<TITLE>12. Par 129-146</TITLE>L-129 After the first twenty-eight days, why, Abraham might have said to Sarah, "How you feel, darling?"
"No different."
"Glory to God, we're going to have it, anyhow."
"How do you know?"
"God said so."
A year passed. "How do you feel, dear?"
"No different."
"We're going to have it, anyhow. God said so."
Five years passed. "How you feeling now, dear?"
"No different."
"We're going to have it, anyhow. God said so."

L-130   What was it? He had the promise of God. He believed God, and he acted like God: he held onto the promised Word.

L-131 Twenty-five years passed. The booties had done turned yellow, but she still held unto them. Now he is old, and stooped over, and he's in a terrible shape; and Sarah's womb as good as dead, and he is sterile. And what a condition they're in!

L-132 "How you feel, Abraham, father of nations?" his make-believer friends would say to him.

L-133 "Well, glory to God, I feel fine. We're going to have that baby, anyhow." Because he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong, giving praise to God, for he was fully persuaded that what God said, God is able to perform. Amen. There is the characteristic of a believer.

L-134 What about you? See? What about we, the children of Abraham? Are we identified with the Word of God, as a promise, and our characteristic identifies ourself, that we actually believe It? Or, do you just hem-haw, jump from here, and over here, and down here, and guess, and hem-haw around, about It? Then, we're not Christians, we're just making belief.

L-135 But, when we really stand to that promise, tow It right there and stay with It! Abraham did.

L-136   Now we find out, one day he saw three man come, walking. The Bible said here, "It was in the heat of the day," must have been about noon. These man walked up and was talking to him. We understand that two of them went down in Sodom. I believe we spoke on it the other night. One of them stayed with him.

L-137 Watch this Man that he called... that stayed with him, what the Man did. One was identified by His characteristic, that He was Elohim.

L-138 Elohim, the very first word in the Bible, "In the beginning God..." Now, any of you scholars know that that word God there means, in the Hebrew, is "Elohim," which means, "the Almighty, the all-sufficient, the self-existing," needs no help from nobody, needs nobody's interpretation; does His Own. He is the all-sufficient God, omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent. He is God.

L-139   There He was. And Abraham now, this patriarch who had a hold of the Word, looked at this Fellow. And when this Fellow had His back turned to the tent, He said, "Where is your wife, Sarah?"
Said, "She is in the tent, behind You."

L-140 Said, "I'm going to visit you according to the time of life, and you'll have this baby that I promised you."

L-141 And Sarah laughed about it. And the One was talking to him, told him what Sarah said in the tent, behind Him.

L-142 Now, in Genesis, you'll read that. We find out that then, Abraham, after this Man had identified Himself...

L-143 What was it? Hebrews, 4th chapter, the 12th verse, said, "The Word of God is sharper, more powerful than a two-edged sword, a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."

L-144 He knew that this was the Man. He knowed there was no prophets in the land but him, and therefore the Word of the Lord had come to him. And he was the prophet, and here the Word come to the prophet.

L-145   Same thing with John the Baptist. There had not been a prophet for four hundred years. I remember...

L-146 Maybe old Doctor Davis is sitting here, tonight, the old Missionary Baptist preacher that baptized me in the Faith. He used to argue with me. He said, "Billy, you're just a kid now. You got to listen to me."
I said, "All right, Brother Davis, I'm listening."


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