<TITLE>10. Par 88-93</TITLE>L-88 Let's watch his ark a few minutes; it's kind of a fanatically way to build it. Did you notice over in Genesis, He said, "Build it out of gopher wood"? Now, if you ever took and studied what gopher wood was, it's almost like balsa. It's a real light wood, and it's just like a sponge. It's all full of little cells. When it's alive in the tree, it's got sap in it. And as soon as you cut it down, the sap runs out of it. So it makes nothing but a sponge. Now, He said, "Don't build it out of good, hard oak. Don't build it out of sycamore or some solid grain wood. But build it out of gopher wood, the lightest and most spongy type of wood that could be." If set in the water, it'd sink in a minute. "Build it out of gopher wood, and fix it up like that." Said how far and how long it should be, and said, "Put the rooms in it; three rooms.

L-89 What a beautiful type: justification, sanctification, the baptism of the Holy Ghost: three rooms. See? And remember, He said, "Put a window in it." And the window was not in the side; it was in the top. See? Justification, Luther; sanctification, Wesley; baptism of the Holy Ghost, and the Light shines in. That's God's Sunlight that we must live in and walk in the Light.
Remember. On the bottom floor was the creeping things; and in the second floor, was the fowls; but in the top was Noah and his family, up in the top so they could see, and light came in.

L-90 Now, He said, "When you build this out of gopher wood, when you get it all built and fixed up, then I want you to pitch it inside and outside." Well, I was studying one day what was this pitch? Pitch, to us, is tar; that we take chemicals and--and make tar, and pitch the road and--and the cracks, and so forth, with tar. But in them days, it was different. They had a rosin tree, and they taken this evergreen and cut it down. And instead of--of having the things that we--like we do today to take the rosin out, they beat the tree. And they beat the tree till the sap and rosin poured out. Then they would heat it and pour it upon this soft gopher wood that was full of--like a sponge, and it just filled her up. And then when it got hardened, you couldn't drive a nail in it. See, it was ready to receive. That's like Christ.
That's the Church. See, the Church must empty itself out, and get real light, get all the denomination out of you, get all the world out of you, get all the unbelief out of you, and give away.

L-93 And there was Another which was different from us, that was cut down in His young life. And He was bruised and beaten, "Wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity." He was beaten until the Life of Him poured out, like the rosin out of a tree. And, oh, how the Christian can soak It up, oh, if you're empty. But you got to empty up first. The trouble of it is, we don't want to empty up. But let's empty up, all of our thoughts, all of our creeds, all of our books, and soak up the Holy Spirit, which is God in His Word.
Then it could ride the storm; it could ride the seas, because it was harder than any other wood. There was nothing could take its place; nothing would. The parts of the ark still remain; six thousand years ago. And they find parts of it, because it remains; because it was so hardened from this cased-out that kept the judgments on the outside. The waters was the judgments.
And when we come into Christ through His beaten Life, soak Him up into our system, we become so inoculated from the things of the world until they could stand the wrath. When the storms are pitching and the sea is contrary, yet, the little boat don't fail. She slides right on through the waves to the Rock of Ages.


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