<TITLE>07. Par 27-31</TITLE>L-27 And Jesus Christ, God's Son, Who's the Architect of the Church, come to this earth and laid down the foundations. When He met the devil, He was tested by the Word of God, and He said, "It is written, men shall not live by bread alone." When he took Him to the pinnacle of the temple, He said, "It is written." See the material He was putting in His Church? He took Him to the mountain and showed Him all the great programs He could have. He said, "It is written."
All the Word of God was time-tested. And He's the great Captain that's going before us with His own bloody coat waving. But to the redeemed bought by the Blood of Jesus Christ, has bought a Church by the Holy Spirit that's tested every bolt, and every person that's ever anchored in this great Church of the living God. It's a time-tested material, that does it.

L-28 And as He marches on, the great regime coming behind Him, and as the borned again Church of the living God, She don't move because we have received the Kingdom that cannot be moved. It's dug plumb to the solid Rock, that's Christ Jesus, being that she's...?... on. Then as He goes before us with His own bloody coat making the way, it's a sign of redemption.
"Witnesses, ye shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in Judaea, and in Samaria." His Church stands as His witness.
Now, this morning I'd like to say this and leave this to you. We are His witnesses after you have received the Holy Spirit. For there can only be one thing you can witness, that is what you know to be the truth.

L-29 That fellow could witness, after he'd blowed all the sands away, and found the solid rock... On the breast of the earth he was a witness that that would hold. He put the Geiger's and the machines on those great pieces of material and tested every one of them. He was a witness that they would hold, for he'd seen it put to its strength and she held.
And we, who are born again of the Holy Spirit, has been filled with God's power, that faith in the Eternal Life, or the eternal God, and that dwells in us are witnesses of His goodness, and His Word, and His power. It's no more guess so. It's a know so by experience.

L-30 Noah, when he built the ark, he gave witness to the unrighteous world that there was a righteous God. Although it seemed to be crazy while it was being built, but it proved out, that it was the only boat that would float through the storm. And as it was being erected, it was... He condemned the unrighteous world and justified those who believed in it.
How ridiculous sometimes God does things, in the eyes of man. Did you ever stop to think what kind of wood that Noah built that boat out of? It was built out of shittim wood. And that is the softest wood that can be gotten.
It's just like balsam. It's just like... Why'd you would throw in the lake out yonder, it would sink in five minutes. It's balsam wood, or shittim wood has holes through it. And isn't it a strange thing, that an ark was to stand the test of the great antediluvian destruction, was made out of soft wood?

L-31 Well, it was a pliable. And sometime when we get so hard and set in our ways, God can't apply us to anything. But here's the reason He did it. Did you notice after he made it, then he boiled some tar, or some rosin, it was, out of the other trees?
Now, what does this mean? When he put the ark together, it was made out of this real light soft wood, you could lift it around very easy. It's so light and pliable. And then he cut down another tree, which was a pine tree, and they beat that the way they used to get it, beat it, and beat it until they beat the rosin out of it. And then he took this rosin and poured it into this light wood, and the little holes that was in the light wood filled up with the rosin encased made it harder than steel.


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