<TITLE>08. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 On went Abraham, ninety years old now. And he said, "God's appeared to me and said He was the El Shaddai. I'm an old man; my wife is--is eighty years old," old grandmother-to-be, or was, looked like. And there she was a real old woman, him a old man, and the gray whiskers hanging down, but said, "Praise God, we're going to have that baby. God's done said so. Just keep all the birdeye and everything ready, 'cause we're going to have that baby."
Oh, my, the people said, "Why, that man is kind of a little bit off of the head. No wonder, he stayed out in the wilderness too long." But he knowed where he was. That's right. No matter what the outside world said, he knowed where he was standing, for he had confidence. "He staggered not at the promise through unbelief but was strong, giving praise to God for he knew that he was able to keep that which He had promised."
And if Abraham could do that, and we've got nearly three thousand years of witnesses since then, with the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and His Presence here with us now, and is supposed to be Abraham's seed, let us rise in the name of righteousness, in the Name of Christ, and believe God, if we're Abraham's seed.
If the devil's tossing you about from pool room to barroom and everywhere else, kick him aside, take over. God promised it. I don't mean to yell. This thing may have a loud voice, but I--I get to feeling pretty religious sometime, when I go to talking about that, because that's right down the home stretch, you know.

L-29 So thinking there, ninety years old. "Well," he said, "if You're El Shaddai, You're the bosom; I'm leaning right on it. God, I may be an old man; I might've been born sterile. Sarah was also. And she's twenty years, probably forty years now, a past menopause, but glory to God, we're going to have the baby anyhow. You promised it, so we're going right on believing it. Age means nothing." What does age mean to God? My.
On they went. Another ten years elapsed. Now, Abraham's a hundred (my) and Sarah ninety. The Bible said they were well-stricken in age. Little grandmother with her little cap on, little shawl going around the house, Old Abraham, his shoulders all stooped over, great, white beard, on his staff as he walked around, still praising God... And the Bible said instead of getting weaker, he got stronger all the time. Be more glory, he'd see a greater thing. Then we call ourself Abraham's seed, and not enough faith to dot an eye if it was ink.

L-30 Notice, that's... I--I didn't mean it that way. Excuse me. I--I--I was... had my mind... Holy Spirit trying to lead me one way, and me trying to jump another, I suppose. But look, I didn't mean it like--like that. I meant if faith is pretty weak, and we go to thinking about our father Abraham, and him without the Holy Spirit. And we got the baptism of the Holy Spirit. He was under the sacrifice of a lamb, which could never take away sin; it just covered sin. But we're under a Sacrifice that put away sin, demolished sin, divorced sin. And then with the faith that we got, but yet they were not made perfect without us. They're looking to us to move on.

L-31 Now, here they are, around a hundred years old. And one day, Abraham after Lot had chose to go down to have a big time in the city as... perhaps maybe he become down in Sodom there, the well-watered plains... You know, the easy road's not always the best road. The best road is find the will of God and then travel it. Amen. That's right. Find the will of God, no matter how hard it is, just raise up your hand, and say, "I'll take the way with the Lord's despised few, started in with Jesus, now Lord, I'm going through."
And Mrs. Lot went down there, and maybe become the president of many ladies clubs, and so forth, down there. And Lot became the mayor of the city, or whatever it was, backslidden, away from God, down there amongst those perverted people.


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