<TITLE>12. Par 100-112</TITLE>L-100 "Passed from death unto Life." What do you care what the world thinks? What do you care what your neighbor thinks? Our conscience has died, and we're regenerated and born again by the Spirit of God, to serve the true and the living God. There you are.

L-101   Now drop over to the 10th verse... 10th chapter, rather, right across the page.
... the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices that they offered year by year continue make the comer unto p-e-r-f-e-c-t-e-d.
P-e-r-f-e-c-t, it is there, "Perfect."
... leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on to perfection;...
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father... in heaven is perfect.

L-102 "The law having a shadow of good things to come," all the ordinances and the baptisms and the... all the other things they had, "could never make the worshipper perfect." And, yet, God requires "perfect."

L-103 You join the Nazarene church, will never make you perfect. You join the Baptist church, Pentecostal, whatever it is, it'll never make you perfect. You being a good, loyal man, will never make you perfect. You can't merit one thing. There's nothing about you, to merit. You are lost. You say, "Well, I kept the law. I keep the sabbath. I keep this, all the ordinances of God. I do this."

L-104 Paul said, "Let us lay aside all those things now."

L-105 "That's all right, but we'll do this. We'll baptize the people, and we'll lay hands on them for their healing and so forth."

L-106   We could take it, verse by verse, each one of those things. Baptism, we believe it. "There's one hope, one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism." We believe that there's a baptism. We believe in the resurrection of the dead. Absolutely. We believe Jesus died and rose again. We believe that. "Laying on the hands, for the sick," that's what it said. "These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." We believe that.
But what is that? Paul said, "It's all dead works." It's something that you do.

L-107 "Now let's go on to perfection." Oh, my! We're coming into the Tabernacle, not the foundation; the Tabernacle, the Tabernacle Itself.    That's the foundation: the law, and the righteousness, and--and--and--and joining church, and being baptized, and--and laying on of hands. Them is all orders of the church.
"But now let's go into perfection." And there's only One that is perfected, that's Jesus.

L-108 How do we get into Him? "Through the Methodists?" No. "Pentecostal?" No. "Baptist?" No. "Through any church?" No. "Roman Catholic?" No.

L-109   How do we get into It? Romans 8:1.
There is therefore now no condemnation to those that are in Christ... that walk not after the things of this world, the flesh, but after the things of the Spirit, that pay no attention to what the world has got to say.

L-110 Even if you're sick, the doctor says, "You're going to die," you pay no attention to it, don't bother you a bit.

L-111 If they tell you, "You have to become a Catholic before you're saved, or a Presbyterian, or have to do this," you pay no attention to it.
"Therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, the things that they see." Everything that you see with your eyes is earthly.

L-112 But it's the things you see in your spirit, through the Word! The Word is God's looking glass that reflects what He is and what you are. Hallelujah! Oh, my! It tells you. This is the only Book in the world that tells you where you come from, who you are, and where you're going. Show me any page of literature, anywhere, with all the science or anything else, every good book that's been written, none of it can tell you that. This is God's looking glass, that shows what He is and what you are. Then, in between there is the Blood-line, that shows what you can be if you want to make the choice. There you are.


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