<TITLE>14. Par 141-154</TITLE>L-141   The comedians on television, and tell, and--and radio and things, are whistling and singing, and cracking dirty jokes, and saying curse words and awful things that should not even be allowed, and the whole magazines and things are plastered full of naked, immoral women, everything, trying to appease the mind, trying to quieten you. It reminds me of a little boy whistling in the dark, going through the graveyard, trying to make hisself think he's not afraid. You're scared to death, and you know it. You know you're in for judgment, and it's coming because you've blasphemed the Holy Ghost, and you've turned down the resurrected Jesus Christ. Exactly. Their eyes are closed. They don't know it.

L-142   Sodom and Gomorrah. Jesus said, "As it was at Sodom and Gomorrah." As I repeated to you last night, there has never been a time in history that's been set like this. Look, Lot...
There is always three classes of people.

L-143 Lot represented the church, nominal. He is out in Sodom out there, where the women had their hairs cut, and they were having great things, and he was one of the head men of the city, and great things like that, and, "Let me get by." But, actually, down in his heart, it vexed his soul. He knowed better; he had been with Abraham.

L-144 Abraham never went down in it, at the beginning. He was the elected that God give a promise to, that was looking for a coming son, a promised son.

L-145 Sodom was still in its matter. And, remember, them two Angels went down there to preach.
One stayed with Abraham and that group.

L-146   Now, watch, they went down there to preach. And, remember, since we have been in this church ages, there has never been a man sent to the church, his name ending with h-a-m, until now. G-r-a-h-a-m, the messenger of the hour, to the church in Babylon, down there in Sodom. The great evangelist is doing a great job out of it, too. He is blasting them, right and left. They don't pay any attention to it. He said, "I'll have thirty thousand converts in six weeks; go back in another six weeks, ain't got thirty."

L-147 What's the matter? They don't go nowhere. Walk up chewing chewing-gum, smoking cigarettes, and everything else, to make a confession, or what they call "a decision." That's all right, let the evangelist carry it the way God says to.

L-148 To me, it isn't a decision. It's a birth! You've got to be born. You've got something has got to happen.
Here we are, though, there, h-a-m.

L-149   Notice, up here on the hill, there was One stayed with Abraham, but watch what kind of sign He showed. And that was the Ab-... God had showed Abraham sign after sign, but that was the last one before the promised son came; the last one. The Man, He looked like a man. He was just an ordinary Man, dressed; dust on His clothes, said He had been in a journey, Abraham washed His feet.

L-150 And then when He sit there, with His back turned to the tent, now watch, He said, "Abraham." A day or two before, he had been Abram, and she had been Sara, S-a-r-a. Now she is S-a-r-a-h, "princess." He is not Abram. Abraham, "the father of nations." He had to change his name. Notice, He said, "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?"

L-151 Now remember, he was a hundred, and she was ninety. Said, "She is in the tent, behind You."

L-152 He said, "I am going to visit you according to the promise." See? And that's the twenty-eight days, with Sarah.

L-153 And Sarah laughed, as it was, up her sleeve, said, "Me, an old woman, have pleasure with my lord; him being old, too?"

L-154 He said, "Why did Sarah doubt that, saying in her heart, 'How can these things be?'"
And she denied it.
But He said, "Yes, you did say it."
Jesus said, "Just as it was..."


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