<TITLE>07. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 And we find him then, that God told him to separate himself from his--all of his kindred and to walk among a strange people, speaking a strange language. And we went through it, how God called separation. When you become a Christian, you've got to separate yourself from your sinful associates. That's exactly right. "Come out from among them, My people. Be separate, saith the Lord." It's a different walk. It's an individual walk. It's a walk between you and God alone, and just you and He. Just two can travel the road; that's you and He.
And then--then, the next thing we find out as God... As Abraham began to get older, the promise was farther off. Sarah got older. But Abraham, maybe after ten years was passed or fifteen years was passed, Abraham would go to Sarah and say, "How do you feel now, honey?"
"No different at all, Abraham."
He'd say, "Praise God, we're going to have it anyhow. God said so. That settles it." That was what Abraham believed.

L-30 And then we find out that one day he questioned God. "Seeing, Lord, that I go childless and I have no children, and there's one in my household, that's this Eliezer. And he's from Damascus. And seeing that I go childless. And he will take all my inheritance..."
He said, "But he will not be your heir, but one from your own bowels will be your heir."
He said, "Lord, how will this be?" Then God confirmed His covenant and His oath to Abraham. I want you to watch something here. Watch how He did it. Oh, them old nuggets, how beautiful they are. And He said, "Go get Me a heifer of three years old. And go get Me a she goat of three years old and a ram (Watch the two females.), and the ram. And a turtledove and a pigeon." Turtledoves and pigeon...

L-31 And he went and killed the animals, and cut them in two, laid piece to piece. But the turtledoves, he did not separate or the pigeons. If we just had time to go into that, the turtledove is represents Divine healing. The atonement changed. The--the time changed the law from grace. But God has always through all times, not by--not by laws or actions, but always through grace has had a way for healing for His people. The brass serpent, the pool at the Bethesda, all the way He's always had a healing atonement for His people.
But these--these animals that were cut apart and laid piece by piece... Then Abraham watched the--the fowls of the air, as they started to come down to get on them. And Abraham drove them away until the going down of the sun.

L-32 Then as the sun went down (Notice what happened now.), God caused a deep sleep to fall on Abraham. In other wise, "Abraham, I'm just taking you out of the picture. There's nothing you can do about it. This is what I'm going to do. I'm determined to save man that wants to be saved." And He took Abraham and put him to sleep. And when Abraham went to sleep, the first thing he saw was a great darkness and a horror. That's death.
Every man that's borned on earth meets death. Then after that he seen a smoking furnace. And every man is deserving of hell, for you're borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies. There's nothing good about us to begin with.


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