<TITLE>11. Par 38-41</TITLE>L-38 Notice. Sarah got ready. They got everything ready and took a journey, separated themselves, called out. They were the church of the living God at that time. "Church" means "called out, the ones that's called out." And they sojourned as pilgrims and strangers, professing that they were pilgrims and strangers and was seeking a city whose Builder and Maker was God, not knowing where they were going, but by faith they went.
Oh, isn't that beautiful? Oh, I just love His Word. These old nuggets, I like to... I'm a prospector: Like to dig down and get the nuggets, and polish them up, and hang them out there. Every one you find will point to Calvary. Yes.

L-39 And here they go, this old man and his wife, his nephew, starting out across the country to be pilgrims and strangers. And as they went along, God met him. He said, "Now, Abraham, I'm going to make your seed like the dust of the earth."
The first month passed. "Sarah, dear, is it--is it all right?"
"Nope. No different."
"Oh, there isn't?"
"No." Second month passed.
"Sarah, what about it, dear?"
"No different, Abraham."
"Hallelujah, we're going to have it anyhow." Six months passed. "Sarah, you feel any different?"
"No different at all."
"Glory. We're going to have it anyhow." Why? God said so. That settles it. A year passed. "Sarah, how are you feeling now?"
"No different."
"Hallelujah. We're going to have it anyhow." The Bible said, instead of them getting weaker like we do, he got stronger, because it was a more of a miracle when she was sixty-six than it would be when she was sixty-five. And she never had the baby till she was a hundred. Glory. He kept everything laying aside, 'cause he knowed it was coming, rejoicing, looking for the day that God would fulfill His promise and he got stronger all the time.

L-40 Oh, if we're prayed for, and the next day we don't feel just exactly right, "Well, I'm Abraham's seed, but I--I just missed it, I guess." Oh, you poor excuse. Abraham's seed believes God, takes God at His promise, and calls those things which are not as though they were. Amen.
Notice. They went on. God appeared to him, and He told him all what He was going to do, and after while, Abraham begin to get older. He got around about ninety, and he said, "Now, what about this, Lord? Am I--am I going to have the baby right away?"
"Now, Abraham, what you questioning Me about? Now, I told you you was going to have the baby. That settles it."
"All right, Lord. Would You just let me look over the curtain once. I like to know how You're going to do it. You know, Lord, I'm not doubting Your Word, but I--I--I'd like to look over the curtain." Brother, how we all like to look over the curtain. You ever hear that song "I Want To Look A Past The Curtain Of Time"? Everybody wants to look over the curtain. You know God's so good to us.
He said, "Then come here, Abraham. I'll just let you peep over the curtain. I'll show you how I'm going to do it." See?

L-41 So He took him out there one afternoon. He said, "Now, I want you to go get me a she goat three years old. I want you to get me a heifer of three years old, and I want you to get me a ram of three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
And Abraham went out and got them. Wish we had time to go in what them--what they represented. But you notice, he cut the goat in two. He cut the heifer in two, and he cut the ram in two; but the turtledove and the young pigeon he never divided: 16th chapter of Genesis. He never divided those. Why? The turtledove and the pigeon represented Divine healing. The dispensations of grace was changed; that's true between law and grace and so forth, but healing always remained the same under every covenant, under every condition. Right.


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