<TITLE>08. Par -</TITLE>L-12-6 And he held on to It. And when his comforters said, "You've sinned," he knowed he had not. He was just, because he'd done Jehovah's bidding. And when he's... every... The man come in and said, "Your children's dead"; another one come in and said, "Your camels are all burned up, and there come fire down from heaven."
Look what an argument his discomforters had, "You see? The fire came from heaven. Now, Job, that proves..."
"It proves nothing."
"Now, He wouldn't have struck your children, Job; you're a just man."
But Job said, "I know that I've done what's right." He still held on; he had something that he could drive down. That's it. He had accepted it; he'd had done exactly what God told him to do; and he was absolutely sure. All right.

L-13-1 Then when he come to the spot when that absolute held, then finally he begin to feel the string tighten up that'd been running loose, bouncing around. But it begin to tighten up, and the Spirit come on him; and he stood up, being a prophet, and he said, "I know my Redeemer liveth." Amen. See? He'd tightened up to his absolute; he'd come in contact. He'd knowed that he'd done what was right, and someday he had to pull to It. "I know my Redeemer liveth, and at the last days He stands upon this earth. Though after the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God." He knew then; then his absolute anchored.

L-13-2 Abraham, an absolute, coming down from Babylon, from the tower and the--out into the Shinar, and out in there where he was sojourning with his father, and perhaps was a farmer. But one day, way back in the jungles somewhere maybe picking berries, or--or going to kill a beast for his meat, and somewhere back in there, God spoke to him when he was seventy-five years old.
And he was--he and his wife, Sarah, her being sixty-five was childish--childless. They didn't have any children. Then God told him, "You're going to have a child by Sarah. But in order to do this, you've got to separate yourself."

L-13-4 God's promises are always on condition. You must absolutely... No matter how fundamental you are with the promise, it's under conditions always. How we could stop here and wave through that Scripture back and forth for hours (See?), that the condition is what means something. You can be just as fundamental as you want to, but it's under conditions by the promise, predestination, and so forth.

L-13-5 Notice. Now Abraham, he believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness. Now, what a horrible thing it would be to meet a civilized world, a man seventy-five years old with a woman sixty-five, and had lived together since they were young couples, 'cause she was his half sister. And now, going to have a baby by her. But he had an Absolute. There was nothing going to move him.
And when the first month, it didn't happen, his Absolute held, because he knowed he had talked to God. The second month, second year, ten year; and at twenty-five years later, when he was a hundred and Sarah was ninety, his Absolute still held.

L-14-1 And the Bible said, when his obituary was written, he said, "Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving praise to God." Why? Did you ever think why? He was absolute, positive, and the only thing he had to do was separate himself from his people. And God never did bless him until he did it. He took his daddy; the daddy died. He took Lot; and when... After Lot separated from Abraham, then God come to him, said, "Now, walk through the land." Obedience, promise under conditions, always goes with God and His Word.


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