<TITLE>03. Par 7-10</TITLE>L-7 Now, the context... We'll have to go back now in the Old... Do you love the Old Testament? I just love it, because it's the nuggets of the Old Testament. We dig them up and polish them, and look at them. Each one speaks of Calvary. All of the Old Testament was a shadow of the things to come. And I just love to go prospecting, and get out the nuggets out of the Old Testament and type them with the New. And even the... In the simplicity of it, the children understand what it means.
An now, God, when He called Abraham, He called him by election, by sovereign grace. And the covenant that He gave to Abraham is completely and wholly unconditional. He never made any conditions about it at all. God made this covenant by Himself with Abraham: not, "Abraham, if you'll do so-and-so..." He said, "I have." Not,"If you have got anything to do with it..." God is determined to save man.

L-8 Now, in the garden of Eden, when God made a covenant with that man, it was, "If thou will not touch this tree..." Man turns right around and breaks his covenant with God. Man always breaks his covenant with God. So to make it assurance that it can't fail, God made the covenant with Himself, to Abraham, and swore by Himself that He'd confirm it and fulfill it.
And now, if you can only realize that you are Abraham's seed. The Bible said, "We being dead in Christ take on Abraham's seed, and are heirs according to the promise." And if you could see how sovereignly it was given to Abraham without anything he had to do, and know that it was give to you the same way...

L-9 You hear so many people say, "I sought God, Brother Branham, day and night." I beg your pardon: No man ever sought God. That's straight, but it's the truth. God seeks man, not man seeking God. The very nature of him in the garden of Eden, as soon as he had sinned, it should've been Adam running up-and-down through the garden, crying "Father, Father where art Thou?"
But it was God going through the garden, crying "Adam, Adam where art thou?" And Adam was hiding. And that's his nature today. Man's nature is not come out and confess his sins; it's to hide behind something. And they're still doing it. Jesus said "No man can come to Me, except My father calls him first." So it wasn't you seeking God, it was God seeking you.
And what a privilege it is tonight, to know that we are living under the shadows of the atomic bomb, and of a international destruction of God's eternal wrath and judgment to be poured out upon a disobedient world, and to know that we have the grand privilege to know, that we, who are called, that we never done anything about it ourself; it was God through sovereign, grace done it for us, nothing that we did to it ourself. God, by grace, called us.

L-10 Notice, Abraham was no different from no one else. He was just an ordinary man. He came down with his father from after the scattering of Babylon, came down in the valleys of Shinar dwelled in the city of Ur, in the land of Chaldea, just an ordinary man, and an old man. When God called him, he was seventy-five years old.
Now, some of you elderly people say, "Well, seeking Divine healing or the blessings of God," you say, "I'm just a little bit too old Brother Branham." You're never too old to God. As long as you got a surrendered heart, and a will to do the will of God, God always will receive you, no matter how old you are, or how young you are.
Now, how that makes us love Him with undying love, of how good He is to us, and how disobedient we are to Him, yet in all of our unloveliness, He loved us first and gave His only begotten Son, that if we'd only believe on Him, He'd give us Eternal Life. What a beautiful picture.


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