<TITLE>06. Par 26-30</TITLE>L-26 Now, this covenant people, Israel, down in--in Egypt on account of disobedience and of selling their brother, Joseph. And was taken down into Egypt and was there four hundred years under bondage. I want you to notice. They never lost their covenant; they lost their freedom, not their covenant. When God made the covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He swore by Himself that He would save Abraham and his seed after him, God's duty bound to keep that promise. And He's just as duty bound to you on that promise as He was to Abraham on the promise. That's right, if you're Abraham's seed. How do you become Abraham's seed? "We that are dead in Christ take on Abraham's seed," says the Bible, "and are heirs according to the promise." Then God's just as duty bound to you as He was to Abraham. Say, that would take all the scare out of it. God don't want you to be scared of nothing; rest solemnly upon what He said.

L-27 What we need today is some man that'll challenge the hour that we live in. That's right. In a day when discrepancy and everything else has creeped in under the name of religion, and so forth, and under the name of salvation, the Gospel, we need somebody to be raised up among us like God raised up Moses to take the place in that day.

L-28 Yes. They hadn't lost their covenant; they had lost their freedom. They were slaves but the covenant still lasted. And one day down there, when they were groaning and crying under the taskmasters of Egypt because they had become slaves...
I want you to notice this beautiful picture. And this would be good for legalists. Listen. God never come down and said, "Now, if you'll do certain things, if you'll do certain things." God's grace provided a saviour, Moses. That's right. Not under any conditions was Moses brought, but by sovereign grace God sent Moses. Not only a saviour, but grace provided a deliverer, without any law, without anything. Just solemn grace of God, He sent down Moses to be a--a deliverer and a saviour of the nation, to bring them out.

L-29 When I think of that, then I begin to remember that the same God that was with the covenant people in Egypt, is surely, under all the strain and the indifference that the church is in tonight, He will, by the grace of His Own Being, send a Deliverer. We're just as certain to get a outpouring of the Holy Spirit in these last days, as we're setting in this church tonight. God has acted to the covenant people without any effort of theirs, but He sent freely from heaven a--a--to His covenant people an act of grace upon the sovereignty of His promise. He sent Moses. And in the same crisis, when the people is in bondage, and in... under everything, the yoke of sin and sickness and trouble today, He's just as certain to send Jesus Christ the second time as He sent Moses in the first time. When the crisis arose, God acted in sovereign grace. He's got to do the same thing under the same act or He did wrong when He acted back there. You see it?

L-30 What I'm trying to get at is this: The greatest sin I find in the church today is unbelief. That's the only sin there is. There's no other sin but unbelief.
How much of that is night out there? How much is dark? You couldn't say, "This much is dark" go out from my hands, it's all dark. Now, there's only one way to designate and to determine sin, that isn't by whether you drink, or whether you smoke, or whether you gamble. It's designated this a way: because you are an unbeliever you do that. That's true. Because you gamble, because you lie, because you steal, those things are not sin; that's the results of sin. That's because that in you dwells a different spirit. If you was a believer, a firm believer, those things would be as dead and black as the night is before you. Certainly. See, those things are attribute of unbelief.


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