ABRAHAM’S V-DAY
VICTORY
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He put the Word first and what happened? The ark went down first to the
water. And when it did, the sea opened up, the river, rather, and they crossed
over. Then what's he going to do after he gets over there? What's the next
thing's going to take place? When he gets over there on the other side then he
finds out they're all walled in because of the fear of him, when he comes over.
But he met the Chief Captain one day, and he had another V-day. He told him
exactly what to do, and the walls of Jericho fell down.
How's he going to do it? The natural man looking
through the glass there says, "Now, here You brought me over here, and
here I am. Look at the opposition. Why, they're all on the inside with their
slings. If we ever get close to that wall, woe unto us. They got rocks laid in
there, the big slings... They got spears; they got bows; they got everything
laying in there. And they just..."
But, see, Joshua put God first. And when he...
It
isn't how you're going to get there. That's up to God. Just keep on moving;
follow the Word. He said, "March around it seven days. And on the
seventh day march seven times. And on--at the last time around, sound the
trumpet." God's place to take the natural away, and the spiritual moved
in, and the walls fell. And they went right straight up and took the thing.
Yes, sir. God had a V-day then.
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Abraham had a V-day, after being promised so long for this
child, God testing him for his love and his loyalty, to whose seed we are if
we believe God. And Abraham had a V-day. When was it? The day that he
left the land of the Shinar plains? Not exactly. He crossed over (That's right.)
the Euphrates, and come on this other side to sojourn. That was a good day.
That still was a kind of a... But his main V-day was up on Mount Jireh,
when he got up there that day, when God give him the final test, when he
had his only son. He said, "Now, Abraham, take him up there to that
mountain and offer him up for a sacrifice. I've made you a father of nations.
Here is... The only thing that you've got to make you a father of nations is
through this son. And I want you to kill him."
Oh, you see it? Destroy everything. Destroy the very
purpose. "Here you are, Abraham, you're about one hundred and
fourteen, fifteen years old now. And you waited for twenty-five years for the
baby. And now the boy's fifteen or sixteen years old. And I want you to take
him up and kill him, so that I can make you a father of nations." Oh, my.
Yes.
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Abraham never moved. He never--never quivered at the Word of
God, said, "Yes, Lord. Here I go," picked up the wood, and took Isaac
right up to the top of the hill, just exactly in obedience. Why? He put the
commandment of God first. How is he going to be a father of nations, when he's
only got one son, and over a hundred years old now? How did he do it? Because
this he said, "I..." He perceived, that if God was able to give
him Isaac as one from the dead, He could also raise him up from the dead again.
Now, friends, the God that has raised us from the
things of the world and the corruption of this earth, can't He much more give us
Eternal Life, and put us in a land where there's no death. See? We look at
these little trials, and we think they're something. Why, they're nothing but little
testing times. See? God tested Abraham. But when he got
his V-day is when he went up there in obedience to the Word.
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And, He believed Abraham... Abraham believed God, rather. And
God said, no doubt told Satan, "I can just prove to you he loves me."
Said, "I... He believes that promise because I told him that." So he
took his own son up to the top of the mountain, tied his hands behind him,
that--the day God said so.
Little Isaac got suspicious, you know. He said (Genesis 22), he said--he said, "Father..."
He said, "Here am I, my son."
He said, "Here is the wood, and here is
the--the--the altar and everything. But--but--but where is the lamb (See?)
for--for the--the--the sacrifice?" He begin to feel kinda funny.
"What's--what's this all about? We--we've left off something."
Don't make any difference what you think you've left
off. You've left off the fellowship of everything else. Well, you have to have
your card parties, you have to do this. You have to drink a little bit, you've
left... You ain't left off nothing. Go on, obey the Word (See?); that's all.
Just obey the Word. You ain't left off nothing. Just obey the Word.
He said, "God said, 'Take him up here,' and
he'd--he would get up here on top the mountain. I'm supposed to do something.
When I there I'll do it." So he got up there, and tied his hands, and laid
him upon the altar, like that. Isaac never murmured: obedient (See?), type of
Christ. Then when he pulled the knife from its scabbard, and pulled his hair
back out of his face to take his life, that was Abraham's V-day (Oh, my.), when he tested
to that very limit of his only son.
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Now, if you're just spiritual, take that to the test when God gave the
V-day. What He loved... God so loved Adam's fallen race. We'll get to that in a
little bit.
Notice, V-day, Abraham's V-day was on Mount Jireh,
where the Lord provided for him a sacrifice instead of his son. Love (See?),
love... That day, Abraham proved to God without a shadow of doubt his loyalty. Abraham
proved to God his faith in Him, for he said, "I got this boy
when I was a hundred years old by believing a promise. And He told me I was the
father of nations. If He asks me to take his life, God's able to raise him up from
the dead." Whew. My, oh, my. That ought to make a Presbyterian
shout, wouldn't it? See? "Now, He--He--He give me the promise, and
He--He--He showed me now the--the evidence of this. Amen. He--He's proved it to
me, that He keeps His Word."
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Well, where'd He get us? What kind of a mess did I come out of? What
kind did you come out of? Where's our thoughts this morning? What has He proven
to be among us? There's no doubt about it. Amen. Our--our V-day is sure. We got
to have it. He's proved it.
Abraham says, "He proved it to me. I was childless. I was--I was an old man. I was sterile and my wife was--womb was dead. And we was--she was sixty-five and I was seventy-five, but God said 'I'm going to give you a baby by her.' That settled it. That was all there was to it." Abraham says, "I believed it."
Then God throwed him into twenty-five years of
trial. It didn't mean a thing to Abraham. He come out stronger than he was the first
place, still giving praise to God. No doubt God looked down and said,
"What a servant." Said...
Satan said, "Oh, yeah."
Said He, "But I'll--I'll prove that he loves Me. Take him up there top of the hill and destroy the very evidence. Take him up there." And Abraham went up to do it. That's right
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And Abraham, when he started to take his child's life, the Holy Spirit
grabbed his hand, said, "Abraham, stay your hand, I know you love Me."
Amen.
That's the kind of a person that I want to be: love God regardless of what takes place. "Stay your hand." Give you the trial where it's even against your own thinking, but as long as the Word said so, do it anyhow. See? "Stay your hand. I know that you love Me, 'cause you've not even withheld your only son from Me." Said, "Blessing, I'll bless you," said, "his seed shall stand in the gate of the enemy, and he'll conquer." Oh, my. He did too. A little later we're going to get that seed of Abraham there.
All right. What did... Doubts had gone from Abraham.
When
he heard the real Word, doubts left. When he seen God vindicate the
Word, doubts left. Love took its place. "I know
you love Me, Abraham. You don't doubt Me a bit. No matter how long you had to
wait, you still believed Me. I asked you to destroy the very evidence I give
you. Give you the evidence, then asked you to destroy it. And
you love Me so well, you keep My Word regardless of what it is."
Amen. That was a real V-day for God too.
