<TITLE>07. Par 24-28</TITLE>L-24 Now. But you're tried, put to the test to be proven. And Noah, after the days of his preaching when he stood in the ark of his door, and gave--the--the door of his ark, rather, and gave the very last call... And God told him, "I'm through with them. Get into the safety that's been provided."
I think that's where we stand. Get into that spot of safety zone. The traffic of sin is getting terrific, but God give us a safety zone, as I was speaking of last night, the inoculation. Stay in there. Don't go to wandering. As the brother said, you can totter out of it. Better stay put. Now, don't go to wandering off on isms and dogmas. Stay with the Word. Stay with Christ. To know Him is Life. Not to know His creed, not to know His book, not to know nothing; but to know Him is Life.

L-25 We find that Noah... Let's give a little drama of it. It's getting late, and Noah told them, "This is your last call. I have the policy here, the assurance that it's going to rain. I don't care what your scientific rule says, but you'd better come in."
They laughed at him. There was some that set close, of course, and listened. And others didn't even come to hear him at all.
So Noah went in, and the door closed behind him. Noah did not close the door; God closed the door. And so will He do it again when the last member of the Body of Christ... It'll never make it a freak body for you or I. We better come in while there's opportunity. It won't have six fingers on one hand, won't even have two fingernails on one finger. It'll be a perfect Body without blemish. When that last member's been added to that Body, God will close the door between judgment and mercy, or mercy and judgment, should I said. Notice.

L-26 Then after the door closed, I can hear Noah say to his wife, as though I could listen in (and along one of those, as the brothers talked about, that grounded-wire way of speaking with tongues), hear him say, "Now, in the morning the clouds will rise, and it'll be--it'll be a--a raining. This a--the--the thunders will roar; the lightnings will flash, and there'll come a great rain. I've done my best. But I'm in now, and the door's shut. We know something supernatural happened, because we never shut that door. Somebody shut the door. It was God."

L-27 And you know, that there were some of the borderline believers that stood close, and listened, halfway believed it, probably like the rich young ruler. But they said, "We better go up. We know he was a good old man. And if there would come such a thing, we'll be standing close, where we can get... Oh, we can get right in, he will open the door." But remember, Noah had no way of opening the door.
Don't you borderline with God. Don't you just be a good man or a good woman. You be filled with the Holy Ghost, baptized into the Body by the Holy Ghost. Don't take no hearsay nothing about it. Stay there until you're dead, and your life is new in Christ, and your whole life is changed. Just don't take an emotion, a sensation, or some... Don't do that. Stay there until something actually happens that changes you completely.

L-28 Noah inside, and now these borderline believers slipped up, and said, "Maybe it might rain, as the old man said. Something happened, something phenomena." So can the world see it today, that something's happened.
And the first morning when Noah rose up and went up to look out the window, the sun came up just as bright as it ever did. I'd imagine Noah checked up, said, "Wait a minute. Let's see if I was right." Went back to the Word, to his calling, to his promise. Everything was exactly in line. "Well, He--He just delayed it. It'll probably be tomorrow."
The next day the sun rose. Well, the borderline believer, he become a critic too, said. "See, there was nothing to it." He went on out.


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