<TITLE>15. Par 141-153</TITLE>L-141 Yeah, keeping up the lamb was all right then. Those who died then before the lamb was applied, the blood, it was different. Yes, sir. They went on because of good conscious. They would be judged whether they--they were...

L-142 If they were predestinated, it struck them. If it didn't, it don't. That's all. It's just God. "He--He justifies who He will, have mercy on who He will, and He condemn who He will." He is God. That's all. "He has mercy on whom He has mercy, and condemns who He wants to condemn."

L-143   A Jew could plainly show, by the circumcision, that he is a believer.

L-144 There is many man, fundamental man, can take this Bible and say, "I am a believer, and Jesus said 'by faith' we are saved. And I am a believer, but that baptism of the Holy Ghost is nonsense." Then the Token isn't applied. No much, how much he believes, it's annulled.

L-145 Just like the circumcision of the Jew. He say, "I'm a Jew. Why do I have to go out there and act like that other bunch of fanatics?"

L-146   Moses standing, up-and-down the street, saying, "The evening message is here! It shall come to pass, at the end of the fourteen days, you shall gather the congregation together and kill the lamb. The whole congregation of Israel shall kill it, putting their hands upon it, identifying themselves with it. And the blood shall be struck upon the post, and upon the lintel of the door, and, 'When I see the blood, I'll pass over you, for it's a token that you've accepted the death of the lamb that I have provided for you.'" The blood was the token.

L-147   Now the Spirit is the Token. "You shall be filled with the Holy Ghost not many days hence." And when the Blood was shed, the Token was sent down on the Day of Pentecost, like a rushing, mighty wind.

L-148 That was the theme of every apostle. That was, "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive this gift of the Holy Ghost, for it's a Token, amen, that you've passed from death unto Life." There you are. When that Gen-... Jewish church faded out, the Gentiles taken it over, and that perversion like that; now she has come out, to get that remnant of the Gentile, for His Name's sake, the Bride.

L-149   See what I mean? See what the Scripture is speaking of here? If the Token was not displayed, then the covenant was not effective. See? It must be. Because, if you say you believe, and you don't follow the instructions of the Word, then you don't believe. See? Though you be circumcised, though you join, and though you are baptized, you've done all these things like that; that still ain't the Token, the Holy Ghost.

L-150   This fine scholar went on talking to me, as I said a while ago. He said, "Billy," he said, "Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness. What more could the man do but believe that?"

L-151 I said, "That is true, doctor. It's right. He did believe God. The Bible said so. You are right. As far as you've come, you're correct."

L-152 As long as the--the--the twelve spies, that were sent out to go over and spy out on the land of Canaan, as long as they went forward towards Canaan, they were gaining ground; but when they come to the borderline, then they rejected.

L-153 I said, "You Baptists are all right, as far as you come, but have you received the Holy Ghost since you've believed?" I said, "Remember, God recognized Abraham's faith. He--he believed God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness, that's true, but then God gave him the seal of circumcision, as a sign, a sign to him." Not that his flesh, circumcised, had anything to do with his soul, but it was a sign that He had (God had) recognized his faith.


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