<TITLE>10. Par 33-36</TITLE>L-33 God told... Now, His promises is under condition. "If thou canst believe." When God sent Israel from Egypt, four hundred years before He gave the promise to Moses... or not to... beg your pardon, to Abraham, here, that his seed would sojourn, but would come again into the land, bringing great possession. And when they started on their journey, He said, "Behold I send an Angel before you," the Pillar of Fire, "to keep you in the way, to bring you to the place which I've provided for you." Now, He said, "The whole thing's yours."
And when they got there, they saw it all fenced up tightly with Amorites, and Perizzites, and Talhites, and Jubanites, and Jebusites, all different kinds, great high walls, city all fenced in. But God said, "It's yours."
Now, God just don't go over there and say, "Here, all you Jubanites, and all of you, get out of here. I'm bringing Israel in." No, you got something to do yourself. "It's yours; now go possess it." Oh, I like that. "It belongs to you; I've give it to you. Do you believe it?"
"Yes, Lord."
"Well, go possess it."
"Well, we can't do it." Ha.

L-34 You can't, when God said you could? That's the reason ten of the spies, when they come back, said, "We can't take it. We're... Why, we look like grasshoppers up beside of them people."
But old Joshua and Caleb said, "We can do it." Why? "God said so."
These other weaklings was looking through the physical side. "Oh, it's too great; we could never do that. We could never teach Divine healing and get by with it. We could never have a old time, Pentecostal revival. Oh, they'd count us fanatics."
But, thank God, somebody went over and got the evidence and come back, "It's a good land." Amen.

L-35 Went over here, come back, why? They wasn't looking to the physical side of it; they were looking to what God had promised. I don't care how high the fences is, what the doctor said. He's done the best he could. What mother said, what the pastor said, "The days of miracles is passed," that don't have nothing to do with it. You look to what God said. God made the promise. We can take it. Amen. I like that courage (Don't you?), courage to stand on what God said.
Now, listen. This may hurt just a little bit, ruffle the feathers up the wrong way, you know, but real children of Abraham, seed of Abraham, believe that. 'Cause you're dead in Christ, take on Abraham's Seed, and are heirs according to the promise. The same Holy Spirit was in Christ is in you, and you believe the same thing. So if you do not believe it, remember, there's something lacking, 'cause the Holy Spirit will certainly agree with His own Word.

L-36 All right. When little Isaac come along, God fulfilled His promise to Abraham. Then he got to be about sixteen or eighteen years old, lovely, little boy; and here was Abraham and Sarah enjoying the blessings. Then God said--give Abraham some testing. Do you believe that children of God have testings and trials? "Every son that cometh to God must first be tried, chastened." 
Chastised, did you ever have any of it, child-training, bringing you up, giving you a little protaplasma stimulation once in a while by the Gospel, making you, correction...? My daddy was awful good at that. Yes, sir. He believed in the golden rule. It laid up over the door, had all the ten commandments out on it, a hickory stick about that long, brush on the end of it. I tell you, that made discipline in the Branham home. But we love him. What would we have been if he hadn't have did it? That's the way God is; He brings discipline to His children, trying them, whipping them when they're wrong. I'm happy that my heavenly Father gives whippings to those who are wrong, and corrects me when I'm wrong, gives me whippings, makes me straighten up, walk like you should walk.


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