<TITLE>11. Par 42-45</TITLE>L-42 Like the little fretting baby, when it's crying, upset, and it's sick, the mother just pulls it up to her bosom, and it just starts nursing. And it's nursing the strength right out of the mother. And while it's getting its vitamins as I said, getting its vitamins from the mother, it's building up, and it's satisfied all the time.
And when a child of God lays a hold of any of God's Divine promise, it's pulling the vitamins out of God's eternal Word. It'll build you up. Amen.
Watch. I'm not "amening" myself but I just believe it. A "Amen" means "so be it," and I--I really believe it.
Notice. Now, we find him going on just a little farther. And as he goes on further, we find out that Lot separated himself from him, and went down to take the well-watered places, and become the mayor of the city, and--and his wife become, oh, the leader of all the great ladies stitch-and-sew parties and everything. They thought they were getting along all right.

L-43 And one day while Abraham, setting out under the tree, he saw three Men come walking up. Abraham, being a prophet, he looked there at those three Men, and he recognized Who they were. He skipped into the tent; he said, "Sarah, get some flour ready right quick."
Went out in the herd, and got a little lamb, or a little sheep, or a calf, and killed it, and dressed it, and brought it out, he give it to the Men, and they... He washed their feet. They set down and rested, and then when they got ready to go away, the two Men went on to Sodom. And he talked with one of Them. And the Bible said that it was none other than Almighty God.
He had his back turned to the tent. Sarah didn't come out; women didn't run around in men's business then like they do now. So she stayed in the tent where she belonged. And so she was back there in the tent, and A--God said to Abraham, said, "Do you know what?"

L-44 I didn't mean that to do any harm, women; I don't mean you Christian women. But just to see women coming into politics and everything, it's a disgrace; it's a breaking of the American morale. And remember, this is... America will... A--a woman... I--I better leave it alone. But just remember this. I predict that a woman will be president before we're annihilated. That's right. I said that in 1933 by a vision.
Sure, it's a woman's world. Where did it start from? Hollywood. All your dirty, filthy dressing and things, that's what's crept into our homes and things like that. And now comes through television, everything else. It's a disgrace. All of our revivals won't help nothing till we get back to the good old fashion foundation again. Oh, when I... Well, so much for that; the preachers will tell you about that.
But now, notice, when Abraham, talking to God, Sarah back in the tent, when God said to Abraham, "I'm going to visit you about the time of life next month. And you're going to have a baby."

L-45 Well, you know what? Sarah laughed. God with His back to her, turned around and said, "Why did Sarah laugh?"
Sarah said, "Oh, no, I never laughed."
Said, "Oh, yes, you did; you laughed."
She was scared to death. See, it didn't break her. Now, she did wrong, but she wasn't lost; she just done wrong. She was scared.
Notice. And then when... He started to walk away, this Man vanished and Abraham said it was the Lord, that he talked to, the Lord God. And God was there...
I was preaching on that one time in a little book that I was going to put out a few years ago, and a minister called my hand. He said, "Preacher Branham, do you mean to tell me that you believe that was God?"
I said, "That's what the Bible said."
He said, "Where did He get that body?"
I said, "Well look, you just fail to understand what a great God He is."
What's this body made of? A little petroleum, some cosmic light, and a few things like that put together and held up with atoms.


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