<TITLE>19. Par 64-67</TITLE>L-64 When Abraham, the father of the faithful, pulled out the knife, pulled the hair back on his child's head to cut his throat, he said, "I'm persuaded that God's able to raise him up from the dead, from the...?... that I feel him...?..." He was willing to follow the Word of God to the end. You get it? No matter what it is stay right there. If everything seems to be... You can't go one inch farther, go that inch. Then if you hit the wall, stand there until God makes a way through it.

L-65 First day passed, second day passed, third day passed, fourth, fifth, sixth. You know, Noah had a lot to do. I imagine some of his congregation said, "Dad, do you think that we ought to climb out the window and... Think it was all a mistake?"
He said, "No, no, no. Who was that that took Enoch? Who was that that closed that door? Who was that that done all them things before us? If He's led us this far and shut us in, let's stay with Him."
That's it, church. If He's brought us up out of the world and led us this far, and shut us in with Him, with the Holy Spirit all around us, in us, and through us, let's follow Him on through. That's right. The time will come. The time will come. Let the scoffers say what they want to.

L-66 Then on the seventh day, that morning the people was out in the streets. They'd never seen such a thing. Clouds was coming up, great roars of thunder and lightning flashing across the skies. By seven o'clock great big drops of rain begin to fall for the first time on the face of the earth. I imagine the birds was squawking, every... Nature was all tore up. Man begin to wonder and saying, "Get out your scientific instrument. Try your radar. Tell us what's this all about." But it wouldn't work. "We never seen anything like it in all of our life."
Well, by noontime the streams had begin to swell. By the next morning the rivers, the deep had broke up. About the first three or four days the waters was all over the streets, the floods. The people were coming up around the ark beating on the door, "Open up." Noah was riding right along on the waves. She got about twenty-something feet, I believe the Bible said, the ark picked up off of the--off the ground, begin to rock its way along.
They climbed to the highest peak, hung to the highest branch; they screamed; and everything that had nostrils to breathe perished that wasn't in that ark. Everything that breathed died. They could scream for mercy. They could cry, but they had spurned God so many times until there was nothing to do but bring His justice; and His justice was judgment. Same as He told Eve, "The day you eat thereof that day you die."

L-67 Now, I want you to notice. We've seen--we've seen now twice that the Word come in conflict with reasons. And now, it's come again: reasoning against the Word. Now, you can choose. Joshua said the same thing. He said, "Now, if you want to choose to serve the Gods that your fathers did before the flood (See?), or do you choose to serve the gods of the Amorites whose land you possess? The fathers before the flood rode through the flood, that believed God's Word. The Amorites that turned it down, God's give you their land. Now, if you think it's evil to serve God, choose you this day who you'll serve. But for me and my house, we'll stay right with the Lord." Amen. I like that: the conflict.
Notice, the day that the fort was broken in Eden, man went out. Amen. They went out. And the day that they kept the covenant of God in the antediluvian destruction, they went in. They went out of Eden; they went into the ark, and on this third they go up: Go out, go in, go up. We see what they did two times. I'm going to stand with the Lord. Don't you want to? I want to keep the Word of God.


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