<TITLE>16. Par 150-156</TITLE>L-150 Now I want to ask you something. The God is trying to perform in His church, and the church is trying to perform by the creed, and the two can't work together. You've got to get rid of the creed, and get Christ in. And how can you do it? When He sees the Blood, when the Blood has been applied with a sincere heart, and a hand laid upon Jesus Christ, and a heart that's true before God; to confess his wrong and be born of the Holy Spirit, then the works of God would follow, as He said it would do. Yeah, church wants to perform through their creeds, and see how many members they can get. God wants to perform through the power of the Blood, to get Christians born again. That's exactly the difference of it.

L-151 To do, must, you must reject. To do this, they, you've got to reject the Holy Spirit and His performing power, to accept a creed. You have to see the Truth before you can accept an error, if you're going to be a Christian. You can't... You have to walk over God's promise, in order to get an error. Because, there's a red light flashing before, you all the time, "This is the Word."

L-152   You say, "Well that was for some other day." It's for today, because Christ is the Word. Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Saint John 1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." And the Bible said, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." So, if Christ is the Word, every promise is true, and it's the same yesterday, today, and forever. It has to be. It takes a born-again faith to believe it and make it operate. Just, you can't do it with tradition. It won't work. You've got to come to that Blood, just as sure as anything. After Israel told...

L-153   After Isaiah told Israel that they had polluted their substitute by their traditions, there appeared another prophet. (Before we close.) Another great prophet come on the scene, and that was John the baptizer. Now, he pointed them to a Lamb that would take... would do not only for Israel, but all of Adam's fallen race. He said there was... God was going to send a Lamb. And this Lamb would be for Gentile, Jew, and whosoever would come.

L-154 It wasn't very long until the Lamb was nailed to His altar cross. His Blood was shed. The Holy Spirit came back. Now, when the old animal lamb died, the spirit of the animal could not come back, so that blood was just applied to a nation. But now, for all of Adam's race, the Lamb of God that was shed, His Blood, the token came back in the form of the Holy Spirit, to come upon the worshipper. Now, that's what God requires. That's what they did at that day. And that's what they'll... they do today.

L-155 Now, if any persons feels the weight of sin, and you know that you're wrong, listen, there is pardon, and that pardon is through God's Lamb. Do you believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."] It's through the Lamb, through the Blood of the Lamb.

L-156   I was told a little story once. It helped me a lot. There was a boy that was kidnapped in the early days. I suppose all of you has taken Bible history and taken the history of the church. And in... I believe it was the Foxe... No, it wasn't. It was the Nicaea Fathers, or the life of Saint Patrick. Saint Patrick was actually... That was just a name was give him. His name was Suscat. And he was--he was kidnapped by a bunch of--of sea-rovers and was hired out, to be a hog-raiser.


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