<TITLE>13. Par 117-124</TITLE>L-117 I don't know who the man... Is he here? I don't know. If he is, he... I--I don't know. He said he had--he wanted to go back home. I believe he had to go. He was an--a Indian man. I think he had married a--a white woman. And he was from Virginia. And I forget what his name is. He lived down here around Lodi or something like that. And he'd been all the way to Jeffersonville. But he had the feeling to walk up on the corner; the Holy Spirit said, "Go down this a-way." O God, have mercy. There you are.
I could take hours after hours of telling you things that I've seen happen and done like that. Why? Jesus, our great Warrior, went over and conquered the land, conquered death, conquered hell, conquered the grave, rose up on the third day, and said, "I'm He that was dead, and alive again forevermore, and have the keys of death and hell." There's the Conqueror, since He rent the veil in two; there He stands.

L-119 Like an old colored sister. Excuse me, my colored friends in here. She was giving a testimony in the meeting, and she was very southern in her talk. She said, "Well, I wants to tell you all something tonight." She said, "I sure ain't what I ought to be." And she said, "I sure ain't what I want to be. But one thing I do know; I ain't what I used to be." So she had come somewhere.
And I say, that's it tonight. One time we were lost in sin. And today by accepting the evidence, the returned promise, the down payment on our eternal salvation, we have raised from death unto Life, and living above it. What will it be when we get the full payment, and cross over the river ourself into that glorious land?

L-121 Great testing... Now Abraham, after all these wonderful things, he was tested. After he received the blessing Abraham was tested.
Now, there's where people fail. Now, listen real close now; don't miss it. The Bible said, that every son that cometh to God must be chastened, chastised, whipped. And if we cannot stand the chastisement, we become bastard children, and not the children of God. It proves that our faith wasn't what we said it was; we haven't got what we professed to have. Now, we're getting down in some real good Calvinism now, so we have to watch that.
Now, notice, every son that cometh to God must be chastened, chastised, the Word whip him and cut him to pieces, knock every creed out from under him (See?), tried, and see if he is the son of God.
Now Abraham, after he received the blessing, was then afterwards tested.

L-124 Where did that time go? I haven't even got through my text, and it's time to close. Will you bear with me another fifteen minutes? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Thank you. Be reverent. Abraham... Look at Noah. Let's take it just for a moment. We can't hurry; there's no need... My, what are we hurrying about? I'm just slow. I--I ain't like some of these fellows who can stand, just--can just breeze it right off like that. I--I--I'm slow; I have to wait till He gives it to me.
Look at Noah, after God had him to preach a hundred and twenty years, right in the midst of a greater scientific world than we got today. Well, sure, they built pyramids. We couldn't build them. They built a sphinx. We couldn't build it. They embalmed bodies to make them look natural yet today; we can't do it. They had dye that they could put in things, that the coloring for four thousand years would never change. We haven't got it. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And it showed they had a civilization like that Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah..." And Noah in that scientific world, a-preaching a rain going to fall from heaven, because the Word of God said so. Noah was a prophet.


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