<TITLE>13. Par 103-110</TITLE>L-103 Oh, my. I feel so religious right now, knowing that blessed hope waiting for me There. I'm looking for that City. My heart's beating towards It. Oh, not one way would I turn, but look straight towards that place. God, help me to stay right there, true and faithful, throwing out a lifeline, everywhere, and bringing every weary pilgrim I can, to go along.
Yes, had a vision of it not long ago, and seen it, and seen my loved ones there, back young again. It's there. It's there. I know it's there. Yes, sir. Now, probably you've read it in the Christian Business Men's "Voice," and many magazines and things packed it. Friends, that wasn't a vision. I've seen visions. I know, ought to know what they have, by the tens of thousands that He's give me. But this wasn't a vision. I was there, standing right there, looking back. And I know it's there. It's there, friends; it's there. I know it's there. Yes, sir. Just as sure as I'm standing here, so help me, if I've got my right mind and standing here in this pulpit, it's there. God has made His promise, and it is true, it's so true. Yes, sir. It is there.

L-105 Notice. Now, we find out, these men set down and eat. And two of them got up and went down to Sodom. One stayed with Abraham. Let's watch their conversation. They kept looking towards Sodom. And Abraham knew there was something a little strange about that. So He said, then when He got ready to leave, He said, "You think I should keep from Abraham; being that he's going to be the father of nations. I know how he'll bring up his children, so forth; the thing that I'm going to do?" He said. The sins of Sodom has become so grievous till it's done entered His ears. He come down to investigate.

L-106 Now remember, as I said the other night, two of those messengers went down into Sodom, and they preached to those Sodomites; and they blinded them that night at the Word. But remember, there was One; they--they had their sign, a Stranger among them.
Look at Lot. Lot setting in the gate, and said, "My lords." And living in such a way. They said, "Come into my house." He said, "We'll sleep in the street." What a home.
But as soon as Abraham; they said, "This is the purpose we come for. We set down here by the side of you."

L-109 That's the way. Live so, that if God would want to use you, He knows right where to come get you. You're in a position, living a life clean before God; your words are honest; your life is true. That's the kind of a place that Angels come. Look at--at Elisabeth and Zachariahs (See?), an honest upright, walking in all the commandments of the Lord. That's the way we want to live, so when God gets ready to use us, He say, "This is My people. I can do with this church what I want to. They believe Me. They stand on My Word." See, that's the way you want to do; live the life.

L-110 Now, we find out that this Angel, He said, "I'm not going to keep from Abraham. But I'm going to visit you according to the time of life." And notice, He didn't call him Abram; He called him Abraham. How'd He know that that name had been changed? He was the One that changed it. Sure. Notice, never called Sarai, you know, S-a-r-a-i: S-a-r-a-h. "Where is your wife, Sarah?" How did He know he was married? How did He know he had a wife and her name was Sarah?
And Abraham said, "She's in the tent behind You."


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