<TITLE>08. Par 26-28</TITLE>L-26 Let me say that, friends. And my brethren, why do you condemn me? When Jesus Himself (How many times have I told you?) promised, "As it was in the days of Sodom so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." Did He not promise this very thing that you call me a witch doctor or something about? Did not He promise that would happen? Then what?
We find out at Sodom when three Angels went down to preach the message... And there was three classes of people always: that's believers, unbelievers, and make-believers. That's... Them's always together, and they associate together. Somehow they--they're throwed together. Now, there were two of the Men that went down and preached to Sodom, to Lot. That was the nominal sleeping virgin, a representation of it. And they preached repentance, and never done that much of a miracle. They blinded the people. Of course, preaching the Gospel blinds the unbeliever. We realize that.
And a modern Billy Graham, like, come into this city here, and God's blessed him, and sent Him out as a messenger to the denominational world. And he doesn't pull punches. He places it right in there. Such... He's got a grip on that Word of--of repentance like no man I know of, hardly, to hear him preach. Well, why? That's his ministry. That's what he's supposed to do. But that certainly represented what those Men had down in there in confirmation of their ministry.

L-27 But One stayed behind. Now, Abraham represents the church that's not in Sodom, but's out of Sodom. The word "church" means "called out." And there's a group of people that's been called out of that kind of a life, out of those things, out of those organizations. Here they are: Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Catholics, me, a Baptist (was), and all these things. See, called out, elect, set aside, and they're away from the thing.
Now, watch what the Messenger came to them. He said, "Abraham..." Not Abram. A few days before there God met him and changed his name from Abram to Abraham, Sarai to Sarah. And He said, "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?"
And Abraham said, "She's in the tent," and the tent was behind Him.
And He said, "I'm going to visit you according to the time of life." In other words, "You're going to have this baby you've waited on for twenty-five years."

L-28 And Sarah in the tent, laughed within herself, and said, "Me, an old woman can have pleasure with my lord, and him old?" She was ninety, and he was a hundred. Just ask anybody; that's far beyond any reasons. She is twenty or thirty years past menopause, and his body as good as dead. Yet he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but he believed God's Word, regardless.
Now, that's supposed to represent the church today. Through that promised son he brought a Royal Seed, which was Christ. And through there brought in a--making him a father of nations, which is the Gentile church, the royal seed of Abraham. And we claim to be the royal seed of Abraham, and see His Word confirmed before us, and then refuse to help it, or--or to support it, or--or even--even deny it? How can we be the Royal seed of Abraham and do a trick like that?
Look what happened. And He said... Sarah laughed and said, "Me, an old woman, and have pleasure with my lord again?"
And the Angel, with His back turned to her, said, "Why did Sarah laugh?"


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