<TITLE>09. Par 37-40</TITLE>L-37 Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide for Himself a sacrifice. Let's go back and get a little of Abraham. Abraham was the one that the promise was made to. And we can only be saved as we become Abraham's seed, 'cause Abraham and his seed was the one the promise was given to. Is that right, brethren? Abraham and his seed after him...
Now, let's go back to Genesis 12. I see so many of you marking it down. Genesis 12, we--we meet up with Abraham for the first time. And God called Abraham. He was just an ordinary man, come down from--from the tower of Babel with his father, and dwelt in the city of the Chaldeans, and the land--the land of Chaldeans, the city of Ur in the plains; perhaps lived an ordinary life.

L-38 And he was a man sixty-five years old before God, or seventy-five years old before God ever spoke to him. Now, that gives us old people a little courage, doesn't it? Seventy-five... And Sarah was his half sister, and he had married her when she was about eighteen years old. And they had no children. She was barren; he was sterile. So they had no children.
And she was sixty-five years old, and he was seventy-five. Now, at sixty-five she'd be about fifteen years past menopause. So she was--she was barren, and he was also infertile. Then they... There was no way for them to have children, but God met him, and told him, and blessed him, and gave him the covenant, and told him that he was going to have a child by Sarah; and through that child would bless all nations, through his Seed.

L-39 Now, if you notice, now I have to get on a little bit of teaching here now, but I don't mean to--for controversy. But if you'll notice that the covenant was given to Abraham and his seed. Now, not seeds, but Seed of Abraham; the Seed of Abraham. And the Scripture says, "We that are in Christ are Abraham's seed and are heirs with him according to the promise."
Now, how do you become Abraham's seed? When you take off Christ by the Holy Spirit baptism, that's the only way you can be Abraham's seed, 'cause that plants in you the faith that Abraham had.
Now, Abraham, many people thinks, was a Jew. He was not. He was a Gentile. But now, but Abraham, and... Let's say it together: Abraham and his Seed. The covenant was made by them.

L-40 Abraham and his Seed, so let's say we are Abraham's seed. How many is in Christ? Raise your hand. Then according to this blessed Book, you're Abraham's seed, and you're joint heirs, and you're heir with Abraham of all the possessions that God give to the people. You are Abraham's seed. Then you must have Abraham's faith in order to be Abraham's seed. You get it? Oh, I hope so.
Notice. Now, the covenant was made to Abraham unconditionally. Now, He made a covenant with Adam, "If you'll do a certain thing, I'll do a certain thing." And man always breaks his promise to God, his covenant, always. But this covenant, do you see it? It was to Abraham and his seed, unconditionally, not, "if you will," "I have." Notice it? To Abraham's seed, not to the outside world now, to Abraham and his seed the covenant was unconditionally, not, "if you will, I will," but, "I have already for you." Therefore, prove it this afternoon; God don't have to come down and perform another operation to get you healed. He's already healed you. He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed. You're already healed. The only thing you have to do is just receive it. If you just don't reach up and get it... You're Abraham's seed, then you believe it, and it's already there. So there is no--there is no doubting of it. It's already there; it's yours. Oh, my. I wished I could--wished I could strike fire, just like pouring--throwing a match on gun powder. Look. You see what I mean?


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