<TITLE>13. Par 141-155</TITLE>L-141 Now, no matter how long it takes, It's going to happen. Now, He said, "A virgin shall conceive." Did you know it was eight hundred years before that happened? God foreknew the woman, who she'd be, what her name was, where that Seed would fall into. Do you believe that? Sure, He did! And from a literal womb would come forth this great miracle. God knew about it, He just revealed it to his prophet who was faithful and spoke the Word. Without even thinking about what It was, he just said It. He never tried to reason It out.

L-142   If you try to reason out... What if this man, this woman, or this man setting here, or somebody try to reason, "And I been crippled all these years. The doctor says, 'There's not a possible chance'"? Well, there might not be as far as he knowed, and that's true.

L-143 But if something can tear away them weeds, if God by His grace; not the preacher, not nobody else. But God to place into your heart a revelation, that, "I'm going to be well," there isn't nothing going to keep you setting there. There's nothing can hold you there, you're going to be well! But until that does happen, you're going to set right where the doctor says you're going to set; until that happens. It has to be revealed. It's the grace of God that reveals it.

L-144   Now, notice, God knew the woman It would come to. Notice Isaiah, there was no question. Isaiah didn't say, "Wait a minute, Lord! Wait--wait just a minute! What did You say to me? A virgin's going to conceive? Oh! What? Now wait, Father, there--there--there never was such a thing as that done."

L-145 He didn't hesitate, he just said, "A virgin shall conceive!" Right.

L-146   Notice Mary: "Now, now Lord, wait a minute. You know I--I never knowed a man. This is impossible! Nothing like this never happened! Ohhh, oh, no, nothing like this ever happened. How am I going to have this baby? I don't know any man, so it can't happen! Uh, Angel, you're just mistaken. I've got an optical illusion. You know, my church says, 'These days are gone.'" Nah! It would never have fell in such a place as that. Mary never questioned.

L-147 She said, "How can it be? I know no man."

L-148 He said, "The Holy Ghost shall overshadow thee. That's how it's going to happen."

L-149 She said, "Behold, the handsmaid of the Lord!" No question!

L-150   See, Isaiah, when God produced the Word by thought (revelation) into the heart of Isaiah, It fell into the right grounds, it was a prophet. That prophet didn't care for any man's wisdom. He didn't care for any man's intellectual. He didn't care about the person of anybody. He was a dedicated channel to God, and God spoke and he spoke. That's all. Whether it hurt, whether it didn't; whether it sounded crazy, whether it didn't sound crazy; didn't make any difference to him. It was God, not the man.

L-151   And when that Word went forth, now It becomes a Seed, It has to fall somewhere. If God said It, there's bound to be a womb somewhere for It to fall into. Just as He said, "All things are possible to them that believe. If you say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt in your heart, you can have what you said." See, there's got to be somewhere that's right!

L-152 Notice! Now, we find that Isaiah here spoke It.

L-153   The virgin Mary, as soon as... The grounds was already broke up. She had been a virgin. She hadn't "run around." The grounds had been already prepared, or predestinated by foreknowledge of God.

L-154 Even said, "She was a virgin." Right then God knowed what her name would be. Her name was on the Book of Life in Heaven.

L-155 Then, It was vindicated. Man then (to man) saw the expression of It by their works, when it was already done. Now we look back and say, "Sure, It was done," 'cause we see the works that was done.


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