<TITLE>04. Par 9-12</TITLE>L-9 Sarah was turned back to a young woman, and so was Abraham turned back to a young man. The Bible proves that. That they, from a hundred years old, probably dropped back to around twenty-five or thirty years old, God showing in that, what He was to do for all human beings.
And to you, woman and men, are setting here tonight, as myself, beginning to stoop in the shoulders, and hair's turning gray, and slipping, remember, that not one hair will perish. God has promised that, and you'll return back someday to a young lady again and a young man, to live forever. That's the Word of the Lord. We will be that in the resurrection. What a hope it gives us.

L-10 And sometimes, when we think we have a few hard trials, just think of that blessed hope that waits for us just outside there. That when we will return back again, that flower come to it's--it's pinnacle, to it's very heights of beauty, and then it begins to fade, goes back. A seed drops out of it, reproduces life again. And a man or a woman when their born, they raise up to a young man, young woman about the age of twenty, twenty-five; and their strong and healthy, and their hair is black, and the lady's beautiful. And the first thing you know, the wrinkles begin to slip under the eyes; the hair begins to turn gray. Death has set it, and it's going to take you. But God has completed His picture, just what you will be in the resurrection. And what you was at about twenty-five, if you were normal, and healthy, and strong, that's what you'll be in the resurrection. God has promised that, give a--a confirmation of the promise right there.

L-11 And so, Abraham, then after the boy got to be a pretty good sized lad, God woke him up one night out of a sleep, and told him to take little Isaac and destroy him. Now, Abraham still staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but took little Isaac and went to the mountain and offered him up. And just the time that he was fixing to take his life with the sabre, or the knife that he had, why, the Holy Spirit called him, the Angel of God, and said, "Abraham, stay your hand."
And when he was just about to take the life of his only son, a type of God, the Father, taking the Life, which spared not His Life, the Life of His only begotten Son... Abraham's son was spared.
And then, at that time there was a lamb that bleated, that was hooked into the vines out there in the wilderness by the horn. And Abraham went and got the little lamb, and brought it over, and laid it down, and sacrificed it. Did you ever wonder where that lamb come from, that little ram?

L-12 Now, Abraham had went three day's journey from his home out into the wilderness. Three days, a normal man can walk thirty miles a day. And that would be ninety miles journey from his--out into the wilderness. And then he lifted up his eye and saw the mountain far off, perhaps, another ten miles away, or maybe farther. And he asked the--the servants to abide there while he and Isaac went on. And there in that desolate, wilderness place, out there, where the children of Israel journeyed through, years after, still a wilderness. Where did that ram come from? Not only that, but he was way up on top of a mountain where there'd be no water or nothing for him to live on, and probably a hundred miles from anybody's camp, and way out in the wilderness; and this ram was caught in the wilderness by its horns. Did you ever think of that? Where did that ram come from? God gave Hisself a Name there. They called the place Jehovah-jireh, which is interpreted, "The Lord will provide for Himself a sacrifice."


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