<TITLE>02. Par 11-16</TITLE>L-11 The first thing we wish to loo... draw your attention to, is the infallibility of God's Word. God keeps His Word to the letter. And tonight we want to fasten our thoughts on that, that God keeps His Word. We can rest assure of anything that God has said in His Word to be the Truth. And faith does not rest upon the shifting sands of man's ideas or man's theology, but it has its final resting place on the unmovable Rock of God's eternal Word, the Word.
If God has said it, that is forever the Truth. He can never take it back and say, "I did not mean it." I can say things and you can say things, then we are prone to have to take it back, because we said it with the best of our knowledge and with the best of our ability. But then God is so much different from us. He is infinite; therefore, He does not say one thing unless it is absolutely perfect. He never has to take it back, never has to apologize for what He said. It's always stands the Truth.

L-13 Even for Jesus in this great days that we're in celebration, when God really slayed His Son for the sins of the world, was perhaps thousands of years before even the foundation was ever laid. God spoke the Word, and It's a finished product in heaven when God speaks It; it's already finished. Oh, if we could only grasp what that means, what different people we would be. To see in His Books the judgments that is placed in here for the disobedient, it would make a man examine himself hour by hour; and it would make the righteous rejoice hour by hour to read the blessings that God has promised to the faithful. And we can rest assure that every Word will be fulfilled; just anchor our soul on it. It's always been that way.

L-14 When God spoke to Noah way back in the antediluvian world, maybe perhaps before a Bible was ever written (or this Bible, anyhow, was ever written), God told Noah there was coming a storm, and the waters were going to cover the earth. And without one speck of evidence that it would happen, everything very contrary, Noah moved with fear, and built the ark, prepared it. It was for the saving of his household and himself. God never let him down, because it was His Word. It had to happen when God said it would happen.

L-15 Now, when Job the oldest Book in the Bible, that's written perhaps before Genesis was written, and it was included in the Bible... And Moses wrote the Genesis. Job, in his Book, he rested solemnly upon the promise God made him. And he stood by his burnt offering, without a fear in his heart, knowing that, what God had said, God was able to perform. And when everything seemed to go contrary, Job stood firm because God's promise was firm. God promised Job, and Job rested on that promise.

L-16 Oh, if the church could ever get to that place to where it could solemnly rest upon God's eternal Word to be the Truth, what a difference there would be, what a correcting there would be, what a cutting away there would be, what a joy there would be, what a power there would be, when men and women would take God at face value, what He said is the Truth. No matter what the circumstances look like, that has nothing to do with it. God said so; that settles it.
And Job, when he was in the most trying time of all his experience; when he had been found in the Presence of God a just man. Even God said he was perfect. There was none like him in the earth. And Satan was given the privilege to tempt him, saying, "I'll make him curse You to Your face."
And he almost took Job's life, and would've done it, but God drawed a boundary line, said, "You can do anything to him, but don't take his life."


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