<TITLE>08. Par 34-39</TITLE>L-34 Now, notice, Abraham, when he was given this covenant, he was asked to do something: that was to separate himself from the unbelievers. And every one of Abraham's seed that comes to God, they're asked to do the same thing. We're not to yoke ourselves up with unbelievers. Separate yourself.
You know, the world today is wanting mixers. You know, I heard them voting one time at a church. And there was a good old pastor standing there that I knowed. He was a real man of God. And he was to be voted, to see if they'd take him to the church. And you know that bunch of deacons and deaconess, they said, "We don't want him. We want a man that's sociable, and is a little mixer, that won't always be harping about drinking and smoking and these things there." They wanted somebody who would take a little sociable drink, go with them on their parties, and tell them little dirty jokes, little smutty things.

L-35 Listen, the world wants mixers, but God wants separators. That's right. Separate yourself from all the things of the world. God wants somebody to separate themself. And the children of Abraham, God's children, they separate themselves from the things of the world. The Bible said, "Come out from among them and be not partakers of their unclean thing. And I will receive you unto Myself, and you'll be sons and daughters to Me, and I will be God to you." Separators...

L-36 Now, Abraham had to separate hisself from his kindred, from his people. And another thing he was asked to do, he was asked to sojourn in a strange land, with a strange people, speaking a strange language.
Well, it's just the same today, just doesn't change. Men are to separate yourself and to walk with a different people. You young men that come to Christ, when you used to go down to the pool room, you stay away from that territory, and go with those boys who's goes to church and to prayer meeting.

L-37 You women that used to have your pink tea parties, and tell little jokes, and call it your stitch-and-sew and sew-and-stitch, and stitch-and-sew and talk about miss so-and-so, you get away from that kind of a party and go to an old fashion prayer meeting.
And in your church where you used to boil up some old tough rooster and sell him for fifty cents a plate so you could pay the pastor off. You quit that: the church that gets right with God, God's got a program how to take care of the preacher, if you'll just take care of that. That's right. You don't have to have soup suppers and all these other things. God just takes care of it if you just follow His program. We are to separate ourselves from all these things.

L-38 Notice. Now, and when Abraham started out, and he got going into a strange land, and finally by and by he didn't separate himself, and Lot begin... Trouble raised up. And God never did bless Abraham until he separated himself from Lot. When...
And that's the reason today... Church, may I say this with the heart of a minister of Christ; that's what's the matter with our church today, at our churches. We've got to absolutely separate ourselves from the things of the world. And as long as we're still hanging on to little old things of the world, God will never pour out His blessings and bless us the way He wants to, 'cause He can't do it. That's right.

L-39 Our gifts of healing, we know they're miniature. Our gifts of tongues, why, it's never hit its right place. The gift of prophecy's so frail and faltery. What's the matter? There has never been a real foundation laid yet that the church can be laid on.
What we need is an example. We need men and women who separate themselves from the things of the world, accept God's Word and build on that sound Gospel of the Bible. That's what the world needs today. Then you'll see great gifts poured out. You'll see great things happening, when the church gets united, and all the "isms" out of them, and start moving on.


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