<TITLE>14. Par -</TITLE>L-24-1 And so, Abimelech caught her, and his men brought her in; she was a beautiful woman. And by the way, she was only a hundred years old. And she--she... God had just showed what He's going to do to all of us, through them. You know, I been through all that in my text, and on the tapes, and so forth, proving that by the Word of God; that's exactly. He told by Abraham and Sarah what He was going to do to the whole race. That's right.

L-24-2 Now, there she was, and so Abimelech taken her to be his wife--Abimelech. And so, he was all ready now to take her to be his wife, and what? God had said to Abraham: "By Sarah you'll have this baby." And here was a young man taking her. Here was Abraham around--about a hundred years old now too out there. But by that...
You notice what God said there: "Yes, I know the integrity of your heart. That's the reason I kept you from sinning against Me; but you restore that woman, for her husband is a prophet. Let him pray for you; if you don't, I'm just going to wipe you off the face of the earth."
There you are. What? God's Word has to stand. No man could touch Sarah; God had made a promise.

L-24-5 Sarah, a type of the church, the true church, the free church, the freewoman with a free Child, type of the borned again church with the promise. Let them say whatever they want to, call it holy-roller, fanaticism. They've tried to stop It since Pentecost, and they'll never do it. No, sir. For keep--just keep your hands off of It; that's all. God's going to take that and do something with it, just as certain as I'm standing here. We're coming right down through the age of it. Now, in a few minutes, God help me, I'll prove it to you where we're at. Right. You're--they're never going to destroy; it can't be destroyed. That's right.

L-24-6 "Take your hands off of her." Why? There come the natural seed. The natural seed had to come. If it would--if Sarah would've married this other man, the natural seed would've never been born.
So if God so protected the course for the natural seed, how much more for the spiritual, royal Seed, has He protected.
Satan, give them back; turn them loose. You're not smothering them out there in them organizations and things; they're free people. You let them alone. Yeah. Turn them loose. The Royal Seed...

L-25-3 Now, God talking of restoring. Now, here in Joel he's talking about... (I preached on this once before and took it in another angle, about... I never thoroughly went through it as I intend to do today, and won't have time to do it, where it ought to be done.)
But God is speaking here in Joel of--God is speaking of His fruit Tree that He had planted. God planted a fruit Tree. He planted It on the day of Pentecost, and He brought that Tree there for a purpose. He wanted It to bear His fruit Word, God's Word. He wanted a church that would keep His Word all down through the age. Eve had failed to keep It; the Jews had failed to keep It; the law had failed; all had failed, so God planted Him a Tree--a Tree.

L-25-5 Now, remember, there was two trees in the garden of Eden; we know that. You can call them whatever you want to; I have my idea. But anyhow, one of them was a defiled tree; it got defiled, and the other One wasn't defiled. That Tree of Life come from God out of heaven. He said, "Your fathers eat manna and are dead; but this Tree, you eat and you live forever."
And the Angel guarded that Tree of Life from the garden of Eden, kept It in Eden; that Tree of Life is in Eden, now, spiritually speaking now.
Notice. Now, when this Tree that God planted, It was to bear nine different kinds of fruit, nine different kinds, which means nine spiritual gifts, nine fruits of the Spirit to go with the nine spiritual gifts. That was God's Tree. He planted It in the earth on the day of Pentecost.


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