<TITLE>20. Par 222-232</TITLE>L-222   Now watch, he called anything "contrary," and his body then dead, and Sarah's womb the same. Now, he was an old man, a hundred years old. Sarah was ninety years old. Now notice! The deadness of Sarah's womb or the deadness of his body wasn't even brought under consideration.

L-223 Listen to this.
For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
For if it was by the law... was by the law be heir, faith is made void, and the promise is... none effect:
Because the law worketh wrath: and where there is no law, there is no transgression.

L-224 Listen to this, now.
Who against hope...
"Against hope," all hopes was gone! Oh, every time I go to feeling a little "blue," here's the chapter I turn to, Romans 4, see.
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of... nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and called those things which were not as though they were. ("God said so!" See?)
Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of... nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

L-225 Now listen, 19th verse.
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither... the deadness of Sarah's womb:
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong... giving glory to God;

L-226   At a hundred years old? Look, his body now dead (his manhood), and Sarah's womb dead. He's... It wasn't even considered. When it's revealed to him, that dead is not considered. You're a paralytic, or whatever you are, that isn't considered. The wheelchair's not under consideration. Or the little boy, maybe paralyzed, whatever it is (I don't know), it's not under consideration. Don't even consider it.

L-227 "But the doctor said, 'He'll never get out of here.' The doctor said, 'She'll never come... '" That's not even considered.

L-228 "Well, look, I'm an old person, I'm getting middle aged." I don't even consider it.

L-229   And we are the children of Abraham (Hallelujah!), not as Isaac was, but his Royal Seed (through Jesus Christ) by the faith that he had, Abraham's Seed coming forth in the last days to shine like the stars. Abraham's children! "Considered not his own body now dead." Neither even considered it! It wasn't even brought into question whether God would do it or not, God said he would do it! Why? It was revealed to him. Is that right?

L-230 When it's revealed to you, when it really... something... You can't make it happen, it's got to be revealed to you. Then you don't even consider anything else: how impossible it is, don't consider what the doctor said, you don't consider what mama said, what papa said, what the preacher said, what anybody else said. You just consider what God said!

L-231   "He considered not his own body now dead, neither the deadness of Sarah's womb. It wasn't even brought under consideration. Oh, my, that just shakes me. Body dead, nor the deadness of Sarah's womb, not even brought under consideration.

L-232 No circumstances will be considered when faith finds its bedding ground! When a germ gene from a man finds the--the egg in the woman, and both of them fertile, something's going to happen. Hallelujah! The doctor can say, "You'll not have a baby. I can prove that your--your genes are dead in your body, and her eggs will never be fertile." But let that fertile egg, let that germ twist itself to that egg one time, watch what happens; that little boy or that little girl comes on the scene. Why? Faith has found its bedding ground. Works goes to work, cell on top of cell, and here comes the little fellow. Amen. God, have mercy upon us. O God, if we was rugged Christians like we should be! If we were man and women, you could take God at His Word. You can't do it until it's revealed to you. (I got to hurry)


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