<TITLE>15. Par 56-59</TITLE>L-56 There Abraham set out there, backslid, and telling a little, white lie. But the little white ones are big black ones. Look... Said, "Oh, yes. That's--that's my sister," and so forth, and backslid, setting out there, scared of his own skin.
And God said, "But no matter who he was, that's My prophet. I have give him the promise. I called him by election." He may be backslid now; that didn't give him a chance to lie. But God said, "I will deal with him for that." But anyhow, "He's mine. And you take him his wife back, or everything you got is going to die."
My, he rose from there, and grabbed that woman, and away he went. Yes, sir. He's going to make things right, some restitutions. That's what we need tonight, a bunch of that kind of revival to break out across the country.

L-57 Oh, after the little Isaac was born, become the loving heart, the... daddy, now, about a hundred and fifteen years old, Sarah about a hundred and five, God said, "Now, Abraham, I want to tell the people down in the age to come, just exactly how I'm going to do this. I told you I'd make you a father of many nations; all the world would be blessed through your seed. Now, you're a hundred and fifteen years old, and about somewhere there; Sarah's a hundred and five, and you waited all that time. Now, I want you to take the only hope that you have that I will keep My Word, take him up there, and kill him."
My, Abraham wouldn't tell the mother, 'cause he knowed her old, it would worry her. But his faithful old heart, he saddled up a couple of mules, put some wood on it, took his son the next morning, rose up, and went three day's journey. Then he looked up, saw the mount way off where God showed him in the vision, where to go to. He said, "That's the mountain." Far off, done had gone three days.

L-58 And then, when he got over there (I love this.), he said, "Now, you wait here, while the lad and I go yonder to worship. The lad and I will return." Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. How is he going to return, when he was going yonder with a knife sticking in his bosom, to lance the life out of his own boy on the altar. But God, through Abraham, knew that He'd give him to him as a shadow of death, He was able to raise him from the dead. Abraham the... "I and the son will return."
"How are you?"
"Not my business to figure out how we're going to do it, but God will make a way. God will do it somehow."
How are you, if you're dying with heart trouble, how are you going to get well, when the doctor says that you can't live another week? "I don't know, but God will provide. God will make a way somewhere."

L-59 And as he throwed the wood on little Isaac's shoulder, and climbed upon the hill, a type of Christ. Wish we had time to go in to it, but we're pressed right now. So up the hill went Isaac. He said, "Father," he said, "here is the wood, and here is the--the fire, and the altar, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"
He said, "My son, God will provide for Himself a lamb." Oh, my, you see it? Something had to happen. "God will provide. I told the boys you and I'd be back. God told me to come up here and kill you, but God will provide. Somehow I don't know how I'm going to come out, but I'm just walking on. God will provide."
I love that, don't you? His faith didn't fail. He didn't stagger, reached over and got his son, tied his hands and feet; his only beloved son. God in Abraham, you see it? God in Abraham could till... God could take His own Word through Abraham to trust Himself. And if you've got the Holy Spirit, surely God could trust His own Word, as your Healer, as your Saviour.


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