<TITLE>08. Par 33-37</TITLE>L-33 And God promised Abraham there just what He was going to do. So we took the covenant, how they made it. Tore the contract in two--one person made--took one part of the contract, the other person took the other part of the contract.
Now, when this contract was finished, they had to come together. And boths pieces of the contract had to dovetail. You see? You write a contract out and tear it, and then try to duplicate it one time. You'll never do it. See, because it's just the tearing of the paper and everything. It has to fit perfectly.
And when God made His contract with Abraham's seed, He took His Son, Christ Jesus, to the cross. Do you believe that? Then He took Him there, and tore Him apart as a sacrifice, lifted up His body from the grave, and set it on His own right hand, on His throne in glory, and sent back the other part of the contract, the Spirit, to the Church to fill the Church.

L-34 No wonder Jesus said, "The works that I do, you do also." His works were continued. How long? "Go ye into all the world. He that--and preach the Gospel. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; he that believeth not shall be damned, and (conjunction) these signs shall follow them that believe." How far? To all the world. How many? To every creature. How could the Apostles do it? It hasn't been done yet. So the commission still stands the same.
"A little while, and the world won't see Me no more." That Greek word "kosmos" means "world order." "The world won't see Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me ('Ye,' that's the Church), for I (personal pronoun) be with you, even in you, to the end of the world (Not the end of the Apostles, but the end of the world.); and the works that I do shall you do also."

L-35 "Ye abide in Me, and My Words abide in you..." Now, "abide" means to "stay there." If you take God's promise in your heart, "I'm the Lord that healeth thee," get it in your heart, let it stay there. Don't never take it out. Let it stay there. Act on it. "If ye abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, ask what you will and it shall be done unto you." Oh, my! That's the real truth. If ye abide in Me (the Holy Spirit, Christ), and My Words (My promises, all) abide in you (stay there), just ask what you will, and it'll be done to you, 'cause It's got to do it.

L-36 Then we find Abraham believed God. And then, when he was about ninety and nine years old... That's lacking one year, in being a hundred. Little Isaac hadn't come yet. He's still praising God for it, for he knew God made the promise. God has to keep that promise. God has to keep His promise in order to be God. Oh, if I could... If that could soak down on the left side below the fifth rib and then hang there. See? When God makes a promise, God is duty bound to keep that promise. He can't alter it. He can't change it.
We--we're finite. We can say, "Well, I'll be there." We should say, "If the Lord is willing." But see, we're finite. We can say things and make mistakes. But He's infinite, and He cannot make a mistake. And the...

L-37 Any time that He does anything, it's done perfectly. It can never be any better. And the way He ever act is perfect. If a sinner, the first sinner come to Him and repented, and God accepted him--his repentance, if the second sinner come, He's got to act the same way He did the first time. If a man come to Him for healing, and God healed him upon the basis of his faith, the next time a sick person comes, He's got to do the same thing, or He did wrong when He healed the first man. He made a mistake; God will have to stand, say, "I made a mistake by healing the people back in the days of the Apostles, 'cause I don't heal people now." Could you imagine God Almighty saying something like that? Never! It's not God; it's us! Nothing wrong with God, it's us, our faith: if you can believe it.


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