<TITLE>03. Par 21-28</TITLE>L-21 All through the Old Testament they offered the blood of lambs and goats, sheep, bulls, and heifers, a substitutionary death. But all in the great economy of God, there was back in His mind the real Object coming, which would be... Them were shadows of the real Object that was to come. And the real Object was to come, was His only begotten Son. All the lambs that died was only a shadow. And a shadow is only the negative side of an object. And they only spoke of Calvary coming.

L-22 Now, for a picture of this, let's turn in our Bibles to the Book of Hebrews, and pick up here what Paul, the great apostle speaking, trying to separate these things for us. In the 10th chapter of the Book of Hebrews, we read this.
And I just love the Word. The Word is the Truth. And I like to read It before my congregation, because I know that in the judgment I'll stand with them. And I've got to give an account. So if I bring It from the Word, then I'll not be guilty; because It's the Word, and God is responsible for His Word.

L-24 We see so much today of evangelists and so forth, building up around personalities. Oh, it's a disgraceful thing. And we find out in going into churches, we go into church and you find a certain pastor, he's got some little peculiar act about him, some little emotion. If you don't notice, the entire congregation will take that spirit. If he's just a little emotional, or jerks his head, or some little odd thing, well, the whole church will take onto that. And we've got today in our modern churches to where it's sensations and little things like that; and it's got such a confusion. But, oh, my beloved brethren, if there ever was a time that we ought to be on the Word, it's today.
You see, I would hate to stand at the judgment and know that I had some little fickled-e-something of a little peculiar revelation, and misled people. I don't want them to have my spirit on my actions, but I want them to have God's Spirit by God's Word; that produces Truth.

L-26 So on this great occasion tonight I would like to read from God's eternal Word. Now, we realize that the law existed for many years, but the law could never take away sin. As I have said in the past, it was just a jail house. It was the great detective that told you what you had done, but had no remedy to deliver you. It put you in the pawn shop, but there was no Redeemer to take you out with it. It only prisons you to let you know that you was a sinner. But now, notice in Hebrews the 10th chapter, as we read.
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image...
Remember, it was a shadow of an image to come. A shadow only introduces that there is a image making the shadow:
... a shadow of the things to come, and not the very image... (Notice.)... of the things... the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which were offered, continually make the comer unto perfect.

L-28 Now, God, in the beginning required perfection. Jesus, when He come to earth, said, "Be ye perfect, like God in heaven is perfect." And the law, having a shadow of things to come, could never make the worshipper perfect. You get the picture? Now, let's go it again so you'll be sure not to miss it. God requires perfect holiness. No one can stand in His image with one little speck of sin. Jesus witnessed the same and said, "Be perfect, just like God in heaven is perfect."
And the Bible said that the law could never, with its sacrifices, make the comer perfect. Then the law could not perfect anything. It was only a pointer. These sacrifices made every year could never make the worshipper perfect. So therefore, no one under the law, or keeping of laws, or under the shadows could be perfect.
For... (2nd verse)... then would they not have ceased to been offered?


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