<TITLE>11. Par 45-47</TITLE>L-45 If I had a... If you wanted to buy a loaf of bread, and it cost a quarter, and I had the quarter, the quarter is not the loaf of bread. The quarter is the purchasing power of the loaf of bread.
You say you have... "Oh, I believe the Word." That's fine. But it's through faith that purchases the Holy Spirit. See? Amen. Just intellectual faith won't work. You're not in fellowship yet. You have intellectual faith, and you'll argue every Scripture, do everything you can, backwards, and everything else. You say, "There's no such a thing as Divine healing; there's no such a thing as heartfelt religion; no such a thing as the Holy Ghost." You'll fuss and stew all the time and know not what you're talking about.
How can you believe when there's nothing in there to believe with? Certainly. How can you get blood from a turnip when there's no blood in the turnip? You've got to be borned again of the Spirit of God or you'll never be able to come on fellowship grounds with the God Almighty, Himself. For it's only upon the basis of the shed Blood does He receive any believer. How can you believe when there's nothing there to believe with, just a carnal mind through mental conception. You can't do it. That's the reason people don't believe in Divine healing, because they've never walked into that Blood stream to the fellowship of the Lord Jesus Christ.

L-46 You got an intellectual faith. Oh, you believe the Word, and you mix it and make it suit your theology. But once you come into the Kingdom of God through the Blood of the Lord Jesus, meeting upon the shed Blood, bought through the testimony, the public testimony of the crimson Blood of the Lord, you are in here in fellowship where God can bless you. And you can shout and praise the Lord, and the powers of God working. Why, it's God Himself, His own body, the mystical body of the Lord Jesus Christ here on earth operating upon the basis of the shed Blood. See what I mean?
Not upon the basis of the Methodist, Baptist, or Pentecostal church, or any other church; not upon the basis of water baptism, although it's good; it's all right, but not upon the basis of water baptism; not upon the basis of joining a church; joining a church is good; but it's upon the basis of the shed Blood. You might have fellowship with the church, the congregation, but you'll never have fellowship with God till you come on His basis, His terms. His terms is through the Blood.

L-47 And through the Blood you become a part of Him, into the same cell that He came out of. And the very Presence and part of God comes into you. By faith you purchase it. And that same Holy Spirit that was in the Lord Jesus Christ comes into you. And then you are sons and daughters of God, adopted by the Lord Jesus Christ into the Body of Christ. Amen. That'd make the Methodist shout.
Think of it, brother, how that God in His infinite mercy, purchasing us through the Blood of Jesus. And now, setting at the right hand of the Majesty ("right hand" means "in power and authority") that as a High Priest, to make intercessions upon anything that we confess that He has done. After once coming into the fellowship, sign your name on the check, say, "Here it is." There you get it? We believe that we get what we ask for, 'cause we've judged God to keep His Word.


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