<TITLE>17. Par 55-57</TITLE>L-55 After he'd went and brought his brother back, Abraham, brought his brother back then he turned right back, got into the same thing again, the same wallow. Then after that, God said, "Abraham..."
He said, "What you going to do for me, Lord? I'm going... I'm childless. Now, I don't have any children. And the only heir in my house is this Eliezer of Damascus."
He said, "But he is not your heir. I promised you that you were going to have a child by Sarah, and that's the way it's going to be." God sets His Word; It'll never change; It's just got to remain that way. God does it. And if we're children of Abraham we believe it just that way. What God says, that's it. No more to it.

L-56 Now, you say, "How will I know it, Lord?" Oh, this beautiful thing, don't--don't--don't miss it now. Read it when you go home. The confirmation of the--of the gift, what He was going to give to him now. Watch what He did in the 15th chapter. Abraham, He called him out, said, "Go, get Me a--a young heifer of three years, and--and bring me a--a she goat of three years, and--and a--a sheep of three years, and bring them." And Abraham cut them in pieces and laid them down. And said, "Bring Me a turtledove and a young pigeon."
But he didn't--did you notice he did not cut the pigeon or turtledove; he never divided that. He did the animal sacrifice, he did. But he did not do the birds, cut them. Why? God never changes His covenant upon Divine healing, because that was the Divine healing, turtledove or--or a young pigeon. They pulled the head off and let the blood drip upon the mate, and then the mate turned loose and it went around flopping its wings and the blood splatted out crying, "Holy, holy, holy, unto the Lord." That's cleansing of leprosy, what they did for cleansing. You see the... And that's a very type of our Mate Christ being killed, His Blood upon us and we spread across the earth calling, "Holy, holy, holy." The dead mate, Christ, Who died in our stead...

L-57 Now, he never cut the birds in two, but he cut the animal. Now, here's a beautiful picture. I don't want you to miss it now, class. But I--I don't think that that would do to tear that, I'll tear this. All right.
Now, in the old country, back in the Orient... Now, we have different ways that we make a covenant. What do we Americans do? We go out, say, we go to have something to eat. I--I want to talk like a business thing to Mr. Borders here, one of our campaign manager. I say, "Mr. Borders, I'd like to talk over some things." And what do we do? We go out and have a sandwich and a cup of coffee, or whatever we do, set there and talk awhile. And then we get up, we talk about what we're going to do and I say, "Would you like to do that?"
"Yes." And we shake hands. That's a covenant. We made a cove--we made a promise to one another and shook hands on it. That's the way we do it. If I was telling the brother here, "I coming down hold a revival for you, brother."
And he'd say, "Well..."
We might be setting at the table talking and--and then we'd get up and I'd say, "Is it agreed?"
"It's agreed." Shake hands with one another. "Put her here." It's--it's an agreement; we've agreed.
Now, did you ever know how they do in Japan? They talk over with one another, and they take a little bit of salt out of a cruse and throw it on one another. That's a--that's a--a keeper, a savour (You see?), a salt. They sprinkle salt on one another when they make a covenant with one another.


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