<TITLE>16. Par 58-61</TITLE>L-58 Now, let's just watch a moment. And please, if I say something here that's against a--a church, or something, or certain denominations, I'm not meaning it in that--that light. I'm just trying to make a point.
Watch Abraham. He was the father of the nations to be, through His royal Seed, which was Christ. Now, it could not happen, the full promise, to the Jews, because through Isaac the promise is all to the Jewish race; but in this last days He has promised it to Abraham and his Seed, which, Christ was his Seed. The Church's besides. "Now, not only to Abraham, but his seed." The Lord willing, if I get come extra hour or two, I'd like to speak to you... "Abraham And His Seed After Him."

L-59 Notice how He brought Abraham through those junctions of justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Spirit, just the same thing as He done it here, exactly: placed him as a son, and just before Sodom was destroyed.
Now, keep in mind, there's three classes of people, always, Like Jew, Gentile, and Samaritan; that's believer, make-believer and unbeliever. So we--we find that. And every meeting produces it, every crowd produces it. We just have it.
Now, look at that day. Abraham did not go down in Sodom, but Lot went down in Sodom. He was still a believer, like the ordinary church, the ritualistic believer, yet he was a believer. And he was down in Sodom because he thought he could make some extra money or be a little more popular. I think he become the mayor of the city or something down there. And his wife belonged to all the clubs, and so forth down there, and it was hard for her to leave. But just before that taken place...

L-60 Now, look, there was... Abraham was the elected. And we all know that Christ is coming for a elected church; that the rapture is the remnant (we know that), the elected church. The others goes through the judgment. But the elected goes first in the rapture, because they cannot go into the judgment. Jesus said, "He that believeth on Me has Everlasting Life. He that heareth My words and believeth on Him that sent He has Eternal Life and shall never come to the judgment, but's passed from death unto life." Saint John 5:24. We are in Christ, already judged. Ju--God judged us for our faith in his Son, Christ Jesus. And by the Holy Spirit we're baptized into that body and become part of Christ--elected Church.
Abraham represented the elected Church, just the same as the elected Church of his seed after him in this day. You follow it? Abraham--not only Abraham, but his seed after him. And he was the father of nations, which here we are today. I'm Irish, and some, maybe, Indian, and some Norwegian, and some the others. See? We're all setting here, but God has made of one blood all nations. We're all one in Christ, "For by one Spirit we're all baptized into one body." That's right. That's the elected Church.

L-61 Now, there is a church that does not believe in the baptism of the Holy Ghost, out there in Sodom, still do the things they do in Sodom: bingo, bunco, soup suppers, all kinds of things, dress like the world, act like the world, and still call themselves church members. See? That's the Sodom church. Now, just before the end come...
Now, remember, the word "church" means "called out," as separated, segregated from unbelief, believing every Word of God. And look what Abraham... Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, no matter how long it took. Oh, when--when Sarah was sixty-five years old and Abraham was seventy-five, he was sterile; she was infertile. And yet, God told him he was going to have a baby by that woman; and he believed it and made arrangements for it. And twenty-five years later he still believed the same thing, yet with no evidence. It was getting farther away all the time. But the Bible said...


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