<TITLE>18. Par 55-57</TITLE>L-55 Oh, every word is belief. If you're the--if you're a son and daughter of God, there's not one word in this Bible but what you'd hang your soul on it.
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] "... prayed for last night, but you know my crippled hand ain't any better. I must've missed it." That's not a child of Abraham. No. When Sarah... Didn't make any difference, when she was sixty-five years old, she was no more like women should be that was going to have children. And the first month, second month, third month, instead of Abraham getting weaker and weaker, he got stronger and stronger (Amen.), kept moving up. "Oh, hallelujah, will be greater than it ever was." See, till twenty-five years passed by, twenty-five years, and he was stronger at the end of twenty-five years than he was back there when he first started. He waxed strong all the time, saying, "Praise God, just keep the booties ready. It's coming. Yes, sir, going--the baby's going to be born."
"How do you know, old fellow? (A hundred years old) How do you know?"
"God said so." That's it. That's right.

L-56 Now, if we're Abraham's seed, and then we say, "Well, I was prayed for yesterday but I'm no better." Oh, Abraham's seed, Abraham's seed... Take God at His Word. God made a promise. God keeps His promise or He's not God.
God made a promise He'd show these signs in the last days. What does He do it for? So people will criticize it, like they did last night. When they do that they seal themselves off forever from God. Jesus said so. "One word against it will never be forgiven in this world or the world to come." See? And something like that has to go forward, so that God...
A just God could not pour out His wrath upon a just people. It has to come upon a unbelieving, rejecting people. It's exactly. The world has to see that thing before they can reject it; and reject it, then God's just, to pour out His wrath. That's exactly right.

L-57 That's the reason He did upon Israel. And they all died in there. When--when Titus come in and taken the wall, why, the blood flowed out up to the horses bits, almost, they said. Women killed their own children and eat them, eat the bark off the tree, the grass off the ground: Israelites, church members, loyal, holy men, knowed the Word real well. But what did they do? They failed to believe the true sign that God give them, the Messiah, and they paid for it.
God was just in doing it. His holiness requires it. There's no justice without punishment. Well, you say, if there's a red light out there, run the red light, "You ought not to have done that." That's not just. There's a penalty for running that red light, a penalty and you're fined for it. Law without justice is not law. You've got to have justice, and God's holiness requires justice. And His Son paid the price to redeem you, and if you refuse to take it, and take some churchanity, or something another, little formal outside like that, you cannot blame God. The red light's swung before you. It's swinging right now. Yes, sir. Don't step over that. You're in a danger line.


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