<TITLE>14. Par 42-45</TITLE>L-42 Now, Noah was... stooded there... was pounding away on that ark, because he was expecting it to rain.
Now, let's just take a moment to find the critics coming by and say, "Well, now just a moment, sir. Mr. Noah, you tell me it's going to rain."
"Yes, sir."
"Now, I'm a scientist." Which they had scientists. Scientists come through Cain's group. So he said, "Now, we--we're scientists, and--and we'd like for you to show us where that rain is up there."
Now, faith is not what you can see, but it's the "substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." God said so. We don't have to prove nothing. Proving nothing... You can't prove God. You can't even prove you got a mind. That's true. You can't do it. If you do let me see it, taste it, feel it, smell it, or hear it. Have you ever feeled your mind? see your mind? taste your mind? See, the senses won't declare it. But yet you've got one; you know you have.
And that's just the way it is by God. You say, "How do I know I got a mind?" I see the way I act. I know the way that something changed me from a sinner to a Christian. I've got a God that I know that it's--it's real, just as real as your mind is or--or--or any other sense that would operate.

L-43 Now, notice. There's five senses that we enter the human body, five senses. The soul has five outlets too, which is a conscience, and so forth, and imagination. But there's only one entrance to the spirit (that's soul, body, and spirit), to the spirit, and that's down the avenue of self-will; which puts every man and every woman on the same basis it was in the garden of Eden.
You want to do... you got a... You're a free moral agent to act any way you wish to. And none of these other senses has anything to do with it, neither soul nor body, but it's through the spirit on self-will. God told Adam, "The day you eat thereof, that day you die." Now, he could eat and live or he--he could--he could eat and die, or stay away from it and live.
Now, that's the same way we are tonight. We can take His Word and be healed, or we can leave it, and walk away from it, and not be healed. We can have Eternal Life by believing on Him or we can walk away and not have Eternal Life. It's up to you: self-will.

L-44 And when Noah heard the Voice of God telling him that it was going to rain, and the clouds was coming, and it was going to rain, and never had did it in all the ages, and--and, but it's going to rain, Noah knew this, that God was Creator God, that He could--He could do anything He wanted to do. And therefore, He--He was God and there was nothing else to it. He just knowed that--that He was able to make rain up there, if there wasn't any up there. He's Jehovah-Jireh, the Lord provided Himself a sacrifice.
So God can make rain. If there's no clouds up there, no rain up there... If He said it's going to rain, Noah said, "I'll just build right away on this ark anyhow." For he was excepting it to rain. And when he got the ark built and everything was in order, it rained because he was believing.

L-45 Now, it makes you act funny when you--when you really take God at His Word. And when you're acting like you expect it... I see people come up to the platform and say, "Well, look. I'm sick, man. Don't you know it?"
"Why, sure I know you're sick." All right.
"Well, can you do something?"
Why, now, you'll--you'll never get it that way. No, sir. And you'll pray for them, lay hands on them; they'll walk off the platform, "Don't feel a bit different." Well, you won't. That's one thing sure. You won't.
Now, you wasn't expecting anything. You come to the platform and follow out God's instructions just the way God says, then go away, got expectations. "Yes, sir, I'm going to receive. It's already done. I did what God told me to do. So that settles it." That's--that's the way. That's Abraham's seed.


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