<TITLE>08. Par 32-37</TITLE>L-32 Notice, after he did that... Abraham, when God called him, was seventy-five years old. And Sarah, his wife, was sixty-five years old. Now, menopause sets in about forty; fifty, sixty, she was twenty-five years past the menopause.
God said, "I'm going..." Now, watch. "Now, Abraham, if you'll do this, if you'll do that..." No. There's no ifs to it. God said, "I have." Amen.

L-33 God... Man and... God made a covenant with the man. And every time that God makes a covenant with a man, man can't keep his covenant. Man breaks it. He tried it with Adam. Adam broke it. Every time He makes a covenant... He made it with Israel through the law. They broke it. No man can keep it.
So God so determined to save the people, He made this covenant. He was determined to save man, so He made it unconditionally. He swore by Himself, not have the man to do anything into it. Amen.

L-34 What I'm trying to do is get to the Pentecostal people to let them realize who they are. See? If you only knew who you was tonight, there'd come such a spontaneous whirl of faith through here till there wouldn't be a sick person. There'd be no need of having a prayer line if the people that's here realize who they are. That's the only way you can do it.
How do you think it is in foreign nations, walking against demons and powers and everything? You have to know where you're standing. Satan don't care how loud you holler. Satan don't care how much you jump up-and-down. Satan will lay right there. But he has to recognize faith. It'll move him every time. So that's where it is today. The Church has got the blessing, but they don't know it.

L-35 Now, God calling, and He give the covenant to Abraham. Abraham separated himself from his people and went over into a strange land, crossed Euphrates. And I believe there is given the word in Hebrew. And he crossed over, separated himself to walk in a strange land, among strange people, speaking strange languages. That's the way He does yet.
You'll come out from among your associates, walk amongst strangers that you used to not know, people who is strange to you. Yet, you find out they're precious citizens of the Kingdom of God.

L-36 Notice Abraham after coming out. Now, he went and told Sarah, "Sarah..." They'd probably been married since they were young folks: Abraham, say twenty-seven and her seventeen, something like that. They had been married, but Sarah was barren, all through their young married life, no children. Here they are getting well stricken in age.
And now, God comes down and said that He was going to make His covenant, and He was going to give Abraham a child by Sarah: the impossible, He was going to do it.

L-37 Now, you know people around the country there thought Abraham had lost his mind because he believed God. Well now, I can imagine him going out and buying up all the birdeye and get the pins ready and everything. They was going to have the baby. No matter how impossible it looked, God said so, and Abraham believed God. And it was imputed unto him for righteousness. Went on...
I can imagine Abraham thinking it was going to come right away, like people who's prayed for think, "Oh, oh, it'll happen tonight." Now, not every time, not every time.
I see after the first few days, Abraham says, "Sarah, how do you feel, honey?"
"No different."
"Praise God, we're going to have it anyhow. We'll have it anyhow." Second month passed, "How do you feel, honey?"
"No different."
"Glory to God, we're going to have it anyhow."
"How do you know?"
"God said so." That's right.


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