<TITLE>07. Par 40-44</TITLE>L-40 Now, we are going to turn to Galatians, 3rd chapter, 29th verse and see how that could apply to us: Galatians 3 and 29, and just see how this circumcision could apply to a Gentile, if we are Gentiles, which by natural birth we are. Now, the first... I want to read the 16th verse.
Now, to Abraham and his seed were the promise made... (Abraham and his seed)... He said not, And to seeds,... (Just any kind of a... say, "Oh, I'm Abraham's seeds too." No. To a seed. Abraham's seed, not the seeds.)... as of many; but as of one, And to--to they--And to thy seed, which is Christ.
Christ was Abraham's Seed. Do you believe that? All right. Now, let's get the 28th and 29th verse.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, neither is there bond or free, neither is there male or female: for we are all one in Christ Jesus.
And if ye be Christ's, then ye are Abraham's seed, and are heirs according to the promise.
How do we take on Abraham's seed? By being in Christ, then we are Abraham's seed. And what was the seed of Abraham? As we might go on to Romans 4 and different places... Abraham never received the promise while he was circumcised. To show that circumcision was just a type, he received the promise before he was circumcised. And it was a type of recognition of his faith that he had before he was circumcised.

L-42 Now, when we are in Christ, we become Abraham's seed and are heirs with Christ; therefore, no matter who we are, Jew or Gentile... And the seed of Abraham--the seed of Abraham has the faith of Abraham, who takes God at His Word. Regardless of how ridiculous It seems, how unusual you act, how peculiar It makes you, you take God at His Word, regardless of anything.
Abraham at seventy-five years old and Sarah at sixty-five took God at His Word and called anything contrary to It as though it wasn't. What do you think the doctors thought of that day? What do you think the people thought when they seen an old man seventy-five years old going around praising God he's going to have a baby by his wife, and her sixty-five years old, about twenty-five years past menopause? But (you see?) it makes you act funny, the faith of Abraham.

L-44 And when you're circumcised of the Holy Ghost, It does the same thing to you. It makes you do things that you didn't think you would do. It makes you take God's promise and believe God.
Now, It's also, besides a--a promise and a sign, It's also a Seal. Now, if you will go with me unto Romans... First I want you to go with me to Ephesians 4:30, and let's read here just a minute. Ephesians 4:30 says this...
Now, you've heard so many people say that different things are seals. "If you go into the church, you have the seal of the church." And some people says it's keeping a certain day, a Sabbath day: "That's--that's the seal of God." Some of them says, "If we put our membership into a certain denomination, we are sealed into the Kingdom of God." Now, the Bible said, "Let every man's word be a lie and God's be the Truth."


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