<TITLE>12. Par 51-55</TITLE>L-51 I said, "Here it is. It's an appointment that God made." When you got to a certain age, after you left about twenty-two to twenty-five years old, death set in on you. The picture was painted. And the wrinkles come under your eyes, and the hairs turned gray, and your shoulders stooped, and you're still eating, and putting life in all the time just the same. But you're dying all the time, because God has said you would. But what was God doing in the first place? He was painting a picture. And He was making it just what it would be.
Now, Christianity is based upon resurrection, now, not replacement.
Now, if this falls, now to take this and put its place, that's not resurrection. That's replacement. But resurrection is to bring up the same one that fell down. The same Jesus that went into the grave come out of the grave with the scars on His hand.

L-52 If you're black-headed in this life, you'll be black-headed in the life to come. Only old age will be done away with. Now, watch what He done here to Sarah and Abraham. Now, look. Now, I know you're going to doubt this, some of you. But listen anyhow. I want you to explain it to me then.
Now, God had to do something to that woman, and that man too. He was a hundred years old, brethren. And she was ninety, an old grandma, little bitty shawl over her shoulders and a little stick, grandma.
Now, in order to have this baby... And you young people excuse this. I--I'm your brother. You listen to your doctor. Now, look, but I want to make a point, that people can realize that this is not fiction. This Bible, it's the Truth. The devil's just got you so in such a hurry here, till you don't take time to look at it right.

L-53 Notice, here, God had to do something. That woman was almost fifty years a past the menopause. And Abraham had lived with her since a girl. And still she had no children. She was absolutely childless, and he was sterile. And there was nothing could be done. God had to perform some kind of a miracle.
Now, in order to have the child He had to make her fertile. In order to do that, they didn't have these bottles you feed the babies in. He had to... Them milk veins was dried up, so He'd to create milk veins for her in order to do that for the baby to nurse. And then... And a woman ninety years old could not have the baby in labor. You understand that. Then He'd have to strengthen her heart. God don't patch up people like that.

L-54 You know what He done? He turned Abraham and Sarah back to a young man and woman. I'll prove it to you. Watch the Bible. Now, in between the lines, watch. Immediately after that, I can just see a... Abraham get up the next morning and say, "Darling, well those brown eyes are flashing again."
She said, "Dad, you know that hump's coming out of your shoulders. You know your hair's getting a little darker."
Three, two or three days later, "Sarah, honey, you're getting pretty again." I want you to notice how--how unreasonable it would be to believe it any other way. Now, watch and see. Look between the lines now.

L-55 That old couple left that place and took a journey down to Gerar. Make... Mark it on your map, about three hundred miles. That's a long journey for grandma and for grandpa: three hundred miles. And notice, when they got down there, there was a young king by the name of Abimelech, and he was hunting a sweetheart. And of all those beautiful Philistine girls, he seen grandma coming, and he fell in love with her and said, "That's just the one I'm waiting for."
He took Sarah. And Abraham, "Say you're my sister." Is that right? I could show you some grace here if you wanted to see it. All right. Look. He took Sarah for his wife, old grandma. That's the beautifulest thing I ever seen: Grandma. Nonsense. He never; he took a beautiful Hebrew woman. Sarah had been turned back to her twenties. There she was in all of her beauty again.


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