<TITLE>12. Par 111-119</TITLE>L-111   You went out after him. He never come in and got you. Cause, "You are dead, and your life is hid in God, and sealed by the Holy Ghost." The only way he could ever get in There, is the same way you did. So he just invited you, and you walked out to him. That's all. See? It isn't that he come in after you. He can't come in There, for you are in Christ, dead to yourself. Amen. I'm not amen-ing myself, but that means "so be it." And I--I--I know it's true, experienced it and know that it's true. It's passing from death unto Life, to receive Christ in you. All right.

L-112   Now we find, then, that the--the religious world in that day was falling apart, and they--they had always done it before. And why? Is because that the coming prophets, and the coming Messiah, did not meet their specification, their theological term for it. They... It didn't.

L-113 And that's the way it would be today. This is why, I believe, today, that we're--we're stunted in this day, because, in the move of God, because it, even in the churches, it doesn't exactly come to the terms of what they've got it figured out it should be. They figure out that, "there should be a time that certain-certain things will happen," and--and then when the real kernel of it comes down, well, then they--they reject That. See?

L-114 And what's the use of putting up an electric wire if you refuse the dynamo? See, they can't get no current in it, it's just a dead wire. That's what's the matter with the church today. We got all the wires up; and press the button, there is no Life. What we need to do is get connected, that's all, right now. Get connected with Christ, our lives of our emotion, the lives of our mind, connected in Him.

L-115   You say, "Well, I--I tell you, I--I--I believe I..." You haven't got no... You ain't got no thought coming. And that's right. You say, "I think this. And I..." You haven't got a thought. I haven't either.

L-116 The Bible said, "Let the mind that was in Christ be in you." And He was always about the Father's business. So that's the only thought you ought to have, what God said about it, not what somebody else said. But what God said, that's all there is to it. He said, "Let every man's word be a lie, and Mine be the Truth." See?

L-117 That's the thing to cut the world back together, but they won't receive It. Now we know they won't, 'cause they never did. All right. We wonder then, if the answer is today, the cry today, is for help for the Messiah to come. And I believe sometimes if we would, if He would send It, I wonder if we wouldn't do the same thing they did then.

L-118   All of our politics, both in religion, and--and both in federal life, and so forth, is polluted. We polluted our worship with man-made design fashions, fashioned and designed a man-made to fit every cult that's on the face of the earth. Every one has got their own idea again. It must become again like it was in the days when God rose up the mighty prophet, Isaiah, said, "Your sacrifices and things has become a stench in My nose."

L-119 See, Israel, first, when God told them to take a sacrifice and go offer it, why, it was a great thing. You can imagine a Jew going down the road, with a--a lamb, a fat little lamb or a bullock, or whatever he was. It was the Passover, and he goes down, lays his hands upon the--the sacrifice that's connecting himself, identifying himself with the sacrifice, when he puts his hand on it. The priest killed the--the beast, the little lamb, whatever it was. And as the little fellow died, kicking and bleating, the blood splashed upon his hands. And the worshiper in sincerity knowed that that should be him, but the lamb was taking his place. That's what Jehovah required, because it was a type of Christ. But one time that kept on, going on till it become a family tradition. They offered the lamb just the same, but there was no sincerity about it. God said, "They stink in my nostrils."


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