<TITLE>09. Par 31-34</TITLE>L-31 Now, I was in a... I spoke at a Kiwanis Club some time ago. And there was a doctor told me that... Said, "Oh, I believe, Billy." I was talking about a certain patient he'd give up, and the Lord healed. He said, "Oh, I--I believe in faith--a faith..."
And I said, "Now, wait a minute. What kind of faith you talking about?"
He said, "Just a faith." Said, "I believe if that man would walk out here, and put his hand on the tree, and believe he was going to get well, he'd get well just the same, as what someone had pray for him."
I said, "Now, who... Tell me, doctor, you're an intelligent-looking man. How could a man ever have faith by putting his hand on a tree would make him well? You've got to have faith in something. And the Bible said, "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing the Word of God." That bases it. Your faith has got a foundation, because God promised it."

L-32 Like Abraham... Why, when he was... His wife was sixty-five years old, and he was seventy-five. Why, they'd lived together... She... They married when she was sixteen, seventeen years old. He was ten years older than she. It was his half sister. And after they lived as husband and wife all these years... Let's see, sixty-five, she was ten, fifteen years past menopause.
Now, here was Abraham, seventy-five, an old man. And God appeared to him, and said, "You're going to have the baby." Why, my. That was just as good to Abraham as having the baby. He already had it, as far as that was concerned. Could...
Well, now. Sometimes faith will make you act funny to the world. Now, could you imagine an old couple like that going down, making a room at the hospital? They'd say, "You better lock that old fellow up. There's something wrong with him. He needs to see a psychiatrist or something."

L-33 But Abraham had faith in what God was saying. Now, the first days passed, the regular twenty-eight day time. I can see him go to Sarah and say, "How you feel, darling?"
"There's no difference at all."
"Why, glory to God, we're going to have it anyhow." See? "Get all the booties ready, and the pins, and birdeye. Get everything ready, because we're going to have the baby."
"How do you know?"
"God said so. That settles it." Ten years passed. "How you feeling, darling?"
"No different."
"Glory to God. It's a ten-year-more of a miracle than it would been if it happened back there. It's going to be anyhow." Twenty-five years passed. Now, he's a hundred, and she's ninety. "How you feeling, darling?"
"No different."
"Glory to God. We're going to have it anyhow. God said so, that settles it. God said so."

L-34 Now, see, the Bible said, "Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving praise to God." Now, we--if we are in Christ, we are Abraham's seed, and are heirs with him according to the promise. Is that right? Then how could a true Abraham seed see the promise of God here, and then complain about having a tummy ache, or your hand ain't straightened out right yet, when God made the promise? Amen. If you wait fifty years, what difference does it make? Abraham was able to achieve the title of father of nations and have the child, because he believed and was perseverant with his faith. Why, he could be perseverant. God had promised it. And God is... He was persuaded fully that God was able to perform that what He had said. Oh, my. Hmm.
How can the seed of Abraham, the royal seed of Abraham, the church of the living God, look upon a promise, and then don't believe it? God's eternal Word, "I am the Vine: ye are the branches." See? "If ye abide in Me, and My Word in you, ask what you will, and it'll be done for you." See? Oh, what promises He gives us. We could quote them, but you--you can only be perseverant when you got a hold of the Word.


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