<TITLE>15. Par 63-66</TITLE>L-63 Well, what if that baby leaves its mothers breast and won't nurse any more? It'll die. And when we take God as our Healer and then say, "Oh, well, maybe I was wrong." No, Abraham's children doesn't do that. They hold right onto that promise, and nurse from it. If it's salvation, the Holy Ghost, "He was wounded for our transgressions." If it's healing for the body, "by His stripes we were healed." He's the Breasted God.
What a... He... What was He doing? He was getting Abraham in condition to receive the miracle that was fixing to happen.
Now, turn over another page to Genesis 18. Now, we find in Genesis 18, there was a great sign given him. Now, remember, God told Abraham in Genesis 12, also, to separate himself from all of his people, all of his kindred, and to sojourn with Him as a stranger in a strange land.

L-64 Now, God wants separators. Now, the people wants mixers. Oh, my. Today they got to have a little Hollywood guy, you know, and--and, you know, and all this, and there has got a lot of flowers, and just color up. They don't want the old fashion preacher that lays it right on the hewing line. They won't have it. He's a fanatic. He's a holy-roller. That's what they want. They want mixers, somebody that'll go swimming with them, and somebody will play bunco with them, and somebody will go to dances, and not fanatics. See, they don't want that. But God wants separators. Separate yourself. The very word "church" means, "separated, called out."
"Come out from among them," saith God, "and I'll receive you and touch not their unclean thing."
Separators... Oh, Christians. Separate yourself from everything of the world, brother, sister. Get away from the things of the world: separate.

L-65 Now, Abraham had... Until he fully obeyed that, God never did bless him. He took his father with him. He took Lot, his nephew. And what did it do? The old man was the fly in the ointment as long as he was along. Finally he died. And then Lot, they was fussing, and fighting, and scrambling over herds and grounds and so forth, until Lot separated himself and went down into Sodom. He took the way down, the easy way, a few extra dollars, and see what it cost him? He wanted to be popular. He became the mayor of the city. So he was down there. He wanted to have a big name. There's so many people that wants big names, big things. It takes a monkey to jump after shiny things and things like that. Yes, sir. Did you ever notice a monkey? Anything that shines he will jump at it. See? Then...

L-66 Now, you notice Lot; he thought, "Maybe, if I go down there in Sodom, I'll become a great man. My name will be known." Sure. Look at it today what it's known as. And Mrs. Lot, she kept up on all the styles, and fashions, and so forth. Look at her today, standing there in the field as a pillar of salt. Yeah. But Sarah, took her way with her own husband, the way with the Lord's despised few, to walk in fellowship with God, had the hard places.
Then one day when Abraham was setting out... The land was barren. Sometimes we think that those things are curses. No, if you know your heart's right with God, no matter what happens, stay right with it. Abraham and Sarah, probably hot weather, and cattle was all thin and everything. And then one day Abraham was setting under the oak tree about noontime, in the 16th chapter, or the 18th chapter, rather, of Genesis. And God had got enough of that Sodom and Gomorrah, just like He's got of this world today; enough of their foolishness. So He's going to come down to destroy it.


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