<TITLE>13. Par 140-149</TITLE>L-140 Watch what it cost our heavenly Father. Look what He did now.
And there come Cain, and he made his offering. He worshipped. He went to church. He's just as good as the next fellow.
Esau was the same. Esau, in his character, was a better man than Jacob, more of a gentleman. He loved his father; and the things that he done. But God chose Jacob.

L-143 Notice now when Abel come to make his offering, well, it was quite a difference when Abel come. Here come Abel. He didn't work; he didn't try to find the biggest church in town to go to. He didn't try to find the nicest bunch of people to associate with. Amen. He just took something that he had and come on. That's all. He was a sheepherder. So he just reached over and got a lamb, and tied... I suppose they didn't have any hemp in that day, so he must've got a grapevine and just wrapped it around his neck.
But what did it speak of? They led Him to Calvary. He was the Lamb. Said, "Why was He born in a barn?" Well, lambs are not born in houses. They're born in barns. And they was led... they led to the slaughter like a lamb. And they led Him away, leading Him up Calvary. He was God's Lamb (amen) from the foundation of the world. When I think of it, brother... There come Abel's little lamb. There come God's Lamb.

L-145 When I think of it, my heart just turns over and over. When I think, me, a poor, unworthy, ungodly sinner, dying without God, without Christ in the world, without hope... And in due season Christ died in my stead, the beautiful One, and became despised and rejected, that I might be accepted in His sight, in my stead. Oh, I just can't get over it. I just can't imagine how He could do that for me. Who was I? Then, you say, "Did He do it for you?" Yes.
The Holy Spirit come, hunted me up, one day, and said, "He did it for you," and I believed Him. I believed Him. Yes, sir. I accepted Him, and I found it was so. No matter what the people said they was, "they were fanatics," or whatever they was; I believe God. And I... And He done just what He said.

L-147 I can see little Abel. Watch now. My, I can see Abel go and get this little grapevine, reach out and get a little male lamb, first from the old mother ewe, wrapped this vine around his neck. Here he comes, dragging him (Not much beauty to that, is there?), pulling him up there. Then he got him up to a big rock, laying there at the east end of the gate... Now, notice.
Cain had probably toiled all year to make the best of crop that he could, thought he could please God by that.

L-149 And many people say, "I'm going to quit lying. I'm going to quit stealing. I will quit smoking. I will turn to a better class of people. I will get in some society."
Here it is! God don't care about your turning a new page. He wants you to turn your heart to Christ, and let Him make out of you. Not what you can do, it's not by good works we're saved, but by His mercy are we bought. "Not by works, lest any man should boast." For we are--for we are God's because... It isn't what I am; it isn't what I do, myself. It's what Christ, in God, has did for me and for you.


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