<TITLE>02. Par 9-15</TITLE>L-9   I was reading that sometime ago and was commenting on it, preaching on it. And then I caught, Jesus read the same Genesis that I read and you read. So I went back in Genesis 6, to find out what they did in that day, and we find out that "the sons of God taken unto them daughters of men." I looked at their translation on there, said, "taken unto them women," not daughters. That was just like a Reno, Nevada; just marriage, divorce, like Hollywood, and so forth. And then said, "these were men renown, of old."

L-10 Then you seen the Life magazine, where this great scandal come up in England, of those renown men, and those prostitutes and things, and how that our governors. And, oh, my, what a conglomeration we're in, just exactly the picture Jesus said would take place, see. "Eating, drinking, marrying, given in marriage, and knew it not until the day that Noah entered into the ark."

L-11 And then the door was closed. There was no more chance. That was his last sermon. The last sermon that's been preached in any great ministry has been to the impossible to be saved. Noah, his last message was to the impossible to be saved. See, he went in and the door closed behind him, and he was in there seven days before it started raining. See, his message first was preaching, building the ark, and then closed up seven days.

L-12 The people said, "That old fanatic. See, he's just in there, he closed the door himself." But God closed it. Same thing was in Sodom.

L-13   Look at our Lord Jesus. When He came on earth, He was a young Prophet of Galilee. He went into the synagogues, everyone loved Him. He healed the sick. That was His first part of His ministry, the first stage. The second stage was prophecy, where He begin to rebuke the Pharisees and Sadducees of His days, tell them what they were and how they were blind and couldn't see It, and who He was, and so forth, you know, and what was going to happen to them. On this He was condemned, and on these basis He was crucified, but they could not stop the Message. You can stop the messenger, but not the Message. And the Bible said that "He ascended into hell and preached to the souls that were in prison, that were sometime disobedient," and there His last Message was to the doomed.

L-14   Be awful to think, now, that some of these days that people would be going on preaching just like they did in the days of Noah, they would be going on just the same, but to a doomed world that's already the doors is closed. We don't know what time that might happen. So if you're not a Christian, tonight, think of it real hard. Give it a serious thought.

L-15 Now there is only one thing that we know to do, is to follow the instructions that our Lord left us, "Preach the Gospel to every creature." He knows who is saved and who is not. We do not that. We just cast the net into the sea, bring forth of all kinds, but God knows who is saved and who is not. "And no man can come to Him except the Father has drawed him; and all the Father has given Him will come." We know that, see. So we can't say this one is a Christian and that one isn't, because He said, "The kingdom of Heaven is like unto a man that took a net and went to the sea and cast it in. When he had taken the net in, he had all kinds of things in there. There would be water spiders, bugs, snakes, and fish, and scavenger fish, and good fish." And, but, you see, the--the water bugs and things finally crawl back into the water again, but the good fish was kept for the Master. Now we don't know which is. We just cast the net.


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