<TITLE>05. Par 15-18</TITLE>L-15 And the Bible said that Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving praise to God. You get it? Oh, doesn't it make something just go over you to know that that's our God too, to know that this is His Word, and His promise to you, every promise? And He said that he was going to have a child, so Abraham wasn't afraid to testify. He goes out on the street and begin to say, "Now, we're going to have a baby, Sarah and I." I suppose he bought up the birdeye and the pins and things, and made things ready.
People say, "Abraham you're just a little bit slipped in the head old fellow." What do you think a doctor would say to him, if the--today if a man took his wife down to the doctor's office and her sixty-five, him seventy-five, and saying, "Doc, we want to engage you. We're going to have a baby up at our house." They'd want to put him in a mental institution.
Here it is: Every man, not no exceptions, every man or woman that takes God at His Word is considered by the world just a little foolish. Because the--the wisdom of the world is foolishness to God, but it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save them that was lost. How we love Him.

L-16 Notice Abraham going around, seventy-five years old, white beard hanging down, gray hairs over his shoulders, saying, "Glory to God, we're going to have a baby." After the first month, I can see him rushing to Sarah, saying, "Sarah, how you feel honey?"
"No different Abraham."
"Glory to God, we're going to have it anyhow."
Why? God said so, that's enough. I can see the critics on the street say, "Abraham, where's that baby?"
"It is coming anyhow."
"Aren't you just a little mistaken? Are you sure? Can you scientifically prove it?"
"I don't have to scientifically prove it; God said so." That's scientific enough for any believer. Amen. That was kind of sharp, but that's the truth. God's Word settles it forever. God said so; that's all right. God will do it.

L-17 Notice, after awhile, God called for a complete separation. God does some foolish things to the world. How it seems that how foolish God works: take an old man (to the world I'm speaking), an old man seventy-five years old and a woman sixty-five years old and go give them a baby. And remember, the baby wasn't born till he was a hundred and she was ninety. But Abraham, instead of getting weak, he got stronger all the time, praising God. For it was knowed that it had to happen, because God said so.
But you say you're Abraham seed, and if God doesn't perform a miracle and do something to you, "Oh, I lost my healing. Well, I guess I better go back again tomorrow night." Abraham's seed! Abraham's seed holds on to God's promise. Abraham's Seed is the Holy Spirit, given through Christ to the Gentile and Jew alike.

L-18 Notice, as the days passed on, Abraham got stronger. "Well, if it don't happen this month, next month, praise God you'll be sixty-five years old in two months, sixty-five years old in three months." The first years past. "How about it, Sarah?"
"No different."
But, praise God, we're going to have it anyhow. Going to have it anyhow, God said so."
Now, God said "Abraham, separate yourself from your kindred and your associates, and come out into a land that I'll show you, and you'll sojourn there as a stranger and pilgrim." That's the hard thing. Separate yourself. That's what's the matter with people today. God could not bless Abraham, as long as he was associated with a group of people that didn't believe the same promise he believed. Amen. I hope the Holy Spirit digs that under the fifth rib on the left side.
That's what's the matter today. The people who call themselves Christians associate themselves with worldly things, but God wants you to separate yourself from those things. Come out from among it; get away from those old stagnated things you used to fool with. You're knowed by your works, what you do.


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