<TITLE>03. Par 521-529</TITLE>L-521   And today we are studying in one of the most blessed chapters of the Hebrews, the 7th chapter. And there's anyone doesn't have a Bible, would like to follow us in the readings, we'd be glad to bring you a Bible if you'd just raise your hand. I'll have some of the elders, someone, come here and get some. Someone are raising their hands back there. And thank you, brother. And if you want a Bible, just raise your hand, and they'll bring it to you.

L-522   Now, the only way that a church can be built, the only way that a man can have Faith, is not by his denomination, not by his affiliation. But his Faith rests not upon the theology of some man's ideas, 'cause it's, more or less, altogether man. But the only way Faith can find it's solemn resting place, is upon the immovable and unchangeable Word of God. "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word." That's how it takes. And--and when Faith is heard and accepted, it's forever settled. Nothing no more can ever move it, no matter what comes or goes. Nothing can ever change that Faith. Think of that. You're anchored, and you no more change, for time and Eternity. You're anchored forever, "For God, by one sacrifice, has perfected forever those that are sanctified, or called."

L-523   And Faith has such a great place in the Christian, the believer's life, that it can take its stand by the side of a muddy grave or over a casket, where a precious baby or a sweetheart has passed from this life to the beyond. And with a stern look of the eagle eye, can look to Him who said, "I am the resurrection and the Life." And they forget the things that's in the past. They press on to the mark of the high calling.

L-524 I'm so glad that God has provided such, and has made it a free gift to all. That's what churches are to be. Churches doesn't mean denominations or organizations; it means, "Groups of people, of believers, who is gathered together under the fellowship of the Word."

L-525   And in this marvelous teaching here of Saint Paul, in the backgrounds, in the former chapters, he has specifically been dealing with the supreme Deity of the Lord Jesus and who He was. Christ was God, made so that men could feel Him and touch Him, and--and fellowship with Him. Christ, the Lord Jesus, was the body that God dwelt in, "God was made flesh and dwelt among us." First Timothy 3:16, "Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness, for God was manifested in flesh."

L-526 The Great Jehovah came down and was made tangible, by living in the body of His Own Son, declaring and reconciling the world to Himself. God was nothing... Christ was nothing short of God, and--and God was nothing short of Christ. The two together made the Godhead bodily, made a little lower than Angels, so that He could suffer. Angels cannot suffer. Jesus was the tabernacle that God dwelt in.

L-527 The Bible said, in the 7th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, that, "Tabernacles, and burnt sacrifice and burnt-offerings Thou wouldst not, but a body has Thou prepared Me. Howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in tabernacles made with hands, but a body has Thou prepared Me," that in tabernacling or dwelling in a fellowship with man.

L-528   God permits, as soon as we're through with this chapter here, or through with this Book, we want to go back and pick up the Book of Ruth and show in there that how God became kinfolks to us, to reconcile the lost back to Himself by fellowshipping and becoming one of us. The Redeemer must be kinfolks, and the only way that God could become kinfolks to us, is to become one of us. So, He could not become an Angel and be kinfolks to man.

L-529   Last evening when I was talking to the heart-broken son, my partner, of the mother that's just passed away, said, "O Brother Bill, I guess she's an Angel tonight."


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