<TITLE>06. Par 21-26</TITLE>L-21 Now, I want to take a text as this... We won't have time to go into it deep because we only have around twenty minutes. But in this time I want to hit some of the high spots, speaking on the subject of "The Unconditional Covenant" that God made with His people. I'm so happy.
Now, we're all acquainted with the Scripture, you Bible readers. And listen close, give me your undivided attention for a few moments.

L-22 Now, God in the... After the antediluvian destruction, when He saved the household of Noah, Noah and his sons and their wives... Noah had three sons: Ham, Japheth, and--and Sham--Shem. And out of those sprung the generations of peoples that we have today.
We're taught in another phase that the three wise men that came to worship Jesus, consulting one another, found out one was from the--the lineage of Ham, one from Shem, and Japheth, those three.
And Jesus said when this Gospel's been preached to Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people, then the end shall come. The three ancient fathers coming to pay tribute as they followed the morning Star to Christ...

L-23 Oh, something about the Word of God that when a man speaking of It, he trembles. And another thing, It blesses his soul in such a way; it puts something in him that nothing else can do, because it's the Word, the written Word, a Seed that will bring forth in its season, just as God has promised it to do.

L-24 Now, watch closely. Then immediately after the antediluvian destruction, God... These tribes begin to tribe off. And we notice the first time that Babylon appears... It appears in Genesis in the beginning. It appears in the middle of the Scripture, the Bible. And it appears over in the end of the Bible, in Revelations. The Seed, God willing tomorrow, I want to speak on that.
Babylon begins, as far as we know, was the first time Babylon was mentioned, it was connected with idolatry. And then as we see it, and notice it connected there in idolatry, the tribes went to this place... First, Babylon was called, I believe (I may misinterpret this word, I hope not), but it was either "the gates of paradise" or the "gates to heaven," the first interpretation of Babylon. Then it was called "confusion." And Nimrod established Babylon which was an ancestor of Ham. And there idolatry begin.

L-25 Then down out of Babylon... Down into Shinar went Abraham's father and Abram. He was Abram, first. And then he taken with him Sarah, his wife, and Lot, the nephew. And while down in the Shinar there, perhaps lived a peaceful life. Went out probably in the morning and picked berries and eat them, went into the bush and killed proteins of--of food, a beast. And then at night eat some more berries, peacefully.
One day, Abraham, no more than any other man, maybe, as far as we know, coming out of--of Babylon, perhaps an idolater... But God by election... God does the choosing. We can't choose. God does the choosing. We have nothing to do with it.

L-26 Man said, "Oh, brother, I sought God. I sought..." No man never sought God. Not in a man to seek God. No man at any time or at any age ever sought God. It's just vice versa. It's God seeking the man, not man seeking God. Jesus said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him." Is that right?
The very beginning... Man when he fell from grace, his nature was changed, and he run from God and hid from God, and that's still his nature. A man can never seek God while he's a sinner. God has to seek man. And...?...
As I was explaining to some people today, just like a pig and a lamb. Well, the lamb could say to the pig, "Why, look. You're nothing but an old slop-eating pig."
The pig would say, "Tend to your own business. I have no desire to be a lamb." And the pig could not change his nature no more than a sinner can change their nature. You're borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies. And there's not one good sound part about anybody. So who are you anyhow?


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