<TITLE>06. Par 17-19</TITLE>L-17 Now, that's the background, a good background for what we're going to talk on for a few moments with Abraham. Now, God in the beginning in the garden of Eden, He made a covenant between Him and Adam. And Adam broke his covenant. Now, man always breaks his covenant with God, but God never breaks His covenant with man.
So God seen what was going to happen, so He made this covenant, after the world had begin to multiply, and got full of wickedness, and so forth. And they'd went up into Babylon, and--and the first idol worship was ever spoke of begin in Babylon. God searching out across the lands, to try to find somebody who would--was honest in heart, somebody He could give blessings to, and of all the people there was in the land, God, by sovereign election chose Abraham.
How many Christians is here tonight? Let's see your hand? Well, I believe it's about a hundred percent. That's fine. A hundred percent Christians, then I want to tell you something. It isn't very easy to say before sinners. Do you know why you're a Christian? Because God called you. You never did seek God at any time. No, sir. It's God seeking you. No man, at any time, has ever sought God. God sought man.
"No man can come to Me," said Jesus, "except My Father draws him first." The very strain from the garden of Eden, instead of the fallen sinner trying to find God, it was God trying to find the fallen sinner, and has been ever since.

L-18 God by election, remember, you begin before the world begin, spiritually speaking. When He made man, male and female, in His own image, which He was a Spirit, He knew when you'd come into existence.
Now, by election. Now, if you'll notice... Oh, we'd take plenty time, but we haven't got it to give. How we could give the background on this, how the--the patriarchs... For instance, Abraham. Abraham is election. Don't forget this anyhow. Abraham is God's election; Isaac, justification; Jacob, grace (Anybody would know I believe in grace, see what God did for Jacob); and Joseph, perfection. Then it run out. God showing His election in Abraham, His justification in Isaac, His grace in Jacob, and His perfection in Joseph.

L-19 So God called Abraham, not because he was any better than anyone else, but God called Abraham because He had elected Abraham. And He called him and gave him His covenant unconditionally, and told him that He would save him, and told him what his destination would be: He'd come to him in an old age. Already done, God was determined to save man. Man, there's nothing he can do, and he--he's a failure to begin with. So God by election called and saved Abraham.
You say, "Oh, brother. If I could only been Abraham." Now, wait. Not only Abraham, but his seed after him also He called and elected. Amen.
Now, my brethren, I wish, maybe... That might not agree just right, but just hold it a few minutes and watch. God, by sovereign election called Abraham, not because he'd done anything. He had come down from the tower of Babel with his father, and his mother, his wife Sarah. And he dwelt down in the land of Shinar, lived a pretty good life, as far as I know. And he'd go out, probably in the morning and eat berries, and into the bush and kill an animal for his protein, and then blackberries, and so forth. And he lived down in Shinar in the city of Ur, of the land of Chaldean, and God by election called Abraham. And said, "I..." Not "If you'll do a certain thing, but I have already done it." God had determined to save man, even against his own will, against his nature.
Man in his nature, is absolutely contrary to God's will. He's a sinner, borned a sinner, borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies, lost from his birth, nothing he can do about it.


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