<TITLE>03. Par 6-8</TITLE>L-6 Now, tonight just for a short subject I want to read some of the portion of the Word of God, found in Numbers the 19th chapter, and just for a few moments, and then tomorrow night is the sermon at The Philadelphian Church.
The 19th chapter of Numbers reads like this,
 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
 This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is not a blemish, and upon which has never come yoke:
 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and shall slay her before his face:
 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times:
Now, the 9th verse.
 And a man that is clean... up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of Israel for a water of separation: it is the cleansing for sin.
Now, may the Lord add His blessings to His Word. We're just going to speak for a few moments upon "The Waters Of Separation." And then we're going to have prayer service tonight for the sick, because we've got more room here so we can bring the people up and line them up and pray with them. Then Sunday night again.

L-7 Now, in the Old Testament was all in types and figures. And the water of separation was made so that it would purify, or separate the clean from the unclean. And which was a beautiful type of Christ. And now, separation... To get this water of separation... Had to be... Death had to constitute the separation, the water of separation.
Now, it's always, if you notice, that you have to have death before you can have life. Life only comes by death. And without death there's no life. I was wondering to the religions of the world that will not even as much as kill a gnat or flea... One of the noted religions of India, they let a boy from one of the clan take off his--the other brother's finger with a pocket knife. And the reason they wouldn't let a doctor do it, because the doctor would sterilize the knife and it would kill a germ which might be some of his relations. Now, how could anyone like that ever receive a Blood sacrifice? See, it's just clannish, and it's not of God.
We can only be redeemed by life through death. And death is the only thing that'll bring redemption. And it's just...

L-8 You've got to have the antidote. You've heard the old expression, "The hair's from the back of the dog is good for the bite." Well, that's right, 'cause it's part of the dog. So the same thing applies if it takes... If sin came by death, it'll take death to counteract sin. See? And so everything, even life itself, comes by--by death. Physical life comes by death. Did you know that? that physical life comes by death. How does it come? The first thing we do, we find out that the food that we eat is made of... goes into blood. Blood becomes our life.
Sometime ago I was talking to a doctor, and I said, "Doctor, is it true that whenever I eat a meal, I renew my life?"
He said, "Correctly."
I said, "Because the food that I eat turns into blood cells; and blood cells renews, and the life is in the blood and it makes new life."
He said, "That's right."
I said, "Well, then, why is it when I was sixteen years old I eat the same kind of food I eat now; every time I eat I got stronger and bigger all the time. And now I eat the same kind of food, and getting older and weaker all the time, if I renew my life?" That's a good one for scientific research, isn't it?


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