<TITLE>06. Par 33-38</TITLE>L-33 What about Abraham with Isaac, on the mountain, the one the promise was given, and by his loyalty and his knowing, and his faith in Jehovah, it's through that and that alone that God looked down and said, "His seed shall possess the gates. I've sworn by Myself that I'll do these things." There's no one greater He could swear by, but He swore by Himself. Then if He let Abraham be tested to that final point, He's got to test you and me to that final moment, that time of decision when everything's away from you, you have to stand alone there. Hallelujah. That's it.

L-34 Stand alone. Walk out there and say, "Though He slay me, yet I'll trust Him." That's the seed of Abraham. That's the One that gives the promise. No matter what the rest of them says, and the rest of them do; "For me and my house, we'll serve God," said... If the rest of them says there's nothing to the experience, it's a bunch of excitement; "For me and my house, we will serve God." And I like to take up with Paul right here and say, "In the way that's called heresy so worship I the God of our fathers." Though they be tattlers come in the church, though they be twisters, and though they be all kinds of false prophets, and everything come into the church amongst the people, and in the neighborhood and everything, but for me and for my house, we'll serve the Lord. Though all of them quit coming, though the church gets cold, indifferent; me and my house, we'll serve the Lord. Though if someone was prayed for and didn't get well, that had nothing to do with it; for me and my house, we serve the Lord. The testings and the trials...

L-35 Men are not infallible, but God is. Man, you get your mind on a man, he'll make a mistake. Maybe not wilfully, but he'll do it. God permits him to do it so that He can shake your faith away from man. Our faith is not in the wisdom of man, but in the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. That's where the true seed of Abraham rests their promise, because they can only be the seed of Abraham when they receive the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit they're not the seed of Abraham. And that same faith that was in Abraham comes into the believer. No matter what takes place or wh--how contrary, the believer marches right on.

L-36 The spies returned back and said, "Oh, it's--it's foolishness to try. There's no need of going any further, because them people is such giants over there, and they got great governments, and they--they got spears, and, why, we even look like grasshoppers up the side of them."
I don't know, but I'm persuaded to believe here that Joshua was just a little bitty runt, just a little bitty tiny fellow. I can see him jump up on some kind of a box and said, "Men and brethren," to two million people, "we are more than able to take them." See? Why? There was a seed of Abraham. God gave the promise. That was their possession. God gave the promise. Don't matter what the opposition was, the true seed of Abraham said, "We can take it because God gave it to us."

L-38 There you stand this morning. There stands the Church of the living God. I don't care what anyone else says, what the doctor says, what anything, what the unbeliever says, we can--more than a match for anything that comes along. We are Abraham's seed, and we shall possess the gate of our enemy. No matter what the enemy is, God gave the promise. That was theirs, their possession.
Healing's your possession; salvation's your possession. The Holy Ghost is your possession. And there's great thousands of preachers and so forth in the land today that says that's not so. But the seed of Abraham knows it's so. They wade right in and possess the gates of the enemy. God said they would. They believe it because it's a promise. "His seed shall possess the gate of the enemy." Now, you'll go through testings, trials.


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