<TITLE>14. Par 156-164</TITLE>L-156   Noah's works expressed to man, what his faith was in God's promise. Now, God met Noah, and He said, "Noah, it's going to rain. I'm going to destroy the whole earth with water." Now, it never had rained, that's the impossibility. Well, now, Noah got... Said, "Prepare an ark of the dimensions that I'll tell you about." And him being a carpenter, and he went to work and begin to take his foot adze, and everything to cut the boards, and fix it up there with the shittim wood, and put the pitch in it just like He said. And do you imagine what people thought about that man?

L-157 They said, "That man is actually crazy, because he says, 'It's going to bring water out of the heavens,' and there's no water up there." But, you see, Noah didn't think about that. His works was expressing to the people what his faith was and what God said would take place.

L-158 That's the reason the genuine Christian separates himself from everything but the Word of God, no matter what the people think, what anybody else says. He's separated because... He isn't just saying that; if he is, it won't be long till his works will be make known. He'll fall back and slip this a-way, and join this one, this one, start... he'll--he'll show what he is. But if he's a genuine, if the Word of God has bedded into him, then It's going to bring forth Its kind, you'll see that man preparing for that great hour. See, that's the way Noah did.

L-159   Moses, with a stick in his hand, came to take the people from Pharaoh. Now, could you imagine... Moses, the Bible said that he was taught in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was smart, he could teach their intellect things. He was taught all their wisdom. He didn't need to catch up on his education. Now, just think about a man out there in the wilderness, with all that education, and then God appearing to him and said, "Moses, take this stick in your hand and go down there in Egypt, and bring my children out with this switch you got in your hand. Just lick the whole thing with this switch."

L-160 Now, what if Moses would had said, "Sir, just a moment, I thought I was talking to an intelligent being, this great 'I AM' that you say you are. Now, how in the world will I ever take this little, old crooked stick I got here in my hand, and take over an army of million of man, armed with spears, fighters? And I'm not a fighter, I'm a shepherd. How can I ever do that?"

L-161 There was no question! Why? Why? The Ground in his heart! He was a predestinated person. "Gifts and callings are without repentence." God had told Abraham that He would do that, and there was the ground prepared.

L-162   And Moses took this stick and went down there and took that nation out of a nation. When he come with a stick in his hand, and told Pharaoh, "Let them go!" Pharaoh seen in Moses the works, that he had faith in what he was going to do, or trying to do. He had faith in the promise of the God that had made the promise, he went down to take it over. No other man would have done that, and no other man could have done it, he was ordained to do it. God, beforehand, had told Abraham that that's just what would happen. And when the time of the promise drew nigh, there was a little boy borned, a fair child. And the parents, Amram and Jochebed, was not afraid of the king's commandment. See, there was something, the grounds was already prepared.

L-163 O God, I hope I'm speaking to ground prepared, tonight! If the Seed can fall in the right place, and it's going to be some-... If it isn't, it won't happen.

L-164 That's the same thing. They say, "Brother Branham, that kinda takes it away from us." If it does, it takes it away from Christianity, too. See, you can impersonate anything. But if the... if it really falls in, the Word of God falls in the right kind of ground, it's going to bring forth its kind. It's got to, because It's a seed.


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