<TITLE>07. Par 25-29</TITLE>L-25 And the Scripture said that when we are dead in Christ we become Abraham's seed. Paul speaks of it, "And that which is Jew is not Jew outwardly, but Jew inwardly." Therefore, if you are borned of the Spirit of God, you are Abraham's seed and are heirs with Abraham according to the promise. See? Therefore every promise that God gave Abraham is yours, because spiritually you are Abraham's seed. And you're more of a Jew than you would be if you were born in the Jewish blood and then--and then be a orthodox Jew in that church and a denier of this precious Holy Spirit and the Lord Jesus Christ. See? You're more of a Jew, because you are a Jew that is borned of a promise from heaven which God gave Abraham, and Abraham accepted it by faith. And that's what made him what he was. After all, a Jew is just separation and crossed over Hebrew and so forth like that.

L-26 Now, but when you have separated yourself from the things of the world, crossed over that separating line, and are sojourning in a strange land, a land like you wasn't in in the beginning, with a people that you never associated with in the beginning, then you become a spiritual Jew. Because the same way that Abraham, by faith, left his country, left his people, went into a strange land with strange people, you have left your people, left the world behind, left your associates behind, crossed over through the Blood of Jesus Christ, and are sojourners seeking for a city whose Builder and Maker is God, like Abraham was. Pilgrims, along with Him, dwelling in tents, churches, fellow citizens of the Kingdom of heaven, heirs of all things through Jesus Christ. See? We have crossed over, separated.

L-27 Now, Abraham... The promise is made to Abraham and his seed after him. Now, God give this promise to Abraham of his seed would possess the gate of his enemy after He had tried Abraham, tested Abraham.
Now, after the testing come... Then Abraham had already been converted (we would call it) from paganism into God, and then God had give him as a sign of the Holy Ghost, the circumcision. Then after the circumcision, then come the testing time, a very pretty type here of the church. That after we have got saved, then we are give the seal of the promised circumcision, which is not of the flesh but of the Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is our Circumcision. It's God's sharp knife. It separates and cuts off the surplus of the flesh of the world from us. The Word of God, sharper than a two-edged sword...

L-28 So you see, come right back again. The Word of God is the thing that the Holy Spirit uses, not creeds, not denominations, but the Word is what separates us from the things of the world. It cuts away our ideas and things, and wholly consecrates us to God. Jesus said, "If ye abide in Me, and My Word in you..." There you are. Then it isn't your word, it's His Word. Then you see, "If ye abide in Me and My Word in you, you could ask what you will." See what it is? You're not speaking your own word; you're speaking His Word. So then the Holy Spirit is the One that takes the Word of God and separates us from these things of the world. See? Circumcision, cutting off... Then you go through a testing time.

L-29 Now, Abraham, after he was called out the land of the Chaldeans in the city of Ur, he become a pilgrim, a sojourner. And then God called him after he had been proven that he was going to go on and take God at His Word. Then what God did then was give him a sign that He had accepted him. And He circumcised him. And he circumcised Ishmael and all of his household.
And now, you see when--when you are called out, first you go through a trial to see if you're going to really go on. And then God gives you the Holy Ghost which is the sign that He has accepted your faith that you profess to have in Him. You follow me now? He's going to accept it.


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