<TITLE>16. Par 115-120</TITLE>L-115   Drive for thousands of miles; come out here in the morning and looked out there and seen them people feeding their babies out of a Coca-cola bottle, a little cereal, about five o'clock in the morning, setting on that lot. I thought, "God, I'd be the lowest hypocrite in the world, to let them people come all that distance, and tell them something that was wrong. For I feel sorry for them, my heart goes for them. They're hungering and thirsting for God. Help me, Lord, to tell them the Truth, or take me away from this world. Let me tell them people the Truth, so help me, God." I said, "You hold my hand, and let me know what's Truth, and then back that up by a confirmation of what I said to be the Truth, that they'll know that It is the Truth. Don't let them poor people be deceived. No." How my heart goes to something like that, to see faithful people!

L-116   I imagine Joshua thought the same thing, that day when he gathered them around, seen them wash their clothes out and get ready against the third day. Yes, He proved it. Now Joshua said what? When they said, "Oh, we can't do it. You just can't do it. We'll have to get out of our organization. We're--we're--we're finished. See, we couldn't do it now. We just can't do this, because it's not reasonable." And when Joshua led them up there, it was in the month of April, when the waters was high, and Jordan was pretty near as wide as the Ohio River. Looked like God made an awful mistake.

L-117 You know, sometimes you get sick, and you say, "Well, I'm a Christian. God, He--He made a mistake, He let me get sick, and I'm a Christian." Don't you realize that the Bible said that everything would work together for good to them that loves God?

L-118   Where Joshua led them there, now, Jordan gets real low. You can wade across it 'most anywhere around, unless you hit a hole of water where it's pretty deep; you can, and with all the little fords and things right there at the--at the banks where Jericho was at. Why, it's, why you can wade across it, isn't much over an ankle deep, just drive across it in a jeep, drive, ride across it, walk across it, or anything. But he led them there at the time of April, when the flooded country was flooded there for almost a mile. The water was probably thirty or forty feet deep in there. And he said, "The third day, we're going over. God said so! Call the people together and sanctify them, for, the third day, you're passing over Jordan." See how God lets that thing happen? Just to make it, make people... just to pull out His crowd. What'd they do? They sanctified themselves and got ready, regardless of how deep the water was, and how muddy it was, and how swift the current was. See, they knowed God would prove His Word.

L-119 No matter what, how close you are to Jordan, no matter what your circumstances is, if you could only hold that promise of God in your heart, God will prove it, that It's so. In the midst of all unbelief, He'll still prove It to be so. Yes, He does it. And circumstances doesn't stop Him, He still will do the same as He did then.

L-120   Notice, it was by His believers that He proves His Word by. He can only prove His Word... not by unbelievers, it's only by the believers that He can prove His Word. No matter how much the rest of them claimed to be, "Oh, I believe, brother!" See, if you do, God will prove it so, 'cause we look and see the others. How can we say, then? See, it's by true believers that He proves His Word; not by those who say they believe, but those who really believe. It's by His believing children that He proves His Word.


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