<TITLE>11. Par 66-73</TITLE>L-66 As He took Abraham up to the top of the mountain, and there told him to sacrifice his own son... And when Abraham got Isaac ready, and little Isaac questioned...?... a type of God and His Son. Tied his hands behind him... He said, "Here is the fire, and here is the wood, and so forth, here's the stones, here's the altar, but where is the sacrifice?"
And that old father, now about a hundred and fourteen years old, with a son that he'd waited for for twenty-five years, through difficults and so forth, and how he'd held to that undying Word of God, had been planted in his heart, he was going to have the baby anyhow. What was he? Persistent. He said, "I've held him this far. I know that if God give him to me by believing Him, He'll raise him up from the dead." There you are. Persistent, holding that Word of God first.

L-68 And, that, when he got ready to take his life, there was an Angel caught his hand and stayed the knife. And there was a ram hooked by his horns in the wilderness behind him. Where did that ram come from? He was three day's journey, and any man in that day could walk easy twenty-five miles. I walk twenty-five and thirty every time I go hunting or on patrol, or anything; I easy walk it. And we got so-called gasoline feet. That man went from three day's journey, and then looked far off and seen the mountains. Why, wild beasts would've killed that ram. And another thing, he was up on top of the mountain where there's no water nor nothing. No wonder he called the place Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide for Himself a sacrifice."

L-69 "How can He do these things, Brother Branham, in the days of science, in the days of the great scientific world? How can He perform this? How do you think He'll ever get by with it?" He's still Jehovah-jireh, the Lord. We keep His Word and He's able to perform that what He said. Amen. He can take a dead, cold formal church; He can take a member out of that church, and put the life of God into that fellow, and set him afire with the Gospel. He can take a prostitute off the street; He can take a drunkard out of the alley out yonder, and make a man and a lady out of them, because He's Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide for Himself a sacrifice." Amen.
How we put God down on our basis. We think on our basis. We believe on our basis. Turn that thing loose. That's what got Eve in trouble; she was thinking on her own basis. Think on God's basis, what His Word says. Lift yourself up above that, by faith, believing His Word.

L-71 Noah said, "I don't care how much science can prove there's no water up there; God's able to put water up there. He will do it because He promised it. If He promised it, He'll do it."
And he--he... What did he do? He wasn't just go around and say, "Well, He told me that. Yes, I--I believe it'll..." He done something about it. Oh, brother, sister, do you see what I mean? He didn't just set there and say, "God said so"; he done something about it. If you want to get saved this morning, God promised salvation; then do something about it; just don't set there. Don't join one church and take your letter from church to church. He promised salvation, deliverance.

L-73 If you're sick, why set here? As the leper said that day when the city was besieged, "Why set we here until we die?" When Samaria was besieged by the Syrians, they said, "We set here till we die, we'll--we'll always be here. We'll die right here. If we go in the city, they're dying in there from starvation. Let's go down to the camp of the enemy." Oh, my, what a poor... What a little faith they could have. What a little thing... They go to the camp of the enemy who was trying to kill them. But said, "If we die, we're going to die anyhow. So if we save, or get our life saved, why, we'll do well." And they went down there, and God honored that little speck of dingy faith, and not only delivered them, but delivered Israel.


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