<TITLE>13. Par 100-108</TITLE>L-100 Look at Noah in his scientific age, how he had to face up to a thing that was so unscientific. Why, there wasn't a--a--a reason why it couldn't be unscientific... See, it--it was unscientific, rather. Why, they said it's going to rain out of the skies. They never had rain to drop out of the heavens. Now, he had to face up to it. God said it was going to rain. And then he...

L-101 Then faith without works is dead; if you say, "I believe it," and don't make no act. Just like the Message, if you say, "I believe it," don't make an act, what good does it do? See? Noah went to work with his hammer and built an ark, to confirm what he was talking about. That's what we have to do, too. We have to go to work and prove our faith, by our works. Our works proves our faith.

L-102 Moses had to do it, and Elijah had to do it. Every prophet in his age had to stand up and face these responsibilities. But many of them didn't do like Jonah. He run; they didn't.

L-103 Notice, "Cry out against it." Oh, my! There it is. That's the subject, "Cry out against it." There is the check part.
Just go there and tell those fellows, "Say, I come down to join up with you guys. You know, I believe I'll tell you what I'll do. I've got just a little thing here I believe I can make it a... bring us all together, and do this, that, or the other."
But, it was, "Cry out against it," when you have to cry out against something. Now, he had to cry out against everything that was down there; cry out against the city, cry out against their work, cry out against their church, cry out against their prophets, cry out against their ministers, cry out against their priests. "Cry against it, the whole thing! Cry out against it!"

L-104 Noah cried out against his age. Sure, he did, against the churches of his age.
Moses most certainly did cry out against his--his age; the people, the priests, and so forth. He cried all the way through the wilderness. And every junction, he cried, continually crying to the people.
Elijah was very unpopular in his day, because he cried out against that age. Certainly was.

L-105 John the Baptist was very unpopular in his age. He cried out against his age. He said to the king, the--the potentate of the--of the land; he--he had, he married his brother's wife. He had to preach on marriage and divorce, one morning. So he cried out against it, he said, "It's not lawful for you to have her." It cost him, his head to be cut off, later, but he cried out and he stood to his post of duty.
He never took a ship to Tarshish, and said, "Well, I'll agree with you, Herod. It's all right. As long as you think she's a nice woman, she's making you a nice wife, go ahead." Oh, mercy. Them dishrags, you see, yeah, just every little thing... Why, it's nothing but to clean dirty plates with.

L-106 But, notice, John wasn't that way. He faced right up to it. He said, "It's not lawful for you to have her." Yes, sir. And he stood out against it.

L-107 They never run. John didn't. They stood and faced the facts. Moses tried to run, one time, like Jonah, but God brought him back. Many of them tried to get away from it; they would start...
But, look, if God has called you, and you are sure that God is in the Message, there is nothing going to turn you back. It didn't turn Jonah. No, sir.

L-108 Amos of old, cried out, said, "The lion has roared, who can but fear? And God has spake, who can but prophesy?" Who can but prophesy, when you see God speaks and said a certain thing will happen, and there it is?


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