<TITLE>08. Par 30-33</TITLE>L-30 Now, that's the way Abraham was doing. He stayed right with the positive. No matter if people said, "Say, you know that old fellow sojourning with us up here, he's about half crazy. Why, his wife's an old feeble woman, and he... Look how old he is, and the gray whiskers, and the hair hanging down to his waistline, almost, and then he says they're going to have a baby. Did you ever hear of such? Why, the old fellow's crazy."
But he was taking God at His Word. And every man... Here it is; now you can mark this. Every man that ever amounted to very much in this world were men who took God at His Word, though they had to stand alone on their convictions. Look at George Washington in Valley Forge, Abraham Lincoln, the great men of this nation: all men who trusted God. Yes.
And now, I want to ask you. If we're the seed of Abraham, then we've got to believe like Abraham believed.
Now, we left him, last night, where that he--God had appeared to him after He had confirmed the covenant. And Abraham was getting old now, real old, about twenty-five years after He made the promise to him, and Abraham hadn't got a bit weak. Some of us that call ourselves Abraham's seed couldn't hold on twenty-five minutes, and yet say, "We're Abraham's seed; we got our name on the church book." But that don't make you Abraham's seed.

L-31 You're Abraham's seed when you are dead in Christ, all frictions, static tuned out, your motives is one, your heart's one, and you're one with Christ. Amen. What He said is first and the rest of it's nonsense. That's all. You take His Word for it.
Now, there's an old man then... God met him in the Name of the Almighty God where we left him last night in Genesis the 17th chapter... And "Almighty God," the Hebrew word, we found, was El Shaddai, meaning "the--the bosom," or "the breast of the woman." And God appeared to Abraham as the breasted God, the breasted God. And He said, "Abraham, you're old; you're a hundred. Sarah's nearly a hundred, ninety. But yet you've took My Word for it, and you're weak; your body's gone."
The Bible said that, "He considered not his own body now as good as dead."

L-32 Oh, I love that. He didn't even consider it. My, don't consider the wheelchairs; don't consider nothing. But consider what God said. Don't even consider anything else but what God said. "He considered not his own body, neither the deadness of Sarah's womb: he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief but was strong, giving praise to God."
If it didn't happen this year, it'll happen next year. It'll be greater next year, 'cause be one year different. He was one year weaker, one year farther. But he knowed that God would keep His promise. Amen. I like that. Keep His promise... He's got to do it in order to be God. Abraham went right on praising God. "Sarah, how do you feel now? Been twenty-five years since God gave the promise."
"No different, Abraham."
"Glory to God, we're going to have it anyhow."

L-33 That's right. "Baby's going to be born just the same. Keep all the birdeye and the pins and everything laying back; we're going to have it."
"Abraham, what do you mean?"
"God said so. That settles it. God said so." Oh, I love that. Brother, that'll make the devil get his tail between his legs and get away. "God said so." That's where Jesus showed Christ had in Him all the qualities, for the Father was in the Son. The Father was in the Son reconciling His worl--self to the world, reconciling the world to Himself, rather. And when He met Satan, He never used any of His power. He proved that the weakest of Christian could defeat Satan. When Satan come to Him and said, "Now, if You're the Son of God, You're a great miracle worker, if You are. If You be, I want You to perform a miracle here for me: turn these stones into bread and eat. Now, You are hungry..."


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