<TITLE>06. Par 23-24</TITLE>L-23 Now, to you that likes to read sometimes along with the--the message, I'd--I ask you if you turn in the Book. And I got just a little Sunday school message like to the people this morning.
Can you hear me all right all around all over the place? I moved this microphone up. I'm just a little hoarse. I... Soon as I got down here, I took the flu. The devil tried his best to keep me away from here. I don't know. I believe that God will surely pour out something great upon this convention this time, because Satan's done everything he could do to keep me away from it.
But now, we're going to read out of Genesis the 22nd chapter. And you that will turn in your Bible, let's read a portion of It together. Genesis 22, let's begin at the 9th verse.
And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and saying, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
And he said, Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing that thou has not withheld thine son, thine only son from me.
And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by its horns... (or)... by his horns... (rather): and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him upon--up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
And Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, because thou hast done this thing, and has not withheld thy son, thine only son:
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seeds as the stars of heaven, and as the sands... upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemy.
I want to take that last phrase there for a text; "And Thy Seed Shall Possess The Gate Of His Enemy." That's a--a wonderful promise. Now, we're all acquainted with this story, perhaps read it over and over time after time, of Abraham and how God called him out of his country, and how he was just a ordinary man, nothing special. But God called him and made him a promise.

L-24 Now, I want you to notice that this promise that God made Abraham wasn't only just to Abraham, but it was to his seed after him. Now, many people says, "Oh, if I'd have been like Abraham, if I would've been where God had talked to me and--and give me the assurance like He did Abraham, then I would've--I--I would really have faith, Brother Branham, if I just had--if God had talked to me like He did Abraham." But you have the same promise that Abraham had; that is, if you are a seed of Abraham.
Then you say, "But, Brother Branham, I'm a Gentile. I could not have the seed of Abraham."
The seed of Abraham wasn't the natural seed; it was the spiritual seed. For the circumcision of that was nothing, the promise to him was given before circumcision. But it was given to him before circumcision. And it wasn't because he was circumcised and in the covenant with God that way; is because that Abraham believed God.


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