<TITLE>16. Par 179-193</TITLE>L-179   Now could you imagine Abraham doing a trick like that, a man that would say a thing like that about his wife? Talk about a coward! Abraham did that. And there he is sitting out there now, after doing a thing like that. Notice.

L-180 And, Amalek, that night the Lord appeared to him, in a dream, and said, "You're just as good as a dead man." Said, "You've got another man's wife."

L-181 He said, "Lord, You know the integrity of my heart." Said, "I--I... She told me that was her--her brother, and he told me that was his sister."

L-182 He said, "I know the integrity of your heart, that's the reason I kept you from sinning against Me. See? But that, her husband, is My prophet." Look at His grace to His prophet, though he was in the wrong. See? Said, "He is My prophet. I'll not hear your prayers. You go take him his wife back, and let him pray for you. If you don't, your whole nation is gone," every womb was closed. Think of that. That's exactly what He said. And Amalek was a good man, and feared God. Yes, sir.

L-183   But you see what the grace of God does? There set His prophet out there, that give his wife over to be married to another man, even looking for the promise of the child, and things like that, and the grace of God stays with that Word regardless of what it is. That's right.

L-184 "Her husband is My prophet. And I'll not hear your prayer. No matter how righteous, and how good, and how smart you are; unless he prays for you, you're a dead man." So he took and restored Sarah back. Oh, my!

L-185   Then Isaac come on the scene. Now in closing, quickly now I want to get you something. Isaac come on the scene and then the promise was fulfilled.

L-186 Now after Isaac come, the little boy had got about twelve years old, so forth, God made a double test of Abraham. After He had already tested him, for twenty-five years now, then He made a double test. Now He said, "Abraham, I want you to take this son now, your only son, and take him up to a mountain that I'll show you here in this vision, and I want you to take him up there and offer him up for a sacrifice."

L-187   And He said he never--never refused to do it. He just got up, the next morning after the Lord spoke to him, saddled up the little mules and took some wood and stuff, and clave it, and took off with the mules. He traveled three days, and then he got to the place, he looked off in the far distant, after traveling three days. Now here is where Abraham was, and three-days journey. And when man then didn't have gasoline feet like we have today, and any ordinary man can walk twenty-five miles a day. See? Where did he get to, back in those wilderness?

L-188 And he said, "Now you wait here." I like this of Abraham. He said to the servants, said, "You wait here with the mules, and I and my son will go yonder to worship, and we shall return."

L-189 How is he going to do it, when he went up there to kill him? God told him, said, "Go up there and take his life."

L-190   But what did the Bible say, in Romans 4? "Abraham knew that he had received him as one from the dead, and was fully persuaded that God was able to raise him up from the dead, from where he received him as a figure." See?
Said, "You wait here."

L-191 How it's going to do, I can't tell you. Can you think of that sister with the baby in your arms, and mother sitting in the wheel chair, a little boy there, over here a daddy? I don't know how He is going to do it. I just don't know how He is going to do it. But He is going to do it because He promised He would, on the basis you would believe it. He does it to others. See?

L-192   "This boy and I, the lad and I, will return. See, you wait here, and we'll go worship."

L-193 And he put the wood on little Isaac, a type of Christ packing His cross. Got to the top of the mountain. And little Isaac got suspicious, and he said, "Father?"
He said, "Here I am, my son."


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