<TITLE>10. Par 35-38</TITLE>L-35 Outer courts, what is it? The sinner who comes and hears the Word and builds up faith in him that it's God. "Faith cometh by hearing, hearing the Word of God." Now, what are we trying to do? Get into fellowship. Now, the man heard the Word. He believed the Word, and he was sprinkled then with the water of separation. Yet he wasn't in fellowship. No, sir. Now, you fundamentalists, I want you to look at this. He still was not in fellowship.
Remember. When Israel come up from Egypt, Moab met him and wouldn't let him have a revival in his land; there was no cooperation. And Moab believed the same God that Israel believed in. They went and got their bishop up there, Balak, brought him down there, and he was just as fundamental as Israel was. Israel that wander, no place to go, this great, organized nation here together brought their celebrity out to curse that bunch of renegades (they said), coming up there.
They forgot that this bunch of people that had no place to go, but were wanderers and pilgrims and strangers... They failed to see that Pillar of Fire going before them. They failed to see that brass serpent, and that smitten rock following them, although they had done wrong.

L-36 Balaam thought, "Surely, me being a fundamentalist, I'll sure do it." And he built seven altars. That's what God required, perfect number. He put seven clean bullocks, just exactly what Israel had. Seven altars is what Israel had, seven candlesticks, and so forth, the perfect number. And here was this bishop done the very same thing, seven clean sacrifices, and also seven rams, speaking of a faith that a--the Son of God, the Lamb of God, was coming.
Talk about fundamental, he's just as fundamental as Israel was. But he didn't have the Spirit. He wasn't in fellowship with God. If that be so, God's got to answer to fundamentalism, then He certainly refused the wrong person. Why, He'd have to accept Moab, and He had to accept Israel too. If God only takes worship, a church, a altar, Cain was just as fundamental as Abel was. Cain built an altar; Cain made a sacrifice; Cain worshipped. A altar, church joining, sacrifice, creed, and all these things, if that's all God requires, He was wrong when He condemned Cain, because Cain come that manner on the same grounds that Abel did. Exactly right.

L-37 But what was it? By revelation, by revelation, not by education, but by revelation. Abel saw that it wasn't bananas, or apples that Eve eat, and he offered blood; and God accepted it. It was revealed to him.
That's the reason Jesus said Himself, when He come off the Mount Transfiguration, said, "Who do you say I am?"
One said, "Moses, Elijah," and so forth. The supernatural stirs such things. But Peter said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." The...
He said, "Blessed art thou, Simon, the son of Jonas: flesh and blood did not reveal this to you." You never learned it in a seminary. It wasn't just word altogether. "But My Father which is in heaven has revealed it to you."

L-38 Now, the Catholic church said it was Peter they built the church upon; the Protestants said it was on Christ. To my way of seeing, it was neither one. It was upon the revelation of the Word. For He said, "Thou art Peter; and flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father which is in heaven has revealed it to you. And upon this rock I'll build My church; and the gates of hell can't prevail against it." It'll show that the whole gate of hell will be against it, but it'll never prevail. The Word will move right on just the same. "Upon this rock I build My church." Showed that everything would be against it but it, cannot prevail. It'll move right on just the same.


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