<TITLE>12. Par 50-53</TITLE>L-50 And we're resting today as legalists, upon some legal thing that we done. Why, when I was a sinner, I was a leopard. The more I tried to quit this and quit that, I only made my spots brighter. I was a hypocrite with it and so was you, but today when you come to Calvary to the purging where the real Lamb... Under the Old Testament they brought a lamb. They'd go out and commit adultery. They'd get mad, and fuss, and fight, and cuss. And when they did, they'd bring a lamb, bring it to the priest, say, "Oh, priest of God."
"Yes."
"I cursed my neighbor. I--I committed adultery. I told a lie. I stoled." Lay his hands upon this dying lamb without a spot. The priest examined it. Had to be kept up to see if it was right. Laid his hands upon it, and they cut the throat. And the blood went up over his hands. And the little lamb bleating, kicking, and dying, and the worshiper standing there said, "Yes. That should be me, but the lamb's taking my place."

L-51 But he went back out with the same desire. He'd go it again, just as soon as he got a chance. And that's the way people do today. They come in and confess and say, "Oh, this, that, or the other," and go back out and turn around and do the same thing over again. Join one church, another, if this one gets a little something started, and they'll go to this one and that one, but what was it the shadow of. It was imperfect. That could never take away sin, but it was a shadow of the real double cure coming.
And then Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came and died at Calvary, and the worshiper once places his hands upon the head of the Lord Jesus and knowing that the screaming and crying at the cross, that death, that vicarious suffering, he ought to pay it hisself and that depths of hell where he should've went. He knowed that Christ paid the place and confessing his sins.
Then what happened? What made the difference? What went out of the lamb from the blood? Went the life. And the blood cell was on his hand; the life was a...?... from the altar, but the life of the lamb could not come back on the worshiper, though he confessed that he was wrong, and the lamb took his place, because a worshiper has a soul, and he couldn't live as an animal. Right.

L-52 But oh, God, cock back both hammers on the shotgun and let both barrels go to this church, is my prayer. But when the worshiper... "He that heareth my Words and believeth on Him that sent Me hath Everlasting Life (the Holy Spirit), shall not come into condemnation but has pass from death to Life.
When the worshiper puts his hands on the head of the dying Lamb of Calvary and confesses his sins, and God recognizes that to be truth, but from his heart he confesses his sin, that certain Life called the Holy Ghost of Jesus Christ turns back into the worshiper, and he's purged and has no more desire of sin, for he's led by the Spirit of God and not his own life from then on.
He will make mistakes, certainly, but that Life will hold him. Watch. Let's go down to the 4th--14th verse. We got time to finish it. Let's take the 12th verse.
But this man... (not the Lamb... Christ)... But this man...

L-53 He's talking now of the high priest order, how the priest went into the temple and so forth, worship. How the worshiper went back out with the same desire.
Men come to the altar and say, "Yes, I don't want to go to hell." Preacher preaching on how hot hell is and the altar's full of people. "Oh, God, I don't want to go to hell."
But they're never willing to yield thyself, say, "Yes, Lord. Not my will from this on but Yours." Really, realize what you're doing. Say, "God, be merciful to me."


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