<TITLE>07. Par 21-24</TITLE>L-21 Now, you say, "That has an awful Calvinistic swing to it, Brother Branham."
That's right. It does, and Calvinism is all right as long as it stays true to the Bible; but when it gets off on the wrong limb, then it's no good. Arminianism, holiness is correct as long as it stays in Bible holiness, not your holiness but His Holiness. See? Then it's not my holiness. It's... I'm not depending on my holiness. I have none, but I'm wholly trusting in His holiness. See? It's He's the One Who did it. Not my works, but His finished works that I rest assured that I was received into the Beloved and when the Beloved was received by God, God received me in Christ; that settles it. See? No negatives, no ifs and ands. It's a finished work.

L-22 And now, when God called Abraham, him being seventy-five years old, and He said, "Separate yourself from your kindred." It's strange how we change that today. God called for separation. We call for mixers. That's right. The people when they're choosing their pastor, you that do so. Oh, they want a little slick fellow, you know, that'll take a sociable drink and not condemn smoking and a few of these things here, a good guy that'll mix with the crowd, but God wants separators. God calls for a total separation from the things of the world. "Come out from among them," the Bible says, "and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and I will receive you." See? Not a mixer, a separator... The Holy Ghost spoke, "Separate Me Paul and Barnabas to the work." See? A separation, God segregates His people, the right from the wrong.
Notice. Now, Abraham was to separate himself and to sojourn in a strange land that he knew not of. Isn't that a beautiful picture today? When God by election called you to His Beloved, then immediately God speaks to you to separate yourself from the old crowd, the pool room, the stitch-and-sew parties where they tell jokes and carry on--a separation.

L-23 And then He asks you to go in among strange people that you used to think was strange. They spoke a strange language. God calls His people on those basis, and Abraham... The covenant was given to Abraham, and only through Abra--if you're Abraham and his seed is the promise made. Remember that: only to Abraham alone and his seed. Why, you say, "Us Gentiles was left." Oh, no. We being dead in Christ take on Abraham's seed and are heirs according to the promise, if we have the faith of Abraham.
Now, here it is. Watch. A separation first thing from the things of the world... God speaks, and you move, and then He calls to dwell among strange people. Go to church to them people that sing and praise the Lord. One time you bowed your head and walked away, if you're in the presence where your mother was doing it. But where God calls you, you stand right with mother and your face shining like the morning sun. And get afraid?

L-24 Why, I seen a little woman many times that was so bashful they couldn't talk to an insurance agent that come to the door with their head bowed so timid. After once receiving God, could stand in the midst of a church and give a testimony that'd shake the shingles off of the top of the house almost. She's been somewhere. She's... Something's happened. See? Notice how God calls.
Then sometimes God does things in the most ridiculous way to the human eye. Did you ever think of that how God takes the foolish things and could confound the wise, how He takes the things that you'd say was silly, turn right back around and confound the mighty and wise. Look, friends, since Moses... Just for a moment. Off our subject, but it's... I can only speak as I feel it.


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