<TITLE>17. Par 66-68</TITLE>L-66 And when they took him, drug him off the... out of the--the Sanhedrin council, throwed him out into the street--the church people did--throwed him out there in the street, because he had had fellowship through relationship by the Blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son. They picked up stones and begin to smash his head with them. But in the midst of all of it, even the stones beating him from side to side, the meat flying off, his scalp flying, and the blood gushing out, his lips and his teeth falling, that could not separate him. He looked up and said, "I see Jesus."
Hallelujah! Why? He'd come by the way of the Blood; that's God's only approach. Even death couldn't separate him. The clods of persecution, the spit, the... Nothing could separate him from the love of God. He'd come by the right approach; he'd come by the Blood.

L-67 Romans 5:1, saying, "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God." What is it? Fellowship restored. Fellowship restored again, peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Sometimes we think that the common people, that they're not worth it; it isn't worth ever... It is worth everything.
In a city near by me, a few weeks ago, it happened. There was an old man lived down by the river; they thought he was just a bum. He passed out religious tracts, and he was... He'd lost his family, and life seemed to be very cruel to him. And he'd lost his little family years ago, and... And one day he was crossing the street, and a teen-ager come by (one of the beatniks) and--and hit the old man, knocked him across the street, broke his bones all up. The ambulance picked him up, and they took him up to the city hospital, and they examined the old fellow. His arms was broke; his ribs was broke; his legs was broke. And he was laying there with his mouth open, seemingly all gone, unconscious. And after the doctors had put him under X-ray and seen him all broke up, they held a little council.

L-68 And they said, "Is it worth our time to patch the old fellow up? He's nothing but a bum." Said, "It would take us hours, and it would take all this, and every--when others are waiting. And the old fellow's old and--and he's just a bum, so it--it wouldn't... There'd be no money in it for us, and--and it--it's just not worth while. He's broke up too much to even take a chance with it." They was holding the council.
The old man happened not to be as dead as they thought he was. When they walked back, and started to put the sheet over him, and take him back again, he said, "Just a minute." He said, "I heard what you said." He said, "I am worth something too." He said, "I'm worth so much that God sent His own Son to die for me." He said, "I was worth so much, that God gave His only begotten Son to die for me. Fifty years or more, I accepted that blessed thing. I entered into a fellowship with Him that's just as sweet now as it could be." He said, "I am worth something; I'm worth enough that God gave His Son for me."


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