<TITLE>11. Par 124-133</TITLE>L-124   Like Billy Graham's breakfast, when he was in our city, in Louisville, Kentucky. I was at his breakfast. He said, "I go into a city," he said, "I..." He held up the Bible. He's a great believer in the Bible. He said, "I go into a city and I have a--a campaign, I have thirty thousand converts, or decisions." He said, "And I'll go back, six months from there, I can't find thirty." And he said, "Paul went into a city and made one convert, and when he come back, a year later, that convert had made converts, converts times converts, till he had hundreds of converts by that one." He said, "Now what's the matter?" He said, "You bunch of lazy preachers." He said, "You sit with your feet up on the desk, and don't go out and visit those people."

L-125   Now who am I, an illiterate person like me, to contradict the great evangelist? But I'd liked to have said one word to him. "Billy, what preacher took Paul's convert." See?

L-126 It was because Paul took him deep enough, that Christ come into him and he was a living Fire, on down to the living Presence. Not some intellectual move, or some joiner, or get some note signed, or pledge he'll come to church. Take them on to the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and then he'll--he'll be on Fire, he'll bring forth children. How can you do it when he is sterile? He can't have children unless he has got Life himself. And that's the only way that anything can re-proclamate itself, is by the germ. And the germ is the Holy Spirit that was in Christ, is in the believer.

L-127   Now we notice, God's last sign to Abraham, literally, was God, the Word. Remember, God the promised Word that had been promised him all along, spoke to him in human flesh. A Man standing there, talking to him, discerning the thoughts that was in Sarah's heart; and her back behind him, in a tent. That was the last sign. Notice now. He had before had appeared to him, in many symbols, and so forth, such as lights, and--and fire, and so forth, appeared to him, but now notice. And immediately...

L-128 I want you to notice what happened to the old couple. Now I hope you don't count me a radic. And--and if you don't believe this, just leave it alone, just see. But I just want to tell you what I think happened.

L-129 Did you notice now, how is Sarah going to have this baby? Now she's a hundred years old. Now somebody say, "Well, it was different then." The Bible said her womb was dead, and the Bible said they were both well-stricken in age.

L-130   But He is doing to Sarah and Abraham, coming along this a way, just like He promised to do to their Seed. And He's done it! I can prove that, just exactly the steps that Abraham took. Now look where he's at here now when this God come and talked to him, in human flesh, made Hisself known to him. Immediately now...

L-131 How is Sarah going to have this baby? Now Abraham had lived with her, and perhaps he was... It said, "His body was as good as dead." The Bible said it was. "His body now dead. Sarah's womb dead. But he staggered not. Yet, he believed it." Now look, if Sarah...

L-132 I'm in a mixed audience, and you forgive me, sisters. And you'd listen to your doctor; and I'm your brother. But now notice. Sarah, at ninety years old, is too old to go in labor. That heart wouldn't stand it. You know that. And another thing, her milk veins was dried up. They didn't have the health and hygiene bottles in them days. See, had to be a wet mother. Notice. So how is He going to do it? How is she going to have this baby? Her womb is dead. She is dead in her body, herself, and Abraham is dead.

L-133   You know what He done? He changed them. He turned them back to a young man and a young woman. I can prove that. He made them a young man and a young woman, turned them back young again. Oh, what a wonderful promise!
You say, "Oh, Brother Branham!"


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