<TITLE>07. Par 29-33</TITLE>L-29 God said to Abraham, "You're going to have a baby by Sarah." And Abraham did not stagger at the promise of God through unbelief, but accepted what God said was going to happen. Regardless of how ridiculous it seemed, Abraham didn't look at all the things around him, or he didn't look at the--the deadness of the womb of Sarah, neither considered he his own body, then dead. But he believed God, and called those things which was not, as though they were. Amen.
Oh, my brother, there's the Gospel. Watch it now, how it moves up, begins to come into existence, come into motion.

L-30 Now, what do you think would happen today if an old man of seventy-five years old and his little feeble sixty-five year old wife went down to the doctor and say, "Doctor, wife's bought a great big bunch of birdeye and a lot of pins. And we want to make arrangements with you 'cause we're going to have a baby."
Why they would've... Doctor'd say, "The old fellow is just a little bit off at his head."
And people who really take God at His Word are considered that way (That's right.), considered a little crazy. It's always been, and it always will be, as long as you have the world here who doesn't know any different.

L-31 So now, Sarah went by... I can see Abraham and Sarah doing their shopping, getting ready, when it was absolutely impossible. But against hope, he believed in hope, because God said so. That settled it.
I can see him going down the street, smiling, say, "I tell you, fellows, this is going to be wonderful."
And some of them say, "Poor old Abraham, he sure has slipped. I knowed the old fellow's reading the Bible too much; that's what's the matter. There's just something has happened to him. Now, that old fellow there at sixty-five years old, his wife, and him seventy-five and say they're going to have a baby, and shopping for baby clothes? And he's lived with her for all these years, and she's barren, and now the poor old fellow is just slipped a little bit."

L-32 But what was--made Abraham that way? He had the promise of God, and he believed what God said was the truth. That settles it. Right.
Now, if we be Abraham's seed, we take God's Word just at the same face value that Abraham did. Amen. I'm not "amening" myself, but "amen" means "so be it."
Now, God told Abraham what was going to happen. He didn't say when it was going to happen. He just said it was going to happen.

L-33 What about the man here in the wheelchair? What about the lady in the stretcher there, some of you? You say, "Oh, doctor says I--I--I can't get well." Well, maybe the doctor's telling you everything he knows. But what did God say about it? That's what makes the difference.
Some of you setting there, eat up with cancer. Maybe this crippled man may live an ordinary long life. He may live a lifetime like that. But you, eat up with cancer, or maybe with a heart trouble, with a blood clot right near to take you now, unless something happens, you're going to die right away.
The doctor said there's no hopes for you. That's what the doctor says; that's his knowledge tells him that. But you see, we don't look to the knowledge of man. God said, "I'm the Lord Who heals all your diseases. If thou canst believe, all things are possible." Now, it depends on how much faith you can appropriate, how much you believe that.


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