<TITLE>07. Par 39-45</TITLE>L-39 And right here we could start. I believe that when God calls a man to service, if he's a married man and has a helpmate, He calls his wife with him, because they two are one. And so, wherever we find later on that God possibly would have killed Sarah when she doubted the Angel's message, twenty-five years later, when they were setting under the oak that day, but when she laughed when the Angel told her, or told Abraham that she was going to be mother, and Sarah laughed within herself and said, "How could I, old?" Ninety years old, and her husband a hundred years old, his--her womb been dried up for years, and his body as good as dead. Then how could she ever have pleasure with her husband again? And she laughed to herself.
And the Angel, with His back turned to the tent, said, "Why did Sarah laugh?"
And she denied it. Now, that's telling God to His face that He's wrong. See? And that would've took her life, but God could not take Sarah, because she was a part of Abraham. See? And she was in the covenant with him, so she had to go with him. So He could not take Abraham--or take Sarah, without taking part of Abraham, for these two are one.

L-42 A beautiful type of us today, unworthy, worthy of death when we sin, but God cannot kill us, because He would... We are a part of Christ. See? That's our grace, because we are in union with Christ. Isn't that a beautiful thought, union with Christ? So therefore, our sins, when we do them, we ought to quickly confess them, that they're wrong, because God would take our life. But the Blood answers in our place, and God just can't cross that Blood. See? He just can't do it, because it's a promise that He won't do it. So He can't break His Own promise. See? So God's got Himself, as it was, sewed up. See, He can't break His promise. And He promised that through that Blood, whosoever believed had Eternal Life, and He cannot break that promise.

L-43 So we find that Abraham in obedience left his home, left his land, and separated from everything, all his earthly position, possessions, to travel in a strange land, sojourning. A type of the Church. We're asked to forsake everything that's in this world in order to follow Christ.
Now, we find Abraham following on, year after year. And he took some portion with him, which was his father, and he died right away. And then he took his nephew, which was Lot, and Lot separated himself from argument sake, and went down to live in Sodom, yet he was a part of Abraham. And God gave the land and all that was in the land to Abraham; he heired all of it. God said, "Look east, west, north, and south, and all of it belongs to you and to your seed after you: all yours."

L-45 Now, one day Abraham had it kind of rough, and Lot having it easy, wading in sin. How easy it is and how pleasing sin looks to be, and how innocent it looks to be. Now, if Lot says this, "As long as I believe. I believe in God, so why can't I go down here in Sodom, and--and it'll be all right. I'm a believer." But it wasn't all right.
See, God, when He called Abraham, He called him to separate himself from everything. And that's what we have to do. God calls us to a total separation from sin. Come out from among it; be not partakers of it; shun it, the very appearance of evil. Separation, completely annihilated from it, stay your distance away from it. Don't tread upon its grounds, no matter how--how nice it looks.


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