<TITLE>05. Par 32-41</TITLE>L-32 I stood on the outside, looked back at that building, and I thought, "God, surely I have become a hypocrite; surely I have become an outcast somewhere; for these men's ministries come off of mine." And I thought, "What? Maybe I am so untrusted, Lord, that You couldn't trust me with anything like that. Even the little, few dollars that You let me pay for the campaigns and things, now they're trying to send me to the penitentiary for it. And why am I such a hypocrite, or why am I such an untrusted person?" I was on the ash heap as Job was of old.

L-33 When I stood outside there, with just couldn't hardly get my breath, from such majesty, that a poor boy borned in a dugout, a Pentecostal, could do and bring that into that great mammoth building. And I thought, "O God, maybe I am not worthy."
Just then a little Voice came down through those corridors and said, "But I am your Portion."
Then I thought, "O Lord God, I--oh--I... Just let that stay that way, then, Lord. I--I... Because I wouldn't have the intelligence to carry on a great work like that for You. And I am an--an illiterate person. But as long as You are my Portion, I am Yours, and You will lead me. I could not lead myself. But, O Lord, lead me."

L-36 It's those crucial hours that press us on to those sacred sands. It was in the Bible. And remember, no matter how great the distress is, Satan cannot take your life until God has finished with you. There is nothing can happen to you unless God permits it. There is no evil can come unless God permits it. And it's for your good He's working that.
Let's think, there when the floods came to destroy the world, it could not destroy Noah. Noah could not be destroyed, because that God had a work for him to do.

L-38 One day down in a great nation under a great bondage there was some Hebrew children that we know as Shadrach, and Meshach, and Abednego. And it came to a place where they had to make a decision, that something had to be done. They had their--their--their faith was put to a test. And when their faith is put to a test, then don't fail. Stay right with what you believe.
And when they're faced, faith was put to a test. And they went through a crucial hour, not only did they go to a--a ash heap, but they went into a fiery furnace. But Satan could not destroy them, for God's purpose wasn't yet fulfilled. They could go in there with this hope, "I know my Redeemer liveth." They could go in there with this hope here, "We are assured that God is able to deliver us from this fiery furnace, but nevertheless, we will not bow to the image."

L-41 Satan could not take them. He could not drown Noah in the flood, until the purpose of God had been finished. He could not burn up the Hebrew children until the purpose of God had been finished. He could not kill Job with boils and troubles until the purpose of God had been finished. Neither could the lions eat Daniel until God's purpose had been finished. Neither could death and old age take Abraham until the purpose of God had been finished. And neither can it take you, or can it take me until the purpose of God of our life is finished. So we gather from their consolation.


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