<TITLE>10. Par 83-90</TITLE>L-83 Paul goes on to explain it all here, just in a few minutes. Let's just read it, just a little bit, before we get to it.
... laying again the foundations of repentance from dead works...
Now, we believe that.
... and faith towards God,
We believe that.
And of the doctrine of baptisms,...
Just how you must be baptized, we believe that.
... and of laying on of hands,
We believe in laying on of hands. Don't we? See, all that, sure.
... and of the resurrection of the dead,...

L-84   We believe that. Now watch. You see here, "Judgment," is used, "Eternal." That's forever. When judgment is spoke of God, it's forever. Then, there can be no more reconciliation after judgment has been past. Now you can understand why God had to take His Own--His Own, as we'd call it, His Own medicine. When He condemned man for sinning, the only way He could reconcile, was to take the man's place Himself. That's the only way he can be reconciled, or could reconcile us, was take our place and become a sinner. God, Jehovah, became a sinner, and He gave His life.

L-85 Now, you could give your life, as a sinner, to die for the cause. Paul said, "Though I give my body to be burnt as a sacrifice, I'm still nothing," 'cause it won't work. See, when you die, you're gone. You die as a sinner, you're lost.

L-86 "But God came down in flesh, and condemned sin in the flesh, being made sinful flesh." Because, He was the Eternal God, and raised His own body up, so He's the justifier.

L-87   Now, all these things, "Let's go on to perfection," said Paul. Now what?
... of eternal judgment.
... this we'll do,... God permit. (3rd verse.)

L-88 Now, "Go on to perfection." Jesus said, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is perfect."
And we're, every one, condemned. No matter what we ever do, we're condemned. We were born, condemned. Your mama and papa was born, condemned. You, all your ancestors, was born in sin, shaped in iniquity. So how you ever going to get it? How you going to be perfect? If you never done a thing, never stole, never lied, never done anything in your life, you're still condemned. You was condemned before you breathed your first breath. You were condemned. That's correct. And you were judged of God before you breathed your first breath. For you were judged, by the sexual desire of your father and mother who, through their act, brought you here on the earth. And God condemned it, in the beginning. You're condemned, to start with. So where you... And every other person on earth was condemned with you. Now where you going to get perfection?

L-89   Watch. Let's turn just a moment to Hebrews, the 10th chapter. Listen close. I want to read a little bit out of the 9th chapter, first, the 11th verse.
But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, his own tabernacle, his flesh,...

L-90 See, the old tabernacle, you notice, the old tabernacle had a veil in it, that hid the ark where God lived. How many knows that? Sure. Well, that old man-made tabernacle here, the curtains out of dyed goatskins, and so forth, were made a tabernacle to hide the Presence of God. How many knows that only one man could go in there once a year? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Certainly. That was Aaron, go in once a year. And he must be anointed. And--and, oh, the requirement! And he must have fire in his hand; and if he went without that, he died as soon as he moved that veil back. He would drop dead. He must go in there and light these candlesticks, and sprinkle the mercy seat which called out, the blood of the death, the substitutionary has, till Christ was come to fulfill it.


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