<TITLE>16. Par 54-57</TITLE>L-54 And that's exactly what God did to His own Son, after He'd proved Him in everything. And 17th chapter of Saint Matthew, He taken Him up on the mount and overshadowed Him there with a--with a cloud of glory. And His raiment shined like the sun in its heat, or its strength. And when He did, He heard a Voice coming from heaven, Peter, James, and John, said, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I'm well-pleased. Hear ye Him."
What did He do? Place the law, His own lay of adoption upon His Son, placed His Son ahead of Himself. No matter... "There's Moses, I talked to Moses; there's the law; there's the prophets; but this is My Son": the law of adoption. Oh, sabbath-keepers and legalists, what's the matter with you? "Here's My Son; hear ye Him." True.
That's exactly what God did to Abraham, His son before that. After Abraham had been justified by faith. We believe that, don't we? Abraham's seed justified by faith... Right.

L-55 The next thing was then, what did He do? The next thing was sanctification by the Blood: sanctification by the blood to the seed. Next thing was nursing God's own strength into him: taking God's own strength into the church. What He did to Abraham, He did to his seed after him. Everybody understand that? All right, now notice.
Then He said to Abraham, notice this 4th and 5th verse. Abraham My covenant now is with you. Amen. What a condition that ought to have been. What a word of encouragement to an old man a hundred years old, right at a hundred, ninety-nine, and telling him that He was El-Shaddai. "Now, I give you the strength. Now, I'm going to place you with Me now. I'm the Father of all creation. My name is Elohim." Anyone knows that the word "Elohim" means "the--the All Sufficient One, the--the great self-existing One, Elohim."

L-56 "Now, My name is Elohim, and your name is Abram. And you'll not no longer be called Abram, but you shall be called Abraham." Now, is when we're going get down some real stiff teaching now. Abraham... Watch. From Elohim to Abraham. He give him part of His Own name, when He placed him.
Notice. Abraham and his seed... Now, when God got the Pentecostal church raised, He begin to place them, giving them gifts, and so forth, and placing them into the Kingdom. But everybody wanted to have the same gift. And oh, my. There we went. So that don't stop God's seed, just to... Abraham's seed that goes on just the same.

L-57 Notice. Elohim: Abraham: give him part of His own Name, because why? "I have made you the father of nations," a father. "I have made you a father of many nations. And I'll put part of My Name with your name." Oh, how I could squeeze something right here now. Give him part of that name: Abraham. And changed Sarah's name 'cause she was a part of Abraham.
Now, notice. The very next thing we find done here is in the 18th chapter, the next chapter, that God appears to Abraham as he set under the oak. Now, He watch as He... You see where has placed His Son, justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Spirit, giving of gifts.
Now, when He appeared to him just before He burned Sodom...


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