<TITLE>11. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 Then when they come to the place where they was to cross over and Joshua knew that God had promised to give them the land and it belonged to them regardless of what the opposition was... Now that's a type of the church today, the real true members of the body of Christ. We have lots of people who goes to church. But in that church, and practically lots of them--all of them, I guess, I hope... In that certain group of that church is members in that church who will really believe with all their heart. I know that to be so. I've caught them on the platform under inspiration and see that where they were real genuine. Though they might not understand the full Gospel and so forth, but yet they are genuine in their heart. What they believe, they really believe it with all their heart. And they...
And everything without faith is sin. Unbelief is absolutely sin. Everything that's not of faith is not of God. You must believe. And the only way you can have faith is first see what God said about it, and then believe His Word. That's true. That's the only way you can do it.

L-30 So Joshua and Caleb knew that God had promised. And they come back and they wasn't afraid to say, "We can take it," because they based their faith not upon what they saw, but what they believed.
Now today in this tabernacle we can base our faith as American citizens. Now, we can't... We can base our faith as Christians, rather, on what God has said, regardless of what any doctor, what any scientist, what any proof would be.

L-31 Here some time ago, a couple of weeks ago, I was listening on a radio broadcast somewhere--or no, reading in a newspaper, up in Oregon, and said--or up in Idaho, said that they'd praising some scientist, for he was just about to prove that animal life and plant life was the same life. Well, then how did the animal spring from the plant life? And the plant, in other words, the tree and the fish is all the same person. See?
Well, that's just a little more than my mentality can grasp. I believe God made a tree; He made a fish. See? And so that's just about far as I can go. And I believe anything else outside of that, I just don't believe it; that's all. See? It's got to be based on the Lord's Word. He made a palm tree and He made a oak tree. They both wasn't the same tree. If it would, the oak tree had been bearing coconuts or palms or what--whatever it was. See? It's the life that's in it. And I just take Him at His Word, how simple it seems and just believe it like that. Don't you?

L-32 Now, we can base our thoughts this morning, as people coming to be prayed for. We can base our thoughts this: that God has promised. If you were here this morning, you'd say, "Well, Brother--Brother Bill, I've had a up and down life. I've always wanted to live a Christian life. I just never could get myself settled down." Well, I can base my promise--my faith to this, to my brother, sister, this morning: If you will make that complete consecration right now... Don't wait till you come up to the altar. You can come up here and say, "I now have accepted it," but right where you are now, say, "God, be merciful to me, a backslider, or a sinner, whatever it is; and I now base my hopes on nothing but Your Word. I believe it." Then, brother, something's going to take place, 'cause you've got a real foundation; for God will in no wise cast you out. Temptations come; there'll never be a temptation unless He give you grace to bear it. And He's promised to meet you on every battlefront, right there, and He'll bless. So then, that's where your hope's...
You will get to the place, you say, "Well, Brother Bill, they... I have so many temptations." Tell me one Christian that doesn't have temptation. We never come to a picnic; we've come to a battleground. We're out here to fight the enemy. Why sure, we don't put on our armor just to be looked at. If you become a Christian, just to be looked at, then you're--you're... Why, I'm afraid you got in the wrong place.


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