<TITLE>08. Par 29-33</TITLE>L-29 And if we could ever get the scare out of the people, that's something, oh, I don't know, you're wanting a little "touch me," or hocus-pocus. God's word is your basis. God said so. Just laid it out there perfect. That's where we believe it. See? It's not nothing... "Oh, if I can do this or that." It's not what you done; it's what God has done for you. It's...
People say, "Oh, if I can just keep holding on." It ain't you holding on; it's whether He held on or not. It ain't what I am; it's what He is, what He represented me as. God don't see me as I am. If I'm in Christ, He sees Christ. He don't see me no more, for I'm dead. My life is hid in Him, sealed by the Holy Spirit, covered by the Blood. You get it?

L-30 Then God takes the faith that Abraham had, and placed it in every believer by the Holy Spirit. You get it? Now... Then you begin to believe all things, hope all things; that's when the Gospel goes to work in the heart.
It's not nothing, no great... I think people makes it too complicated by giving some great, big lectures, big long words, and... What does the common class of people know about them big words? What would I know about them? Nothing. No, sir. I just like to see it just really in it's simplicity. Yet it's the most powerful thing that the world's ever knowed of, is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Just accept it upon the basis of the shed Blood of the Lord Jesus; come and believe Him. That's the whole thing right there.
That's what gives visions. He told me He would do it, and He does it. That's all. Just believe it. He told you He'd heal you; just believe it. That's all. He said He'd save you; just believe it and watch what happens. See? That's all.

L-31 Now Abraham, God called him, give him the covenant unconditionally, told him He'd come to him in an old age, He'd save him and his seed after him, and told him he was going to have a child. Abraham then, was about seventy-five years old. Sarah ten years younger then Abraham, made her sixty-five years old. That'd be forty, fifty, sixty, be twenty-five years past menopause. They married when they were young, and all this time they'd lived together as husband and wife. And now God says she's going to have a child by him. But the Bible said, "Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving praise to God." He knowed God was going to do it.

L-32 Could you imagine what would happen in Phoenix today, if an old man, the age of Abraham and Sarah, would go down to the doctor and say, "Now, doctor, we want to make room at the hospital, 'cause we're going to have a child."
Well the doctor would say, "Ahem, excuse me, sir," and would call the psychopathic ward to come pick him up (See?), 'cause they'd say, "Something's wrong." Every man that truly steps out and trusts God is misunderstood. That's right.

L-33 Hannah, at the temple, she was praying, and you know what? Even the priests thought she was drunk. She didn't go up to Shiloh, up there, to see what kind of hats the women wore, or who had moved, and all about the neighborhood talk. She went up there for one purpose: that was for God to take away her reproach. And she prayed. She didn't care what the people thought. And they misunderstood her, and she said...
"Will you always be drunk?"
She said, "I'm not drunk, my Lord, but I'm praying, 'God, take away my reproach.'"
Watch the prophet. Said, "The Lord give to thee thy..." She raised up and blessed the Lord, and went home, and had the child. That was all. That's how simple it is: taking God at His word. Oh, isn't He wonderful?


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