<TITLE>10. Par -</TITLE>L-707-85 Like Joshua, he met his Kadesh-barnea. When Israel come to Kadesh-barnea... And Kadesh was the judgment seat of the world at that time, seven springs from a big major spring, meaning judgment, like the house of God and the churches that goes out from it. And Joshua, from Kadesh-barnea, crossed over into the promised land to bring back the evidence.
Now, Jesus met His Kadesh. What was it? Judgment seat. Where was it? At Calvary, where God judged Him for the sins of the world. What did they do? He met death, the recompense of God. To reconcile sinners to God, He died the death and crossed over the river of Jordan of death. They buried Him.
He died until the moon and stars was ashamed of themselves. He died until the earth had a nervous breakdown. It shook till the rocks run out of the mountains. It shook till the stars wouldn't shine, and the moon wouldn't shine, and the sun went down in the middle of the day. He died so dead till a Roman took a ten-pound spear and rammed it completely through his heart; water and Blood. He was dead. He crossed Jordan. And they put Him in the grave and rolled a--a rock up against it, taken a century of men to do it. He was dead. They put a Roman seal on it.

L-708-88 But on Easter morning He come back from across Jordan, and said, "I am He that was dead, and alive again forevermore."
Some of them said, "We see a spirit."
Said, "Feel me. Has a spirit got flesh and bones like I got?" Said, "You got anything to eat? Bring Me something." And they give Him fish and bread. And He eat it. He was a man.
What was He? Bringing back the evidence that there is a land that we're going to. What did He do? He, like Joshua, He brought the evidence of it. He said, "Now, if you want the evidence of it, 'Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the Holy Ghost.' That's the evidence that raised Me up. I'll give you the Earnest of your inheritance." And then what happened? On the Day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit came upon the believer.
Now, what do we do? Confess our sins, reckoning ourselves dead, buried with Him in baptism, raised with Him in His resurrection. What to? Set in heavenly places with Him. That's where we are tonight, setting (not physically) spiritually; our minds, our thoughts, our souls are far beyond the cares of the world right now. What are we? "In heavenly places in Christ Jesus." How do we get into it? "By one Spirit," I Corinthians 12th chapter, "by one Spirit we are all baptized by the Holy Ghost into one Body of believers," the mystical Kingdom of God.

L-708-92 In there we look back and seen where we used to lie and steal and cheat and smoke and do the things that's wrong. We've raised from that. We're in heavenly places. What is it? The evidence that someday we'll have a body like His own glorious body. It's the exact evidence of the resurrection, because, potentially, we are already raised with Him; potentially we've already died.
William Branham that used to live doesn't live no more; he's been dead thirty-some odd years; now it's a new creature. Orman Neville that used to live isn't living no more; he died many years before that; this is a new creature. Orman Neville's dead, the--the horse racer, gambler, or whatever he was, the man that once lived is dead. I don't know, Brother Neville wasn't that; but whatever it was, he's guilty of all of it: "Guilty of the least is guilty of the whole." Ever what you were, you are a sinner, that's what you are.
And you're dead because you love the things of the world. And as long as you still love the world, no matter how much you confess to be up here, you're not up here, you're down there yet: He that loves the world or the things of the world, the love of God hasn't entered him yet.


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