<TITLE>19. Par 195-207</TITLE>L-195 Notice now, we find that, here They come up, these Men. And Abraham, spiritually, he noticed there was something about those Men were different from ordinary strangers.

L-196 There is just something, when a believer meets a believer, when a believer meets the Word! When, something like that woman, you see, they--they're ordained to That. They just can't help believing It. There is something strikes them, see, they got It.

L-197   And when Abraham saw these Men coming, he went out. And he said, "My Lord, will You come by and let me fetch a little water and wash Your feet? And I'll give you a morsel of bread, in Your hand, and be on Your road, for that's what You come by for." They turned aside.

L-198 Now, in the big master tent, was where Abraham lived. And many of his servants, enough to fight an army, lived out around there. They were herdsmen. So he run in and told Sarah, his wife, to "Go knead some flour, or meal." You know, knead it, sift it, like. "And make some cakes and put it upon the hearth." And--and then, too, he went out into the herd and found a fat calf, and--and killed it, and give it to a servant, and said, "Dress it, and make some--some steaks." And he went out and talked to the Men.

L-199 Quickly, he went back and got the flour and the--the bread, and got some milk and some meat, and come out and set it down before Them. And the Bible said, "They did eat. They eat."

L-200   And you notice, the one Man kept looking towards Sodom. And He said, "I'll not keep this a secret."
Two of Them gets up and goes on. They go down into Sodom.

L-201 A modern Billy Graham and an Oral Roberts, and so They're on Their road down, see, go down into the Sodomites, to blast the Gospel like Billy Graham and them is doing. Did you ever notice? Keep this now. I hope I don't say anything wrong. But, we've had this, spiritually.

L-202 You must--you must never look at things in the natural. Look at the spirit of anything. You want to look at a city, look at the spirit of it. You look at a family, look at the spirits in the family. Look at a man, look at the spirit's in him. See, anything you look at, everything has got to have a motive and objective. See?

L-203   And watch here, did you know, all the great man we've had, Sankey, Finney, Moody--Moody, Knox, Calvin, and so forth, there has never been a man yet, on the field, with a ministry to the nominal church, that ended up with h-a-m, like A-b-r-a-h-a-m, G-r-a-h-a-m. Never before. He is right in the midst of Sodom, that's why. The man is doing a wonderful work. That's where he is supposed to be, see, h-a-m means "father of nations." See?

L-204 Notice now, one of them went down in there to preach to the Sodomites. They went down there.

L-205 One of them stayed back here with Abraham. Notice now, he had been "Abram" a few days before that. And she had been "Sarai," not S-a-r-a-h. See? It's r-a-... And he had been A-b-r-a-h-a-m now. And, notice, He called him by his new name, "Abraham, where is your wife, S-a-r-a-h, Sarah? Where is she at?"

L-206   Women then were a little different they are now, see, they didn't get out in their husband's business. They was back, stay... She was back in the tent. So he said, he said, "She is in the tent, behind You."

L-207 He said, "Abraham, I," personal pronoun, "I am going to visit you according to the promise that I made you." Who was that? See? Who was this Person sitting there with dusty clothes on? "I'm going to visit you according to the promise that I made you."


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