<TITLE>24. Par -</TITLE>L-35-6 Noah had patience. Yeah. Noah had real godly patience. God said, "I'm going to destroy this world with rain," and Noah preached a hundred and twenty years at it: plenty patience, not even a dew fell from heaven. Wasn't nothing. Just as dusty as it ever was for a hundred and twenty years, but he was patient.
Then God tries your patience. That's right. God tries them. After He told Noah... Now, He said, "Noah, I want you to go ahead and get in the ark. I'm going to run the animals in there. And I--I want you to get in, climb way upstairs now, so you can look out the top window. Now, I want you to get in there. I want you to tell these people: 'Tomorrow, what I've been preaching for a a hundred and twenty years is going to take place.' All right, you go down there and tell them."
What was the first sign? Noah got in the ark: wasn't no rain.

L-36-2 Noah got ready, and got the raincoat on and everything so he could look out once in a while, got ready. But the next day he might've told his family, and his daughter-in-laws, and all them said, "Oh, my, tomorrow you're going to see something you ain't never seen, because all over the skies is going to be black, thunder and lightning is going to take place. God's big sword's going to zip through the skies. He's going to condemn these bunch of sinners that's turned us down for this hundred and twenty years. You just watch and see."
See, some of the halfway believers, you know, that hang around and don't ever come in, you know... You--you still have them, you know. So they--they come up and said, "Well, the old man might've been right, so we'll go up and wait a few days, or wait a few hours in the morning and see."

L-36-4 Next day, instead of a black cloud, here come the sun coming up just like it always did. Noah looked out. Said, "Hey, there ain't no clouds."
That guy, came up said, "Aw, I knowed you was one of them. I see you're hanging around up here."
"Well, pardon me, sir, ha-ha; maybe I--I--I was just--you know just was enthused; you know, kinda... Ha-ha-ha."
But Noah, he had patience, said, "If it didn't come today, it'll be here tomorrow." That's right. Why? God said so.
"When did He tell you that, Noah?"
"A hundred and twenty years ago. I've come this far, so I'm just waiting here now." See, after while we find God come this far waiting for the church too, but it'll be there; don't you worry. He promised it. Waited all this time for a resurrection. There'll be one, don't worry. God promised it. Just wait patiently. It'll...

L-36-6 You fall asleep there, it won't... You might take a little nap before it happens, but you'll wake up at that time; He promised it. You see? What we call a nap of death, you know, what we call death, just a little nap, or sleeping in Christ. There's no such thing as dying in Christ. Life and death don't exist together. See? We just take a nap, a nap that our friends can't call us from. He's the only One can call. "He'll call, and I'll answer Him," said Job. Job's been sleeping now for four thousand years. Don't worry, he'll--he'll wake up. Don't worry, he's still waiting.

L-37-1 Noah waited; the fourth day passed: no rain. It's all right; it's going to happen. I can hear Mrs. Noah come around and say, "Dad, are you sure?"
"Don't talk like that." He had patience 'cause he had faith. Yes, sir. He had virtue. He had knowledge that God was right. He had temperance; he didn't fly loose and say, "Well, I don't know what it's all about. I lost all my popularity out there." No, no. "People don't care for me no more. I'll go out there and start all over new again." No, no. He had patience. God promised; God will do it. God will do it 'cause God said so.


<A HREF="P25">Next Page</A>