<TITLE>19. Par 73-76</TITLE>L-73 And when they said, "If Thou be the Son of God, command these stones to be turned to bread."
Watch them--the same devil tonight. "If this is Divine healing, heal this one." See that same devil? "If Thou be the Son of God..."
Here come that bee (death) that last great enemy of man, humming around Him. "I'll sock my stinger in Him, and that'll end it."
But brother, when he socked his stinger in that flesh, that was more than a man. If a bee ever socks his stinger... Any insect that stings into a--a deep enough, when he pulls away, he hasn't got no more stinger; it takes the stinger out of it. And when that bee of death socked his stinger into the flesh of God there on Calvary, it pulled the stinger out of him! Hallelujah!

L-74 No wonder Paul could stand and say, "Oh, death, where is your stinger?" When he was fixing to have his head cut off, he said, "Death, where is your stinger? Grave, where is your victory? But thanks be to God, Who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
He said, "I come to you not with words, enchanting words and wisdom of men that your faith would be built up in wisdom of man, but I come to you in the power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit." That great apostle Paul... "Death, where is your stinger?"
He can buzz around a Christian. He can make all kinds of fun, say, "I got you now. You got cancer; you got tumor; you got this, you got that. I got you now."
But let me tell you, brother, he hasn't got no stinger. He's got a buzz, but he hasn't got no stinger. "O death, where is your stinger? Grave, where is your victory?"

L-75 But thanks be to God Who made the sacrifice from the very appropriation for it from the beginning at the garden of Eden, that through the seed of the woman, through the Son of God, He would take the stinger out of death, and give us the victory over the grave. Hallelujah! It's God's Divine approach; it's God's appropriated approach to fellowship with Him.
I say this one thing in closing; There's a great, big, black door set before every one of us. It's called death. And every time our heart beats, we're one beat closer to that door. And I know mine's beating up there too. One day it's going to make its last beat, and I'm going in. But when we go in, I don't want to be like a coward. I want to wrap myself in the robes of His righteousness, knowing this: That I know Him in the power of His resurrection, that when He calls, I'll come out from among the dead on that day, washed in the Blood of the Lamb, standing... Nothing in my arms I bring Simply to Thy cross I cling.

L-76 I have nothing I could offer God. I'm just asking for Divine mercy and grace. Through the Blood of Jesus Christ, I humbly accept my pardon; that Jesus died in my place, went before me and I recognize the Blood, that He entered into the Presence of the Father yonder to set on His throne, taking His own Blood and making a way for you and I to approach. I'm not ashamed of this Gospel of Jesus Christ. For it's the power of God unto salvation as I walk through the world, spreading the Blood and claiming the power that Jesus Christ, the resurrected, living One, is just the same today as He was yesterday, and will be forever. You believe it? What is God's approach to fellowship? Through the Blood. Let us pray.
With your heads bowed and your eyes closed... I don't know how close death is coming to you, but do you know Him? Not know His Word, not know His creed, not know His church, or know His people, but do you know Him? Have you personally met Him, went into the Blood, into Shekinah Glory? If you've never come through the Blood, you don't know the Shekinah Glory, 'cause Life only lays in the Blood.


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