<TITLE>06. Par 21-23</TITLE>L-21 And we're told by Genesis that they had never had rain down from the heavens. God watered by irrigation. The world stood up straight. It did not lean back. And we had no rainfall.
And here comes a man coming forth upon a policy that he'd been given of God, that judgment was coming, and the only way to escape it, that there was coming a phenomenon such us rain. Water was going to fall from the skies. Perhaps some of their modern scientific men could put their instruments up and say, "We can shoot the moon by radar, and there's no such a thing as water in the sky. The man is totally insane. Let him alone; he will bring disgrace upon himself."
If that ain't a picture of the modern day believer today, he's considered totally insane. He's emotional. He's crazy. I thank the brother at the end here for his compliment, "I was just foolish enough to believe the Word." That's all right. I--I want to stay foolish.
I seen a little sign one time. I'm told about a man out in California, had a big plate on the front of him here. It said, "I'm a fool for Christ." And on his back was a question mark, said, "Whose fool are you?"

L-22 So Noah was a fool in the eyes of the world in that day, for the God's sake, and for the Word's sake. But he had a policy that was going to draw dividends, going to pay off in the saving of his life.
As I've said before, it might not cope with all the scientific movement. They might try today to say this is purely emotion. As one brother testified, I believe here, he wanted no emotion. And that's good. I think there's a lot of radical stuff goes with it that moves...
I was reading the life of Martin Luther, or the history. And it said it wasn't such a phenomena that Luther could protest the Catholic church, and get by with it. But the phenomena was, the man could hold his head above all the fanaticism that followed his revival.
That's the same it is today. It isn't so much a--of a--of a phenomena to see people come out of organizations and things. But a man that can stay with the Word, and hold his head above all the fanaticism that tries to follow such a move: sensations, and so forth, that base faith upon which is absolutely fleshly, as our precious brother quoted to us about the Greek. See, they go out the same thing: flesh, flesh, denomination, so forth.
But somebody can hold their head above that, and stay with THUS SAITH THE LORD... It's true.

L-23 We find that Noah... That after you have received this policy that I am speaking of this morning, the assurance, the assurance of salvation, you're always tried. And there's always... The Kingdom of God doesn't come by observation, and we know that you're tried. Every son that cometh to God must be child-trained.
I think that's what's the matter with a bunch of our little Elvises and Rickys today. They didn't have the right kind of child training. Papa used to take me to the woodshed, and I got a good education of how to behave myself. He had a hickory limb with all the ten commandments on the end of it. It certainly brought discipline to me.
It's too bad we don't have fathers and mothers, more of them today that would do the same thing, instead of hot rodding, and out all night, and their daughters twisted up in some... Oh, you know what I mean.


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