<TITLE>07. Par 44-52</TITLE>L-44 Oh, I love that Word. Jesus said, "You do always err, not knowing the Scriptures, neither the power of God." Oh, how He would blaze that out today if He was standing here. "You always error, not knowing the Scriptures, neither the power of God." The power of God's associated in the Scripture, "You do err greatly." Then He went on to say, "In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but they're like Angels." He didn't say they'd be Angels now, but they'd be like Angels: sex glands would be out of them. They don't marry nor give in marriage.

L-45 We're living in the day of morality--or mortal, days of the mortal kingdom. But there's coming a day when there's an immortal Kingdom coming. And that immortal Kingdom is where the redeemed will live, those that's been redeemed and has... The life that leaves this body to return to the God that give it, will return again from the Tree of Life someday to reign forever.

L-46 How this young man, young prophet, sacrificed and give his entire life to be a sign to his people of the punishment that they were going to receive, because that they were, what we would call, indifferent. They didn't want nothing to do with God, and they didn't believe them prophets, and they just made fun of them. And... But besides this, no matter how much they didn't want to believe it, God seen that they got it anyhow.
Jezebel didn't want to admit that Ahab was her pastor, but he was. God seen that she got the sign anyhow. So is this nation today. The just and honest God by His Word could not let anything which we're seeing fixing to happen, without having a sign somewhere. He's always had it. Now, we have to look for it. And I'm sure that people who has good understanding of the Scripture know how to look.

L-48 Noah was a sign in his day to the people of the coming judgment. Noah in his day was considered a fanatic. He was a prophet. He was considered one that did not have good mind. And the man hammered away for year after year, building an ark when there's not even water on the earth but what was in the springs. And he predicted something that was ridiculous to the carnal mind. He said, "There's coming water from up in the sky." No doubt that many would say to him, "Show me where it's at."
The science would say, "I can prove there's no water up there." But yet, if God told him that it was coming from the skies, God will see to it that His Word's fulfilled.
And while there was yet no water in sight, while there had never been a cloud in the sky, never had rained a drop (There never--wasn't such a thing as rain.), yet all the time Noah was preparing an ark for the rain. It was a living evidence that this prophet believed what he was talking about, for he was making ready for it. And any person that really believe what you're talking about, you'll make ready for it.

L-52 May I stop right here just a minute on the day of Noah, as Jesus said, "So will it be in the coming of the Son of man." If the churches today believe what they're talking about, they would practice what they say.
How could we be building great statues of buildings, and millions of dollars in buildings, and great spreading of organizations, and things like that, and preaching that Christ is coming at any time? How could we continue look upon our congregations and see them separating from the power of God, and going into worldliness, and bringing it into the church, and mingling it together, and we permit it? Because of popularity, and because of popular opinion, and denominational differences, trying to outgrow the next organization, how could we practice what we preach? And the world sees that; they know that.
So religion has became a thing of just a--like merely a belonging to some order or belonging to a society of something. Religion... The salvation of Christ is not a society; it isn't joining something; it's a living experience.


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