<TITLE>05. Par 40-49</TITLE>L-40 But when God says anything, it's perfect. He don't have to alter it. "Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong, giving praise to God, because he knowed that He was able to perform, or to keep, or to do that what He had promised." Then, if God is ever called on the scene for a decision, and the decision that God makes, first, it has to forever remain the same. It can never change. It cannot be altered, because He's infinite. And anything that's infinite never had a beginning or an end. So He cannot take it back next year, and say, "I was wrong."

L-41 And then if that was His decision, then every man that makes that same, comes to that same decision that God made for one man upon the basis of his faith, to believe it, He's got to meet that same thing every time a man believes it. God has got to act, every time, the way He acted the first time, or He acted wrong the first time. And who can accuse God of acting wrong? God has got to ever remain with His decision.

L-42   "If thou canst believe!" Now, to achieve anything, you've got to set a goal and say, "This I believe," and tie yourself to it, and keep drawing, moving up closer to it, knowing that you've... it's there, knowing that there is something there that you're coming to.

L-43 Like it was said, the little boy with the kite, holding the string in his hand. He said, the man said, "What are you holding, son?"
He said, "My kite."
He said, "I don't see nothing but a string."
He said, "But there's a kite on the end of it."
The man looked up, said, "I don't see the kite."
The little boy said, "Neither do I."
He said, "Well, how do you know you got a kite?"
He said, "I can feel it tugging at the end."

L-44 Well, that's the way faith is. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." As long as you set your faith on it, and then anchor to it, you're coming to it. No matter if you can't see it, or not, you know it's there anyhow. You're tugging at it, and it's pulling you. And any man that's ever done anything worthwhile, has set a goal, and then been persistent, perseverant, to make that: great men.

L-45   George Washington, "the father of our nation," is called, when he come to Valley Forge. After all night in prayer, until he was wet with the snow, up above his hips, kneeling in the snow, the next morning he crossed Delaware, full of ice. Why? He was perseverant. He had the answer. Nothing is going to stand in his way. Although three or four busket... musket bullets went through his coat, but it never hurt him. He try... He wanted to achieve something, and he had prayed through on it, and he was perseverant. Nothing stood in his way.

L-46   Could you imagine Noah in his days, how perseverant Noah was? Now, he was just a farmer.

L-47 And they lived in a greater day of scientific research, perhaps, than we have today, because in those days they built pyramids. And if any of you have had the privilege of being at the big Egyptian pyramid and seeing the Sphinx and so forth, why, it's amazing to see. How they ever did get those boulders up there in the air, almost a city block high, they weighed thousands of tons! Today we could not reproduce it. We don't understand. They had something.

L-48 They had a dye. They had something they could embalm a body with, that would make it look quite natural for thousands of years. We don't have those arts, colorings, and so forth, that they had; a great scientific age.

L-49   But one day, while Noah was out in the--the field, maybe fixing his crop, God appeared to him and told him, "Make ready for the saving of your household, and build an ark. And it's going to rain."


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