<TITLE>32. Par 305-313</TITLE>L-305 "Well," the authorities says, "He's been a loyal old man. I know a lot of times, he give the widows things. And he gives things. They--they... And she's awful kind. I don't want to lock them up or anything. Let's don't put them out there against the tree in them shackles and things like that; they'd be worse. I'll tell you; we'll just keep an eye on them, you know." And they kept watching to them. "Uh-huh? Uh-huh?" What an uncertain sound.
But Abraham knowed that Sound was certain. So he said, first month passed, "How are you feeling, honey, any different?" Now, remember, you ladies; the twenty-eight days, she'd passed it long ago, about forty years old. Here she was, sixty-five. "How you feeling, honey?"
"Well, dear, there's no difference."
"Glory to God, we're going to have it, anyhow." Nothing uncertain. "Certain. I'm positive. Yes, sir. I'm sure we're going to have it."
"How you know, Abraham, you're going to have it?"
"God said so. Going to have it anyhow."
Well, second month, third month, first year. "Feel any different, honey?"
"No."
"Nothing has happened yet?"
"No. No."
"Well, glory to God. We're going to have it, anyhow."

L-308 "Hey, Abraham. I heard that you said that you was going to have a baby. Hee-hee. Hee-hee." That's a uncertain sound. See?
But Abraham had done heard another Sound that drowned all that out. "Glory to God. I don't care how long we wait: going to have it, anyhow."
"How do you know, Abraham?"
"God said so."
"Now, He, did God come down and talk to you?"
"Yes."
"How do you know? Let me hear Him?"
"He talked to me, not to you. Go on then," said, "go on, you old unbeliever. You don't believe anyhow; I believe Him. See? So just keep on going. That's it. Going to have the baby, anyhow." Twenty-five years passed.

L-311 But before that time come, they was tee-heeing and laughing. God said, "You know what? I'm just going to take you away from them. Pack up all your clothes and things; get ready. Get on out and separate yourself from that bunch of unbelievers. I'm going to give you a little church over here, some people that will believe you. Get away from them old cold formal denominations. Get out here; walk with Me alone." God never blessed him till he completely did that: separated himself from all the unbelief.
And He'll never bless you till you do the same. Take all them old superstitions away from you, and "maybe it's so, and maybe it's not." If you're come to be prayed for this morning, you come with a real faith, "God said so, and that settles it." And that's it, God said so. That's all there is to it. God said so. He said it, and that--that settles it. You don't have no more fuss about, think about. All right.

L-313 Now, after twenty-five years, and Abraham had become an old man now; he was a hundred years old. And Sarah was ninety years old; now think of that: a little grandma, a little shawl across her shoulder, a little dust cap, and grandpa, you know, like this, and, "How you feeling, honey?"
"No different."
"Going to have it anyhow. Glory to God."
One day he happened to look, and here come three Men walking up. They set down. Two of Them went down to Sodom to preach.
He said, "Abraham, where's your wife, Sarah?" Oh, my. Whew. Now remember, Jesus said that'd take place again, you know, that same Angel. He recognized they were Angels. See? He'd heard that Sound. And when he heard that Man speak, there was something about that, that he recognized that that was the same Voice. See, he knowed that was the same One.


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