<TITLE>08. Par 72-77</TITLE>L-72   And now remember, that in these days, these last days, said Hebrews 1:1, "God, in sundry times and divers manners, spoke to the fathers through the prophets. In this last day has spoke to us through His Son, Jesus Christ." See? Identification of God Himself manifested in the same manner as He did in foretime, using His same characteristic. Amen. Notice Hebrews 13:8, says, "He's the same yesterday (sundry times), today, and forever the same!" His same manner, His same way, His same characteristic, everything is the same! God, the unchangeable God can no more get away from that characteristic than He get away from His commandment. That's what He is, He is the Word. He's the Word for the hour. He's the Word when He created the world, that was the Word. When He created man, that was the Word, His attributes. When He created Christ, that was God, Immanuel. And when He made Him a Saviour, that was His attributes. When He made Him a Healer, that was His attributes. See? It's the Word always being identified, the identified Word by the characteristic of God. Notice the manner, He always, He never changes.

L-73   Look at the three men that come to Abraham, sitting in his tent door that day. We'll look at him there for a few minutes. He had come, he had been called out of the land of Chaldea, Chaldeans, and the city of Ur. He had been turned out of his city, by the commandments of God, that he separate himself from all unbelief. That's the first characteristic of God, separate yourself from unbelief, when He calls a man!

L-74 And He give him something was absolutely, totally impossible to the natural mind, to believe it. He said, "Abraham, your..." He was seventy-five years old, and Sarah was sixty-five. They, that was his half sister, they had lived together all these years with no children. He said, "I'm going to give you a son by Sarah, and he will, by him, I'll make you a father of many nations." Now, he believed it.

L-75   Time passed by, no change in Sarah. See? she was past the age, she--she was past menopause. Sixty-five, she had done went past that time. Abraham, seventy-five, his body as good as dead. Her womb was good as dead. But Abraham never staggered at the promise of God, through unbelief. He kept believing, because God said it, and was persuaded, "If God said it, His characteristics will produce what He said!" Now, we're supposed to be the children of Abraham, the Seed of Abraham! On, on, twenty-five years lapsed. No difference in Sarah, nothing, only she was older, stooped down, and he is also. But still Abraham believed it.

L-76   And one day, when God seen that His servant was determined to be an example for people of today, and through him He was going to bless the nations, one hot morning about eleven o'clock, three man come walking up to him. They talked to him. And he invited them in to sit down. There was something about them that seemed different from man. Spiritual things are understood by spiritual things. Notice, and they come up and sat down. Abraham looked them over, he said, "My Lord." What must he do?

L-77 Two of them went down and preached in Sodom, which is a modern testimony today. There's your three classes of people: Sodom, and the church down in Sodom, Abraham the Elected is not in Sodom. Two messengers, a modern Billy Graham and... Remember, of all the messengers to the church, there's never been a man ever went out in that church nominal out there, ending his name with h-a-m, before. Been Finney, Sankey, Knox, Calvin, so forth, Billy Sunday, and everything else, but never G-r-a-h-a-m, or any ending with h-a-m, which means "father of nations." There he went down there, preaching. Look at the hour! Here's the make-believers, unbelievers, and believers. These three man came. Two of them went down into the city, a modern Billy Graham and Oral Roberts down amongst the people, preaching. The setting, Jesus referred to it.


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