<TITLE>12. Par 107-115</TITLE>L-107 After he had endured, he obtained the promise.
Men, for when men... swear by the greater: and the oath of... is confirmed, confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
In other words, when men swear, if they come to you and they make an oath, it's the end of all strife; you believe it. See?
Wherein God--God--wherein God, willing more abundantly,... (oh,)... abundantly to shew unto them heirs of the promise the immutable of his counsel... (oh)... confirmed it by an oath:
God wanted to show you. By His counsel, He wanted it. He confirmed it by an oath, that you would not have any restless terms about it. Now, watch here.
That by two imm... things--immutable things, in which in it is impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to the--lay hold upon the hope set before us:
It's absolutely impossible for God to lie. That's the one thing. Is that right? Now, it's impossible for God to lie. It's two of them. First, it's impossible for God to lie. Now, the next thing is that God Himself that can't lie, to make it perfect, double, He swore by it (Amen.) that He would confirm this oath. Oh, what a great...

L-110 Let's go back and see what the oath is, will you? Just a minute, just for a minute. Back in the--in the Book of Genesis, I was reading it here the other day, the 15th chapter of Genesis. Here we go. Listen at the oath that God swore to, if you want to read something to make you feel real good.
After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abraham in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abraham: I am thy shield, and... exceeding great reward.
"I am thy Shield." If God's your Shield, how's the devil going to hit you? See, see? "I am your Shield, and your exceeding great Reward." Who is? "I am," the Lord, "your exceeding great Reward."
And Abraham said, LORD GOD, what will thou give me, seeing that I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
And Abraham said... And Abram said, Behold, to me thou has given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is my heir.
And, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
God done told him twenty-five years before, that He was going to do it. So Abraham begin to wonder now, "Now, now, Lord, where... How's it going to happen now? And see, I'm a hundred years old."

L-113 Now, watch.
And He brought him forth... (Here--here it comes.)... And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now towards the heaven, and tell me the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
And yet he didn't even have any children, and a hundred years old. Said, "Look up yonder towards the heavens. Can you number them stars?"

L-115 And here, out in Mount Palomar, or Mount Wilson, rather, in California, looking out there at that big observatory, where you can take a glass and see a hundred and twenty million years of light space... Now, you think, your eyes can only see just so many thousand miles away (See?), maybe a couple million, a few million. But this is a hundred and twenty million years. Just what you can see in the solar system, just them stars. Some of them are closer, and some of them are farther away, and so forth. But looking through a hundred and twenty million years of light space, just think what it is, how fast light travels. And a hundred and twenty million years of light space, why, you couldn't run a row of figures around this church ten times, of nine's, and make how many miles it would be. And out there, is still moons and stars on the outside of there.


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