<TITLE>08. Par 33-36</TITLE>L-33 Now, if this ashes of the heifer was to be a water of separation, that was to separate the believer from his sins. Every man in his pilgrimage... And when he had did something wrong, he came to the waters of separation. And then, in this separation he was separated from his sin. There's a whole lot more goes with it, of course, how she was to be burnt with cedar, scarlet, hyssop, and those three elements. And how... The same elements used, cedar wood, not a Dogwood bush that represented the cross: cedar, red, speaking of redemption. But the cedar... The hyssop... The hyssop, like the killing of the two turtle doves under the running water... And the cedar and the hyssop all spoke of Christ and the cross, and so forth.

L-34 Under the Old Testament, when the Blood was put on the lintel of the door, it was put with a hyssop bush. Now, cedar can be hewed out, separated, chips this a way and that way, but hyssop was not separated any time. It was a little bush that growed, just pull it up. And it was all together. And they took and dipped the blood in it, and sprinkled the--meaning that it was Christ Himself, the cedar and hyssop wood. Christ is inseparable. You can separate the cross and different things, and mean this, that, or the other, but Christ, you cannot separate. That's right. The whole bush has to be there.
It was the same bush that was cut down on the bank of Jordan, till the bitter water made it sweet. If you got a bitter experience, just take the hyssops bush once, take the hyssop route. That's right. It's the way out. It's the way to turn all your bitterness into sweetness and make you fixed up just right as a Christian.

L-35 Now, then a believer, coming now, that's out of fellowship, away from God, away from the main fellowship. What does he do? He comes to the outer courts first, unto this clean place where the water of separation was waiting for him, a type of the church today. And the waters of separation today is the Word.
Now, Paul in Ephesians 5:26 said, that God had purchased the church by the washing of the water by the Word. And the Word is Christ. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and is God yet. And the waters of separation that separates you from your iniquity, and so forth, is the preaching of the Word in the courts. You see it?
Here's a good thing for the pastors. Now, I'm looking this way, I'd better look this a way. The waters of separation was to be kept in a clean place. The church must be a clean place (Amen.), not the habitation of every foul bird, all kinds of things going on, fussings. That right? A clean place, the waters was to be kept... And the Word is to be kept in a clean place, a clean heart, a pure conscience, that's to be given out to the hearer.

L-36 Now, the people were the place in the courts, was a people like tonight. You come to the courts. We're in our journey. And the preaching of the Word is the water of separation. For God has took His church, and has washed it by the waters of separation to cleanse it for His own glory. And the Word separates.
You know, today the people are wanting mixtures in their church. Some of the people make some of the awfullest choices for their pastors. They'll go out and choose a man, some great, big, six-footer, dressed like a Hollywood movie star, or something, that can stand up in the pulpit, and so forth, say, "A-a-men" real pretty, because you want entertainment. You look on the outside. Maybe some old brother come up with a pair of overalls on, know more about God than the man ever did know. That's right. That's right. See the choice? God looks on the heart.


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