<TITLE>11. Par 33-36</TITLE>L-33 So, no matter what the outside world said, Abraham called those things that were not as though they were, 'cause God said so, and he separated himself. He never was blessed. God never visited him until he separated himself, even from Lot. Lot come up, started arguing, fussing over the pasture or the ground. Abraham said, "Look east or west, north or south; you take one way, and I'll take the other." (That's a Christian spirit.) "I'll take the worst side if it has to be. Go ahead. We're brethren. Let's not argue. You want to belong to the Assembly's, I'll belong to the other one. So, we'll just let it go. We'll be brothers." Oh, I just feel extremely good tonight, somehow. All right. Why?
Then, Lot took the easy way and Abraham took the rough way. "I'll take the way with the Lord's despised few." That's what the poet said. That's what we want to say.

L-34 Now, listen closely, if you will, just for a moment. Notice then as they went along, after he separated himself from Lot, God appeared to Abraham. And if you want him to appear to you, separate yourself from your unbelieving associates. Get out of that bunch of stitch-and-sew parties, that their telling dirty jokes in so forth. Get away from that thing. Associate with people who believe like you, who love you, who love the Lord. That's right. Separate yourself.
Then when he got himself separated, God said, "Abraham, look to the east, to the west, to the north, to the south. All this is yours. I give it to you." Said, "Walk through the land. See what you like about it."
That's good. I like that. When I separated myself from all different kinds of "isms" and that other, "Days of miracles is past," the Holy Ghost said, "You know what? Every promise in the Book is yours. Just look through it and see what you got." Amen.

L-35 You know, it's like a great big arcade. You know, we're baptized in this big arcade. If it all belongs to me, I'd go around pull this drawer out and see and see what I got in it. Belongs to me, mine. I get on a... Look at this, look in this corridor, back in here, test these things on this bench. I like to look around and see what I got. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... at it once in a while. And if something looks a little high, I'll just get me a ladder and get up there, examine the thing, see what it is, look in every crack and corner. Belongs to me.
And that's the way you are when you become a Christian. Every promise in the Book is yours! Page through it; see the good things God has got for you! Don't stay in the little cold tater and wait; get a whole big gastronomical jubilee. God has got here for you. Amen. Hold onto it. God said so. That settles it!

L-36 Abraham looked through the land. It all belonged to him. Then he got to be a hundred years old. My, looked like all hopes was gone, not to Abraham, though. I can hear some of them say, "Uh-huh. Look at the old fellow." Abraham didn't listen to that. He believed God anyhow.
And God called him out, and He said, "Abraham, I am El Shaddai. I'm the Almighty." Now, the word, "El Shaddai" comes from the word, "bosomed," means like "the woman, the breast." "I am El Shaddai," the breasted God, God with two breasts, like the woman. What does the woman do with the breasts? The baby that's sick nurses the breast. And when he does, the little fellow may be weakly; he may be sick; but he leans on his mother's breast and nurses her life through the breast, nurses life to himself and strength to himself through the mother's breast.


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