<TITLE>08. Par 26-28</TITLE>L-26 Now, could you imagine way back in the Bible time, when Noah was out in his field one day. And he was a farmer, and he heard the voice of God. The voice of God said, "There's going to be a rain. It's going to cover all the earth. I'm going to destroy all the wickedness of this world. It has to come to an end."
Could you imagine Noah going up and say. "Well, maybe perhaps I'd better build me an ark, because it might rain." No. The Word of God was revealed to him. Why, if he'd just took it like that, the first scoffer come by and said, "Well, look at that old holy-roller." He'd have throwed the whole thing up and said, "My, let's quit."
That's the way people do when you say, "I got started; the devil--the devil made me go back." The devil didn't do it. You did it yourself. Every one that comes to God has got to be tempted and tried. They certainly do. A real believer has heard the Word of God. He's recognized It to be the Word of God. He will act on it.
So now, Noah... Certainly not. The scoffers come by and made fun of him. He pounded away on that old ark. Why? He was positive that that was the Word of God that he heard. He recognized it to be God, and he acted on it. He was acting, and it come to pass, because God said so. Certainly.

L-27 Could we imagine Moses? Could you imagine Moses out there saying, "Well, I'll tell you what: I believe now I'll go down to Egypt again where I failed once. I've been studying a lot of psychology, and I believe I could really put it over on old Pharaoh. I believe I've got--I could take another degree. I believe if--if I was only somewhere where I could get it. I could... They'd give me another degree, may a B.A., or--or D.D., or something. They--they might give me something else." Could you imagine Moses saying that, when his intellectuals had got him in trouble to begin with. But the trouble of it is today, the church is getting into that condition, the carnal mind.
Did you know that Moses was a missionary? And you know that a lot of churches today... I just heard that before a missionary goes over, the church will send him over, he has to be examined by a psychiatrist to see if he's got enough mental powers, to see if his powers is right in mental attitudes before he can go over. Could you imagine Moses saying, "I better go down here somewhere and find me a psychiatrist now, to find out whether I've got the--the right mental powers to go down in Egypt or not."

L-28 Let me tell you; that's not only out yonder in the nominal church world; that's in Pentecost. Could you imagine Moses having to have a--stand before a psychiatrist to find out whether he's able to go down and take over Egypt, after he heard the voice of God? No, sir. No man has to do that. Psychiatrist don't call men; God calls men. The Holy Ghost is what sends men. When the church gets to that place, it's backslid miserably. Yes, sir. But they'll be that way; they're intellectual.
God calls a man and makes a missionary out of him. The Bible said the first thing is apostles; that's missionaries. Second thing is prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists, and so forth. God set in the Church, not the medical association, but God's Holy Spirit set in the Church, missionaries, and prophets, pastors, teachers, and evangelists. God put them in Church. They didn't have to stand before any psychiatrist, never did, never will.


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