<TITLE>08. Par 33-36</TITLE>L-33 So death comes first. Then hell was the next, the smoking furnace. Then he saw a burning Lamp, a Light. Now, watch. And this Lamp went between each one of those pieces, making a covenant, that God, someday through the promised seed would raise up the Lord Jesus Christ to confirm the covenant with all the peoples of the earth, which Abraham was a father of nations.
Notice, he changed his name after that from Abram to Abraham. Now, notice the covenant. Now, in the--in America when we make a covenant... You people here who belong in the business realms, you'll call your friend out and have a sandwich and drink a cup of coffee. And then you talk the thing over and make an agreement. And you reach out and get a hold of your neighbor's hand and shake his hand, say, "It's--it's agreeable." That's a covenant. You shook one another's hands on it. "Shake on it."
You've done that a many time. I have too. "Shake on it." That's it. It's a sealed contract then, when you shook your hand.

L-34 Now, in Japan when they make a covenant, well, they got a different way. They talk it all over, and then they get a little cruse of salt. And they stand and pitch salt on one another. That's making a covenant in Japan.
But, oh, in the orients, back in the time of the Lord Jesus and up to His time, in the time of Abraham, when they made a covenant, they took a piece of paper and wrote whatever they made their covenant about. And then when they did, they killed an animal. And when they killed this animal, they'd separate it. And they stood in between these two pieces of--of this dead animal, and they wrote out their covenant. Just whatever it was, they tore it in two.

L-35 One man took one piece and one another. And when this covenant was confirmed, both of these pieces had to come together and dovetail just exactly the same. Both of them had to come together. And they took an oath that if they--this covenant was broke, let their being, their bodies, be broke just like this and this dead animal was that they were standing between.
What a beautiful picture of Calvary when God took Jesus up to Calvary and there tore Him apart, and He raised up His body and put it on the right hand of His throne in glory and sent back the Spirit that He tore out of it, the Holy Ghost upon the Church. And when we come together, and this covenanted people will have to have the same Spirit that was in Jesus Christ, will have to be in the individual, or he won't dovetail with the rest of the Body of Christ. Amen.
That may sound fanatically, but that's the truth. Just the Spirit that come from the Blood sacrifice... Amen. I'm not amening myself, but "amen" means "so be it."

L-36 And the contract that God made over the life of His own Son to tear Him apart, His Spirit from His body, and raise His body up, and sent the Spirit back to the Church... And we've got to be borned again of that Spirit or we're not in God's covenant. So therefore, criticize it, call it holy-roller, or whatever you want to; it's the baptism of the Holy Ghost that puts us into the covenant of God, sealed by the Spirit of promise. Amen.
Ephesians 4:30 says, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you're sealed till the day of your redemption." Oh, what a beautiful picture.
Abraham was strong then. Then he called those things which were not as though they were.


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