<TITLE>09. Par 89-100</TITLE>L-89 We find out, in Malachi 4, that He promised us a Message in the last days, that would "restore the Faith of the people back to the fathers again." He promised it, in the last days.

L-90 He also promised, in John 14:12, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also. Even more than this, or greater than this, shall he do, for I go to My Father."

L-91 He was speaking one day. They said, "Master, show us a sign."

L-92 He said, "A weak and an adulterous generation seeks after a sign." That's the generation we are living in today. He said, "And I'll give them a sign. For as Jonas was in the belly of the whale, three days and nights, so must the Son of man be in the heart of the earth, three days and nights."

L-93   What kind of a sign would a wicked and adulterous generation find out? The resurrection sign. And that's what we are promised today, the resurrection sign that He is still alive, He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-94 He said, "As it was in the days of Lot," as we went through it last night. "The days of Lot, what happened in the days of Lot, so would it be at the coming of the Son of man." These things we are promised, many more Scriptures. To keep from taking up time... "A little while and the world won't see Me no more. Kosmos, 'the order, the church age,' they won't see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the age." "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." What is it? It's God's provided sign, God's provided way.

L-95   Abraham waiting for the son. The last sign that he saw before the destruction of the Gentiles, was God manifested in human flesh, that knowed the secrets of the heart of Sarah when she was in the tent. Jesus said, "That'll return again at the coming of the Son of man." Brother, sister, I believe we're living in that day. I believe this is the day of the promise.

L-96 You've got to have faith in what you're doing. If you haven't got faith, if you just taking it presumingly... The word presume, according to Webster, means, "to adventure without authority." But when the Word promises it, and God stands behind that Word, you're not presuming any more. You're doing exactly what God said do, and He is duty bound to back It up.

L-97   Great, famous, a--a revivalist, many years ago, I seen him when I was a little boy, was Paul Rader. He told a story, one day, that's always stuck with me. He said, "One day, we was cutting wood." He was a logger, up in Oregon, and said the boss told him go up the top of the hill. He was dreaming. Where he was really at, at the time, he was down in the islands; and took a fever, real hot, and he was dying. They went for a doctor, but it was miles and miles away, by canoe.

L-98 Before the doctor could get there, Paul begin to fade away, get sicker and sicker. He called his faithful wife. He said, "Dear, it's getting dark in the room, darker, closing in." And he went back into a coma.

L-99   And when he did, he said he dreamed, when he was in this coma, that his boss sent him up to cut a certain tree. He found the tree, he fell the tree, stuck his ax into it, and reached down to pick it up. He just couldn't pick it up. Said his strength was depleted. He just couldn't pick it up. He said, "All the size that tree is, surely I can pick that up. Let me try again." And he got down and he lifted, he just toiled till he was wore out. He sit down aside of the tree, and said, "I just don't know what I'll do. The boss requires this tree down there at the camp, and I'm too weak to bring it down."

L-100 Said he heard the sweetest Voice he ever heard, it was his boss that spoke; but said, when he turned to see who his boss was, it was the Lord Jesus. He said, "Paul, what are you fighting so about? What are you all flustrated about? You see that water running there?" Said, "Why don't you just throw the log in the river, and ride it down? Ride it to the camp."


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