<TITLE>12. Par 37-39</TITLE>L-37 Now notice, we find that Abraham, God told him, said, "Now, separate yourself from your kindred. Separate yourself from all of your kindred. Come out, be with Me and I will bless you. (Oh, isn't that wonderful?) I'll bless you if you'll separate yourself." But there's where the trouble come.
That's where the trouble comes. People don't want to separate themselves. They don't want to separate from their card parties, the things of the world. You try to bring that right into church with them. You have to separate yourself from unbelievers. Don't yoke yourself up with unbelievers. "Come out, and be separated," saith the Lord.
Now, the world's looking for mixers. You know many times, when I was in another denominational church, they used to tell me, say, "Now..." They'd say, "They--they... He's a real good mixer. I believe if we'd send him down there..." And sure, he takes all the ladies and their husbands and goes swimming; he--he plays bunco with them, and they have a dance down in the basement, and oh, a good mixer. God don't want mixers; He wants separators. "Separate Me Paul and Barnabas..."

L-38 God wants separators. The world wants mixers: some little Hollywood, kinky hair and so forth like that, can stand up and mix with the crowds. And the--the people want youth. They want some little fellow that's just got out of college, that knows all the cues and everything. They'll take a little fellow like that. But let them have to be operated on one time, see if they get a new doctor that's just come out, that's his first experience. Oh, no. To cut on that anatomy you want an old surgeon that knows what he's done, that's been a long... That's right. 'Cause you're very particular about this body. But what about your soul, letting some cut on that? Your body will die; it'll perish. That's right, but you got a soul that's eternal.
But you don't want to take the man that's been in the ministry a long time, and been through the battles and had the experiences, and stood by the dead--and the dying, rather, and watch them when they were dying, and see the--them little old experiences don't amount to a thing. They'll vanish, like everything.
When death strikes a person. Doctor shoots a hypo in them, and hear them scream for mercy and cry out and everything. That don't work. But I tell you, a good old case of salvation, look in the face of Jesus Christ with a clear heart, and praise God, die speaking in tongues... Yes, sir, a real saint of God, that's what holds at the day, the hour of the death. See? And that's... Some fellow just knows a lot of theology, and knows nothing about God... We got to know what God is, know Him by a personal experience.

L-39 Now, He said, "Separate yourself." But did Abraham do it? No, sir. And God never did bless him until he did fully obey what God said do. Now, I'm going to say this to the church. The church will never go no further until you fully obey what God said do. You just can't do it. God makes a promise. Abraham wandered about, and so forth, and God never did fully bless him until we get over in the 13th chapter of--of Genesis.
And we find out then that there rose up a little fuss between the herdsmen, and so forth; and God seen that coming on. So Abraham, being a Christian, like, he said to his nephew Lot, he said, "Let there be no quarrels between us, because we are brethren." He said, "Now, you take your choice. If you go east, I'll go west; and if you go west, I'll go east. Just take..." That's a real Christian gentleman. See? "You go one way, and I'll go the other one. Let's not fuss with one another. Let not our herdsmen fuss."


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