How are we going to lose this great race? Is because we're divided. How we going to do it? We got to stay together. We're all believers in God. The Holy Ghost takes us all in. It'll be a paradox if God ever gets us together, but He will. Just trust Him.
Paradox: something (such as a situation) that is made up of two opposite things and that seems impossible but is actually true or possible. [Merriam-Webster Dictionary]
It is Saturday morning and Brother Branham is preaching at a businessmen’s breakfast at Morrison’s Cafeteria in Tampa, Florida.
Here are a few highlights from, “A Paradox.”
Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.
That's where we people make our mistake. We're always wanting to do something big. Maybe wasn't ordained to do something big. Maybe it's the little things that we're leaving undone is what's hurting us.
And when the enemy thinks he's got you to the wall, that's when he likes to bark the loudest.
And Hollywood shines with glitter, while the Gospel glows with humility.
Don't go on their ground. We can never compare with them. Let them, if they're hungry, come over to us.
You can't fence God in. You can't tie Him in nowhere. He is God.
I--I--I just know Him. That's all I want. "And to know Him is Life." Know these other things I don't know about, it might--might identify as a smart man. And I don't want to be a smart man; I just want to know Him. "I know Him," as Paul said, "In the power of His resurrection, that when He calls I'll come out from among the dead." That's all. That's all. And I want Him. I want Him. I want my name on the right place.
Now, for instance, we have the Spirit by portion. He had It without measure. He was the fullness of the Godhead bodily, God. But we have It by measure.
How are we going to lose this great race? Is because we're divided. How we going to do it? We got to stay together. We're all believers in God. The Holy Ghost takes us all in. It'll be a paradox if God ever gets us together, but He will. Just trust Him. The virgin birth... He knows how to send the persecution that will run us together.
Always the outside expresses what's on the inside. "By their fruits they're known."
"They persecuted the prophets which were before you." They're doing it today. "They persecuted those who believed the prophets that was before them, so will they do to you."