<TITLE>09. Par 31-33</TITLE>L-31 There's a place you can stand there, you can... place you can have that fellowship, a place that you can know what you're talking about. It isn't gotten by joining churches. It isn't gotten by joining, or burning candles, or saying prayers, or being very religious. It's got through the Blood. God laid out the blood of the animal and said, "This is the way home."
How that in the Old Testament, Israel always come on the basis of the shed blood of the innocent. Back out through the Palestine, wherever the--the Palestinians was gathered, or--or worshipping, they would come to one place, and that would be to the temple. And in the temple where the sacrifice was made, the sacrificial lamb killed yearly, every man met in this temple under the basis of the shed blood of the lamb. He might serve God out in different places, but he fellowshipped, and worshipped God under the shed blood. You see it folks? Only the blood, nothing else.

L-32 They didn't join church, they wasn't nothing else but come and recognize how God brought them in back there, when He journeyed them, coming out of Egypt, and brought the--introduced the sacrificial lamb again, down there, after four hundred years in bondage. How He made a preparation, I believe, in Exodus, about the 16th, 19th chapter, along there, of the red heifer. The red heifer was to be killed. First, the red denoted Christ. Red also is a danger sign, and red is a sign of redemption. God brings redemption through the red blood. Rahab, the harlot, was redeemed by the scarlet thread that left down from her house. Red is a sign of danger, and red is a sign of redemption.

L-33 And let me give you a little bit of scientific something. You can take a red, purely, genuine, red glass, and look through it at a red object, and red through red looks white. Figure it out. God, looking through the Blood of Christ to a red sinner, is white as snow. "Though your sins be red like crimson, they shall be white like snow."
God knew what He was doing when He looked through the Blood of the innocent to the guilty that's bloody red, and He sees him white. Not because he's righteous, but because he's accepted the righteousness of God through Christ, and become reconciled back to fellowship again with God. Not because something that you do, some good deeds... That's all right. You do the good deeds because you are a believer, but that doesn't do it by good deeds. Joining church is all right, but that isn't what does it. It's when you recognize that you're a sinner, lost, and the only way that God can see you righteous is through the Blood of Jesus Christ. Then when He sees you through the Blood of Jesus, He sees you as innocent as His own Son, Christ Jesus was. That's the Gospel story, friend. Believe that, accept that, and worship through that, you can have what you ask for. God said, so. Yes, sir.


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