<TITLE>09. Par 29-31</TITLE>L-29 Now, as I said last night, could you imagine when Abraham went down to the doctor to make arrangements for the birth of this child at seventy-five and his wife sixty-five? Why, today they'd want to place him in a mental institution. See? But he bought up all the clothes and whatever it taken for the baby. Why I can hear them say, "The poor old fellow (see), he's getting old now. He... Just something slipped. See--see, you just watch that." The carnal mind thinks that, but what was the difference? Abraham had been in the Presence of God. He had the revelation. He had the covenant, and he knowed that God would keep it. In our reading here tonight he... In the Presence of God spoke like God, and he called those things that were not as though they were, for he was fully persuaded that God was able to keep that which he had said.

L-30 And may I stop here just for a moment to... This lovely audience tonight. Someone said to me, said, "Brother Branham, aren't you afraid that sometime you'll make a mistake when on that discernment?"
No, sir. Why? It's to fulfill the Word of God. Jesus said, "These things that I do, shall you also." And in the Presence of God, God made the promise, and God's obligated to His promise. And no matter how ridiculous it looked for a sixty-five year old woman to bring forth a baby by a man seventy-five years old. And how the scientists and doctors would've thought that was impossible, but Abraham believed it and not only did he believe it, but he made ready for it. I like that. He acted as though it was already over.
Anybody that ever got anything with God, took God at His Word, and acted as though it was absolutely finished, for when... Here it is: For when God speaks a Word, It's already finished. That's right. God's Word is forever confirmed in heaven. Oh, my, I like that. Already finished, as soon as it leaves the lips of God It's a Word, and it has to materialize.

L-31 When little Mary coming... The virgin, coming from the spring that day with the kettle over her head or a pot of water. Maybe it was Monday, the washday, but when the Ga--great Angel, Gabriel, met her and said, "Hail, Mary," means "stop." "Blessed art thou among women, because you found favor with God." And he told her that she was going to have a baby, knowing no man.
Now, if you... About a few months before that, he had met a preacher by the name of Zacharias, and he had told him he was... His wife was getting old, so probably in her late forties, and he told him that he was going to have a baby by his wife, and that preacher doubted it. Said, "How could these things be? My wife's old and so forth." After he had been praying for that all the time, but he questioned when he had many examples. Of Hannah--Hannah at the temple, and he also had of Sarah here we're speaking of, but he failed to believe it.


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