<TITLE>11. Par 40-42</TITLE>L-40 Not only is the baby--not only is the baby drawing its strength, but it's satisfied while it's a drawing. When the baby's nursing, he shuts up. He's a nursing, so he's satisfied as long as he's drawing his strength. And if the believer ever gets a hold of God by His promise, though his hand's still crippled, his cancer still shows, he's satisfied. He's drawing his strength out of God's promise. Amen.
You're going to call me a holy-roller anyhow, so I just might as well get started now.
Oh, it's enough to shake you. If there's anything in you to shake. Yes. When the Holy Spirit gives God's promise, and the believer catches a hold of it, all devils in torment can't take him away from there. He stands there; he will call everything, death itself, he'll defy it in the face, when God give him the promise. Amen.
El Shaddai. "I'm your bosom, Abraham. That's how I'm going to do it."
Oh, how we would love to have the time to catch some more great highlights, but we're coming to the end, so we can close. We don't want to keep you too long.

L-41 Notice, as the time went on, Abraham... God appeared to Abraham, and told him what He was going to do. Sarah conceived and brought forth a child, and when she brought the child, the little Isaac, when he got to be about twelve years old, God said now, in His mind, way down in the closing of the Gentile dispensation, up in a place called Waterloo, perhaps, "I want to make My promise sure, while I've got a man here who can trust me, Abraham." Said, "Abraham, I told you, you'd be the father of many nations, and your seed would be like the stars of the dust. Now, I want you to take your only son, the son of the promise, and I want you to take him up on a certain mountain, where I'll show you, and there I want you to kill him for a sacrifice." How that must have made him feel, his only son.
Now, Abraham's about a hundred and fifteen years old. Sure. Sarah, then's about a hundred and five years old. And here's little Isaac, the little curly-headed boy of about so high, little Jewish lad, what a comfort he was to his parents in that old age. How do you think Abraham felt, if he'd had to go tell Sarah? "Sarah, we're going to take our little boy tomorrow, and I'm going up on the mountain, going to cut his throat." Just so that the people will have a--a assurance... It must have made him feel very bad, so he didn't tell Sarah. So he got some servants, and saddled a mule, and got some wood.

L-42 Notice. Abraham went three day's journey from civilization, three day's journey into the wilderness. Any ordinary man today, when we've got gasoline feet, can walk fifteen or twenty miles, perhaps he could, say, twenty-five miles a day. There he was seventy-five miles in the wilderness. And after that, he lifted up his head, and afar off, he saw the mountain that God had showed him in the vision. That probably was, maybe, another fifty miles or more. And he got to the journey, now, he's a hundred miles or more from civilization. I just love this Genesis 22.
He stopped the mules. He got all the wood off, tied it on Isaac's back, representing God giving His Son the cross on His back. And he tied it on Isaac's back, put the knife down in the holster, picked up the fire, and he said to the servants (Listen closely now.), "Ye wait here with the mules, my son and I will go yonder and worship, and we (son and I) will return." Do you get it? How is he coming back? How can he come back, if he's taking him up there to kill him? "You wait here with the mules, son and I will go yonder and worship, and we shall return."


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