<TITLE>10. Par 43-46</TITLE>L-43 Watch close, now. Then when He came down, the Holy Spirit, to talk to Abraham in the garden out there where he was laying on the hill. He put Abraham to sleep. "Now, Abraham, you haven't got one thing to do. All right. You lay here now." And Abraham went to sleep. "You're out of the picture."
And the next thing... Now, what's God go to doing? He's confirming and giving a evidence... close. He's giving a evidence or a proof to Abraham how He's going to do this (Amen.), how He's going to do it. Listen, if you want to be healed, how He's going to do this.
Then Abraham, "I'm shutting you out of the picture. I'm putting you to sleep." Then before Abraham come a black thickness after... Every sinner deserves to go to hell, blackness. Then after that, a smoking burning furnace: every sinner deserving. "Abraham, that's what you deserve." But beyond that, went a little white Light. That little white Light went right between those pieces of sacrifice, right back and forth, the white Light moving, showing, making a confirmation, showing to Abraham what He would do someday through his seed, Isaac, bringing on Christ for the supreme Sacrifice.

L-44 Now, a covenant has always been a strange thing. In China when they make a covenant one with another, they take a little salt and throw it on each other. That's a covenant. When we make a covenant with one another, we say, "Shake hands, put her there." That's a covenant.
But in the Eastern Orient, during this time, when they made a covenant, they went and killed a beast. They split it open. And they stood between this dead beast, and they wrote out their covenant. "I here--hereby say that a certain-certain thing..." And they write a covenant, their agreement.
Then they take this agreement and they tear it to piece. One piece is given to one man, and one to the other one. And when this contract... They take an oath over this dead beast. "Let my body be as this dead beast if I don't keep this covenant."

L-45 Watch! God was then in Spirit. How could God be tore apart? But one day God was made flesh and dwelled among us, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Emmanuel. And then there at Calvary, the covenant God wrote with us, He took the Christ to Calvary and tore Him apart, soul and body. And He took His body up to set at the right hand of His Majesty, and sent the soul back here, or the Spirit on earth to make a covenant to carry out the Gospel.
And the same dovetail power that Jesus Christ had, He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And the Church is given a covenant. The covenant is the baptism of the Holy Ghost which is the Seed of Abraham, bringing Him to us. And then God making this covenant that every man that's called into the grace of God, by the Holy Ghost, has the same promise that Abraham had of Eternal Life...?... Look.

L-46 Now, you can't have a piece of paper that just impersonates it. You can't have a piece of paper that makes just something like it. It's got to be the same piece of paper. And the same Spirit that was on Jesus Christ has come back on His Church, doing the same signs, the same wonders, the same Holy Ghost, the same power. It's the covenant that God has given to them.
And Jesus died there in the evening time when the sun was going down, confirming this covenant. And the Holy Ghost is on the Church tonight leading the Church, just like that He was here when He was leading Christ. The same way... The same ministry Christ had is in His Church tonight: same signs, same wonders, same Spirit. Same kind of works that Jesus did here on earth the Church has to do the same thing. If it's not, it is not the Seed of Abraham; it's not the Church of Jesus Christ: can't be.


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