<TITLE>11. Par 98-106</TITLE>L-98 "Well, what makes you bubble like that? What makes you so happy, always gushing up?"

L-99 If he could talk, he'd say, "It's not me. It's something behind me, pushing me."

L-100   That's the way it is with a Christian experience. It isn't something that you're trying to work up. It's something behind, working in you. It's Eternal Life that's moving up, gushing up. Like as He told the woman at the well, "It'll be wells of water springing up into Eternal Life." It's something within the worshipper when He's been identified with Christ, because he knows that He is alive. But we don't want it become a tradition.

L-101   When Israel got to a place that they made the commandments of God, with their sacrifices, a tradition, it was then that the mighty prophet Isaiah was sent by God, to them, with THUS SAITH THE LORD. Somewhere, somehow, God always can put his hand on a man that's not afraid to strip down the thing that's right, somewhere, some place. Isaiah rose up, if you'll read Isaiah 1. I got written here. Isaiah told them, said, "Your sacrifices that Jehovah required has become a stink in my nose. I despise them." And the fats of rams and--and of heifers, and so forth, God despised them, the very thing that He commanded them to do. Because they made it a ritual, then God despised it, because they made it a ritual.

L-102 And we can make the Word of God the same thing, right, when we come to it as a tradition, as a ritual. We must come to it, knowing it's "THUS SAITH THE LORD." If God promised it, God will stand by His promise. He's bigger than His promise. He's always been. "He's able," as Abraham said, "to perform that which He had promised to do." He's always able to do that, to keep His Word.

L-103   Now, Isaiah told them, said. All these things that they had been doing, they had done it without sincerity. They had done it just because the rest of them was doing it. They was because... doing it also because it was a requirement of Jehovah. And all the family did it, and the mothers did it, and the grandfathers did it. Why couldn't they do it?

L-104 Now, we do the same thing. "My grandfather was a Presbyterian, so I'm a Presbyterian. My daddy was a Baptist, so I'm a Baptist," and so forth. "And my daddy was a Pentecostal, so I'm a Pentecostal." That isn't It.

L-105   We come to the spot to where we realize that we have separated. We are separated from God. And we come upon the basis of the shed Blood of Jesus Christ. Under that Blood, there is where the Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Pentecostals, can all meet on common grounds. Regardless of tradition, they, or ritual, they can meet there under one common thing, and that's upon the Blood of Jesus Christ.

L-106 Until the church gets back to a place, and away from its rituals, and back to God's original plan, that men are born into the Kingdom of God and not joined into the Church. Then is the time that fellowship will reign everywhere. And the Spirit of the Lord will cover the earth, like the waters covers the sea," when it comes to a place that men can forget their differences and come together in fellowship under the Blood. We cannot all come under the Baptist tradition, or the Presbyterian tradition, or under the Methodist tradition, under the Pentecostal tradition. But we all can meet and fellowship under the Blood of Jesus Christ, because it's God's original plan. That's right. Amen. There is the pardoning.


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