<TITLE>13. Par 152-162</TITLE>L-152 But the One that stayed with Abraham, watch how He identified Himself to Abraham. Now remember, Abraham was "Abram," a day or two before that, and Sarah was--was not "Sarah." Now he is A-b-r-a-h-a-m, A-b-r-a-h-a-m, seven letters. And she is S-a-r-r-a-h, five, grace, see; not S-a-r-r-a, but S-a-r-a-h, see, Sarah. And watch this One sitting here now, eating the calf, drinking milk from the cow, and the butter, and eating corn cakes. Sitting there eating, talking to Abraham, and He said, "Abraham." How did He know his name was Abraham? The Word. He was the Word, knowed. "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?"

L-153 Women in them days didn't act like they do now, you know, have to be in the husband's business and everything, you know. They stayed away, see, so they... So she was in... He said, "She is in the tent, behind You."

L-154   And He said, "I," now that's a personal pronoun, now, "I am going to visit you according to the promise." It was made twenty-five years before that. She is ninety, and he is a hundred. There he is, his bald head shining, his white whiskers hanging down. Her, a little old grandma with a little cane in her hand, back there in the back, a little shawl over her shoulder. "I'm going to visit you, and you're going to have that promised child."

L-155 Watch, and Sarah laughed at it. She said, "How could these things be? I am old, and my lord," her husband, "is old, too." You see what I mean, family relation hadn't been for years and years and years. Why, she was ninety years old, and he was a hundred. Her womb was dead; his life stream was dried up and gone. There is no more desire. Said, "Me, like a young woman, have pleasure with my husband, him old too?" Why, she laughed.

L-156 And the Angel, or the Messenger, the Man with His back turned to the tent, said, "Where did Sarah say that?" See? What was it? Now watch. And then, after the sacrifice was made, He vanished.

L-157   Now remember, Abraham called that Man, "Elohim." How many readers know that? You know it. That's right. "Elohim," that's Almighty God in the form of a man. He was the Word, because He could discern the thoughts. See?

L-158 God in flesh, what does it testify? That, "In the last days," Jesus said, "just before... when the Son of man is being revealed to His promised Church," the Church that's not down yonder in Babylon.

L-159 We got a Babylon church, you know that, the denominations. They're in Babylon. And we got a--a Billy Graham and an Oral Roberts, and them out there banging away at them, too. And remember, any of you historians, there has never been a man, in all the history of the church ages, that has ever went out into Babylon out there, preaching, and his name ending with h-a-m, till now: Billy G-r-a-h-a-m, which is six, not seven. There watch the messenger out yonder, preaching repentance, and blinding their eyes by the Gospel.

L-160   And there was One to the called-out, elected Church, that was showing the sign that God was in flesh.

L-161 Jesus was God in flesh. And if Jesus is in you, tonight, it's still God manifest Himself in the last days, the Son of man revealing Himself in His Church, the human flesh, making Himself known. You get it? See? God, down here in His Church, making Himself again the Word, the Son of man being revealed in the last days, as it was in the days of Sodom.

L-162   Now, remember, if God gave the Jews and the Samaritans that sign, that He was the Word, the Prophet that Moses spoke of, the Gentiles... After they had four thousand years to look for Him, we've had two thousand years to look for Him, He has to identify Himself the same way to us, as He did then, or He did wrong when He identified Himself that time. God has got to act the same time, same way every time, or He acted wrong the first time. If He saved a man upon the basis of his faith...


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