<TITLE>09. Par 30-33</TITLE>L-30 And did you notice? As soon as man fall--finds that he is fallen, and he is a sinner by nature, he tries to make himself a way to approach God; make hisself a religion. "Well, I don't do no man no harm. And I feel I'm just about as good as the other man; I keep the Golden Rule."
That wasn't God's program. In order to restore fellowship again, God made a provision right there in the garden. If there would've been any other provision better, God would've made it. But God made the only provision, and the only basis of restoration to that blessed, eternal fellowship; that was through the blood of an innocent victim. God made a way back to fellowship. That's the only basis that God ever had, or has now, or ever will have, back to a relationship and fellowship with God is through the shed blood of an innocent victim. Amen. Makes me feel religious, knowing that there is a way, that there is a God provided way.

L-31 And what made God provide this way? Because God is love, and love demands fellowship. Love demands fellowship, like the young boy when he meets the--the young lady. And oh, she's got eyes like diamonds, and she's got teeth like pearls, and a neck like the swan, and oh, she's the prettiest thing in the world.
Now, you just can't go up and say, "You're mine; here we go." There's got to be some kind of an agreement. Some kind of an agreement has to be reached, before you can enter into fellowship with this young lady. You have to come to an agreement. And that's the way when we see God and know that He is God. We look at His creation and His great Being, what He's done and how great He is. Then there has to...
We have to come upon the basis of God's agreement. And that was by the way of the Blood; that's the only way.

L-32 We'll never be able to ever educate people to Christ. Societies today (and most what we call societies) has produced more criminals than all the--the scalawags of the earth has done. The most criminal minded people comes out of what is known now as society, according to the FBI records. Now... And then educate them? They get so smart till they think they can outsmart the law; they know more than somebody else. Education is wonderful. It's the thing...
I'm not trying to support ignorance, but I'm trying to say this: That education has... It's been one of the greatest hindrance that religion of Christ has ever had. People are taking and using their schools of theology to try to educate people for well speaking, and how to present themselves, and so forth; and they go plumb away from the Spirit. God is not known by education; God is not known by denomination; God is not known by creed. God is known by faith and that alone! It's by faith are we saved. God is known by faith.

L-33 Now, even in our denominations, as good as they are, and as well as we ought to reserve them, and--and respect them, yet no denomination can save a person; no denomination can bring you into fellowship, unless you come by the Blood. You've got to come, not by your creed, but by the Blood! And creeds, and joining churches, and denominations will never satisfy a hungry heart. There's only one thing that can quench the thirst of a thirsting heart; that's when he's cleansed by the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit comes into fellowship with him, bring him back into relationship and fellowship.
God's always had the way of the Blood to cleanse His people and to bring them into a place of fellowship with Him again. Now, in the Old Testament in Numbers 19, when they were in their journey, God called Moses and Aaron and said, "Command the children of Israel that you--they bring to you a red heifer, a red heifer without a spot or a blemish."
A beautiful type of Christ again... Red being a bad sign, a danger sign, yet it's a sign of redemption. The Blood streak has been all... It's a thread all the way through the Bible from Genesis to Revelations.


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