<TITLE>08. Par 25-28</TITLE>L-25 Now, we find out that justification... God called Abraham by justification. And by grace he called him. By election he was elected. By grace he was called and given the covenant with Him. Before Abraham had one word to say whether it was right or wrong, whether he would, or would not, God called him. Is that right?
Now, you read the first, the 12th chapter of Genesis, the first, about the first ten or fifteen verses, and you'll catch it. All right.

L-26 Now, and then we notice that in the 15th chapter of Genesis, now that's what God did something else to Abraham. Now, how did we call the... How did He call Abraham? By faith, called him by grace, saved him by grace, justified him by grace. Is that right? How did He call the church, Abraham's seed? By faith, by grace, justification by grace, by faith. Just as He did Abraham, so did He the seed of Abraham after him. All that believe that say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Sure. There's justification.
Now, what church would represent justification? In the first reformation was Martin Luther, who came forth preaching justification by faith. All of us know that. That young German priest, that throwed the communion on the altar and said that, "It was not the blood of Jesus Christ, or the kosher bread, that he knowed it was just the bread and--and wine." So he--he throwed it on the altar and said, "It represented the body of Christ." And that's the difference that separates Catholic from Protestant.
One said, Catholic says, "It is the body of Christ." And the other says, "It represents the body of Christ."

L-27 Now, Luther said, "The just shall live by faith." And that's exactly the first calling of the seed of Abraham after the hundreds of years of dark ages, to make up the church that will go in the rapture. Now, bear with it a minute.
Now, how'd He call Abraham? Genesis 12 now. By faith, justification by faith, He called the seed of Abraham the next. Which was by faith, by justification...
Now, Abraham did not fully obey God. Until he fully obeyed God, God never did confirm the covenant to him. Now, in the 15th chapter we find out that He confirmed the covenant to Abraham. How did He do it?

L-28 Notice. He told Abraham in the 15th chapter; you'll notice this. That He told him to take a heifer of three years old, a goat, and a sheep, three years old, and split them apart, and to offer them to Him. And Abraham taken these three animals of three years, as I told you, three separations, the three like the trinity, and so forth, the three.
Now, we see that he cut these open and separated them. Then he put two turtledove and a young pigeon in there. He never divided them birds, because from the Old Testament to the New Testament, the blood for the sacrifice was changed. But turtledove and pigeon represented healing. For we know that was the cleansing of leprosy and so forth, for healing. And healing has always been based upon your faith in God. Then if... I say...
You say, "Healing wasn't included in the New Testament, in the new atonement."
Well, if the old atonement had healing in it, isn't this a better one? How could you say then it isn't? But it's all based the same.


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