<TITLE>04. Par 14-18</TITLE>L-14 Now, Abraham, when the boy was about sixteen years old, God was going to show to Germany, and the rest of the world, how perfect He keeps His Word. He gave Abraham a double trial.
Now, He said, "Abraham, you're about a hundred and sixteen now. And here's your little boy, Isaac, that I promised you. Now, I want you to take this boy, and take him up in the mountain, and there kill him."
Now, how is he going to be the father of nations, when he is going to destroy the only thing that he has to be the father? How is he going to do it? But notice, Abraham never questioned God.
I can imagine that poor old dad taking his boy, holding him up, looking at him, stroke his hair back, pat him on the cheek, put his bearded face against his soft cheek, hug him in his arms. He said in his heart, "I can't tell his mother. She wouldn't understand maybe." So he got some servants, saddled up some mules, and took a three day's journey back in the wilderness.

L-15 Now, an ordinary man can walk about forty kilometers a day, I guess. I suppose that would be about right. That's compared... I can walk thirty miles a day myself, that'd be it. Now, an--an ordinary man could walk that many miles in a day. How far back would he be in the wilderness?
Sarah thought he was going back to worship. So after he traveled three days, then he lifted up his eyes, and way farther in the wilderness he saw the mountain. I don't know how much farther it was. But he went on to the mountain. Did you imagine how that father felt, knowing he was going to take the life of his own son? And when he stopped the mules...

L-16 Now, German people, listen just a moment. Look at Abraham, what he said to the servant. He said, "You wait here while the lad and I go yonder. The lad and I shall return." Praise God. How is he going to return? He's going to kill him. How can the lad return?

L-17 Oh, listen. In his heart he knew that God was able to raise him up from the dead, for he had received him as one from the dead. My dear brother, sister, can't you understand now? When God shows supernatural with His Word, He expects you to believe it. He had promised Abraham, and then He by supernatural had proved it to Abraham.
God said in these last days that He would pour out His Spirit, and He would show the same signs that He did in the beginning. There'd be a former and latter rain together. We are seeing it. We should believe with all of our heart. Here's His Word; It proves it. His Spirit comes nightly, shows the supernatural, knowing that it's got to be Spirit. Now, He can't heal you; He wouldn't let me heal you, for that's His finished work. He's already did that at Calvary. So He wants you to believe that He has did that for you. Do you understand? Say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]

L-18 It is only the love of our Father, that loves us so much that He sends His Word. He sends His ministers to preach the Word. Then He sends gifts into the church with His arms spread out, trying to get you to believe it. He wants to heal you tonight, a thousand times more than you want to be healed. But you're afraid. You--you go by how you feel, because you--you've regarded that; you've lived by your feelings. That's... Your whole life has been wrapped in that. But you must get away from that, and act on God's Word, not what you feel, not what you see, what God said, and act on that. Make a confession of that. "Confess" means "to say the same thing." And He's at the right hand of the Father with His Own Blood to make intercessions on your confession.
Now, He cannot do anything for you, until first you accept it and confess it; and then He can act on it. For He's the High Priest of what you confess that He is to you. Do you get what I mean?


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