<TITLE>13. Par 56-60</TITLE>L-56 There was Abraham, a strong man, a young man. And notice, then after he took her... And Abraham said, "Now, wait, you--you--you tell her... Just to tell them this little lie for me, will you? You say, 'It's my sister.'" See? And then, "That'll be your kindness to me, 'cause they--they'll kill me if you don't."
So she said, "It's my brother."
And Abimelech said, "Well, come right over here." And he took her in, and tell all of his maids, "Now, you go in and dress her all up and put the best clothes on her. Oh, my. She's a beauty." Hundred years old. See? Hun...

L-57 Now, you say, "Age was different then." Wait a minute, brother. The Bible said, "They were both well stricken in age." That's right. The Bible said so. I caught your thought on that. All right.
Notice, well stricken in age. And what did he do? Abimelech goes in and takes his bath, says his prayer. Now, he was a good holiness man, sure was. And he goes and lays down after saying his prayer and sticks his feet out on the bed, and said, "Oh, tomorrow I'll marry that beautiful queen of the Hebrew girl that come down here today," hundred years old.
All right. And while he was laying there thinking all on it, the Lord appeared to him and said, "You're just as good as a dead man."
Well, he said, "Lord, why?"
He said, "You got a man's wife."
"Why," he said, "You know the integrity of my heart. She said, 'It's my brother.' And he said, 'It's my sister.'"
He... God said, "Yes, I know the integrity of your heart and that's why I kept you from sinning against Me."

L-58 Watch, Abraham backslid, telling a lie. There ain't no little white ones. They're all big dark ones. Abraham backslid, and any man would do his wife that way? Setting out there telling a lie, backslid... Abimelech, a holiness man...
But He said, "Take that man back his wife for he is My prophet. And I'll not hear your prayer. But you ask him to pray for you. If you don't, you're a dead man. Your whole kingdom's gone; everything you got is going to die." Oh, hallelujah. There you are. God's [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] unconditional promise to His people. Amen. That's right. She...

L-59 Look here, talk about turning back to a young man. Sarah brought forth the baby, Isaac. And when Isaac lived to be forty-five years old, I believe, before he married Rebekah. And Abraham after the death of Sarah, married another woman and had seven sons besides the daughters. Thanks be to God for the baptism of the Holy Ghost, Who comes by revelation to reveal the things of the Lord and to bring comfort to His people's hearts. Amen.
Watch, when little Isaac, oh, when little Isaac was about eight years old, a great trial come. We're closing now. We haven't got time to go into something else. But watch, when little...
Now, remember, mother, remember dad. Don't care about age. Some glorious day, you're going back to a young couple again. If you're Abraham's seed, you've got God's promise with His hand over His heart and a oath to Himself. He took a oath to Himself that He would do that.

L-60 So what you scared about? Nothing to be scared. Let the... shoot their atomic bombs over here. That's all right. Don't matter anything. Why, the dust won't be settled till we'll be in glory. Well, there won't be--won't nothing to worry about. Quit being scared. Just take God at His Word and start walking on. Believe Him with childlike faith.
Notice, when little Isaac become about twelve years old, I can imagine the little curly headed Jewish boy. And think of the mother and father had waited all this time. And God appeared to Abraham, now to make sure, to double promise you of His Word whether He will keep it or not...
He said, "Abraham, I... This is the boy, you know that's going to be the blessing to all the world. And now, I want you to take this boy and take him out yonder to a place I'm going to show you and kill him for Me." Did Abraham stagger at God's promise? No, sir.


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