<TITLE>14. Par 62-66</TITLE>L-62 Then if fundamentalism is all that God requires, both places was justified. But what was it? What was it that Balaam failed to see? He failed to see that Pillar of Fire. He failed to see that smitten rock, that brass serpent going before Israel for an atonement. He failed to hear the shout of the camp--of the King among them. He judged them by their works.
God don't judge no one by their works, judge you by your faith. Notice. I want to clear that up about the little woman last night too. It wasn't her works of washing her feet. He justified her then before Simon by saying what she had done; He justified her by works, what she was doing. But when He justified her in her own sight, He said, "Thy faith hath saved thee," 'cause no man is justified by works. By her faith in Him being the Son of God, not what she was doing, but her faith in Him... And your faith always tells your works. That's right.

L-63 These intellectual giants are in them days were far... They... Look what Cain's children become: scientists, doctors, workers of metal, great men in the earth. But what was Seth's children? Farmers, sheepherders. See, they couldn't compare with them at all, and God likened us unto sheep. If anybody ever raised a sheep...
A sheep's one thing, when he's lost, he's totally lost. He can't go nowhere without the shepherd. And that's the way God made us. We don't claim no intellectuals. We just got a Shepherd; that's all. And He takes us around from pasture to pasture.

L-64 So today these great intellectual spies are too much for the poor, humble children of God. Now, Jude said in the book of Jude, last of Jude there, he said that they have creeped in among us: creeped in. That's what's causing to go out in these big tantrums that they've done. Creeped in among us, men foreordained to this condemnation, creeped in among us, drawing us away from the Word, causing us to lose faith in the Word: wandering spots, ships without sails... The rushing wind could blow, and they just got an old dead organization pole standing there, going, "Wooo, days of miracles is past. Wooo, no such a thing as Divine healing."
But if you've got a real spiritual sail setting up there, the Spirit picks it up and away across she goes into lands that they know nothing about. That's right. Yes, causing you to lose faith in the Word by their polished-up seminary experiences.

L-65 They attacked Noah in the same way. They've attacked God's children every time the same way. Nimrod built hisself a tower to get away from the plagues of God, but it didn't last. Nebuchadnezzar built him a city, but it fell. Noah, building the ark... Could you imagine scientists in those days that could build a pyramid that we couldn't build today, could embalm a body with fluid we know nothing about? Many things that we've never learned yet that they know.
Could you imagine them scientists saying, "You old quack. Show me. We can shoot the moon with our radar and stuff. There's not a speck of water between here and there. How's it going to come?"
But Noah said, "God, if He promised water, He can put water there." Sure. It's too much for the--these children today, these poor little children, the intellectuals.

L-66 Oh, look at the day of--when Jehoshaphat come down and got off of his grounds. And he met Ahab. And Ahab, always an axe to grind, and he said, "Does not Ramoth-gilead belong to us?"
He said, "Sure. Joshua, in dividing the land, give it to us."
Said, "All right."
But you know, Jehoshaphat was a good man, but just out of his place. That's what's the matter with many a man today in some of these spiritual morgues, icicles hanging down in, the thermometer, spiritually speaking, ninety below zero. Go in there, and say, "Amen," or "Praise God," everybody stretch their neck like some gander goose, looking around, see what's taking place: dead, twice dead, plucked up by the roots. They forget about...


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