<TITLE>07. Par 61-72</TITLE>L-61   Therefore, if a man ever come to Him for salvation, and He saved him upon the basis He saved him upon, He has to save the next man upon the same basis. And if a man ever comes to Him for healing, and He healed that man upon a certain basis, if the next man comes, He's got to heal him on the same basis. He cannot change. He must ever be the same.

L-62 God made a program. When man sinned in the beginning, back, he tried to find a way of escape for himself. He tried to make hisself a covering, fig leaves and so forth. It never worked. But God did make a way that man could fellowship with Him again, and that was under the shed blood of an innocent substitute. And that's the only way that God ever did meet man. And that's the only way God ever can meet man, is under the shed blood of an innocent substitute.

L-63   Now, we're here on good Friday. And the world, today, in the Catholic denominations, they crawl up the steps and, oh, so many different ways that we make traditions, and rub bones. "And there's some nineteen, absolutely proven, nails that they took out of the hands of Jesus," they claim. "Each church has got one." And what difference does it make whether it's the nail, or whether it's the cloak, or whatever it is?

L-64 We have the Holy Spirit. That's what Christ left to the Church, not some coat, some piece of the cross, some nail, or something. He left us a memorial, and that was the Holy Spirit that He left for the Church. Now, now, that was what He left to the Church, nineteen hundred years ago, this afternoon, as He died at Calvary. He commended into the hands of--of God, His Spirit, and It was sent back to the Church on the Day of Pentecost. Now, God...

L-65 In the beginning, when man sinned, it showed the nature of man. He's always trying to hide from God, and make hisself a way that he can feel justified, a religion. That's been a religion, means "a covering." So he tried to make his own religion.

L-66   But God made His decision on how that He would meet man, that was upon the shed Blood. And that's the only way, no matter how much we try any other way. That's the only place that God will meet man for fellowship, is under the shed Blood.

L-67 God only met Israel under the shed blood. The only place that Israel could worship was under the shed blood.

L-68 And, today, we have tried organization, we tried denomination, we have tried--we have tried education. We've tried scientific achievements and everything, to try to bring man into a unity for fellowship. And it's failed, every one of them.

L-69 There's one place that man can meet and fellowship with God, and fellowship with each other. That's under the cross, when each man accepts the Blood of Jesus Christ. I don't care, in all of his peculiarity, he can still reach over and put his hand in the next man's hand and call him "brother," when we meet at the cross where Jesus died.

L-70   We are becoming a scientific age. Everything must be proven, scientifically. We're living in the age of science, as was predicted by the Bible, "weaker than wiser," as we... as predicted. And we're living in that age. And more we probe into science, further we get away from God. You'll never be able to scientifically prove God.

L-71 And the whole Christian armor is absolutely supernatural. There's nothing natural. If you can prove God, then there's no more need of faith. "But he that cometh to God must believe that He is." It's by faith. The whole Christian armor is faith.

L-72   Dr. F. F. Bosworth, one of my first managers, wrote a book called Looking At The Unseen. Now, many of you has read it, no doubt. Is a very fine book, the... of looking at the unseen. The Christian looks at things he does not see.


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