<TITLE>05. Par 46-53</TITLE>L-46 Bless the church here. Bless our beloved pastor, Your servant, faithful at the post. And we pray that You'll bless all the deacons, the trustees, whatevermore. Let Thy blessings rest upon them all.
Bless--bless, we pray this morning the visiting clergymen, the strangers in our gates. And when service is over, may we say like those who come from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us, because of His Presence?" Get into the Word, Father. May the Holy Spirit come, taking the Word. Nothing premeditated, not knowing nothing what to say, but committing it all to You... Thy will be done, in Jesus' Name. Amen.

L-48 Let us turn for just a little Scripture reading, if you will in the book of--of Genesis, the beginning with the 6th chapter, just to read for a little quotation here in--in the Word and beginning at the--the 8th verse of the 6th chapter. And the subject this morning, if God willing, just teaching a few minutes from the Word, 'fore we pray for the sick, and then the pastor to finish the service.

L-49 We're praying that God will multiply and bless. And I see a little girl setting here on the front seat. I believe the mother setting here that... I think we prayed for the child some time ago. And looks to me like that her, best I remember, she was--couldn't walk or something, or... She looks like she's a lot better today, and I'm so grateful for that.
Praying constantly God will pour more Spirit and power upon His Church and His people everywhere, that our faith may be lifted way up above all the defects of life, that we might be able to be more than overcomers and conquerors through Him that loved us and gave His life for us.

L-51 Now, to you who's got your Bibles:
 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man, perfect in all his generation, and Noah walked with God.
 And Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
 The earth... was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
 And the Lord looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
 And the Lord said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shall thou make in the ark, and thou shall pitch it within and without with pitch.
And may the Lord add His blessings now to the reading of His Word. I want to speak this morning, if God willing, or teach, rather, for a few moments, the Word, upon, "The Ark," what the ark meant, and what the ark foreshadowed, and the types of the ark. For the ark perfectly, and everything in the Old Testament typed Christ. And Christ is the fulfilling of all the Old Testament, was fulfilled in Christ Jesus.

L-53 Now, it was a time of destruction, the time just before destruction. The whole earth was full of violence.
If you notice, wherever you see men begin to multiply, people begin to get together, great gatherings of people, and remain, that city is becoming populated, more population. The first thing you know, it begins to bring in devicity for recreation, from that it goes into gambling, from gambling into drinking, from drink--drinking into prostitution, breaking up of homes, marriage, divorce, then murder. It just keeps growing, growing, growing, like a chain of no end.
When God walked with just man alone, by himself, he had favor with God. But when man begin to multiply, and begin to get others and others and others, then they begin to... Satan having a more of a range to work in. This man might believe a little bit, leaning in this way, and the other one, a little bit this way; then when Satan comes in, he just fires it on. Then it becomes this and that, and imaginations begin to come great, and then corruption sets in. And when Noah...


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