<TITLE>12. Par 42-46</TITLE>L-42 Now, God's going to do this. As it was in the days of Sodom. Always watch your three classes of people. There was the Sodomites. There was the religious world, Lot's people, in Sodom. And here was Abraham out of Sodom, out of the world, living in a place... He was the elect.
One day, standing in his tent door, he saw three Men come walking to him. They looked like men. They might've had dust on their clothes. But somehow, Abraham standing there, thinking about the goodness of God, when he saw Them coming, there was something begin to strike him. It's when we think on God; that's when we see things. That's when things happen.

L-43 It's when Cleopas and his friends from the--the first Easter, on the road down to Emmaus, while they were speaking and thinking about Him, that He stepped out of the bushes and begin to talk to him. It's when we're talking about Him, when we're thinking about Him.
We can't be out there running around, doing one thing and another. The church has got too many programs. We ought to get back to God, the old prayer meetings, and--and a real back Pentecost, back in the church. We got too much outside things to do, too many societies to take care of. We've got to come back. Yeah, entertainment... That's right.
The American people want to be entertained. They stay home on Wednesday night to see "Who Loves Sucy," ever what that program is. That shows what's in your heart. If you loved God, you'd be at church. You've got to get back to the church. Back to the Bible, back to Christ.

L-44 Here they was. There was Abraham, thinking about the goodness of God, twenty-five years, waiting for that baby. And here he was knowing that God was going to do it, and he seen three Men coming, and One of Them was God.
Now, this might be... If I--if I'm on here, just do like I do when I'm eating cherry pie. I don't throw the pie away; I throw the seed away. So you do the same way here. Just keep eating pie.
The reason I don't believe that's theophanies, is because that I'll tell you why. The man eat veal chops. He eat a calf that Abraham slayed; He drink the milk, and eat some corn bread with butter on it. He wasn't no Spirit, He was a Man. And Abraham called Him Lord, capital "L," Elohim (Amen.), God.
Someone said to me, "Billy, you don't mean to tell me you believe that was God."
"Sure."

L-45 God called Gabriel and one of His other Angels and said, "Come here a minute. Let's step down and look down in Sodom." Grabbed up a little handful of calcium, potash, and petroleum, cosmic light--sixteen elements we're made out of, went, phew [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.] and just stepped into it. That's all. That's our God. Sure, it served the purpose. That's the reason I know that someday He will say--call our name, and we'll come from the dust of the earth. God just throwed a little calcium together and stepped into it Himself, and had dust on His clothes, walked down there, and He was standing, and said...
Now, two of them modern evangelists after the ser... after they'd eaten and... Now remember, as soon as dinner was over, nobody seen any women yet. This One said to Abraham, said, "Where is Sarah, thy wife?"

L-46 Now we're at the close of the age, you remember, close of the age, close of Sodom and Gomorrah. "Where is Sarah, thy wife?" A total stranger--knowed he was married, and knowed who his wife was, and what her name was.
Said, "She's in the tent." And the Bible said that the tent was behind Him.
And He said, "I'm going to not keep this from Abraham, but I'm going to visit him according to the time of life." You know what I mean.
And Sarah, within her heart, in herself, she went [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.], laughed.
And the Angel, with His back turned to the tent and her in the tent said, "Why did she laugh?" While a modern Billy Graham, and a lot of them down holding revival down in Sodom and Gomorrah...


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