<TITLE>09. Par 78-87</TITLE>L-78 We lost our heritage because that we--we just compromise. And when we compromise, then we cannot expect to--God to keep His promise to us; because we have broke in upon the sacred trust, and defiled the trust that God gave us. Let us keep that trust; keep it sacred; keep it holy. Keep every Word of It, and compromise nowhere. Take God at His Word and believe It, act like it, stand on It; don't move. That's what we must do. That's what God's looking for.
As I said this morning in the message, in our message this morning, speaking of, "It behooveth us," or, "It's becoming to us that we fulfill all righteousness." It's up to us to whom the Word's been delivered to. It's up to us that we stay with that Word. And as we stay with It, we see God working among us. So it's becoming to us to stay with It. It's a heritage that God has given us.

L-80 Let's us go back just a few minutes and find those men who kept God's great, sacred trust. That was His Word. That's what we inherit is the Word. And in the time of strain, in the time of perplexity, in the time of distress, in the time of perilous times, they found comfort in keeping the Word. The Word is God's Comfort. When you know, and can walk down even to the valley of the shadow of death, and know that God said so; that settles it. God said so.
You can't say, "Why, the pastor said it," or, "The church said it."
You can say, "God said so." That's the comfort we get. That's where I can find comfort now. That's where you found your comfort. God said so. "He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me, shall never die. Believest thou this?" See, It's comfort. It's the comfort we get.

L-84 Noah. I spoke of him, I believe, this morning, the comfort he must have gotten, though in the midst of criticism. Certainly.
"And the world cannot receive Him," Jesus said so, "because it knoweth Him not. But you know Him, and have seen Him. And He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you."
Noah had met God. He heard God. He had God's Word. So it didn't make any difference what anyone else said; Noah had God's Word. So It was a comfort to him, when the critics would come, was going on what they were doing, criticizing him, and science, saying, "How can waters fall from the skies, when there's none up there? We can prove there's no water there. You're a fanatic, Noah. Why, I can prove to you that you're a fanatic. Look at here, where's there any water? Show me." They might've had glasses that could've seen a hundred and twenty million years of light space, as we have today. So you know it had never rained. But yet Noah was comforted, because he had God's promise. Amen.

L-87 What did he do? He went about building an ark, "How silly." There, perhaps, never was a boat. There was no lakes and rivers, and things in them days, so they needed not a boat. But here he is, building a freak-looking thing. And everybody's laughing him. And it was enough to discourage him; everybody coming by, said, "Look up on the hill, at that fanatic up there. What's that house-of-a-thing he's building? What kind of an--an outfit is that? And look what he's building it out of. Why, it's nonsense." But yet, the comfort Noah had, because he had God's Word, It was a comfort; he knew God said so. Amen. God said it, and that settles it. God said so.
"How do you know it's going to rain?"
"God said so."
"How do you know water is going to come from up there?"
"God said so." That's the comfort he had in the Word.


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