<TITLE>17. Par 58-60</TITLE>L-58 Then they went to the Jordan; the Jordan opened. And he thought, "You know, the very stone that I'm setting on now, the power of God shook off the top of the wall, broke it down. The very stone that I'm setting on, the power of God shook it off of the wall there. By the people shouting and giving a praise to God, the walls of Jericho fell down flat, one on top of the other one." (Little shouting helps once in a while, I believe. It certainly does.) "And it... And when they sounded the trumpet and the people shouted, down went the walls. And to think that the very..."
Do you say, "Well, I wish I might go over there and set on one of those stones."
The very seat that you're setting on is God's Word made manifest. The very earth that you walk on is God's Word made manifest. The dirt on the ground is the Word of God. Amen. Oh, my. This building is the Word of God; this desk is the Word of God. God created it. He created it with His own Word.
There wasn't nothing to make it out of; He said, "Let there be," and He believed in His own Word. And there was a world come into existence. Oh, my. I'm ready to hang my soul on any phase of it and say it's the truth. Yes, sir. He said, "Let there be" and there was, because He's God. He made His own Word come to pass. He still makes His own Word come to pass. He always did, and He always will. He will stand by His Word; what God promises, God will do.

L-59 Abraham sojourned in a strange land twenty-five years, get--getting older all the time, seventy-five before God ever called him. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Could you imagine an old man and woman like that going down to the doctor's office and saying, "Well, doc, we want to make arrangements with the hospital; I'm going to have a baby."
He'd say, "Poor old fellow, something wrong with him."
That's the way every true believer of God is thought of. "Yeah, think there's something wrong..." There is something wrong--you've passed from death to Life. You passed from the things of the world to believing the things of God. The Christian looks at the unseen, not what he sees. He looks at what he does not see. You don't see with your eyes anyhow; you see with your heart. That's right. You look with your eyes; you see with your heart. It's truly. You don't...
You understand; seeing is understanding. You look right at the thing, and say, "I don't see it." You mean you don't understand it. That's the real word of it. Now...

L-60 Then Abraham, he went out and said, "Sarah, we're going to have a baby. I want you to go now, and we'll buy up a lot of birdeye and pins, and make some little booties, and get ready."
The first month passed. "Abraham, no different." See, she was way past menopause then. Said, "No different." Second month passed. "No different, Abraham. Just the same as it was."
"Hallelujah! We're going to have the baby anyhow."
"How do you know?"
"God said so; that settles it."
A year passed. "Anything different, Sarah?"
"No, nothing different."
"Glory to God. We're going to have... It's going to be a greater miracle than it was if it happened last year. A year older now; I'm seventy-six and you're sixty-six. Hallelujah. Greater miracle than it would if it'd been the other--a year younger. No different yet?"
"No different." Ten years passed. "No different yet."
"Praise God, we're going to have it anyhow."


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