<TITLE>11. Par 34-36</TITLE>L-34 In the days of Abraham, and in the Orient, the way they made a covenant, they taken a--a beast, and they killed it and split it in two, just like you see Abraham doing for God's covenant. And they split the covenant in two. Then they write out their agreement, and then they take that, and tear it apart, give it to one and to the other. And they take a oath over this dead body: If they break this covenant, let them be as this dead beast was. What an oath. And this only way this covenant can be manifested, is for both men to bring both pieces of paper, and they have to dovetail together, just exactly like that, and that confirms the oath.
Now, what was God doing? He was showing Abraham how He was going to be the father of nations; through Isaac would come Christ. And at Calvary, Jehovah God, the Father, taken His own Son to Calvary, and laid upon Him the sins and sickness of the world, and there tore Him apart, and took the body up into glory, and sent the Holy Ghost back down for the church. And when the resurrection comes, the same Spirit that was in Jesus Christ, doing the same things that Jesus did when He's here on earth, has to be with the church, the covenant church, for when they come together the same signs, and the same wonders that Jesus did will have to compare with the body of Christ to make the Bride. Amen.

L-35 There is God's covenant. The Life that was in Jesus was tore out of Him and was sent back to the church. And the Life that was in Christ, being in you... Then Jesus His--His Word which He raised from the dead, is living among us tonight, doing the same works that He did when He was here on earth. Amen.
I'm so glad to know that. Jesus said, "If ye abide in Me, My Word's in you, you can ask what you will, and I'll give it to you." That's right. "He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth, and believeth in me shall never die," He said. That was His eternal promise to His church. "The works that I do, shall you also. Greater works than this will you do, for I go unto My Father." What a promise. Wonderful.

L-36 God took Abraham out when he was ninety-nine. Abraham was getting old. The stream of life was dead in him. Any man, woman knows what I'm speaking. Sarah, an old woman, and Abraham an old man, and he had trusted and waited for this promise to be fulfilled. Then what happened? God took him out and appeared to him in another Name, in the Name of God Almighty, the 17th chapter of Genesis.
And He appeared to him in the Name of God Almighty. In the Hebrew it's El Shaddai, which means properly, "the breast of a woman." Said, "Abraham, I am appearing to you now, as the breasted One. I am the mother. You're old; you're strength is all gone, but I am the breasted God." In other words, your strength is gone, but I am the One Who can nurse you back to strength again.
God Almighty, if He was that to Abraham, He's got to be it to Abraham's seed, for the same promises. And no matter how sick you are, how far you're gone, lay a hold of God's eternal promises and nurse your life back again. How far you are in sin, how black you are, you may be a prostitute from the street, but that same promise is to you, if you'll dare to take a hold of God.


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