reetings, holy children of God, in the wonderful name of our lord and saviour Jesus, the Christ. The sermon subject for today is:

WHY DOES GOD LOVE ABRAHAM SO? BECAUSE HE IS HIS CHILD, ONE OF THE ELECT; CHOSEN BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, THE PATRIARCH OF ISRAEL, HE IS OBEDIENT TO GOD’S COMMANDS, AND BECAUSE HE HAS PERFECT FAITH. JMS:2:21 WAS NOT ABRAHAM OUR FATHER JUSTIFIED BY WORKS, WHEN HE HAD OFFERED ISAAC HIS SON UPON THE ALTAR? 22. SEEST THOU HOW FAITH WROUGHT WITH HIS WORKS, AND BY WORKS WAS FAITH MADE PERFECT? 23. AND THE SCRIPTURE WAS FULFILLED WHICH SAITH, ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS IMPUTED UNTO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS? AND HE WAS CALLED THE FRIEND OF GOD. WHERE IS ETERNAL LIFE? ETERNAL LIFE IS IN THE SPIRITUAL BODY OF CHRIST. 1JN:5:11 AND THIS IS THE RECORD, THAT GOD HATH GIVEN TO US ETERNAL LIFE, AND THIS LIFE IS IN HIS SON. HOW DO WE, THE ELECT OF GOD, GET INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST? WHEN THE ELECT OF GOD ARE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST WE ARE TRANSLATED OUT OF THE WORLD, AND INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST. GAL:3:27 FOR AS MANY OF YOU AS HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST HAVE PUT ON CHRIST. WHEN WE, THE ELECT OF GOD, RECEIVE THE WASHING OF REGENERATION, AND THE RENEWING OF THE HOLY GHOST WE BECOME A MEMBER IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. JESUS IS JEWISH, ABRAHAM’S SEED, ON HIS MOTHER MARY’S SIDE OF THE FAMILY BECAUSE OF OUR SPIRITUAL UNION WITH CHRIST WE ARE ABRAHAM’S SEED. 1 COR:12:27 NOW YE ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND MEMBERS IN PARTICULAR. WE, THE ELECT OF GOD, THAT HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST ARE THE TRUE JEWS, AND HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE MADE TO ABRAHAM. ROM:9:8 THAT IS, THEY WHICH ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE FLESH, THESE ARE NOT THE CHILDREN OF GOD: BUT THE CHILDREN OF THE PROMISE ARE COUNTED FOR THE SEED. ROM:2:28 FOR HE IS NOT A JEW, WHICH IS ONE OUTWARDLY; NEITHER IS THAT CIRCUMCISION, WHICH IS OUTWARD IN THE FLESH: 29. BUT HE IS A JEW, WHICH IS ONE INWARDLY; AND CIRCUMCISION IS THAT OF THE HEART, IN THE SPIRIT, AND NOT IN THE LETTER; WHOSE PRAISE IS NOT OF MEN, BUT OF GOD. GAL:3:29 AND IF YE BE CHRIST’S THEN ARE YE ABRAHAM’S SEED, AND HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE. UNDER THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS WE, THE ELECT OF GOD, ARE NOT TO CIRCUMCISE OURSELVES WITH THE INTENT TO KEEP THE COVENANT THAT GOD MADE WITH ABRAHAM. GAL:5:1 STAND FAST THEREFORE IN THE LIBERTY WHEREWITH CHRIST HATH MADE US FREE, AND BE NOT ENTANGLED AGAIN WITH THE YOKE OF BONDAGE. 2. BEHOLD, I PAUL SAY UNTO YOU, THAT IF YE BE CIRCUMCISED, CHRIST SHALL PROFIT YOU NOTHING. 3. FOR I TESTIFY AGAIN TO EVERY MAN THAT IS CIRCUMCISED, THAT HE IS A DEBTOR TO DO THE WHOLE LAW. 4. CHRIST IS BECOME OF NO EFFECT UNTO YOU, WHOSOEVER OF YOU ARE JUSTIFIED BY THE LAW; YE ARE FALLEN FROM GRACE. 5. FOR WE THROUGH THE SPIRIT WAIT FOR THE HOPE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH. 6. FOR IN JESUS CHRIST NEITHER CIRCUMCISION AVAILETH ANY THING, NOR UNCIRCUMCISION; BUT FAITH WHICH WORKETH BY LOVE. ABRAM, SON OF TERAH, WHOSE NAME DEFINED MEANS (HIGH FATHER) WHOM GOD GAVE A NEW NAME "ABRAHAM." WHICH DEFINED MEANS (FATHER OF A MULTITUDE.) GN:17:5 NEITHER SHALL THY NAME ANY MORE BE CALLED ABRAM, BUT THY NAME SHALL BE ABRAHAM; FOR A FATHER OF MANY NATIONS HAVE I MADE THEE. 6. AND I WILL MAKE THEE EXCEEDING FRUITFUL, AND I WILL MAKE NATIONS OF THEE, AND KINGS SHALL COME OUT OF THEE. GN:17:7 AND I WILL ESTABLISH MY COVENANT BETWEEN ME AND THEE AND THY SEED AFTER THEE IN THEIR GENERATIONS FOR AN EVERLASTING COVENANT, TO BE A GOD UNTO THEE, AND TO THY SEED AFTER THEE. 8. AND I WILL GIVE UNTO THEE, AND THY SEED AFTER THEE, THE LAND WHEREIN THOU ART A STRANGER, ALL THE LAND OF CANAAN, FOR AN EVERLASTING POSSESSION; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD. HERE IS THE COVENANT THAT GOD MADE WITH ABRAHAM, AND ALL ISRAEL. 9. AND GOD SAID UNTO ABRAHAM, THOU SHALT KEEP MY COVENANT THEREFORE, THOU, AND THY SEED AFTER THEE IN THEIR GENERATIONS. 10. THIS IS MY COVENANT, WHICH YE SHALL KEEP, BETWEEN ME AND YOU AND THY SEED AFTER THEE; EVERY MAN CHILD AMONG YOU SHALL BE CIRCUMCISED. 11. AND YE SHALL CIRCUMCISE THE FLESH OF YOUR FORESKIN; AND IT SHALL BE A TOKEN OF THE COVENANT BETWIXT ME AND YOU. GN:17:12 AND HE THAT IS EIGHT DAYS OLD SHALL BE CIRCUMCISED AMONG YOU, EVERY MAN CHILD IN YOUR GENERATIONS, HE THAT IS BORN IN THE HOUSE, OR BOUGHT WITH MONEY OF ANY STRANGER, WHICH IS NOT OF THY SEED. 13. HE THAT IS BORN IN THY HOUSE, AND HE THAT IS BOUGHT WITH THY MONEY, MUST NEEDS BE CIRCUMCISED: AND MY COVENANT SHALL BE IN YOUR FLESH FOR AN EVERLASTING COVENANT. 14. AND THE UNCIRCUMCISED MAN CHILD WHOSE FLESH OF HIS FORSKIN IS NOT CIRCUMCISED, THAT SOUL SHALL BE CUT OFF FROM HIS PEOPLE; HE HATH BROKEN MY COVENANT. IN THIS PRESENT WORLD IT IS THE NATION OF ISRAEL THAT ARE HEIRS TO CANAAN LAND. JOS:23:4 BEHOLD, I HAVE DIVIDED UNTO YOU BY LOT THESE NATIONS THAT REMAIN, TO BE AN INHERITANCE FOR YOUR TRIBES, FROM JORDAN, WITH ALL THE NATIONS THAT I HAVE CUT OFF, EVEN UNTO THE GREAT SEA WESTWARD. 5. AND THE LORD YOUR GOD, HE SHALL EXPEL THEM FROM BEFORE YOU, AND DRIVE THEM OUT OF YOUR SIGHT; AND YE SHALL POSSESS THEIR LAND, AS THE LORD YOUR GOD HATH PROMISED UNTO YOU. AS LONG AS ABRAHAM LIVED, GOD DID NOT GIVE ABRAHAM AS MUCH OF CANAAN LAND AS HE COULD PUT HIS FOOT ON; IN THIS VISIBLE WORLD. BUT ABRAHAM KNEW THAT HE WOULD RECEIVE CANAAN LAND FOR AN INHERITANCE IN THE WORLD TO COME. IN THESE VERSES OF SCRIPTURE STEPHEN IS ON TRIAL FOR HIS LIFE; AND HE SPEAKS OF ABRAHAM IN HIS TESTIMONY. ACTS:7:1 THEN SAID THE HIGH PRIEST, ARE THESE THINGS SO? 2. AND HE SAID, MEN, BRETHREN, AND FATHERS, HEARKEN; THE GOD OF GLORY APPEARED UNTO OUR FATHER ABRAHAM, WHEN HE WAS IN MESOPOTAMIA, BEFORE HE DWELT IN CHARRAN, 3. AND SAID UNTO HIM, GET THEE OUT OF THY COUNTRY, AND FROM THY KINDRED, AND COME INTO THE LAND WHICH I SHALL SHEW THEE. 4. THEN CAME HE OUT OF THE LAND OF THE CHALDAEANS, AND DWELT IN CHARRAN: AND FROM THENCE, WHEN HIS FATHER WAS DEAD, HE REMOVED HIM INTO THIS LAND, WHEREIN YE NOW DWELL. 5. AND HE GAVE HIM NONE INHERITANCE IN IT, NO, NOT SO MUCH AS TO SET HIS FOOT ON: YET HE PROMISED THAT HE WOULD GIVE IT TO HIM FOR A POSSESSION, AND TO HIS SEED AFTER HIM, WHEN AS YET HE HAD NO CHILD. THERE ARE TWO WORLDS IN WHICH MEN LIVE TODAY. THERE IS THE VISIBLE WORLD, "EARTH", AND THE INVISIBLE WORLD, "HEAVEN". IN THE VISIBLE WORLD THINGS THAT ARE SEEN ARE TEMPORARY. THE THINGS THAT ARE SEEN SHALL BE DESTROYED BY FIRE. 2COR:4:18 WHILE WE LOOK NOT AT THE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN, BUT AT THE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT SEEN: FOR THE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN ARE TEMPORAL; BUT THE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT SEEN ARE ETERNAL. THE INVISIBLE WORLD IS ETERNAL. IT IS THE INVISIBLE INNER MAN, THE SOUL, THAT SHALL LIVE IN ETERNITY. 2COR:4:16 FOR WHICH CAUSE WE FAINT NOT; BUT THOUGH OUR OUTWARD MAN PERISH, YET THE INWARD MAN IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY. GOD PROMISED ABRAHAM THAT HE WOULD GIVE HIS SEED CANAAN LAND. GN:12:7 AND THE LORD APPEARED UNTO ABRAM, AND SAID, UNTO THY SEED WILL I GIVE THIS LAND: AND THERE BUILDED HE AN ALTAR UNTO THE LORD, WHO APPEARED UNTO HIM. THE INVISIBLE WORLD HAS TWO KINGDOMS. THE KINGDOM OF GOD IN WHICH ONLY THE BORN AGAIN SAINTS OF GOD LIVE. FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS RIGHTEOUSNESS PEACE, AND JOY IN THE HOLY GHOST. ROM:14:17 FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT MEAT AND DRINK; BUT RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND PEACE, AND JOY IN THE HOLY GHOST. GOD RULES OVER EVERYONE IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. BUT ONE DAY SOON THE WICKED SHALL BE TAKEN OUT OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN AND DESTROYED. MT:13:47 AGAIN, THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE UNTO A NET, THAT WAS CAST INTO THE SEA, AND GATHERED OF EVERY KIND: 48. WHICH, WHEN IT WAS FULL, THEY DREW TO SHORE, AND SAT DOWN, AND GATHERED THE GOOD INTO VESSELS, BUT CAST THE BAD AWAY. 49. SO SHALL IT BE AT THE END OF THE WORLD: THE ANGELS SHALL COME FORTH, AND SEVER THE WICKED FROM AMONG THE JUST, 50. AND SHALL CAST THEM INTO THE FURNACE OF FIRE: THERE SHALL BE WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH. WHEN THE CHILDREN OF SATAN ARE TAKEN OUT OF THIS WORLD, THEN WE, THE CHILDREN OF GOD, SHALL SHINE LIKE THE SUN IN THE KINGDOM OF OUR FATHER. MT:13:41 THE SON OF MAN SHALL SEND FORTH HIS ANGELS, AND THEY SHALL GATHER OUT OF HIS KINGDOM ALL THINGS THAT OFFEND, AND THEM WHICH DO INIQUITY; 42. AND SHALL CAST THEM INTO A FURNACE OF FIRE: THERE SHALL BE WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH. 43. THEN SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS SHINE FORTH AS THE SUN IN THE KINGDOM OF THEIR FATHER. WHO HATH EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM HEAR. GOD CHOOSES HIS CHILDREN, AND HE CALLS US INTO HIS SERVICE. HERE GOD CALLS ABRAM INTO HIS SERVICE. GN:12:1 NOW THE LORD HAD SAID UNTO ABRAM, GET THEE OUT OF THY COUNTRY, AND FROM THEY KINDRED, AND FROM THY FATHER’S HOUSE, UNTO A LAND THAT I WILL SHEW THEE: 5. AND ABRAM TOOK SARAI HIS WIFE, AND LOT HIS BROTHER’S SON, AND ALL THEIR SUBSTANCE THAT THEY HAD GATHERED, AND THE SOULS THAT THEY HAD GOTTEN IN HARAN; AND THEY WENT FORTH TO GO INTO THE LAND OF CANAAN; AND INTO THE LAND OF CANAAN THEY CAME. JESUS CHRIST, GOD’S DARLING SON IS HEIR OF ALL THINGS; ABRAHAM, AND WE, THE SAINTS OF GOD IN THE BODY OF CHRIST, SHALL BE JOINT HEIRS WITH CHRIST IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD. HEB:1:1 GOD, WHO AT SUNDRY TIMES AND IN DIVERS MANNERS SPAKE IN TIME PAST UNTO THE FATHERS BY THE PROPHETS, 2. HATH IN THESE LAST DAYS SPOKEN UNTO US BY HIS SON, WHOM HE HATH APPOINTED HEIR OF ALL THINGS, BY WHOM ALSO HE MADE THE WORLDS; GOD ELECTED, SELECTED, HAND PICKED ABRAHAM TO BE THE PATRIARCH OF ISRAEL. AT THE TIME THAT GOD MADE ABRAHAM CERTAIN PROMISES, ISAAC, JACOB, DAVID, SOLOMON, THE PROPHETS OF ISRAEL, MARY THE MOTHER OF JESUS, AND ALL ISRAEL WHERE IN HIS LOINS. HEB:7:9 AND AS I MAY SO SAY, LEVI ALSO, WHO RECEIVETH TITHES, PAYED TITHES IN ABRAHAM. 10. FOR HE WAS YET IN THE LOINS OF HIS FATHER, WHEN MELCHISEDEC MET HIM. HOW GREAT, IN THE EYES OF GOD, IS ABRAHAM? IF A MAN BLESSES ABRAHAM HE WILL BE BLESSED. GN:12:1 NOW THE LORD HAD SAID UNTO ABRAM, GET THEE OUT OF THY COUNTRY, AND FROM THY KINDRED, AND FROM THY FATHER’S HOUSE, UNTO A LAND THAT I WILL SHEW THEE: 2. AND I WILL MAKE OF THEE A GREAT NATION, AND I WILL BLESS THEE, AND MAKE THY NAME GREAT; AND THOU SHALT BE A BLESSING: 3. AND I WILL BLESS THEM THAT BLESS THEE, AND CURSE HIM THAT CURSETH THEE: AND IN THEE SHALL ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH BE BLESSED. IF A MAN CURSES ABRAHAM HE WILL BE CURSED. BELOW IS THE CURSE THAT WAS PLACED ON JUDAS ISCARIOT BEFORE HE WAS BORN. I MENTION THIS CURSE SO THAT YOU MAY BE ACQUAINTED WITH WHAT A CURSE IS. PS:109:4 FOR MY LOVE THEY ARE MY ADVERSARIES: BUT I GIVE MYSELF UNTO PRAYER. 5. AND THEY HAVE REWARDED ME EVIL FOR GOOD, AND HATRED FOR MY LOVE. 6. SET THOU A WICKED MAN OVER HIM: AND LET SATAN STAND AT HIS RIGHT HAND. 7. WHEN HE SHALL BE JUDGED, LET HIM BE CONDEMNED: AND LET HIS PRAYER BECOME SIN. 8. LET HIS DAYS BE FEW; AND LET ANOTHER TAKE HIS OFFICE. 9. LET HIS CHILDREN BE FATHERLESS, AND HIS WIFE A WIDOW. 10. LET HIS CHILDREN BE CONTINUALLY VAGABONDS, AND BEG: LET THEM SEEK THEIR BREAD ALSO OUT OF THEIR DESOLATE PLACES. 11. LET THE EXTORTIONER CATCH ALL THAT HE HATH; AND LET THE STRANGERS SPOIL HIS LABOUR. 12. LET THERE BE NONE TO EXTEND MERCY UNTO HIM: NEITHER LET THERE BE ANY TO FAVOUR HIS FATHERLESS CHILDREN. 13. LET HIS POSTERITY BE CUT OFF; AND IN THE GENERATION FOLLOWING LET THEIR NAME BE BLOTTED OUT. 14. LET THE INIQUITY OF HIS FATHERS BE REMEMBERED WITH THE LORD; AND LET NOT THE SIN OF HIS MOTHER BE BLOTTED OUT. 15. LET THEM BE BEFORE THE LORD CONTINUALLY, THAT HE MAY CUT OFF THE MEMORY OF THEM FROM THE EARTH. 16. BECAUSE THAT HE REMEMBERED NOT TO SHEW MERCY, BUT PERSECUTED THE POOR AND NEEDY MAN, THAT HE MIGHT EVEN SLAY THE BROKEN IN HEART. 17. AS HE LOVED CURSING, SO LET IT COME UNTO HIM: AS HE DELIGHTED NOT IN BLESSING, SO LET IT BE FAR FROM HIM. 18. AS HE CLOTHED HIMSELF WITH CURSING LIKE AS WITH HIS GARMENT, SO LET IT COME INTO HIS BOWELS LIKE WATER, AND LIKE OIL INTO HIS BONES. UNDER THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS, WE, AS SAINTS OF GOD, ARE TO BLESS FOLKS, AND CURSE NO ONE. ROM:12:14 BLESS THEM WHICH PERSECUTE YOU: BLESS, AND CURSE NOT. WHY IS CANAAN LAND SO IMPORTANT? IN THE WORLD TO COME, HEAVEN SHALL COME TO EARTH; IT SHALL ALIGHT UPON CANAAN LAND. ACCORDING TO SECULAR LAW, THE PERSON THAT OWNS THE LAND OWNS WHAT IS BUILT THEREON. JESUS CHRIST SHALL BE HEIR TO ALL THINGS. RV:21:1 AND I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH: FOR THE FIRST HEAVEN AND THE FIRST EARTH WERE PASSED AWAY; AND THERE WAS NO MORE SEA. 2. AND I JOHN SAW THE HOLY CITY NEW JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, PREPARED AS A BRIDE ADORNED FOR HER HUSBAND. 3. AND I HEARD A GREAT VOICE OUT OF HEAVEN SAYING, BEHOLD, THE TABERNACLE OF GOD IS WITH MEN, AND HE WILL DWELL WITH THEM, AND THEY SHALL BE HIS PEOPLE, AND GOD HIMSELF SHALL BE WITH THEM, AND BE THEIR GOD. THINK ON THIS. ROM:4:13 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. 1COR:15:50 NOW THIS I SAY, BRETHREN, THAT FLESH AND BLOOD CANNOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD; NEITHER DOTH CORRUPTION INHERIT INCORRUPTION. 51. BEHOLD, I SHEW YOU A MYSTERY; WE SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP, BUT WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED, 52. IN A MOMENT, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, AT THE LAST TRUMP: FOR THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND, AND THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE, AND WE SHALL BE CHANGED. 53. FOR THIS CORRUPTIBLE MUST PUT ON INCORRUPTION, AND THIS MORTAL MUST PUT ON IMMORTALITY.