<TITLE>09. Par 39-42</TITLE>L-39 Now, you talking about somewhere that you think you've got a little something that you can't get back to God? Look at Abraham out there, what he'd done: lied about his wife. Setting out to one side... Any man would act like that to--about his wife... There he was out there; he was backslid. Certainly, God told him, "Don't leave that country. Stay in Palestine." Any Jew that goes out of Palestine is backslid. God told him, "Stay in that country."
Now, He gave them that country. That's the reason they're returning back now; it's covenant time again (See?), come back to the country.

L-40 And now, he had backslid, went away from God, went down there, and told a man that that was his sister instead of his wife. And Abimelech might have been a good holiness man for all I know. But God said, "I'll not answer your prayer. But that husband of her is a--My prophet. And if you don't take him back his wife and let him pray for you, you're as good as a dead man." What about that? That's God keeping His promise to the seed of Abraham. Oh, my.
Can you see, healing is yours. Salvation is yours. It's a free gift of God that God gave you, and called you, and chose you. Before the foundation of the world He chose you. You're His heir. Why, He watches over you day and night, trying to get to you to do something for you.
You say, "But, Brother Branham, I made a mistake last week, or last month." I don't care how many mistakes you make. We've all sinned and come short of the glory. If you're a child of Abraham, you're ready to recognize that as sin, and come back to God again, and God's mercy still hangs to you.

L-41 Look at Abraham. Said, "I won't hear your prayer, Abimelech. But every womb is closed up." He said, "You take his wife back to him and let him pray for you." Amen. I like that. "I'll hear his prayer, for he's My prophet." And he took Sarah, and took her back to Abraham, and sent her back with gifts. And then Abraham prayed for him, and God opened up the womb of everything he had. And he prospered. And Sarah was a young woman, and Abraham was a young man.
Notice. After Isaac was born, and Abraham's body being as good as dead... Sarah died at about a hundred and thirty-seven years old, and Abraham at a hundred and forty-five married another woman and had seven sons besides the daughters. Hallelujah. That's it.

L-42 He turned him back to a young man. Well, this is nearly another hundred years later. See what He did? He renewed them. That's what He will do to every covenant person that comes into Christ, and dies out to the things of the world, and becomes a new creation--creation in Christ, takes on Abraham's seed, and are heirs according to the promise. There you are. Then, what's Divine healing?
Did you believe that, brother from Canada? What's that cancer in the sight of God, to a seed of Abraham? You're feeling around, trying to find if you... Why, He's right on you, over you, under you, in you, all around you. You can't lay there and live. You must rise in the Name of the Lord Jesus.


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