<TITLE>07. Par 68-81</TITLE>L-68 And this young fellow proved that he was a--a fine, cultured boy, not just some what we'd call today, a--a hoodlum. He was a fine type of boy, been raised up in a good home. He said, "Master, I've done these since I was a boy, all my life." See, it showed that his parents was nice parents. His went to a church that believed in keeping the commandments. But yet, in the church, keeping the commandments, still didn't answer what he saw in Jesus. He knowed.

L-69 With our creed and with our church, and keeping the commandments, still doesn't give us Eternal Life. It did not then, neither does it do it today. There is something you've got to do.

L-70   Now, we find that it wasn't because that he wasn't a church member. It wasn't because he wasn't morally right. He was.

L-71 But we can be a church member, and morally right, still not obtained Eternal Life. Not to know the Word; some of them are theologians, and scholars, and Sunday school teachers, Bible expositors, but that doesn't mean anything. Satan knows that Bible better than any of us. The Bible said, "To know Him is Life," not know the Word. "Know Him is Life." Satan also believes and trembles. But we've got to have an experience of a death, burial, and resurrection, from our old life, to the new Life which comes in Christ. It comes only by the Holy Spirit, the new Life.

L-72   Now let us investigate some of these people down through the ages, that's held this policy, and see whether it pays off or not. Then I'd just like to bring you, as I told you in the beginning, that you should consult somebody when you're going to make an investment; find out what happens, what, does it pay off right. You should do that in your business. I want to speak of some of the holders of this policy.

L-73 I bring to your attention, tonight, back in Genesis, to a prophet by the name of Noah. Though he was tried in every way he could, to every way Satan could try him, to make him give up that policy; but Noah held the promise of God, the policy of Life, 'cause God told him that everything outside of that ark would be destroyed, and though it seemed kind of unusual to the modern-thinking people of his day.

L-74   That's what makes the Gospel today. It's the unusualness, because God is unusual. His Word is interpreted unusual to what we sometimes have It interpret.

L-75 But, as I have said before, God needs nobody to interpret His Word. He does His Own interpretation by--by bringing to pass the things that He said He would do. He interprets His Own Word. He doesn't need our interpretation. It's, our interpretation is our own man-made thoughts that we put with It.

L-76 When God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. That needs no interpretation.

L-77 God said, "A virgin shall conceive," and she did. That doesn't need any interpretation.

L-78 Jesus said, "The Son of man goes up to Jerusalem and be given into the hands of sinful man. They'll crucify Him, and on the third He'll raise up again." That needs no interpretation.

L-79 He said, "A little while and the world seeth Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the age, to the consummation." He is here. It doesn't need any interpretation. It's His promise.

L-80 "The works that I do shall he do also. He that believeth in Me, the works that I do shall he do also." That's found in Saint John 14:12. And we know that that's true, so it doesn't need any interpretation.

L-81   Noah, with the Word of God, held onto It, because he was a policyholder of Life insurance, Life assurance. He held the policy. And he was an agent for the policy, and he went forth everywhere. But because it was unpopular, he couldn't get anybody to take a hold of it, just his own family. He was... His--his policy seemed to be all out of date, for the people. It seemed to be against the scientific reasoning of the day. "Rains coming down from heaven."


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