<TITLE>06. Par 18-20</TITLE>L-18 How could you tell a pig he was wrong by eating slop? See, he's a pig to begin with. That's his nature. That's what you was, a sinner. So you--you're alienated, cut off from God. You... How could you tell a leopard his spots wasn't right. See? How could he lick them to try to wash them off? He just makes them brighter. That's the way you try to do, to take a religion to polish yourself up to make a better creature out of you. You've got to realize that you are dead; you're no good at all. You're filthy, and God's the only One can help you. That's right. When you do that, then you're getting close to the Kingdom of God: when you reckon yourself nothing, and just solemnly depend on Him and let the Holy Spirit lead you. That's...
I think the church has been preached to death. The thing it needs now is to come back to teaching, and get in on the foundation, so you'll know how to build yourself up in--in Christ. And we've built our churches upon sensations and upon different things, but can't build upon nothing but Christ, the revelation of Jesus Christ. That's the only thing that we could do. In Him you are complete; without Him, you're lost. There's not a way in the world for you to be saved.

L-19 Now, when God called Abraham he was just an ordinary man. I want you to know, that you don't have to be any special person for God to call. God calls you by election, and Abraham was elected. He was seventy-five years old before God called him. And he had married his half-sister Sarah, and they had been living together for years, and she was barren.
Now, he come down with his father, in the group that pulled away from Babylon, and come down here to the Chaldeans in the city of Ur. Perhaps lived in a tent, as they did in that day, most of them, the poor people. And he--his diet was probably eating berries and so forth, and go in the bush and get the animal, and--and he lived a pretty quiet life.
But one day God spoke to him. Now, there's the difference, when God speaks to a man. He might've been religious; he might've been... If anybody ever read Hislop's "Two Babylons" and so forth, and see the ancient history of how... They had a woman up there that was a priest or something, and they had roots out of trees, and gods, and all the other things that the... like Jacob had among him, tribe, when he went away from his father-in-law.
So they had all kinds of curious ideas. But God called Abraham as an individual when he was seventy-five years old, and made a covenant with him.

L-20 Now, I want you to notice: when God made His first covenant, the Adam covenant, the Adamic covenant, was--He made it between Him and Adam. And man turned right around and broke His covenant. And every time that a man makes a covenant with God, he breaks it.
But this covenant was not made between God and man. God made this covenant with Himself. It's altogether grace. There's no--no law to it at all. He never said, "If you'll do a certain thing..." He said, "I have. I have blessed thee. I have made thee a father of nations. I have." The covenant is altogether grace, no law to it at all. How beautiful it is.
The only thing that Abraham... Not only did He make it with Abraham (now listen), He never only made it with Abraham, but his seed after him: Abraham and his seed after him. The covenant was made unconditionally to Abraham and his seed. You say, "Well, that would be Jews?"
No, sir. That's the nations. "I've made thee a father of many nations."


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