<TITLE>11. Par 37-39</TITLE>L-37 So He told Abraham... He's going to try him, or gave him trials. And every Christian--every Christian has to be tried. Peter said, "Think it not strange, beloved, when fiery trials come upon you, for it's only done to prove your faith, that's more precious to you than--than gold."
Look when you sick sometime... How is it the righteous suffer? Wish we had a night to preach on it, that how God does it for His own glory, turns right back around and heals that, and starts a testimony. Amen. God's wonderful.
Now. Abraham, God called him, and said, "Abraham, now I've made you a father of many nations. You got a boy here; you waited twenty-five years for him, and now he's growed up into a young man. And now, I want you to take him out and kill him, put him upon the altar of sacrifice, and sacrifice him."
Making what? Making double sure, making twice the strength of the oath, making twice the strength of Abraham's faith. Did Abraham question God? No, sir. God had already said He'd be a father of made--many nations, and he believed God. And he took the little fellow...

L-38 I can imagine that morning, when he got up, after the Lord had give him the vision, and spoke to him, got the little fellow and got ready. He wouldn't tell the mother, certainly not, taking this little boy out to take his life, little Isaac, their only son. So I can see him get little Isaac ready, wash his face, and get him ready, and put the wood upon the mule, and taking two young men, and journeyed three days. He didn't know where he was going. God said, "I'll show you after you get there." Three days back...
That's what you do tonight. Say, "Brother Branham, how could I ever get by with it if I accept Christ and be borned again? My mother would turn me away from home. My husband would run me away. My wife wouldn't let me stay there." Take the step anyhow, God will make the way after you get there. Take the step anyhow. "How am I going to accept healing when I can't even move head, hand, or foot?" Take it anyhow. God said so, don't make any difference, He will--He will provide the way. You just keep moving.

L-39 So He taken him three days back. Then he lifted up his eyes and saw the mountain far off, way away from there. Now, an ordinary man can walk around twenty-five or thirty miles a day. I walked it for seven years, through the wilderness, thirty mile a day. And I'm living in a day when they got automobiles, and when we can travel. In them days they had no travel... perhaps by riding a mule, or something, or... most of it was walking. And they could probably, at least, twenty-five miles a day, and Abraham just with his new, young body again starting back, and it had been turned back, went back... Let's say he was around a hundred miles back after he saw the mountain far off. And then he got to the foot of the mountain, and he stopped, took the wood off the mule, laid it upon his own son, Isaac's back (beautiful type of Christ), laid it upon his back... And here's the word; I want you to listen now, closely.
I'll never forget this. He said to the boys, the young men with him (probably the slave boys, servants), he said, "You stay here while the lad and I go yonder to worship. The lad and I shall return." Oh, my. How? Dagger in your hand to take his life and God commanding you to go do it, how are you going to return, you and the lad? How's the kid coming back, when you're going to take him up to kill him?


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