<TITLE>09. Par 28-30</TITLE>L-28 Now, calling those things which were not as though they were, and he believed God. He said God is able to keep His promise, so he stayed with it. And God said, "Now, Abraham, being that you become My servant, I want you to separate yourself from your people, from your kindreds, from all that unbelief." You know, sometimes when we're prayed for, it's a good thing to do. Living in an environment of unbelief will certainly do you a lot of harm. God calls for separators.
You know what? The Christian church got so when they choose their pastor, it has to be a little fellow with a--a big bow tie on, and real curly hair, and smell like a polecat nearly, with perfume, and 'cause you think he looks nice and can stand in the pulpit and say, "A-a-men," so pretty, you call that your pastor. The trouble of it is, the Christian church today, we've got too much imitation Hollywood evangelism! Exactly right! I like the old fashion, backwoods, sky blue, sin killing religion that cleans up, sanctifies, purifies, and makes holy! That's right. That's what we need. They used to laugh at the old fashion, hell fire and brimstone preacher. We need... God, send us some more and take a lot of this Hollywood evangelism out of us. Now, that's not skim milk, but it'll do you a good.

L-29 My mama, when I was a little boy, we was raised poor, she used to boil meat skins in a--in a little bread pan and get some grease to put on the corn bread, make us some corn bread. We had it three times a day, little corn pones, some black-eyed peas, about all we lived on, sorghum molasses. And you southerners know what that is.
So, I remember every Saturday night we'd take a bath in the big old cedar tub. The first one got a good bath. The next one just a little water added. And then, every one a big dose of castor oil. Eating food like that, you just had to. I got so sick of that stuff. I'd start, and I'd hold my nose, and I'd say, Mama, it makes me so sick."
She said, "If it don't make you sick, it don't do you any good."
And that's the way preaching the Gospel. If it doesn't sicken you up right good, it doesn't do you any good. Right. The Gospel, we need old fashion, backwoods religion again: Peter Cartright and old St. Paul's revival, and the Bible Holy Ghost preached back into the church again (Right.), a cleaning from the pulpit to the janitor in the basement. You know that's the Truth.

L-30 So notice, Abraham took God at His Word and called those things that was contrary to God's Word as though they were not. Somebody say, "Now look, Abraham, here you are a hundred years old and Sarai's ninety. You know her womb is dead. You know your strength is gone."
He said, "Don't talk to me. God said I was going to have it, and that settles it." Amen. I like that. That puts the devil back in hell where he belongs. That puts God out here in front marching on. Seed of Abraham, being dead in Christ...
(My time is up already. That thing... Something's wrong. Maybe it's me.)


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