<TITLE>13. Par 50-53</TITLE>L-50 I said, "Yes, sir." I said, "You know, I was raised in a big family, ten children; I was the oldest." And I said, "My father was sickly, and I--I had to work, and go to work, and I was only about ten years old out in plants and things." I said, "I had a hard time."
He said, "That's no excuse now."
And I said, "Well, then that's true, sir." But I said, "Since the Lord sent me to pray for His sick children, I can't even get a time to lay down and go to sleep, hardly; I'm so busy."
He said, "Oh, you could take correspondence, something." Said, "You're terrible, your language." He said, "You know, I noticed you tonight, you said, 'Now, the people that passes by this "polepit," tonight...'"
And I said, "Well, what's wrong with that?" I didn't know what I said wrong.
He said, "The people appreciate you more if you'll say 'pulpit.'"
He kinda pulled my ear a little too hard, you know. I said, "Brother, I don't want to give you a short answer, but them people don't care whether I say 'pulpit' or 'polepit' as long as I lead the right kind of life and produce what I'm talking about. That's what they want to know." And that's true. Yes.

L-51 Now, Abraham... Oh, my. I can see him. Watch between the line. Maybe tomorrow afternoon, I'll preach between the line we're talking about.
Notice. Now, what did God do when He made that promise there to Abraham? He showed forth in Abraham what He's going to do to every person that's a seed of Abraham. You know what He done? Now, Sarah was right on a hundred years old, and Abraham a real old man... Now, we'll cut that off to begin with. The Bible said they were both well-stricken in age (Right.), Genesis about the 18th chapter.

L-52 Notice, "Well-stricken in age." And God stood there and turned them back to a young man and a young woman again. Just want to see where that went. He did it; I'll prove it by the Scripture. He turned them back, showing what He would do for Abraham, and what He would do for all of his seed after him.
Watch. You see, you remember when you got married to mother... And you see, we grow. I asked the doctor the other day. I said, "Doctor, is it true that every time I eat food I renew my life, I put new blood cells in?"
He said, "That's correct, reverend."
And I said, "I want to ask you a question then. I can't see it scientifically. How is it when I was sixteen years old I eat the same kind of food I eat now, and every time I eat, I build new blood cells, got stronger and more powerful, and now, I eat even better food and getting older and weaker all the time? Explain that to me. If you're pouring water out in a glass out of a pitcher and it starts filling up then all at once you start pouring more and it starts going down, explain that to me."

L-53 It can't be done only by the Word of God. God said. You build up from about--from a child, when your first little cell begins to develop, until you're about twenty-one or twenty-two, maybe twenty-five years old; you're your best then. That's the way God painted the picture.
The first thing you notice, a gray hair comes in. Mother, them beautiful eyes begin to wrinkle beneath. Look where they are setting tonight: old, and feeble, and gray. Don't worry, that's death. Death set in on you after about twenty-five years old. You begin to get weaker; your blood stream begin to go down. No matter what you do, how much you eat, whatever scientific thing you do, it doesn't matter, you're going right down, 'cause God said so.


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