<TITLE>06. Par 45-55</TITLE>L-45 And then the way God acts upon the--the subjects that accepts His decision, it'll forever act upon every subject that accepts His decision that way. Therefore, if He made a way for a man to be saved, the first way He made has ever remained the same way. And if God promised healing to the sick, upon faith to believe it, it ever remains that way. He cannot take it back. See? He must ever remain the same way.

L-46   Now, God accepted a substitute for the man in the garden of Eden, and that was the way of a blood sacrifice. Blood had to pay the price. And it's forever been the same. There has never been any other way, or anything else, that ever took its place. It was blood. The only way that God receives His children back, is by this blood substitute. No other price can be paid. Nothing else will do. God's first decision is always perfect, and it's Eternal. And we know that that's true, because God can't lie, and He cannot take His Word back. Since that time, it's been God's only way and only place of fellowship with man. Now, the subject was...

L-47   Now, the word death means "separation." When we die this way, it does not mean... Our physical death does not mean that we are dead. Jesus said, "He that believeth on Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth on Me shall never die." Now, that death, speaking of there, is "separation" from the Presence of God. But the physical death that we have to go through here, yet it is not death. We're still in the Presence of God. We move from this place to a closer place with Him, in His Presence. It isn't the death that we call "death," what we call it here.

L-48 Remember, He said to the--the girl that was died, Jairus' daughter, "She is not dead, but sleepeth."

L-49 And they laughed Him to scorn, He, knowing that she was dead. That's their term, "She was dead."

L-50 But Jesus said, "She sleepeth." And He went and wakened her, and she came back to life.

L-51   Now, from Adam until now, man has tried to make his own substitute. He's tried his best to do something a little better than what God did it then. And that's just natural in man. Man is always trying to--to better something, to make it a different way. He wants to inject his own ideas into the plan of God. And that's why we stand tonight separated, the Christian people of the world, by barriers, by denominational barriers. We... It does this because that man has injected his own idea into God's plan. From Adam until now, as I've said, it's been that way.

L-52 Adam expressed man's thinking, in the garden of Eden, when he made hisself a fig-leaf apron to face God. It's something that he did, himself. And from fig leaves, he's tried education, towers, cities, idols, civilization, denomination. But it ever remains the same. God only accepts His subjects under the Blood. That's all.

L-53   Education has totally failed. More educated we get, farther we get from each other. Denomination has totally failed. We draw lines and barriers, and each one trying to get that denomination higher than the other, and it breaks fellowship. Civilization has merely brought about confusion. Cities, towers, and whatever more, has all failed. And God's plan still remains the same: under the Blood.
This Blood must be a displayed blood. In the garden...

L-54 Back in the time, rather, of Israel, when Israel had to kill the lamb and to place the blood upon the lintel and on the door post, God required that. And that token must be there, no matter what other position. Them men might have showed that they were circumcised Israelites. They might have confessed that, "We believe every word that Jehovah says." But that didn't expel it. They had to display that token. The blood must be shown.

L-55 That's the way it is tonight. I believe that every Christian has to display the Blood of Jesus Christ that's cleansed them from the things of the world, regardless.


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