<TITLE>06. Par 17-19</TITLE>L-17 Now, we find Him a few days before this, great things He had done. And just a few hours before the instant that we're speaking of, He'd been crossing a sea. Tired, weary, virtue had been going out of Him; people had been healed. He'd been preaching the Gospel, and on His road across the sea, the--over to the land of Gadara, He'd got so tired and weary until He laid down in the back end of the boat.
Some of them had fixed Him a little pillow back there because they loved Him, and when they was rowing in the... Sails a going, and all the apostles moving with their oars, He'd gotten so sleepy, and so tired and wore... See? He was Man in one sense; He was God in another sense. He was Man in flesh; in Spirit He was God. We just went through that.
The Dove came on the Lamb, and they two became one. The Lamb was one Creature, and the Dove was another Creature; and when the Dove and the Man--the Dove and the Lamb united together, God was manifested in the flesh. That's right.
And now, He's manifested in your flesh by being adopted sons and daughters to the Kingdom of God through the baptism of the Holy Spirit. That's right, and you become joint-heirs with the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, Church, you got the power if you got the faith to use it with. That's it.

L-18 Last evening in speaking of the Noah, how that the ark was built; how that one tree had to be cut down. And then they beat the rosin out of the tree which the rosin is the sap. The life of the tree had to be beat out to make an atonement to save the life of Noah and his family.
And the gopher wood that the ark was made out of... The gopher wood first had to be cut down and dried out. All life in the gopher wood which was not good, not preserved...
Very beautiful type of the sinner as though you're standing, yet the life that's in you, my friend, is not worth nothing. Your good works and all that you are in your goodness cannot atone for your sins. There had to be Another of your kind cut down, the Lord Jesus, the perfect One; and out of His body was beaten with a cat-o'-nine-tails across His back, beat on the head, spit in the face, nails drove through Him, pierced in the side; and the life of Him had to run out in order to be a Saviour for your life.

L-19 Now, we find out that the gopher wood, the first thing the ark being made out of gopher wood, it had to be cut down, and its own life dried out. That's the sign of the sinner. The sinner before he can get right with God has to dispel all...?... with sin, get white.
Then the gopher wood was the lightest wood there is, and a sinner that's repented and laying before God is the most receptacle things that there can be. Then the Holy Spirit comes down.
Now, if you put that gopher wood in the water it would sink in a few minutes. That's right.
Now, the sinner's all emptied out, and then when the gopher wood emptied out, it become light, flexible. Then we find out... Did you ever get real light when you got down there and God forgive your sins, and it seemed like--like you was walking on clouds? Sure. Emptied out your own life; then God took you to the tabernacle to the gathering of the people, and He made you a piece of timber or a stone in a house.


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