<TITLE>15. Par 57-60</TITLE>L-57 What do they do when they come in? They trying to cause you... They're Satan's spies, telling you "The days of miracles is past. There's no such a thing as the Holy Spirit." Oh, they come too late for that. We know better. Yes. Bless your little heart, we know better. Yes, sir.
But what did they do? They're trying to cause you, just like Satan did, to lose your faith in the Word. They're trying to say, "The days of miracles is past. That's just mental workup. There's nothing to it, and all these things here," try to explain all the glory away, all the good away. "Oh, there's no such a thing as Divine healing. Oh--oh, God don't mean that..."

L-58 Listen brother, I will show you, and you can show me, where God promised it to the church. And now, what I'm wanting you to do, is show me where He took it away from it. All right. Now, He don't do that, no. If anything else, He add a little more to it. See? He don't take it away; He just puts more to it like He did His Word. He said His Word; that's it.
If the Old Testament, the old covenant, the old atonement had healing in it, how much is this better one? Sure. Got more than healing. Got healing soul, body, mind, spirit, everything. The...?... It's got Eternal Life in it; sure it has, because it's the Life of God made manifest in His Word by believing It.
Now, they creep in. All right. And try to spoil your faith. They just try to take it away (See?) by their polished seminary reasonings, you know, they come in and reason out, "Now, looky here, isn't it reason now? Could you just imagine in the days of Jesus they'd do the same thing? They'd come and say, "Now, isn't it reasonable..."

L-59 I can imagine... I've always tried to dramatize, thinking of--of Philip when he come with Nathanael, and Nathanael said, "Now, let's reason, Philip. Now, you know if the Messiah would come, He would come right down the corridors of heaven and would... You know what He would do? He would walk right down upon the temple yard where Moses dedicated. (That was Moses' time. That's right.) And He'd be up there, and Caiaphas our high priest would know all about it." See, that's only reasoning.
But how did He come? Not walking down the corridors of heaven, but up the muddy bank of the Jordan. Not to Caiaphas; but a fuzzy-looking preacher come out there with a piece of sheepskin wrapped him, was just a-blasting out them organizations of that day, tearing them to pieces, saying, "You generation of snakes in the grass. Who's warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" What a difference. But just exactly the way He said He would come. But they just over-read it. You see that? Their intellectual giants had been reading to them. You see? You must just let God read it to you. The Holy Spirit wrote the Word, so the Holy Spirit interprets the Word...?...

L-60 Now, all right. They tried in their days to tempt Noah not to believe the Word of God. I can see Noah going into that ark, you know. He preached; he said, "There's coming a rain; that's all there is to it. It's coming down."
Giants said, "Oh, my. Pay no attention to that old fogy. Why, he--he's off at his mind. See? But he went ahead, and a hundred and twenty years built this ark.
Now, I can just imagine seeing... After God said, "All right, Noah. I've heard the last giant I believe I'm going to hear. Go on up in the ark. And Noah looked going in there, and there went the lion, the leopards, two by two. And I can hear all the people say, "Go on up there, you holy-roller, with your stinking animals." You see? Hollering, "Go on up there with all those old stinking beasts, if you want to." But you know, he didn't stay with the stinking beasts. He just kept on climbing till he got up in the top. Then God shut the door.


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