<TITLE>14. Par -</TITLE>L-19-4 Did you notice the difference in there? Sarah tried to give Abraham--or give God rather, a little bit of help by herself. She thought, you know, that otherwise than what God promised. "Now, you know, I'm an old woman. But Hagar here is a beautiful woman. Abraham won't mind marrying her too. So you know, that'll--that'll help God. That'll help God, 'cause Hagar, here, she's probably only twenty years old; she's my maid. And you know what I'll do? I'll give her to my husband for a wife," 'cause polygamy was legal. So he said, "I'll give her, and she'll have a baby by my husband; and then I'll take the baby, and that's the one God promised."
You see, we always try to do something, can't wait for Him. We got to do something ourself. Might've been all right. She might've been pretty. It might look very good. But it wasn't according to the Word. God told Abraham the baby was coming by Sarah.
Remember what He said about the little flock, "These signs will follow them that believe. As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man," wherein a few, even eight souls were saved. Those words can't fail. So let's watch ourselves closely and stay with the Word.

L-19-7 All right. See, the people are always trying to manufacture something to take the place of God's creative will. You see, as I've often said and maybe before the church before. You know, you could not ask the sheep, "Will you manufacture me some wool?" No, he can't do that. Now, a goat cannot manufacture wool, because his nature won't let him. No matter how much you try to tie sheep wool on a goat, it won't work. The goat cannot manufacture wool. And a sheep does not manufacture hair; but he has wool because he is a sheep. That's what makes him; he don't manufacture.
We're not supposed to manufacture the fruits of the Spirit. We're supposed to bear the fruit of the Spirit. Apple tree don't manufacture apples; it just bears it, because it's an apple tree.
And we try to manufacture anything: "I'll help the cause. I'll study for ten years in the seminary. I'll learn this, that, or the other, and get my Bachelor of Art and my Doctor's degree. I'll help the Lord along." It won't work. God by predestination  calls who He will.

L-20-3 He gives the Kingdom to ever who He desires to give it to. We learned that by Nebuchadnezzar. We learn that by--by Jeremiah, when God told him that by the Word of the Lord that there was going to be a time that Israel was going to be carried away into Babylon for seven years. Here come another prophet up; and he already told them, said, "Now, you'll have prophets will rise up, and you'll have them down there at Babylon that'll rise up, and dreamers and prophets that will prophesy contrary to this; but tell the people not to listen to those people."
Up come a man by the name of--of (one of the prophets) Hananiah. And when Jeremiah was standing there with a yoke over his neck, up come Hananiah, said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, in two full years all the vessels of the Lord..." Now, fundamentally it seemed very good. "God's going to bless His people; He's going to bring back everything just exactly in two years."
And the Bible said even the prophet Jeremiah said, "Amen. Amen, Hananiah. May the Lord make your words come to pass, but let us think of something, Hananiah. There's been prophets before us, and they've prophesied against great nations of war and so forth. But remember, the prophet is known after his prophecy has been made manifest." See?


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