<TITLE>11. Par 35-37</TITLE>L-35 Oh, if you was prayed for tonight and you wasn't healed in the morning, you'd go away, say, "Well, I told you, wasn't nothing to it." See? That's the reason you don't get nowhere. See? But Abraham, I can see him after God give him the promise, and Sarah at sixty-five years old, about fifteen years passed menopause, lived with her since she was a little girl... And here he was seventy-five years, before God ever called him. Why, he went and got all the birdeye, pins, and everything else ready. The baby was coming; God said so.
First month passed, "What about it Sarah?"
"No difference."
"Well, praise God, we're going to have it anyhow." See?
Second month passed. "How do you feel, Sarah?"
"No different."
"Praise God, we'll have it anyhow."
"Why?"
"God said so."
I imagine the doctor said, "You know the old man is kind of a little bit slipped up here in the mind. There's something wrong with him. That man's seventy-five years old, and Sarah sixty-five, and saying, 'They're going to have a baby.' Whew. Something wrong."
But that didn't stagger Abraham. He kept saying, "God can keep His promise. Keep everything ready, Sarah, it's going to be here." Ten years passed.
"What about it?"
"Praise God we're going to have it anyhow."
Fifteen years passed, twenty years, twenty-five years, still the same, "Praise God, we're going to have it anyhow."
And the Bible said, instead of getting weaker, 'cause it didn't happen the first time, he got stronger and stronger. Amen.
And you are the children of Abraham, that is, if you have that kind of a spirit that can take God at His promise. If you can't, why, you're not the children of Abraham, 'cause we have the same faith that faithful Abraham had. And He give the promise, the covenant, unconditionally to Abraham and his seed. And you're Abraham's seed if you're dead in Christ. You take on Abraham's seed and are heirs according to the promise. You see it? Amen. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Now, notice. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... call yourself the seed of Abraham? You need just a little bit closer to God; that's what it is. You need to die out to the old intellectuals.

L-36 There's two things. One day...?... someone ask me, a great evangelist, I won't call his name. You'll know. Went across the nation here, been going back and forth, a fine person, having great revivals, but they just had the people say, "I now accept Christ as my personal Saviour. I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ." The devils do the same thing and tremble. That's right. There's an intellectual faith.
Let me talk to you, just a minute. I don't know why the Holy Spirit won't let me get to me text. Maybe, it's for a cause.

L-37 Notice. There is an intellectual faith. And there's a faith that comes from the heart. The old unbeliever said years ago, "When the Bible said, 'As a man thinketh in his heart...'" Said, "That's crazy. There's no mental facilities in the heart." Said, "You think with your mind. There's no mental facilities in the heart." But last year they found that's wrong. God was right.
Right down in the heart, in the center of the heart, there's a little compartment where there's not even a blood cell in it. It's not in the animal heart, only in the human heart. And they say, it's the occupation, or the occupant of the soul. The soul lives in the heart. Then after all, God was right, when He said, "As a man thinketh in his heart."


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