<TITLE>06. Par 27-32</TITLE>L-27 And when Abraham was seventy-five, he got the promise of God. He told it to Sarah. And now, the devil said, "You know what? I'm just going to delay that for awhile. I believe if I'll get them so old, they'll lose faith, and they'll know it can't happen. If they are already shaking at seventy-five, if I can just keep that away for a while..." And he kept it away until Abraham and Sarah was stooped in age, gray hairs and stooped shoulders.

L-28 It just goes to show that nothing can defeat His purpose. Not even death can defeat His purpose. Abraham was as good as dead, and Sarah's womb had been dead for forty or fifty years. But nothing can defeat God's purpose.
Her body was old; it was wrinkled. The milk veins was dried up. Her heart was so weak, it could not have went through labor. But God let us know there that His purpose will not be defeated. He changed Sarah and made her a young woman again, and took a man a hundred years old and turned him back to his youth. No matter how unreasonable it may seem, God gave the promise. And Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving God praise; for he judged Him, that He was able to perform what He had promised.

L-29 Then what should we be this morning? We are the children of His promise. We, being dead in Christ, we're Abraham's seed and are heirs with him with the promise.
Then no matter how much sickness comes, how kind of a death we die, how much poverty we go through, God's purpose cannot be defeated. He will raise us up again. "Because I live, ye shall live also." That's our hope.

L-30 And I know today, being my birthday, that I'm getting to be an old man. I looked at myself in the glass, and I see that that little boy that built this tabernacle is not that little boy any more. He's becoming an aged man, stooping shoulders, the beard turning gray, the hair going out. But nothing can defeat the purpose of God; nothing can. Therefore, I rest assured upon the promise, "Because I live, ye shall live also."
I join with Job of old, "I know my Redeemer liveth. And at the last day He will stand on the earth." It's a purpose that God has. I must serve this purpose. My whole life must be brought into His purpose and to His program. Each of us is that way.
God has a purpose to where, old Abraham could--could endure a-seeing Him Who is invisible because it was a purpose of God that he knowed, that God gave him the Promise.
It--no matter how contrary everything seemed, God gave Abraham that promise. So God fulfilled His promise. He did to Abraham. He did to all of His children and He will keep His promise.

L-31 It was Moses, when he was taught in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. When he knew that God had a purpose in his life. It was Jochebed, his mother, who took her darling baby (the prettiest baby in all the world at the time), a sweet little fellow, and put him in a ark, and shoved him out into the Nile where the crocodiles was fat on little Hebrew children. 'Cause they'd been feeding them to the crocodiles. And she took her baby and shoved it right out in the jaws of death, knowing this, that God's purpose could not be defeated.

L-32 "God of Abraham, take care of my child and bring him to the purpose that You have brought him for." There wasn't enough water in the Nile to drown him. There wasn't enough crocodiles in all the world could've swallowed him. He was God's chosen. And as he was God's chosen for that purpose, we are God's chosen today who believe in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And there's no bombs, there's no hell, there's no nothing else can destroy God's purpose. We've got to go in the resurrection. It's a promise we have of God: God's purpose.


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