<TITLE>11. Par 43-47</TITLE>L-43 This blessed hope we have, Christ the Forerunner has already come. You know what a "forerunner" is? "Something that runs before or goes ahead of." Christ, being the Forerunner, then, of our salvation, came to the earth, and to be an Example of a church, that the church was to finish His works, or continue His works after He had completed His sacrifice on Calvary. You see it?
Notice, then He was born in humility (Right?) in a manger. He was made fun of as you'd be, or anyone else who serves Him. But while on earth, He Who had no respect of person: He loved all; He--He healed all; He blessed all; He did good wherever He went. He gave His life as a sacrifice, died, buried, rose, ascended up, as a Forerunner to us. And the very Spirit that was upon Him has come back to be with the church to lead and guide it.

L-44 Speaking: "A little while and the world seeth Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I ("I," is a personal pronoun), I will be with you, even in you to the end of the world." As directing our minds to His great, supreme sacrifice as a Forerunner of our blessed hope we have within the veil, now. Then by faith we believe it. Our anchor goes out there and the points set in the Word of God, sticks within the veil and our prayer line through here holds us steadfast to the promise, not wavering about, tossed about with every wind of doctrine, but steadfast, unmovable. "Always abounding in the grace of the Lord, for as much as you know your works are not in vain, in the Lord..." What a hope.

L-45 Now, this Melchisedec, just speaking of him here, right out... Paul speaking to the Hebrews of the Old Testament of a type...
Let's turn back to Genesis, the 14th chapter, and read just a little bit before we go on Who this Melchisedec was. We read in the 14th chapter of Genesis and the 14th verse, beginning... Abraham, you know, had been called out of Chaldea, the land of Ur, the city of Ur, rather, the land of Chaldea. And God told him, "Separate yourself from your people and come apart." Let me put emphasis on that. (Oh, if we had more time on this today. It's so limited.) "Separate yourself from your people and come apart and I'll bless you." See?

L-46 And in order to obtain this same promise that Abraham had, you have to separate yourself from all worldly contacts, all the things of the world. Your sinful desires, your lust, passions of the world, and all these things, separate yourself from the thing. Come apart into a strange land, a land that you've never been in before, to walk, not by sight, but by faith. For Abraham had nothing; no one has crossed this river Euphrates and sojourned into this land. But Abraham, by faith, forsook his own and went forward, separating himself, as the Blood of Jesus Christ today by the Holy Spirit separates us from the things of the world to walk in a new life. Criticized, made fun of, called holy-roller, misunderstood, but our anchor holds.

L-47 Hebrews 11 said they wandered about in sheepskin and goatskins, was destitute, and places... for they believed that they were seeking for a city whose Builder and Maker was God. Something within them told them there was a land, a city, whose Builder and Maker was God. And they sought that, not knowing where they were going.
That's the way with every pilgrim today. He's seeking something that he can't put his hands on, but he sees the evidence of it coming all around him. What made me do this? What made this crippled woman walk? What made that crippled woman walk? What makes this rupture go off the man? What made that cancer leave the woman? What made those deaf ears come open the other night here? Eighty-two years old... What did it? It's supernatural attributes, that's a anchor, that city, whose Builder and Maker is God that we look for, yet can't see where it's at... But there's something that anchors up yonder, the anchor, within the veil. Our hopes are steadfast, unmovable.


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