<TITLE>33. Par 316-324</TITLE>L-316 He said, "Sarah?" Slipped in, said, "Honey, slip out there real quick, and dust off the hearth real quick, and roll out some, knead some, or--or take the wedge and put it in the old sifter." You remember them, "Sift out some meal."
How many of you Kentuckians remember that? Well, my, you ought to. I've seen mom take that old thing and beat, "bang, bang, bang," and rub it, and rub it, and "bang, bang, bang," shaking that meal out to make us some hoecakes. And then boil out them old meat skins in the frying pan, you know, or bread pan, and put the grease in it. And black-eyed peas and turnip greens, pretty good eating. So then I--so then when the cider got hard, and made vinegar, you know; and took all the mold off the top of it, and put a little vinegar on it. It's good. So then--then...

L-318 I see Sarah baking these hoecakes out on this... right like... And Abraham went out, and felt to see where he'd get a little, fat calf, and killed it, and brought it in, and fixed it.
Went out there, said, "There's something about that Man. I've heard that Voice before. I know He's got dust all over His clothes and things. He's sitting there rubbing His face and looking around like that. But I'm telling you; I know that Voice; 'cause it ain't an uncertain sound, 'cause I heard it twenty-five years ago, and, honey, we've been trusting it all this time, so you'll just... There's just something about that Man. I don't know why, but there's something about Him I believe."

L-320 All right, so when he got out, and he got the fly bush and shooed all the flies away, you know, and set there while They eat. So then, after while, two of Them begin to look down towards Sodom, and They went on down there. A modern preacher went down there to preach the Gospel to them.
So Abraham was setting there with this Man. And He had His back turned to the tent. He said, "Abraham, where's your wife, Sarah?"
Said, "She's in the tent behind You."
Said, "According to the time of life, I'm going to visit you according to the promise that I made to you." He knowed that Sound was certain then.
What happened? Immediately after the Angel left Sarah become a young woman, beautiful, shook right back, showing to what He's going to do to every Seed of Abraham. That old grandma become a young woman. And Abraham, the hump went out of his back, and the white beard went away, he's a young man again.

L-324 And they took a little trip, three hundred miles, down to Gerar. And when they got down there, Abimelech, the king of the Philistines down there, was looking for a wife. And he looked all around, them pretty Philistine women, which they are beautiful. And so he looked around there, seen all them Philistine women, said, "I just can't pick one, somehow another. I just..." One day he seen little Sarah coming down, now a hundred years old, little grandma. He said, "That's the one I waited for. There she is. That's her." So he took her and was going to marry her.
And God appeared to him in a dream, said, "You take her?" Said, "That's my prophet's wife." Said, "You're as good as a dead man."
He said, "Lord, You know the integrity."
No uncertainty about that. "The integrity; and you take, him back, or I won't hear any prayer that you say to Me. I won't hear nothing about it. Because he's a prophet, and you take her back and restore her. 'Cause I--he needs a little money, that's the reason all this happened. So he needs some money, so you go out there and restore his wife back to him. If you don't, you're as good as a dead man." There was nothing uncertain about that, 'cause God closed up every womb of everything he had. That's exactly right.
He went out there, and said, "Abraham, why'd you do this?"
Said, "Why, she is my sister, as I told you she was," but said, "she become my wife." And then went on.


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