<TITLE>13. Par 112-119</TITLE>L-112 Now, what does the smell do? A smell, women put perfume on themselves for a pleasant. A man puts aftershave stuff on, sometimes, like that, that odors, foul odors would be taken away from you. When you walk into the presence of someone with body odors or with something another, perfumes is to take that odor away; so that you, in the presence of the person, that you might not be foul. It's unbearable. That's what perfumes or... Soap has odors in it. And you wash with soap, or talcum powders, or whatever, that's what they use it for.
Now, notice. Amen. I just feel good. Look. Jesus said... See, He was the Rose of Sharon, and He was offered to God as a sweet-smelling Saviour. And this... And then when we become unbearable before God, and so (excuse the expression) so stinky (See?), that our--our sins and things are so bad and so foul, then we come to Calvary and where...

L-114 A lily, or any flower, before perfume can be made... You take a flower, it's beautiful, a big morning lily, or a rose. The Rose of Sharon is a beautiful flower. While it's a living, it's beautiful. But to get odor out of that, to get a perfume, it has to be crushed. And they crush it and squeeze the perfume out of it.
You see, Christ, when He was here on earth, He was beautiful. He healed the sick. He raised the dead. His life was never compared. He was beautiful. But to make you like He was... When God looked down, He said, "This is My beloved Son, in Whom I'm well pleased." Said, "Your sacrifices become stink under My nose, but This is Who I'm well pleased." Now, He was well pleased.
And to make us well pleased to God, He had to become crushed on Calvary, and the sin of this world had to squeeze out the life, out of Him. And He died, bearing the sins of the world, that we might be anointed with the Rose of Sharon. He was the Lily of the Valley. "He was wounded for our transgressions," a sweet-smelling Saviour. "By His stripes you were healed," the Lily of the Valley that give us the opium to ease our sicknesses and pain. What a marvelous picture.

L-117 Now, the high priest, before he could go in that holiest of holy, the first thing, he had to have on a certain made garment. It couldn't be made by anyone; had to be made by holy hand. That showed that our garments...
Here it is. I... Just happened to come to me then. Brother, if you're only wearing a church garment, you better get rid of the thing; you can't go behind the holiest of holies. The garment that the high priest wore in there had to be made out of--by holy hand a selected goods (Amen.) ordained of God. There it is. So if you join church and think you're all right, you're wrong. See? It has to be a God-selected robe. And our self-righteous rags won't stand in His Presence. It takes the Holy Spirit, which is the Robe of God that dresses up the believer to go behind the holiest of holy. Oh, that's good. I like that. That was a new one. Never swallowed one like that before, but that's it, just that kind, that's the real vitamin. See? It takes the--the Holy Spirit.

L-119 Look in the parable of... Went to the wedding supper, and everybody at the wedding supper had to have on a certain garment. And he met a man there who didn't have on that kind of garment. And he said, "Friend, what are you doing here? How'd you get in?" Now see, if you know the parable. In the orients over there in the eastern country, when they make a wedding (till yet today), the bridegroom has to invite ever who he will.
And God can... "No man can come to God, or come to Christ, except God calls him first." See, it's election of God. Now, watch close.


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