<TITLE>18. Par 172-182</TITLE>L-172 Read your name in that, and then do this, then come to communion table, then come and find out who is right and wrong, whether it's going to be a closed communion or not, see if you can shut your brother out. You can't do it. You just can't do it. There is something in you, won't let you do it. There is just something, you see. Your name is read among those and you can't do it. It purifies you. It cleanses you.

L-173   Remembering Him as we kneel at the cross, let him be a Catholic priest, Presbyterian, whatever he may be. Let that man come as he reads his name in there, "He was wounded for this priest's transgression. He was wounded for this Methodist, this Baptist, this Pentecostal." What? "Wounded for our transgressions," my name, your name, whatever you are. Then let us believe That; not what the creed says. What the Word says! Then let us kneel down at the cross, together. We're brothers. Oh, yes, the traditions, we cleanse ourself then from all dead traditions.

L-174 There could be forty state presbyters, there could be forty high priests, there could be cardinals, and bishops, and popes, everything else, hollering, "Get up from there. Don't pollute yourself." But you got your arms around your brother, brother. There is something real. You've got pardoning under the same Atonement that he is pardoned by. You are brothers, and it sticks closer than a brother. It's something about it, that draws you so close to God. And when you draw close to God, you draw close to each other.

L-175 "How can you hate your brother who you do see, or despise him, and say you love God Who you have not seen? You become a liar, and the Truth is not in you."

L-176 But when we come to a place, where the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin, then we are brothers. Then there's no difference in us. Our little old brands that we have tacked on us, don't mean a thing.

L-177   I remember there, I passed the gate the other day and was referring to one of the brothers setting here, where I used to herd cattle. And coming through there, the ranger would mark those cattle as they went through in the spring roundup. And he watched. He never... They had all kinds of brands on them. But he never noticed the brand. He watched for the blood tag. And it had to be a thoroughbred Hereford or it couldn't go on the Arapaho Forest, for the Hereford Association graze there. It had to be a thoroughbred Hereford.

L-178   I think that's the way it'll be at the end time. He won't say, "Are you a Methodist? Was you a Baptist?"

L-179 That's the big question today, "What--what are you? You a Methodist, Baptist?"
I said, "No."

L-180 "What are you; a Presbyterian, Lutheran, Nazarene, Pentecostal?"
"No."
"What are you?"
"A Christian."

L-181 A Christian, the Blood tag, see, under the Blood. That means that every brother, sister under that Blood is my brother, sister. Very deep sincerity there before Christ. We, the priest, the preacher, whatmore, lay our hands upon our sacrifice and say, "We're guilty sinners. We're not worthy of Your mercy, O God. But You sent Your Son to die in our place, and we freely accept it." Oh, we're brothers then.

L-182   All the old fussing is over. It's all gone. We're sincerely pardoned. You go, pardoned and cleansed from sin, cleansed from tradition. Old things is passed away. Old fusses is over. All the Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians are all cleansed by the same Blood, and we become brothers. Traditional fusses is over, then can fellowship here. And there, only, can we fellowship.


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