26-0309P_THREE KINDS OF BELIEVERS

Gen 18:1  And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; 
Gen 18:2  And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, 
Gen 18:3  And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: 

Gen 18:10  And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him. 
Gen 18:11  Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. 
Gen 18:12  Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? 
Gen 18:13  And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old? 
Gen 18:14  Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. 
Gen 18:15  Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh. 
Gen 18:16  And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way. 
Gen 18:17  And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; 
Gen 18:18  Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? 
Gen 18:19  For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. 
Gen 18:20  And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; 
Gen 18:21  I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. 
Gen 18:22  And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.

Gen 19:1  And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; 
Gen 19:9  And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door. 
Gen 19:10  But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. 
Gen 19:11  And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door. 

PROVING.HIS.WORD_  LOS.ANGELES.CA  65-0426  V-18 N-3

188             Look at Sodom now, look what happened. He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom." There was a group of people that was looking for a promised son. We believe that. That was Abraham and his group. There was a lukewarm bunch, Lot, half backslid, yet a believer; down in Sodom. Three classes of people.

189    There is always them three classes. Ham, Shem, Japheth's people. Also, believers, make-believers, and unbelievers. They're everywhere, and we--we find them in every group. And, everywhere, you find them. And that groups is still here.

THREE.KINDS.OF.BELIEVERS_JEFFERSONVILLE.IN  63-1124E  V-3 N-6

44    The first is believers, make-believers, and unbelievers. Now, that is quite a--a--a subject. But, as sure as we sit here tonight, that group is always gathered together. Wherever the people gather, we find this group, and always have found them, and we probably always will have them until the Coming of the Lord. And I want us, tonight, to picture ourselves, as I speak of these three groups, and see what group that we are in.

 

MODERN.EVENTS.ARE.MADE.CLEAR.BY.PROPHECY_SAN.BERNARDINO.CA  65-1206    V-7 N-6 

234    Remember, there's always three groups of people in every bunch of people you gather, that's, make-believers, unbelievers, and believers. We have them in every group. They've had them in all time. There was the Sodomites, there was--there was the Lotites, and there was Abraham.

 

THE.UNCHANGEABLE.GOD.WORKING.IN.AN.UNEXPECTABLE.WAY_  PHOENIX.AZ  62-0120

192     What happened? There was three classes of people in that day, and there's three classes of people today. First, there was the Sodomites; the world. There was Lot and his people; the church, formal, intellectual type. And there was Abraham and his group; Abraham and his group, setting up there, the Elected and called out Church.

193    Remember, now, there was three groups. The Sodomites; sinful, wicked world like today. There was the church member, lukewarm, cold; Lot, his group. There was Abraham, the called out of it, and was setting out here in the desert, taking the hard things. Right. And the Lord came down in a form of a Man, the Speaker of these three Angels that stood.

 

WHO.DO.YOU.SAY.THIS.IS_  PHOENIX.AZ  64-1227    V-6 N-9

86    Now we find the people much the same. The people doesn't change. These people were divided in three groups. And we'll look at that for a few minutes now.

87  They were divided, there, in three different groups, with three different opinions. Some of them believed Him (Abraham). Some of them hated Him (Pervert Homosexual). And some of them didn't know what to do (Lot).

88   See? That's--that's just the way we got it. I preached, I believe in this church, once: Believers, Make-believers, and Unbelievers. Them three in the group, you--you have that everywhere. This is three in the group, too; seeing this state of the people has always been. We can go way back and prove, that's the state of the people always. They've always been in that kind of a condition.

AN.ABSOLUTE_  PHOENIX.AZ    63-0127  

364    Now watch, today, when was there ever a time? Tell me when a time ever went out to Sodom.

365    Remember, that was Abraham, A-b-e-r-h-a-m, or A-b-r-a-h-a-m, rather.

366    When was there ever a messenger ever went to the local denominational churches with a man ending his name in h-a-m, G-r-a-h-a-m?

367    What about to the pentecostal group? It's never been known in history. I come through it just recently, checking names.

You say, "Names don't mean nothing."

368    Why did Saul then have his name changed to Paul? Why did Simon to Peter? Why did Jacob to Israel? Certainly, it is.

G-r-a-h-a-m; 6 letters; 666 Man’s number representing the Nominal (so- called, supposedly, titular) church

CHRIST.IS.IDENTIFIED.THE.SAME.IN.ALL.GENERATIONS_TAMPA.FL 64-0415

201     Now, there is three groups of people. There was a genuine believer; and there was a lukewarm, which any teacher will tell you that Lot represented the nominal church which was in Sodom; and there was the Sodomite then. Now notice. Just before the... They were...

202    Abraham and Lot was looking for a promised, miraculous son. Is that right? Is that what the Church is looking for today? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] A return of this Son, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, we're looking for Him to come.

203    Now look at the position. Everybody will admit she's in a Sodom condition. I passed over California, here the other day, and got a hold of a magazine, or a paper, read where, "Homosexuals had increased sixty percent, in the last year." See? Oh, my! It's pitiful. See? It's just because women has throwed themselves away. That's right. And just on the street, naked. And it's just--it's just a shame. But the Bible said they'd be that way. And even to men, it's just they're--they're--they're changed. See? And it's going to get worse. In another, another, if the world would stand another fifty years, the whole world would be totally insane. Look at the sanity from forty, from twenty years ago, till this time. See?

CHRIST.IS.IDENTIFIED.THE.SAME.IN.ALL.GENERATIONS_TAMPA.FL 64-0415

205    But watch what kind of a sign He done. Now look. He was setting with His back turned to the tent, and Sarah was in the tent, behind Him. He had never seen her, yet. And remember, just a day or two before that, his name was Abram; and, her, she was Sarai. Now she is Sarah, S-a-r-a-h. He's A-b-r-a-h-a-m. He said, "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?" S-a-r-a-h.

Said, "She's in the tent, behind You."

 206     He said, "I'm going to visit you according to the time of life." Now, he had looked for that child for twenty-five years. She is nearly a hundred now. He is a hundred.....Said, "Me have pleasure with my lord, Abraham, and him being old, too?" See?

INVESTMENTS  SHREVEPORT LA    62-1124B   95

But you got to find out where your loose screws is. Sometimes you got (Excuse me.)--got plenty of them. Some of them even gets too tight. You have to loosen it up a little (That's right.) to make the vibration. Like a musician with his--with his guitar, training his strings, he has to know the ting of it. A Spirit-filled man could tell the ting of it, whether it's way beyond the Bible, or way behind the Bible. It has to be right in the Bible, exactly with THUS SAITH THE LORD, must be trained in right. Then it'll zero. Then it'll hit the spot.