<TITLE>07. Par 62-71</TITLE>L-62   Then the second day come, and we notice the sun came up. It crossed over just like it did every day. No sign of rain. Still he was persistent. On to seven days, Noah was setting right there, said, "If it didn't rain today, it will tomorrow." See, he was anchored. He was persistent, perseverant, because he knowed that God said so, and it had to be that way.

L-63 Now, finally, on the seventh day, when he looked out the window, the skies were blackening. The wind was blowing across the hills. The trees were bending over. People were screaming, not knowing what to do. And after while, great big drops of rain begin to break down for the first time, striking upon the streets. The sewers filled up. All the springs broke up. The water began to rise. People got into their boats, and they sank. The winds were rough. And it got deeper, and deeper, and deeper. After while, it begin come up on the ship. He watched out the window.

L-64   Finally, the people screaming, there's no way for him to reach out and get them. He was way up in the upper story. They had sinned away their day of grace. There was no more left for them. It was too late then. Finally, what a feeling it must have been, to Noah, when he watched out on the street and seen all the little boats, whether they were God-constructed or not.

L-65 You see, people think that today. "They can construct their own ark. They can make their own salvation." You can't do it. God made the salvation for us, and we've got to accept it. Just a man-constructed ark will not stand. Anything that man can achieve, that's contrary to the will and the Word of God, it will not stand.

L-66   But how it must have been when Mrs. Noah and her daughter-in-laws, and--and son--sons, and so forth, when they seen this water coming up on the ark, and yet the ark was still setting flat. But after while they felt it cut loose. She was floating. Oh, Noah knew that all of his, what he had tried to achieve, what he had done, his message was paying off then. It was cut loose. He was leaving the earth.

L-67 Like it is when a man will stay, not come up and shake hands with the pastor, put his name on a book, but when he'll stay there until he feels something cut loose inside of him, and he begins to float out yonder by faith, knowing that his sins are past, and he's anchored his soul in Christ, and there is something raising him higher and higher; persistent, perseverant.

L-68   Moses was very perseverant, after he had went down in Egypt and killed a man, and with all of his education and his training. And yet he done the thing wrong, he try, 'cause he trusted in what he could achieve by his education and by his own. We're told that he was a military man. And what he had been trained to do, we find out that it failed. And when it failed, he wasn't perseverant on that, he run to the wilderness for forty years.

L-69 But one time he met God in a burning bush, took off his shoes, he saw the glory of God. He seen a dry stick turn into a serpent, and go back to a stick again. He saw a leper hand be healed by the power of God. And he heard the Voice of God speak to him. Nothing is going to stop him then.

L-70   I've often described him. I hope it's not a sacrilegious way. An old man, eighty years old, with his wife setting straddled a mule, with a--a young'n on her hip. The next day... And the beard hanging down, the stick in his hand, going, his eyes set up, and--and towards the sky, and a white beard blowing.
And somebody say, "Where you going, Moses?"

L-71 "I'm going down to Egypt, to take over." A one-man invasion, it looked kind of ridiculous. But God's ways, to the carnal mind, is ridiculous. But it's precious to those who is anchored in it. They know what they're talking about. They press on. Oh, what a thing that must have been! Noah or...


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