<TITLE>07. Par 64-78</TITLE>L-64 See, longer it went, Abraham figured, "Well, I didn't get it today. I didn't get it this month. I didn't get it last month. But no matter how long it is, the longer it is, the older I'm getting, the more of a miracle it'll be," give God praise for it.
Instead of being weak like we'd be: prayed for tonight, and get--get healed, said you got worse tomorrow, you say, "Oh, well, there's nothing to it." That's the reason; you can't keep God's Word.
"Thy Word have I hid in my heart, O Lord," David. Hide God's Word away in your heart, and then God will keep that Word. God has to keep His Word. God doesn't have to heal to prove His power. But He has to heal to keep His Word. That's right. God don't have to prove nothing. He's God. But what He speaks, He's obligated to His Word. So are you and I obligated to our word. And God's obligated to His Word.

L-67 So if Divine healing's in the Word, that settles it. If He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed, that was the sacrifice, that settles it. As far as I'm concerned, that's all. If God did it there, promised He'd do it, that settles it.

L-68 That's the way it was with Abraham. No matter what come or went, Abraham believed it anyhow. Perhaps got everything ready for the youngster, then God let him go till he was a hundred years old, turned him and Sarah back to a young woman, young man again, and gave them the baby.

L-69 There, what a beautiful picture now we have before us under consideration. Here's the youngster, becomes about sixteen years old, seventeen, the very heart of this old man and woman; lovely, the little fellow.
Now, God speaks to Abraham, one night, said, "Abraham, take him up there to the mount, and offer him up. Kill him." And yet, God had promised Abraham that, "Through Isaac all the nations of the world would be blessed." How is he going now, after all these years waiting, believing, and now after all this time has passed, how is the baby... The only hope of God's promise, and God told Abraham to destroy every hope he had again.

L-71 See how God does? Testing, God permits you sometime to get a little worse after you're prayed for just to test you. The testings and trials of faith, but, "He that endureth..." There it is. Hold on; take God at His Word. Believe every Word of It. No matter what anything else says or does, believe it anyhow. No matter what the circumstance look like, believe God anyhow.

L-72 Then, there God says, "You take the boy and take him up there. I'm going to bless all the world with him. You've waited for all these years; now, you're a hundred years old, about a hundred and sixteen, eighteen years old. Now, I want you to take the little fellow, and take him up on the hill there, and kill him."
My, oh, seemed very strange, unreasonable, that God would ask Abraham to destroy his only son. But behind it now, we see the picture He was painting: God giving His only Son.

L-74 Abraham didn't want to tell the mother, of course, it would break her heart, saddled up some mules, and taken a few servants, and rode off to the mountain.
I just love this part here. Then he got up to where the mount was, and he said to the servant, "You wait here now, while the boy and I go yonder to worship. And the boy and I will return."
How is he going to return, when he's going to kill him? But Abraham knew this, that he had received him in a figure, as one from the dead, and God was able to raise him up from the dead. God would make a way of escape some way, how, he didn't know. God told him, take him and kill him, and that was his only thing he had to do.
"You wait here. The boy and I'll go yonder to worship, and the boy and I will return."

L-78 Notice, little Isaac picked up the wood, went up the hill, the father leading, Isaac, behind, with the wood on his back. Look at it, beautiful picture of some eight hundred years later, God leading His own Son up Calvary with the wood on His back for the sacrifice. Picture, God making a way of escape...


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