<TITLE>04. Par 10-13</TITLE>L-10 And in that day, He had a witness. And one of them was our--our man tonight, Simeon, an old sage, great long white beard, white flowing hair hanging down from under his turban. And he was spiritual. He believed in the phenomenal. He believed God. And one day while he was in prayer, God, by the Holy Spirit, revealed to him that he wasn't going to see death before he seen the Christ Child. What a revelation!
Now look, four thousand years they had looked for Christ, and then all teed up in education, smart in science, and smart in psychology. Oh, they had it all under control, but was far away from the days of miracles, but God found one man He could talk to. God, give us another. Old...

L-11 Now, what do you think people said to that old man, one foot in the grave, as we'd call it today, eighty-something years old, white beard, and going around testifying everywhere, saying, "I'm not going to die until I see the Lord's Christ."? Why? He had a right to believe it. It was revealed to him by the Holy Spirit. That's it, spiritual revealed truth. God said, "Upon this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of hell can't prevail against It." Showed the gates of hell would be against it, but they can't prevail, when he was revealed to him that Jesus was the Christ of the apostle. That's it.
Notice, he believed God. Now, maybe the old fellow being a teacher, great reputation, smart man, educated, what do you think his fellow preachers thought about him when he went around telling the people that he was going to see the Christ before he died?
Why, they'd say, "It's no time for Christ. We will never see it in this generation. It'll be many, many, many, many hard tell, hundred of generations yet."
But, he said, "Oh, no. The Holy Spirit told me I was going to see it." See?

L-12 You know what they said? The same thing they did to Abraham, to father Abraham. When he was a hundred years old, God told him when he was seventy-five he was going to have a baby by his wife Sarah, which was sixty-five at the time. And twenty-five years they had waited for that baby, thanking God for him before the baby come. That's it. You're the children of Abraham if you have that faith. See? You've got to have the faith of Abraham.
God told Abraham, "I've called you from your land, and I'm going..." He'd lived with Sarah since she was about seventeen. And all their young lives they'd lived together. And here she was, sixty-five years old, probably thirty or four--thirty years pass the menopause, as it is with ladies, far beyond any hopes of ever having a baby. But, God said, "You're going to have a baby by her. That's your wife."

L-13 And Abraham believed God. No matter how impossible... If you'll excuse the expression, I suppose went out and bought up a bunch of birdeye, got the pins ready and everything, going to have the baby, making ready for it. When Sarah, the first months passed, "How are you feeling, Sarah?"
"No different."
"But praise God, we're going to have the baby anyhow." No matter what the outside says, God had made the promise. Ten years passed. "What about it?"
"Well, no different."
"But bless God, we're going to have the baby anyhow."
"How do you know?"
"God said so."
Here he is a hundred years old. And Abraham, instead of getting weak... If God gives you a promise through His Word tonight, and you--it don't happen in five minutes, why you go away and say, "There's nothing to it." How can you be a son or daughter of Abraham? When God makes a promise to a son and daughter of Abraham, they believe God. And Abraham, the Bible said, instead of getting weaker, he got stronger all the time, knowing it would be more of a miracle. And he called those things which are as though they were not. He believed God.


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