<TITLE>12. Par 40-43</TITLE>L-40 Then you see what He was doing? A denomination? If you're depending on that, you're lost. There's only one thing that'll ever... When them contracts come together, them letters, the way they was tore, they had to dovetail, every letter and every piece of tored, teared, sheepskin or rock had to dovetail right together. Nothing could substitute it. It had to be just exactly the same in the confirmation of this. If they brought another piece and tried to make it align, it wouldn't blend in with it. It had to blend just exactly the way that was.
And when the church is redeemed and rises in the resurrection... We are the Bride of Christ. I say that reverently, hoping we are, believing we are: by faith we are. The Bride of Jesus Christ will have to have the same Spirit in it, that the other part of the contract had when It was here on earth. You see what I mean? God confirmed it.
Then the same life that was in Jesus will be in His church, and the church will be doing the same things that Jesus did. "He that believeth in Me the works that I do shall he do also." Then how could a unbeliever see the works of God and call it "Beelzebub, mental telepathy, or...?" See the works of our Lord. How... if... if... Oh, smart, educated, sure, but a million miles away from the things of God. See?

L-41 He confirmed the covenant in Genesis the 15th chapter. You get that out there, each one of you now? In Genesis the 15th chapter, He confirmed the Word. And remember, listen now, He never confirmed it to him until he completely obeyed God. And He won't confirm it to you, till you'll completely surrender everything.
Now, I want you to keep these in mind. Our little Amish sister, or Dunkard, Mennonite, whatever it is there, you're getting it, I hope.

L-42 Now, He confirmed the Word. Now, let's go again... Oh, we could just stay on here for hours, but we haven't got the time.
Now, let's go to Genesis the 17th chapter (All right) when He gave Him strength... Now in Genesis, 17th chapter, the 1st verse, God appeared to Abraham as the Almighty God. Abraham was ninety and nine years old. Sarah was eighty-nine years old. And since he was seventy-five and Sarah sixty-five, they had been waiting for this promise: getting stronger all the time, that God was going to do it. Never moved from what they believed. That's the way.
Now, he seen God saw that he was determined to hold on. Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord. When God sees your heart, when He shows you something, and regardless of what anybody else says about it, it's His Word and you stay with it, not turn away willfully, ignoring truth, but walk in it. "God said so!"

L-43 God is a Spirit. He leads His people in spirit and truth, and His Word is the truth, and Jesus was His Word. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us."
Now, He appears to him there as "Almighty God." From the Hebrew word is "El Shaddai," which means... "Shadd" means "breast" in the Hebrew. Now, He wasn't the "breast God," but "Shaddai," which the plural, "breasted God." "I am the breasted God, the Strength-giver, the sufficient One, the Life-giver."


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