<TITLE>16. Par 48-49</TITLE>L-48 Now, we know the next thing the believer had to do, after being separated from his sin, then what did he do? The next thing you do, he is turned towards the court. And as he went... Notice. Oh, my, I feel religious when I talk about this. Look, the next thing he had to look at, he had seven stripes of blood before him to show that the seven stripes meant the seven church ages or the seven thousand years, and every age had to be represented by the blood, nothing else, no other way. From Genesis to Revelations, from Eden to the millennium is the blood and nothing but the blood.
Another thing, the believer had to recognize this, the believer coming in towards... Now, he's not in fellowship yet, yet he's separated from his sin, but he's not in fellowship. He had to recognize that the Blood went before him, something died to go before him, and Hebrews 13:12 and 13 said, "Jesus suffered without the gate that He might sanctify the people with His own Blood." That brings you Methodists up, all right, for sanctification, still not in fellowship, still didn't do it. But when they went... He was inside, inside the building. But you could fellowship with one another, greet one another, but not the fellowship of God yet.

L-49 Now, then once a year the high priest (Oh, my.) had to be dressed in a certain way. He had to be anointed a certain way. He had to be anointed with the perfume of the Rose of Sharon. They put it upon Aaron's beard, and it run all the way down to the hems of his garment. He had to have a certain made clothes. And another thing, he had to walk a certain way. And on his end of his garment he had a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate. And he had to walk a certain way to make that play "Holy, holy, holy, unto the Lord. Holy, holy, holy, unto the Lord." What's he doing? He's approaching the Shekinah Glory, the real fellowship. Hallelujah. Now, you see, he had--and he had to make a noise. The only way the congregation could tell he wasn't dead is because they could hear that noise. I tell you what, a church let's off its noise then something happens, as sure as the world, 'cause everywhere the Shekinah Glory is there is a noise.
Watch, the man that's anointed, and Aaron went in, packing the blood before him, going in, "Holy, holy, holy, unto the Lord. Holy, holy, holy, unto the Lord," them bells chiming out, anointed, going into the holiest of holies. How the congregation used to admire that man. How he went in there one day and--and left his old staff that he had in his hand, and when he went back in again, that staff that was dead, nothing but an old stick, it had come to life, bloomed, and had blossoms on it (Yes, sir.), laying in the Presence of the Shekinah Glory.
I tell you, it'll do it as sure as the world. It'll take an old dead church to come to that Shekinah Glory and bloom it out into a church of faith and power...?... Yes, sir.


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