<TITLE>04. Par 31-39</TITLE>L-31 Book of Hebrews. Paul, to my opinion, Paul speaking to the Hebrews, separating law from grace. And we had... Maybe we'll just read a couple verses of--of the first verses of the 10th chapter. Then we're going to begin though at the 19th. I think we... Let's see.
 ... the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which... offered by--year by year continually make the--the comer thereunto perfect.

L-32 Now, I think in getting this first part straight, Paul is trying to say to them that the old laws were a shadow of the new things to come. Now, they... A shadow is something...
If you'd go towards the wall, or this way, against the light, you'd find out that your shadow goes before you. If you were starting towards the setting of the sun, your shadow would be behind you.
Now, notice, "All the law having a shadow of the things to come..." See, just a shadow... Now, under the old dispensation, Paul was trying to say how they was circumcised, the males, by flesh, was a type of the circumcision by heart, of the Holy Spirit of this day. How that they kept commandments back there, which was wrote on tables of stone. In the last days, God said He would write them upon the fleshly tables of our heart.

L-35 Now, the only way back there they knowed it was wrong to... "Thou shalt not steal." They had to see it on the commandment. And the law was added to bring--to bring reconciliation. Because, if there's no law, well... If there's--there's no law, there's no sin. Because if it's not wrong...
If there's no law in this town says that you can't run a red light, you can't do this; why, you run a red light, you haven't done wrong, because there's no law says so.
So law brought wrath, or brought sin into view. See, they didn't have... They did all those things back under the--before the law, and they wasn't sin because there was no law to say that they was sin. But when law came on, law was added until the perfection came.
Now, man has always tried to find something to save himself by. He's still doing the same thing today; he just hasn't failed.

L-39 In India last week, there was people come that was totally blind, looking at the sun, trying to find peace to their soul. Some of them with their fingernails growed out the back of their hands, like that, trying to find peace to their soul. Say they'd never taken their hand down, and had it up for forty years, trying to find peace... Others with feet burnt off of them, nearly, where they'd walked through hot coals to try to find peace to appease their gods. Lay on glass, and it just old broken bottles and things, lay on spike boards and everything trying to find peace. And no peace for them because it's all idolatry. And we here in America won't walk across the street to find peace to our soul, to the real true and living God. That's right. But all those things, those pagan ideas of men...


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