<TITLE>11. Par 45-48</TITLE>L-45 God appropriated the ensign. God give you something to hold onto: an ensign, like a flag hanging. And in Korea, and, oh, down in the islands, during the time of the war, when the Americans had drove back the Japanese... And they run up in Guam and different places, to the top of the hill, the highest hill that they could find; and there, with tears running down their cheeks and with shouts, they planted the American flag, Old Glory, above the hillside. They had conquered the land. What an achievement to lift up that ensign, that this belongs to us. Oh, what a privilege it was for those soldiers to stand there on the land that they had conquered.
I tell you, God gave the church an ensign one day, when Jesus was lifted up on Calvary between heavens and earth, none other than God Immanuel, bleeding out His Blood upon the ground. There was an ensign lifted up to the people that we have conquered. We have--we're more than conquerors because He conquered for us.

L-46 Now, we find that Noah, a man of God, had faith, and God give him an ensign. And that ensign was the ark. And Noah built away by faith, because it was a commandment of God to build this ark for the saving of whosoever would enter into it.
Now, as Noah went along building on the ark, he knew that he was completing an ensign that God had told him to build. Anything that God says to do, hold on to it, because it's right. No matter how many scoffers laughed and made fun of, Noah knew he had THUS SAITH THE LORD.
Compare Noah with Nimrod. Nimrod had his own idea about it; and Noah had God's idea about it. Nimrod had something he could put his hands on; and Noah had something he could put his hands on. It was an ensign, something he could hold to. Certainly.

L-47 Then we find out after that... We will speak of another man quickly, and his name was Moses. And he was just one man. But how would he ever be able to deliver the children of Israel out of Egypt, out of the bondage, after he had studied for school, had been trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and found himself totally defeated?
But one day back in the wilderness, God met him; or he met God. And God give him an ensign: a stick to hold in his hand. What a simple thing, but it done the work. "Take this rod before you." It was an ensign, that Moses, when he had that stick, he marched forward with it.

L-48 I was studying not long ago of David Livingston, when I stood at his grave in London. And more people visits Livingston's grave than any other grave in the Abbey. Then hearing the story of Livingston, how that he went down there as a doctor and a Christian, how he went to the natives, and he couldn't get in because they were mostly savage...
So he got to the chief, and he said... The chief said, "If you will drink the blood of the covenant with me, then you will be one of us." So they got some wine in a cup, and they plucked each other's vein, and held it over the cup and dropped the blood in there, and mixed it up, the two bloods together; and then Livingston drinking half of it, and the chief drinking half of it. And then they gave one another an ensign that they were brothers.
And the chief asked for Livingston's doctor coat, and he took his coat off and give it to the chief. And Livingston asked the chief then for his sacred spear. And then when he went back into the jungles, and the natives run after him, would throwed a spear through him, how well he could feel when he lifted up this ensign, the sacred spear. And when he lifted it up, like that, natives would fall on the ground and almost worship him as God, because they knowed that that's--where that sacred spear came from.


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