<TITLE>02. Par 7-12</TITLE>L-7 We want to speak tonight again about Abraham. And I just love those old Bible characters, because all the Old Testament was a shadow of the New Testament. All things you see back there pointed to the cross, and all since then points back to the cross. So in the cross, all the plan of salvation and healing was finished there for believers.
Now, last night we left Abraham where he had made the--seen the confirmation of the covenant. How we find that God had give him a promise, and Abraham believed it, though He never give it to him just then, but He gave him the promise. So if you've got the promise, you've got it anyhow.

L-8 If I ask... (Do you have acorn trees here? Acorn trees here?) [Brother Branham speaks to the interpreter--Ed.] If you ask me for an acorn tree, and I give you an acorn, you've already got an acorn tree in a seed form. And that's what we try to preach the Word from the Bible, for that is the Promise of God in seed form.
Jesus said that the Word of God is Seed that a sower sowed. And any--any Divine promise of God will be received into your heart, no--no unbelief mixed with it, it'll produce just what it promised, for it's God's promise. Just hold on to it like Abraham did, and He will make it real to you.

L-9 Now, to you people that are along here, setting in these chairs and stretchers, God loves you. No matter what is wrong with you, God, if--if He's Almighty God, He can do all things, and if He cannot do all things, then He is not Almighty God. I would not stand here and speak to you, unless I knew what I was speaking of. I...
You notice, now every night there's someone raises from the stretcher or wheelchair, paralyzed, or something wrong with them. They go out well, the deaf hear, blind see, and signs of the living God. See, God is still alive. God never leaves the earth. Sometimes He takes His man, but never His Spirit. He took Elijah, and His spirit came upon Elijah. Several hundred years later, it came up on John the Baptist, and predicted to come again in the last days. God promised it.

L-10 Now, the devil, he takes his man, and it--the--the spirit remains here on someone else. Jesus said to the Pharisees, because they did not believe Him. He--they--He would not teach their doctrine. He said "You are of the devil, your father." Said, "Which one of your fathers has not persecuted the prophet?" See, the spirit remains here, and the--the person goes on. Then the resurrection is the judgment.
Now, Abraham was the first to go out in a strange country and--and sojourn just on the promise of God. But he separated himself from all his associates of the world, and walked alone with God to be a friend.

L-11 Last night we found out how that God confirmed the covenant, and we find the beautiful picture there of what He did at showing Calvary, where He was going to offer His own Son. Then we find Him appearing to Abraham again, and tell him He was the Breasted One, so that Abraham could be like a baby to Him, and just nurse from Him, strength, because Abraham was old. He was already a hundred years old, and Sarah was ninety. That was fifty years or forty years past menopause. He married her when she was a little girl, and he was just a young man. And they had lived together as husband and wife all of these years. Then when menopause ceased, then forty years passed, and they were still believing God's promise. That--that's wonderful.

L-12 That's the kind of faith that we all want. Do not argue about it. It's... The Bible is not to be argued. It... The Bible is to be preached and lived. Jesus said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then believe Me not. But if I do the works of My Father, then believe the Word." And today, if we don't live the Christian life, well then, would--people can say we're not Christians. But if Christ is in you, He lives His Life in you.


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