<TITLE>07. Par 61-69</TITLE>L-61 'Fore we do this, let's just sing. Where's Sister Gertie at? She was up here a few moments ago. Would you come back just a moment? And I'll try not to keep you but just about a half hour, if I can, on the lesson this morning. Let's sing just one chorus of this marvelous old song, "My Faith Looks Up To Thee." How many knows it? Is it in the hymnal, or do you know it. See?
[Someone in the congregation begins giving a report of their physical healing eleven years ago. Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

L-63 Our innermost beings today, our hearts are overrun with joy, when we think that someday, this old earthly tabernacle that we're now dwelling in, like the cage that holds the bird, this lump of clay, our souls will take its flight like the bird from the cage someday to the arms of its Lover. When we see You coming, this robe of flesh we'll drop and rise.
Our faith looks to Thee today now. Forgive us for all that we have done, all the sins and trespasses. Pray that You'll settle down over us now. Come into our hearts. Bless us. And take the Word, the Word of God, and give It to every heart, just as we have need of It today. And we'll give Thee the praise, for we ask it in His Name. Amen.

L-65 Turn quickly now to Hebrews the 9th chapter, beginning with the 11th verse. And we're going to speak this morning, God willing, upon, "Fellowship By Redemption.' Now, in Hebrews 9, everyone that's got your Bibles and like to study with us just for a little bit... I like the Word. You know, "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word of God."
 But Christ being come the light and the high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
 Neither by the blood of goats or calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
And in Job the 19th chapter and the 23rd, 24th, and 25th verses, we read this, speaking of redemption. Paul, here in Hebrews, telling us Who was our redeemer, how that by one offering He made and perfected forever those that enter in by Him. Now, in the 23rd verse, Job speaking, said,
 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
 That they were graven with an iron pen and laid in the rock for ever!
 For I know my redeemer liveth, and at the last days he will stand upon the earth:
 And though after the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
 Whom I shall see for myself,... mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

L-69 May the Lord add His blessings to His Word; speaking of redemption and fellowship.
And there's many times, as we look and see that--that the... Us, the mortal beings of this earth, how that we become tossed about, and strayed around across the world. I don't believe there's anybody that's got a Christian spirit, could look upon the world today, that... and wouldn't groan in their spirit. I've often wondered how that--that people today take this life so lightly. It's not nothing lightly. This is the very reason we're put here on earth, is to worship and come to God, and to come into His fellowship. And to see men wondering around, as if they didn't have any God, that there was no God. Man has driven himself out in that kind of a condition.


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