<TITLE>15. Par 65-68</TITLE>L-65 We know immediately after that, they took a little trip and went down to Gerar. Is that right? Measure it on your map--three hundred and something miles by camel. Quite a trip for an old couple like that. Grandma here, a little stick and a little shawl, here she comes, and Abraham...?... Three hundred and something miles down to Gerar... Is that right? The Bible said they went down there.
And you know the strange thing it was, after little grandma and them coming down there, and great, great, grandpa Abraham, long white beard, and old grandma with this little shawl on her, the king of Gerar was looking for a sweetheart. All those beautiful women down there, but when he seen Sarah, he said, "There's the one I want," little grandma with a shawl over her shoulder, the most beautiful thing in the world. Ridiculous, nonsense, she wasn't a little grandma. God turned her back to a young, beautiful woman again. That's what He's going to do to every one of you in the rapture. Yes, sir.

L-66 And I can see her now, the king looking all over of them pretty girls. Look. But when he seen Sarah, he said, "There's the one I've waited for." Could you imagine, a little grandma? "That's the one I've waited for." No, she was a pretty girl, turned back to around twenty-five years old, something like that, Abraham a young, sturdy man again.
God's told him what He... He showed him what He was going to do--what the covenant is with you. What He done with Sarah and Abraham, He's going to do with you, grandmother, and you, grandfather, the same thing.

L-67 Now, watch. This king of Gerar fell--fell in love with her. And Abraham lied, said, "That's--that--that--that's my sister." This is going to shock holiness people. Said, "That's my sister."
And the king took her over and he was going to marry her, and he got her over there, and fixed her all up, perhaps. And put on all the paint on her, or whatever it was that the others did. He was king. He did what he wanted to. And first thing you know, he might've manicured her hair, you know, or whatever you call that stuff you do on it, and fixed her all up. He was going to marry her. He's... She was a good Holy Ghost woman, so she didn't use that stuff. See? So he had to fix her all up, so he wanted to marry her in his way.

L-68 So you find out that night after he took his bath and laid and stretched his big feet out in the bed like that, he said, "Oh, my." Said, "Lord, I'm so happy You gave me this pretty girl." Ignorant all the time of the fact that it was another man's wife. And while he was laying there... Now remember, he was a righteous man. And so while he went to sleep, the Lord come to him and said, "You're just as good as a dead man."
Why, he said, "Lord, why am I as good as a dead man?"
Said, "Well, you got another man's wife out there." See, God in His sovereign grace protecting that stream of blood which come Jesus. That's right. God will do it, don't you worry. He will take care of the rest of it. You just let Him alone. Just commit yourself to Him; He will take care of the rest.
Said, "You're as good as a dead man."
Why, he said, "Lord, you know the integrity of my heart." Why, he said, "You know that she told me, 'That's my brother,' and he told me, 'That's my sister.'"
He said, "Yeah, I know it. I know it. I know the integrity of your heart, and that's the reason I kept you from sinning against Me."


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