<TITLE>15. Par 47-50</TITLE>L-47 There was Lot, lukewarm; and there was Abraham, the third group. Now remember, Abraham had separated himself. The "church" means "called out." (See?) He didn't want any of Sodom any more. He didn't care what it was down there; he'd take the way of the rugged way to live close to God.
I wonder if men and women of Tifton, are you ready to do that? You know, we've been told that you have to be a millionaire, and have a fleet of Cadillacs before you can be spiritual. How different that is from real Pentecost. At Pentecost, they sold what they had and laid it at the feet of the apostles. And they didn't ask no easy way; they took the rugged way, and was happy and rejoicing to bear the reproach of His Name.
Today, we are so different, so different. We want everything easy. "If You promise me that I'll have everything easy..." God doesn't give promises like that. I like that old song of the church: "I'll take the way with the Lord's despised few." Abraham did that. Have for a pillow, like Jacob, a stone; no matter what it is, that's the way we must come.

L-48 Now, Abraham had separated himself; that means the Church spiritual. Lot was church nominal; and Sodom was the world. That's exactly the position we stand in today. There is the world, perverted. There's the church nominal, and there's the Church spiritual.
Now watch, while Abraham was sitting out under his oak, three Men came up. Abraham didn't know Who They were, and They seemingly didn't know Abraham. Perhaps dust on Their clothes, but there was something in Abraham; he wanted to hear Them.
Said, "Won't You drop over just a minute, and set down under the oak? And I will fetch a little water and wash Your feet."

L-49 Now remember, Jesus said, "This is the way it will be just before the coming of the Son of man." We see the churches and the conditions just that way: The world in its chaos, the church nominal, and the Church spiritual.
Now watch, when They set down, Abraham... As soon as he begin to look around over those three preachers, he begin to know that there was some little tinkling somewhere; where "My sheep know My voice." He said, "Now..." Run into the tent, run out behind the tent into the herd, and got a little fat calf, and killed it, and said, "Take, and dress it right quick." Run in and said to his ninety year old wife, Sarah, "Make a little hoecakes (as we call it here in the South) put it on the hearth, and knead your flour right good (or your meal), and lay it on the hearth. And bring me some milk right quick from the herd."
And he went back out, and he said, "Now wait, I'll fetch a little morsel of bread and You'll rest Yourself." And said, "Then You can go on Your journey."

L-50 They were setting there, three Men, dust on Their clothes--looked like men! And as far as They was, They were men. They were setting there. And after while, they got the meal ready, and Abraham slipped around with the servant, brought it. And I can see Abraham get the old fly bush.
How many of you Southerners know what a fly bush is? I used to have to fan the flies at the table when company would come, you know, before we had screen doors, way back in Kentucky where we had to live poor. Little old cabin up on the side of the hill, seventy five cents a day hauling logs, it was rough. No clothes...


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