<TITLE>05. Par 19-23</TITLE>L-19 Listen to my voice. I'm warning. A man's got to be borned again. He's lost till he is. Jesus said, "Except a man be borned again, he will in no wise enter the kingdom." See, Cain was religious, and he came to make his offering. He fixed his altar, bowed before Jehovah, and worshipped Him. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
That spirit out of Cain, religious, we're going to bring it through the Bible. Watch what it did in all ages, how it builds great churches, great shrines, great crowds. And--and--but still out of God's will.
Now, here comes Abel with a--a grapevine wrapped around a lamb's neck. Not fruit of the field, he was bringing a life. And he led him up to the altar (nothing beauty about that), throwed the little lamb up on the altar, took a rock (They didn't have any knives in that day.), pulled the little lambs head back, and begin to chop it with a rock, across the throat.

L-20 And the little lamb begin bleating and begin dying, and the blood spurting from his throat: Nothing beauty about that. But it was the way of life, accepting for his death. Notice, see, Cain thought God would accept the big things, the beauty, the big church. And Abel, the only way that he could ever... Mark this down. The only way Abel would've knowed to offer a lamb, it had to be revealed to him by God. Amen.
Listen, that is true today. The Word of God doesn't come by seminary learning; it's a spiritual revelation. Let's take the New Testament on it. When--when Jesus speaking to His disciples, he said, "Who do you say I am? Who does man say I am?"
"Some said Thou art Elias, some Moses, some the great prophet."
But Jesus said, "Who do you say I am?"
Then Peter stood up and said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."

L-21 Notice, the Catholic church said, "It was a rock that He built His church on there." The Protestant church said, "He built it upon Himself, Christ Jesus."
But listen what Jesus said, after Peter confessed Him to be the Son of God. He said, "Blessed art thou Simon Bar-jonas, for flesh and blood has not revealed it to you. You never learned it in a church. You never learned it in the seminary. Flesh and blood never revealed it to you. But My father which is in heaven has revealed it to you. And upon this rock, I'll build My church, and the gates of hell can't prevail against it." Is that right? Say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]

L-22 Showed the gates of hell would be against it, but it could not prevail. Don't try to stop this revival; you're only putting your hand in God's Word. All the tools that's formed against God will come to naught. For Jesus said, "All gates of hell can't prevail against it." The day is here. Now, how did--how did Peter know that? He said, "The spiritual revealed truth of God has revealed it to you."
So the Church of the living God (Hear me.) is built, not upon the experience of a seminary, or upon a bunch of men's creeds, but it's--it's built upon the spiritual revelation of God's Word (Amen.), the spiritual revealed truth from God's Word, coming from God out of heaven to every heart. Amen.

L-23 Notice. Now, that's the same kind of revelation that Abel got, because it was revealed to him that it wasn't apples that brought us out of the garden, like people think here today, but it was blood, life, mortal life. And it was revealed by God, and God received this man Abel and condemned Cain.
And both of them was in church. They were both worshipping God. They were both belonging to church and both of them sincere. But one was chosen and the other one condemned, because one had spiritual revelation of the will of God. Amen.
Notice, there started the two branches. There started the tree. They growed right up through the Bible, both spirits. And they're here tonight, and they're all over the world. And they're just about gone into seed, where the Master of the--of the garden will come to pass the judgment.


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