<TITLE>09. Par 33-37</TITLE>L-33 And that's the way your healing is; He's already did it. There's only one thing left for you to do: accept it. That's the way it is with your salvation; there's only one thing to do: accept it.
Reading that article this morning of that Baptist scribe, as the brother was giving it out. I noticed that Baptist preacher stood and looked at it, looked him square in the face, he said, "I want that Pentecostal blessing." God's no respect of persons, in other words. And he received it. And he had big meetings in Chicago with Moody, and he was outstanding, a Baptist minister.

L-34 Because if God makes it known to you, that it is for you, then it is yours; it belongs to you. If you're a sinner and something says, [Brother Branham knocks on pulpit--Ed.] "I'm the Lord that saves thee." That's God's voice. Turn, give heed to It, accept It and walk on. He never knocks, why, you just can't do it. So it isn't he that willeth, or him that runneth; it's God that showeth mercy. That's right. See, if God knocks at your heart, that's the greatest privilege you ever had in all your life. Anybody ever did have, is for God to give you an invitation to come to Him.
Now, we find that Abraham had faith, 'cause he'd waited twenty five years for the child. And now, God tells him to take the same child and kill him. Now, what a trial that was. But Abraham never staggered at the promise of God. He said, "If God give him to me from the dead, God's able to raise him up from the dead. I go right on, 'cause He told me I was the father of nations."

L-35 Now, see, the devil will try to set on his shoulder and saying, "Abraham, if... you know you love God."
"Oh, yes, I love God."
"Well then, if you love Him, how are you destroying the--the very evidence and the only thing that can be, that you be a father of nations." See? "How you going to do that? How you going to be a father of nations if you destroy your--the only seed that you have, is this boy promised through this woman? And now how you going to do it?"
"Well, if God told me I was the father of nations, that's up to Him to do it. God said so, and that settles it."

L-36 Get the idea? "How am I going to be--get healed if the doctor tells me I'm going to die?" God said so, and that settles it. That's the idea. "How am I going to do this?" "How can I reach up into mid-air and find something and it'll come down, an element and heal me?" I--I don't know. How'd you reach up there and found something that saved you? That's it. See, that's greater than healing, way greater than healing. 'Cause it changes your whole disposition, changes your mind, changes your thoughts, changes everything in you. So it's greater like that.
Now, but Abraham believed God. Now, watch what taken place. Oh, I think this is beautiful. Now, watch. Abraham never packed the wood himself; he put the wood upon Isaac's back (See?), just showing that a few hundred years after that that Christ, the true Seed of Abraham, would pack His own sacrifice block up Golgotha. When you see Jesus going up Golgotha, or I mean Abraham and--and his little son Isaac going up, and Isaac packing this wood, that was a foreshadow of Jesus Christ going up Golgotha, going to a sacr--obedience...

L-37 And you know, little Isaac begin to get suspicious. And he said, "Father," he said, "we have fire here; we have wood here; we have everything ready, but where is the lamb, the burnt offering? Where is it?" He begin to look around, "I see everything but one thing." Oh, my. "How's it going to be?"
And look at the sturdy voice of Abraham, how he answered his son back, see he did, a... perhaps he didn't know what he said. He said, "God will provide a lamb for the burnt offering." God will provide, Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide for Himself a sacrifice. Oh, I like that, don't you?


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