<TITLE>16. Par 60-65</TITLE>L-60 So he tied the little fellow's arms, and threw him up on the altar, and reached back, stroked his hair out of his face (Think of it--only son.), pulled the knife out of the sheath, laid his little head back, like that. There's jugular veins that big come across his throat. His trembling hand... The crucial moment come: His only son. Perhaps reached down and kissed him, not knowing just what would take place, but he was trusting God. That's... Abraham's seed does the same thing. When the last moments come, they still take God at His promise.
Reached down, got the knife, pulled it back, just started to stab his little boy into the throat, and about that time, the Angel grabbed his hand, and said, "Abraham, stay thy hand." Amen. "God will provide Himself a sacrifice."

L-61 And about that time, a ram bleated, hooked with his horn in the wilderness. Where'd that ram come from? Look. Abraham was three day's journey from civilization. An ordinary man can walk about thirty miles in a day. I can. And an ordinary man can walk thirty miles in a day. Then he lifted up his head and saw the mountain far off. Watch the impossibilities now: perhaps between ninety and a hundred miles away from civilization, and then again, the ram was up on top of the mountain, where there's no spring, nothing for him to drink, nothing for him to eat. And the ram appeared on the scene in the crucial moment. For He's Jehovah-jireh, He will take care of the circumstances and the emergency. Isn't He?

L-62 And he took the ram and slew it in his son's place. Who was that Ram? Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, slain from the foundation of the world. What... It wasn't a vision; the ram wasn't a vision; it was the real ram. He picked it up and killed it, and blood run out of it. Hallelujah. You see it? It was the real ram. God spoke it into existence in one minute, it was took out for a sacrifice the next minute. God can do all things. He can meet the crucial moment. He can provide when there's no other way to do it. He's Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide Himself."

L-63 How you going to get well, when the doctor said you can't. He's Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide the healing."
"I'm a prostitute. I'm a harlot, I'm all these bad things. How can God save me?"
"God will provide Himself a sacrifice." And He did at Calvary, when every type was met in the antitype, when Jesus Christ died for the sins of the people and the healing of their bodies, when He died at Calvary. Oh, if we could see that, friends, it would really make different people out of us.

L-64 Here not long ago, I was watching... Talking to two ladies today, about it. Make your attitude different, when you really see it. Now, just a moment, I'm closing. Winding up the service just now, ready for the healing. Look this way. I just feel the Holy Spirit just moving all through the building now.

L-65 Here sometime ago, I was up in Ohio, in Akron, or somewhere up there, in Ohio, having a meeting. And we were eating at a little Dunkard restaurant. Nice little ladies, all cleaned up, and they were ladies, every whit of them. And they was waiting on us. It was a pleasure to go there and eat in that nice place.
Well, Sunday came; they--they went to church, closed up their place. Just across the way... I was out in the country, a ways of the crossroads. Crowds was so great, couldn't stay right around the city. So I went across... The boys had went in. I'd had to preach that afternoon. I'd been kinda praying all morning. And all of them had gone to the meetings, Brother Baxter, and all. And I thought, "I'm so hungry; I'm going to get a sandwich."


<A HREF="P17">Next Page</A>