<TITLE>07. Par 40-45</TITLE>L-40 And Joshua stood there loyal. The little fellow said, "I don't care how big they are; I don't care what kind of a spear they got, how high their cities is walled, and how great it is, our promise is that the gate will be possessed by the seed of God's children, and we're going over to take them. We're more than a match for them." Oh, that's the true seed.
Lot of them that was born natural seed, said, "We just can't do it. There's no need of trying. They... We are outnumbered; we're outclassed; we're everything." No mat--he woul--they were looking at the--what the eye saw, and Joshua was looking what God said.

L-42 The seed of Abraham doesn't look to any of the natural things; they look to what the Lord said. That's the promise. What if Abraham would've looked to the natural, at a woman a hundred years old, ninety she was, and he was a hundred, and had lived with her since she was a little girl and he was a little boy, and no seed? He didn't look at those things. He said he counted those things as if they were not, for he only looked to what God said. "I'll bless you, Abraham, and I'll give you a seed by Sarah." And he believed it. You don't look to the opposition; we look at what God said. God said it; that settles it.

L-43 So then when it come down to the Jordan, when Joshua was made the commander in chief of the army, and they come down to the very edge of the water and could look across and see Jericho, but between them, when Joshua had his army ready, there was a gate. And that gate was called Jordan. But the promise of God is good at every gate. No matter what gate it is, God's promise is good. "He shall possess the gates of his enemy." That settles it. When he come down to the Jordan that morning, perhaps, I'm going to believe that the devil had storm clouds hanging everywhere, the big old muddy waters a-rolling down, the fields were swept across by a flood. Oh, what a tempting time. But Joshua said, "Get ready; you're going to see the glory of God." And they sanctified themselves and got ready, making ready when everything seemed to be contrary. But that was the seed of Abraham, who God swore, "I'll give him the gate." He come to the Jordan; that was his gate, and he possessed it.
Some of these mornings I got to come down to that last gate too. You got to come down to the Jordan, but the seed of Abraham shall possess the gate. No matter what it is, he'll possess the gate of every enemy.

L-45 All those men were great men; they died in the line. But finally one day in Bethlehem of Judaea, the Royal Seed was borned, which all the rest of them were just shadows. The Royal Seed was born, not of a man, but He was born by a virgin, with the power in His veins to conquer death and hell. God made a promise. An ordinary man couldn't do it. But if God makes a promise, He's just the same God that He was a few minutes before with Abraham, Jehovah-jireh, the Lord shall provide the way to take the gate. How we going to do it? Joshua died, Moses died, the rest of them died, but God said, "He shall possess the gate of his enemy." How's he going to possess death? He's got a way of doing things. "He shall possess the gate of his enemy."


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