Jehovah-Jireh #2.

William Branham.

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Jehovah-Jireh #2.

Now we have been speaking upon thy loyal servant, Abraham, continuing on with him tonight, in his journey. We pray that You will bless us as we go down along the road of many hundreds of years ago, with a faithful servant who believed Your Word. May it be an example, as Paul said in the Hebrews, of what Abraham was, an example. And we pray that the faith that he had, will be revealed to us tonight; to believe the Word of God, and not doubt one word of it, but believe it all, and believe everything that He said. And may we be able to hold onto them promises that He has made us, and be the children of Abraham by being in Christ. We ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Abraham was ninety and nine years old, and all this time had never wavered, but believed God's Word; and called the things which were not as though they were, 'cause God said so, still believing that baby would come, holding onto the promise. What a man! What a brother! “Abraham, who against hope....” Sarah's womb was dead. He was sterile. His body dead. The Bible said it was, that his body was as good as dead. And Sarah's womb was dead. And she was now pretty near forty years a-past menopause, and still Abraham believed it, that she'd have the baby because God said so! There you are, it's holding to the Word 'cause God said so. No matter what, the creeds that covered it up, and still that Word laid there! It had to come. And that Word laid in Abraham's heart!

No matter how many says, “The days of this is gone, and that there.” As long as that Word is laying there, it'll be creative, because it's a germitized Word. For, God is the Word, and the life of God is in the Word. Notice now when that Word drops into the life of God, something happens, it comes to pass.

Now notice. Then He appeared to him in the name of Almighty God. Now, God has seven compound redemptive names. And He appeared to him here in the form of Almighty God, which means “El Shaddai.” In the... “Shaddai,” in the Hebrew. “El” means “strong one.” “Shad” means “breast,” like the woman's breast. And now instead of being “shad,” singular; “Shaddai,” plural. Now what a sweet consolation to an old man, a hundred years old, it's holding the Word of God in his heart, and here the voice of God comes to him and said, “I am El Shaddai. I am the breasted God.”
What consolation we have! Now, remember, not just “breast,” but “breasted”! “Wounded for our transgressions; by His stripes we're healed.”

Now, what does a mother, with her little baby, when he's sick and fretting? She picks up the little fellow. She holds him up to her breast, and he nurses the mother's strength into his own body through the breast. And not only is he satisfied or is he.... He is quietened. He is screaming to the top of his voice, he's all disturbed; but when the mother picks him up and puts him upon her breast, and begins to hum to him, rock him back and forth, he feels his mother, his head is on her bosom, and he begins to nurse and draw the strength from his mother, into his body. He's rejuvenating himself, building up strength; and also satisfied, while day by day he's growing stronger and stronger.

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El Shaddai! He said, “I'm El Shaddai. Abraham, I am the strong one. You're an old man. You're a hundred years old now, your strength is all gone; but I am your strength! Your hope is all gone; but I am your hope!” Oh, you suffering tonight out here with cancer and stuff, can't you see where your strength comes from? Not from the surgeon's knife, but from God's Word! “I am your portion! I am your strength! You draw your strength from Me!”

Not disregarding the surgeon now; he does his part that's up to him. But God is the healer. No surgeon, no doctor, no medicine ever heals. No, sir, they haven't got one medicine that will heal. Now, any doctor will tell you that. They got aids, but God is the healer. They might cut a gash in your hand, but God has to heal it. They haven't got nothing to build tissue; if they could, they could build a man. So you see, God is the healer. You can set a bone, but God has to heal it. God is the healer, “I'm the Lord that heals all your diseases.” And you can't make God's Word lie; it'll come right back to the truth every time, just right straight back. You can't make it lie.

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Now, when Abraham got this word, that “I am El Shaddai. I am your strengthgiver! Your wife, her womb has done dried up, she's forty years a-past menopause, your body is as good as dead; but I'm El Shaddai.” He just brought Ishmael, you know, but He said, “That's not him. No, he'll be a great man. He's going to beget so many princes. But the one that I made the promise with, is between you and Sarah.” That's it! Amen. Abraham felt real good.

He said, “Now I want to tell you something, Abraham. I'm going to change your name.” He said, “You're not no more be called Abram, but Abraham.” “Abram” means “high father.” But “Abraham” means “father of nations.” And S-a-r-a-i no more; she's Sa- r-a-h, “Sarah,” “princess.” Changed their name! What a changed name! Something taken place because they're.... See, there's got to be a change before things happen. He could not give them the child as long as their name remained that.

And you cannot be borned again as long as your name remains off the book of heaven. You might put it on every church, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, packing it from place to place, fussing with all of them; but it'll have to be put on the book of heaven before anything can be taking place, and new creation can come. Before new life could come, their names had to be changed. You may have to change yours, too, off of some of these man-made books, to the books of heaven. “And there, your name is no longer Abram, 'high father'; but it's Abraham, 'father of nations.’ No more Sarai, Sarai; but Sarah, 'princess.' ”

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One day the sun come up real hot one morning, Abraham was sitting out in the shadow of his tent there by the oak. And he looked down, it must have been along about eleven o'clock, and he seen three men coming, walking up, dust on their clothes. And Abraham run out. There was something in his heart that made him feel real good, and he run out and fell down at their feet. And watch, he said, “My Lord!” Isn't it strange? Three of them, but “my lord”!

Look at Lot. When two of them went down there, just two of them, he said, “My lords.” Lot called them “lords.” Abraham ... Lot called, two, “lords.” And Abraham called, three of them, “Lord! My Lord!” Amen! Oh, the time is at hand! Notice, he said, “My Lord, if I've found grace in Your sight, come by, sit under the oak. Let me bring a little water and wash Your feet, and take a morsel of bread. For this is only the reason You've come by, to see me.” They walked over.

He went out and went through the back of the tent, and said, “Sarah, knead some meal right quick, and make some cakes upon the hearth.” Went out and got a little calf, and had it killed and dressed, and made the chops, and brought some butter and some milk, and set it down before the men, and they did eat. And one of them was God Himself! That's what the Bible said. Now if you want to argue with it, go ahead. He called Him “Elohim,” God. He ought to know; he was talking to Him. Notice, “Lord God!” Now, one of them was God. And he looked at Him. Abraham recognized it. Now look at there.

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Notice. Now we find out, these men sat down and ate. And two of them got up and went down to Sodom. One stayed with Abraham. Let's watch their conversation. They kept looking towards Sodom. And Abraham knew there was something a little strange about that. So He said.... then when He got ready to leave, He said, “You think I should keep from Abraham; being that he's going to be the father of nations, I know how he'll bring up his children, so forth; the thing that I'm going to do?” He said, “The sins of Sodom has become so grievous till it's done entered His ears.” He come down to investigate.

Now remember, as I said the other night, two of those messengers went down into Sodom, and they preached to those Sodomites; and they blinded them that night, at the Word. But, remember, there was one; they had their sign, a stranger among them. Look at Lot. Lot sitting in the gate, and said, “My lords.” And living in such a way! They said, “Come into my house.” He said, “We'll sleep in the street.” What a home! But as soon as Abraham... they said “This is the purpose we come for. We sit down here by the side of you.”

That's the way. Live so, that if God would want to use you, He knows right where to come get you. You're in a position, living a life clean before God, your words are honest, your life is true. That's the kind of a place that angels come. Look at Elisabeth and Zacharias, see, honest upright, walking in all the commandments of the Lord. That's the way we want to live, so when God gets ready to use us, He can say “This is my people. I can do with this church what I want to. They believe me. They stand on My Word.” See, that's the way you want to do, live the life.

Now we find out that this angel, He said, “I'm not going to keep from Abraham. But I'm going to visit you according to the time of life.” And, notice, He didn't call him Abram, He called him “Abraham.” How did He know that that name had been changed? He was the one that changed it. Sure. Notice, never called Sarai, you know, S-a-r-a-i, Sa- r-a-h. “Where is your wife, Sarah?” How did He know he was married? How did He know he had a wife, and her name was Sarah?
And Abraham said, “She's in the tent behind You.”

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Notice, there it was. Sarah was in the tent, she stayed in there and behaved herself. Abraham was doing the entertaining of these angels. Now, and He said, “I'm going to visit you.” And Sarah was listening. And she laughed up her sleeve, she said, “Me, an old woman, as old as I am, and there my Lord also old, and say that we're going to have pleasure again as husband and wife?” And she laughed. And the angel, with His back turned said, “Why did Sarah laugh?” Remember, that was the last sign that the seed of ... or Abraham himself, which is a type of the church, it was the last sign that he received. From all the other signs that he received, that was the last one before Sodom was wiped out. That right? The last sign!

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What was it? God getting Sarah and Abraham ready to receive the promised son. Showing that the next thing after the manifestation of this angel of God, the Holy Spirit showing His last sign, the next thing, this mortal takes on immortality and we're caught up in the air to meet the promised Son, Abraham's royal seed. Glory to God! Hallelujah! “For we'll be changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, and shall be caught up together to meet Him in the air. So shall we ever be with Him, the promised Son.” Hallelujah!

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By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

Hebrews 11:8