<TITLE>07. Par 64-74</TITLE>L-64 Could you go to the pig and tell him he's wrong? He's a pig by nature. Could you tell him his diet is wrong? Certainly not. By nature he is a pig. You should tell him he would be a lamb, but he's satisfied as a pig. And a sinner is satisfied as a sinner, because his nature is a sinner.
And here it is. We are all borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies, by nature a child of disobedience, without God, without a hope, the wrath of God abiding on us. And by the loving grace of Christ, God in His sovereign grace and His omnipotence knocks at your heart and gives you the blessed opportunity, and turned you around and sent you up the road. How could you turn that down? Changes your whole desire, turns you around, and starts you the other way. Oh, you'll be silly to the world; but you'll be blessed in the sight of God. "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled," said our Lord Jesus Christ. God by His amazing grace...
Notice, it was what God did, what God called. You had no will to call. You could have had no desire to call, because your nature was completely contrary to it. But God by election called you, and turned you around, and set your affections towards Christ and the things above. How could we turn it down?

L-68 Then God showed in Abraham what He would do for all. Not only was this blessed promise of the resurrection and Eternal Life given to Abraham, but to his seed after him, the called, the elected of God.
And we notice that Abraham out in the fields where he was sojourning... His brother, he called it, Lot; it was really his nephew, his brother's son. And the time come for the testing. And Lot weakened under the testing. He is a perfect picture of the carnal believer today. When the testings come to stay on the barren land, Abraham give him his choice. And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw the fields, the valley, and it was full of grass. It was also full of fine homes. It was full of gaiety. It was also full of sin. But Lot being of the carnal nature, loving this present world more than the things to come, chose rather to live luxurious in this life than to have Life hereafter.
Abraham, a perfect type of the true believer who's been washed in the Blood of the Lamb, whose affections was set on things above said, "I'll take the way with the Lord's despised few. Regardless if it cost my popularity, whatever it cost, I'll take the way with the Lord's few." And he chose to stay in the land where God placed him, under the testing time.

L-71 I wonder tonight if I'm speaking to people who once made a start to go through with God, and when the testing time come you chose rather to go back into the world and do the things of the world, or did you take the rugged old way of salvation?
Did you do like Moses when he was under testing? When he had his foot on the throne of Egypt, but he esteemed the riches of Christ greater treasures than all the riches of Egypt. He forsook Egypt, did not care how much gold, how many popular, he took God at His Word, and he forsook the things of Egypt, counting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt.
What do we do under the testing when the hard trials come? When they say because that you separate yourself from the things of the world, that you're a religious fanatic, does the strain come? It's got to come. And you've got to make the choice.

L-74 But I'd rather abide under the shadows of the Almighty. I had rather take my way and like Jacob have a pillow of stone. I'd rather be considered by the world a crank, than to have all the riches and blessings that this world could afford to give. 'Cause greater is the blessings of God than all the riches and gold and silver of this world.


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