Notes used in the message
“Unconditional
Covenant Pt.2” (Covenant Confirmed)
ROMANS 4:1
1 ¶ What shall we say then that Abraham
our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
ROMANS 4:2
2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he
hath [whereof] to glory; but not before God.
ROMANS 4:3
3 For what saith the
scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
ROMANS 4:4
4 Now to him that worketh
is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
ROMANS 4:5
5 But to him that worketh
not, but believeth on him that justifieth the
ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
ROMANS 4:6
6 Even as David also describeth
the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth
righteousness without works,
ROMANS 4:7
7 [Saying], Blessed
[are] they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
ROMANS 4:8
8 Blessed [is] the man to whom the Lord will
not impute sin.
ROMANS 4:9
9 ¶ [Cometh] this blessedness then upon
the circumcision [only], or upon the uncircumcision
also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham
for righteousness.
ROMANS 4:10
10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision?
Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
ROMANS 4:11
11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a
seal of the righteousness of the faith which [he had yet] being uncircumcised:
that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not
circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
ROMANS 4:12
12 And the father of circumcision to them who
are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith
of our father Abraham, which [he had] being [yet] uncircumcised.
ROMANS 4:13
13 For the promise, that he should be the heir
of the world, [was] not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but
through the righteousness of faith.
GENESIS 15:1
1 ¶ After these things the word of the
LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I [am] thy shield,
[and] thy exceeding great reward.
GENESIS 15:2
2 ¶
And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless,
and the steward of my house [is] this Eliezer of
Damascus?
GENESIS 15:3
3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast
given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
GENESIS 15:4
4 And, behold, the word of the LORD [came]
unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine
heir.
GENESIS 15:5
5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able
to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
GENESIS 15:6
6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted
it to him for righteousness.
GENESIS 15:7
7 ¶ And he said unto him, I [am] the LORD
that brought thee out of
GENESIS 15:8
8 And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know
that I shall inherit it?
GENESIS 15:9
9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years
old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
GENESIS 15:10
10 And he took unto him all these, and divided
them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds
divided he not.
GENESIS 15:11
11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
GENESIS 15:12
12 ¶ And when the sun was going down, a
deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
GENESIS 15:13
13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety
that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land [that is] not theirs, and shall
serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
GENESIS 15:14
14 And also that nation, whom they shall
serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
GENESIS 15:15
15 And thou shalt go
to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a
good old age.
GENESIS 15:16
16 But in the fourth generation they shall
come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites [is] not yet full.
GENESIS 15:17
17 ¶ And it came to pass, that, when the
sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp
that passed between those pieces.
GENESIS 15:18
18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant
with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this
land, from the
TRUE.EASTER.SEAL_ JEFF.IN V-14 N-3
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138 Speaking the other night on the--Abraham and his Seed
after him, how that God showed through Abraham, how He justified Abraham, the
12th chapter of Genesis. And on the--this on down, 16th
chapter, how He confirmed the covenant through sanctification. On the
17th chapter, let him nurse from His breast, draw in the Holy Spirit. And then
He confirmed, or placed him (like you've heard me preach the sermon of
"Hear Ye Him"), took Abraham out and changed his name from Abram to
Abraham, give him part of His Name, Elohim, h-a-m.
Then we find out, that after that, He appeared to Abraham.
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166 Now, in Abraham's journey, he met God all
along in different forms, and so forth, which we could take it and show it
just... We are Abraham's Seed, if we're in Christ. And Isaac was really
his--his lesser son; he was his son, sexually. But spiritually, Christ was
Abraham's Seed, his royal Seed, his faith.
Now, we find that his royal Seed is, travels the same
journey, that's Bride of Christ travels the same journey that Abraham did. And
the last sign that Abraham seen before the promised son came, was when God was
manifested in a human body, and two Angels came down.
Jesus said in Saint Luke the 17th chapter and the 30th verse,
that, "As it was in the days of Noah..." He told about Noah's time.
And said, "As it was in the days of
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64 Now, God in this stage of--at this stage of
His creation later formed into flesh Jesus. From what?
From the great beginning Spirit, then came down to be the Word, bringing Itself out. The Word doesn't yet make Itself;
it's just spoke out, "En morphe," later He
becomes flesh, Jesus, mortal to taste death for all of us sinners.
When Abraham met Him, He was Melchisedec.
He unfolds here what all the attributes will do in the final end, every son of
Abraham. Every son of the faith will absolutely do the same thing. But I want
to watch how we have to come.
Also we see Him revealed here in Ruth and--and Boaz as a Kinsman
Redeemer, how He had to come to be flesh.
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1125-295 Sanctification is when your name goes on
the book as a believer. Your word--your name is wrote
in His Blood. See? Sanctification does that; and you come up, when He's trusted
you up to this far, and then come up and you say, "Well, would He know
it?"
Yes, He knowed it. He knowed you wouldn't do it in the beginning. He knowed Judas wouldn't do it. He knowed
him from the beginning; he was the son of perdition. But them thing has to be
fulfilled. See? The Word has to be fulfilled, although types and shadows. Oh,
my. We could stay on that for hours.
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E-55 The next thing was then, what
did He do? The next thing was sanctification by the Blood: sanctification by
the blood to the seed. Next thing was nursing God's own strength into him:
taking God's own strength into the church. What He did to Abraham, He did to
his seed after him. Everybody understand that? All right, now notice.
Then He said to Abraham, notice this 4th and 5th verse. Abraham My
covenant now is with you. Amen. What a condition that ought to have been. What
a word of encouragement to an old man a hundred years old, right at a hundred,
ninety-nine, and telling him that He was El-Shaddai.
"Now, I give you the strength. Now, I'm going to place you with Me now. I'm the Father of all creation. My name is Elohim." Anyone knows that the word "Elohim" means "the--the All Sufficient One,
the--the great self-existing One, Elohim."
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E-27 Now, we find out that God told him to
separate himself, last night, and away from his kindred, away from his people.
But Abraham, like an ordinary man... Now, God never--never run him out
the--back to his homeland for doing it, but Abraham never did get blessed of
God until he separated himself from all of his people. He took his father
along; he took some more along, took his nephew. And the old fellow always was
in the way, till finally God called him off the scene. And then Lot, his
nephew, backslid and went down into
Now, we find out in Genesis 13:16, the--God told Abraham,
when He spoke to him about His covenant, He said, "I will multiply you,
and your seed shall be like the dust of the--by the sands by the side of the
sea," like little grains of dust in the earth. "Your--your seed shall
be like that, a father of nations."
And now we notice also in Genesis 15:5, when He confirmed
the covenant, or spoke to him again about it, He said, "And go outside and
look up; can you number the stars?" How that there's
so many stars, innumerable...
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E-32 Now, let's go to Genesis the 15th chapter:
that's where He's confirming the covenant to Abraham. (Now listen close.) He confirmed the covenant, or signed the contract with
Abraham, in the 15th chapter of Genesis.
Now, we find out that Abraham said, "Lord, what will You give me, seeing that I go barren..." He's getting
to be an old man; this was many years later. He said, "... seeing that I
go barren and the heir of my house is this Eleazar of
Damascus. What will You give me?"
And God told him to take a she goat of three years old, a heifer
of three years old, and his sacrifices, and a sheep three years old, ram, and
to go up and split those sacrifices open, and took a pigeon and a turtledove.
(Can you hear me, say, "Amen?" [The people
reply, "Amen!"-Ed.] All
right. I'll be... I want you to get this now.)
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E-41 He confirmed the covenant in
Genesis the 15th chapter. You get that out there, each one of you now? In
Genesis the 15th chapter, He confirmed the Word. And remember, listen now, He
never confirmed it to him until he completely obeyed God. And He won't confirm
it to you, till you'll completely surrender everything.
Now, I want you to keep these in mind. Our little Amish sister, or
Dunkard, Mennonite, whatever is there, you're getting
it, I hope.
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E-49 Now, we just don't have enough time to...
to... to preach the way I like to preach. I'm not much of a preacher, but I
like to talk about what I know. See? Look, now, let's take this...
Now, what did he do? Now, to you that's keeping this Scriptures...
Now, what was the covenant made? (Now we're going to change the position here
in just a minute in the next chapter.)
Now, what did He do? Make the covenant with Abraham, say it with
me, "Abraham and his seed." What is the seed of Abraham? The borned again man and woman that's
filled with the Holy Ghost.
"Oh now, Brother Branham..." All right. Let's see if
He kept His promise. Abraham, in Genesis 12, was justified, called out, by
justification and believed God's Word. Is that right? So was the church in
Martin Luther. Is that right? Genesis the 15th chapter, he's separating when he
completely obeyed and confirmed the covenant to him by blood.
Hebrews 13: 12 and 13: "Jesus suffered without the gate that He might
sanctify the people with His own blood." Is that right? What did He send? A message to the earth, a messenger. Who was it in the
He believed through justification, Genesis 12. He
confirmed the covenant by blood, spilling the blood of a ram and so forth. on the 15th chapter and sanctified the church.
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E-24 Now, when we find out in justification what
He done with the seed... or to Abraham, was beginning with Luther. Sanctification, the 15th chapter, when He
confirmed the covenant by blood. Seventeenth
chapter He gave the Holy Ghost, the Pentecostal age, because, you see, all
those other elements was something outside of what the church received from
Him--what Abraham received from Him. But when He said, "I
am El Shaddai... ", the breast, inviting Abraham
to come nurse his strength from the breast of God, draw in the life of God into
himself... That's when the church got the Holy Ghost, when it tasted of the
life of God, when it drawed into itself the baptism
of the Holy Ghost.
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E-55 The question was, "Where's--where's
this seed You promised me? Where...
How am I going to be there? The people are laughing at me, saying, 'Abraham,
father of nations, been fifteen years. Now, you're eighty-five years old,
or--or--or ninety. Where--where--where's all your
children at? How many children you got now, father of nations?'" See,
making fun of him...
But he staggered not. He stayed right with it. Made fun, said,
"Father of nations, now let's see. How many children do you have at this
time?" See, wanted to make fun because he was holding to God's promise,
believing that He's able to keep what He promised. He's--He's more than able.
He's--He can provide His own sacrifice. He's Jehovah-jireh.
He can provide and make a way for what He promised. And He
confirmed the covenant to him by showing him how He was going to do it, taking
Christ and tearing the Life from Him, and send it down in the last days upon...
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E-22 Now, I want every person, especially you
that's going to be prayed for, or you that's praying for someone else, to
listen closely now to the life of Abraham.
Now, the covenant was made with Abraham. And not only to
Abraham, but Abraham and his seed after him. And then we must remember that we
are Abraham's seed.
A Jew is not a Jew, which is by nationality a Jew. A Jew is a Jew
inwardly. He is the seed of Abraham when he takes on Christ. He becomes
Abraham's seed and, or, in the covenant with Abraham, for the promise was made
to Abraham.
Now, how do we become Abraham's seed? When we
have the faith that Abraham had. If you notice as Brother Border's read
the Scriptures, did this come to Abraham when he was in circumcision or out
of circumcision? When he was--before he was circumcised.
So you see, works don't get us anywhere. It's our
faith that saves us.
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E-72 But if you've got the Holy Ghost, you're
God's child, you're Abraham's Seed. You got an unconditional
covenant written in your heart by God Almighty Himself, Who
can't take it back. Amen. He swore that He wouldn't do it. Hallelujah.
Every promise in the Bible
is mine,
Every
chapter, every verse, every line.
I am trusting in His love
Divine.
Every promise in the Book
is mine.
God's children, unconditionally... You don't deserve your healing
tonight. There's not a one of us in here that deserves to even hear the Gospel.
There's not a one of you deserves the grace of Jesus Christ, none of us. We're
all all together. But God by grace has did it anyhow.
That's right. There's none of you deserve your healing. Every one of you ought
to die, me too, all of us. We're not deserved to live on the earth. That's
right. We're not deserving to look at God's creation.
But God has promised
us and He cannot lie. He swore that He would do it. Healing belongs to us.
Amen. Salvation belongs to us. The Holy Ghost belongs to us. Heaven belongs to
us. Now we're the sons of God. Now we're setting in heavenly places in Christ
Jesus. There's nothing can harm us.
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E-74 Oh, I hate to butcher anything up like
that, but I hope you get what I mean. God has made an unconditional covenant. He swore by the death of Jesus Christ. He sent the Holy
Ghost back upon you to be a confirmation that the covenant is made with you.
Brother, I don't want the devil to rob you out of that. Don't think I'm crazy.
I guess I may be, but let me alone. I'm happy crazy then. Look. Let me tell you
something. I'd rather be this way than the way I used to be.