<TITLE>08. Par 79-96</TITLE>L-79 Now, and when Abraham got up on top of the mount, rolled the rocks together and built the altar, laid the wood down, the little lad said, "Father?"
He said, "Here am I, son."
He said, "Here is the altar, and here is the wood, but where is the lamb for a sacrifice?"
And Abraham, with trembling voice, said, "God will provide a lamb for the sacrifice." Look at that dark moment. Yet, faith unadulterated, wouldn't let him disbelieve God. Notice. Oh, I just look at this story sometimes and weep for joy.

L-82 Abraham bound his own son's hand, laid him up on the altar, pulled the knife from his belt, and was ready to take his son's life, because God had told him to do so.
And at that time, a Voice screamed from the heaven, said, "Abraham, stay your hand." And when the Holy Spirit caught his hand, said, "I see that you haven't withheld your own son. I know you love Me."

L-84 And about that time, something begin to bleat over in the wilderness, caught up over there, and there was a little ram. God provided a sacrifice.
Watch, a ram, it had to be a sheep, a male, a ram: Type of Christ, Who would take the place of death. There's God's provided sacrifice. And Abraham offered up the sacrifice in Isaac's stead. What a beautiful picture now.
Notice, God always made a way. He will make a way tonight, for every one of you.

L-86 And Israel, when they were down in Egypt, they were in bondage and in trouble, and they begin to cry to God for deliverance. Notice, the way God will provide is when we're in God's Word. Israel had God's Word that they were going out of there someday. So they went to crying to God, according to the will of God, for God to provide what He had promised to do.
There you are. You're praying for something that's out of the will of God, you can't have faith for it. But when God promises anything, I believe that He will keep His Word. So they knew.
That's the reason Abraham knew that God was going to deliver him somehow, because He had promised that through Isaac, all the nations in the world would be blessed.
The children of Israel down in Egypt, they knew God had promised them deliverance, so they went to praying for the promise.

L-90 You say, "Brother Branham, if I knowed Divine healing, that God had promised it."
All right, let's take it just a moment: James 5:14. If there ain't a healing campaign in the city somewhere, he said, "If there's any among you sick, let him call the elders of the church; anoint them in oil, and pray over them. The prayer of faith shall save the sick." That's God's Word, God's provided way. That's right.

L-92 Notice, when Israel begin to cry, God begin to hear, and provided a way of escape: sent Moses to them. How strange it was, after crying for deliverance, and when deliverance was brought to them, they fail to recognize it, and refused it, and had to suffer forty years more.
Isn't that typical of today? God will bring you something, and you'll get scared of it.
God sent the Holy Spirit to you people who didn't like all this formal church, ritualistic religions. God sent you the Holy Spirit; great groups of them are scared of It.

L-95 The disciples were about to sink one night in a little boat, and it bounced around out on the sea, and they were crying for help. And when they seen the only Man that could stop the waves, coming, they were scared of Him and thought He was a ghost. The only hope they had, they were scared of It.

L-96 There's men and women setting here tonight, with cancer, heart trouble, dangerous diseases, no doubt. And the only hope that you have, after your doctor's done done all he can do, you're just scared to reach out and trust Him.
Don't be scared. Take His Word. Stand right out there. It's God's provided way for you. God sent you here tonight for that purpose. He never sent you here tonight for me to pray for you. He sent you here tonight to accept His provided Way, Jesus Christ the atoning Sacrifice for sin and sickness. I hope you get it.


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