<TITLE>05. Par 15-19</TITLE>L-15 Now, in the Scripture tonight, that I was thinking of as coming down here was a... Read some out and teach a little, if the Lord willing, out of the Book of Hebrews. One of my favorite places in the Scripture is this great Book, because it's a--it's a separating.
And now, in the 10th chapter we'll begin and read just awhile, and see what the Holy Spirit has for us, trusting that He will bless every heart of every believer, and if there'd be any unbeliever that they will become believers tonight.
Now, this great Book of the Book of Hebrews, where scholars are in difference of It, who wrote It... Myself, it sounds to me like It was Saint Paul's writing. It sounds like his--his technique, the way he approached the Gospel. Now, in here he's writing to the Hebrews. And in here, being the Hebrews lived under the law, it's a good thing to begin right here for it starts:
... the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of those things, can never with those sacrifices which were offered year by year continually make the comer unto perfect.

L-16 Now, the law having a shadow... Many times you've heard people refer to the 23rd Psalm saying, "Yea, though I walk through the dark shadows, or the valley of the dark..." We always use a dark in there; it's not. See? The valley of the shadow, not the dark shadows, or the dark valley; it's the valley of the shadow of death. Now, showing that if it's got a shadow there has to be a certain percent of it light, or it wouldn't make a shadow. So if in death itself is just a shadow... In other words it's a scarecrow to the believer, trying to scare him when there's enough light mixed into it to show that there's light somewhere. And now the law having a shadow of things to come...

L-17 In the 12th chapter of Revelations we would read where the woman appeared in the sky, and she was in travail to give birth to a child, and the moon was under her feet, and the sun was at her head. Now, the... That represented the law. The Church, of course was... The woman was the Church, and the moon under her feet represented the law, and the sun at her head represented the dispensation of grace. And the moon is the shadow of the sun. The moon and the sun represent Christ and the Church. In other words, the moon and the sun is husband and wife, that when the--the moon, only is reflecting the shadow of the sun. The sun is shining on the moon; it gives, reflects the light to the earth when it's dark.

L-18 Now, as Christ went away, like the sun when it sets the moon comes up to give a light until the sun returns. But when the sun returns, the moon just fades out, and the sun makes the light. And that's the same thing it is with law and grace. Law was to reflect, or shadow, of the light until the Light came, and the Light was the Lord Jesus. And law faded out (See?), when the Light taken its place. Now, but the moon in there, there was enough in the reflection to reflect the light, showing that there was a hope, and a blessed place to go to after life was over, for the law reflected that in the Light of the Gospel. Now, the moon is to give light while it's dark, in the absence of the sun.

L-19 And now, the Church is to give the Light, a lesser Light, in the absence of the Lord. And then when the light, as the moon is shining, and the sun comes into the moon, they both blend together, and it makes one light, so will it be when the Lord Jesus returns. The Light that the Church has reflected... And the same Jesus, the same works, the same Light, the same thing that He did when He was here on earth is reflected by His Church, showing that He is living somewhere.
When I look out tonight and can see the moon a shining, the stars shining, the lesser light, when I can see that, it's a guarantee of one thing: that the sun's shining somewhere. That's right.


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