<TITLE>12. Par 49-52</TITLE>L-49 There, then when He brought Sarah back, Abraham back to a young man and woman, she become a mother. They brought the little child. How lovely that little fellow must have been. Eighth day he was circumcised. And when he was just a young lad, why, there was a big feast made to him.
And one day, God said, "I'm going to prove," so much like this to the Angelus Temple, "that I keep My promise." I'm going to prove to the people. Said, "Abraham. You take your only son, and take him to a mountain where I'm going to show you, and there you sacrifice him for a burnt offering." Now, He told him he was going to be the father of nations. And here his only son; and now take and destroy and kill the very thing that was going to be--how it would make him the father of nations. And now He said, "You go on, and I'll show you the mountain." I can imagine how the old fellow felt.

L-50 The next morning, his lovely little boy of about twelve years old, how he must have got over and shook him. "Wake up, Isaac. Don't wake up mama, 'cause mama wouldn't understand. Wake up." And he went out there and chopped some wood, clave it, put it in a little sack, put it on the back of a mule, and got two servants.
Now remember. He went three day's journey back in the wilderness. An ordinarily a man can walk... When I was on patrol for five years, I had to walk thirty miles a day for six days a week. People these days is got what we call gasoline feet. Them days, they--they had to walk; they was more used to it. A man could easily... Well, say, he just walked twenty-five miles a day. That made him seventy-five miles back in the wilderness. And then he lifted up his eyes and saw the mountain far off, that the Lord had showed him in the vision, where to take the child to offer him.

L-51 He got close to the mountain. Now, listen close, as we fixing to close. He got close to the mountain. And he said to the servants, "You stay here."
Think of how his heart must have been beating, knowing he was going up there to kill his son and destroy the only hope he had of ever being the father of nations. But he said he had received him as one from the dead, he was persuaded that God could raise him up from the dead. See that Abraham faith? See what it means? No matter how ridiculous it sounds, if God said it, He means it. He is the way. He keeps His Word. It's up to Him to see it through, not you to try to see it through; it's Him to see it through.

L-52 Now, listen close. Then, he said to the servants... I just love this. He said to these servants, "You wait here. The lad and I will go yonder to worship, and the lad and I shall return." How's he going to do it, when he's got the knife and it sharpened. He's got the fire in his hand. He's got the wood on his back. And he took it off of his own back and placed it on Isaac, a beautiful type of Christ packing that wooden cross up the hill. And he said, "You wait here. The lad and I will go yonder to worship, and we shall return." Amen.
How... Oh, my! How you going to get out of that wheelchairs? It's none of your business to think about it. How you going to get well? It's God's promise. Only thing to do is keep moving on.


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