<TITLE>09. Par 88-97</TITLE>L-88 The Hebrew children, they would be throwed into a fiery furnace and would be burned with heat, seven times hotter than the furnace had ever be he't. That Hebrew children believed God. They said, "Our God is able to deliver us from this furnace." Why? They had had an absolute. They had the Word of God.

L-89 And the God that could deliver them Hebrew children from the death cell of a fiery furnace, how much more can He deliver this little Jewish boy out here, that's laying yonder in a death cell? How much more is He... And He's still the same Jehovah God that He always was. We, like apostle Paul, can realize that same God lives today, "Yesterday, today, and forever the same." Then, Christians can hold to God's unchanging hand, and change the whole situation. Prayer changes things. That's what we want to do.

L-90   How can we say about Joshua? How is he going to cross the Jordan? Seems like God was a strange military man, right in the month of April, when the waters was up like that. But He said to Joshua, "Take the ark and go forward." That's all he had to do. And God moved back the Jordan and made dry grounds, and they walked across and was delivered. How it was!

L-91 No wonder Joshua said, "For me and my house, we'll serve the Lord."

L-92 How David, that great patriarch, how we'd like to speak about him. We haven't time. But, and many times... As we heard someone speaking a few moments ago about David and his sin, but when all of it was forgiven. When he was going to battle, and we call it, in the world, "The chips were down," and the opposition was great. And David laid there under the tree, and sweated it out, until he heard the sound going through the mulberry bushes, then it was different. David rose and went on, because that he had an absolute, that he knew that was God going on before him.

L-93 Can't we pray a prayer of faith that will send God on to that parole board down there? Sure, we can. We believe that we can, if we'll hold to that absolute.

L-94   "How Abraham called things, that were not, as though they were," because he had an absolute promise from God, that God was going to give him his, give him a child by Sarah. And when she was a hundred years old, or he was, and she was ninety, "He still didn't stagger at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving praise to God." And we claim to be Abraham's children. When Abraham...

L-95 When, we've had the Bible wrote since the days of Abraham, and all the witnesses that we've had behind, that Jehovah keeps His Word, that Christ is the Son of God. He's the Mediator between man and God, and there's no other mediator besides Him. And promising, "If you ask the Father anything in My Name, it'll be granted." And we claim to be the children of Abraham. When, "Abraham called things, that were, as though they were not, because he believed God." Absolutely. I believe it with all my heart.
Paul's Christ-centered life was his absolute. It tied him.

L-96   Christ was the absolute of the resurrection, as we read here. He said, "God swore by an oath, to David, that He would not leave His soul in hell." An oath is the end of all strife. "And He swore that He would not leave His soul in hell, but would raise Him up." And therefore He trusted God, and was crucified; died, rose again, and ascended into Heaven, because He believed God.

L-97 How much more, as He set an example, can we take the absolute! If Christ could take it, upon that one promise there; how much more can we take it, with thousands of promises! And with the Blood of Jesus Christ there to cleanse our way, and bring us across that great chasm of sin that separated us, of unbelief, from God, and bring us right into His Presence, to talk to Him, how much more could it be! Yes. We've got to have an absolute.


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