<TITLE>10. Par 31-33</TITLE>L-31 How God in His mercy called him, and He said, "Abraham, I know you're an old man now, you're--you're seventy-five years old, Sarah sixty-five, but I'm going to bless you and give you a baby. And out of this baby the whole world's going to be blessed; all nations is going to be blessed by this baby."
Now, Abraham never wondered about it; he just simply took God at His Word. I like that: Just take God at His Word. And he--he went right on testifying that the baby was going to be born. I can imagine seeing him getting everything ready, buying up all the diapers, and the pins, and everything, getting ready for the baby. Nothing wrong,
"Sarah," he said, "how do you feel?" The first week.
"No different."
First month passed, "How do you feel, Sarah?"
"No different."
"Well, Glory to God, we're going to have it anyhow."
First year passed, "How are you feeling, Sarah?"
"No different."
"Well, Praise the Lord, we're going to have it anyhow."

L-32 He took God at His Word regardless of circumstance. He said, "God said so. And no matter how you feel, or what about it, we're going to have it anyhow. God said so." Amen.
And if we be the children of Abraham, we've got to have that kind of faith, regardless of what symptom's says. God's Word... We look at the unseen, what God says about it.
So many people rely on symptoms. "Oh, if I could look..." "If my hand was just a little straighter." "If I felt just a little better with my stomach trouble." "If my head would quit hurting." That has nothing to do with it. Go right on, glorifying God, testifying about that, things that you don't even feel, or see, or taste, smell, or hear. Believe it anyhow.

L-33 Why, if you tell about... There was a man by the name of Jonah, had the worst symptoms I ever seen. He was backslid, first. That's right. He done something God told him not to do. And he was on a stormy sea, caused a lot of trouble, had his hands and feet tied, throwed out; and a big whale swallowed him and went down to the bottom of the sea.
Now, you talk about some symptoms--backslid in his heart, and in the belly of a whale, seaweed wrapped around his neck. And anybody knows, when a fish feeds, it eats--eats his belly full, he goes right to the bottom and rest its swimmers on the bottom. Feed your goldfish, and see if they don't do it. Goes right down to the bottom, and it was probably, forty fathoms deep there. And here this preacher was, backslid, and his hands tied behind him, in the belly of a whale, in the bottom of the sea, and this--this storm up at the top.
You talk about symptoms, he looked this way, it was whale's belly; he looked back that way, it was whale's belly; everywhere he looked it was whale's belly. But he had some symptoms. But you know what he said? "They are lying vanities. I don't believe a one of them." He said, "Once more will I look to Your holy temple," not to the whale's belly, but to Your holy temple. You can't hide a saint from his prayer. That's right. I want... There ain't nobody near that bad off tonight. That's right.


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