<TITLE>04. Par 15-19</TITLE>L-15 Now, we're speaking tonight upon "Faith." And I thought it would be nice, maybe if--if we would use this great character of Abraham for an example of faith, because it was to Abraham the promise was given.
And we'll kinda review the life of Abraham just a little, because he was an outstanding character. And he was a man who believed God. And now, he had no great background to believe God, because it's commonly believed that he was from a family of idolaters. He came down from Babylon, his family, dwelt in their land of Chaldea, the city of Ur, the valleys of Shinar, and was just an ordinary man. He wasn't no Angel. He was just a man like you and I.
And God looking over the earth to see for a men that He could put confidence in, that would believe Him regardless of circumstances, He found Abraham, and called Abraham by election.

L-16 Now, I want you to notice, this might take just a short time. I've got my watch before me so I won't go too long. God, the infinite, eternal, immortal God knowed everything from the begin, He knowed the end. When... There was a cycle like a--a panoramic, going around. And it's a perfect circle. That's Eternity. There's no end to a perfect circle.
If you start on top of the platform tonight, you could bore right through to the ground, all the way through the ground, right into the earth and through the earth and out into space, You'd still have a perfect circle.
And that's the way eternity is, just endless. And then, when Satan upset this program, there was a little--a block started back here and it just dropped down. And it comes along for a certain space, and it's called time. Then it goes back again. Now, it doesn't cease to be eternity. Some people say, that, "We--we'll be in eternity. We are now in eternity. Eternity just dropped down into a time limit, but it moves on."

L-17 Christ standing back at the beginning at the end when it started, He foresaw everything that would be. And He just come down to redeem the sinner, and to bless us, and went up and standing at the other end of the road, making a blessed, old highway across the way, that scarlet streak of the Blood. And some glorious day we'll take a hold where she's tied to eterni-- or time to time, and will give it a pull, and the church will be lifted out, and eternity will roll on just the same. He knowed all things. He had to be to be infinite, the immortal.
And back there, when He saw that it would take something great, He had the program in His own mind, when He seen that Satan had...

L-18 Now, Satan cannot create. Satan can only pervert what God has created. And sin... Listen, sin is only righteousness perverted. Did you ever think of that? Anything that's sin...
For you to be married and live with a wife, that's exactly what God said. Yet to be immoral is pervert. It's the same act, but it's to pervert what God has made right. See? And all sin is righteousness perverted, and Satan perverts what God has made. And He made you to be a son or daughter to Him, and Satan perverted you (See?), changed your way of thinking, changed your mind, changed your appetite, changed your desire.

L-19 Now what a good mess he's made out of the nations today. I think of how the nations has become so polluted. I'm speaking of ours in the U.S. All we've got down there is people with their heads sticking in the televisions, and radio, and this old silly music of rock-and-rolls, and all kinds of stuff like that. It's of the devil. It's of the devil.
And men and women will stay home from a prayer meeting to go and listen to that woman, Lucy, "Our Sister Lucy," or our, oh, some kind of silly thing. And what is it? I've got the crime records on it myself right from the files of the FBI which is--I have in my own possession, that all married, ninety percent of that, they're married four or five times, and caught on the street in filth and orneriness. And you stick your head to look at that, it shows what's in the heart.


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