<TITLE>10. Par 36-39</TITLE>L-36 One day he begin to notice, here come the male and female lion, the male and female horse. And all of them begin to come into the ark. God said, "Get ready, Noah. I've had enough of their carrying on, of their unbelief. I'm going to send the judgment that I promised."
Well, brother, sister, I say this. I hope you don't think I'm a fanatic, but I believe that that very same repeating is at hand. God's got enough of this scientific, moon-shooting, missile-dropping age that we're in. Why, it's another tower of Babel. Don't you know that God will destroy this earth? He said He would.
That's the reason I'm out here tonight. That's the reason we're trying to press forward to get every soul that we can, because the long-suffering of God in the days of Noah is the same as it is now: not willing that any should perish, but...
And God sent every kind of a gift that He can before the people. And still they stay without the Kingdom. It's because much of it comes from the pulpit. We know that: a denial of days of miracles, denial of the Holy Ghost, and so forth, that brings that.

L-37 Now, we notice what taken place. One day when Noah went in and his family... And I can hear them say, "There's your old stinking animals. Go on in and live with them now." Oh, their great classical age, you know, that they lived in. And--and so, then the door shut behind.
There was some borderline believers that used to attend the meetings of Noah--Noah. Well, just like there is now, people set around all the time in the church, but they never make a move to come forward. They enjoy hearing the pastor preach and something another; but they never make a move forward. So then the first thing... They never want to put their hands into it, so they'd be identified with it.
Brother... Oh, brother. Oh, I'm so glad to be identified with it. I--I want my credentials known that I'm one of them. The greatest honor I ever had, to be identified with the people that's called crazy for the Gospel's sake. Right.

L-38 Now, when the--when Noah's time came for the flood, then some of them borderline believers said, "Now, he was a nice old man. Now, there--there might be something happen, so why, I tell you what. We'll go up and stand around the ark, and if it really starts falling rain down from up there like he said, or water, you know what? We'll knock on the door. He's a gentle old man; he will let us in." Yeah, but it wasn't Noah that shut the door. It was God that shut the door. So they...

L-39 Now, you see, after you have become a Christian, many people think, "Well, after I become a Christian, that settles it. All I have to do is just say, 'Well, glory to God, everything's mine.'"
No sir. You're mistaken. You fight every inch of ground that you take. God told Israel down in Egypt, "I've give you that promised land." But he told Joshua when he went in, "Everywhere the soles of your feet tread, that I give you." It was already give to them, but they had to fight every inch of it. Other words, "footprints meant possession." Just keep walking. Now, they had to fight it, but God had give it to them.


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