<TITLE>09. Par 27-30</TITLE>L-27 Now, listen as I close. When man lost his fellowship in the garden of Eden by sin, what did God do about it? Look what man done about it. Instead of coming out and being honest, and saying, "Father, I sinned," he went back in the bushes, and formed himself a religious organization, and made hisself a covering. "Religion" means "a covering." He made hisself a man-made religion, made him a apron out of leaves, fig leaves. The Bible said so. But when he come to face God, he--he realized that his man-made religion wouldn't work. And neither will anybody else's. You've got to come on God's basis.
What did God do? He went out and killed some animals, and shed blood, and brought back some skins to make aprons that they could stand in His Presence. Now, listen close. The only way that God can bring you back to fellowship with Him, something had to die in your place. And Jesus Christ did that to redeem you from the curse.

L-28 Now, listen close. Blood was God's welcome mat at the door. ...(welcome at the door, welcome...?...)... Now notice, just before we close. God introduced blood for the welcome back to fellowship. We have tried to adopt ...(take place)... education. We've tried denominations, organizations, and everything, but it'll never take the place of blood.
Now, the only way that God in the Old Testament would receive the children of Israel, was under the blood of a sh--of a dead lamb. Now, the--the worshipper brought his lamb to the altar, and then he brought a turtledove if he was sick: the shedding of blood. Now, they had to lay their hand upon the head of the lamb. The priest cut its throat, and the little lamb started kicking and dying. It was bleating and was crying. And his hands was all bathed over with blood. His little white wool was all bathed with blood. And the sinner knew that that should be him, but the lamb was taking his place. God accepted it. Now, that lasted for so long.

L-29 But when the sinner went out, if he'd went out, or come in, confessed his sins of stealing, he went out to steal some more. If he had lived immoral, he went out to do it again. Why? The life that was in that blood cell...
See, the life comes from the male. See? The baby, your blood is from your father, not your mother. You have no blood of your mother. See? It all comes from the father. That's the reason the Blood of Jesus had to come from God the Father, not sexually, for God is a Spirit, He created a holy Blood and the germ of life is in that Blood cell.
Now, when the animal died, and the life went out of the blood cell, it could not come back to the human being, for it had no soul. So the sinner went out with the same desire to sin, and sin means un--disbelieve. He went back out with the same desire that he come in with.

L-30 But when Jesus died, and we lay our hands upon Him in faith and--and see His suffering yonder at Calvary, we see Him dying, and in our hearts, that we know we're sinners, and should have took His place, but He took our place... And when we accept that Blood, God raised us through the washing of the Blood, then the Spirit, the Life that was in the Blood cell of Jesus Christ, which is the Holy Ghost, turns back to the human being. After coming through the Blood into the Presence of God, and we're baptized with the Holy Spirit Itself, and the faith that God has, which made all things without anything, that's in the believer. No wonder people can't believe. They've never been born again. They're still carnal.


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