<TITLE>08. Par 25-27</TITLE>L-25 Noah, as we talked on him last night, or about him, when he heard the voice of God speak to him and told him of the oncoming judgment... After he heard the voice of God give the--the witness to him what was going to happen, and constructed him--or instructed him, rather, pardon me, on what to do, he was very perseverant.
Scoffers had nothing. No matter how many ecclesiastics stood up and said, "Noah, you're wrong," he pressed right on. He built the ark anyhow. The scoffers could've come around by the thousands and said, "Look at the old fogy. Look at him."
The science could've stood there, and said, "Noah, looky here, fellow. We love you, but you've lost your mind. We've got a instrument here that can shoot all the way to the moon. And we can prove that there's no rain or water between here and there that would drown the earth. Look in this instrument. It'll prove it."
Noah would've--might've said something like this. "I don't care what your instrument says. You're looking at that instrument. I'm looking to God and what He promised He'd do." That's it. It depends on what you're looking at, where your faith is. Now, if the instrument declares it, that's all the farther you can go if your faith is in the instrument.

L-26 Like a precious old brother... I was called about fifteen years ago to pray for a boy dying with black diphtheria. He had heart trouble, and they'd took the cardiogram, and it showed that his heart was way down. I forget what the beat was, but he was going.
The old mother and dad called me from the meeting, and they set on the steps for two or three days, and said, "If you don't come..."
I said, "Well, get someone."
He said... I said, "God's got His men everywhere."
He said, "But, Brother Branham," said, "you don't understand." I said... Said, "Can I explain it?"
I said, "I'll try to understand it." And I said, "I'm tired, and it's not right for me to go one place if I cannot go another." He said... But I said, "Unless the Holy Spirit would tell me to go."
He said, "But look." He said, "We've set in that meeting for a week." Said, "We know that it's impossible, for our own people in our neighborhood has set in that meeting, of different denominational churches, and the Holy Spirit has told them exactly what to do, and how to do it from the platform. And it's been exactly what the Spirit said." They said, "Brother Branham, we know that you could not do that." Said, "It has to come from God." Said, "Therefore, if you'll come and pray for my boy," the old dad said, "he will get well."

L-27 Well, he was perseverant, very persistent. So I got my coat and took off. We went to the hospital. And doctor met me, and he said, "I--I wouldn't bother him." Said, "The boy might die at any minute." And the doctor belonged to another denomination of church, because I questioned him.
I said, "But sir, the--the boy is dying." I said, "Are you a Christian?" He said he belonged to another church, a certain denomination. I said, "Well, if your priest would come, and that boy belonged to the same denomination that you do, and that priest wanted to give him the last rites, would you let that priest go?"
He said, "Certainly."
I said, "Well, if this father believes that just as much if I can pray for that boy he will get well, as you believe the boy would be saved if the priest give him the last rites." I had to be a little persistent too. So he let me in. The little nurse turned up her little nose and went back. So we knelt across the bed. The boy was unconscious.


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