<TITLE>02. Par 4-8</TITLE>L-4 I want to read just a--for a text tonight, the first phrase of the--um--the 48th verse of the 24th chapter of Genesis.
 And I bowed my head, and worshipped the LORD...
We've had rather a hard day. We had a glorious time down at the--the breakfast this morning, and--and we had just a grand time of fellowship. May God ever bless that move, the Christian Businessmen, and we love them. They've doing a great work trying to help the Church (See?) to--to just kindly...
As I would call it, being a country boy, they... We used to take the wagon up the hill and we'd, what they call, "scotch" the wheel. How many knows what "scotching a wheel" is? Well, I could almost just take off my coat and preach in my shirt sleeves tonight. Lot of country folks here.
So scotching the wheel, that's what I think the Christian Businessmen's doing, is scotching the wheel, just to help hold the load as the Church pulls it up the mountain.

L-5 We been speaking in the last three nights on Abraham. And last night we left Abraham on--on the top of the mountain with his little son, Isaac, who had been spared from death, a very beautiful picture of God the Father offering up His own Son. He spared not His own son. And how that God had... The great Creator, Jehovah-jireh, had created a ram in a moment in a twinkling of an eye.
Now, the ram wasn't there when Abraham was getting the rocks and laying them together, or He'd have heard it. But just when he had got ready to take his own son's life, then the ram was behind him, bleating with his horns hooked into the--the vines, or the sh... shrubs, or ever-what it was on top of the mountain.

L-6 And we discussed why... How did that ram get there? Why, he was at least a hundred miles from civilization among wild beasts. And the ram would not be up on top of that mountain where there was no water or grass. So, you see, he'd have to be that God placed him there, because He is Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide Himself a sacrifice.
And He's just as much Jehovah-jireh tonight as He was then. And if He's Jehovah-jireh, He's Jehovah-rapha also, another redemptive Name which is Jehovah, the Healer. Them Names are the compound Names of Jehovah, and they are absolutely inseparable. He's Jehovah our shield, Jehovah our buckler, Jehovah our banner, Jehovah our healer, Jehovah our sacrifice. And you cannot separate those Names, for if He ceases to be Jehovah-rapha, then He's not Jehovah-jireh. And if He's still Jehovah-jireh, He's still Jehovah-rapha, both Saviour and Healer.

L-7 And then, tonight, we're going to take the subject of a "Time Of Decision." And over in this 24th chapter, we're coming down to the place now to where this boy, that was spared on the mountain, and a ram was offered in his place, God speaking that He would offer up His own Son.
Then this boy's mother had died, Sarah, and the father was getting old, and there was a time when Abraham had to make a decision, what class of people that his son would marry into.
And I think that's a good policy for the sons of Abraham to do the same thing.

L-8 Now, he did not want his son to marry into those Canaanite women. It'd come a time when he had to make that decision. And there's times where we are forced to make a decision. There is times when we are forced to say "yes" or "no." It comes to all of us. Abraham had that time to strike him: who he was going to choose for his son's wife, 'cause he knowed that he was a promised child, and that blood stream must keep clean until the coming of the Messiah.
Then he sent Eliezer, his faithful servant. And then, Eliezer, the servant of Abraham, which had been his elder servant and a faithful servant. And Abraham called Eliezer, and had him to put his hand on his thigh and swear by the God of heaven, that he would not let Isaac marry a Canaanite woman, that he would go to the Hebrew family, some of Abraham's people, and select a wife.


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