<TITLE>17. Par 164-170</TITLE>L-164 Now, in I Corinthians the 11th chapter, beginning with the 23rd verse, I'm going to read this for the benefit of the church. Paul speaking...
For I have received of the Lord... which I also delivered unto you,... the Lord Jesus the same night... he was betrayed took bread:
And--and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, and eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
After the same manner... he took the cup, when he... supped, saying, This is the cup of the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as you drink it, in remembrance of me.
For as oft as you do, you eat this bread, and drink this cup,... you show forth the Lord's death till he come.
Isn't that marvelous? "... show forth His death until He come."
Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

L-166 "What does this mean, Brother Branham?" It means this. If you come and take communion, and go out and live a different kind of a life then what a Christian ought to live, you are bringing reproach and disgrace to the cause of the Lord Jesus Christ. You understand it? If you're a Christian, come. If you're not, don't do it. Look.
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat... the bread, and drink... the cup
All right, 29th verse.
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
For this cause many are sick and weakly among you,... many sleep.
For... we should judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
But when we are judged, we're chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

L-168 When we eat this bread and drink this cup, let's examine ourself, and say, "Now, do I now walk worthy?" Well, I don't walk worthy, no, but Christ, in me, makes me walk worthy. I love Him. I testify of Him. I'm not perfect; never will be, in this world. You're not perfect, never will be. But my love to Him, and He lets me live for Him, and I love to do and to testify of Him. I don't go out and carouse, and do things evil, that brings reproach to His Name.
But if I find out that I do something, then I'm chastened of the Lord. Why does God do this? That we wouldn't be condemned with the world.

L-170 Now, there's a great difference between the believer and the unbeliever. God makes a difference.
Remember, the believers in Egypt was all on the inside (under what?) under the blood. The lamb was killed. And its blood, with hyssop, was sprinkled on the door. Look where it was put at. On the lintel of the door, that's the doorjamb you're to go through. The lintel of the door, and on the doorpost... See what it is? The cross, hundreds of years before the Lamb of God came and was slain. But it's a type of the Lamb. It was put on the lintel and on the door. And every Israelite, coming under that blood, was forbidden to go out any more. There you are. Forbidden to go out, they were under the blood. They could not go until orders came to march, orders to go forward: type of Christ.
"Once, for by one sacrifice has He perfected forever those that are sanctified in Christ Jesus: once for all." No more turning back, no more going this, no more doing that. Oh, you'll backslid, do things that's wrong...?... and come on. See? But one time Christ sanctifies a human soul by filling him with the Holy Spirit; it's perfected forever. There you are, no more desire to do wrong, "For the worshipper once purged has no more conscience (or desire, the right translation...)... The worshipper, once purged..." Oh, I wish I could just sink that deep. "The worshipper, the believer, once purged, has no more desire of sin, nowhere": settled forever. "For He has perfected by one Sacrifice forever those that are in Christ Jesus." The world becomes dead. You don't care for it no more. Your affections are set on things above.


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