<TITLE>07. Par 23-26</TITLE>L-23 So one of them say, "We believe in saying the--repeating prayers." The other one has the Doxology. The other has a certain creed that they go by. One says, "I believe if you speak with tongues, that would be Him."
The other one said, "I believe if you danced in the Spirit, that'll be Him." And we have all kinds of sensations and everything else.
But... And then, in that there's such a disagreement. One will say, "Well, I don't believe you do this," and the other one say, "Don't..." But there ought to be some way that we could come to a spot to know really who He is, and what He is. See, there ought to be somewhere. See?
One say, "Well, I shouted," the other say, "I danced in the Spirit," the other say, "I spoke with tongues." Those things are fine. They're all right. But yet (See?), it causes a--a difference. One say, "I got it this way," one say, "I got it crying," another say, "I got it with chills, shaking," another one say, "I seen a light," and the other... See, there's so much difference. There ought to be some way that we would know sure, so there'd be no question in our mind. And the Bible said He's the same. So there ought to be some way of knowing. Don't you think so? I think there ought to be some way of knowing it.

L-24 Now, I don't believe that the Bible said those things, and made those promises without being able to fulfill it. Don't you believe that? Abraham, whose seed we are... If we be in Christ, we're Abraham's seed. And Abraham was fully persuaded (Romans 4) that He was able to--to keep, or to perform, that which He had promised to do. And if God makes a promise and doesn't stand behind it, then He's not God. And if He makes a promise, He's able to stand behind it or He'd never make the promise.
Now, I'm--I'm finite, and He's infinite. So He cannot make a mistake. I can. You can. Our brethren can. We can all make mistakes. We're finite. Today, if I don't know more than I did last year, I'm not progressing any. But God cannot progress, because He's perfect to begin with. And every decision is perfect.

L-25 Now, listen. If God is ever called on the scene to make a decision, when He once makes that decision that settles it eternally. He can never come back and say, "I was wrong there." And if He doesn't act each time the way He acted the first time, He acted wrong the first time. See, He's perfect. Therefore if He's ever called to--to do anything, and His decision once made, that's settled forever, eternal.
Both heavens and earth will pass away, but that Word can never fail, because It's a part of God. You see it? Therefore, look. When God was called on the scene to save a lost man, His first way of bringing that man to salvation was by the blood. He's never changed it. Men are only saved...

L-26 There's only one place to fellowship with God, and that's under the shed blood. It's never been by creed; it's never been by church; it's never been by organization; it's never been by nation. It's by the blood. Israel met under the shed blood, and all through the age, and we're still meeting under the shed Blood. If we don't, we can't have fellowship. That's right.
We... Fellowship is only restored to God through the Blood, for the human race can only meet God as a Blood sacrifice stands there for him. Amen. That gives us assurance, soundness, not some mythical something that's prophesied in the last days here, everything would come to--around, and all kinds of things. But we believe the Word to be God's Truth. Therefore, It never will fail. And God's first decision was to save a man by the shed blood, and He--to every man that's ever come to God comes that same way each time.


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