<TITLE>17. Par 194-205</TITLE>L-194 He said, "Why, here is the altar, here is the fire, here is the wood, but where is the lamb for a sacrifice?"

L-195 Listen at these words now coming from Abraham's lips. "My son, God will provide for Himself a lamb for the sacrifice." That means, "God's provided sacrifice," Jehovah-Jireh. The Lord-provided lamb.

L-196   And when he bound his hands and laid him up on the--on the altar, imagine what a time that was now. After waiting for him for twenty-five years, and God made him, having him destroy the only thing that he had testified about all through the years. He was a reproach among the people, laughing at him. And here God says, "Destroy the very thing that's going to give you the only hope you can, that My Word is going to be fulfilled in you. I give you the boy. He's twelve years old. They've all recognized him, still made you a father of nations, but go kill your boy." Could you imagine that?

L-197 God just showing us. No matter what anybody says, or anything contrary to that Word, refuse to look at it. Real Seed of Abraham believes That.
"Destroy that son."

L-198   And Abraham laid him upon there. You can imagine, taking his little curly hair and rolling it back out of his face. And his little brown eyes looking up like that, and his little lips quivering. See that big-bladed knife come out of his father's... Think of a father. Laid his little head back, and pulled his throat back so he could stab him through the throat with this knife. Oh, in obedience to God! No matter what it looked like, he said, "I received him as one from the dead. God is able to raise him up." Raised back the knife and started.

L-199 And the Holy Spirit caught his hand, said, "Abraham, Abraham!"
He said, "Here am I."

L-200 He said, "Stay your hand." Said, "I know that you love Me and trust Me now, seeing that you wouldn't even... You would give Me your only son."

L-201   And just about that time, they was a ram hooked by its horns, in the wilderness, behind him.

L-202 I want to ask you something, brother, sister. Where did that ram come from? Look, you're back there, three-days journey from civilization, in the wilderness, where there is lions, jackals, and all kinds of wild dogs and beasts, and things back there would kill that ram right now. And, look, he is way up on top of the mountain where there is no water. And he had picked up rocks all around there, making this altar, and the ram wasn't there. But when God needed one, there it was. And it wasn't a vision. He stabbed it and the blood run out of it. It died. God spoke it into existence this minute, and Abraham took it out of existence the next minute. See? Jehovah-Jireh, "The Lord will provide for Himself a lamb."

L-203   The impossible for the ram to be there. If anybody knows about sheep in a jungle, in a wilderness like that, in there where all the wild animals and savage things back in there would kill that ram right now. It couldn't existed back there. And here, up on top the mountain where there's no water, no grass or nothing up there, and he wasn't there a few minutes before that. And just at the moment that God needed that ram, there it was; He spoke it into existence.

L-204   Just like He had appeared to him down there. Elohim, He needed a body, He needed a body to come down to earth in, so He just gathered up the cosmic light and the petroleums, and so forth, and stepped into it. See, He is God.

L-205 That's the way He'll do you, after you're no more than a spoonful of ashes in the dust. He'll still speak, and you'll be there. He'll call your name, and you'll answer. The Seed of Abraham, what a... that promise fulfilled.


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