<TITLE>05. Par 16-19</TITLE>L-16 I've got a little subject here that I have preached on it. But I wanted to take it in a prophetic way, tonight. Found in Genesis 22:14. I want to begin.
 And Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-Jireh: as it's said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.
"Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide for Himself a sacrifice." Now, this is on the life of Abraham, which is the father of us all. Now how many know that we have to be Abraham's seed or we'll never get to heaven? We have to. Is it possible that we become Abraham's seed? How? Only one way in the world for ever to become Abraham's seed, that's receive the Holy Spirit.

L-17 Now, we just went through that in California, back and forth and back and forth through the Mark of the Beast and the Seal of God. The only way you'll ever become Abraham's seed, 'cause that gives us Abraham's faith... And Abraham never received this promise while he was in circumcision, under the law, but when he was under grace, before circumcision was ever issued. Therefore, it's not nothing that we could do to merit; it's God's grace that gives it to us. By faith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness. The law is what man wanted, not what God wanted.
Now, we want to start in Abraham now. And I want you to listen real close, if you can...
And by the way, was they any... Anybody here... Did they give out prayer cards out... I forgot to ask him and... Is there prayer... Where's Billy? Was there prayer cards given out? Yes, there was, prayer cards given out, okay. All right, then we'll, perhaps, pray for the sick at the end of this little service here.

L-18 Now, let's begin with Abraham, and find out what Abraham was, and how that we become his seed. And then if we could really get thoroughly based upon the Word of the Lord, then we... it takes all the fear away from us if we know what we are doing.
How would you go out and pick up... You gentlemen, young men here, would you walk out on the street and pick up a woman and marry her, just because you walked out and picked her up; she was a woman? I don't have much thoughts of your conception I'm sure, but see, first you got to know something about her, where she come from, her character... That's the way with a woman to her husband, the same way. You must think of those things, because it's your lifetime companionship. And this is our eternal life with God or be totally separated and annihilated in hell. It's one or the other. So we want to approach this upon the basis of Scripture, and know where we are, and then you'll have faith to know. If you can see where you're going, then you have faith to go. But if you can't see where you're going (just stumbling through the dark), you don't know what you're doing.

L-19 So Abraham, where we first read of him (you marking in Scriptures, I see many of you)... And I say this reverently, I've watched last night and tonight, to a certain lady, here, I appreciate her. She's... reads that Bible; everywhere I turn in Scripture she goes right to it. I like that. That's the way. Back it up! Then you know you've got THUS SAITH THE LORD.
Someone called me, said, "Brother Branham, of everything that you've preached, you never preached one thing I've ever heard you in the last ten years, but what I've found written on the pages of my Bible. That's how I like it. See? That's right. And said, "I've listened at your tapes... some of it's been criticized..." and said, "I've walked up to the critics and said, 'Let me show it to you in the Bible.'" See? That's right. That's good. See? That's the Holy Spirit. It's in the Bible then it's right.


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