<TITLE>10. Par 36-39</TITLE>L-36 Some time ago I was talking to a man named John Sproule. He's a good friend of mine. Used to go through the country many years ago, with the old gray barns. I don't know if he was ever out here or not. He went through the eastern country. And a lot of you eastern people will remember John Sproule. And he was one of Brother Bosworth's converts. He was healed with a bad throat where He'd got gas with him... mustard gas sucked into his nose and throat and brain. And he didn't have no voice at all, and Brother Bosworth prayed for him; he got healed. Called his wife up and she fainted. And he went out anointing the sick and praying for them.
Took a little vacation and went over to France and went out to Alsace Lorraine France. He was going through a great garden, and he found a statue of the Lord Jesus. And he was standing there with his wife, he said, in amazement, saying, "Look at that. What did the sculpture mean? Why, the thing doesn't have nothing but just... it's a shape. You can't see no suffering of Christ there."
And a guide come up to him and said, "Mr. Sproule, I suppose you're criticizing that?"
He said, "I am."
He said, "Now, come here just a moment." And he took him up and there was a altar built there beneath the statue. And so he said, "Kneel down." And he knelt down. Said, "Now, look up."
"Oh," he said he felt like his heart would just break. There was every suffering of Christ. There was every agony that He went through. Looked like the sculptor had reproduced that in His features of His face.

L-37 And so he turned and looked again to the--to the guide. He said, "Mr. Sproule," said, "You see, the sculptor had in mind one thing." Said, "That when he made this statue, he didn't make it for people to stand off and look at it this a way. He made it so the people'd bow down and look up to it this a way."
And that's the same way it is with every promise in the Bible. It isn't for you to try to mix it with your worldly wisdom, to try to figure out, "How could God do this? How could God do that?" The Bible wasn't written for that. The Bible's promises were written for you to bow down and look up to. Then they'll look different to you, when you look up to them like that.

L-38 God kept His promise with Abraham. He gave him the child. And the little boy when he was born, growed to about twelve, fourteen years old. And you know how that must have been a lovely thing in that family.
Now, a mother of about a hundred and ten, fifteen, a father was about a hundred and twenty-five or thirty... If we have time... I might have preached on it once before, how God turned them back to a young man and a woman (And I've had it in magazines and so forth.), and made them over again, which He will do every borned again child of Abraham, someday, in the Resurrection...

L-39 And then one day God wanted to make it real plain to the people in Phoenix. So how He was going to do it, He was going to give this Abraham a double test. So He said, "Abraham, take thine son, thy only son, and take him to a certain mountain, where I'm going to show you, and there sacrifice him.
Now, what if Abraham would have took the second thought? "How am I going to be the father of nations, when here I am this old, and You're asking me to kill and destroy the only evidence that I have that You'll keep Your Word and make me a father of nations?"
How God loves to test His people. Every child that comes to God must be tested, child trained; no exceptions, everyone.
And maybe tonight, that you're sick, just to have a little child training, just a little testing. Don't be discouraged. God's on the throne. He knows all things. If were truly borned of the Spirit of God, everything's working together for our good. He's going to make everything right. He promised He would. He swore He would. And He's got to keep that Word. He's kept it now for oh, thousands of years to every believer. Would you be any exception? No, sir. We're no exception. Now, watch Him now.


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