<TITLE>16. Par 59-61</TITLE>L-59 Do you notice when He said in the days of Noah, He give what they were doing, so that the spiritual mind would be able to pick it up. He's hid it from the eyes of the wise and prudent. Get on your spiritual eyesight now; get on your spiritual understanding. He said, "As it was in the days of Noah, they were eating, drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage." But He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of Man." Now, watch.
We've always had three classes of people, three races of people, three different stages of the people. Look, there was a Sodomite sinner to who wouldn't have it. There was Lot, the lukewarm church member down there preaching in Sodom. And there was Abraham, the called out and elected. I feel religious right now. All the called out, the separated people... The church means "separated, called out from the world."

L-60 There was Abraham, the called out, having life kindy hard, persecuted and made fun of, setting out in the wilderness on the bare ground in the shade of the oak tree. But when the hour of the message came, he looked up in the heat of the day, and he seen three Men coming up, dust all over Their clothes. And Abraham looked again; he knowed there was just something about it. A real borned again child of God knows the Spirit of God when It strikes. Yes, sir. "My sheep know My voice."
Abraham looked real quick. He walked out where They was, and said, "Turn aside. Come, set under the oak a little bit and let--rest Yourselves. And I'll fetch You a little water and wash Your feet, and I'll give You a morsel of bread. Then go on Your way."

L-61 Well, they come by and set down, Strangers from a strange land, oh, sure, a long ways away. And They set down under the tree. He slipped in the tent. Let's break in on their conversation. "Sarah, honey, just as certain as I'm standing there, there He stands right out there. Go right quick and start me, getting this meal ready; sift through it real good and get it fired upon the hearth there. I want you to bake some cakes."
He run out, and felt around, and got the fattest little calf he could find, slayed it, and had it dressed, and come out and fed Them meat and milk and bread. And I can see old Abraham with the fly bush, you know, as it was a shoo--shooing the flies. How many Kentuckians are in here, difference, knows what a fly bush is? No, I'm too far away from home. Oh, no, I am not. No, that's right.
Yes, sir. Well, I've stood many times at the table with a--a... Mom used to make a paper thing on a stick when I couldn't get a green brush, you know, and shoo the flies when we didn't have no screens, little old cabin door, and no floor on the thing. And just a little old bed in the corner made out of shucks, and... Why, certainly, corn shucks. I seen my daddy with a corn shuck shaving brush like that--take that corn shucks for--make a shaving brush. We lived hard.


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