<TITLE>08. Par 26-29</TITLE>L-26 Every promise in the Book is yours. Every amen and yea is yours. What you got to be worried about? Even old age, it shouldn't have a thing to do with it. Sickness has nothing to do with it. God promised, and God has to keep His promise. See what we're trying to do is get the scare away from you.
"Oh," you say, "I'm afraid the neighbors..." Well, then, you ought to come to Christ. You wouldn't go at your neighbor then. See? All right, but I'm talking about those that are in Christ. Don't care what anybody else says; it's what He said. A Christian doesn't look to the things of the world. They don't look at what they see. They look at what they don't see, but what they believe. The Christian looks at the unseen. So we don't see what we believe. If it is, it is no more of faith, but faith is what you do not see and believe, to cause you to believe the One that give the promise is true to His promise.

L-27 So Abraham, a man seventy-five years old, married to his half- sister, Sarah, and they came down from the land--from Chaldea the city of Ur and dwelt in the Shinar valley. Perhaps lived a good, long lives of people then. They'd go out in the morning and get some berries out of the bushes and eat them, and then along noontime go out and kill an animal with their bow or--or spear and have their proteins and so forth, and a few berries, and go to bed at night, lived a good normal life.
But this man, not because he was different, but because God... Oh, I just love to push it down. See? Because God saw grace in the heart of Abraham and saved him by election. Give him the promise. "You haven't chose me," said Jesus. "I chose you."
People said, "I just toiled and wrestled seeking God." Oh, no. It was God seeking you. You just wouldn't turn loose. No man seeks God. No man has sought God at any time, but man is a coward. He runs from God, but God seeks man.
Started in the garden of Eden: Adam running, hiding behind the bushes, God out running up-and-down the garden saying, "Adam, Adam, where art thou?" Father seeking his lost child, not the lost child seeking the Father... Same today... How we could dwell on that a while if time would permit.

L-28 But notice, God called Abraham and give him this promise, this covenant, not "if you will," but "I have," and not only to Abraham only but to his seed after him. And you say, "Well, I wish I was a Jew. Maybe I would be of the seed of Abraham."
Paul said, "That which is of the seed natural is not a Jew." But look, are we Jews, the seed of Abraham? Yes. Is Abraham's seed still being called? Yes.
The Bible said, "We which are dead in Christ take on Abraham's seed, and are heirs according to the promise." So every man that has died to hisself and been borned anew in the Kingdom of God by the Holy Spirit becomes a new creature in Christ Jesus, and take on Abraham's seed and got the same Spirit that led Abraham, leads his seed. Amen.
Excuse me for slobbering. I've been eating some of these grapes over here in Canaan, and it makes me slobber a whole lot sometimes.

L-29 Watch. Abraham chose of God. "By grace are you saved, and that not by works, lest any man should boast." Is that right? That's the Scripture, just as clear as the old black backed Bible teaches it. Yes, sir. By grace are you saved.
God calls you. "No man can come to Me except the Father draws him first, and all the Father has give Me will come to Me. (Amen.) He that eats My flesh and drinks My blood (worthily that is) hath Everlasting Life, and I'll raise him up at the last day." Amen. "Those who He has called, He has justified: and those who He had justified, He hath (past tense) already glorified." And tonight we're setting in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. What you scared about? God promised these things in the last days, and we're seeing them. Wake up. The time of visitation is at hand, from the Lord, the refreshening that He promised: that both former and latter rain both would be poured out in the last day.


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