<TITLE>13. Par 38-40</TITLE>L-38 Now, God laid down the program right in the garden of Eden, and condemned man's work of his hand to begin with. As soon as man made his first mistake trying to find his way back through his fig leaf religion to get back again, God condemned it. And what did He do? He killed some animals and got some sheepskins, I believe it was, and throwed it in there. And so it shows through that it takes the Blood has always been God's program and always will be God's program; that through the Blood there is remission of sin, and without the shedding of Blood there is no remission of sin. Whether you take it any way you wish to; all other programs will fail but that one. Without the shedding of Blood there's no remission of sin.
God in the beginning back there laid down the program, and the only way there is for fellowship back with God and with one another, is through the Blood of Jesus Christ His Son. And He--He killing the lamb, or the sheep, brought the sheepskin; something died to cover them up. And that's exactly. You can't organize it. You can't educate it. You cannot scientifically it. You--you--you have to accept it on the basis of faith, that something died for you. That brings the fellowship.

L-39 Now, Job believed that, the oldest book in the Bible. Job accepted the blood offering. He accepted the burnt sacrifice, which was the killing of the sheep. And remember, he stood firm on it. When everything come to him, even his church members, and said, "Job, you've sinned; you've trespassed against God." Once...
Let's take Job just for a moment. We see that he had made that offering; he put a sin offering out for his children and said, "Peradventure they might have sinned; they might have sinned against God, so I'll offer a burnt offering for them."
Isn't that lovely? If we had people today, if our mothers and fathers was that concerned about our children, instead of turning them out here on the street with some little cigarette smoker, and out to these rock-and-roll parties and things the way they go... If we'd have them at home and praying for them in prayer meetings, and--it would be a lot different world. That's right.
Job said, "Peradventure I couldn't save my sons and daughters of sin, but if they have, I'll stand on a burnt offering. I'll offer a burnt offering."

L-40 And when the trials and temptations come... Now, Job took God's provided way, the sacrifice, the blood, the burnt offering, and he stood on it, and when the trials and testings come, well, if that had just been on the denominational he'd have fell long ago. On scientist he'd have fell a long ago. Because he was... Everything he had was taken from him. His children was killed. His riches was taken. His health was gone, and he set out on the ash heap with a piece of crock or something, scraping his boils, till even his wife said, "Job, why don't you curse God and die the death?"
He said, "Thou speakest like a foolish woman." He didn't said she was foolish, but she talked like one. Said, "You speak like a foolish--foolish one. The Lord gave and the Lord taken away, blessed be the Name of the Lord." When they come down, his comforters, the church members, come down and accused him... He knowed that he was righteous, because he wasn't trusting in his own merits, but he'd met God's requirement because he'd stood on the blood sacrifice. Yes, sir. He knowed that he was righteous, because he was meeting God's requirement.
And then, you notice if you'll just keep holding out, stand on the Blood, don't take nothing else. Belong to your denomination, that's all right. Have education, that's fine, science, that's all right. But first, place yourself on the Blood. That's the only place of fellowship is the Blood.


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