Dive into a mesmerizing journey of faith with Brother Hardy as he unravels the profound story of Abraham’s unwavering belief in God’s promise. Embark on this theological exploration that not only highlights the failures of other forms of faith but illustrates how Abraham’s faith stands as the cornerstone of righteousness. Despite all odds and the passage of time, Abraham trusted in God’s word, embodying a faith that transcends human understanding and limitations.
Greetings, friends and new listeners. Welcome to this program of the R.G. Hardy Ministries. I’m Sharon Knotts, thanking you for joining us today because we know that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. And today’s message by my father, Brother Hardy, is certainly a faith-boosting, refining, and energizing Word of the Lord. Abraham’s kind of faith. What is it? Do you have it? Let’s find out together as we join Brother Hardy for Abraham’s kind of faith.
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I want to bring an illustration on the only kind of faith that’s acceptable to God. And that’s the fifth one called Abraham’s kind of faith. We showed you the failures of the other four faiths, but the only faith that pleases God is Abraham’s faith. He’s the only one that had it. That’s why he’s called the father of the faith. God, when Abraham was 25 and Sarah was 65, appeared unto him and And made a covenant with him and made a promise that I will make, I will in the future make your seed like the stars of heaven and the sand of the sea for multitude. How many say amen? And the Bible said without any doubt that Abraham said, I believe. I believe I say amen. It shall be what you said. And God then put down by his name, by faith, you are justified or you are in a right standing with me. And that is the basis of our salvation, coming in a right standing. And the only way to come in is by faith. Now, Abraham was 75, and it was a lot of doubt that he could have a son at 75. There was no doubt at all that Sarah could not, because she hadn’t had any in all of her fertile part of her life. She was barren. And I believe there was a joke amongst the caravan people that would have to stop at Abraham’s watering holes because he was a great shit king. And when they would go to meet him, because when Abraham believed, God changed his name from Abram, exalted father, to Abraham, father of a multitude. And when they would come and meet him in his tent, and they would introduce him, they would say, what is your name? He says, father of a multitude. Well, say, how many sons you got? Said none. Then he got mixed up with Hagar, his Egyptian concubine. Then father of none became father of one. I imagine it was a bunch of, you know what I mean, jokes about him amongst the people in the Caribbean. Father of a multitude, he haven’t got none. And then after a while they come back, well, a miracle’s happened, he’s got one. How many say amen? And for 25 years… He had to stand unwavering on that promise with him getting older and weaker and Sarah getting older and weaker. Her name was Sarah. But then God changed it to Sarah, huh? Princess. Because she was going to have a lot of leaders come out of her line. Amen? Amen? And I imagine the devil really tempted Abraham. Look at your body. You must have had a dream dream when you said you had that vision and saw God. Look at you. Here you are now, 99. Here Sarah is 89. If there was any hope in you before, it’s gone now. And Sarah never had any hope. And are you still going to say that God’s going to give you a son and make your seed like the stars of heaven and the sand of the earth? He said, you’re absolutely deceived. But I want you to see a picture. Let’s bring it up in the modern time. Here is Abraham 99 and Sarah 89. And they go to John Hopkins prenatal clinic. And when they come in, Sarah told Abraham, I have to go to the ladies room. And Abraham said, go ahead. I’ll sign you up. Prenatal clinic. And he comes up to the Woman, register and says, I’m Abraham, follower of a multitude. Says, I want to sign my wife up. I’m going to have a son. The woman looks at him. Because he’s 99. How many say amen? And she says, how old are you? He said, oh, I’m 99. I’m 99. but I’m going to have a son. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. She hits one of the other ones and says, we got a live one here. We better call a psychiatrist. This guy needs hope. All of a sudden, here comes Sarah, all 89 years, bursting in and said, have you seen my husband? His name is Abraham. And the nurse says, Come closer, because I think that he needs help. It might be the early stages of Alzheimer. Said he’s going to have a son. And she said, sure he is, and I’m going to be the mother. Said, how old are you? Said, I’m just an 89-year-old spring chicken. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. You know, because when God gave her that promise five years before, she laughed in doubt. But now she’s having a laugh of faith. Ha, ha, ha. How many say amen? Huh? 99 years old. 89 years old. A medical impossibility. There was no super drug that could change them. They couldn’t shoot him up with hormones or any other bones. The Bible said that his body, Abraham, was dead and Sarah’s womb was dead and barren. Everybody was thinking they should have went to the undertaker and set up their funeral. They were so old. It’s a good thing they didn’t have any older family They would have probably got them and committed them to an institution for incompetence. How many say amen? You couldn’t get a more unlikely scenario than Abraham at 99 and Sarah at 89 is going to have a child. Somebody said, Brother Hardy, why do you think God waited? Because you see, Isaac had to be a miracle child. He had to be a type of Jesus. And God waited until all physical evidence says that he could never have a son. Naturally, that it would take a miracle. How many say amen? And that was the promise that God said that day when Sarah died. laughed at her heart. Abraham believed, but she had a little waver in there. And God heard her in her heart and said, Sarah, why did you doubt? And you know, sin begets sin. She didn’t believe. Then she lied and said, I didn’t. God said, you did, you little fibber. He said, but I’m going to do it because my covenant was with Abraham. And he says, is there anything too hard? He said, how are you going to do it? He said, I’m going to return the time of life. I’m going to give you back your youth. I want to make you young again. I’m going to make Abraham, you Abraham, young again. In fact, Abraham lived another 75 years. His wife died. He married another woman and had a whole lot of more children. You talk about getting renewed. No wonder there’s so many over there in the Middle East saying they’re all Abraham’s seed. But the Bible said, only in Christ shall thy seed be called. Are you out there? Everybody say amen. You see, faith laughs at impossibilities. Faith lasts only at things that come through sense knowledge. Faith lasts the belief, I believe God. Ha, ha, ha, devil, do what you want. I’m going to have the victory in the thing which I believe God for. You see, he believed against hope. There was nothing for him to hope on. looking at her body and his own body and knew it was past. There was no expectation to come out of that. But he had faith anyhow. That if it takes a miracle, then God is a miracle worker and he’ll do a miracle. If God has promised you something and it doesn’t exist, that God by a miracle will create it, but he will fulfill his word. Not one jot nor tittle shall fail. It’ll come to pass just like he said it and I’m standing on it. I am not going to believe the devil. I’m not going to believe any of these lying insinuations, but I am going to stand on the promises. I’m going to stand on them. I cannot fail. Let the howling winds of doubt assail. How many say amen? I’m standing on the promises, and it shall come. And if it takes a miracle, that’s my God. He can do it. My Father’s a miracle worker. Do the miracle. Do it. I believe it. God said, is there anything too hard for me? I’m going to be his spokesman and say, no. And in 50-some years, I have found out that nothing was too hard in my life. And I can sing that song, Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I’m found. I was blind, but now I see. Through many dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come. Trust grace. That’s brought me safe thus far. And grace is going to take me all the way up in the rapture. And I’m going to get a changed body. Man, I can emphasize with Abraham because I’m 75. I’m 75. He got the promise at 75. But God gave grace five times five, 25. How many say amen? And you know the end of the story, don’t you? How many knows the end of the story with Sarah? Amen? God said amen. Right from the day, next year, the time of a woman, I believe it was 280 days, perfect gestation, period for a human. Sarah, when she was 89, or now 90, and Abraham, 100. But like a lot of these, huh, inscrupulous car dealers, God rolled the dates back. Amen. He rolled the bowels back. Amen? And what happened? She had a little son, and she called him Isaac. Oh, that was ribbing the devil. The devil’s been lying to them for 25 years and living because Isaac means laughter. She took that little baby after all that birth pangs of a woman, and she lived.
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Whoo! He did it. Hallelujah. And he said, she said, everybody that hears the story will laugh with me. Come on, laugh with Sarah. Laugh over your doubts. Laugh over your fears. Laugh over all the lying insinuations of the devil. Laugh at sense knowledge and tells you it cannot be. Laugh. Laugh at the insinuation of the devil. Laugh at the… because I believe God, and if I believe God, God’s able to bring something out of nothing and life out of death, and God is a God that cannot lie, and his word cannot fail. How do you like that, devil? Ha, ha, ha, ha. Give him a good clap, all friends. Whoo! Whoo! What a mighty God. No wonder Abraham was called the father of faith. Nobody had went before him. He didn’t have no illustration. He just believed God out of nothing. Let me read again a little bit of Romans about it.
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As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations. For for him whom he believed, even God, who quickens the dead and calls those things that be not as though they were, who against hope believed in hope that he might become the father of many nations according to that which was spoken, the word, so shall thy seed be. He believed God. How many say amen? God was going to do it. God had already counted it done and said, I have made thee. Amen? And yet he hasn’t a son yet. Let’s read the rest of the there. 19th verse, 20th, 19th verse. And being not weak in faith… He considered not his own body now dead when he was about 100 years old, either deadness of Sarah’s womb. He staggered not at the promises of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God. In other words, he said, I believe. Glory to God. Thank you. How many say amen? Huh? And being fully persuaded that what he had promised, he was also able to perform, and therefore God said, you are righteous with me. Abraham didn’t become weakened in faith because he did consider his own body, and he did consider his Sarah’s body, but he didn’t think that was an obstacle to God because God brings something out of nothing and raises the dead. See, in the Greek text, the not’s there. Not there, he considered not. He looked at his body. I guess the devil said, look at you. Look at Sarah. He looked at his body. He looked at Sarah. How many say amen? And he didn’t waver. He didn’t get weak. His faith strengthened him. How many say amen? He said, devil, bring all the evidence you want contrary to this, what God promised, I believe anyhow. Amen? Abraham overruled sense knowledge, and he kept his faith in In God’s promises. Abraham stubborn not at the unbelief. He didn’t vacillate. I believe. I don’t. I believe. I don’t. Huh? He didn’t stagger. The word stagger could have been he did not decide against the promises of God. Abraham looked at Sarah’s body, his body, and all the physical evidence that could be brought to him. And then he looked at God’s promise and knowing who God is and knowing he’s faithful and knowing that he can’t lie and that he’s got the power to do it, he made a decision. That Greek verse means he made a decision. We get the word judgment from it. He judged all of the evidence. There’s nothing wrong with judging the evidence. You need to judge the evidence. Everything the devil says, everything negative your eyes and all the senses say that it can’t be. And then you’ve got to take it to God’s Word. Now you’ve got to decide. Your whole life is made up, one, of making decisions. Are you going to decide for God or Or are you going to believe the sense knowledge? You’ve got to make a decision of faith. Every day, you’ve got to make decisions of faith. Is it too hard for God? Or has it become too hard for you to believe? Can God do it? I believe he’s going to do it. Let me show you about making a decision in healing. When God said, I am the Lord that healeth thee, that forgiveth all thine iniquities and healeth all thine diseases, and then if the devil comes and brings symptoms and shows you the opposite is true, we must make a decision. Amen? I’m the Lord God that healeth thee, forgiveth all thy iniquities, heal all thy diseases. When God’s joined together, let no man put asunder. And then the devil comes and brings the opposite and even negative evidence. Because a lot of times when you believe for healing, the devil’s going to come and make you feel worse. But if you doubt, you’re basing your faith on sense knowledge, what you feel. That’s not faith. What you see is not faith. How many say amen? You don’t throw your faith away. I hope. Abraham came to that decision. He rejected all of the evidence that that faith knowledge could bring. He stood on the Word of God, and even though it took 25 years to fulfill it, it happened. That’s why you’ve got to have hope, okay? It’s not about your confidence. Let me tell you about a story in my own ministry. Some years back, we were having a healing revival camp meeting. And a lady called me on the phone and said, my mother’s got a terrible tumor. They say she can’t live long. Can I bring her to church and can you help us? And I told her, sure, bring her because God can help. Amen. They were of another religion that didn’t believe in our full gospel persuasion. They knew nothing about faith. They knew nothing about God’s promises. They knew nothing about the gifts of God. But they just happened to hear that broadcast and it inspired them. So I ministered that night and then I called a healing line. And they brought her up in a wheelchair. That’s how weak she was. And I laid hands on her. They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. And I cursed that tumor. and asked God to destroy all those tumor and cancer cells. And like Jesus, when the widow with the issue of blood touched him, I felt virtue go out on me, healing go out. I knew God touched her. And I finished and went to bed that Sunday night. I had preached three times that day. Prayed for a lot of sick and was tired, and I was one out. But all of a sudden, the phone rings. And I pick up the phone, and the daughter says, my mother is awful of pain. We’ve called the doctor. He’s set up to operate on her. We’re going to take her. Pray for her. She comes through the operation. So I told her I would, and I prayed. try to go back to sleep well in the morning she called again she said pastor hardy when the doctor opened up my mother the tumor had already let loose and she was in the process of passing it and that’s why she felt pain like cramps she didn’t need the operation you see feelings told her that she got worse But the word, they shall land on the sick and they shall recover, said that she’s going to recover. So sometimes the devil will come and bring symptoms to make you feel worse than you did. Or he’ll bring something opposite of what you prayed for, but you don’t throw away your faith. You stand upon it. How many say amen? When I pray for somebody and believe and we agree, and you come back and tell me all your problems, I say, listen, I didn’t throw my faith away. Don’t tell me that stuff. I believe in what we believe. I’m standing on it. Do you believe what we pray? Yeah, let’s stand on it and let’s praise God. Let’s praise you for the answer.
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Amen. What an inspirational and soul-strengthening word of the Lord by my father, Brother Hardy, Abraham’s kind of faith. What do you need when you have prayed the prayer of faith, but time is passing with no visible fulfillment, when things seem to be getting worse instead of better, when you’re facing insurmountable obstructions and even setbacks, and you just feel like giving up? What you need is Abraham’s kind of faith, the kind of faith that won’t lose hope even when hope is against you, that will enable you not to stagger at the promise of God in unbelief, but to be fully persuaded that what God has promised, he is able to and will perform. You need the faith of our father Abraham who believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness. The Hebrew literally says Abraham believed God and said amen. And Paul told us in Romans 4 that we are to walk in the steps of our father Abraham. And this anointed, insightful teaching by Brother Hardy will tell you how you can walk in Abraham’s kind of faith, how you can have hope when even hope is against you. This entire message is on CD and can be ordered for a love gift of $10 or more for the radio ministry. Request offer 100. That’s offer 100. Our mailing address is R.G. Hardy Ministries, P.O. Box 1744, Baltimore, Maryland, 21203. Or order online at rghardy.org. That’s rghardy.org. Once again… The offer is $100 for Abraham’s Kind of Faith and your love gift of $10 or more for the radio ministry. The mailing address is P.O. Box 1744, Baltimore, Maryland, 21203. Until next time, this is Sister Sharon saying, Maranatha.
