<TITLE>14. Par 173-184</TITLE>L-173   Like Abraham, Abraham was resting. Now he had lived with Sarah since she was a--a little girl. It was his half sister, and he was living with her and married her. And, he, she had had... She was barren. She had no children. And here she is now, she is already... if he is ninety-... ninety-nine. She is eighty-nine, eighty-nine years old. "But, Abraham, rest in the faith of My Word. I'll promise you, I'd do it. I'm El Shaddai. I am the Breasted-God for My children that believe." If you don't want to nurse, well, then don't say no more about it, you see. But if you are a child, you are nursing, resting, every promise!

L-174   Notice, real faith rests upon the solid rock of the promise of God's Word. It doesn't shift. The real faith is anchored.

L-175 Like in the north star, the north star is a tie post to every shipmaster, the compass points him only to that north star. And God, the Word, is every Christian's north star, if you're lost, and the Holy Spirit is what points you to It. It won't point to nothing else. All other isms, and so forth, and--and Christianity mixed up in it, whatever it may be; it's like the world, shifting, it changes those stars, but it can't change the north star. Neither can anything change the Word of God. Anchor to It, stay with It!

L-176 Now, real faith doesn't shift by creeds and man-made doctrines, and unbelief. It stays right with the Word, real faith in the Word.

L-177 And where can you put your faith on anything else but the Word? If God said it, hold your finger to It, That's true. It doesn't shift. It draws from God's breasted-Book, the Bible, His--His attributes, what He promised. What He promised, that's His Word. The Word produces Itself. It has to be a thought 'fore Word, then Word; then the Word is manifested, and that's where you draw your--your strength from. Believing! Believing! For the creator... Believing, like He was, the creator that made the world.

L-178   The New Testament said, back here, "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up." Same purpose. What was it? They were doubting God, and sickness and trouble set in. And he lifted up the serpent. For what? For their healing and for their forgiveness. That's what was. And brass represents Divine judgment; and Jesus was that serpent judged, of course, the brass term.

L-179   Now, after He had confirmed the covenant, or the covenant was made manifest to him, it gives faith to the true sons of God. The Word gives faith, the Breasted-One. It--it does something to them when the--the Word, or when the covenant is made manifest, gives faith to the true sons of God.

L-180   Now we know, we realize that, in this, He was called Elohim. The word also, in the translation here, means "Elohim." Just looked it up, be sure. Elohim! And Elohim is the "All-sufficient One." He is El Shaddai, Elohim, the Breasted-God, the All-Sufficient One. He needs nothing from nobody else. He is your all-sufficiency.

L-181   Notice, the same is testified here, I was noticing this afternoon while I was studying, in Job--Job, He is called "Elohim." And Job was ridiculed, made fun of; how, what a picture today. But Job was resting in Elohim's promise, "Though after the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, whom I shall see for myself." Resting in Elohim, no matter what comes.

L-182 His wife come, said, "You look miserable, Job." And here come his comforters around, "Oh, you see what happened to you, old boy? I told you you were wrong, all the time. See what happened?" A lot of people like to throw off on people like that.

L-183 Job was the best man of his day. The best man God had on earth was Job. He told Satan, "There is none like him." Amen. "Have you considered him?"

L-184 Satan said, "Yes, everything comes easy for him. Break that hedge and let me have him. I'll make him curse You to Your face." He done everything he could, but he couldn't.
Job rested in that promise.


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