<TITLE>11. Par 97-108</TITLE>L-97 Noah had a consolation, that while he was building this, while he was making this ark. He knew that he was comforted, because that he had the Word of the Lord that told him, "That's the instructions."
What if somebody would've said, "Say, Noah, what do you mean by building that--that out of gopher wood? Why, you know that that wood. If there would be water, it would be the first thing to sink."
But, you see, Noah was following the instruction. He had the Word of God, which was His Comforter. The Word was his Comfort. "I don't understand why God's making me build it like this, but this is what He said do."

L-100 I can't understand why God makes me do the way I do. I can't understand why He won't let me cooperate and do all these other things, and go on with the church. But this is His instruction. This is the way He said build It.
"What's He going to do with It?"
I don't know. I'm just supposed to lay the timbers up there and nail them up. And them Timbers is the Word of God. And there lays my comfort (That's right.), because It's being built the way God said build It. "Upon this Rock I'll build My Church, and the gates of hell can't prevail against it." That's right. What is it? "Upon the spiritual revelation to know Who Jesus Christ is." Not the third person of the trinity: no trinity in it; He is God and God alone made manifest in flesh. That's where He builds His Church. "And the gates of hell cannot prevail against it." Although, it showed the gates of hell would be against it, but would never be able to prevail.

L-102 Noah, sure, Noah had these words. He was comforted because he knowed, no matter what the world did. What if some contractor come by, and said, "Brother Noah, you know, since you've left church and gone off on this tantrum, let me show you something. If you are building, why don't you take good, old solid oak?"
"Oak won't do it."
You say, "Well, I can prove that oak is a stouter wood than what this is."
Don't make any difference how stout oak is, God's specification was gopher wood. God's going to do something with that wood. He's got something to add to it.

L-106 Some of them says, "Then why don't you get you a church where great flocks of intelligent people come, well dressed and well groomed, and can pay you well, and things like that, and preach the Gospel? Why do you preach to a bunch of poor people? And you're half starved, and so forth, and all like this." They say that to the preachers who stand for Truth. But, oh, brother, I can't tell you. "Won't you get an intellectual crowd, somebody who knows their abc's?"
It don't make any difference what kind of a crowd it is. Them that's willing to receive Christ, Christ does something with them. It--it's that crowd. It's that person that maybe don't know his abc's. But if he doesn't, He knows Christ, and that's the difference. See, it's--it's not the--the--the standing, the blue blood that you claim to have. It's the Blood of Jesus Christ that--that anchors us and secures us into Him.

L-108 Let's just name another one, while we're at it. Job, I like to speak of Job, how that man had a Comforter. What was his Comforter? The Word of God. God told him that he'd--he'd be just, as long as he offered that burnt offering. Job rested solemnly upon that burnt offering. No matter how hard the storms come, how many boils broke out, how many things was taken away from him, he still stood on God's Word. It was a comfort to Job.


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