<TITLE>13. Par 49-51</TITLE>L-49 Now, you Arminian brethren, just kind of hold your coat just a little, I don't mean to rub this in. But now, Abimelech was a good holiness man. Wasn't nothing he had done. He was a good man. And he was laying there, and there was God's selected prophet setting out there... Well, a man that would say that about his wife, I don't know. See?
Look what a condition he was in, backslidden. Sure he was. God told him to stay in Palestine, and he left Palestine. He was backslid. He was setting down there telling just a small little, white lie. But notice what God did. God said to Abimelech, "I..." Abimelech said, "I know the integrity of your heart; that's the reason I kept you from sinning against Me. But her husband is My prophet. I won't hear your prayer, but you go out there, and let him pray for you, 'cause I've called him, he's my prophet. And he's setting out there even in that condition; you go let him pray for you, and I'll hear him. If you don't, you're a dead man." Amen. Kind of quiet around here, but that's the Bible. All right. "You're just as good as a dead man."
Abimelech got up from his dream and he went and called all his men, and they begin to shiver. He went out there and he said, "Abraham, here's your wife." And he restored the wife.

L-50 Abraham was a young man yet. Sarah, immediately, after that, more than a year or two, had the baby that had been promised all the time. Notice...
Now, you said, "That's what He done to Sarah, but what about Abraham?"
Even after Isaac died, or I mean, after Sarah died, when Isaac was way up a young man, old enough to be married, around forty years later... "Why," you said, "they lived longer in them days, Brother Branham."
Now, wait a minute. The Bible said they were both well stricken in age. That's right. And Abraham married another woman after the death of Sarah, forty something years later, and had seven boys. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Hallelujah, it's our God.
He showed in Abraham and Sarah what He's going to do to you and your wife, some of these days: turn you back, young again. Now, if that ain't a blessed hope, I don't know what is, brother. When He appeared there, got Hisself--self a handful of material that makes human beings and just spoke it into existence, said, "Come here," with another handful, and put two Angels in the side, and walked down and talked to Abraham and turned him back too, to a young man and proved what He was going to do. Hallelujah. We're the seed of Abraham on our road to the promise.
When little Isaac was born... Oh, my, do I have to quit here? Give me just another five minutes, will you, to finish this so I can change something tomorrow night. See? Little Isaac, when he was about sixteen years old, God met Abraham... (Quickly, and I'll try to get to my text, my... Then we'll close, and start praying for the sick.)

L-51 At about sixteen years old, He met him, and He said, "Abraham, I know you've been good; you--you have... you've obeyed Me. I'll tell you what I want you to do: I want you to take little Isaac up and kill him."
I'm thinking about a quarter after, I better stop right here, let's pray.
Our heavenly Father, oh, it's so good to feast on the living Bread of God. Time won't permit me, Father, to get up to my--the text just now, but maybe You'll let me finish it tomorrow night. The people here they're working, they... I feel sorry for them out there in the fields moving around, in the plants, and offices, and so forth. They've come, Father; some of them are sick, and they're laying here suffering. And I pray, Lord, that You'll just bless Thy Word now, and may they go home with this on their mind, knowing that if they're borned again, they're dead in Christ, and have taken on Abraham's Seed and are heirs according to the promise.


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