<TITLE>12. Par 37-40</TITLE>L-37 But look at Mary, when the Holy Ghost told her, "You're going to have a child, knowing no man." She didn't reason it. She just took Him at his Word. There you are. And she went around testifying that she was going to have a baby, knowing no man, before she was positive of anything. Oh, I hope you see it. She took God at His Word. She didn't wait. Excuse this expression. You'd listen to a doctor; I'm your brother. She didn't wait till she felt life; she didn't wait till something taken place, that she could see naturally that she was going to be mother. She just took the Angel's Word. When the Angel said, "You're going to have this baby knowing no man..."
She said, "Behold, the handsmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to Thy Word."
And she went around rejoicing, that she was going to have the baby before she had one evidence that the baby was coming, outside the Word of God. Oh, sister, do that tonight, you, and you, and all of you. Take God at His Word and start rejoicing. Saying, "God said so; that settles it. I will rejoice anyhow. I don't have to feel nothing or nothing else; I just believe it." Oh, and you'll see an old fashion revival sweep this country, burning out sin. And every church will fill up and what a time it will be. If men and women will do that much, take God at His Word, and be expecting Him to do what He said He would do... You're the children of Abraham; that's only to the promise.

L-38 The promise was given to Abraham. When he was seventy-five years old, he was living in Shinar there, come down in the land--the valleys of Shinar, rather, come from Babylon with his father, and was living down there, and--and the city of Ur in the land of Chaldean. And he was seventy-five years old; his wife was sixty-five, he had lived with her since she was about seventeen, and she was barren. And the Lord appeared to him and said, "Abraham, you're going to have a child by Sarah."

L-39 And Abraham believed God, and made ready for the birth of the baby. And the baby never come for twenty-five years. But instead of Abraham getting weaker, he got stronger all the time, giving God praise for the baby. And here he is now a hundred years old and Sarah's ninety. But every day that it went longer, the greater miracle it'd be. And the Bible said, "He got stronger and stronger, giving God praise." The...?...
First year passed by, "Sarah, how do you feel?"
"No different."
"Praise God, we're going to have it anyhow."
The second month passed, "What... How do you feel, Sarah?"
"No different."
"Glory, we're going to have it anyhow."
People said, "Abraham, there's something wrong with his mind." Was there? No, sir. He took God at His Word. He believed what God said, knowing that He was able to keep that which He had committed to Him. God was able to keep His Word.
The first year passed, nothing happened. Said, "See, I told you."
But Abraham said, "It'll be here anyhow." When he was seventy-five years old, when he was eighty-five, "It'll be here anyhow." Done bought up the birdeye and had the pins and everything ready. 'Cause they knew that he's going to have a baby; God said so. No matter how impossible it looked; God said so; that settled it.

L-40 Abraham going around testifying, "Going to have the baby anyhow. Coming..." Fifteen years passed, no baby yet. Twenty years passed, no baby yet. Twenty-five years passed, no baby yet.
"What about it, Abraham?"
"We're going to have it anyhow; God said so." Giving glory to God.
Oh, if we had some men tonight that could have the faith of Abraham... And you are Abraham's seed. When you're dead in Christ, you receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, which makes you Abraham's seed, and gives you the same faith that Abraham had, that calls those things which are not as though they were. Amen. No matter how you look, what you feel like, it's what God said about it. Amen.


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