<TITLE>15. Par 59-63</TITLE>L-59 Now, remember. He did that sign to the Jews. They turned it down. He did it to the Samaritans. They accepted it.
Now, remember, Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Lot, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." Now, let's just stop for a moment and take just a moment longer now to get this, 'cause I believe it'll drive it down, seal it. Now, He said, "As it was in the days of Lot..."

L-60 Now, notice, there's always three classes of people. God is perfected in three's. Now, there is the believer, make-believer, and unbeliever, and that's in every congregation now. A real believer... Now, in the days of Lot that's just the way they were setting, and that's the same way they're setting right now: believers, make-believers, and unbelievers.
Now, Abraham was the elected church, the believer who had walked with God. He was the seed, and his seed was going to be--inherit the earth, and--and he was the--the great order of God. And all that was with him was in order with God--all his servants circumcised and everything. They were waiting for this promised son. Amen. And they'd come right up on the hill, and they didn't have things as nice as Lot, the make-believer, down in Sodom. And the Sodomites was the unbeliever. Make-believer and the believer...

L-61 And coming to Abraham's tent was three Angels. One of Them remained with Abraham, and two went down in Sodom: a modern Billy Graham, and so forth, the great evangelists of the day went down there, no miracles, only smote them blind. And preaching the Gospel smites the unbeliever blind. That's right. So He went down, and preached the Gospel, and called Lot out. You see the order of the day?
But to the church elected, Abraham, the real church that wasn't in Sodom; it was out of Sodom, out, no fellowship with the world: called-out, separated church, the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, called-out, separated, waiting for the promised son. And the One that stayed behind with him, talked with him.

L-62 And remember, a few days before that, his name was Abram, and his--his wife's name was Sarra, S-a-r-r-a. But it had been changed to A-b-e-r-h-a-m, Abraham; and Sarah, S-a-r-a-h, princess. Abraham, father of nations... Now, the Bible said this Angel had His back turned to the tent, and He had just been eating lamb--or veal chops, drinking milk, and eating corn bread--a Man, dust on His clothes, entertained by Abraham. And then while He was setting there, He said, "Abraham, where is thy wife Sarah?" Called him by his--his prince name, and her by her princess name. "Where is Sarah, thy wife?"

L-63 How did He know his name was Abraham? How did He know his name had been changed, both of them? How did He know that he was--he was married and had a wife? Said, "She's in the tent behind You." And Sarah... He said, "I'm going to visit you. I ('I' is a personal pronoun. See?)--I'm going to visit you according to the promise that you've waited twenty-five years to receive. That son that you've looked forward to is coming. According to the time of life I'll visit you."
And Sarah now (both well-stricken in age, Abraham a hundred years old and Sarah ninety) was back there in the tent, and she snickered to herself. We call it, you know, she laughed to herself. And said, "Huh, me, an old woman, have pleasure with my lord, and him being old too?" Abraham. In other words, as husband and wife it'd probably not been with them for fifteen, twenty years. See? "Me have pleasure with my lord? Me old, and he old too?"--both stricken in age. It--it shocked her so, she--she kinda laughed up her sleeve, as we'd call it--laughed up her sleeve about it. "How could that be?"


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