<TITLE>12. Par 48-52</TITLE>L-48 And Abraham left the land, sojourned, called himself a stranger and a pilgrim. And look, Abraham as all mortals, not an immortal man, not a man that can't make a mistake, but constantly made mistakes. But no matter how many mistakes he made, his anchor still held, for he had the promise. So he took with him Sarah. He took Lot. He took his daddy. And as long as they was with him, God could not bless him.
The old man finally died; they buried him. They went on up a little farther, and Lot backslid, and you know what happened there. And then he separated himself from him. Then God appeared to him again, said, "Now, Abraham, look all over the ground; it's all yours." When he made the right choice...

L-49 That's it. Separate yourself from everything. I'll have to say this: look (I hope it finds its resting place, 'cause I never thought it, premeditation... ), maybe that's the reason some of us are not getting along so well; we're holding on to things that we ought to let go. It's separation: a little doubt, a little wonder, a little skeptic, "Wonder if it's right? Could this be? Could that be? How could it be?" Cut loose this morning. Hebrews 12:1 said,
 Let us lay aside every weight and the sin that doth so  easily beset us (The sin... What is that? The unbelief)... that doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience  the race that's set before us,
 Looking to Christ, the author and finisher of our faith...

L-50 Notice, Abraham here, then he got in trouble. Lot went down to Sodom and Gomorrah; you know the story. (We'll have to hurry, press. We can't get to it.) The 14th verse... And first thing you know, all the gentile kings come down there, come into Sodom, and declared war, and took Lot and... (Abraham's nephew), and took him on, and Lot's wife and the children and all the rest of them and left the country. And one of the kings of Sodom when he started to run, he went into the slime flats out there and fell dead. (Slime is what they made their bricks and mortar and built their cities out of. Just for a little pre-reading of this, you can read it when you get home, but because of the time being limited, we'll have to hurry.)

L-51 In the 14th verse: "And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive..." Brother, I like that... his brother... And look what Lot had done to him. But yet there was some kind of a tie that binds. If the brother has backslid, like the young man said awhile ago, the young minister here, that he had backslid and gone away, yet somehow, the Holy Spirit still calls for that person. When he's in trouble He's right there with him.
Abraham's brother was taken captive, and he armed his trained servants, and bore them on his--born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan. And he divided himself against them, and he and his servants, by night... smote them, and pursued them to Hobah, and then on the left to Damascus.

L-52 Abraham taken all of his servants and the armed men... Just think of the men that had been a pauper when he left the land down there in Chaldea of Ur. Had three hundred and eighteen armed men as servants. See?... (Say, "God don't bless you?") Three hundred and eighteen... You say, "Well, the--is that right?" That's what the Scripture said. He had enough servants to fight an army. And he overcome. Notice.
 And he brought... (He pursued them, took everything they had.) And... brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after he returned from the slaughter... and... the kings of a... of... the valley... and the kings dale.
 And Melchisedec king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine: and gave him... and he was a priest of the most high God.


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