<TITLE>05. Par 36-45</TITLE>L-36   Oh, in this great hour of darkness and chaos over the earth, we should be the happiest people in the whole earth, to rejoice, to know. All the time, when people are indocumated, and all kinds of isms and things in the earth, and yet, today, the real, living God, by His Word and by His visible evidence, shows us that He's here with us, working, moving, living, acting just exactly as He always did. What a privileged people that we are, to have this! We ought to... The Bible said, then, in the 2nd chapter, "We should hold fast these things. Because, how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation?"

L-37   Now, we come on to find out, before Paul would accept that experience... Now, we're drilling. Now, no matter what kind of an experience you ever have, church, I want to ask you something. No matter how good it looks, how real it seems, it first must be tested by the Bible. Always on the Word! Don't never leave That, for any kind of experience.

L-38 And Paul, before he would accept it, he went down into Arabia, and there stayed three years, testing this experience with the Word. And when he come back, he was sure. Nothing could upset him, for he was solid on the Word, unmoveable. And here is where he's turning now to show to these Hebrews, those great things that was spoke of, of the Old Testament, was made manifest in Jesus Christ. What a glory!

L-39   Now, last Sunday, or last Wednesday, Brother Neville in here, in the 5th chapter, hit some very high places,'cause it's a wonderful chapter. And we find him dealing on the 4th chapter, last Sunday, on the Sabbath, the keeping of the Sabbath. Are you sure, this morning, you know what the keeping of the Sabbath is? If you do, say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]

L-40 The Sabbath is the "Rest" that we enter into, not by day, not by law, but by entering into Christ which is our Sabbath. He is our Sabbath. We run it all through the Old Testament, and showed that the time would come when the Word would come "line upon line, precept upon precept." And He proved that we entered His Rest on the Day of Pentecost, "For this would cause the weary to rest, cease."

L-41   We find out, that, "God limited a day in David, about the seventh day." And, "God did rest the seventh." Give it to the--the children of Israel in the wilderness. "And again, He limited a day." What day was it? A certain day in the week? "The day when you hear His Voice, harden not your heart." That's the day He's entering in, to give you an Eternal peace, an Eternal Sabbath.

L-42 You don't go to church on Sunday, to become religious, then. When you're born of the Spirit of God, you enter into Rest forever, no more sabbath-keeping. You're in the Sabbath, continually, forever, and for Eternity. "Your worldly works has finished," says the Bible, "and you've entered into this blessed peace."

L-43   These first five chapters are positionally placing Jesus as High Priest. "God in sundry times and divers manners spake to the fathers through the prophets, but in this last day through His Son, Jesus," 1st chapter, 1st verse.

L-44 Then on down to the ending up of the 5th chapter, we find Him represented as "Melchisedec, who had no beginning of days, no ending of your life, but continually a Priest forever." Think of it. Who was this great Man? We'll get it, in about two more chapters. The entire life of Him, we're going to study. "This great Man who met Abraham, who never had any papa, never had any mama. He never had any time He ever begin life, or He never will have a time that He will ever end life. And He met Abraham coming from the slaughters of the king."

L-45 Notice this great Person, whoever He was, is still alive. He had no end of life. It was Christ, he met. We're going on a deep study of that, in a few days.


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