<TITLE>06. Par 19-22</TITLE>L-19 They sent it away; it was tested by George J. Lacy, the head of the FBI in finger printing document of one of my critics. The next day when he... About four days afterwards we went to the Shell Building where he had been brought from California to test the picture. He said, "Whose name's Mr. Branham?"
I said, "Mine."
Said, "Stand up." Said, "Come here." Said, "I've been your critic." Said, "I've heard people say that about that Light and so forth." "But," said, "I said it was psychology." But he reached his hand, he said, "Mr. Branham, the mechanical eye of that camera won't take psychology." The Light struck the lens. And he said, "As far as I know, that's the first time that a supernatural Being was ever scientifically photographed in all the history of the world." He said, "Someday that'll be on ten cents stores." "But," said, "not while you're living, for the testament is not in force until the testator is dead." We know--we know that.
So that's sealed the testimony, and we're grateful to that, because God is still the same; He never fails. He's still the same Jehovah God. I'm sorry to have took that much time on that little picture there, but I'll try to hurry with my text.

L-20 We're speaking tonight of Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide a sacrifice. And keep this in mind, that as long as He is a Saviour, He is also a Healer. And He's also a Giver of peace. He's also our Shield. He's also our Buckler. He--every redemptive Name belongs to Jesus, and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Now, we start out for a little basic for a few moments on this text. We have to begin Abraham. Who was Abraham? He appears first to us in the 12th chapter of Genesis. Abraham was just an ordinary man who came down from Babylon, perhaps his father would--might have been an idol worshiper. But he married his half-sister, Sarah, when she was yet a young woman, and Abraham was ten years older than Sarah. And they came down into the valley the Shinar and in the city of Ur, the land of the Chaldean. And they were dwelling in a city of Ur.

L-21 And God, by His sovereign grace and election, not because that Abraham was better than anyone else, but because God by election, foreordination, called Abraham.
Oh, I just want to take my time. Every night I get nervous, because I'm afraid you people has to go to work and I'm holding you too long. But let's just settle down for a little bit and listen at the Word.
Abraham was just an ordinary man that God chose. He had nothing to do with it. And neither have you got anything to do with it, or neither have I got anything to do with it. It's God's business to make the choice. "Not him that willeth, or him that runneth, but God that showeth mercy." Altogether by election...

L-22 Now, and God made His covenant with Abraham, absolutely unconditional. There was no ifs and ands about it. The covenant was absolutely had no strings attached to it at all, and Abraham had nothing to do into it. God made a covenant with man one time which was Abel. And Abel broke his promise to God, or his covenant. And man always does break his promise to God. So God was determined to save the ones of Adam's fallen race. And so He made the covenant with Abraham unconditionally, not, "If you will do something, but I have done it."
And you say, "Oh, if God would make that covenant with me..." He did not only make it with Abraham, but His seed after him. You say, "Well, if I was a Jew." It doesn't take a Jew, outwardly is not a Jew. It's a Jew inwardly. For if we be dead in Christ, we take Abraham's seed and are heirs according to the promise. So the Jew is not the outward Jew, but the inward Jew by the Holy Spirit, by believing the promise that God gave Abraham. Oh, it's beautiful. It's perfect.


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