<TITLE>18. Par 62-64</TITLE>L-62 God told Noah to make that ark out of shittim wood, and that wood's lighter than balsam. There's nothing in it, just a great big hollow sponge. Why, I could pack a sill of it from here out to there, to the end of the place--the wall back there, and it be six foot thick. I could lay it upon my shoulders and walk away with it. Why, it's nothing but just a sponge. There's nothing in it: shittim wood.
What did He do after that? That represented you. You got to get everything out of you, all your creeds and doctrines away. Then what did He do? He said, "Pitch it, inside and out." How did it get pitch? They cut down a tree and beat it, beat the life out of it, the pitch out of it. And then took the hot pitch and poured it in there, and all those empty places soaked up. Then it's a lots harder than any steel that there is. You couldn't flinch it. That's the reason it stood the judgment.
There was One had to be beat down: the righteous One, Christ. We empty ourself out, and let the Holy Spirit come in, the Word of God come in. That sets you. Judgments... "When I see the blood, I'll pass over you." Has to be. Oh, yes. But they thought it was just the same. You see? It was all right. They presumed it'd be all right.

L-63 That's the way today. They say, "Our denomination... I presume that's all right."
"Oh, you don't tell me. I'm... Days of miracles, there's no such a thing as this. Now, it'll be all right. Aren't we a church?"
Go ahead. Just drop right into the judgment. That's all right. There's so many different denominations, till it causes a confusion, people, just presuming that it's all right, go right ahead. We don't know where--which is right then, which is right? Give them the Word test. That's the One tells whether it's right or not. You see?
Deuteronomy 22:18, you know, said, "If there be one among you who's spiritual or a prophet, I, the Lord, will speak to him. Then if he's with the Scripture, it'll come to pass just what he says. It'll be all right." See?
Mark 16 said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." John 14:12, Jesus said, "He that believeth in Me, the works that I do shall he do also." There we are. Now, we're getting all right.

L-64 When John came out to introduce, which was the right way... The Pharisees had their way; Sadducees had their way; the Publicans had their way; different ones had their way: their denominations, their organizations. John didn't go to any of their schools. He went out in the wilderness and waited. He studied the Word. The first thing you know, God told him out there in the wilderness that this Messiah would have a sign following Him, as He always did (what we talked about last night).
So John waited. He didn't join any of them. He just waited, 'till he was sure. He didn't presume anything. He said, "Now, wait a minute. There's the Pharisees. They're good people, they're holiness people. Why, sure, they're all right." I... He didn't, "I presume they're all right." They wasn't. God...
John waited for the sign. John waited till he was sure. See? Certainly he did. He didn't presume. He waited till he seen the true sign of the Messiah.
Nathan, he was just as irritable as he could be. He just said, "Now, I don't believe it. I'll have to see it." When he got up there and seen that he was the Messiah, he was satisfied then. He didn't presume. He just waited till he seen it.


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