<TITLE>05. Par 16-18</TITLE>L-16 Now, we begin there, and know that that was the beginning of the church, and that... Mainly, in the beginning was all Jews. After the Jewish people evangelized, then it went into the Romans, and to the Greeks, and so forth, and started. But the reformation come in the--back in the early fifteen hundreds and there begin, the Christian church begin to organize Itself, or get itself together. And we're living in the last church age now, the Laodicean, according to Scripture.
Now, that's the Abraham. This is his seed after him. Now, turn if you wish to to Genesis 12, and we begin where God called Abraham. Now, the first thing I want you to know, that when God, in Genesis 12, called Abraham, it was by election. It wasn't because Abraham was good. It wasn't because Abraham deserved it. It was because that God chose Abraham, not Abraham choosing God; It was God choosing Abraham. And that's the way He calls His seed too. Not what you want to be, not him that willeth, or him that runneth, but God that showeth mercy. Is that Scripture? Certainly. It's not what you want be; it's what God has chose you to be.
Abraham and his seed after him, not seeds, now, seed after him, now, the promised seed.

L-17 Now, we find out that when God called Abraham, it was by election. I've heard people many times say, "I sought God. I sought God." No, I different with you. You never did seek God. God sought you first. You never seek after God. It's God seeking after you. It's you that will not surrender to God. It's just like what if you could tell the hog in the hog pen, that--that he shouldn't eat slop. If he could speak, he'd tell you, "Why, you tend to your own business." See? Until his nature's changed, then he will always remain a hog.
You always remain what you--a sinner, because you're borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies. And you're a sinner by birth. And... Look what Adam did. As soon as he become a sinner, he never tried to seek God; it was God seeking Adam. He really represented the human race right there when he hid hisself behind some fig leaves, that he made hisself, like most people do today. "I belong to the church, and I've got my fig leaf apron on." But it was God seeking after the--Adam, and not Adam seeking after God.

L-18 It should have been Adam screaming, "Father, Father, where art Thou?"
Instead, it was God saying, "Adam, Adam, where art thou?" And that's the same thing today. So there's just not one bit of goodness about us, that we could say we had another to do with our salvation. It was God calling us by election.
Now, I want you to keep in mind, of three. All times there's three classes of people on earth. They came from three races of people. They came from Ham, Shem, and Japheth. We know that Peter on the day of Pentecost, when Jesus had give him the keys to open the Gospel to the Jews, then to the Samaritans, and then to the Gentiles, that finished it. According to Scripture, all the races of the earth come from those three boys.


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