<TITLE>15. Par 158-168</TITLE>L-158 Now I just don't know how much more time we got. We'll stop maybe just... Well, wait just a minute. Jesus said, in Saint Luke, He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." You remember that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Now let's stop just for one more Scripture, just search this down.

L-159   Now, look, He identified Himself. Now, we got plenty of more places. We can take blind Bartimaeus, and all through, and show the woman touching His garment, all things through the Scripture, and at the well where He went in there, and knowed the man there at the gate called Beautiful, had been had this trouble for so many years, and so forth, and Jesus knew. And then went on, and so forth, through the Scripture, go all the way from Genesis. But, to let you know, just so we can hurry up.

L-160 Now, Jesus identified Himself, a Scriptural identification to the Jews, that He was the Messiah, by being a prophet. Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] That was Jesus yesterday, to the prophet, or to the Jews.

L-161   Then the Gentiles wasn't looking for Him. We were heathens, with a club on our back. And we worshiping idols, we Gentiles. We wasn't looking for no Messiah, so He didn't come to us. The Gospel wasn't preached to the--to the--the Gentiles until Peter opened the Gospel to them at the house of Cornelius, long after that. And then Paul later said, "Lo, I turn to the Gentiles," after the Jews had turned him down.

L-162 Notice now. Don't miss this. Now this will help you if you'll just listen. Why didn't He perform this sign before the Gentiles? He did it before the--the Jews, He did it before the Samaritans, but not one time did He do it before the Gentile. But He predicted it would be done before the Gentiles. For, what God is, He can't change. If He give that sign to identify Himself among the Hebrews and among the Samaritans, just before they was cut off from the Gospel, and we've had two thousand years of teaching of the Bible, and now the Gentiles has come to their end. It's the end for us. And then if He lets us go through just on common Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, or so forth, teaching, without thoroughly identifying Himself among us as He did then, He done something wrong. So He is no respect of person, and He said He would do it.

L-163   Now look, "As it was in the days of Sodom," that's when the Gentiles was burned, burned up. Now, Noah, He mentioned Noah, that was the morals of the people, they went in. But notice the Gentiles, just before the fire fell to destroy the Gentiles, the Sodomites and Gomorrah, and the cities around it.

L-164 Notice Abraham, a type of the Church, free, the spiritual Church. Lot, the type of the church lukewarm, in Babylon... or not in Babylon; in Babylon today, but in Sodom then. And then the Sodomites, the unbelievers.

L-165 There is always three classes of people. We--we have them here, we have them everywhere. That's believers, make-believers, and unbelievers. And we have them everywhere, and the three classes of people.

L-166   God is perfected in three's. Like Father, Son, Holy Spirit, makes one God. And justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost, makes one birth. Water, Blood, and Spirit, makes one Birth. And so forth, see, it's all, it's perfect. We haven't time to go through the--the numerals of God, in His, what He is perfected in; and what His Coming will be in, and so forth, and what number, but we're in it.

L-167 Notice now as we study, we find now Who, this Messiah. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah, and as the days of Lot." Now Abraham was waiting for a promised son. So are we. The church called-out, representing the born-again people that's separated themselves from the world. They're not in Sodom. They are called out, set aside, holding a promise of a coming Son.

L-168   And, now, one day while Abraham was sitting in the barren land.


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