<TITLE>06. Par 16-18</TITLE>L-16 Did you know the whole Church of the living God is built upon the revelation of the Lord Jesus? In the garden of Eden, after the children of Israel... Pardon me. After Cain and Abel and them were turned out of the garden, did you notice how that Cain (being not a communist) who came and worshipped the Lord, and--and offered a sacrifice, and--and done all he could... Very religious, Cain was. But Abel, he came, not with works, but by faith, the Bible said. He offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than that of Cain, God testifying that it--he was righteous, because he seen the program of God, which was revealed to him...
Now, they hadn't... The Bible wasn't written then. So if Cain, his brother who set under the same teaching of father and mother, came down and brought fruit to make the offering... But Abel, by revelation he saw that it wasn't fruits that brought us out of the garden of Eden, as some people still think it was. But it wasn't fruits. It was the blood of his mother who made him mortal, or his father. So he came and offered the blood of a lamb by Divine revelation. No one to tell him anything about it, but he, by faith he seen the Son of God coming, and offered a lamb in a figurative type, seeing that Jesus was the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. And God testified, "That's the truth." God will always testify the truth.
That's the reason I'm so happy when we can introduce to the nations of the world, a resurrected Jesus Christ. It's not a fiction story, a story of fiction. It is a absolute positive statement of Jehovah God Himself, that He raised up Jesus from the dead. And it can be proven. That's the good part about it.
Now, Cain, when he seen his brother, 'course, he slew his brother, was jealous. But notice how Abel got this.

L-17 Now, Jesus when He come to the earth, coming down off of Mount Transfiguration, one day, or off the mountain, they said, "Who does man say I the Son of man am?"
And some of them said, "Well, some says You're Moses: and some, Elias; and some so forth, the prophet."
He said, "But Who do you say I am?"
Peter said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
And He turned to Peter and said, "Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona (the son of Jonas in other wise): for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you. You never learned it by any reading. You never learned it by any seminary. You never learned it by any scholarship. See? Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father which is in heaven has revealed it to you. And I say, thou art Peter, and upon this Rock..." What? Spiritual revelation that Jesus is the Christ, not mental conception, but spiritual revelation. "Flesh and blood has not revealed to you, but My Father which is in heaven has revealed this to you. And upon this Rock I'll build My Church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against It."

L-18 What is it? A revelation. What is faith? Is God, by the Spirit revealing to you something that He's going to do or He's promised.
Now, if you only hear: "Faith cometh by hearing," but hearing is not faith. A loaf of bread is purchased for twenty-five cents. But twenty-five cents is not the loaf of bread. See? Hearing does... Hearing only brings the Word that produces faith. But "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Then you see, you hear the Word, God reveals It to you, that It is the truth, and by Spirit revealed truth, confirms your faith to God. You get it?
Now, notice. Then that's the Church that God built upon the Rock that the gates of hell can't prevail against It.
Now, if we'll notice how that, Miriam the... Or not, or Moses' mother, rather, when she was standing there with her baby to lay it in death... Every male child was throwed into the river as soon as it was born. They... See it was a male, pitch it out into the river.
And here stands the mother now, knowing that he was the proper child. He was God's predestined son. Now, don't...


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