<TITLE>07. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 Well, I imagine that lots of his friends around him said, "Poor old fellow, you know what, there's something wrong with him. Look at that old couple toddling down the street, saying that they're going to have a baby, and we know that they've lived together since she was about eighteen and him about twenty-eight. And they got married when she was just a girl. They lived together all this time, and yet here they are saying they're going to have a baby. You know, I believe their age has got the best of them. They're kindly flipsy. This must be a real hot summer. The weather's gotten them down or something."
But it didn't make any difference what anybody said. Abraham had God's promise. That makes the difference. It's Who made the promise. Is that right? And He made it to Abraham, the chosen. It's the promise and who it's made to.
Now, the promise of God is just as real tonight to the seed of Abraham, as it was to Abraham. He's the same God. You know, I feel pretty religious right now. I really do. Think of it. That would make a Baptist shout. Why? Because God has promised and by grace are we called, and when we receive Christ as personal Saviour...

L-29 A man said to me the other day; he said, "Now, wait a minute, Brother Branham, you're getting away from your Baptist doctrine when you go to say, receiving the Holy Ghost." Said, "We received It when we believed."
I said, then, "Why did Paul say, 'Have you received It since you believed, Acts 19?"
Oh, he said, "I want to ask you something." Said, "You were preaching on Abraham, and Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness." Said, "The only thing he can do is believe. What else can a person do but believe? And God imputed unto him the righteousness because he believed."
I said, "That's true, but He give him the seal of circumcision as a confirmation of his belief." And I said, "If you haven't received the Holy Ghost yet, God's never recognized your faith. And the--and the Holy Ghost is the seal of God."
Ephesians 4:30 says, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you're sealed until the next revival?" Oh, no! "Until your eternal destination." How long? Forever. God settled it once for all. And not even the seed of Abraham...

L-30 If you're not in the seed, then your spirit--that same spirit was with Abraham is in the seed of Abraham and you believe God. That made it hard on preachers that don't believe in Divine healing. But that's what the Bible said.
And when you become a son of God... I take the nature of my father, because I am his son. And Abraham believed God and received the circumcision as a seal of the promise that was to come. And now, we have received the promise Itself, the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit dwelling in the man makes him a son of God, and he believes like God believes.
What did I say? He believes like God believes. And where did God... How'd God make the world, Hebrews 1? He made it out of things He had nothing to make it with. He just said, "Let there be." And He believed His Word. And the very ground that you're setting over tonight is nothing else but the Word of God made manifest. If it isn't, where did He get the material to make it with? Where did it come from? God spoke His Word and believed His Word.

L-31 And Abraham took God's Word as the impossible till it was made possible. Mary, the virgin, took God at His Word, and the impossibles was made possible. The whole course of life was changed, and she brought forth a Baby knowing no man, because she took God at His Word.
And if anybody will take God at His Word, He will... His Word shall be made manifest. And if that seed falls on the right kind of a ground it will produce exactly what it said to do.
Put me on record for this and on these tapes that's going on. The right mental attitude towards any Divine promise of God will bring it to pass, if you'll look at it right and realize Who made it.


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