<TITLE>15. Par 50-53</TITLE>L-50 Now, how in the Old Testament... The first thing the believer... If he committed adultery, or if he did anything evil, he went and got a lamb. He took the lamb up to the priest; the lamb--priest looked the lamb over, not the believer. He looked the lamb. He never seen the believer. He didn't care nothing about the believer. The believer wasn't even in the picture. The believer come and presented the lamb. Oh, brother. Oh, if you could only see it.
You say, "Well, I--I know what I've done when I was a young man. I--I know what I've done...?..." That doesn't amount to nothing. You're presenting to God the Lamb. You see it? And the priest doesn't say, "Your nose is too long; your the ears is too big. You've got to accept..." He doesn't even look at the man. He looks at the lamb, examines the lamb over. If there's any blemish on the lamb, takes it back. It's not the right kind of an offering. Then the man has to go get the right kind of lamb.

L-51 But when the priest looks the lamb over, and it's perfect, then he says, "All right. You have chosen this lamb. I have found it perfect. To lay it down, tie its feet, hold its head back."
The believer puts his hands upon him, says, "God, I'm supposed to die for my sins, but this lamb is dying in my place."
They cut the throat of the lamb. It's bleeding. His hands laying on it. His little flesh quivers out. The lamb makes his last bleat, and its soul takes a flight. But through the shedding of the blood, being a type, the spirit could not come back on the believer, because it's a lamb's spirit, a animal spirit and not a human spirit.

L-52 But how the greater... Oh, I hope you get it. That God Himself come down before the Lamb. And the believer... Watch. Now look. You don't have to look at the Lamb. Don't look at yourself. God don't look at you; He looks at the Lamb. He looks at Christ, and there was no fault in Him. And God accepted the offering. You put your hand upon the Lamb, Christ Jesus, confess your sins as being a sinner, and the Lamb has died for you. The Spirit that comes out of the Lamb comes back to the believer. Amen. And you stand perfected, because the One Who died, the innocent One, the powerful One, the overcoming One, the accepted One, in His own Person returned in the form of the Holy Ghost and brings the believer into rest.
There it is. Not you, Him, God don't even see you; He sees Him. You don't have to die; He died in your place. Amen...?... He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes we are healed. There's the foundation. Come to those Lamb, confess your sins.

L-53 Look, and if you do...?... confess and believe that He was put in your place and God raised Him up for your justification, that's...?... The very Spirit that was in your dead Lamb returns to you in puts in fellowship with God.
So how long? How long...?... that believer went out of there, went out to commit adultery again, he wanted to shoot his neighbor; they were still...?... But oh, the spirit that was in the lamb will not prefect the believer.
Let's see what Paul says about it. Amen. Don't get scared. "Amen" means "so be it." I believe it with all my heart.
 But this man... (not the old law now, Paul separating  law from grace)... But this man, after he had... after  he had offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever set  down at the right hand of God; (Listen.)
 From henceforth expecting until his enemies be made  his footstool.
All right, brother, you got your ecclesiastical vest off? Listen.
 For by one offering... (not every year, not every  revival, but)... by one offering he has... (p-e-r-f-e-c-t-e-d)... perfected... (till the next  revival)... he has perfected for ever them that are  sanctified.
 Wherefore the Holy Ghost also is a witness...


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