<TITLE>06. Par 43-47</TITLE>L-43 And remember, as we bring these things, I want especially young converts like Sister Ina here, and Ina, rather, and her husband, and Rodney and his wife, and Charlie and them, to understand that these things, and many of you young people that's just come into the Lord, that hasn't went very far down the line yet, just tasted Him and seen that He's good and gracious... Now, notice this, that these things that we're speaking, what we're trying to do is settle your faith, that when God says anything it's got to happen. It just simply won't fail. No matter... It may look like it's a million miles and never can happen, but God will move it right around and make it happen. And He does that to test you.

L-44 Look what He said to Abraham. "Take your son up here on top the hill and kill him," after he had waited for him for twenty-five years. And He said, "Take him up here and kill him." How... "I'm going to make you a father of nations."
And Abraham, a hundred years old, his wife, ninety; and their only child... Abraham was about a hundred and fifteen then. So he said, "How's he going to be? How--how can it be? If me, an old man, as old as I am, and waited for twenty-five years... You give me the promise at seventy-five, and here I am a hundred. And Sarah was sixty-five, and now she's ninety. How? After we've had this baby... And You told me way back there, twenty-five years ago when I was seventy-five years old, I was going to have the baby after living with Sarah all these years; I was sterile and she was infertile. So then how? Yet You made me fertile and made her fertile, and then come along and give us this baby. And we've raised him up here to fifteen years old, and through this child You said You'd bless the Gentiles and every nation in the world, and make me a father even of the Gentiles, make me a father... Then in the ages that is to come, Lord, that You'd make me a father of every nation under heavens through this child. And through this child there'd come a Redeemer, and through that Redeemer would redeem the whole human race. How You going to do it, Lord?" That wasn't Abraham's thought; that wasn't Abraham's question: obedience. Didn't say, "How You going to do it?"
"It's none of my business. You said it, so I know Your Word's right. If You can keep Your Word for me and can show me that when I was seventy-five years old, when You called me and said, 'Separate yourself and journey into a strange land,' I've been in this land for twenty-five years. Left, an old man, living with a wife that I've lived with since she was a girl," was his half sister. "And then I... All this time... And You give me this baby that You promised; I received him as one from the dead. And if you say kill him, You're able to raise him up from the dead again." Oh, my. That's the way; that's it. And He did.

L-47 And as soon as he obeyed God in fulness, raked Isaac's hair from his face, pulled out the lance to kill the--his own son, his only begotten son, God was showing a pattern, showing us. What did He do that for? He didn't have to. But He did it so that you and I, that we might look upon these things in this dark dreadful day where men's hearts are so filled with evil, that we might know that God keeps His promise. No matter how insufficient it seems to be, how impossible it might be, God still remains God and He keeps every promise that He made.


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