<TITLE>08. Par 81-90</TITLE>L-81 When a Divine promise is made, God's solely under oath and obligation to take care of any of His promises. And His, the... God is worth no more than what His Word is worth. If that Word is not effective, then God is not effective. That is God. You believe it? It's God. The Bible said, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." And I'm worth no more than my word; and you're worth no more than your word.

L-82 If I had a handful of wheat laying here in my hand, and lay it on this desk, it would never be nothing but wheat laying there. But plant that wheat in the ground, and it'll produce maybe a bushel of wheat. See? But the germ of life is in the wheat, but the wheat has to fall into the ground and die, Jesus said it, or Paul, I believe, that said. "Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and dies, it remaineth alone." See?
And then This is God, His Word. And when that Word anchors down in the--in the heart... Oh, if I could get you to see it. When that Word anchors there, it--it'll produce just what It said. It'll do just... It's God; it has to.
But if you just say, "Well, I know the Word's there; yeah, that's right," It just lay a handful, yeah; It'll be dormant. That's right; It won't move, because... "Oh, I--I read the Bible."
But until you can anchor That, and say, "Yes, Lord, that's for me," then something's going to happen. It has to. Until that, it's just the written Word. That's right. But when it's once anchored...

L-86 Now, Abraham, he didn't look at his body. Said, "All right, Lord, going to have a baby." On down we could go for hours on this, but we don't want to take too much time.
Now, he comes to the place where little Isaac's born. And here he's going out, after receiving him. And probably just... Abraham was probably a hundred and twenty years old, maybe by this time a hundred and fifteen, twenty years old, little Isaac probably fifteen, eighteen years old. And God said, "Now, Abraham," said, "I want you to take that boy up to the mountain up yonder and offer him up for a sacrifice." Now, after he had received him, promised him the father of nations, and here now the only seed that he has, He said, "Take him up and destroy it." Double check... Oh, my. See? "Now, I know you was old, and you believed Me, and I give you this boy. And now, you got a--you got an idea here now, the promise is going to be fulfilled because you got the boy. But now I want you to take the boy up and kill him."

L-88 Well, now, what if Abraham say, "Then, Lord, now look, I want to ask You something. Me here, maybe a hundred and twenty years old, and I received this boy; and poor Sarah can't hardly get around; she's so old, and--and she's just wrinkled up and gone away nearly. And here I'm, an old man, have to lean on a staff, and walking like this," just barely could walk maybe, "And I'm so old, and--and the boy is a--a young man here. I see what You've done, but what... Would You mean me kill him? First, it'll--it'll tear my heart out. And then, how am I going to be a father of nations, and You're going to kill him?"
But Abraham didn't stagger: said, "Yes, Lord," takes the boy, here they go. He didn't know how. Wasn't his business to question. He obeyed.

L-90 That lady here might say, "How am I going to walk?" Maybe you been crippled a long time; I don't know. Maybe some of the rest of them say, "Well, the doctor told me I couldn't live, Brother Branham. I'm going to die." That's not what we're talking about. That's the natural thing. See? And if you look to any of that, you'll never live. But you've got to look to a promise that God made, and That's the promise. See, the inside of you...
This outside is sin. Do you know that? Do you know your body's sin? That's the reason you don't try to perfect that body; it's sin. Did you know that? It was borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies.


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