<TITLE>12. Par 131-144</TITLE>L-131   Could you imagine Job enjoying being broke out with boils, and all these things gone, losing all of his wealth and his children, and everything? It wasn't very easy, but God was proving to Satan that He had somebody He could put confidence in. Maybe He's trying to do the same thing in your case, and the rest of you. "Oh, they'll forsake You. They'll..." Oh, no. Job, they couldn't make Job do that. No, sir. See? He's only trying to prove them.

L-132 Remember, in a few minutes, He said, "Oh, ye of little faith. Couldn't you understand about breaking the bread and feeding five thousand? Don't you know I'm the same Jehovah that fed them for forty years out there in the wilderness, out of ovens, out of Heaven, when I poured it out every night? What you so scared about? Don't you know I dried up the Red Sea, one day? Don't you know I opened up the earth and swallowed the unbeliever? One day I measured the earth and spurt it off, out into space yonder." And He's in the ship. Now, that's not mythical. That's truth. Yes.

L-133 Same now. He tries to prove us and see where we'll stand, or not. Take a revival away, and start a argument in the church, just to see what you'll do. Turn Satan loose among you, among, see how you'll stand. Let him strike you with something, see what kind of a stand you'll take. Job said, "Though He slay me, yet I'll trust Him." Amen. Amen. That's it.

L-134   Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, said, "Our God is able to deliver us from that fire, but nevertheless we're not giving up." Sure.

L-135 But we get all flusterated, you know, like they did, the disciples. They... We're human, just like they were.

L-136 And He had proven Who He was, and then, still, after He had proved to be the God of creation. He was the Creator. "How did He? Well, tell me what He turned loose, to cook that bread and cook them fish." Well, He--He not only created the fish, but He cooked the fish, the same time. That's the truth.

L-137 Where did that manna come from, out of Heaven, literal food that kept people alive for forty years? Bread, fell down from Heaven. Where did He get it at?

L-138   Where did those crows get that meat and bread, to feed Elijah? The intelligence of a crow, to cook some meat, and kill a cow and butcher it, and cook it up and make steaks, and put it on bread and bake it, and bring it to Elijah.

L-139 He is God. We don't believe it, then we're unbelievers. That's all. We've got to believe.

L-140 That's what Abraham done, "Called anything contrary to it as though it didn't even happen." No matter how old he got, or how much, he just kept praising God for the promise, went on with it.

L-141   Now, He proved what He was, by His Word and the signs vindicated. He said, "If I do not the works that's written of Me, then don't believe Me." See? Now, there is how you catch it. I trust that you get thinking real deep here. See? Always watch that Word.

L-142 That's what--that's what Satan attacked Eve by, in the garden of Eden, and reasoned her out of it, by reasons.

L-143 But when he come back and attacked Christ, he throwed the things right back at Him again. He said, "If thou be the Son of God, now I'd like to see a miracle. You know, I never seen one. I'd like you turn these... You're hungry. Make these stones bread."

L-144 He said, "It's written..." Oh, my! There you are. Upon the pinnacle of the temple, "It's written..." Upon a high mountain, "It's written..." Stayed right with that Word, and put the old fellow right in the place where he belonged.


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