<TITLE>09. Par 57-64</TITLE>L-57 But remember, the Malachi 4, the message comes, "The terrible day of the Lord shall come and shall burn up the whole earth, and the righteous shall walk out upon the ashes of the wicked." That never happened after John. No, if that was it, then the Scripture has lost Its hold, It said something that wasn't so. We got two thousand years since then; the world hasn't been burned since, not at all. Neither has the righteous walked out upon the--the--the ashes of the wicked. But we're still waiting for that something that's going to take the faith, and restore the faith of the children back to the original Pentecostal Tree that the cankerworm eat up, the Roman cankerworm, caterpillar. All their denomination and creeds eat it down. God said, "I will restore it again, in the last days." And It will be restored. God shall send the Holy Ghost in such a way, upon planted Word, that will restore. The Word of God is a Seed that a sower went forth to sow.

L-58 Now, the covenant was give unconditionally. Now, Israel, the seed natural exchanged that, and lost it in Exodus 19, when they made that rashal thing to take away the grace and accepted law in its place. What a rashal mistake that Israel made there.
Look. God, after He made the covenant with Abraham, grace had already provided a prophet deliverer for them down in Egypt to carry out the word of Abraham. Remember Moses under the bush, God said, "I have heard the cries of My people, and I remember My promise." Before there's any law, grace provided it. Grace had provided a sacrifice for their guilt, a lamb. Grace had provided a covenant, circumcision was already been provided before it all. Grace had provided a Pillar of Fire to lead them, following a prophet, a security that the prophet had told them the truth; it was the Word that he was talking about. They knowed that God promised it, and here was the Pillar of Fire confirming it. What a double security. Amen. Grace had done that.
But they wanted something for theirself that they could do, have their own creeds, and denominations, and whatmore, make Pharisees, Sadducees, and something they could do theirself.
Man's always trying to save hisself. You can't do that. God's already done it. You just have to accept it and believe it.

L-62 Pillar of Fire to lead them and guide them, to lead them in a way. A power, grace had provided a power to condemn their enemy and to make them free. The power had already been given. They crossed the Red Sea. They'd smote Pharaoh. They done all these things with grace. And then they exchanged grace for a law, but that had nothing to do with the royal Seed of Abraham.
The royal Seed has tried to do the same thing, go back under some kind of a creed instead of taking grace and the Word and believing It. They went back. But there will come forth a royal Seed; we'll get that after a bit, little further on.

L-64 Let's go back now to Genesis 12. God called Abraham by grace, not because he was a different person; he was just Abraham, just an ordinary man. Not because he was a priest or a dignitary; he was just a farmer. He come down from the city of--of the Babylon tower with his father, and they'd went to Chaldea, Ur of Chaldea. And there was a farmer, perhaps farmed in the daytime and raised his food. He had married his half sister, Sarah. And they had no children, and Abraham was seventy-five years old when God called him, and Sarah was sixty-five years old.
And God told Abraham when He called him, He said, "I am going to make you a father of nations," and going to give him a baby by Sarah. Now, he was sterile. And she was, well, sixty-five, she was ten or fifteen years past menopause. He'd lived with her since she was about sixteen or eighteen years old, his half sister. And they--he'd been a husband to her all these years until he was seventy-five, and she was sixty-five, and then God comes down and said, "I'm going to give you a baby by her." And he staggered not at the promise of God, but believed it.


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