<TITLE>06. Par 27-32</TITLE>L-27 And Job come by the way of the blood, the shedding of blood. That's the only grounds that God ever fellowshipped with man, is on the basis of the shed blood. There's no other way that God will fellowship with people, only through the shed blood.
In the Old Testament, Israel had to come to one place of worship. That was under the shed blood.
And then when trouble struck Job, he could scream out, "I know my Redeemer liveth, and at the last days He will stand on the earth. Though after the skin-worms has destroyed this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God." And he could scream, "Though He slay me, yet I'll trust Him." Why? He knowed what path to turn to when he got in trouble.

L-28 Some of us go other paths in this neurotic age that we're living. So many people turn to the psychiatrist, to... Christians go to the psychiatrist. And the psychiatrist has to go to a psychiatrist.
Turn our path to God; He's our Healer. If our hearts condemn us not, then we have this assurance: God answers prayer.
And Job could say with a true heart, "I know my Redeemer liveth." And he thought on his ways, and turned to Him.

L-29 David, after he did wrong and taken Uriah, the Hittite's wife, the lovely Bathsheba, and was going to be the father of her child, and had caused her gallant husband to be killed in battle... But when the prophet, Nathan, come in and revealed his sins to him, then David thought on his ways, and he turned hisself to repentance in sackcloth and ashes. That's the way to turn. God heard him. God will always hear a man or woman that'll turn their feet to His testimony.
David was worthy of dying, and he pronounced his own death. But Nathan said, "Surely, you'll not die." For he knowed David knew God, and knew that he'd done wrong. He'd defiled his brother's wife.

L-30 I wonder tonight, and wouldn't say this, but maybe there'd be another David setting here tonight that's as guilty as David was. When you turn your light out at night, you see your brother's face, the man that you defiled his loving wife or broke up his home, flickering on the side of your wall. Or some woman see the woman's home that she broke up by running off with her husband. It ought to bring you to repentance in sackcloth and confession.
What the Church needs tonight is a confession and making right to come back to the testimonies of the Lord God. There's mercy, forgiveness. Seems that it would haunt people, going on, know that you're walking hour by hour in the face of death. Why do we continue on with selfishness, and greed, and ungodliness, and--and our eyes on things of the world? It's time we turn back to God's testimonies. "As I thought on my way, I turned my feet to Thy testimony."

L-31 It was the prophet Jacob who had done wrong and had lied to his blind daddy, because of a birthright. And one day his heart begin to yearn to go back to the homeland. And he must've thought all that time, it was covered up; but when he begin to get near home, he heard that Esau was coming out to meet him. Then he thought of his deceiving ways. And he prayed all night on the other side of the river. When he thought how he had deceived his brother, it called him to all night prayer. God knows that's what the Church needs.

L-32 I remember when the church used to call for a all night prayer meeting. And when the sermon went forth, there wasn't a dry eye the church. Everybody wept and cried out before God. And today it seems like it's so loose, that people just go on living any way they want to, and still say they are Christians. I wonder if we're not nearing home. We'd better think on our ways and turn our feet to His testimonies.


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