<TITLE>08. Par 25-27</TITLE>L-25 And remember, now, the next thing we find out, that Abraham, when this promise was given to him or his seed, the only thing they had to do to keep their covenant was to stay in the promised land. As long as Abraham stayed in the promised land, the covenant would work. Now, that's all they had to do. That's all Abraham's seed has to do. That's all you have to do. If you have been filled with the Holy Ghost, then you're Abraham's seed. Then if you have Abraham's seed, which is the Spirit of God in you, making you believe like Abraham, calling everything contrary to God's Word as though it was a lie, God's Word's true, stagger not at any promise just keep holding on to it, there it is. If you're Abraham's seed, then everything contrary to it is wrong. It's the Word and the Word alone--there I stand.
As Eddie Perronet wrote,
All hail the power of Jesus' Name,
Let Angels prostrate fall.
Bring forth the royal diadem and crown Him Lord of all.
On Christ the solid rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand.
That's Abraham's seed. Not stagger, "No matter what the condition looks like, what science says, what anybody else says, it's God's Word and I'm holding to it." That's Abraham's seed.

L-26 Now, you see where the Pentecostal church is today? Is weak as branch water. That's right. Just droop along like flies are falling off of them. Revival start, "Well, I can't stay up so long. That preacher preaches over an hour. How can I do it?" Oh, you poor excuse, you poor, miserable thing. Call yourself Abraham's seed, when Abraham longed to hear the Word of God. He prayed, and he held on until he got a promise. There he stayed. That's what his seed does too.
Now, when did Abraham's seed lose this great fellowship? When he went down into Egypt, he never lost his covenant; he lost his blessing. And that's what I'm trying to get to you people tonight. The Pentecostal church has lost its former blessing. There's something wrong. We know that. Anybody that ever read the history of the church knows that there's something wrong with the church. Now, you haven't lost your covenant, but you've lost your blessing. Come back in the promised land. Come back on the Word. Come back to the Christ.
Stop looking, saying, "Our denomination is bigger than theirs. They're old buzzards' roosts, and we're something." Stop doing that. Come back to the Lord Jesus. Come back to the real church. Reach out your arms for every fallen brother. There you are. Come back. God hasn't taken His covenant away from you, but your blessings is gone, because you've got worldly, went out in the world and begin to flirt with the world. Then you're out of the promise. But the covenant still holds. Only thing you have to do is come back, and then...

L-27 And when God made this covenant with Abraham, remember it was unconditionally. And God called you, not because you was a good person, but because unconditionally He called you, and by His grace He give you the Holy Spirit. You were a Lutheran, Presbyterian, Catholic, and by His grace He called you and gave you His Spirit. And the only thing you have to do is maintain in Christ, for that's where you... in the promised land. All that's in Jesus is safe, and as long as you're in this tower of refuge in Christ, then you're safe from the things of the world. But when you go to looking outside and flirt with the world, the first thing you know you begin to walk out of Christ. Now, you still have the covenant, but you've lost your blessing.
They've lost the Spirit in the meeting. The piano can play, the drums can beat, and women with their clothes tight enough--like skinned over a wiener, running up-and-down on the floor like that, jumping up-and-down. Let the music stop and they stop too. Earrings, and all kinds of fancy things of the world. Looks like some kind of magician, instead of a--instead of a saint.


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