<TITLE>06. Par 24-28</TITLE>L-24 I said, "Then, I want to ask you something. There was a king one time who had a great kingdom. And he made all of his rules and his laws and--and his everything. And there was a slave one day who committed a crime, and he was brought before the king. And he was a man of honor. He kept his word. And he was found guilty. And he looked in his books, and in the book the penalty of this crime was death. So the--the man was a just man, and he had to do nothing but take the life of the criminal. And he said, 'I'm sorry. I have to take your life.' Said, 'Because I'm a man of honor; I keep my word, and here is my book of law, and my law says that you must die for this penalty.'"
He said, "I follow you."
I said, "All right. Now, what's the man got to do? He's got to take his life, because his law said so."
He said, "That's exactly right."

L-25 I said, "Well, then the first thing, the man, he begin to trembling and shaking. And the king said to him, 'Now, before I take your life, I... What could I do for you before I take your life?'"
And he said, "I'd like to have a glass of water." So they gave him a glass of water, and the poor fellow was shaking so, he couldn't hold it, because he knew he was going to be beheaded in a few moments for his crime. So he was shaking and he...
The king said, "Now, wait a minute. Straighten yourself up. I'm not going to take your life until you drink the water." The slave threw the water on the ground.
I said, "Now, what's he going to do? He's a man of honor. His law says, 'He must die.' And his word he can't keep now. What about it?"
Oh, he said, "That was a slip-up on the king."

L-26 I said, "Then God made a slip-up when He put it in His Word and not in the atonement? Oh, no brother, that won't work." See? So it's in the atonement; Divine healing was included in the atonement, and it's for whosoever will. That's right. But it's based on this; that it's your faith in the finished works of Jesus Christ's death and burial and resurrection, and you're finishing of the work, that your faith based on that.
Now, we find then that God foreseeing this bringing forth the Lamb, the--the real Lamb. That was... The old animal lamb was a type, and his blood could never take away sin. It just covered sin. And that's the reason there was a place called Paradise, or, the gathering to the fathers, where the Old Testament saints went when they died.

L-27 But when Jesus died, sin wasn't covered; it was divorced and done away with. And then He emptied Paradise and led captive, captive, and give gifts--gifts unto men. The Old Testament saints went with Him after His resurrection, appeared into the city and appeared before many people, that was in the city, Matthew 27. After Jesus' resurrection, the old saints of the Old Testament come out of the graves and went into glory with the Lord Jesus according to Matthew 27. That's right.
And now, when we go, we go into the Presence of the Father waiting the second coming of the Lord. Now, then there's no guess work on it. It's all a finished work. God's already done it. It's all over with.

L-28 Now, we find Abraham last night, believing God and calling those things which were not as though they were, because God said so. And as long as you have the promise of God that says it, regardless of what circumstances look like, believe it anyhow for God said so. And if you are the children of Abraham, not the children of the church now, the children of the denomination, but the children of Abraham, you believe God's promises, every one of them, regardless of what someone else would say about it. You believe His promises are true.


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