<TITLE>11. Par 39-41</TITLE>L-39 Now, waters of separation, separating us, letting us recognize that we are sinners, that we're trespassers. That's the reason I could hammer the thing. That's the reason any minister ought to stand against anything that God says is wrong to do. If he's Spirit-filled he will, for it comes from heaven (See?), against the wrong--mustn't do that. That's the waters of separation.
Still that wasn't enough. He understood. That was his knowledge, his mind, the womb of his mind, the battlegrounds where the battles is fought, in the mind. Then he cast it aside. He accepted that it is God's provided way. Is he ready for fellowship now? No, no. That was Luther's message. Along came... He's going; he's headed in the right way now. Which way's he going? Towards the congregation. Here he is separated here, by the waters, washing of the water of the Word. He's separated from his sins.

L-40 Now, he turns. Then he has to recognize the seven stripes. Wish we had time to go into that: seven church ages, seven candlesticks, the same. Every--every age, every church, everything else, has to recognize it's the Blood. Every believer... He still is not in fellowship. The congregation's inside worshipping. But he's out here making hisself ready. He's still arguing denomination and organization and everything else.
But when he comes under the Blood... What does he do when he looked at that Blood? It recognizes, makes him recognize that something died and shed its Blood, and went before him to make a way for fellowship.
Then he sees the Blood stripes on the door. He recognizes... After he knows the Word of God, then he comes to recognize the shed Blood. And he has to come beneath the shed Blood, like Israel in Egypt and so forth. He comes beneath the Blood. Then after he recognized himself... And Hebrews 13:12 and 13 said, "Jesus, that He might sanctify the people with His own Blood, suffered without the gates." He was our Sacrifice. Every element that come from His body constitutes the new birth.

L-41 Listen, sisters, I'm your brother, and I hope you understand me. When a baby's born, what is the natural procedure of the natural birth? The first thing, if it's a normal birth, is water, next is blood, then's life. Coming from the body of Jesus Christ; they stabbed his side: water, blood, and "into Thy hands I commend My Spirit." There were three elements come from His blood: justification, sanctification, the baptism of the Holy Spirit. That brings you through the Blood into the fellowship.
Then when this man, separated by the Word, sanctified by the Blood, walks into Divine fellowship, then he's in the congregation of the people where the power of God is a falling. And the fellowship, they don't care what this, that, or the other, they're all under one place and one accord, "and the Blood of Jesus Christ cleansing us from all unrighteousness." Then we have fellowship one with the other. Amen. Oh, how I would we could hang on that for a while. Yes, sir.


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