<TITLE>17. Par 160-171</TITLE>L-160   He was the man, Saint Martin, was one of the men who contended back there, for the Faith that was once delivered to the saints. He believed in the miracles of God. He believed in speaking with tongues. He believed in all the Testament that was wrote by the apostles. He believed in and contended for It, as long as he lived, and God performed miracles. He knew, when he seen that old beggar wrapped in the piece of garment of his own coat, that the Word of God was fulfilled, "Insomuch as you have done unto the least of these, My little ones, you have done it unto Me."
You say, "The man didn't see it."

L-161 I believe he seen it. I believe he got it. I believe that it's there. I believe that was Jesus he looked at. It was a revelation of God made manifest, because he carried out.

L-162   Talk about a paradox, there is coming one. "When the dead in Christ shall rise, and we which are alive shall be changed, in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, to be caught up together to meet Him in the air." Yes.

L-163 Oh, how God keeps His Word in this intellectual age! How He is the same yesterday, today, and forever! How He can still discern the thoughts of the human heart! How He can still change man! And how He can still keep every word that He promised in this day! He is the same yesterday, today, and forever! How He can still manifest and let them take the picture of that same Pillar of Fire that followed Israel, the same One that was with the Lord Jesus, the same One was down there with Saul on the road, the same One that come in and delivered Peter out of the prison! That same Angel of God is here tonight, and doing the very same thing It did when It was here on earth manifested in human flesh. Why? He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-164   Do you believe in a paradox? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] I believe that God is wanting people to believe in a paradox. I've went way over my time. I believe it could be a paradox right here. Amen. I believe that God is willing and wanting to take His people and show Himself. If He can only get a man or a woman, boy or girl, to lay down their own thoughts, and become a prisoner to Him and believe Him.

L-165 He is His Word. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us."

L-166 And now He is in you, the hope of Glory, the same yesterday, today, and forever. He said, in Saint John 14:12, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall He do also."

L-167   He promised, in Saint Luke, that, "as it was in the days of Sodom," when the elected Church, Abraham's group, would receive a sign like Abraham received, and Lot's group would receive a sign like Lot did.

L-168 It's a very strange thing that we've had all these great reformers, of Luther and Wesley, but never did we ever have a man out there with his name ending in h-a-m, a messenger to the world. G-r-a-h-a-m, that's six letters. A-b-r-a-h-a-m is Abraham. We've had Moody's, Sankey's, Finney, and Knox, Calvin, but never a ham, "father to the nations." We've got one now. That's a paradox. Did you know that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] And look, he is doing just exactly, calling them out of Sodom.

L-169   But, remember, Abraham had a messenger up there to his group, too. Amen. And what kind of a sign did He do, with His back turned to the tent? Said, "I'm going to visit you according to the time of My promise, according to the time of life." And He said, "Where is your wife, Sarah?"

L-170 Said, "She is in the tent, behind You." And when he said that, Sarah laughed to herself.

L-171 He said, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'These things can't be'?" See?


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