<TITLE>04. Par 40-53</TITLE>L-40 See, read between the lines. It's a type. It shows there what He is going to do to all the Children of Abraham. Just we're nearing it right now, so our stooped shoulders and everything don't make any difference, friends. And our gray hairs and whatever it is, it doesn't matter now. We don't look back. Let's look forward to what we're coming to.

L-41 And remember, this sign that we're seeing, was the last sign that Abraham and his Sarah saw, before the promised son come into existence. We believe we're at that hour.

L-42   The patriarch, after this boy being born. Could you imagine Isaac, about twelve years old; lovely little, curly-haired boy, little brown-eyes? I'd imagine how that mother felt; beautiful young woman, and so, and his father. And one day, God said, now, for an example; we're way off, the hour it's to come. "I've made you a father of nations, through this boy, but I want you to take this boy up on the top of the mountain that I'll show you, and I want you to kill him up there, for a sacrifice." Could you imagine that?

L-43 Now you've never been asked to go to a test like that. He doesn't do that now. That was examples, shadows.

L-44 Did Abraham fear? No, sir. Abraham said this, "I am fully persuaded that He is able to raise him up from the dead, for I received him as one from the dead. And if that commandment of God told me to do this, and I've stayed true to it, and it paid off, to have given me the son; God is able to raise him from the dead; from which I received him, as a figure."

L-45 Oh, my, friend! If God give you Pentecostals the Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues, how much more ought you to believe His healing power, and His goodness and mercy! If He did that, against all the theologians in the country! They said it couldn't be done, but God did it because He promised it. Then stand by your Gun, your Word, your Sword, believe the Word of God. God said so, and that settles it!

L-46   Notice, now, he took him a three-days journey from there, with the mules. Now I can walk, when I was on patrol, I walked thirty miles every day, through the wilderness; and we got gasoline feet, so to speak. But them man, only way their transportation, was either ride a donkey or--or walk. And he went three-days journey from where he was, and then lifted up his eyes, out in the wilderness, and saw the mountain far off.

L-47 He took Isaac and bound his hands. Which, we all know, in Genesis 22 here, is a type of Christ. Led him up the mountain, bound, like Jesus was led up the mountain, Mount Calvary; a type of God giving His Son, of course.

L-48 But when they got up there, and he was obedient, Isaac begin to get kind of suspicious. He said, "Father, here is the wood, here is the altar, here is the fire, but where is the sacrifice?"

L-49 And Abraham, that knowing in his mind, yet the Word of God standing out there, he said, "My son, God is able to provide for Himself a sacrifice." He called the place, "Jehovah-Jireh."

L-50 And when he bound his son, he was obedient to death; laid him upon the altar, pulled the knife out of the sheath, and started to take the life of his own son. And, when he did, Something caught his hand, and said, "Abraham, stay your hand."

L-51 And at that time, a ram blated, behind him, with his horns hooked in the wilderness.

L-52   Did you ever think, where did that ram come from? Remember, the country is full of lions and wolves and jackals, and that sheep-devouring beasts. And how far back from civilization was he? And, then, up on top of the mountain, where there is no water. And he had picked up the stones, all around, to make the altar. Where did that ram come from? See?

L-53 But it wasn't a vision. He killed the ram; it had blood. What did he say? "God is able to provide for Himself a sacrifice."


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