<TITLE>17. Par 162-171</TITLE>L-162 And people say, "Oh, they're very religious." Oh! Don't you know that the Devil is religious? Don't you know that Cain was just as religious as Abel was? But, he didn't have the Revelation. That's it. He didn't have the Revelation.
Yeah, we all go to church, but there is some has got Life, that's the ones got the Revelation of Jesus Christ in their heart. Not by shaking, jumping, not by joining church. But, the Revelation, God has revealed Him.

L-163 Look what said, "Who does man say I, the Son of man, am?"

L-164 "Some said You're 'a prophet.' And some say You're 'Elias.' And some..."
Said, "But who do you say?"

L-165 Peter said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." That wasn't from his lips.

L-166 He said, "Blessed art thou, Simon, the son of Jonas, for flesh and blood never revealed this. You never learned this in some--some ethics of the Bible, or some theological seminary. Blessed are ye, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you. But My Father which is in Heaven has revealed it. And upon this rock I'll build My Church, and the gates of hell can't prevail against It."

L-167   If you're a Christian, this morning, 'cause you belong to church, you're lost. If you're a Christian because you've passed from death unto Life, you're free from judgment; into Christ, you're becoming into perfection all the time. God cannot see one thing. You say, "Well, will I ever make a mistake?" Sure, but you don't do it willfully.

L-168 Now we're getting into that, just in a few minutes, "For he that sins willfully after he received the knowledge of the Truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin." We get into that tonight, because it's a little too late now.

L-169   Let's read just a couple more verses of this, so we can feel better about getting down a little more. All right. Well, we'll start right in on that tonight, the 4th verse. Listen to this.
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and made... and have been... and have tasted of the power, the heavenly gifts, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
And... tasted the good word of God, and the power of the world to come,
If they shall fall away, to renew themselves... unto repentance;...
See? And we take that into Hebrews 10, and back and forth, to show what this is.

L-170   Friends, "Let us go on to perfection." We have... we're not... We're without excuse today. We have no excuse, at all. The God of Heaven has appeared in these last day and is doing the very same things that He did then, when He was here before, when He was on earth. He has proved, as we're coming through this Bible. And you--you, class, know this, that we have taken miracle by miracle, and sign by sign, and wonder by wonder, that He did with the children in the wilderness, the things and signs that He did; the things that He done when He was here on earth, manifest in the flesh; and the very same things are taking place today, right here among us. Here is the Word to vindicate it. Here is the thing to say it's right, to make it right. Here is the Spirit of God to do the same thing, so we're without an excuse.
Let us pray.

L-171   Heavenly Father! Seeing that we are compassed about by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every word, everything," every wrong, every evil word, every bad-spoken word, every thought, "and let us run with patience the race that's set before us, looking to the author and finisher of our faith, the Lord Jesus Christ." O blessed be His most matchless and holy Name! How that He came to earth to redeem fallen man, and to bring them back into the fellowship of the Lord God. And we thank Thee for this. And now by His grace... We never chose Him, but He chose us. He said, "You have not chosen Me, but I chose you." When? "Before the foundation of the world."


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