place that God ever met man, or ever will meet man, is under the Blood of Jesus Christ. That's where we have things in common.

Now, God doesn't send phenomena just to show that He is God. God sends a phenomena to do this: to declare something.

Now, paradox, Webster says it's "something that's incredible, but is true." That's something that no one can explain. It's out of the realms of the knowledge of mankind, but yet is true. Paradox! And now we find out, that if you would read in--in Hebrews, the 11th chapter and the 3rd verse, that this world itself is a paradox.

Remember, God tries His people who believes His Word. Where God is, there is always paradox, 'cause He does things that's incredible to the human thinking. Did you know that?

It was a paradox, when the Hebrew children was throwed into the fiery furnace. How that three man could walk into a furnace, so hot that the intense heat even killed the men that were pushing them in. And yet they stayed in that, only delivered them. That's the only thing it did. See? It delivered them from the bounds that they were bound with. It was a paradox.

Sometimes, in our own lives, that paradox repeats. Sometimes you're brought to a showdown, where you have to make a decision. You have to stand on that decision, like they did, and it all works together for the good. What did it do? It never hurt them. It loosened them. Sometimes we are caught in that position. First thing we've got, just like the man drowning in the river, you've got to get the man out of the river 'fore you can get the river out of the man. Yeah. And that's sometimes what a man has to do, is come out and make his stand, get the thing out. And get him out of the--the thing, so he can get the thing out of him.

And sometime when man really follow the commandments of God, he does things that seems to be kind of, I guess, "mental," to other man.

Jesus was considered a "madman," but He was doing exactly what the Father told Him to do.

And where God is, paradoxes always happen where God is. Yes, sir.

Brethren, we may see paradox after paradox. The great paradox is coming ahead of us, "When the Trumpet of the Lord shall sound, and time shall be no more; and the morning breaks Eternal, bright and fair." When the resurrection comes, and we're caught up together, to meet Him in the air, that'll be the final paradox, when we go to be with Him. Until then, let's be faithful servants to the Word of God, which is Christ.

Our hearts, many of us here, Lord, for since little boys, we've put forth every effort that we knowed how, to serve You. Lord, don't let our eyes be blinded to this hour. Open my eyes, Lord, that I'll see every promise. May I be able to punctuate it with an "amen," that it's so, everything that God has promised. Grant it, Lord.

The Coming of the Lord may be today, it may be tomorrow, it may be next year. We don't know when it will be. But there is one thing sure, we are promised that we'll meet at a Supper in the skies, and the King shall come out and wipe all tears from our eyes, and say, "Don't worry; it's all over now. Enter into the joys of the Lord, that's been prepared for you since the foundation of the world, when we were ordained to be sons of God, through Jesus Christ. O Father, God, grant this.