<TITLE>07. Par 57-68</TITLE>L-57   Jesus said, "And as it was in the days of Sodom!" Remember, He left that alone. Let's picture Sodom. There was three classes of people in the world, always; that's believers, make-believers, and unbelievers. They're in every group. We'll speak on it maybe one night, through the week. But in that time, there was the unbeliever, the Sodomites; there was the make-believer, which was Lot and his group; and there was the called-out and elected, which was Abraham, which was not in Sodom.

L-58 Three Angels came down just before the promised son came. That, Abraham had so-journed, and had looked for a promised son; and Lot had forgot all the promise, and went out into Sodom; and the Sodomites didn't believe him, in the first place. But now notice, one hot morning, three Beings came down from Heaven. And as they come up to Abraham, One of them remained with him. And two of them went down in Sodom, to call out what was left in Sodom, Lot and them that went with him, and He only got three; eight in the days of Noah.

L-59 Now that's a pretty strong statement for this day coming, "as it was," three and eight.
Notice, there was One, though, that had come to Abraham.

L-60   Now the one that went down into Sodom, he... they preached down there, those two that went in there, they preached and told them that the time was at hand, the Gentile world was going to be burned up. Now look at the picture of Sodom to this day; not Noah, the water; but this time the fire, to destroy the Gentile world.

L-61 And the Gentile true believers are looking for a promised Son, the Son of God, and we've waited. They're not in Sodom. They're called out.

L-62 The Sodom was that lukewarm church member. And there was like a modern Billy Graham went down into Sodom, amongst the denominations, an Oral Roberts. And they're in there pounding away, with the Gospel, that blinded them. Watch the sign that he did down there, those.

L-63   Now look to Abraham, the elected, in his group, One stayed back there and performed a sign to them.

L-64 You know, in all the history of the world, all the history of the church, there has never been one time, that any reformer, or any man, that ever had a--a great ministry to the Gentiles, that their name ever end in h-a-m, like A-b-r-a-h-a-m, until now. That's G-r-a-h-a-m, six letters. Abraham is seven letters. Six letters, G-r-a-h-a-m. Billy Graham, a great revivalist that's down there in Sodom, amongst those denominational churches, calling out what he can. We've had Billy Sunday, Finney, Sankey, Moody, Knox, Calvin, so forth, but never a G-r-a-h-a-m or any ending with an h-a-m, never before. There is one down there to the church formal, in Sodom, ending with an h-a-m, mean, "father to the nations."

L-65   Then there was One stayed up there with Abraham, Who set with his tent, back turned to the tent, and He said, "Abraham," not Abram, which he was a few days before that. "Abraham, where is thy wife, Sarah?" S-a-r... r-a-h, not S-a-r-r-a, see. "Where is thy wife, Sarah?"
He said, "She is in the tent, behind You."

L-66 He said, "I am going to visit you. I am," I, a personal pronoun, "going to visit you according to the promise that I give you."

L-67 And Sarah, being a hundred years old, in the tent, laughed to herself, saying within her heart, "How can I, being old, have pleasure again with my lord, and him old, Abraham, as young, or people of--of sex life that it ended years ago?" She was ninety, and Abraham was a hundred. Said, "Have pleasure with my lord, him being old, too?"

L-68   And the Angel, the messenger that was to the church spiritual, discerned what she had, what she said in her heart. And He said, "Why did Sarah doubt this, see, saying in her heart, 'These things cannot be'?"


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