<TITLE>11. Par 39-42</TITLE>L-39 Just watch God's provided way. God always makes a provided way; in this we must follow it. Now, God's made a provided way for the human race to escape the oncoming judgments. In the days of Noah God made a provided way.
But when God makes a way and man refuses to walk in it, then if they miss it, it's not God's fault; no more than it is the city's fault when you run a stop light. See? He's made a way.
And God, before He was going to destroy the world, He built... had a ark built. Not only that, but He provided a prophet with His Word to make a way for the people to escape. And all that believed and walked in God's provided way, by God's provided messenger to point them to God's provided way, they escaped the wrath and judgment of death.
God's got a Messenger tonight called the Holy Spirit. He is the Word. And the Word... He's a--He's the one that manifests the Word. But you must walk in that way. You must listen to the Messenger of God, which is His Word and walk in that way. It's a way prepared, to be--for the escape.

L-40 Job, one of the oldest Books of the Bible, written, they claim, before Genesis was written... And Job, being a righteous man, God-fearing man. And he knew there was a God somewhere, and he wanted to know if he could come to Him in the days of his distress. He said, "If I only knew where He lived, and I could go knock on His door and speak to Him, if I could only find a way, some way, that I could see God..."
And God spoke to him and made a provided way. And he wanted to find a go-between, something that could stand between a sinful man and a holy God, and put his hands on a holy God, and His hand on a sinful man, and breach the way between the two, making peace.
God came down in a whirlwind. Job girded up his loins. God had a provided way, and the Spirit of God come on the prophet. He saw the coming of Christ and said, "I know my Redeemer liveth, and at the last days He will stand on this earth. Though after the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God." Amen. See, God was showing him His provided way.

L-41 Job 14, he seen the trees. He said, "If a tree dies, there's hopes for it to live again. But a man dies, yet he gives up the ghost and wastes away. Where is he? His sons comes to mourn, to honor him, and he perceives it not. Oh, that Thou would hide me in the grave, keep me in the secret place till Thy wrath be past."
He could understand that a--that a flower died; it lived again. And a tree died; it lived again. But said, "A man layeth down, he giveth up the ghost. Don't see him coming back again." He put the seed in the earth. He seen it die, rot, bring forth another life. But a man's went into the dirt and he laid there.
So God was explaining to him that the reason that man laid there is because man had sinned and got out of God's provided way, original way. And the original way for man to live was by the Word of God.

L-42 God fortified His church with His Word. And when they got away from that Word, just one little move of it, it caused all of this. Every heartache, every sorrow, every disappointment, every graveyard, every old age, and every sickness, every disease, every affliction was caused because the human race just listened to reason instead of the Word. That caused the whole thing.
"Oh," you say, "well, it doesn't really make any difference."
It does make a difference. God, with His messenger, told Lot and his wife, and the children, "Don't even look back." And Lot's wife--with her own children and grandchildren burning in the judgments of God, a mother just turned her head slightly looked back, and she was cursed to a pillar of salt. You've got to keep every Word of it. "Man shall not live by bread alone," said Jesus, "but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God."


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