<TITLE>07. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 God speaking here to Moses, and telling him that, "I'll send My Angel before thee to keep thee in the way." Now, I just to change the atmosphere from speaking of events that's passed, I'd just like to bring it back to this upon God's Word, before we call the healing line, just for a few moments.
Now, God had made a promise to the children of Israel, that He was going... He made it to Abraham many, many years. Four hundred and twenty years beforehand, God promised Abraham, or He said his seed would sojourn in a strange land for four hundred years and He would bring them out by a strong hand and would give them the land where Abraham dwelt in then.

L-29 And Abraham believed God. And He give it to him unconditionally; by grace He gave him this promise, and Abraham an old man with having no children at the time and had been waiting for twenty-five years. When he was seventy-five years old God met him and give him a promise of a child. And Sarah, being sixty-five years old at the time, way past the time of bearing children...
Then they believed God. And they walked by faith, and Abraham looked to God to fulfill His promise, and called those things which was not as though they were. What a beautiful foregrounds for Christianity. I want you to see it, how that we are the children of Abraham.
Now, God promised to save Abraham and his children unconditionally. "I have (past tense) already did it." Now, you say, "Well, I wished I was some of Abraham's children." You are if you're Christian. "For we being dead in Christ take on Abraham's Seed and are heirs according to the promise."

L-30 Then if we are God's children by heir, then, heirs of the kingdom, heirs of Abraham, then we should walk as our father Abraham walked, and call those things which are not as though they were, if God has said they were. See? If God said they are then we don't know how it's going to be; but God said so, so we just believe it and move forward, walking by faith. What a beautiful life.
Just think, Abraham at a hundred years old, yet many disappointments, many upsets he had like all Christians do, waiting on the promise, but yet he had... The Bible said that he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief. There's many things taken place: famine, distress, and the things happened, but Abraham didn't stagger. He still believed that God was going to give him the baby.

L-31 And when the baby was born and become a young child of maybe fifteen, sixteen years old, God said, "Now, you take this child and go up on the mount and offer him up as a sacrifice." In otherwise, "Abraham, I made you a father of nations; now you're about a hundred and twenty years old, and here's the boy, the Seed; you waited twenty-five years for him. Now, I'm still going to make you a father of--of nations and I want you to take and destroy the very only foundation you have now. I promised you the child and here's the child. I want you to get rid of the child." See what I mean, double? And how's he going to be the father of many nations if he waited all that time for the child, and then God tells him to go and offer the child up?
Then he goes and offers up the child, and was going to take his life, and God spoke to him. You know the story of how that God proved His--His loyalty to His promise by Abraham. Then He told him, his seed, how they'd sojourn in a strange land. And they did. But He said He would bring them out and give them that land wherein he dwelt.


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