<TITLE>16. Par 67-71</TITLE>L-67 Now, one day there came up three Visitors, and those three Visitors looked like men. They had dust on Their clothes. They set down with Abraham, and Abraham went and killed a calf, and got some corn bread, and some milk, and some veal chops, and came out and fed these Angelic Beings. And They did eat. Notice. And here They were. And two of Them went down in Sodom to preach to Sodom. The One that stayed behind talked to Abraham.
Now, let's just take--take today. Now, isn't it strange that the church natural, out in the--the denominational world, they have had a great blasting, two great ministers? Isn't it strange that A-b-e-r-h-a-m and G-r-a-h-a-m never hit before in all the world? Then we got a Brother Oral Roberts, another great man. And remember as G-r... Or these Angels went down into the Sodom; they didn't perform any miracles; only one night they were smitten blind. And the preaching of the Word smites the unbeliever blind. He's blinded by the Word.

L-68 Now, let's watch this One that preached to the church elected. Watch. About a day or two before that, Abram had his name changed from Abram to Abraham, and Sarai (S-a-r-r-a) to (S-a-r-a-h) Sarah, princess. And when... This One that stayed with Abraham, He had His back turned to the tent, and He said, "Abraham, where is thy wife, Sarah (S-a-r-r-a)?" It's Sarah, princess.
How did He know that He, that God had changed his name a day or two before from Abram to Abraham, and her name from Sarai to Sarah. See? Watch now. And how did He know he was even married? And how did He know he had a wife? Women then didn't run out and take the men's place like they do today. They stayed in the kitchen where they belonged. But then... But it's changed since then, a whole lot, and so...

L-69 Then we find out that she was in the tent behind. Said, "Where is Sarah, thy wife?"
And remember, Abraham specifically said now, "She's in the tent behind You."
And He said, "Abraham, I am going to visit you," that "I," that personal pronoun, that shows Who He was, right there. "I am going to visit you according to the time of life."
Now, we're a mixed audience. You listen at your doctor; I'm your brother. Now, they were old. Abraham was a hundred years old, and Sarah was ninety. Now, as husband and wife, it had ceased, maybe ten, fifteen, twenty years before that. They had no relationship any more as husband and wife.

L-70 And Sarah snickered, what we call it in Kentucky. You all call it here "smile," or whatever. "Laughed up her sleeve," I think that's the expression. "Me (now, not out loud), me," she said, "an old woman, and my lord (which was Abraham, her husband) old also, and would have pleasure again?" as young people, you know. "Me, an old woman like this, and him old like that?"
And the Angel, with His back turned to the tent, said, "Why did Sarah laugh?"Saying about...?... What kind of telepathy is that? Look. God would've took Sarah's life right there, but He couldn't. She's part of Abraham. And that's the same thing the church today. See, all of our unbeliefs and things, He'd take us off the earth. But He can't; we're part of Christ. You see? So He forgives us of our sins. See? He'd have took her. We'll get into these things deeper later, 'cause our time's getting away. But watch.

L-71 Now, Jesus said... Now, you said, "What was that man? Who was he?" Abraham ought to know. Abraham called Him "Elohim" (Is that right?), "the self-existing One," God, Himself made flesh. And showing that God in the last days...
He said, "As it was in the days of Lot, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man," that God, Himself, in the form of the Holy Ghost, would be so into His church, so filled, till He'd be moving and operating in the church: God in human flesh (See?), doing the same thing.


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