<TITLE>10. Par 42-45</TITLE>L-42 I hope you find it. I hope this soaks real deep, a shadow of deceit. Then what does that real royal, one hundred percent Christian, that's borned again of the Spirit of God, whose name was written in the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world, who let come, let go, what may; they hold to God's unchanging hand.
What is it in their heart? It's a hungering for something yonder. For those, said the Bible, that do so, plainly confess by their testimony and their life that they seek a city to come whose Builder and Maker is God.
What is that hunger in your heart this morning to want to stand in His Presence? What is that hunger in your heart this morning to reaching out with all that's in you? All your soul and your life is crying for something till you say, "I don't care what comes or goes." Oh, God, something in you looking over the wall and the tears runs down in your heart.

L-43 Oh, lost brother, see the women in their degraded, demoralized way and see men drinking, and smoking, and cursing, and gambling, and going to church. What is it in your heart that cries out, my lost wayward brother? You've took something up here. You've been connected with the other end of the line. You touched a--a chain, a highway that chained eternity in the beginning, when your name was put there and seen by the great attribute or strain of God's knowledge, looked down and see that you'd come home, and yet, blinded by the things of the world down here you have a conception.
When the Holy Ghost run down this chain of Blood and catches your heart, it speaks of a better land, and a better place, and a better city. Therefore you say, "This world is not my home. I'm just passing through. My treasures are laid up away beyond the blue."

L-44 God speaking... Let come, go, what may. Your heart's still centered. It's a shadow. The shadow is before you. That's what makes the shadow. The law having a shadow of the baptism of the Holy Spirit... The law having a shadow, that's the reason He said in the Bible you have to take and compare Scriptures with Scriptures and make it come through, and if it comes a nick in it, remember you're out of line. Stay in that li--li--that line of Scripture.

L-45 Now, the law having a shadow can never make the worshiper perfect. Can never make the comer unto perfect. For... Listen 2nd verse, we'll try it the next five minutes. Look. "For then would they not have ceased to been offered?" If the blood of bulls, and goats, and sheeps, and heifers, and if the high priest was a right order, then the world would have continued on. Death would have ceased under that. You get it? Let it soak just a minute.
If Caiaphas, the high priest, the offering of animal life would have perfected the man and give him Eternal Life, then there was no reason for anything else to take place. That would've went right on. Eternal Life would've set in and growed right on, but there had to be a shadow of the real Lamb of God that was coming to take away the sin of the world, which had been forespoke by God.
And then men and women today, that was foreknown by God before the foundation of the world, their names were written in the Lamb's Book of Life. If they shout, all right; if they don't, all right; if they do this, all right; if they don't, all right, for God has already said so. It has to come to pass.
"It's not him that willeth or him that runneth, it's God that showeth the mercy." God's choice, not our...


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