<TITLE>06. Par 20-23</TITLE>L-20 Now, I want to say something, after not hearing the tapes, but the man telling me. I mean this with reverence: last night on the platform, where many people out here in the audience, well educated, smart, intelligent people, and if that woman's here tonight, I don't mean to express anything wrong, sister; but a poor, perhaps unlearned, colored woman, in the simplicity of faith, watched that light as it was moving. She come to the platform last night, and before she could get here, God straightened her arms out with arthritis and so forth, right here, and left those who were setting wondering, just set and wonder. You see what I mean? God is real.
And if I die this night, this is my last night on earth, the millions of people around the world know it's so; the scientific world knows it's so. It is the truth that we're living in the last days, and the great Jehovah God, Who led the children of Israel, Who appeared in a Pillar of Fire to Saint Paul on his road down to Damascus, Peter in the prison, is here tonight, both scientifically and materially, proving Hisself in the resurrection. Amen.

L-21 Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide for Himself a sacrifice. Oh, we'll go back to get the back of this picture now, for about twenty minutes. Abraham and Isaac, the promised child...
Now first, back in Genesis 12, we find out that Abraham was just an ordinary man. So many times when people see gifts operating, or something, they want to make it like it's something real holy person. It's not a holy person; it's the Holy Spirit.
As I was saying last evening, as Peter said, "Holy mountain..." It wasn't a holy mountain; it was a Holy God on the mountain. And as none of us has any right to claim holiness in ourselves; it's God's holiness that we rest in. I have none, neither do you. God wouldn't accept it anyhow, if we had it. He only accepts Christ; and we being dead in Christ, He accepts us by--through Christ.

L-22 And God called Abraham, when he was down--come down from Babylon, perhaps, maybe out of a family of idolatry. And the Bible says that gifts and callings are without repentance. God by foreknowledge set in the church, apostles, prophets, evangelists, teachers, pastors. By foreknowledge God set them in. He knew every one of them before the world began.
He knew, as Romans 8 tells us, that He could... He hated Esau and loved Jacob before either boy was borned. For His foreknowledge allows Him to predestinate all things to work together to His glory. That's the great Jehovah. "It's isn't him that willeth or he that runneth; it's God that showeth mercy." That's what the Scripture says. So it isn't how much you try; it's how much God has done for you. And if you've got enough of God to come out here tonight, a desire to come hear the message, you ought to be the happiest person in the city, because God is moving in your life. He's trying to lead you to the fountain. He loves you.

L-23 I want you to notice Abraham coming down out of the--of the Babylon with his father, and dwelt in the--the land of Shinar, and perhaps, had his living there. And his wife was Sarah, his half sister.
Now, he was seventy-five years old, and Sarah was sixty-five years old, before God ever spoke to him and made the covenant with him. Sixty-five year old woman, seventy-five year old man, and God said, "Walk before Me, and be perfect." God made the covenant with Abraham, unconditionally; wasn't any conditions, "If you'll do this, I'll do..." He made a covenant with a man once like that, Adam, and he broke it.
Man breaks his promise; God can't break His promise. So God determined to save man; He made the covenant to Abraham unconditionally, told him, "I have done this, and it's going to be this way, and it's... This is going to be, and you're coming to Me at an old age."


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