<TITLE>05. Par 33-38</TITLE>L-33 Now, those teachers that the Lord Jesus was speaking to, were very orthodox. They were real scholars. They kept the letter of the Word, the law, to the very letter; not one tot or jit, or anything would pass from it. And they must have it perfect.
So we can be so perfect with our education and with our theory until we leave Christ plumb out of the picture. We get plumb away from the real facts.

L-35 Now... So in order to get the truth to man, to God, God sent His own Son, made in likeness of sinful flesh, and He was borned here on earth, and was a--a propitiation for our sins, offered up at the day of Cal--at Calvary, to take away our sins, and to give us liberty, and to set us free from the prison houses that we been in.
Now, man is a prisoner. God said that a man was a prisoner. So until something has happened to the man... I want you to get this now. That before this certain thing, called the new birth, ever happens to the man, he cannot no way at all understand, or ever understand God, or have any knowledge of God. Though the Word speaks it, his mind can't comprehend it, because it's a human mind. He's got to have the mind of God in him to understand godly things. See? So all the reading, all the schools, all the teachings, as good as they may be, yet that's not the real principle yet.

L-37 God sent His Son, preaching the Gospel. That's right. The Gospel is the good news. In Isaiah 61, to you who are taking down the Scriptures, God said there, speaking--Isaiah, rather, of Christ's coming. He said, "God has anointed me to preach the Gospel, to bring good tidings, and to set the captives free, and to open the prison doors, and let the captives go free." God sent Christ to open the prison doors of man who are setting in darkness. And if you notice the--the type that He spoke to, setting them free, it wasn't the illiterate. It was the scholars, the educated one, Christ come to set them free.

L-38 Now, to make it so the little kiddies would understand. When Christ came... Say for instance, today, that each one of you were sentenced to death. And you were setting in a prison, knowing that sunrise tomorrow morning you had to die...
And many that is sinful, and away from God, is setting in that place this morning. Many people, who are real good people, are setting in that condition this morning. Many of you setting here with cancer, with tumor, and blindness, some of you setting in all kinds of conditions, yet God sent Christ to open the prison doors, to set you free. You say, "Is sickness a bondage?" Yes. Jesus plainly explained it, when He said to the woman that had been stooped over. He healed her, laid His hands upon her, and she raised up. And they begin to find fault, the teachers did. He said, "Ought not this daughter of Abraham be loosed, set free from this bondage that she's been in of Satan?" So Christ our great Redeemer has come to set men and women free from sin and free from sickness. And when He died at Calvary, "He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed."
Now, that's the good news. That's the Gospel. The Gospel is that Christ died in the sinner's place, that Christ taken the sick man's place. Christ taken the sinner's place. Christ taken the worried man's place. Christ taken the maniac's place. Christ took every place and freed us from every affliction and every sin that the devil put us in the prison house by. Christ come to pardon us freely. Everything goes free.


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