<TITLE>23. Par 68-70</TITLE>L-68 Just like it says over there, many gets turned up in that Hebrews there. See? "If we sin willfully after we receive the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins." Take a mother like... Someone asked me, "What does that mean? If we sin willfully after we receive the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth--remaineth no more sacrifice for sin." Well, he hasn't never got into it yet. That's right. He just received the knowledge of it.
Just like in Israel, when Israel started to cross going into the promised land, they sent the spies out. Two of them come back, said, "We can take it," Joshua and Caleb.
The other ones said, "No, we can't do it. So they hung right there on the border until they died. And the ones believed the promise went over in.
Like a woman... A boy gets a call in his life; he said, "Well, mama washed over the washboard to send me to school. I want to be a minister." All right, and he becomes a minister. He goes away and gets his Ph.D., or his doctor degree, or whatever he--he gets, and he comes back, his Bachelor of Art, or whatever. He comes back, anyhow he's a minister. Then he's always lusting and things in his church, the ladies, and the different things. Maybe he smokes, and he knows he oughtn't do that. Say, "God, that don't look good for a man of God. Then take that thing away from me." He's sanctified. He comes right up to the borderland again, looks right over and sees the baptism of the Holy Ghost, but he says, "If I do, the denomination will throw me out." Go on back and die in the borderland then if you want to.

L-69 "He that sins..." What is sin? Unbelief. I want somebody to tell me one definition of sin besides unbelief. "He that believeth not is condemned already." That's right. "He that..." You don't even get the first... What if... Committing adultery is not a sin. Smoking cigarettes and drinking is not a sin; that's the attributes of unbelief. If you was a believer you wouldn't do that. See? That's right. That's exactly right. See, there it is, unbelief. What is it? "If we disbelieve willfully," that's you out here tonight Presbyterian, Methodist, or you without the Holy Ghost. "If we disbelieve willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin."
You turn your back on God; what do you do then? Seal yourself away, and take the mark of the beast, and go off like Cain did, from the Presence of God. That's shaking, isn't it. Come right up to the borderline, and then don't believe it... You believe it, but you're scared to take it. "He that sins willfully (disbelieves willfully) after he's received the knowledge of the truth..." Re... Quote that with me, "He that sins willfully after he has received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin. But a fearful looking for the ju--fiery judgment and--and 'I will repay,' saith the Lord." It's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

L-70 After it's brought right up to you and showed you that is the seal of God, and just because of prestige, you'd have to give up something, or quit your denomination, or--or something to receive it, and then walk away from it, you know what you do? You seal yourself out of the Kingdom: mark of the beast.
When God told Abel, or told Cain, said, "Just go over and worship like your brother. Bring a lamb, come down here and worship like your brother," said, "you'll do all right. Do as your brother does, you'd be all right."
But he wouldn't do it, said, "This is the best I can offer. You can take it or leave it." And he was marked and went out of the Presence of God.


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