<TITLE>06. Par 21-24</TITLE>L-21 God's first decision was to pardon a man by shed blood, and God cannot make the second decision against His first decision. If He did, then His first decision was wrong, and He couldn't be wrong and be God. Therefore, He only has one way, and that's the way of the blood. His decisions are perfect and eternal, because that He's God. And His Word is eternal, and His decisions is His Word, and it's perfect. You cannot add anything to It or take anything away from It.
Since that time, that's been God's only place of fellowship to meet with man. Before there, He met him in the garden of Eden. No blood had to be necessary. But since that time, His decision was to meet man back, redeemed by Blood. It's been the only place that fellowship could be observed by God. It's the only place that God can meet a sinner, and we're all sinners by nature. It takes the Blood sacrifice to bring us back into fellowship with Christ again, no other way, it's absolutely totally.

L-22 From Adam until now, man has tried to make his own substitute. Man has constantly tried to do it, from fig leaves to education. He's tried to make himself a substitute. Adam expressed what was in man, when he tried to make his own way back by fig leaves. Since then, they've built towers, they've built cities, they've built idols, they've built civilization, they've built denomination, they've built scientific regimes, and all these things. But still it remains the same. Only Blood will God accept.
God only accepts a man through shed Blood. Only place of fellowship, the only way across that chasm, is not through religious organization, not through idols, not through towers, not through holy places, not through cities, not through anything else but the shed Blood. That's the only way back.
The preaching of the cross, although as it--despised as it is, it's God's provided way for sinners to come in fellowship with God or with each other. That's right.

L-23 All through the years, the righteous has lived by that decision of God. The righteous never argue about anything. The righteous are ready to accept God's decision. He doesn't want to make anything for himself. He's only interested in God, and he wants to abide by God's decision. And the righteous live by it, always have, for it's the way that righteous should live by. To try to make anything to it, inject anything into it, would be unrighteousness, because it would be against the program that God has laid out for us to fellowship by: is through the shed Blood.

L-24 Job, the patriarch... How Job... I believe the Book of Job was wrote before Moses wrote Genesis, is my understanding, the oldest book in the Bible. Job, when he accepted the blood... And though, when his neighbors, and his members of his church tried to condemn him, and said he had sinned secretly, yet Job knowed that he was standing firm, because he had done what Jehovah required to be done. He knowed that he had offered his sacrifice with the sincerity of his heart.
Abraham also worshipped under the blood. Israel's only meeting place with God was under the shed blood. Nowhere else could it be done. Prayer was offered, thanksgiving give, or anything, it was under the shed blood of an animal. Only place that redemption could come, or ever be drawed into fellowship with God, is through the shed Blood.


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