<TITLE>07. Par 24-27</TITLE>L-24 Oh, you say, "I'd feel good, Brother Branham, if God made a covenant like that with me." Well, He did! The covenant was not only made with Abraham, but his seed after him, Abraham and his seed. You say, "But I'm a Gentile."
The Bible said, "When we are dead in Christ, we take on Abraham's seed and are heirs according to the promise."
Now, if you're a church member, it don't mean you are Abraham's seed. But if you're borned again by the Holy Spirit, you are Abraham's seed, and the faith that Abraham has, dwells in you. And Abraham called everything contrary to God's promise, as though it wasn't. He o... No matter how un--un--en--encouraging, or discouraging rather, that it seemed, Abraham still refused to see anything, but what God said, was Truth. And then we call ourselves Abraham's seed, and doubt everything God says, nearly, can't trust from one night to the other. You see what a poor subject we are, to be the church of the living God.

L-25 All right. Now, when... God did one thing after He chose Abraham; He called for separation. And that's one thing God does when He calls any man or woman: separate yourself from the world. "Get out from among your kindred," He said to Abraham, and "I'll bless you." And if you'll notice, He never did bless Abraham till he separated himself from all of his kindred, Lot and all.
Now notice, as they went on... Now, could you imagine Abraham going home and telling Sarah. He'd lived with her since she was a young girl, and now, let's see, she's sixty-five; that's twenty-five years past menopause. She'd been sterile all her life. And here God says that He's going to give a baby to them, and in this baby the whole world will be blessed.

L-26 And now, could you imagine today, if God changes not, could you imagine today a seventy-five year old man, a sixty-five year old woman, going down to the doctor to make arrangements to have a baby. Why, they'd say, "Better keep your eye on that old man; there's something wrong with him."
But he took God at His Word. There's where it's at. He didn't care what the doctor said; he knowed what God said. Now, nothing wrong with the doctor, but the doctor just didn't know what God had said.
Could you imagine going, say, "Now, Sarah, you go downtown and get all the birdeye and the pins, and get everything ready now, 'cause we're going to have a baby." And the doctor might examine her, and she was absolutely would have been sterile. Why certainly, a sixty-five year old woman, had to be, what else could have been.

L-27 And now notice, He never give her the baby for twenty-five years later. But all the time, they... Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving praise to God. That's what I like. Giving glory to God. I can see after the first twenty-eight days, He said, "Sarah, honey, how do you feel?"
"No different."
"Glory to God, we're going to have it anyhow." Another month passed, "Sarah, honey, how do you feel?"
"No different."
"Glory, it's going to be a greater miracle; going to have it anyhow."
And you can ask God to heal you; "I don't feel better in the morning." Oh, and a son of Abraham. Call those things that which were not as though they were! God said so.


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