<TITLE>03. Par 17-33</TITLE>L-17   They probably, as a farmer, lived in the valley of the Shinar there, and lived an ordinary life. He--he probably went out in the daytime, and got his meat from the bush, and picked berries, and lived that sort of a life. Just an ordinary man, there was nothing special about him. But one day, God called him. That's what made the difference, when God made the call.

L-18 And that's the way it is to any life. It takes God. It isn't what you do; it's what God does. See? You say, "I sought God. I sought God." You're mistaken. No man seeks God. God seeks the man. See? It's not you seeking God; it's God seeking you.

L-19 Jesus said, "You haven't chose Me, but I chose you." See? So you're chose before the foundation of the world, or you wasn't chose at all. He just come to redeem that name. And all whose names are not on that Lamb's Book of Life... before the foundation of the world, is the only ones going to be there, anyhow. See? You were chose in Him before the foundation of the world. When the Lamb was chosen, then you were chosen with Him, before the foundation.

L-20 And you are, as I said last night, an attribute of God's thinking. See, that's the only way you can be Eternal, and only form of Eternal Life. There is only one form of Eternal Life, and that's God. So, that's all, He is the One that's Eternal.

L-21   Now we find that Abraham had that place. And God, in the Old Testament, worked out types and shadows, to show what He was going to do.

L-22 Now we find here that God spoke to him. And the great thing, after God called him... The call that God gave was a supernatural call. But, yet, it never staggered Abraham, no time. He always knowed it was God. That's a great thing. When...

L-23 God's callings are supernatural; there is nothing natural. God takes the supernatural and works it out in the natural, but the callings of God are supernatural. The Bible said, "Gifts and callings are without repentance." See, it's foreordained by--by God.

L-24   Now we find that, in this, that Abraham being called, he heard the voice of God, and He told him something that was almost totally impossible. Him being seventy-five years old, his wife sixty-five years old, that would make her about twenty years past menopause, and lived with her since she was a girl. They had no children. And, yet, told him they were going to have a baby, and though this baby the whole world, all the nations, would be blessed. Now that's a strange thing.

L-25   "And Abraham," the Bible said in Romans the 4th chapter, "staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving praise to God."

L-26 I can imagine, after the first month... Course, Sarah, as I said, was past menopause. The first month, I can imagine Abraham said, "Sarah, how do you feel, honey?"
"No different."

L-27 "Well, bless God we're going to have the baby, anyhow. We're just going to have it. God said we was."

L-28   Sarah, knitted the little booties, and got the birdeye and the pins, and everything; got ready, making ready for it, 'cause she knowed she was going to have it. God said so. See?

L-29 The first year passed. "You feeling any different, honey?"
"No different at all."

L-30 "Praise God! It'll be a greater miracle now than it was the first time. See, it's a year later. Going to have it, anyhow." Why? God said so. That settles it. God said so. We... God said so.

L-31 Ten years passed. "How you feeling now, honey?" Here she is seventy-five, and he is eighty-five.

L-32 Now could you imagine an old man and woman like that, today, going down to the hospital, and saying, "Doctor, we want to make arrangements. We're going..."?

L-33   God asks you to believe some of the most ridiculous things, but He always makes it right. God... A person that believes God, absolutely acts crazy, to the world.


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