<TITLE>12. Par 42-44</TITLE>L-42 But here's a reason. That's the reason I like these Business Men's conventions. Somebody made a noise not long ago that the Business Men was going to make a--join up with some organization. I said, "When they do, I hand in my fellowship card." That kills it right there: does every time. Certainly does. Yes, sir. No, sir. I'm with them because they're standing for the very thing that I believe in. I don't care if you're Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, whatever you are. When you come beneath that Blood, brother, we have fellowship one with another and every man looks the same.
When Jesus taught that famous parable, and talked about the wedding supper, He found one man there without a wedding garment on. You... We know the customs of the orient. I've been there and I know what... They give out the invitation. And every man has an invitation comes, whether he's poor, whether he's rich, whether he can dress good or not. There's a man stands at the door and (the bridegroom), and gives him a robe. When he comes in, he's dressed with a robe. I don't care if he's ragged, whatever he is, he puts on the robe. And every one of them look the same, because they're under the robe, and they can't get a robe without the invitation.

L-43 And this man had slipped in some other way. He couldn't have fellowship for he wasn't dressed right. And when a man lets his creed or his denomination separate him from his brother, something's wrong. He's slipped in by some denominational gate or something like that. And the Bible said, "Bind him and throw him into outer darkness where there be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth."
Brother, it ain't creeds that takes us in. It ain't creeds that brings our fellowship. It... Education takes us farther away from it than anything else I know of. God... It wasn't educational program. It was a program of the death of His Son: death, burial, and resurrection, the shedding of the Blood. And through that, under that Blood, we all have fellowship one with another while the Blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from all sin.
What is sin? Unbelief. Amen. There's nobody in that fellowship or worship will disagree with any Word God ever spoke. Why? The very sacrifice that died for him is the One that wrote the Word.

L-44 In the Old Testament, when a believer come up to worship, he'd done something wrong, he could not unless he come by the blood. What did he do? He brought--brought his lamb, walked up to the priest. The priest examined the lamb to see if it was a good lamb: perfect. Then he laid his hands upon the lamb and confessed his sins. Then the sins was transferred from him to the lamb. The lamb must die, because he's not a sinner any more, but the lamb. They cut its throat. The blood run out. It sprinkled upon--burned on the fire. All right.
Notice. Now, that would be good enough. But why, why didn't that work? It was showing that there's coming something greater, because the blood of a goat or a sheep could not atone for a sin. It could cover it, but couldn't divorce it. Why? The spirit that's the life that's in the blood cell, in the chemistry of the blood, in the life... In the blood cell was a sheep's life. And that sheep that died, that sheep's life could not come back upon the worshipper. Therefore it couldn't work.


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