<TITLE>19. Par 66-68</TITLE>L-66 Here some time ago, I was going to a store, my wife and I, and there was these ladies come with them little, bitty immoral clothes on, and I--and we didn't see but about one woman out of about several thousand that had on any other kind of clothes. And--and my wife said to me, said, "Billy, what is it? Is it a--a against them women all dressed like that."
I said, "Oh that's just American spirit."
"Well," said, "aren't we Americans?"
I said, "Yes, we are Americans. That's right. The greatest nation in the world. We love it. But yet, we're not exactly Americans."
Said, "What are we?"
Said, "We're heaven born." I said, "When we come up there, and I be just a--a Americans. We dress like the rest of them do, go right on the same, drift, float right on with them. But when your Spirit comes from up there, it's holy. Hallelujah! It's different. Makes you act like you do up there. That's right. So when you receive that Spirit, you become odd to these people here. See? You look different. You act different.

L-67 And that's the way Noah did. He had spoke to God and had been changed from just a floater in the antediluvian world; he become a creature of God that had been born into the Kingdom to bring the message.
Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of Man." Fanatical religion like, people's living holy, claiming there's something coming from above, and we believe it's not water, but the waters of God falls every night from above, from the fountain that's filled with Blood drawn from Immanuel's veins, where sinners plunged beneath the flood, lose all their guilty stain. Power and glory flows out of that fountain up there to His church. When He died, and rose on Easter morning, He had cut a hole all the way through the side of glory to let the glory fall down on His church that come on the day of Pentecost. It's been falling ever since. We believe that with all of our hearts.

L-68 Now notice, as we're placing His platform. Let's take another man first. There was Abraham; he was just an ordinary man. He came down with his father from up at Babylon, and Shinar, down the valley and lived there in the city of Ur, in the land of the Chaldea. And the first thing you know, maybe he was a--oh a field man, or a sheepherder, or something, and one day he was out in the field when he was seventy-five years old, and his wife, Sarah was sixty-five, and God met Abraham and told him of another land that was far beyond that. And He told him he was going to have a baby by Sarah, and she was past the age of bearing, and had been sterile all of her life, and oh, he was too, but what was going to take place. God was going to perform something, and that man for year after year, as long as he lived, he professed that he was a pilgrim and a stranger, looking for a city whose Builder and Maker was God. Amen. It changes a man when he hears God speak to him.


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