<TITLE>17. Par 65-68</TITLE>L-65 Noah said, "I... It just feels like what He told me." That--that's the same now. It feels just like what He told me. Yes, it changed me. And I believe that the coming of the Lord is so close we can just feel the breeze off of it. That's what's scaring the people and making the church get ready for--for the rapture to be caught up. Sure, we're at the end time, sure.
So the first thing you know, the rains begin to fall and the floods begin to rise. The streets got full of water, day after day after day. And finally it went twenty feet over the highest mountain, and they perished in the water, all the unbelievers. But Noah floated right through it. Amen, amen. Yes.
Oh, believe God's Word. No matter how unscientific it is, believe it; 'cause if it can be proved, then it can no more be faith. You've got to believe it when it can't be proved. You--you got to believe it. Cause you to lose faith in the Word, and in God's Word, but they want to take their intellectual part and do it. All right. They say, "This is it."

L-66 We... The Bible says that we don't wrestle with toeholds, flesh and blood; but we wrestle against spiritual powers. Now, if you'd only realize it, as I said awhile ago, we are risen with Him now. You're not going to die. You're already dead. See? But our Spirit is alive in Him. So we're not wrestling against natural, scientific things; we're wrestling against spiritual power.
You know, wrestlers, they practice on breaking toeholds and things. But you don't break these toeholds. No. Could you imagine a wrestler come out now. My, with his fingernails polished, trunks on with all kinds of gold beads around it. Look like a pretty good wrestler, but that's only intellectual. If he hasn't got a hidden strength there, that when the enemy gets a toe hold on him that he can pull him out of it (hallelujah), his intellectual beads around him and everything don't make much difference. So all of our intellectual means nothing if there isn't a hidden power of the Holy Spirit there (Hallelujah), to break the hold of the devil.

L-67 But we're in a wrestling match. We're wrestling not with fine-dressed intellectual psychology, but we're wrestling with the power and the promise of God which can break any hold on any devil at any time. Jesus, our Lord, proved it when He was Emmanuel, God Himself made flesh among us. And when He met Satan, to show that Satan could be defeated by the Word, every time Satan would come to Him He said, "It's written. It's written." Oh, how I would like to take time here on some note I got wrote here, on the things that He said--how many times that He broke Satan's power with "It's written." (Oh, my.), showing that that fortified person behind the Word of God can scream out, "It's written, turn him loose. Turn loose, Satan, for it is written," if you're staying behind the Word. "If ye abide in Me, and My Word's in you, ask what you will." That's right. Can't be wrong; that's got to be right.

L-68 Yes, we need that hidden strength like Samson had. I've seen the intellectual picture of Samson somebody drawed. He had shoulders, honest, I don't believe the man could've stood on the platform. I never seen such shoulders. That'd be no mystery, how he could pick up a lion and tear him apart; or pick up the gates and walk up on the hill with it, or something like that. It wouldn't be no mystery a man that size.
But he was a little bitty, curly-headed shrimp, about like that, mama's little boy, little curls hanging down. But where that thing was, they couldn't understand where that... how he could take the jaw bone of a mule and upon them helmets about an inch and a half thick... And that old jaw bone would've broke the first lick, an old powder dry jaw bone. But he just knocked those Philistines right and left with it. What was it? It was a hidden power. See? Didn't know where it was at. See?


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