<TITLE>25. Par 84-86</TITLE>L-84 Now, remember, there's always three classes of people, and here I'm going to name them. That's believers, make-believers, and unbelievers. They're in every crowd. So you--you have them. So there they was. Here was Abraham, the called-out and elected church; Lot, the cold formal church down in Sodom, with the Sodomites.
And one day, when the hour was just about ready for the burning of the earth at that time, Abraham was setting under his oak. Now, listen real close. Don't miss this. Now, Jesus said it will repeat at the end time, just before He comes.

L-85 Now, there come up three Angels, and One of them was God. So He set down with Abraham; and two of them went down in Sodom and preached the Gospel to them. Is that right? A modern Billy Graham to the church normal that's in Sodom, great men like that, Oral Roberts, going down there and performing... They didn't do much of a miracle, not too many. They did something, smiting them blind. Preaching the Gospel smites... There they was in that denominational realm, went down there preaching the Gospel. Billy Graham that great, mighty evangelist to the Baptists and Presbyterian. Oh, he lays the line down to them. But you see, he preached to them, calling them out.
But there was One stayed behind with Abraham, and He gave Abraham a sign. Now, listen real close. Just a day before that, his name had been Abram, and her name was S-a-r-a-i, Sarai. And He changed his name from Abram to Abraham, father of nations; h-a-m, A-b-e-r-h-a-m: seven letters, A-b-e-r-h-a-m, Abraham. Now, He changed Sarah's name from S-a-r-a-i to S-a-r-a-h, princess.
Now, the Angels that--that went down in there, went down and preached the Gospel, and tell them to, "Get out of--get out of that mess down there. Come out from among it." And isn't that what Billy Graham, and them great--Jack Shuler, and them guys today, calling out a Babylon worldwide? But the Angel that stayed with the church that never was in Sodom, watch what He did for a sign.

L-86 Now, Sarah wasn't like the modern women of today. And she set in the tent. So this Angel said to Abraham; He said, "Abraham (not Abram), Abraham (How did He know his name was Abraham now?), where is your wife (S-a-r-a-h) Sarah?" How did He know he was married? How did He know his name was Abraham, when it was Abram? How did He know Sarah, his wife, was Sarai was Sarah?
"Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?"
Abraham looked at Him, said, "Why, she's in the tent behind You."
He said, "Abraham, I am going to visit you according to the time of life. I (that personal pronoun again, the very One that give him the name. See?), I am going to visit you according to the time of life."
And Sarah, inside the tent behind the Man, said, "Me, an old woman? Why," said, "I haven't had pleasure with my lord (her husband there for, maybe it'd been twenty years). Said, "Me an old woman, and my lord also old? We have pleasure again like young people?" And she, what we call, laughed up her sleeve, kinda to herself.
And the Angel said, "Why did Sarah laugh?" Whew. Scared her to death. What was it?


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