<TITLE>07. Par 23-26</TITLE>L-23 If I ever come to Edmonton again, I would like to come for about a month, and have the first two or three weeks just Bible teaching on these things to get that scare from the people. They come real nervously, "Oh, I..." That's not it. You come quietly, reverently, soberly, without one shadow of doubt. It's anchored; nothing can ever take it away.
So God told Abraham when he was seventy-five years old, and Sarah was sixty-five. They had lived together as husband and wife since they were married children. But God said that they'd had no children, or the Bible said they'd had no children, and Sarah was barren. Now think, forty, fifty, sixty... She was about twenty-five years past menopause. And her husband had lived with her since she was a little girl with no children, and here he is seventy-five years old, and her sixty-five years old, and God said He was going to give them a baby.

L-24 Could you imagine what would take place today, if an old man of seventy-five years old, with his feeble little wife of sixty-five, go down and say, "Doctor, I want to make arrangements with you. We're going to have a baby."
Why the doctor would say, "There's something wrong with the old man." Certainly. But you see, the doctor would look at the natural side, and Abraham was looking at what God promised. That's the difference. The believer never looks to the natural side. He looks to what God said, and that settles it. No matter what it looks like, he believes it anyhow.
Why, I can see Abraham going out buying up the birdeye, and the pins, and everything. Getting ready. "We're going to have the baby, honey."
And the folks said, "You know the old man's kindy slipped in his head."
But everyone that tries to serve God is considered a little foolish, because they've got the mind of God they're going by. They're not paying any attention to what the world would say. We look at the unseen, by the human eye. Faith is not what you see; "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Now, if you get that way down in your heart, then we're coming close to the home base.

L-25 When God makes a promise, He's duty bound to take care of that promise. Abraham believed that, and he called those things which were not, as though they were. Romans 4 says that, that He called the things which was not, as though they were. So he looked at the unseen. That's what every believer... They'll come and say, "Oh, I was prayed for; my hands crippled. It--it--it isn't any better. I--I--I don't know whether there's anything to it or not."
Well, you just might as well not have come in the first place. Doesn't make any difference what that looks like. If you look at that hand, it'll always be that way. But you want to look to what God said, and don't pay any attention to the hand. God said so, and that settles it.

L-26 What if Abraham said, "Now, just a moment. I'd better go down and consult the doctor, and see if that would be all possible. After all, I'm sterile, and she's barren. So then... And we're way past the age; she's past menopause about twenty-five years, and why, I--I'm seventy-five years old. Maybe I'd better consult the doctor."
Well, you know what the doctor would said. But Abraham never thought of such a thing. He'd thought of what God said, and called those things that were not, as though they were. Amen. Don't think I'm amening myself, but "amen" means "so be it." And I believe it. Calls those things which were not, as though they were...
Well, the first month past, he said, "Sarah, how you feeling?"
"Not a bit of difference, honey."
"Well, glory to God, we're going to have it anyhow. God said so." Second month passed. "How about it, sweetheart?"
"No different, Abraham."
"Well, bless God, we're going to have it anyhow."
The first year past. No difference. "Going to have the baby anyhow." Why? God said so.
Twenty-five years past. "What about it Sarah?"
"No difference, darling."
"But glory to God, we're going to have it anyhow."


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