<TITLE>07. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 And find a little old empty building. 'Course you can't find them now, where someone that moved out. Go in there, and go back in the shed and kneel down and pray. That was the making. That was the thing that established it there, looking to Him.
Now, the Book of Hebrews is the--the dividing between law and grace. How many knows that we live by grace and not by law? I believe the writer, no one knows exactly, but it's so much like Paul, till I like to call it Paul's writing. And he was speaking to the Hebrews. Now, the Gospel had already gone to the Gentiles, because the Jews had turned it down, and they had went to the Gentiles with the Gospel. And now, Paul was writing back to the Hebrews, for many of them wanted to come back under the law, keep the law and still believe in Christ.

L-23 And you know, that still exists today? There's people today who tries to keep the law of the Old Testament, and still be Christian, when one is very contrary to the other. If you do one part of the law, you have to do it all. "You're indebtor says the Bible to do all the law, so if you do part of it. And then if you keep the law, as the sacrifice, and Sabbath, and obligations, and eatings, and washings, and so forth, under the law. But we're not under the law now, we're under grace. And Paul is trying to show where the law was a shadow. Now, in the beginning here we see that.
For the law, having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never, with those sacrifices which they offered year by year, continually, make the comer unto perfect.
Oh, my, wouldn't that make a sermon right there? See, see? Now, the law was a shadow of things to come.

L-24 Let's get over here just a minute. Turn with me back to, I believe, it's the 12th chapter of Revelations. Let's get over in that just a moment and see if we can't get just a little bit of something good right here to start with, thinking of shadow. Now, let's--let's read again now, you with your Bible.
 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman... (What does woman represent in the Bible? Church.)... a woman clothed with the sun,... (That was her garment she had on. See?)... and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown and twelve stars:
 And she being with child cried, in travail in birth and pain to be delivered.
Notice, a woman appeared in the sky to the--the vision of John the Revelator, and the--she was clothed with the sun. And the moon was under her feet, and she had twelve stars in her crown. Now, what does that symbol? Visions are symbols.

L-25 Now, the woman is the church, and the church was... The moon was under her feet. In other words, it was still shining. But she was above it, because she'd already become in a condition that she was bearing a child. She was travailing in birth. And the moon was passing away, and the sun was shining.
Now, the moon is... What makes the moon light, is the sun shining on it. It's just a shadow of the sun. And therefore, the moon had lived its day out, and the sun was rising. The woman wasn't clothed with the moon; she was clothed with the sun. It was a Gospel church coming into existence. The old orthodox church...


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