<TITLE>04. Par 19-23</TITLE>L-19 Notice, of a vindication... Cain worshipped. Cain built him a church, an altar. Cain worshipped at the altar. Cain made a sacrifice. He was just as religious as Abel was. But Cain brought works, fruit of the field, and laid them on the altar.

L-20 Now, surely Cain thought that's what brought us out of the garden of Eden, fruit, something that I have to toil and bring back. And now, he did it by a natural view, knowing that the tree was a forbidden fruit, so he brought fruit back and laid it on the altar. But Abel, by spiritual revelation, revealed to him by God through his faith, that it was not fruit. It was a blood that caused it. So by a spiritual revelation, at the first church buildings that was ever made, the first altar directed, there was the pro and con.
Abel, by spiritual revelation, for there was no written Word, God revealed to him that it was not the fruits, or the works of your hands. He brought blood and offered blood, and it testified for him that he was righteous, because he was--it was spiritual, revealed to him.

L-21 Jesus said, when He come off the Mount Transfiguration, He said, "Who does man say I, the Son of Man, am?"
"Some said Thou art Moses, and some said You're Elias, and the prophet."
He said, "But Who do you say that I am?"
And Peter, listen, stepping up, said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Notice, quickly, Jesus said, "Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you." Amen. Watch it. "You never learned this at a seminary. You never learned this from man."
Paul said that he didn't come preaching the wisdom of man. But he come preaching the power of Christ, that your faith might not rest upon the wisdom of man, but by the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

L-22 "Blessed art thou, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father which is in heaven." Notice. "And upon this rock, I'll build My church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
Clergyman, my brethren, the Catholics hear you say, "He built it on Peter which was a rock." If he did, he backslid in a few days.
Notice, one of them said it was on Christ. No. Christ is the Word. Christ is the Revelation of God. But He said, "Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father which is in heaven. Upon the spiritual revelation of Jesus Christ, being the Son of God, is where He builds His church, and the gates of hell can't prevail against it.
Wasn't Christ the rock. Neither was... Well, it Christ the rock in one way. But what He was speaking to Peter, it was the spiritual revealed truth, a witness of God that that is the Son of God. "Flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but My Father which is in heaven has revealed it to you." It's a spiritual revelation. You can only receive it as God will permit it. "For flesh and blood has not revealed it, but My Father which is in heaven has revealed it to you." spiritual revelation.

L-23 So if you see then, those children down there after the prophet was dead, Joseph. There was no outlet nowhere. And the church was, perhaps, just as orthodox as it ever was.
In the days of Moses, four hundred years later, they stood all their elders, and scribes, and so forth, just as religious, but nothing. The church laid dormant for all this time. That's the kind of times we've lived in for years (Right.), dormant, nothing taking place.


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