<TITLE>08. Par 53-60</TITLE>L-53 You remember the pardon that the man was shot, that I sometimes tell, during the civil war when he was a good man? He was innocent, and they found him guilty, although he was guilty in a way, that he run away in time of battle. And they found him guilty and was going to shoot him. And a man went to President Lincoln and said, "Mr. Lincoln, this is a Christian man. He was scared, the boy. I know his people. He was just afraid. He didn't mean no harm. He run away." Said, "Mr. Lincoln, it's in your hands. You're the only one can pardon him." Mr. Lincoln picked up a piece of paper and his pen and signed, "Pardon this So-and-so. Abraham Lincoln."
He ran back to the jail, and he said, "Here it is. I got your pardon."

L-54 And the man said, "I refuse to look at it. It would have a big seal on it. It would be everything. You're only trying to make me a laughing stock. It is not Abraham Lincoln. Anybody could sign his name, but it would have to be documented by his seal and so forth if it comes from him." And the man persuaded him, though the man in the prison thought he was kidding, and just walked away. The next morning he was shot. And then after he was shot, then there was a Federal Court trial, because Abraham Lincoln, twenty-four hours before the man was shot, signed his name that this man was pardoned. And then the government shot him anyhow. Then what? Then the Federal Court of the United States said--come to this decision of the Federal Court, said, "A pardon is not a pardon unless it be received as a pardon."

L-55 And Jesus redeemed Israel at Calvary, but it was not a pardon to them, because they did not receive it as a pardon. But in our lesson now on these seventy weeks, we find they come back and receive their pardon. But He redeemed the Church. Then we are pardoned, because we have received the Blood of Jesus Christ as our pardon.

L-56 Now, we find that He was our Kinsman Redeemer, and He took the Book out of the hand of the original Owner. It is a title deed to redemption. We found that. You remember the study? It's a title deed of redemption. It's an abstract deed with it, that God required life for death in the garden of Eden; then Jesus the righteous One died and took a title deed, and was able to break the Seals, reveal what was in them, and give the inheritance that belonged to Him to His people. Eternal Life that He inherited by doing that, He passed His own Life back out at Calvary, and divided it among us by the Holy Ghost. Amen. No man has never been able to come--to even think of the love that that was, what He done.
Satan, the once possessor because of the fall at garden, is bound and cast into a lake of fire. His days are finished.

L-58 Jesus in the Gospel had four titles; we brought that: Son of David, heir to the throne; Son of Abraham, the royal grant; Son of man, heir of the earth; Son of God, heir to all things, the royal grant.
In the Old Testament, property could not be--could not be held any longer than fifty years. It could not be annihilated from its original owner but fifty years. And on the fortieth day He paid the price. On the fiftieth day, the redemption and the power that belonged to the Church that was lost in the garden of Eden was redeemed back and sent to us by the baptism of the Holy Ghost on the fiftieth day.

L-60 Then we picked up the--the scroll. We picked up the scrolls, how that this scroll was handed to His hand, how that Jeremiah in Jeremiah 32:6, his cousin, Hanameel, was--left him some heir, and they was going into captivity, which we're going into with him this morning, captivity. And it was kept in a earthly vessel; shows where the power of God and the scrolls and the secrets of God is known in the heart. Our plan of redemption, the same being kept in earthly vessels: Jesus' Name and the revelation...


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