<TITLE>07. Par 57-65</TITLE>L-57 Now, let's background Abraham. First, God met Abraham, unconditionally covenant He made with Abraham. Not anything at all; Abraham had nothing to do but believe God. The covenant was purely by grace and unconditional. Not "if you will"; God said, "I have." And now, every man...
Remember, all Abraham's Seed that ever come to God, comes the same way. Not nothing you could do, you could not save yourself no more than you could take your boot straps and jump over the moon. You cannot save yourself. No man ever sought God; it's God seeking man, "You never chose Me," said Jesus, "I chose you." The first...?...

L-59 Could you go out here and tell a pig that he's wrong eating slop? He'll tell you attend to your own business. But it would have to take something that could change his nature to make him realize that he's wrong. Something has to happen to the pig, first.
That's the reason that so-called Christians many times wallow in the mud, back in sin, is because... You could wash a pig, and paint their fingernails, put on lip manicure. That--that's wrong, ever what it is. Lip rouge, isn't it, or something? I get that, all that stuff, mixed up. You know what it is, though. You put the old sow on some lip rouge and--and, you know, do all the other works to it, and she'll go right straight to the wallow, and wallow again. Why? She's a hog to begin with. The only way you'll ever make her any different is change her nature.
That's the only way that a man or woman can ever line up with God, is change their nature, clean out, die to the old man's sin, and be reborned again by the Spirit of God. And that is, Christ is the Spirit of God, and Christ is the Word. Then it witnesses with the Word. That's the only way we'll ever do it.

L-62 Now, Abraham was looking for a city whose Builder and Maker was God. And today we are pilgrims, strangers, looking for a city whose Builder and Maker is God. Look. Abraham, before he'd ever known, there was something like an instinct in him, that he looked at the city.
Today, passing down with the wife, I was saying, "A lovely little place here setting on the hill, maybe three hundred years ago, beautiful wood, great high timbers. Man come in and cut them down, polluting the streams. It would be a beautiful place to live here." Yeah, but you look, he built houses. Then they begin to multiply. Sin and violence begin to come in. Hollywood moved in close to him, brought it in by movie, by television. By... And now it's a contaminated and sinful, every city.
And surely, as people, something's in them likes to live together, to neighbor, and be righteous. There is surely a City somewhere. The deep calling to the Deep again...

L-65 And Abraham saw the cities of his day, Ur of Chaldea. And he knew that because there was something in him calling, there was a City that was different, Whose Builder and Maker was God. And God seen that in Abraham, told him, "Separate yourself now, come on out."
Now, Abraham, one thing I want you to notice: he obeyed God's Word to the letter.
Always remember that. That's my message. You must obey the Word. And know anything contrary to It, leave it alone. It may look good, but don't reason against God's Word.
That's the first thing Satan did, was reason against God's Word to Eve. And she never doubted It. She just reasoned. Satan reasoned It.
And that's the way they do today. "Isn't it reasonable that we should do this? Isn't it reasonable?" If it's against God's Word, leave it alone. It's the voice of Satan.


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