<TITLE>05. Par 40-47</TITLE>L-40 Back in the time that God sent down the law, and was added to show us that these things were sin. But now, that law couldn't take away sin. It only magnified sin. See?
Because if there's no law says you can't do this, why, it's not... It isn't... If you commit or break that, that... You can't break it, 'cause there's no law to break.
But when law becomes in effect, then sin is made manifest. Then they would... They'd say, "Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not bear false witness." All those things. They did it before, but it couldn't be reckoned as sin, because there's no law against it. But then when law came in, it made the man realize he can't steal, he can't lie, and he commit adultery. And all of the commandments just magnifies, but yet that law didn't take away sin. It only brought a man to know that it was sin. Then when Christ came, Christ came to take away sin. See?
Now, the only thing that the law did, they knowed that an innocent substitute had to die for the guilty. That law begin back in the garden of Eden. And then, now, they'd offer a sheep or bullock, or something, and kill it, throw the blood out on the altar, and so forth; because it was the covering or a substitutionary offering. But it could never take away sin, because there's not strength enough in a animal's life to atone for a human life, 'cause greater is the human life than an animal life.

L-44 Now, here we are setting here, tonight. We're probably German, Irish, and so forth, some colored people. And they, no matter if they're black, white, yellow, or whatever color they are, from one person came every one of us. See? That can scientifically proven, that you can go into darkest of Africa and get the--the blackest man that you could find, and if you were sick, he could give you a blood transfusion. Your blood is just exactly like his. Or you could go into China and get the yellowest man there is in China, and he could give you a blood transfusion. See? Or the brownest man there is in India could give you the blood transfusion. "God, by one blood made all nations, all peoples." But there's not an animal in the world that would compare with human blood. See? Animal blood, each one of them is different. But human blood is all the same.

L-45 Now, if that doesn't take the idea of some of these people that talk, and they teach in school here, that we evoluted down from animal life. If that be so, then the animal could give the human a blood transfusion. But the blood, the human life, lays the same. But the animal life, some of them are... Like a snake, he's cold-blooded; a fish, he's cold-blooded; but now, a bear, elk, or dog, or horse, they're a different kind. Neither, none of them--none of them could transfuse blood, one with another, because they're all different. But the human being is all the same.
Then through the offering of animal blood, only was a--a substitutionary under the law, until Jesus came, which wasn't born of any man. No man on this earth was His father. He had a mother, and the mother was a virgin, virgin Mary, a girl about eighteen years old. And the Holy Spirit overshadowed her, being God the Father Himself, and created. The very One Who spoke the world into existence, just spoke.

L-47 You know, Sunday, how we got into it. When God speaks, it has to be so. There's no way at all to get away from it. God said, "Let there be," and it has to be. Nothing... The very Word Itself... And the Word was a thought. God, when He... Before... A word is an expression of a thought. God thought it in His mind, spoke it into existence.


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