<TITLE>08. Par 18-20</TITLE>L-18 Now, we find out that that child never arrived until twenty-five years later. But instead of growing weak because it never happened the first month, he grew stronger all the time, because his expectations was greater. If Sarah was one month older, it'd be one month greater in the expectations, because God kept His Word. It would be a lot better for her to have the child at a hundred years old than it was at sixty years old. See what I mean? It was a greater miracle all the time. And he never grew weak, but grew stronger all the time.
Now, we are the children of Abraham. The Bible said so. We, being dead in Christ, take on Abraham's seed, and are heirs according to the promise. We are heirs of the promise with Abraham, because Abraham was given the promise. Now, if we are his heirs with Abraham, then we are Abraham's children. And the same faith that Abraham had we have ourselves, that when God makes a promise, just know it's going to happen. It can't do anything else.

L-19 Could you imagine Abraham going out...? Just say he did, him and Sarah. He was seventy-five and her sixty-five. That's about fifteen, twenty years past menopause. And it was his half-sister. He's lived with her since she was first married to him--probably sixteen or seventeen years old--and no children. And God appeared to him and told him she was going to have a baby. Now, Abraham expected that to happen, because God said so.
I could imagine... Could you imagine a old man seventy years old, and a woman sixty-five, going down to see the doctor to make arrangements with the hospital to have the baby? What would people say to them? What would the doctor say? "The old fellow is... something wrong mentally. There's something wrong with that old fellow." Well, every man or woman that takes God by faith, and accepts His promises, is considered by this world some kind of a crank or a fanatic, because the things of this world is so foolish to God. What the man calls great, God calls foolish. Now, but Abraham believed it.
Now, the first twenty-eight days after... (her being about fifteen, twenty years past menopause), "How you feeling, Honey?"
"There's no difference."
"Well, praise God, we're going to have the baby anyhow."

L-20 It was so much expectation perhaps Sarah knitted some little booties, and a little blanket, and... Why? She was expecting something to happen. That's the reason it happened. Year by year passed on, and Abraham got stronger and stronger, giving praise to God. And finally it happened, because he expected it to happen.
After she was ninety years old... or, he was ninety. "What do you think about it now, Abraham? About give up?"
"No, sir, we're going to have the baby anyhow. We done got the clothes laid back, and got everything ready."
"How long you had them?"
"Twenty-five years, but God will send the baby anyhow."
I like that. See, it's positive. God said so, and that settles it. When God ever makes a decision, He has to make it eternal. Now, I can make a decision, and five minutes have to go back and make another one, 'cause I was mistaken in that one. You can too, because we're finite. But God, being infinite, cannot make a mistake. He's the infallible, omnipotent, omnipresent, infinite God. Amen. When His decision is made, it's settled forever. He can't come back and say, "I was wrong." He cannot do it.


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