<TITLE>08. Par 47-50</TITLE>L-47 You people, you might think here now, here it is, "Brother Branham, I--I sometimes I'm tempted to steal, or sometimes I'm tempted to smoke." Or sometimes the women think, "I'm tempted to dress like the people of the world, you know, the immoral clothes and things. I'm tempted," the young ladies. Now, you think that's tempting, what about over here where you've got every little move to watch (You see?) in a ministry. What a greater thing it is over here, and what they'd have to answer more for. Because you have to answer for your own souls, but we have to answer for everybody we speak to. See? So Satan just constantly... Well, you say, you... "Isn't that a pretty little dress? It's all wrong to wear, but isn't it beautiful? It'd fit me just right." Where it is to me... Now, that's, you know that's wrong. But in a minister it's, "You should go to this meeting here; this is just it. They say it's so great, the congrega..." And yet you've got to wait and hear God say go. See? Oh, would you go over here and see this person here? This is such-and-such." And you got to watch; be careful. See? Oh, it's so sly. And now, we have to watch those things.
Now, Abraham had to watch too. But he, instead of going down into Sodom with Lot, he separated himself and went up into the desert, took the way with the Lord's despised few. That should be our attitude. Take the way with God's people, regardless whether it's hard or easy, go anyhow. Be ready to go at any time now, wherever He might call you.

L-49 Now, after this come up, then there--there come a king that went on a warpath with a little tribe of people up there, and swept down through the valley and took all the little groups, little kingdoms out, and took, come into Sodom and took the king of Sodom and Gomorrah, took Lot (Abraham's nephew), his wife, his daughters, his children, all of them, and all their possession, all they had, went right on out through, cleaning out the country as it went. Oh, what a horrible thing; the wages of sin is death. Lot realized, no doubt, walking along there and maybe with a--a rope or a chain around his neck as a slave; his children, young girls to be ravished; and his wife, and everything, and probably die at any time he disobeyed one order, and maybe going into another kingdom somewhere to be a slave the rest of his days.

L-50 But Abraham, when he found out that Lot had been taken, that was part of Abraham's possession. And Abraham might've said this, "God, You told me that if I would obey You and walk in here in this land, You would give this to me. It belongs to me. And Lot's part of this, and I'm going after him." So he garrisoned, or gathered together his servants, and put arm on them. And he took his servants, and took out until he pursued and found this king with all these other little kingdoms. Look what a great army they were then. But under the directing of God, the Chief General, he separated himself, and fell in upon them and slaughtered the kings, and brought back Lot and all the little kingdoms, brought them back to them--to their homeland again.
What a picture of Christ in Abraham there, coming after the enemy had captured everything, and Christ come and brought us back again.


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