<TITLE>07. Par 24-27</TITLE>L-24 But Abraham called those things which were not, as though they were, because God said so. And as the years went by, he got stronger. The first thirty days Abraham said, "Sarah, how you feeling, honey?"
"No different."
"Bless God, we'll have it anyhow." That's right.
The first year passed. "Sarah, how you feeling, honey."
"No different."
"Praise God, we'll have it anyhow."
Twenty years passed. "How you feeling, Sarah?"
"No different."
"Praise God, we'll have it anyhow."

L-25 Why? God said so. It wasn't in his head; it was in his heart. God don't speak in the head; He speaks in the heart. That's where God lives. If God's on the throne, He stirs you. He makes you go where--and see the things that He wants you to see. And you turn your eyes from things that devil talks about. You stay right with God. Oh, how...
And we being Abraham's children... The Bible said that we being dead in Christ take on Abraham seed, and we're heirs according to the promise. And we can't believe God for twenty-five minutes. And Abraham believed Him for twenty-five years, and then had to take the child up to kill it to confirm the oath again.
And then we're the children of Abraham. I wonder sometimes. If we were the children of Abraham, we'd have Abraham's faith in God. And we'd call the things contrary to God's Word as though they were already happened if we were the children of Abraham.

L-26 Now, I know that this is rude, friends, but it's truth. Now, we notice then God takes the heart. He takes control. Now, when sin came in and upset your heart and--and the devil come in and blocked it all off, but then God sent His own Son made in the likeness of sinful flesh to cleanse that heart, so that He could come in.
He made a way, appropriation or preparation, come down and appropriated a way that He could cleanse your heart so that He could come in. He can't come into your heart with all that sin and unbelief there, with all...
"I'm a Presbyterian. I'm a Pentecostal. I'm a Nazarene. Glory to God. Hallelujah." I want to be a child of God...?... But as long as you've got that idea, God can't come in there. You're just a Presbyterian. You're just a Pentecostal. You're just a Nazarene. But when all them ideas can get out of there, then God can get in and get a hold, go to stirring you right. See? God has to come in to be ruler.
We unite under the heads of different denominations. God wants us united under His head. We unite under our own head. And God wants us to unite us under His leadership of our heart. What a difference man has made in it.
Now, you can't stand neutral. I want you to understand that. You cannot stand neutral. You have to have one or the other.

L-27 Sometime ago the great evangelist Billy Graham, who I believe to be a servant of God, and other great evangelist... But Billy Graham said in Louisville, Kentucky, at his breakfast... He picked up the Bible; he said, "This is the standard." He said, "When Paul went and had one convert, he went back a year later and he had thirty out of that one." Said, "I can go in the city and have thirty thousand and come back in a year and not find thirty."
Well, maybe they was Billy Graham's converts, maybe they were William Branham's converts, if they are they're not going very far. I'll say that. But if they're God converts, they'll remain forever. I thought, "Billy, I'd like to say something here."
Billy, Oral, myself, other men, evangelists, pastors, what do we do? Go out into the field and we preach. And when it is... The man repents of his sins. He comes up to the altar and says, "God forgive me." And He does forgive him. Then what happens? The unclean spirit goes out of him. Then what do they do? They turn him over to some old morgue. I hate to say that, but that's the truth.


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