<TITLE>13. Par 48-51</TITLE>L-48 Now, let's skip just a little farther. We got about seven or eight minutes yet according to the time on the clock. Now, let's go just a little bit farther.
Then God wanted to make this oath--or confirm this oath to Abraham. Now, he's getting real old. Now, I want you to... Now, take your cherry pie now, and get your fork to lay the seed over to one side if you hit one. And then if you don't, then you lay your seed over and keep eating pie. And if you're eating chicken, I never eat the bones, but it never stops me from eating chicken. I just keep on eating chicken, lay the bone down. That's the way you do now, the same thing.

L-49 He's going to confirm the oath to him. So He said, "Abraham, get Me a--a--a heifer of three years old, and the--the ram, and so forth, and a turtledove, and a pigeon. So if you notice, Abraham made the sacrifices ready, and cut them in half, and laid them up against each other. But the turtledove and the young pigeon, he did not separate. Oh, if we had time to go into that on that Divine healing (See?), why he didn't cut those. But however, when he laid them together, Abraham watched then and kept the birds off of the sacrifice until the sun was going down.
Oh, now watch how He's confirming this oath. And oh, my Arminian brethren, set still just a minute and listen to this. Notice. Just as the sun was going down, a great horror fell over Abraham, death that's due to all men--horror. Then after that, come a smoking furnace: every man due to go to hell. But after that, come a little white Light and passed between these. Oh, my. Do you get it, what He's speaking of? Christ, you see?

L-50 Now, notice. Now, in--here in America, when we make a covenant, we go out and have a sandwich, and talk it over, and get up, and shake one another's hands. It's agreed. That's the way we make a covenant. In Japan the way they make a covenant, I understand, is get some salt. And they pitch salt on one another. That was a covenant, making a covenant. And we shake hands. Every place and every nation has it's customs.
But Abraham, in the Oriental country, the covenant was then, if they made a covenant, they wrote it out on a piece of paper, a piece of script of some sort. And then they killed a beast, and cut the beast open, and stood between this beast's body; and took this piece of paper, and took their oath, and tore it apart; gave one to one party, and the other party taken the other; and took an oath, that let their body be like this dead beast if they ever broke this covenant. See? And then when they come together, both those pieces of paper had to dovetail one against the other one, 'cause you cannot duplicate it in any way, the way it's tore; it has to be the same.

L-51 Do you see what happened? Look. God, through Abraham's seed, took Christ to Calvary. And He tore Him apart. Tore the soul away from the body. He raised up the body and took that part of the covenant, and set it on His right hand, and sent the Holy Spirit back to the Church. So the Church will have to be filled with the same Spirit that was in Christ, at the resurrection's got to dovetail, one against the other. Hallelujah. What is it? Abraham's seed. Glory. Oh, I feel very religious. Yes, sir.
See, you could join church; you could do anything you want to, but the Spirit that raised Christ from the dead has got to be in you. Amen. He tore Him apart. We got the Holy Ghost; He's got the body. Someday it'll join together, we'll be one. "That day you'll know that I'm in God, God in Me, and Me in you, and I..." Oh, at that day... You get it? Confirmed it with an oath by Himself, that that's what He would do.


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