<TITLE>11. Par 39-42</TITLE>L-39 Faith cometh by what then? [Congregation says, "Hearing."--Ed.] Hearing the what? Word of the Lord. The Word of God settles it. Abraham believed faith--believed God by faith, because God's Word said so. He never reasoned; he never questioned; he just believed God's Word. Is that right? Well, that's the same way we get faith tonight, is believing God's Word. That's it.
Oh, when you show me men and women who will base their faith like that... Now, not got their hopes there... See? If you just got hope, you say, "Oh I--I believe God will do it. Yes, sir. I believe it." You're still hoping. But when faith really takes a hold, it's already did. There's nothing can shake that. It's a positive; there's just... You just say, "Well, I believe God said so. I--I base my faith there. I believe that." But now, if you're... You can't bluff it. God's not a bluff. And neither is Satan a bluff. He won't take your bluff. But when you really got faith, Satan will know it. That's right. He knows where--what's right and what's wrong. He knows where faith stands.

L-40 Look at up there... Many times in meeting, when Jesus met him, he knowed who, He was more than matched right then when he met the Son of God. When he met Moses, he said, "Now, get--get your temper up, Moses, and break them commandments." He did it.
But when he met Jesus Christ, He said, "It is written, thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." See? Then he knew that he was more than a match then. He didn't understand that virgin birth (Satan didn't), but he couldn't understand that. But that was one time that God pulled it over on him then, when he had the--the virgin birth.

L-41 Now. Then along come... Now, the only thing that Sarah had to do, was to believe what Abraham, her husband, said. Now, she said... Abraham told her he was going to have the baby. What a beautiful picture there... I won't keep you too long. But what a beautiful picture there of the Church and Christ. Now, God spoke to Abraham and told Abraham--and Sarah was Abraham's bride, wife. And God speaks to Christ, and we are His Wife, His Bride. Is that right? What a beautiful picture. Now, I don't understand it; neither did Sarah. But Abraham heard the Word of God. So Jesus heard from God and He told us what to do, and we believe Jesus. Is that right? And we believe the things that's impossible, unreasonable, we believe it anyhow. 'Cause Christ said so. If God said so, that settles it. We just believe it.

L-42 Now. Here comes Sarah, and she believed the impossible. Wasn't it easy then for--for Hagar when she come along--Hannah, rather--at the temple. And she walked in one day. I can imagine seeing her going up to Shiloh to worship the Lord. And when she was on the road up, I can see everybody going along, the women saying, "Well, looky there. See, Miss Jones got a new hat on. Isn't it beautiful?" The other say, "There's Mrs. John Doe again, that same old veil she's wore for the last ten years." That's about what they... But Hannah was going up for another purpose.
God help us when we're going to the house of God, not to see how one another's dressed or see who's there, but go for one solid purpose: that's to meet God. She wasn't caring how, who had on a new hat, and who had on new clothes, or what about... She went up there because faith cometh by hearing. And she was barren, had no children. She seen the Word of God where Sarah received a baby after she was past bearing. So if Sarah received it, so could Hannah. Amen. There it is; they had the evidence.


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