<TITLE>12. Par 44-48</TITLE>L-44 Then the sinner come up, and he was--made his confession that he had sinned and done wrong. Then he's sprinkled with the waters of separation.
Now, no disregard to my own Baptist denomination that I was... loved so much. But I was told by them that that was what we did: We just believed God, and then we was borned again of the Spirit. But I come to find out that that wasn't just exactly all the truth. See? They always told me that Acts 19 said, "Have you received the Holy Ghost? You did receive the Holy Ghost when you believe." But the Bible says, "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?" Since you believed...
Now, that's what Paul asked. "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?"
Those were Baptists, too. They would been converted under Apollos' teaching. He was a converted lawyer, who had believed on God through John the Baptist, and were real Baptist people, being baptized, and having great fellowship, and proving by the Word that Jesus was the Christ. But when Paul came along with the Pentecostal blessing, he said, "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?" That was the question.

L-45 Now, many people think, kind--when they come and make a confession--confess their sins--that God sprinkles them with the water of separation and that's all. No, sir. You're just beginning now; you haven't come to the fellowship. Please pardon this real strong, rude teaching, but I--I... You... Before you can make a... (This man's a carpenter, I believe he said. ) or... Before you can make a board hang on a house right, you've got to clinch them nails down. (Is that right?) That's the way the Gospel... You've got to drive them in, make them hang there with the Word.

L-46 Now notice, when after this believer come and accepted God, and the propitiation for his sins, he was sprinkled with the waters of separation; it was a cleansing. Over in Ephesians 6 and 5, I believe, or 5 and 6, rather, I believe it is, you find that Paul said, "We're washed by the water of the Word, a water of separation that washes us. Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word." It only separates us from our sin.
Now, do not remain there, my precious brother or sister. You've yet not approached the fellowship.

L-47 Notice, the next thing you--take place, after that animal was killed, and the waters of separation was made, which spoke of Christ... The waters of separation was provided, then after this unbeliever, being separated from his sins, then he looked towards the congregation, towards the--the building. And as he walked into the holy place or the next court, he had to remember up over that door was seven stripes of blood; that's something to let him enter into the fellowship died and went before him.
Although the Word has cleansed us by hearing, by faith, yet we have to recognize the Blood, that something died and went before us to cleanse the way. Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord! Something did die for us; the Lord Jesus Christ left of His--His Word, and there's His Blood as a memorial.

L-48 Now, then when we walk up to there (after being cleansed by the Word, the water of separation), we walk up towards the door of the tabernacle, and we stop. Oh, if we just had time to linger here at the door a few minutes, what those seven stripes over the door meant: Seven ages, the seven church age dispensation. Every age since Genesis till the end of Revelations, it's been the Blood through every church age. No creeds, no doctrines, no nothing but the Blood of the Lord Jesus.
You're still not entered into the fellowship. You've been separated from your sins, recognizing now through sanctification, the cleansing, that something died and went on before you. But notice, they went from that place into the holiest of holies. Oh, one man went once a year, Aaron, the high priest, going with the blood before him. Notice, he was dressed in such a way; a beautiful type of the church, if you'll receive it.


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