<TITLE>11. Par 42-46</TITLE>L-42 And then on the road down, we had a real good talk. And there's something about the man that--that--that--that I--I like. And now, I understand that he's very, very, sick. And I--I think he called the--the place where I'm staying today. Or someone was telling me something about it. If you know him, or if he's here, don't you fail Mr. Durney, you be here in that prayer line tomorrow.
You may be getting old, that's true. But God heals the old. You never get too old.

L-43 Let's look at Abraham. He was just an ordinary man like you, Mr. Durney, that probably made his living out in the bushes and so forth. But when he was seventy-five years old, God met him one day and said, "You are going to have a baby by your wife Sarah." And she was about twenty years a past menopause. And he'd lived with her since she was a young girl. It was his half-sister: impossibility.
But what did Abraham...? Did he say, "Well now, wait. I'm too old?" No. The Bible said, "He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief." Let's just... It might... I hope it don't sound sacrilegious, but let's just take their little family talk for a moment.

L-44 I can hear him go in, say, "Sarah, sweetheart. I want to tell you something. Jehovah spoke to me out there today in the field, and said we're going to have a baby": her sixty-five and he seventy-five. Well, I can imagine after him taking God at His Word, he went downtown and got some yarn, and said, "Sarah, knit the little booties now. And get all the little things ready, because we're going to have a baby."
Could you imagine an old man and a woman like that, go down to the doctor here in Dawson, and say, "Doctor, we want to reserve a hospital room, because soon (My.) we're going to have a baby at our house, wife and I."
Oh, I'd imagine the doctor would say, "Poor old man, he's kindly a little off at his head. Just--just let him alone, he--he's harmless. He won't hurt anything." But what? It was--it was God's truth.

L-45 And the first twenty-eight days passed. You remember now, she is about several years passed menopause. So I can hear Abraham go up and say, "Sarah dear, how do you feel?"
"No different."
"Bless God, we're going to have it anyhow."
A year passed. "Sarah, how do you feel, dear?"
"No different."
"Hallelujah. We're going to have it anyhow." Ten years passed. "Still got the booties, honey?"
"Yes, they're laying right here."
"Praise God. We're going to have it."
"How do you know?"
"God said so. That settles it. I met God, and I believe God. That settles it." From that time, Abraham was a changed man.

L-46 And twenty-five years later, he was a hundred and she was ninety. "How are you feeling now, dear?"
"No different."
"Glory to God, we'll have it anyhow. Greater miracle now than it was at the beginning, just twenty-five years." But we claim to be the seed of Abraham, and if God doesn't instantly heal us, we say, "Well, I missed my healing." And then say we are the seed of Abraham?
Abraham's seed takes God at His Word and holds on to it. They meet God on the conditions and say, "Here it is, Father. It's settled right here tonight." That's the way the real seed of Abraham... Nothing can move them from it. No hurts, no pains, no aches, no nothing else, no doctor, no... Ten thousand can stand over and say, "You're dying."
You'd say, "It's not so." See? They refuse. Refuse to hear anything else when you meet God.


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