<TITLE>08. Par 31-34</TITLE>L-31 And now, we find out that Noah stayed right with his subject. And I can imagine God one day got enough of their laughing and scoffing at Noah. You know, God can just go--stand so much, and then His patience runs out. So He got enough of it, and He was going to do something about it. And He said to Noah, "Go up there. And you see the animals going in the ark? You go right in after all the animals are in, and the door will close behind you."
And that morning the animals start coming in two-by-two. And I can imagine all the scoffers standing around saying, "Now, go on up there and live with your stinking animals. Get in there and shut the door with all the stink, and so forth, with those animals."
That's the way they try to say it again today. But the man who knows what the Ark is, no matter how much ridiculing is done about it, how much it's condemned or all about it, the man knows that he's led by God. That's right. Noah marched into the ark, and God's great mighty hand closed the door behind him.

L-32 Now, I can imagine that, them seeing that, there was some people might've kind of been a borderline believer, said, "You know what? That old man could have been right." Just the kind that hangs around the meeting, you know, and comes to every meeting. And said, "The old man..." But never willing to come in, never willing to accept it...
Then, like Hebrews 6 said, and like in the borderline believers of the Old Testament, just always watching, and looking around, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth: here come these people, and stood around. "Well, if it starts falling waters out of there, we'll go up and knock on the door. And that is a good-hearted old man. He will open the door and let us in. So we'll stick around it and find out if the rain comes."

L-33 I can imagine Noah climbing through the first floor, went up to the second floor, and went up to the third floor (come up through the Lutheran age, back to the Wesley age) and went to where the door was open in the top, where the light was, into the baptism of the Holy Spirit in the upper room, up high where the light come down. And of course, there's more light on the second floor than there would've been on the first floor. And that's the way it's come, always.
Now, we find out up there... I imagine Noah had gathered his family around and said, "Now, when day breaks in the morning there'll be darkness all over the skies, and there'll be great rain falling, and the people will know then that I have prophesied the truth."
But you know, after you have followed every instruction... Now, here's where I want you to look. After you've followed every instruction, then if something happens that it doesn't come out right, many give up. That shows they did not believe what they professed they was saying.

L-34 God tries His children. Now, listen to the message. Noah, on the seventeenth day of February, according to the Word of God, entered that ark. And the next morning all of them was around expecting to see the rain start falling, but the sun come up just exactly like it always did. "Just a couple more hours, and it'll start, the rain will start."
The day passed, and I'd imagine Noah's heart begin to flutter. I could say something right here, but I'd better not. But you notice, he couldn't get out if he wanted to. He was sealed inside. "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you are sealed until the day of your redemption." God sealed the door behind him. And Noah set there, and the night went past.


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