<TITLE>03. Par 12-18</TITLE>L-12 Now, tonight I wish to read some out of the Book of Romans, just for a background, Romans the 4th chapter and the 17th verse.
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him who... believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
Might read the next verse...
Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which is... of thy seed, so shall it be.
Now, what I was thinking of, that it's... I chose this for three nights, not of preaching, but teaching, so that the church would get a hold of the Scriptures and the promises.

L-13 For after all the great things that the Lord has done, I still see three wheelchairs setting here and two cots. Now, I don't know, this might be some of their first nights; I don't know. But it shouldn't be that way. They should be well. There's no reason why that one person can come from a wheelchair and the other one set there. That ain't like our heavenly Father to do such things.

L-14 It isn't right that that woman could write us that letter, those big cancers hanging out on her side and six or eight hours time they were gone. And a famous doctor here in the city said he never seen anything like it in his life. It isn't fair that your children would be afflicted. And little Rickey out here, Los Angeles' greatest cancer case, given up by all the fine doctors, and here they brought him to the platform normal and well. There's--there's no reason why we all can't be healed, because Jesus paid that price that we all could be healed.

L-15 So what, I have taken these three nights to kinda take my time and explain these Scriptures, that you might get a hold of the Scripture, so that you won't see that it's anything that man can do; it's something that God does for you when you believe what He's done for--for you, when you accept what He has done.

L-16 Now, the reason I chose Abraham, because that the promise was made to Abraham. We all know that. God made covenants with man and man always breaks his covenant with God. So in the case of Abraham, God made the covenant with Himself and Abraham, unconditionally. You know He said to Adam, in the Adamic covenant, "If you will not do this, and if you'll do that." Adam turned right around and broke it.
But in Abraham, it wasn't, "If you do anything." It's, "I have done." It's already a past tense. Abraham had nothing to do with it. It was God that did it.

L-17 And now, I want you to notice these three nights as we go through; it wasn't only to Abraham, but it was to Abraham's seed, Abraham's children. The covenant was made to Abraham and his children.
Well, you say, "That would be Jews." No, we being in Christ, we take on Abraham's seed and are heirs with him according to the promise. We are Abraham's seed if we are dead in Christ. We become Abraham's seed and are heir according to the promise.

L-18 Therefore, that every person that's been borned again of the Holy Spirit, truly born, not just thought they were born, not went through some emotion, not went through some sensation, but was truly borned... They could have all the emotion, sensation with it, but you could have the sensation and emotion and not be born. But those who are borned of the Spirit of God are Abraham's seed, not seeds, but seed, the promise seed. For it's through Christ which was the Son of Abraham.
If you can get a hold of this... Then if we are Abraham's seed, we got to have the faith of Abraham. And the Bible said he was like God, that he called those things which were not as though they were, because God said so.
Now, I want you to notice to begin with... Now, we'll just have to hit the high spots, because we got about eight or ten chapters here for three nights, just to skip over. But listen close and try to grasp the Holy Spirit.


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