<TITLE>05. Par 17-19</TITLE>L-17 Now, in the Old Testament, being a type of the New, and the works of the inward courts of the tabernacle was a beautiful picture of God's plan of salvation for His mankind today. And if we can only learn by this now, and how to get ourselves in the condition to receive what God has in store for us, it'll just sweep the whole valley here. See? But don't you think it's better to always know how and what you're coming for? You got to know the way of approach to anything.
I've prayed for kings in my day. And I noticed how they taken the cuffs out of my trouser legs and when I walked before the king. And they told me not to turn my back on him; but when I left, to back up. And it's a certain way of approach. Otherwise you'd be called down.
In the courts of the land when you're going to speak to the judge, you don't just holler, "Hey Judge, like to talk to you a minute." See? You got to come a provided way, appropriated way: "Judge, Your Honor..." and so forth.
And we must meet God upon His appropriated, provided plan of how we must approach Him. And if we could only approach Him through that plan and get it right, we are sure to get an audience with God.

L-18 Now, in the Old Testament there was what they called the outer courts. We watch what was in the outer court. Then there was a holy place, or the first veil, and then inside the holiest of holies. And what furniture was in the outer court, what was in the... at the veil, the holy place, and what was in the holiest of holies...
Now, we're going to speak tonight on the holiest of holies, the dwelling place where God Himself dwelt.
Them days, He dwelt in His tabernacle. And today He dwells in you as His tabernacle. But we must make this place a dwelling, not an outer court place, or the first holy place. But we must live with God in the holiest of holies, a consecrated, hidden life, alone, quiet with God.
We become too excited, upset, about too many things. It shows there's something lacking. The church ought to be a million miles up the road to what it is now. We're still back down in the adolescent age, fussing, and fighting, and quarreling, and stewing, when we ought to be consecrated, hid away in the holiest of holies with God. It's better that we come easy, take our time, see where we're going.

L-19 Now, in the... Just like God living in those three courts, He surely lives in the court of the congregation. He lived at the... He also lives here at the holy place. But His abiding place... This was just attributes of His Presence from the holiest of holies.
Now, it's just like you. If you'll notice the Bible, mathematically speaking, three is God's perfected number. God is perfected in three. The Godhead is perfected in three: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the one true God. And--and the dispensations are perfected in three. And threes, sevens, twelves, twenty-four, forties and fifties is God's mathematical numbers. It's runs completely through the Scripture.
And notice. Now, you yourself, you are perfected in three: soul, body, spirit; water, blood, and spirit. Three things come from His body that makes up the new birth. There's three things that come from His body makes up the new birth: water, blood, spirit.
Same thing it takes to make a natural birth. I got a mixed audience, but, you listen to your doctor. I'm your brother. When a baby's born, a natural birth, the first thing is water, then blood, then life, spirit.


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