<TITLE>05. Par 17-20</TITLE>L-17 Now, many people say that, "I will go to heaven because my faith tells me so. I belong to church, and my faith tells me that I'm all right."
Now, I believe in the grace of God too. But look, no matter what your faith is, you're not going to be judged by your faith; you're going to be judged by your works. And when you die, death does not change your spirit; it only changes your dwelling place. It only changes houses for you. And if you die in your sins, you go to a worse habitation than what you're living in now. But if you die in Christ, you shall be with Christ for He is the Way.

L-18 There was a man one time, we know, in the Bible. And he came to the wedding supper. And he set down at the table. And when the King come in, or the Bridegroom, He looked at this man, and he wasn't dressed for the wedding. And He said to him, "Friend, whence comest thou?" In other words, like this, "How did you get in here?"
Now, many of you that's been in the Orients, know that their wedding customs never change. It's just the same today. And in that notable parable of our Lord, the wedding is set, and the bridegroom gives out the invitation. And he signs each invitation to all that's invited. And then he has his servant to stand at the door of entrance to the building. And laying in a little container near the door, he has a great pile of robes. He has a robe for every invitation. And then when the person comes up, maybe a good dressed man, well-groomed, but when he comes to the door, there's a robe put on him. And he goes in with this robe on.
Then the man comes in that's just fairly dressed, we'd say mediocre in his dressing, and he has the same kind of a robe put on him that the rich man had.

L-19 Then may come the poor brother who doesn't have fit clothes to get to the wedding, or attend the wedding. But he doesn't have to feel ashamed, for when he comes to the door, there's given him a robe, and the same kind of a robe that was give to the rich man, and to the middle man, so that when they're set at the table, they all look alike.
That's the way every child of God looks to Him. We're all alike if we come by the door. Now, this robe symbols the Holy Spirit, which is Christ in spiritual form.

L-20 Now, when this man, he was speechless; he couldn't say nothing. And he was... The bridegroom ordered him to be bound and cast into outer darkness. But he had gotten there, all right, but what did it indicate? That he'd... Either he might've come in a window, or come in the back door, or he'd come some other way besides the provided way. And he was cast out.
And there is a provided way today; that isn't by our creeds or by any other thing but by Jesus Christ. He is the way. And a man comes to God through Jesus Christ, receives the Holy Spirit, and is robed just like the rest of them that comes, rich or poor, all made alike. No one can enter in, only by Him.
In one place, in St. John 10, He said, "I am the Door to the sheepfold." If we enter into the sheepfold, we have to come by the Door. He is that Door.


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