<TITLE>15. Par 63-66</TITLE>L-63 Remember, He never done it one time before the Gentiles. They wasn't looking for no Messiah. This is their day. See? They--the Jews and Samaritans were looking for a Gentile, 'cause the Jew was... Just half Jew and--and Gentile, which made the Samaritan.
So He said... Now, look. He said to this... "I perceive that thou art a prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, which is called the Christ, that'll be His sign. He will show us these things when He comes."
And Jesus said, "I'm He that speaks with you."
Away to the city she went, and listen at her message: "Come, see a Man that's told me the things I've done. Isn't this the very Messiah?" Well, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever... Isn't it right? And the--the Scripture says that the people... He never did it no more. The--the Scripture says that the people believed on Him because of the saying of the woman, because they knowed that was the sign of the Messiah. And He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. That's right. Now, He is... She saw that be the sign of the Messiah. The Jews saw it to be the sign of the Messiah.

L-64 Now, just to push in, just about five minutes longer, of one thing more: Jesus said before the coming of the Son of man, it would come a day like it was in the days of Sodom.
Now, remember, always keep this in mind, God is in threes. You know His--His numerals. God is perfected in threes--like Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and so forth. Now, notice: Three. Now, there's always three classes of people, like Ham, Shem, and Japheth. And there's three classes of people usually sets together; that's believers, make-believers, and unbelievers is--is... You have that in every place. And you do. Now, and there's always been a... Looky here, Jesus patterning Sodom, like it was, will be at the coming of the Son of man.

L-65 Now, look. Lot was a relative, a nephew, to Abraham. Maybe this week we'll get in on Abraham and some of his work. Now. And we see that Lot pulled off and went down into the world, in Sodom, to live, oh, with--with the things of the world. He become the chief man of the city, maybe the mayor, or what... He was a judge, set in the gate and judged the people. His wife belonged to every society there was in the city. Yet he had a touch of God. That's a type at the end time of the church that's in the world, still living in the things of the world, the church natural. Then there was a Sodomite, which you people here know what they were.

L-66 Now. There was... Abraham was a type of the church called out: wasn't in Sodom, setting way back up here on the barren grounds of the mountains, above the riches and cares of the world. There's your three classes. Abraham called out, and the word "church" means "called out," Abraham, the elected church. We know there's a church elected. We know that God predestinated the church. It's going to appear before Him without spot or wrinkle. He said so. I hope I'm a member of it. And I know how to get to be a member of it: by dying to yourself, and be borned of it. That's all. Now. But the church elected...
The Bible said in the last days that antichrist would deceive the very elected if it was possible. But it isn't possible. See? "If it was possible." Now, notice. There's the Sodomites; there's Lot, the lukewarm; and here is Abraham setting out here on these barren grounds.


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