<TITLE>04. Par 14-18</TITLE>L-14 And we thank Thee because we have the privilege of meeting together on one common ground and sharing this wonderful fellowship in Your Word. And we pray tonight, Father, that You'll give us a double portion, if possible, of Thy Spirit and wisdom tonight, and may it be the exceedingly abundantly.
And now, we pray that the Holy Spirit will take the Word and feed each soul just as we have need. And we'll praise Thee for it for we ask it in Jesus' Name, Thy Son. Amen.
Using the word of "Jehovah-jireh" tonight as a way of a text... And Jehovah-jireh is one of God's seven compound redemptive Names. Now, Jehovah appears in the Old Testament in seven compound redemptive Names. And those Names are--are Jehovah's attitude towards His people. Each one express what Jehovah is to His people.

L-15 And all those names were completely brought together in one body, Christ Jesus. Now, He appears in the Name of Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide Himself a sacrifice." He appears in the Name of Jehovah-rapha, "the Lord that healeth thee of thy diseases," and Jehovah the banner, and Jehovah the shield and so forth. Whatever He is to His people, He appears in these seven compound redemptive Names.
Now, last evening we were going back and speaking on Abraham. And this brings it up to a climax tonight on Abraham. And now, we find... Last evening we found that God gave Abraham a promise when he was an old man of seventy-five and his wife was sixty-five, that they were going to have a child. And He made the covenant with Abraham, an unconditional covenant.

L-16 And we found out by going back into the Word, that when God makes a covenant between Him and a man, and with a man, the man always breaks his covenant. And God keeps His. So God made this covenant by Himself. God put it to Abraham, gave it to Abraham. Not if Abraham would do anything, but God said, "I have done it." See? It's already a finished thing. It's completely, wholly, with grace.
And it's not on no conditions at all. It's God's covenant with Abraham, and not only Abraham but his seed after him. Now, the seed of Abraham, physical seed, a material seed, of course, was the Jewish people. And the covenant was to stay in the promised land and God would bless them.

L-17 But we find over in the New Testament, that the Gentile church was drafted in. And it was... They are the wild olive tree of Ezekiel, and they were drafted in. And Paul tells us that that which outwardly is not the Jew, but that which is inwardly is Abraham's seed. We, being dead in Christ, we take on Abraham's seed and are heirs according to the promise.
Now, the reason that we're called Abraham's seed, because that Abraham's seed physically was speaking on to Isaac, and Isaac on to Christ, and Christ came and gave His life a ransom for us, and sent the Holy Spirit back which gives us the faith that Abraham had before he was circumcised. He believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness. And God gave him the sign of circumcision as a confirmation of his recognition of his faith.

L-18 And today, when we believe God with all of our heart and accept His Son, the Lord Jesus, and God recognizes that faith is true in Him, then He sends back down the Holy Spirit of promise and seals us until the day of our redemption. My. That takes all the scare out of all of it. There's no negative thoughts at all in Christianity. Everything is a past tense. It's already finished.
Healing is not what a man can do. It's what God has done. See? It's a finished work. Salvation is not what a man can do, what the Church can do. It's a finished work, and your faith in that finished work that Christ completed everything that was brought in the fall, Christ redeemed it back in His atoning death, vicarious suffering at Calvary's cross. And He was put in the grave, and God raised Him up the third day for our justification.


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