<TITLE>15. Par 42-44</TITLE>L-42 And now, we know there's three classes of people all the time. We notice it today. There has been Lutheran, Methodist, Pentecostals. There is the sinner, the ungodly, the sleeping virgin, and the true virgin. Always. Now, we find out there was the Sodomites, there was Lot, the lukewarm church, and here was Abraham had separated hisself from them and was living apart. Now, the very word "church" means "separation."
Israel was the people of God until they came into the wilderness, and being called out it was then the church of God. "Church" means "called out, set aside." And Abraham was the elected church. Lot was the sleeping virgin or the formal church. And then there was the sinner, the Sodomite.

L-43 Now, watch, the Sodomite and the formals down there, Lot in his formal condition... Now, he was a good man, no doubt. It said, "The sins of the city vexed his righteous soul." But there was a elected church, called, predestinated by God, Abraham, called when he was seventy-five years old, given a promise, to let the trial say it would be for sure. Wait till we get over in a little farther here where He made it positive sure. All right. Told him about the child he was going to have. And Abraham did not stagger at the promise of God. No matter how many extra dollars laid down here, and how rich he could be in Sodom, and what he could do, he stayed with God, kept the promise. That's the elect church. There's some of them in the Methodists, some in the Baptists, some in the Pentecostals. The elected church will be called out of all the groups. That's right. That's the one that hears the voice.

L-44 When Jesus came, the Lord Jesus Christ, why didn't they recognize Him? They never recognized it till it's too late. They never knew Elijah was the prophet of God. Why, they sent their children out to tease him, called him bald-headed because he went bald-headed when he was a little boy. They didn't know nothing. They didn't believe he was any prophet. Certainly they didn't. They never do believe it. Didn't Jesus say, "You're whited walls, you--you polish the walls of the prophets and you're the one that put them in there."
Look at Jeremiah, Isaiah, any of the prophets. They didn't recognize it till it was all over. And when John came, they didn't know what... Jesus said Hisself, "That was the Elijah that was spoke of." And they've done done to him what they listed, and even the disciples didn't know it wa--John was that Elijah. And when Jesus come, they didn't know He was Jesus; they didn't recognize Him to be the Christ. But those who were ordained to Eternal Life, "My sheep hear My voice." They recognized it.


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