<TITLE>06. Par 24-28</TITLE>L-24 And Abraham received the covenant, not on condition, "If you will..." but, "I have already done it."
Now, you say, "Brother Branham, if I was Abraham, I would feel very good then." Listen, that covenant was not only made with Abraham; it was made with Abraham and his seed after him. So we are the seed of Abraham. If we be dead in Christ, we take on Abraham's seed and are heir according to the promise.
And the way you become Abraham's seed is when you have the faith that Abraham had in the coming of Christ, and you accept it, and you are filled with the Holy Spirit; then you are Abraham's seed and are joint heirs with Christ with him in the Kingdom. Oh, brother. If the people could only realize that.

L-25 If the church tonight, would stop thinking it's something that you have to do, it's something God has already done. You're just putting the cart before the horse. And it won't run right. Just forget about what you have to do, and realize what God has already done. Then you'll get the cart running right.
But now as long as you're trying to push it along... turn it around. Don't say, "If I do this, and if I do that..." look, say, "It's already done; Christ did it for me. Praise be to God," and accept it.
It's already a finished work. God called you, by grace are you saved through faith (See?), not works, but through faith, by grace of God.

L-26 God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son. Now, look, not that God had to do it, but because that God did do it. And when God's love was projected, sovereign grace had to produce the object that His grace projected, or His love projected.
And when you will love God, and believe God, grace will project the object that you ask God. Do you see it? See, you're Abraham's seed, then you love God. And when you love God, so love Him that you believe His Word and accept His Word, then sovereign grace will come down and project what you ask God, 'cause He can't keep from it. That's the basis that it's on. It's love. And love will project grace, and grace will project the object that you're asking for.
You can't get it by emotions; you can't get it by scholarship. You never get it by education. You never get it by sensations. You get it by love. You believe Him and take His Word for it. And when you take His Word, that makes Him love you. And you get what you've ask for.

L-27 Now, notice, Abraham was just an ordinary man. And God by election called him, and said, "Abraham." And notice, and this is a lot of encouragement for we older people. Abraham was seventy-five years old before God ever called him. And his wife, Sarah, was sixty-five years old. And they'd been married since they were young, perhaps, let's say Sarah being sixteen and--and Abraham twenty-six. And when they were married, they'd lived as husband and wife all this time, and she was barren. She had no children. And perhaps Abraham might've been sterile.

L-28 But I want you to notice, God told Abraham that something was going to happen, that was absolutely impossible for it to happen. He said, "Abraham, you're going to have a child by Sarah," and through this child, how the blessings was going to come.
Now, mentally speaking, that was impossible. It could not have happened, 'cause Abraham was seventy-five, and Sarah sixty-five, about fifteen or twenty years a past menopause. She was gone. Her... The womb within her was dead. She was sixty-five years old. Menopause hits from thirty-eight to about forty. And she's out of it before she's fifty, or by fifty. And here she is sixty-five.


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