<TITLE>08. Par 59-67</TITLE>L-59 Up come Luther, what did He do? Following justification. That's exactly the way the church come in, John preaching justification. In come Christ, preaching sanctification. Hebrew... I mean St. John 17:17, "Sanctify them through the Truth, Father. Thy Word is Truth." And He was the Word. That's right. He was the Sacrifice. Then, on the day of Pentecost, with the Holy Ghost. Justification; sanctification; and when the tree received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, it was a full Bride tree.
The Romans eat it down. Just as it went down, it come up. And as it begin to come up through Luther, what? After Luther's death, they organized it. What did the Husband do? Pruned the old dead vines off.
Away she went farther, the heart of the tree growing. It's a predestinated tree. That Seed's a-laying there; it's got to come. And up it come again, and Wesley started. And they had a great revival under sanctification. What happened? He pruned it off again when they organized. Never did a organization ever rise. Never one ever fell that ever come back again.

L-62 Then along come the Pentecostals with the restoration of the gifts. What did it do? Organized. What did God do? Pruned it off.
But what did He say? "I will restore, saith the Lord." He'll bring out of that conglomeration a Church that's Blood-washed, Bible-bought, and Word-solid, a Bride. The evening Lights are coming out. Where does the fruit ripen at? Right in top of the tree. Here I go again.
Back to Abraham, back; let's get to Abraham. Here He come, evening-time, royal Seed coming in. Nations... Notice now, after the 17th chapter, we find out here in the 17th chapter, God appeared to Abraham in the Name of the Almighty God.

L-65 Abraham was ninety and nine years old, and all this time had never waved, but believed God's Word, and called the things which were not as though they were, 'cause God said so, still believing that baby would come, holding onto the promise. What a man. What a brother. "Abraham, who against hope..." Sarah's womb was dead. He was sterile. His body dead. The Bible said it was, that his body was as good as dead. And Sarah's womb was dead. And she was now pretty near forty years a past menopause, and still Abraham believed it, that she'd have the baby because God said so. There you are. Holding to the Word 'cause God said so. No matter what, the creeds that covered It up, and still that Word laid there. It had to come. And that Word laid in Abraham's heart...
No matter how many says, "The days of this is gone, and that's there." As long as that Word is laying there, it'll be creative; because it's a germitized Word. For God is the Word, and the Life of God is in the Word. Notice now when that Word drops into the Life of God, something happens; it comes to pass.

L-67 Now, notice. Then He appeared to him in the Name of Almighty God. Now, God has seven compound redemptive Names. And He appeared to him here in the form of Almighty God, which means "El Shaddai." In the... "Shaddai," in the Hebrew. "El" means "strong one." "Shad" means "breast, like the woman's breast." And now instead of being "shad," singular; "Shaddai," plural. Now, what a sweet consolation to an old man a hundred years old, holding the Word of God in his heart, and here the Voice of God comes to him and said, "I am El Shaddai. I am the Breasted-God."
Oh, what consolation we have. Now, not... Remember, not just "breast," but "breasted": "Wounded for our transgressions; by His stripes we're healed."


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