<TITLE>06. Par 57-63</TITLE>L-57 Salvation once was not completed in the offering of the goat, the sheep, the heifer in the Old Testament, because the Old Testament blood could not atone for sin. It could only cover sin. It was a pointing to a time when it would be completed. Tomorrow night we're to get right in on that. But it was only a type.
But when Jesus came and His Blood was shed at Calvary, it was a complete divorcing of sin. It taken sin away. It's the only means of salvation. There is no church-joining, no letters of fellowship; there is no ritual baptisms; there's no communion, or nothing in the ritual, or any article that's been left of God, as articles pertaining to salvation; it's all in commemoration of a finished work.

L-59 Water baptism does not save you, as much as people sometimes think it does. Water baptism is a commemoration of the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord. It does not save you.
Communion is in commemoration of His great agony, and His going out, and His broken body, and His Blood that was shed. It is not the literal Blood; it is not the literal body; but it's in commemoration of His literal body and of His precious Blood. And we take this as a order, and Jesus commanded us to do it. As long as He stays away, we are to take it.

L-61 We have a great, beautiful picture over in the Book of the Hebrew Letter in the 7th chapter. I would like to read just a little place in Hebrews 7 to get a context to go with this.
For this Melchisedec, King of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
To whom the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of all; first being by interpretation the King of righteousness,
... after that the King of Salem, which is, the King of peace;

L-62 Notice, we want to go back and think. Paul here is referring back to an Old Testament character. In the Book of Genesis we take up the life of Abraham from the 12th chapter of Genesis: God giving Abraham the promise, and through Abraham would come the righteous Seed. And Abraham, as believed by many to be a Jew, he was not. Abraham was a Gentile, a Chaldean from the city of Ur. And he became God's servant, not because he was different from anyone else, but because of the election of God.

L-63 You are not saved because you are a good person. You're saved because Christ chose you. No man seeks God; God seeks man. Jesus said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him first." And if we could stop just for a few moments and realize the great importance of that one thing, that it was God Who chose you, not willing that you should perish; but give to you the opportunity, and called you, and elected you to be His servant. Why, what could be more precious than that? Without you having a choice... It would be total impossible for any man to seek God; for he's by nature is a sinner; and he has nothing within him to give a desire to serve God.


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