<TITLE>05. Par 37-44</TITLE>L-37 But, oh, one day some two thousand years ago, the Lamb of God was born down in a little manger in Bethlehem, and was led like a sheep to its slaughter. Some nineteen hundred years ago this afternoon at three o'clock, He died. The spotless, blameless Lamb of God hung on Calvary's cross and died for every sinner. Now, when the worshipper comes to this Lamb by faith... And this is a different type of Lamb. It's not a Lamb like the other.
No man can come to this Lamb, except God draws him first. You see God's sovereignty? Oh, I hope this soaks way down deep now. Look. God knowed He had sheep in this world. He knowed He was going to have people to be saved, and His love looked down and seen those who would be saved; therefore, by foreknowledge He predestinated a Church to meet Him yonder without spot or wrinkle. And if God required a Church without spot or wrinkle, He had to have something to make it that way. He could not require His justice... His judgments could not let Him ask such a thing if there wasn't a way to make it.

L-39 And man cannot do it in himself. He's a total failure. God let him see that through the law, through the judges, and through all the Old Testament. He sent the prophet; He sent the righteous man, and they found out that every one failed.
So God by His sovereign grace sent from the portals of glory His only begotten Son to take our place.

L-41 Remember, if He'd have said for the pope of Rome to take it, he could not have done it. If He'd have said for the Archbishop of Canterbury to do it, he could not have done it. If He would've called on the most holy reverend father or bishop of the world, he could not have done it. He'd been just as far rejected as Judas Iscariot was. He could not do it, because he was borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies, and needed atonement for himself. Hallelujah.
But there came One from the portals of glory; none other, not a man, not a good man, neither a Jew nor a Gentile; He was nothing less than Almighty God hid in human flesh. He came Himself to offer His own Blood, for It did not come through sex. Sex had nothing to do with it. But He overshadowed a virgin and brought forth from a Blood cell that He created Himself the innocent One.

L-43 Then my salvation, yours tonight does not hinge upon the merits of our own acts. It hinged upon the positive sovereign grace of Almighty God Who has chosen us in Him. Certainly. I could never be perfect, nor you could never be perfect. And we don't claim to be perfect. But we have this one consolation, that our faith rests in a perfect Sacrifice that's already been received.

L-44 Then how do we know that we get that? When the worshipper puts his hands by faith upon the body of the Lord Jesus, and feels the tear of sin, and the mock of spit in his own face, feels the groanings of Gethsemane, the agonies of Calvary, and knows that he's guilty, and confesses his sins correctly, "O blessed Lord, I am guilty. And I have no other way but You to help me. And by faith... You're bidding, the Holy Spirit has come and bids me come. And I now by faith accept Jesus as my personal Saviour." That Life that come from Him on Calvary, called the Holy Ghost, which was hid in the Blood cell of the Lord Jesus, returns to the worshipper and baptizes him with the Holy Ghost into the Body of Christ.


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