<TITLE>05. Par 17-22</TITLE>L-17 Did you notice? Abel, when he offered the more excellent sacrifice (in which God testified that he was righteous), Abel slew his lamb on the rock, and Abel died on the same rock with his lamb.
And every believer that comes to Christ must come to the same cross of self-denial, and die there with the Lamb, with his Lamb. Die out to own thoughts; die out to your own mental thinking. Just take what the Holy Spirit says in your heart, then live for Christ.

L-18 Now, the red--the red to us is a color of danger. But red also is a color of redemption. Redemption comes through Blood. And God's testified that Blood is, was, and always will be the only resource of redemption. All the way from Eden, all the way through the Scripture, it's the Blood. Without the shedding of Blood, there's no remission of sin. How that in the Blood...

L-19 Here no long ago in a famous, great, denominational church, they'd took the hymn books and said, "We're going to take all the hymns out of it that pertains to the blood. We don't want a slaughterhouse religion."
Brother, without the shedding of Blood, there's no remission of sins. Take the Blood out, and you've got nothing else but a cold, formal creed. Life lays in the Blood. That's right. Life comes from the blood, and the blood comes from the male sex exactly.

L-20 A hen can lay an egg, but if she hasn't been with the male bird, it'll never hatch, because it--it's not fertile. It has not the blood cell. The hen produces the egg, but it won't hatch. The old mother bird will produce a nest full of eggs, and she can warm them, and hover them, and stay on the nest till she's so poor she can't even fly off the nest. And if she hasn't been with the male bird, they'll never hatch. They can't hatch. They got nothing in them to hatch with.

L-21 That's just about like some of our old, cold, formal churches. That's right. Got a big nest full of eggs, just lay there and rot. That's all there is to it. Never been with the Male; don't know what the Holy Ghost is. You'll never make them believe Divine healing; they can't. They just lay there and rot. That's right. What we need today is a nest cleaning, and start over again, I think. Then a revival will mean something. Amen. I don't say that for a joke, because it's not a joke. This is no place to joke, up here. What's the matter with the pulpit today, we got too much Hollywood evangelism, just joking and carrying on which there's no Gospel to it.

L-22 Yes. But that, what I was meaning there, that the type of the bird in the nest, no matter... You can treat them right; you can visit them every day, and you can make them deacons of the church or anything, if there's no Life in here, he will still be a sinner. I don't care if he's a preacher, he's still a sinner. That's right. Well... man cannot be, see Christ until he's borned again. And he's borned through the water and the Blood.
Just as you see in the natural birth... What constitutes the natural birth, in the natural birth of a baby? First, water, then blood, and then life.
And that's the same thing in the spiritual birth. For out of the body of Christ came water, blood, and spirit. See what I mean? We've got to have them elements. And we got to die out to ourself in order to be borned again. So redemption comes through Blood. Now, all the way from Genesis to Revelation is a red streak of redemption, all through the Bible.


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