<TITLE>14. Par -</TITLE>L-20-1 Now, what was the first thing? The courts represented justification. Outside there was where the people come in, all of Israel. No other but a circumcised Israelite could come into those courts. They'd defile it. You remember when Paul brought Timothy to the temple? And said, "They have polluted this holy place by bringing a Gentile in?" In the courts they must be absolutely justified people, regenerated men and women who's accepted God, and got Eternal Life dwelling in them. They must be that to be in the court.
Then they come to the first altar, and the first altar is where they burnt the sacrifice, and where the Lord met them there in forgiveness of sin and cleansed them from all their unrighteousness. And the burning altar, the brazen altar burnt the beast and the blood from the beast. That was the second court.

L-20-3 And now, after they left that second court, sanctification, they entered into this consecrated life, entered into the Presence of God. And while they were in there, there's where they had all these glorious things. What a very beautiful type that in there, anything dead come in, lived again. Did you ever think of that? They took Aaron's rod and laid Aaron's rod in the presence of this holy place; and when they did, in one night's time it budded, blossomed, and yielded almonds: in one night's time. Think of it. In the Presence of God this old dead rod, lying there in the Presence of God budded, blossomed, and yielded almonds in one night. What was it then? What kind of a rod was it? It was an almond tree rod. That's what he taken it from; the stick was off of an almond tree. And you are a stick some kind; and you're--you was taken off the branch of humanity, which was God's created son in the beginning. You may be fallen, dead, alienated from God; but by that in creation, you were created to be a son of God. You may bounce around, and be respected and honored out here in the courts, but if you ever get into that glorious place and hid away with God, you'll yield what you're supposed to do.

L-20-4 Take a dead sinner, alienated from God, without hope, without Christ, and put him in the Presence of God, in this great glorious tabernacle in there, he will yield forth fruit of the Holy Spirit: love, joy, peace, long-suffering.
The dead rod budded. 'Fore it budded, it had to have refreshments, had to be refreshed. Then after it was refreshed, it a... Well, it had to have a... It brought forth a odor, a perfume, the blossom. Then the next thing it brought forth was fruit.
And every Christian comes the same way when he comes into the Presence of God. First, he has to be refreshed. The Holy Spirit has to take ahold of a man and renew him and make him another person. The Holy Ghost comes in, just a refreshment.

L-21-3 The Holy Ghost comes in the quiet of the hour. You know, you go out of a morning real early when the dew is on the ground. The dew falls just before daylight, usually sometime in the night, after the hustle and bustle of the world is gone to bed, after everything is asleep. Did you ever go out early of a morning? And you go out early, and you see how everything's so fresh, just real fresh, early of a morning. Why? The old earth has been hid away for awhile, and it's refreshed.
And did you ever come in the presence of a man or woman, who hid themselves away from the world. It's refreshing to talk to them. They refresh theirselves. They begin to come to life.


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