<TITLE>02. Par 4-6</TITLE>L-4 Now tonight, to approach the Scripture, and the people in the tabernacle we're just getting started here, this is just our third night. And we're... Too bad that we only have two more nights left, but a meeting should continue at least ten days to two weeks to find the real value of the meeting.
But now, we're going to open the Word, and the only way we can do it is to pull It down with the leaves, but there's only One that can open the Word of God; that's Christ. And He's risen from the dead, as we see night by night, His visible proof of His resurrection. And tonight, we pray that He will help us as we read from His Word. My words is the words of a man; they just fail, like other men. But this Word is God's Word, which cannot fail. It never fails. So the reading of His Word will be a blessing to us.
Over in Genesis, I take for a Scripture lesson tonight, in the 20th chapter of Genesis, or the 22nd chapter, rather, and the--the 7th and 8th verse and then the 14th verse. And I'm kindy tonight, going to leave the teaching of Divine healing just for a little bit, to go into teaching a faith for a little while. And the Scripture reads like this:
And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold, the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for the burnt offering: so they two went both together.
Now, the 14th verse:
And Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-jireh: and it is said to this day, in In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.
And may the Lord add His blessings to His Word.

L-5 This marvelous text tonight, and we'll go back into the book of Genesis to get a little of the context. It is based upon the life of Abraham, which all men know, that Abraham was the one that God gave him the covenant. And the promise was made to Abraham and to his seed.
Now, one thing that I find in teaching, or in the church, that most people in this day, seems to be afraid to take a hold of what God has said. If God has said it, it's the truth. It--it can be nothing else but truth. It's the... This Word was spoke of God before the foundation of the world was ever laid. And the only way it's written in a book, because that He revealed His Word and plan to his prophets and apostles, and they wrote it in the Word.

L-6 Now Abraham, the promise was given to him. And it's a glorious promise. Here, this old man and his son going up the mountain, to offer up the son, a very beautiful picture of Christ. The whole Bible pictures Christ. And as they went up the hill, we find out that God appeared to Abraham there, in the Name of Jehovah-jireh.
Now, God has seven compound, redemptive Names. Those redemptive Names are inseparable. You can't separate one from the other. Jehovah-jireh, the Lord's provided sacrifice, Jehovah-rapha, the Lord's the Healer, Jehovah-manasses, the buckler, the shield, and--and so forth, seven compound, redemptive Names.
And as Brother Bosworth said that night in the discussion, when the Angel of the Lord had His picture taken with us; he asked Dr. Best, "If the compound redemptive names applied to Jesus? Yes or no?" That settled the whole argument. If He wasn't Jehovah-jireh, then He wasn't Jehovah-rapha. And if He's Jehovah-jireh, the Lord's provided sacrifice, He's Jehovah-rapha the Lord that heals all thy diseases, and He has to be the same yesterday, today, and forever, so that settles it. You can't separate God and put Him in parts. God is one. And we can't make parts out of God.


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