<TITLE>07. Par 27-30</TITLE>L-27 Now, what a message that was for a scientific age. And when... They claim now that our science today will not compare with them of that day. They built pyramids. We couldn't do that today. We have no power to lift those rocks up there. And they had... They could embalm a body that looks natural up to this day. We don't have that embalming secret that they did then to make mummies. Coloring, and many things that they had then that we don't have now, and what a scientific age.
Could you imagine a man going up there, taking his family and building an ark, and saying that it's going to rain waters down out of the heaven, when there'd never been a drop of water fall from the sky? Could you imagine the--the laughs and scoffs that came to that man in that day? How that the scientists would... Science would come and say, "Looky here. We got an instrument we can shoot plumb to the moon and stars. And there's not any water up there. Where is it coming from? How's it going to be there? Show me where it's at." The Word of God didn't stand up to their scientific quota. Neither does it today; but we believe it anyhow.

L-28 And Noah was persistent, very perseverant. I can imagine them taking the doctors and bringing him before psychiatrists to find out what's the matter with the old man's mind. But it wasn't his mind; it was in his heart. And he had the Word of the Lord, and he knew that it was God.
And I can hear Noah say, "If there is no water up there, and God said it was going to rain water from up there, God's able to put water up there." And his story held for a hundred and twenty years, while he built away on the ark, very persistent. In the time of scoffers no one listened to him, but laughed and made fun of him wherever he went. But still, he held right on, because he knowed it was the Word of the Lord. He was positive of it.

L-29 I can imagine, when his street meetings come off, how that they laughed. Oh, they were religious then, remember, very religious. So was Cain, and he built an altar as much as Abel did. He... If--if religion is all God requires, He was cruel to condemn Cain, 'cause Cain done every religious act that Abel did. But he come in the wrong way. "There is a way that seemeth right, but the end thereof is death."
But now, you've got to be sure that you're right. So we just can't gamble on this. There's no need of doing it. Christ has left the--the pattern so plain till we... He said even a fool shouldn't err. You know whether it's right or not. And then, when you're positive you're right, Scripturally right, then you can stand there because... and be very persistent with it.

L-30 Now, Noah and his preaching, how that it must've been someone said, "That old man up there is still hammering away on a boat." And they believed that any old boat would do, if it did come a rain, whether it was God-constructed or not. And that's the way they think today. Any old church will do, any old religious idea. Go join this; you don't like it, and they don't like that, go over to the next one, next one, any of them will do.
But God's got a constructed church that's built on the Rock, Christ Jesus. And "all other grounds is sinking sand," said Eddie Perronet. That's right. "Upon this rock I'll build My church." The Catholic church said it was upon Peter. He backslid after that. The Protestant said it was upon Jesus. I different with you. He said, "Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father which is in heaven has revealed this to you." Then it was upon the rock of spiritual revelation of the Word. That's right. Same thing Abel had, how it was revealed to him, instead of offering fruit like Cain did, he offered blood, for it was revealed to him. The whole church of God is built upon the spiritual revelation of Christ: Who He is, what He is, and all about Him.


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