<TITLE>07. Par 71-82</TITLE>L-71 He also wants to call the attention here, being the quickener of the Word, He also calls the attention, that, "The Word is a seed. And if the seed falls into the right, fertile grounds, it'll produce exactly what God said it would do. But it's not fell in the right kinds of ground, so there's not soil enough, faith enough, to make the seed grow." I think, as the One Who quickens the seed, He ought to know. Don't you think so? How many believe that, say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] He should be the One Who knows. He's a real defense witness. All right.

L-72   The defense, witnessing now, is going to call His first witness. Now, you see, the prosecutor called his witness, Mr. Unbelief, Mr. Skeptic, and Mr. Impatient. Now the defense witness has a right to call one of His witnesses. The Holy Spirit has a right to call it, 'cause He is the defense witness for God's Word.

L-73 Now, these men claim they believe, but the Holy Spirit knowed nothing about it, and He's the only one can quicken It. It's just like your body here, see, your body is dead without the spirit, so is the Word of God dead without the Holy Ghost to quicken It. The spirit quickens the body, and the Holy Ghost quickens the Word. You get it? Now, He ought to know.

L-74   Now He is going to call the first witness. Let's see who He is going to call. Noah, He is going to call Noah.

L-75 Noah said, "In the days that I lived was a scientific age," way smarter than they are in this day. "And the Lord God told me there was going to come rain down from heaven."

L-76 It had never rained, you remember, upon the earth. And they could take instruments and prove there was no rain up there. Remember, it never rained in them days. God watered the earth through irrigation.

L-77 But he said, "It's going to rain and going to destroy the world. There is going to come a great flood, all over the earth, that'll cover it over and destroy it." He said, "Yet, I got orders from God, to build an ark. I went to work on this ark, showing my faith, that I believed what God said was the Truth, regardless of what science had to say about it." I think he makes a good witness, don't you? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] "And no matter what anybody else says about it, God said that it was going to rain; so if there's never been rain up there, He can put rain up there. I'll build the ark, anyhow, making ready for it.

L-78 "Although, I had that fellow, on the witness stand here a while ago, Mr. Unbeliever, he scoffed at me all along. He made fun of me. And I seen Mr. Skeptic; he come around and he laughed at me. Mr. Impatience, all of them, they laughed at me, for believing in such a miracle. But, I waited. When I finished the ark, the rain never come. And I waited for one hundred and twenty years, before it come, but it come." Amen.

L-79 "Sit down, witness. That's a good testimony. Let's call another one, witness number two. Abraham, bring him up." We just been talking about him.

L-80 "Also," he said, "I heard the Word of God, when I was seventy-five years old, tell me something that was absolutely against all reasons. It would have to be a super times super miracle. That, I was going to have a wife, sixty-five years old, to produce a son to me when she was sixty-five years old. We went down and got everything ready, because God said so. We believed it. And the... I told all my friends that these things was going to happen, after. This had to take place because God said so. I waited patiently. The first month come along, I asked my wife how was she feeling. 'No different.' All right, I believed God, anyhow.

L-81 "There was Mr. Unbeliever, Mr. Scoffer, Mr. Skeptic, and all them standing around. They scoffed and laughed at me, called me, 'Father of nations,' when I had no children.

L-82 "And I keep believing every month, every month it would happen. She got older and older all the time, but it... in twenty-five years later, God kept His Word true. It happened."


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