<TITLE>04. Par 255-264</TITLE>L-255 So, listen. There is only one form of Eternal Life. Find It. That is, God alone has Eternal Life. The Bible said so. God alone has Eternal Life. And if a man is going to suffer in hell, forever, he's got to have God, Eternal. But I say that there.

L-256   Now, remember, I'm not saying there's not a burning hell. There is a burning hell, fire and brimstone. "Where the--the worm is... the fire isn't quenched and the worm never dies," of fire and brimstone, a punishment. It may last for a hundred billion years. But it has to have an end, for hell was created for the Devil and his angels. And everything that the very God, Himself, which was in the beginning, everything come off of God. When the very spirit...

L-257 Just take the Spirit of love, that was the great fountain of God, pure, unadulterated. From that, come in a perverted love. Then it come into human love. Then it come into sexual love. Then it come into other loves, loves and loves, and just keeps perverting down till it becomes to just filth. But all those things had a beginning. And someday it'll wind right straight back to the original; it's Eternal; where lust, human love, passionate love, all those loves will have to cease.

L-258 All these make-beliefs of Faith will have to cease. There's one true Faith. All others will have to cease. They were perverts off of this real fountain.

L-259   So, therefore, hell, suffering, suffering is not Eternal. Suffering was brought about because of sin, and sin introduced suffering. And when sin is finished, suffering will have to finish, too. And there'll be a time where sinners, that's never accepted Christ, after they have been punished maybe for a hundred billion years,... I don't know, maybe for ten hundred million billion year. I couldn't say. But it'll have to come to an end, sometime, 'cause it's not Eternal.

L-260   Now, we're going to press on now, towards the perfection. Now listen, as we get into the Message.
... not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and from faith towards God,
Of the doctrine of baptisms,... laying on of hands,... resurrection of the dead, and... eternal judgment.

L-261 Now listen. We got two. We got a picture here, now. Now right here is where we're going to get some great disagreements. Now you've got to see where the picture is. Paul is trying, here, to separate law from grace. We've got two pictures: one, the carnal; one, the spiritual. And Paul is trying to--to deviate between the two, to show the Jews. This letter is to the Hebrews. And all the Hebrews is trying to show the pattern of the Old Testament typing the New. So, you got two pictures here under consideration.

L-262   Now listen close as we read. Now he said:
... leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on to perfection;...

L-263 Now, we got that this morning, how that we are perfected. Perfected, absolutely spotless and blameless, not one sin on us. Are you above temptation? Never. Do you sin every day? Yes, sir. But, yet, we are perfected because we are in Him. And God could no more judge us than nothing (couldn't be righteous), He's already judged us in Him. When He judged Christ: He judged me, He judged you. And He can't judge me again, because He took my judgment if I've been redeemed.

L-264 And I got a ticket to show that I've redeemed my watch from the pawn shop, let somebody try to take it back in the pawn shop once, when I've got a ticket. I have redeemed it.
And if the Devil would try to put punishment on me, I've got a ticket that shows I been redeemed. Yes, sir. No more judgment! "He that heareth my Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has Eternal Life, and shall never come to the judgment, but has passed from death unto Life." That's my ticket. He gave the promise.


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