<TITLE>03. Par 11-14</TITLE>L-11 Now, if it is written on little paper, or whatever it is, doesn't means so much, but it's the message that it bears. And it's a pardon for sin. It's a healing for sickness; it's a remedy for worry. Oh, it holds and gives everything you need in this journey, and everything that you will need in the great beyond hereafter. All lays in what you think about Christ tonight.
Now, a pardon is not a pardon unless it is accepted as a pardon. I read an article some time ago, where that there was a man in the eastern country. It's been many years ago since the incident happened, but the man was guilty and was sentenced to die under a firing squad. And some good person went to work, and worked around the governor of the state, until finally they persuaded the governor to spare the life of the person. And when the guilty person who was really guilty was set free, to get another chance to bring hisself up and to make a citizen... When the man come with the pardon, the man who was to die refused to receive it. He did not want it, yet the governor had his name signed, "pardon."

L-12 What made the difference was the governor's name and "pardon." It spelled pardon to the man if he wanted to receive it. But if he did not want to receive it, he had to pay the penalty. And the man refused it and said, "I do not believe it. I will not accept it." And the man was shot the following day.
Then this pardon goes back to the governor. And he had pardoned the man, yet he was a corpse. Then it was tried in the Supreme Court of the land, and it was declared that a pardon is not a pardon, unless it is accepted.
And salvation through Jesus Christ is not salvation unless it is accepted as salvation. Oh, if the world could only look on God's great promises and believe them that they are God's pardon to the human race...

L-13 This little aged old question has been rising in the minds of people through the centuries, about Who Jesus was. Even to this day, among many of the Protestant ranks, it is believed and taught that He was not the virgin-born Son of God, that He was only a prophet.
Sometime ago when our most beloved Brother Arganbright (on the platform with me tonight) and I were in Zurich, Switzerland, the famous revivalist Billy Graham was ending up his service that Saturday afternoon. I was beginning the next day. And down in Switzerland, the state church doctrine is, on the old Zwingli translation, that Jesus was the Son of God, called the Son of God; really was the son of Joseph, called the Son of God, but not virgin born.

L-14 Now, that knocks every foundation out from under Christianity. He was either the Son of God, virgin born, or His Blood was no more than my blood or your blood. That had nothing to do with it. Almighty God overshadowed the virgin Mary, and she brought forth the Son, Christ Jesus, by the great immaculate conception, by the power of the Holy Spirit to form a blood cell in the womb of a girl who knew no man. And through that holy unadulterated Blood, my faith rests solemnly upon that tonight, and nothing else, for my forgiveness of sins. And the reason my faith has stayed there, because I truly believe it was the Blood of God. That's why it has a resting place.
But it's so scattered today. What about it? Let's just call a few witnesses for a few minutes and find out what would be said of someone who's passed on.


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