<TITLE>17. Par 57-60</TITLE>L-57 Now, they took a--a three hundred mile journey. That's quite a long ways for an old man a hundred years old and a woman. Isn't that right? Three hundred mile journey down into Gerar in the Philistine country. Measure it on the map how far it is, and see. It's a long ways down there. And then the thing of it was; there was a young king down there by the name of Abimelech hunting himself a sweetheart and fell in love with Sarah: grandma. With all the beautiful Philistine girls, that there was down there, them Gentile girls, but here come Sarah, he said, "That's the one I've waited on": grandma.
And Abraham said, "Sarah, you're fair to look upon. So I pray thee, say you're just my sister." See?
Oh, my, don't you see what He done? Well look, even after that, Abraham after the--even the death of Sarah, forty-five years later, God let him marry another woman, and had seven sons, besides daughters. Amen. You see between the lines what He done?

L-58 Now, listen to another thing. Before Sarah could have that baby... Excuse me, my sisters, this rude expression, but I must say it. Now, we know that God had to do something; she was not fertile. We know it. Sarah was sterile. She could not have the baby, 'cause he'd lived with her all these years, and she had no baby. Now, God had to make her womb fertile, first thing. Now, they didn't have these health and hygiene bottle in those days, so He had to give her new milk glands, because at that age those milk veins is dried up. Well, a woman of a hundred years old going into labor, she'd have had a heart attack. He had to make her a new heart. So see, He didn't just patch her up; He just made her a young, beautiful woman. That's a promise, He's going to do to every child of Abraham. Amen.

L-59 Abimelech fell in love with her. Old grandma, little, bitty hat on top of her head, and you know, said, "Oh, you're fair to look upon, dear. You're fair to look upon." Yeah.
Nonsense, He made her a beautiful young woman. Sure, He did. What He's going to do to us, old people, one of these days? Change us back. Hallelujah. "All the days of my full time," said Job, "I'll wait till my time comes (Amen), when my change will summon.
Yes, sir. We'll be changed in the moment and a twinkling of an eye, and be caught up together with them resurrected ones to meet the Lord in the air, and forever be with Him. Oh, I'm so glad I can say I'm one of them. Amen...?... I feel so religious. My, to think of that. No matter what happens here on earth, that has nothing to do with it; I'll fly away one of these mornings.

L-60 Yes, sir. Changed them to a... And I want you to notice another thing, how God takes care of His people. Did you notice? Now, Abimelech said, "Oh, that's just the one I've been waiting on all these years."
So he went to take Sarah for his wife, but you remember out of that pure lineage had to come the Messiah. And God plagued his house. And there was Abraham setting out there, just kindy... He was in the promise. He had the... Now, if this was you, you'd say, "I'm not worthy of it." You think Abraham was worthy of it? No, sir, after a man went down there and said that about his wife, said it was his sister, and let another man take his wife to save his own skin? Sure, he wasn't worthy of it, but God don't look at your--whether you're worthy or not; it's your faith in what you've promised Him you will be, if He will just do something for you.


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