<TITLE>17. Par 54-58</TITLE>L-54 Abraham...?... I can Abraham couple of mornings after that the Lord had met him there. I can hear him say, "Sarah, honey, why your gray hair's turning black again, and your little withered out brown eyes are coming becoming just as black and shiny again."
Wife said to Abraham, "Your shoulders are straightening up; your beard is turning black again."
And the first thing you know, there they was back sweethearts again. Exactly. Wished I had time to go a little farther in it. But just before you get it, I want to show you grace again, brethren. So this might kindly squeeze my Arminian brother's toes just a little, but I don't mean to do it. You see?  But now look here, that you might know truth.
Now, Baptists, if you don't saddle with this, I'm going to say, "You're backslid."

L-55 Notice, what he done. As soon as they got down there to Gerar, and Abimelech looked out and said, "Well, of all I've waited for, there she is." A little grandma now. See?
Why, it couldn't have been, brethren; that's--that's silly to think such a thing. See? But she was a beautiful young woman. He took her over there and put earrings in her ears and fixed her all up. That night...
Now, he was a very good holiness brother. Now, he went to bed that night, and said his prayers, and stretched his big feet out like that, and thought, "Oh, tomorrow I'll marry this beautiful girl I've waited for all my life, and there she is. Her brother setting out there in the tent, but he--he said that was his sister, and she said, 'That's my brother.' So, oh, they're fixing her all up, and tomorrow's the wedding." My, my.

L-56 He dozed off to sleep and God appeared to him, said, "You're just as good as a dead man." Brother.
He said, "Well, what have I done? I'm just as--just as innocent as anything."
He said, "You've got another man's wife."
"Why," he said, "well, Lord, you know the integrity of my heart." He said, "Didn't that man tell me that was his sister? Didn't she just say that's my brother?"
Said, "I know the integrity of your heart; that's the reason I kept you from sinning against Me. But if you don't restore her back, you're a dead man." Now look, a good boy, a good--good fellow, but it show you the sovereign grace of God.
Said, "Her husband is My prophet. Now, I'll not hear your prayers, but you go back."

L-57 "My prophet..." God told him not to leave Palestine, and he left; he's backslide. Not only that, but he's setting out there telling a lie. Saying... A man cared no more for his wife to do something like that... But He said, "That's My prophet. Take her back and restore her, and let him pray for you." That's Scripture, brother.
I know that's... Where you at, Baptists? What's the matter with you? That's right. There he was, him backslid, running from God, setting out there telling a lie... Now, that don't give you license to lie, or anything, you remember that. We'll straighten that out in a few minutes. All right. God made him pay for it.
But there he was setting out there in that condition, and God said, "He's My prophet. Go, take his wife back to him, and I... let him pray for you and I'll heal you." So he went out and did so.

L-58 Abraham when he become older, first thing you know, the little fellow was born, little Isaac, age about twelve years old. Here he goes out. God had met him again and said, "Abraham, I know through this child you're to have--be the father of a nation, but I tell what I want you to do. I want you to take him out yonder to a mountain that I'll show you, and I want you to take him up there and offer him up for a sacrifice."
Well, how is he going to be the father of nations, now about a hundred and fifteen years old, and here's the only child that he had, and take the little fellow out there and kill him? But you notice, Abraham took the boy and some servants, didn't tell his mother. So they went four day's journey out into the wilderness.


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