<TITLE>19. Par 197-205</TITLE>L-197 Wouldn't been reasonable to our father; from which is the father of our faith, Abraham, that we're his children by "in Christ." Wouldn't have been reasonable that a woman sixty-five years old, and he had lived with, all since she was a girl, could not have a baby? And when she was a hundred years old, or ninety, and him a hundred, and still no baby. Wouldn't reason, some great staff of doctors and science give Sarah an examination? Said, "Why, her womb is dried up. The milk veins is dried, forty years ago. Her heart, that age, she couldn't go into labor." Why, it's only reasons.

L-198 But Abraham refused it. "He staggered not at the promise of God, through unbelief. Against reasons, he staggered not at God's promise, no matter what it was. For he--he had counted God able to perform everything that He said He'd do."

L-199   Now, where is the children of Abraham this morning? You ministers that afraid, you afraid, of your bread and water, on the street, if you leave that Babylon. Where is your faith? David said, "I was once young, and now I'm old. I've never seen the righteous forsaken, or His Seed begging bread." Don't be afraid. Stay true to Christ.

L-200   But unbelief will catch reason. That's what it did. Now you get it? Unbelief relies on reasons, present day things. Faith won't do it.

L-201 Faith looks at the Word. But faith places itself upon the unmovable Rock, God's Eternal Word. Amen. Faith don't look at reason. I don't care how much you can show it would be better. If the Word says "no," faith rests there. That is the sanctuary of faith's resting place.

L-202   Want to ask you Lutheran, this morning, you Baptists, and you Catholic, and you, whatever you are, you denominational people around the world. How can you place your faith upon your denomination, when it's contrary to the Word? What kind of a faith have you got? You got reasoning power, and not faith. "For faith cometh by hearing," hearing the ecumenical council? Could you ever... Said, you might get that in the Old Ladies Birthday Almanac, but you never find it in God's Word.

L-203   "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God." Amen. Tell me that one man can speak anything contrary to That, and say it's the Word of God. When, "Heavens and earth will pass away, but that Word shall not."

L-204 Faith finds the Word its sanctuary of rest. It moves right up on top that Eternal Rock, Christ Jesus, the Word, and lays down there and rests. Let the winds howl. Let the storms shake. She is safe, evermore. She rests right there on that Word. That's where faith, genuine Christian faith, rests. Resting place is the Word, for it knows that God will ever prove Hisself superior, over every one of His enemies. No matter how bad it looks, and how the enemy has come in, and how look like you're defeated, faith still knows.

L-205   Now, to you sick people, oh, how I'd like to drive this home! When you catch that faith, that you're going to be healed; every--every circumstance, everything else, all signs, all symptoms can point that you are dying, you'll never move! Its resting place is in the sanctuary of God's Word, when faith, genuine faith sets itself there. Not make-believe now; faith. Not hope; but faith. Hope is out here, hoping it was in. Faith is already in, looking out, and saying, "It's done." See? That's faith. There is where faith takes its resting place, for it knows that God will never, never let the enemy ride over the top of him. He never has. Faith knows that, so, regardless of what the thing looked.
Noah knowed that ark would float. See? Certainly did.
Daniel knowed that God could close the lions' mouth.
The Hebrew children know that God could stop the fire.


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