<TITLE>07. Par 64-73</TITLE>L-64   Lot is a type of the denominational church down in Sodom yet. Watch, the Bible said that, "The sins of Sodom vexed his righteous soul daily." Why didn't he have nerve enough to stand out against it? There's a-many a-good man sitting in a church today, looking out and seeing women with shorts on and man doing these things, and their members going, playing golf on Sunday, and picnic parties, and swimming and things, instead of attending church. Sitting home on Wednesday night, watching television, instead of attending church. They feel like saying something about it, but the board would put them out. What's the matter? It's Lot again, looking out of his window and seeing the sin, and afraid to call sin "sin"!

L-65   Abraham wasn't in their mess, he was out of it. He was a type of the spiritual Church. Now watch what happened just at the end time, just before the fire fell. And those were Gentiles. It foreshadowed the fire falling on the Gentile world today, when the kingdoms will be broke up and they'll be burnt. "Heavens will be on fire," saith the Lord, "and they'll burn with fervent heat." That was a shadow of it.

L-66 Now let's picture them. Here's Abraham already out, not in Sodom, he was out of Sodom. Lot was still in Sodom.

L-67 Strange thing, one hot morning, along about eleven o'clock it must have been, he saw three man coming, ordinary man, walking down the road, the path. Abraham was sitting under the oak, resting himself. He had been out, probably with the herds that morning, come in, almost noontime. And he saw three man coming. And there was something about those man, that, rung a bell. Oh, my!

L-68   There's always something about God, when It comes among the people, It rings a bell. They know It. There's something tells them, there's a vindication there.

L-69 Abraham run quickly, and said, "My Lord, come by and let me get a little water, fetch it and wash Your feet, and give You a morsel of bread, and then You can go on Your road." So he turned aside. He run in the herd and got a calf and killed it, had a servant to dress it. Went in the tent, down below him, and got Sarah to knead some flour, make some, or some meal, make some bread, and make the cakes on the hearth. Brought them out and served. While he was sitting there, eating, they begin to notice, this Man kept looking down towards Sodom. And He said...

L-70   Two of them, remember, went down in Sodom. Two went to Sodom. Please don't miss this. I'm referring to what Jesus said. Two of them went to Sodom to bring out Lot and what was ready to be brought out down there. And them two that went down there, went down and preached. (And there was One stayed back with Abraham. Watch the sign He done.) They got a sign down there, there was... the Sodomites was smitten blind. Preaching the Gospel is always blinding to the unbeliever. And notice what done it.

L-71   Now, there's One standing back here and done the sign before Abraham.

L-72 Now, did you ever notice, any historian, follow the Scriptures, follow the history, there has never been a time in the church ages where a man ever went to the nominal churches out there in the world, out there in the denominations, there's never been a man that his name end like Abraham, h-a-m, before. But today they got one, G-r-a-h-a-m. That's right. Going down there, calling them out. He's doing a wonderful job by it. Graham, Billy Graham, God's servant out there amongst the denominations, politicians, and so forth, smashing at it.

L-73 The other day when they wanted him to run for President, he flatly turned it down. God, bless him for it. Why, them whiskey companies, he'd a-never got to first base as it would been. They'd have spent billions of dollars, because he would a-put them out anyhow, those cigarette companies and things like that. See, he's out there as God's messenger to Sodomites. That's exactly.


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