<TITLE>02. Par 11-21</TITLE>L-11   Man of all ages, that has faith in what they are trying to achieve, has been perseverant. No man can be perseverant unless first he knows what he is trying to achieve. And you first must know what you're trying to achieve, and then have faith that you're going to get what you are trying for. And that makes you persistent, something that you know is real.

L-12 Faith is based that way. Faith is not based upon a myth and upon something that, well, that just say, "go do this or do that," on the words of some man. But faith takes its Eternal resting place upon the Word of the Lord, upon God's Word, which is the Bible.

L-13   Now we believe the Bible to be God's infallible Word. We believe that It is the entire revelation of Jesus Christ; revealing Himself in the Old Testament, by the prophets; God making Hisself known through His Son, Christ Jesus, and in Him dwelt the fulness of the Godhead, bodily. He was crucified for our sins; died, buried, rose the third day, ascended into Heaven, and is back here again in the Name of the... In the form of the Holy Spirit, God dwelling... One time, God above us; in Christ, God with us; now God in us. It's God working His way back into man, to worship, be worshiped through man, God's agency. God does nothing outside of a man being His agent, His helper.

L-14   And now man who has had faith in God, has been very persistent in what they are trying to do. And we take man of all walks of life.

L-15 For instance, George Washington, here at Valley Forge. After praying all night in the snow, up to his hips, was wet way up around his waistline, and the river was full of ice. But he caught a vision from God, he caught faith, that God was going to give him the victory. And the--the river had... couldn't a-had too much ice in it, though. Over two-thirds of his army didn't even have shoes on their feet. Their feet was wrapped in rags, standing in that cold. But yet he felt in his heart that God had give him the victory. He had prayed through. The next day, we know, three musket bullets went through his coat without touching him. And the river couldn't stop him, neither could a musket bullet stop him. He was persistent, because he had prayed through. And he had faith in what he was doing, in the One that was leading him, that was God.

L-16 Nothing is going to stop a man when he--he is perseverant, when he knows what he is doing, and got faith in what he is trying to achieve.

L-17   One of the oldest stories in the Bible, one of them, was Noah. Noah was just not some different man. He was an ordinary man, perhaps a farmer.

L-18 And the world was wicked, as it is today, full of science and great man. They had sprung from the sons of Cain. The sons of Seth were humble shepherds, farmers. But the sons of--of Cain were wise man, builders, and--and inventors, and scientists, real smart, real religious. And they had their own form of godliness, but was denying, as it is today, the power of God.

L-19 And Noah being a just man before God, one day God met him in the fields and talked to him, and told him to build an ark, because He was going to destroy the world with water.

L-20   Now that was absolutely contrary to all scientific measurements of that day. See, it had never rained. There--there was no moisture in the air. And God had watered the earth through irrigation, up through the earth, with springs. And there was no water for such, no water in the skies.

L-21 Science in that day were probably more able. They achieved more then than they--they are able to explain today. They built the pyramids in Egypt, the sphinxes. They could never build that again. Those stones that high in the air, we haven't got nothing to put it up there with, or no power to lift it. But somehow they were able to accomplish it in the days of Enoch and Noah, before the flood. And perhaps they shot the moon, and might have had astronauts, and so forth. We don't know.


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