<TITLE>05. Par 13-15</TITLE>L-13 God had sent Abraham to this destination, to this place. And when Abraham got there, God was under obligation to keep His Word to Abraham. And He provided a sacrifice in the crucial moment when it was needed. And if you notice, it wasn't a vision; it was really a ram. Abraham picked it up, tied it, laid in on the altar, and stabbed it with his knife, and blood run out of it, and it died, a la--a ram that had been flashed into existence in one minute, and the next minute went out of existence as a sacrifice. God can do all things; He's Jehovah-jireh.
When the crucial moment has been come, God is able to step in right there and provide the sacrifice, or provide the way. When God has made a promise, God's under obligation to His Word to keep it.
God could make sea serpents crawl out of that lake out there, so big that would mash Chicago down, if He seen fit to do so. That sounds like it's mythical, but He could do it. He could create one. When the--God speaks, He can speak life into existence, or He can speak out of existence. He's God, and we underestimate His Being and His ability, for He can do all things.

L-14 And now, He is God providing. He provided that at that moment, and He provided also rain in the heavens, when there had been no rain. But Noah preached that there would be rain, and so when there come time for the ark to float, why, the rain was in the heaven. God just pushed the world over, and let the elements come into the earth, and brought rain. For He was God; He had made the promise; He'd keep His promise.
And if God made a promise to us tonight to heal us, He's God; He made the promise; He will keep the promise. For He's God; He can't do nothing else. In order to be God, He's got to keep His Word. The only fault is is you and I staggering at His promise. That's the reason He can't get to us, because we weaken at the--the moment when we should not weaken.

L-15 He was the God that led the children of Israel out into the wilderness, and when the Red Sea had to be crossed, God provided a east wind to blow, and just blowed a ditch right across the Red Sea, and let the children of Israel walk across on dry land. How did that wind make one little shoot like that, to cut a streak about wide as this aisle for those people to walk across, and then dry the land? And with the wind blowing at such a terrific speed, the children of Israel could not have walked against it like that, but the way stayed, the water stayed their places, and the children of Israel walked across on dry land; and the unbelievers trying to walk across drowned in the act. He's God. He will provide. He's always provided.
And they came straight to the wilderness of sin, and there they found some trees and a stream, but the water was bitter. And God had promised to take care of them, and God had a little bush growing on the side of the bank that Moses cut down this bush and throwed it into the water; and the water that was contaminated become pure and sweet. God will provide, won't He?
See, if God has promised, He's got the provision for it, for His promise. And then, into the wilderness when those people needed water in the desert, dried up because they was grumbling, because they figured that they'd rather be back down in Egypt with the garlic pots and so forth, than to be out there eating Angel's food, walking by faith... And they were grumbling, and the water supply was taken from them.


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