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<div class="SSN_title">"BEING STRONG IN THE FAITH"</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. HE CONSIDERED NOT HIS OWN BODY NOW DEAD WHEN HE WAS ABOUT 100 YEARS OLD.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. One of the first things we consider are the difficulties, or improbabilities.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. We are prone to categorize things as easy, average, difficult, impossible.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. We often then carry our categories over to God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. If it is easy for us, then surely it is easy for God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. If it is difficult for us, then it must be difficult for God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. If it is impossible for us, then it must be impossible for God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Yet Jesus said, "With God all things are possible."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. To the prophet Jeremiah God said, "I am God is there anything too hard for Me?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Difficulty must always be measured by the capacity of the agent doing the work.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. If God is the agent doing the work any talk of difficulty is absurd.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Difficult is not a word in God's vocabulary.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. When I am facing a tough problem the first thing I do is try to figure out how God might work things out.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. If I only win the Readers Digest sweepstakes then my worries will be over. After all, I am one of the finalists.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. O God help them to draw my number.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. You see what has happened? I have figured out a way for God help me and my prayer is no longer a direct prayer, but a direction prayer.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. One of the major problems with direction prayers is that God often does not follow our directions.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. When He doesn't follow our directions then we are prone to say that He doesn't answer prayer.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. God said My ways are not your ways. I have found out that His ways are often far more simple than mine, and I wonder why I didn't think of that.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Another problem of trying to figure out how God might help me is when I can't think of any possible way out. If I can't figure it out, how can God possible figure it out?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. Nor yet the deadness of Sarah's womb.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. We seem to have a double problem here.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Abraham is impotent. "His body now dead."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Sarah has gone through the change of life. "The deadness of Sarah's womb."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Abraham did not consider these things.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. HE STAGGERED NOT AT THE PROMISES OF GOD THROUGH UNBELIEF.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. How many times we are guilty of staggering at the promises of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Let me give you a test. The Bible promises, "But My God shall supply all of your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus our Lord?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. How many times have you staggered at that promise.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. All things are working together for good for those who love God. Ever stagger at that one?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. The Old Testament gives us an interesting story of a man that staggered at the promises of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. <a onClick="return mV('2Ki',6,1);">II Kings 6</a> records the siege of the city of Samaria by Ben- Hadad the king of Syria.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The famine became so bad in the city that the jawbone of a donkey was selling for 80 pieces of silver.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. As King Jehoram was walking on the wall a woman cried unto him for help. He answered, "What ails you?" She responded this woman said to me let us eat your son today, and tomorrow we will eat my son. So we boiled my son and ate him, now she has hid her son, make her produce him so that we might eat him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. The King said, "God do so to me and more, if the head of Elisha is still on him by the end of the day."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. So the king sent a man to get Elisha's head.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. As Elisha was talking to the elders in his house suddenly he said, "Look what that son of a murderer is doing now, he is sending a man to get my head. When he knocks on the door hold him fast at the door for behold the feet of his master is right behind."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">7. So there was a rap at the door and the friends of the prophet pinned the messenger with the door and the king came up with his prime minister.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">8. Elisha then told them, by this time tomorrow they will be selling a measure of fine flour in the gates of Samaria for 65 cents. The man on whom the king leaned scoffed and said, "If God should open windows in heaven could such a thing be?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. You see, he was wondering how God might bring His promise to pass.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. All he could imagine is that God would begin to open chutes in heaven and rain flour down upon the city.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">9. The prophet answered, "You will see it but you won't eat it."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. That night there were four leprous men outside the walls of city who because of their disease could not enter the city but had been surviving on the garbage that was thrown over the wall. But lately no garbage is coming over, the people are selling it for premium prices.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. One of them looking at the others from his hollow eyes said, "Why do we sit here until we die? No sense of going into the city for they are dying there, let us venture over to the camp of the Syrians, if they help us we will live, if they kill us, we are going to die anyhow."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. So at twilight they headed out for the Syrian camp.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Four leprous men weakened by great hunger helping each other in the twilight darkness heading for the camp of the Syrian army.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. God caused the sound of their coming to be interpreted by the Syrian guards as the sound of chariots, and they surmised that the king of Samaria had hired the Egyptians to help who had arrived with their army and chariots.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. They began to panic and run through the camp crying, the Egyptians are coming.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. The whole army fled in disarray.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">7. By the time the four leprous men had arrived at the first tent, the camp was vacated and they found the table all set with plenty of food.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">8. They began to gorge themselves on the food and they went to the next tent and found food aplenty there also.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">9. They decided that they had best return to the city of Samaria and let them know the good news that there was more than enough food for everyone.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">10. When the word came to the king, he said, "It's a trap. The Syrians know how hungry we are and have withdrawn into the bushes waiting for us to open the gates and come pouring out, then they will pounce on us, don't let anyone go out."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">11. One of the king's men asked for permission to ride out to see if he could discover any of the Syrian army and in the morning he returned with the message that the Syrians had indeed fled, he went all the way to the Jordan river and only found their coats and sandals that they had shed so that they could run faster.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">12. The king put the man upon whom he leaned in charge of the gate to see that the people went out in an orderly fashion, however the people in their desire to plunder the Syrian camp, trampled him to death. So he saw it but he did not eat. The tragic price of unbelief, and staggering at the promises of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. BEING STRONG IN THE FAITH HE GAVE GLORY TO GOD.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. This means that he was praising God before there was any evidence.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Let us step into a time machine and set the dials for approximately 1900 B.C.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. We step off in Hebron and decide to walk to Beersheba.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Just outside of Hebron we see an expansive tent and many flocks grazing on the hillside.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. An old man sitting under an oak invites us to rest a bit in the shade and be refreshed before we continue our journey.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. As he talks with us he stops every once in a while to give spontaneous praise.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. We finally ask him why he seems to joyous and he informs us that his wife is going to have a baby boy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. We ask his age and he tells us that he is 100 years old and his wife is in her nineties.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">7. We ask how many children they have and he tells us that they haven't been able to have any children up till now.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">8. We then ask, "How long has she been pregnant?" and he tells us, "Oh she is not pregnant yet."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">9. As we continue our journey to Beersheba we say, "Leave him be poor old man, at least he is happy."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. BEING FULLY PERSUADED THAT WHAT GOD HAD PROMISED, HE WAS ABLE TO PERFORM.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. The question is can God do it?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Is He able to supply your need?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Is He able to solve your problem?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. You answer, "Of course." Great you already are on the way to the faith of Abraham. You already have one of the keys to faith.</div>
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