<TITLE>16. Par 53-56</TITLE>L-53 Noah--God told Noah it was going to rain. Noah never moved from that. He stayed right with it. No matter... Maybe science, which they had greater then than they got now. So they could build things and do things then we can't do now in--in--in the science of this world. They built pyramids and the Sphinx, and so forth, that we couldn't produce like it. But he said, "Where's that rain coming from?"
Noah couldn't tell them that. He couldn't answer their question, but he knowed God had spoke to him; so he was staying right with the Word. He said, "God said so." See?
Abraham could not say, when he was a hundred years old, how he was going to have a baby by Sarah, and her ninety. "How you going to...? Prove it to me. Here she--she's old, her womb's dried up and gone. Why, you all even haven't a family relationship for twenty years, and here you are saying you're to have a baby. How you're going to do it?"
"I don't know."
"Well, how do you know you're going to have it?"
"God said so." Now, that settles it. Stay right with the Word. All true prophets stay with the Word. Sometimes it gets them in trouble. Most all the time it does, but it--but it--it's always the truth.

L-54 The Hebrew children said, "Our God's able to deliver us from that fiery furnace, but we're not going to bow down to anything else, that's one thing sure. We'd rather burn than take it back." So it cost them a few hours of prayer one night, and down in the fiery furnace the next morning; but they had a conversation with the One like the Son of God standing in there. See? But they stayed with the Word.
Daniel said, "I don't care how many declarations you make. I've got a habit of going to the window and raising it up towards the east and praying to my God." It cost him a night in the lion's den, but he stayed with the Word. That's right. He come out. God always takes care of His Word. Yeah.

L-55 David when he was up there that time before Saul, heard that big old Goliath come out there and say, "Days of miracles is past. There's no such thing." See? Now, no, that was the 1961 version of it. I beg your pardon. I'll go back. He said, "Some of you come over and fight me." See? So he said...
And Saul, head and shoulders above his army, and up there, and he said, "Well," he said, "I'll tell you, it's a bad thing. That man, boy, he will... Look what he'd weigh. He's got a... Why, his fingers are fourteen inches long," said. Well, what... That's what the Bible said. And he had a--a spear like a weaver's needle, which is probably across that room. And he said, "Why, who could ever go up and fight a guy like that?"
And here come a little old... And all the army backed up. The Israelites, you know, supposed to be God-fearing people, backed up. And said, "Oh, my. Oh, we can't do that. My, nobody would touch that fellow."

L-56 He said, "I tell you what I'll do. There's no need of shedding so much blood." Said, "Just one of you come over and fight me, and ever who... If you kill me, then our armies, we'll serve you." See, that's the way the devil likes to blow when he thinks he's got the edge on you. See?
So one day he said it one time too often. There was a little bitty old guy standing there, kind of, maybe stoop-shouldered, a little old kid, sheepskin wrapped around him like that, and a slingshot in his hand.
And Goliath come out and said, "All you over there that claim to be Christians (you know, so--so-on and so-on), well, come over and let's see this...?..."
David said, "Do you mean to tell me that you'll stand there and let that uncircumcised Philistine defy the armies of the living God?"
And his brother said, "Now, you're getting naughty. I'm going to tell papa on you when you go home. That's what I'm going to do. Now, you're trying to show off."
Said, "I'm not showing off, but there's a crisis at hand." Said, "There's something at hand. That man's defying the armies of the living God."


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