<TITLE>13. Par 38-41</TITLE>L-38 She said, "Sir, that is the truth." She said, "It--it cannot come back again." Said, "The boy's gone." Said, "He's just barely here." And said, "If you take this off of him, he'd die right now."
He said, "Honey," he said, "You're looking for that needle." That's right.
She--she'd just ask him, "How can you laugh and go on like that and your boy dying?"
He said, "He's not dying." Said, "He's healed."
And said, "Well, how can you expect that and that needle..."
And said, "Honey, that's all you know to look at, is that needle, but I'm looking at a promise (That's right.) that God made."
And that boy's got two children and is in Africa today, a missionary. Oh, it depends on what you're looking... He was expecting it to happen, because he had met God's requirements. He laid the boy on the altar. He'd... Medical science had done all they could do, and everything was past any physical aid that could be give the boy. So He come to God and believed that God would do him... And the Bible said, "He's a rewarded of those that diligently seek Him." That's right.

L-39 You seek Him with all your heart and get down to business, God will be there to meet you. That's right. But you have to not just kind of slop-way through; you've got to come right straight to God and confess everything, and lay it out, and come on those grounds and God will meet you there. He will do something for you. He will answer your prayers.
Every man that ever believed in God, or heard God's voice, expected Him to do something. When God spoke to Noah in the Old Testament...
Now, they'd never been any rain on the earth. Why there's... God watered the earth... Up to, before the antediluvian destruction, why, He watered it through irrigation, up through the earth. It had never rained. And God spoke to--to Noah and told him to prepare an ark for the saving of his house, that it was going to rain. Rain was going to come out of the skies and the whole earth was going to be covered with water. And Noah was expecting that to happen. If he would not have expected it, the first critic come by, he would've said, "Well, I guess maybe I was wrong. It wasn't God." See? So he'd went away.

L-40 Now, that's about the way that the 1961 version of the church would act. But that's not really... The real borned again Christian, when God says so, we expect it to be that way. God said it, and that's the way it's going to be. It's just got to be that way.
He said... You know, why we're that--why we are the way we are today? How the church is lukewarm in this Laodicean church age? Why, it's... God said it would be that way. You can't expect nothing else. It's got to be that way. That's right. But He's got... "All that he loves He chastens and rebukes," and "I stand at the door and knock, and if any man would hear My voice..." that's the address to this church age by God in the Bible of Revelation the 3rd chapter to the Laodicean Church Age.

L-41 Now, we notice, that Noah was prepared, himself an ark, moved by fear and made--made an ark, stood in that door preaching to the unbelievers. But he was expecting God to keep His promise, because he had heard the Voice of God telling that it was going to rain.
Now, if you can set right where you are now and so consecrate yourselves to God and expect God to do something, hear the Voice of God whisper down in your heart, "You don't have to wait for a prayer card tomorrow night. This is the time I'm going to heal you." That's all. It's settled. There'd be nothing be able to shake you from that.
If you never received the Holy Spirit, and you say, "Lord, I've sought the Holy Spirit for years, but I just heard a Voice tell me I'm going to get It right tonight," That settles it. That--that's it. You'll be so expecting it; it'll have to happen.


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