<TITLE>06. Par 24-27</TITLE>L-24 Why, it's not what we are, but what Christ is for us. Christ become you and I, that you and I might become Him. He taken our sins, that we might take His righteousness. So it's nothing in my arms I bring; simply to Thy cross I cling. Nothing I could do, nothing you could do. It's the grace of God.
Then God tried man one time and made a covenant with man upon a condition: If you'll not touch this tree, then you'll live forever, and man broke his covenant. Man just can't keep his promise to God. His adversary's too great. And God knowing that, He was determined to save man, so He made the covenant unconditionally. Oh, brother, the trouble of it is with the full Gospel people tonight, you're scared that... How can anything happen to you? How can...
"Those who He foreknew, He predestinated. Those who He has predestinated or foreknew, He called. Those who He called, He has justified; and those who He has justified, He hath already glorified." So quit being scared. God's the One's that's driving the ship, not you and I. We're just to stay on it. Amen. God made a promise; God keeps His promise. No matter how ridiculous it seems, God keeps it.

L-25 And He met Abraham and He gave him the covenant. Now, not to, "Abraham, if you will do certain things, I'll do certain things." He said, "I have already (past tense. It's already settled.) I've already made the covenant with Abraham. I'm going to save you, and I'm going to bring you home with your fathers at a ripe old age, nothing you can do about it. I've already done it."
You say, "Brother Branham, if I only had God to say that to me." Wait a minute. God said, "Abraham and his seed after him." That's a good word, "Hallelujah," means "praise our God." That's true. We are the seed of... How are we come the seed of Abraham? When we join the church? No, sir. When we're baptized? No, sir. How do you become the seed of Abraham? "We being dead in Christ, take on Abraham's seed and are heirs according to the promise."
And the same faith that Abraham had comes to us by the baptism of the Holy Spirit. That's the reason you can believe in Divine Healing and call those things which are not as though they were, 'cause God said so. That settles it.

L-26 Abraham was seventy-five years old when the Lord called him and Sarah, his wife was sixty-five. And He said, "Abraham, I'm going to make you a father of nations, and I'm going to bless you. And I'm going to give you a baby." To a man seventy-five and a woman sixty-five...
Now, could you imagine a man seventy-five years old taking his little wife by the hand, her sixty-five, toddling down the street, and going to the doctor, say, "Doctor, we want to make ready now. We're going to have a baby."
The doctor'd say, "Humph, well? Humph, yes, sir. Uh-huh. Well, what's your address? Where do you live?" He'd have the psychopathic group up there after you right away. Sure. They say he's just a little bit off.

L-27 Now, here it is. Every person that takes God at His Word, to the world is considered a little bit off. That's right. You're just peculiar. The Lord said you was. And if you're not, you're not His. That's right. That's kindy rough, isn't it? But that's the Word. That's what you got to stay with. No other foundation, but this is already laid.
So Abraham, could you imagine Sister Sarah going downtown and getting the pins and the birdeye, and getting everything ready to have the baby, sixty-five year old woman? And Abraham saying, "Well, we're going to have a baby all right. God said so."


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