<TITLE>17. Par 57-60</TITLE>L-57 Let's take, for instance, Abraham. He was just an ordinary man. He come down from Babylon with his father, and he lived--dwelt in the land of the Chaldeans, in the city of Ur, probably a farmer, an ordinary man. He was no special man. He was just a man, and he found grace in the sight of God.
And God told him when he was seventy-five years old, that He was going to make him to be a father of nations, and that He was going to give him a child by his wife Sarah, who was sixty-five years old at that time. And Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness.

L-58 Abraham was changed. And look, when a man meets God... God called Abraham, and He told him He wanted him to separate himself from all of his unbelieving kindred. And when God calls a man to work for Him, He calls you from total annihilation from all the things of the world, and the sins of the earth: separation.
God never did bless Abraham till he fully obeyed Him. He took his father. The old man was always a--a hair in the soup or... excuse that expression. But he was always wrong, and Abraham... And then he got Lot. And then he finally went down there. And after Lot separated himself, then God said to Abraham, "Rise and walk through the land. I've give it all to you. It's all yours." See? He never fully blessed him till Abraham fully obeyed.
And you'll never be able to get anything from God, and have favor with God, my brothers and sisters, wherever you are, until we fully obey the Word of God. You make yourself miserable by just half-heartedly approaching it. Yes.

L-59 But when Abraham met God, he was a changed man. He was from that day on. He acted kind of funny, run around... I can imagine Sarah, going around sixty-five years old, made some little booties, and--and got some of the birdeye, and a bunch of pins, and said, "Well, we're going to have the baby."
And then when the regular time come around. I can hear Abraham say, "Darling, how are you feeling? It's about that time."
"No different."
"Glory to God. We're going to have the baby anyhow." Two months passed, "Darling, any different?"
"No, not no different."
"Glory to God. It's a greater miracle than it was last month. We're going to have the baby anyhow."
Five years passed. "How you feeling now, dear?"
"No different."
"Hallelujah. We're going to have the baby. It's five years more miracle. Glory to God."
Twenty-five years passed. "How you feeling, Sarah?"
"No different."
"Glory to God. We'll have it anyhow."
"How do you know?"
"God said so."
He met God and was a changed man. "He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving praise to God." Now, we're supposed to be Abraham's seed if we have that kind of faith. What God says is the truth. When a man meets God, always His Word is the truth. If a man that says that he believes God, and denies this Word, there's something wrong; 'cause the Holy Spirit is God, and the Holy Spirit wrote the Bible. And how could the Holy Spirit be in here, and wrote the Bible, and then turn around and deny It? Something wrong somewhere.

L-60 I'll tell you, a genuine Holy Spirit experience will punctuate every sentence of that Bible with a "Amen." Right. Regardless of what anybody else says, it'll certainly do it, because It's the Spirit of God, the Writer of the Bible. And the Spirit--the Spirit of the Word is the Holy Spirit. That's what quickens It. The letter killeth, the Spirit giveth It Life (See?), gives the letter, just the printed letter, Life, makes It manifest, brings It to pass exactly what God promised.
Abraham was a changed man, strong, all the time giving praise to God. No matter how much he did, he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief. Why? He met God. He was a changed person.


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