<TITLE>09. Par 41-46</TITLE>L-41 He said, "Let me see you... I'll bring a little girl in here and let me cut her hand. And let me see you heal it. Then I'll believe."
I said, "You are in a bad need of mental healing." Certainly, anybody cut a child's hand...
That's that same old devil said, "If thou be the Son of God, why--let me see--do us a miracle here before us. Let--let--let's see these stones turn into bread," See? "If thou be the Son of God, come off the cross. We'll believe you."
He could've done it. But He didn't listen to the devil. He said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me," See? That's right. "I do what He tells Me to do." So you see, when these influences come up and try to tell you this, that, and the other... And don't you believe it. God's Word...
This minister said to me, said, "I don't care (when I went off his porch) how many things you could produce; I still don't believe it."
I said, "Certainly not. You're an unbeliever. It was not sent to unbelievers, sir; it was only sent to believers. That's all the ones going to ever see it."

L-42 "A little while, and the world seeth Me no more (the unbeliever), but ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you, even to the consummation," the end of the time. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever... if He lives, won't He produce the same thing? Won't His Life produce as it did, if it's living in you?

L-43 Now... just destroys the unbeliever. And it did just that in the days of Noah. Noah was a preacher of righteousness who heard the Word of the Lord and prepared an ark for the saving of his household. And what did he do while he prepared this ark? He preached to the unbelievers. Now, Noah was a critical radic up to those unbelievers. But the only thing their unbelief did was bring judgment on the earth.
And the very judgment that destroyed the unbeliever was the only means of saving Noah. The very waters of judgment that destroyed the unbeliever was the thing that floated Noah's ark. Amen. See? So it just destroys the unbeliever. It doesn't have nothing to do with God. It don't stop Him. He goes on just the same. Yes, sir.

L-44 Now, faith, faith is ridiculous to everybody but God and the one that has it. Now, it's not ridiculous to God, because He's the Author of faith. And it's not ridiculous to the man that has the faith, because he's a believer in God, so it isn't ridiculous to him. God is the Author of it. He created it. And the man who received it from God... 'Course it isn't--it isn't ridiculous to God. Because He created it He knows what it is.

L-45 And the believer that receives it, it isn't ridiculous to him because by that is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things he can't see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. But he knows it's there. It's not ridiculous to him because it's just as good as done. See? He don't have to worry anything about it. He knows God told it, and God said it; that's enough for him.
All right. So we want to have faith. God wants us to have faith. And unbelief won't destroy His plans. It won't do a thing to them. It'll go right on just the same. I'd like to see for somebody to take their unbelief and stop the sun. "Well, you say your faith..." Oh, yes, it did. Joshua did. Faith will do it. But your unbelief will get nowhere. That's right. No.

L-46 See a cloud coming up, and see if your unbelief that it isn't going to rain... See if it don't rain just the same. "Well," you say, "would it do any good?" Oh, yes. Faith will do it. See, unbelief has no value in it at all.


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