<TITLE>11. Par 40-43</TITLE>L-40 Watch how this beautiful act takes place. Now, Abraham did not want to tell Sarah about this; 'cause that only little curly-headed boy of about twelve years old, how hard it would be to take that little fellow out and tell Sarah. The mother just didn't understand. "How am I going to tell her... to take this little boy out and go to kill him? Why, she wouldn't understand it."
And there's many times we have to go ahead and do things and preach things that we really don't want to do it, but we just don't understand it. But God's working everything just right. See? It's all for the good.
Sometimes you can't tell your congregation; you can't tell the public. You can't tell your own church why. But you've got to do it anyhow.

L-41 Now notice, one morning he gets up, chops the wood, and puts it on a little mule, calls a couple of servants, and got the little boy up, said, "We're going out to worship." And they went three day's journey.
Now, I can walk any time, twenty--five to thirty miles a day. And I drive a lot in a car. I have... I patrolled for seven years, averaging twenty-six to twenty-eight miles a day through wilderness. And those people then could walk better than we can now, 'cause we're used to riding and so forth.
But now, if he walked three days at twenty-five miles a day, he was seventy-five miles back from civilization. And then he lifted up his eyes and saw the mount way off, where God had showed him in the vision. And so when he got to the hill (I just love this part), he said to the servants, "You stay here. The boy and I are going yonder to worship, and he and I will return." Did you get it? "The boy and I will return."

L-42 How are you going to do it, Abraham? Explain to me. If you've got the knife and the sheath here, and a vision from God telling you to go kill that boy, how are you two going to return back? But God believed Abraham... or... Abraham believed God. He didn't take no second thought. The only thing he knowed, God gave the promise. And if Abraham had received Isaac "as one from the dead," he knew that God could raise him up from the dead again. And if you, being dead in sin and trespasses, without any nature to serve God at all, and God by election called you and gave you His Spirit without you making any choice... "No man can come to me except My Father draws him first." And if God did that through you, without you being able to make a choice, how much more will He heal you and keep you, when you've got a choice by a sworn effort of His. What a marvelous thing, how that God promised! Abraham didn't take the second thought. He said, "Well, God's been good. He kept His promise. I don't know how He's going to do it, but He will do it."
I can't tell you how God does it, how that He could heal a man that's dying with cancer, and the doctors has give him up, and he's eat to pieces, but if it would be necessary, I believe tonight, I could produce five hundred cases of it. Sure.

L-43 Today, as I was going into the restaurant to eat, the breakfast, a little man standing behind me... And he said, "Do you remember me?" I didn't; but somebody had told me, that that man was brought to the meeting with TB so bad, till he couldn't even whisper. And I believe he's one of the sponsoring pastors tonight. Or, he's a minister of the gospel, preached with a voice like a roaring lion. How can God do that? I can't explain it, but God said He'd do it. That settles it. You take His Word. You don't try to figure it out. You can't figure it out.
I've seen so many times that people say, "We've got it figured out. I got to--I got to understand it." Then it isn't of faith any more. Faith is not what you understand; faith is what you accept, and can't explain it. It's a act of faith.


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