<TITLE>12. Par 42-44</TITLE>L-42 So He said, "Cut them." And he cut them in two, and he laid one against the other. And now, He said, "Abraham, I want to show you, My child (just ninety), I want to show you just how I'm going to do this now."
Now, Abraham said, "I want to see, Lord." Now, the first thing the Bible says that God caused a deep sleep to come upon Abraham, a deep sleep.
"Abraham, I'm going to show you, that you ain't got nothing to do with this. I'm going to do it Myself." The job's going to be right when He does it. Yes, brother, that's where I rest right there. God said so.
I'm not saved tonight because I feel like it. I'm not saved by feelings. I'm saved, because I have believed it and met the conditions the Bible required. The devil can beat you around the stump. Tomorrow morning you may get up with a headache and feel like you's a million miles away, but God's grace holds tight. Yes, sir. Yes, sir, not what you feel but what you believe.
Jesus never did say, "Did you feeled it?" He said, "Did you believe it?" And that's right. There's difference, quite a difference: Not by feelings but by faith.

L-43 And Abraham, God took him and put him to sleep. Now, showing... "Abraham, I'm going to take you out of the picture. There's nothing you can do about it. I--I'm going to do it Myself. I'm going to show you how I'm going to do it, Abraham."
So He put Abraham asleep, and when Abraham fell asleep. He'd kept the birds off until the sun went down, off the carcasses of the dead animals. And then when Abraham went to sleep, the first thing appeared before him was a horrible blackness: Death that comes to ever man, separation, can't see where you're going. Death is due to every unregenerated man. Death is the first to the human race, because of transgression of God's Word. And then after that he saw a smoking, burning furnace. Every sinner deserves to go to hell. Every human being should go to hell. Right. First death, after death, hell: that's what He promised.
But notice, next he saw a little Light come up--a little Light. Oh, my. This little Light went up and went in between these pieces of flesh, moving back and forth between them. Abraham, being a prophet, knew what that meant. God was showing him what He was going to do at Calvary. He was letting him look over the curtain and see Calvary yonder. Through the seed of Abraham, through Isaac would come out Christ and what the sacrifice to be paid.

L-44 Now, let's write it in a oriental language so he can understand it. Today, if Brother Jeffries and I would make a covenant with one another, well, I'd take a hold of his hand. I'd say, "Shake on it, Brother Jeffries." That's a covenant in America. We make a covenant with one another; we shake one another's hands, right hand of fellowship. "Come on into the church, brother." That--that's a right hand. That's a covenant.
In China, or Japan, rather, down there when you make a covenant, you make a covenant between one another, and then you get a little cruse of salt, and you stand and throw salt on one another. That's a covenant in Japan.


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