<TITLE>08. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 When God ever answers prayer for you one time, then you know that He is a prayer answering God. Is that right? Now, how many here has received the Holy Ghost raise up your hands, all that's got the Holy Ghost? Now, how could you doubt healing? How many here ever had a prayer answered? Let's see. Sure. Then He's a prayer answering Father, isn't He? There you are. Get the idea? If you need anything, ask. Lack wisdom, ask of God. See? He will give it to you.
Now, Abraham knew that he'd held on to that promise and He'd brought it to pass. See? So you see the little boy was born. So the Lord said, "Now, I"m going to make them people down there in the Assemblies of God down in Long Beach about twenty-five hundred years from now, I'm going to give them a real assurance and let all the Seed of Abraham know that--that I am a prayer answering God, and I keep My promises to My people."

L-30 So He said, "I'm going to take Abraham because I know he believes Me. And I'm going to ask... I done told him I'd make him a father of nations. He waited twenty-five years until now he's about a hundred and forty-five years old, or a hundred and twelve years old," somewhere like that. "Now, I'm going to tell him to take this little boy that he's waited on, and take him up and kill him. Abraham will obey Me."
Now, what a trial that was to Abraham. Think of what that was. Now, we're in Genesis 22. Now, as... He didn't, perhaps, didn't want to tell Sarah. He didn't want to go and tell her, "Sarah, I'm going to kill Isaac this morning." No, he didn't want to do that, so he just got up early and chopped some wood, claved it, the Scripture said. Put it in a--probably little sack of some sort, and put it over the back of the mule, and took servant, and took Isaac. And they walked for three day's journey.

L-31 Now, any man, I can walk any day, thirty miles. I used to patrol; I walked seven years thirty and thirty-five miles every day through the wilderness. And now we got gasoline feet. And men in those days where they had to walk everywhere to get. Abraham could have probably, in his youthful condition then, could probably walk a hundred miles, easy in three days.
Now, look, from civilization, he's three days back. And then he lifted up his eyes and saw the mountain far off, where the Lord showed him. Now, watch where he went.
Now, then when he gets close there, he stops the little mules, and tied them up, took the wood and put it on Isaac's shoulder. And he said... Now listen at this, oh, this is so beautiful. It's a... I just wish we had a lot of time on this. See? So beautiful. He said, "You wait here with the mules. The lad and I will go yonder to worship, and we shall return."

L-32 How is he going to return? He's going to kill him. How is he going to return? But what the... Take over Hebrews if we just had... Or over in Romans the 4th chapter. If we just had time to go through it... But Abraham said this within his heart, "I received him as one from the dead, and I'm fully persuaded that God's able to raise him up from the dead," a perfect type of God giving His only begotten Son. See? Abraham offering up Isaac, God giving His Son, and making an assurance, because God had already told him, "I have... I have made you a father of nations." Now, He'd already give him the promise, and he knowed without one shadow of doubt, that he was going to be, he already was. Not "I will," "I have. I've already did it."


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