<TITLE>04. Par 11-14</TITLE>L-11 Now notice, Abraham just an ordinary man, but God, by election, sovereign grace, called Abraham, when there's many young men in the land in that day. There was probably some more capable of doing the job, as the world would think than Abraham was, but God knows the heart. That's it.
Sometimes, we wonder how God takes the foolish things to confound the wise, but God knows the heart of man. Men usually...
You people, when you are selecting your pastors, you usually slip the guy in; great big seven footer with curly hair and so forth, the Hollywood type. Sometimes God don't even choose that type. You want somebody that'll be a mixer, that'll go to the card party with you, and set in in the games, and--a mixer. Man wants mixers, but God wants separators. That's what's the trouble today, you can't mix the world with Christ. It just won't work. That's what the matter with the so-called Christian church today. You're trying to carry water on both shoulders. God wants separators.

L-12 One time, when Israel chose a king, their first one, they made a terrible mistake. A great big seven foot head and shoulders: Saul! And he become a backslider and done disgrace to Israel. God then made Him a choice. And He said to Samuel, "Get some oil in the cruse and go up to Jesse's house, for I'll show you who I've chose." And when he goes up to Jesse's house, Jesse was very happy.
So he had seven sons, and he called the biggest one, great big fine handsome looking fellow, said, "Won't he look nice with the kings robes on him, crown sitting on top of his head, look like the very image of the king?"
But when Samuel took the cruse and went forth to anoint him king, the Lord said, "Don't do it. I've condemn it. I haven't chose him." And they brought another the next biggest one; God said, "I haven't chose him either." So he brought the sixth one, and God refused him.
Samuel said, "Haven't you got another one?" Listen. "Haven't you got another one?"
He said,"Oh yes, but he's just a little old, scrawny, ruddy, knotty fellow, lives back out there on the back of the deserts, herding his sheep. He'd never make a king."
"So go get him."

L-13 And when little old David come in, sheepskin coat on, little crook in his hand, shepherd's staff, the Holy Ghost said, "Go anoint him, for that's My choice." See? God does the choosing, because God looks on the heart.
Sometimes that we think is a great churches, with the great spires, and the million dollar organ setting in it, that's where God is. Not all the time, that isn't true. God chooses a humble heart. I don't care if he is so poor he has to wear overalls, or if he is beggar in the street, if he's humble and willing to believe God, God will take him. That's just all there is to it. Amen.

L-14 Abraham, just an ordinary man, God called him one day and said, "Abraham, I'm going to take you and make you a father of nations, and you're going to have a baby by Sarah." Now, Sarah was his wife; she was sixty-five years old, ten years younger than Abraham, about fifteen years past the menopause, yes, better than that. But He said, "Abraham, no matter..." Probably he married her when she was just a girl, because it was his half sister. Said, "Now... But I am going to give you a child by Sarah." Him seventy-five, her sixty-five.


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