<TITLE>05. Par 35-46</TITLE>L-35 If I could say, "Let Brother Grant die for some sin that Billy ought to die for, or something else, some penalty," that would be unjust. If I had my own boy to die for a penalty that I had pronounced, it still isn't just. There is only one justice I can do, that's take his place, if I want to save him.

L-36 And God had to become flesh, in order to take the sinner's place; God manifested in the flesh, nothing less than God Himself. Now, here He was, manifested in the flesh, to take away the sins of the world. And He identified Himself in us, that we might be identified in Him. See the purpose of it?

L-37   Now we find out our identification with our Sacrifice, the Life of the Sacrifice in us, which is the Holy Spirit. When that cell was broke, it released God, released God, that He had sanctified a people with His Own Blood and put God in the man again. God in you, Eternal Life!

L-38 And any Greek scholar knows that that word, Eternal Life, comes from the word Z-o-e, Zoe, which means "God's Own Life." That's right. The only way that you ever can have Life, there is only one form of Eternal Life, and that's God's Own Life in you. See? Then you have Eternal Life, because He is the only Eternal there is. And we are the attributes of His thoughts, before there was even a foundation of the world or anything. All this is just His thinking, and we're the display of His thoughts of what it was.

L-39   And He had to come down in order to take away sin. No one else could do it. There wasn't no one worthy to do it. No one could do it but Him, and He did it. And then when that Life was released from that body, Man, which was the Son of God; His creative power made a building, like any contractor, built the building that He moved into, Himself. God did that.

L-40 And then when that life was taken, the Blood, the chemistry of It, poured out upon the ground, just like just Abel's poured out upon the ground. But from that Blood came the Holy Spirit of God, and that was sent to man on the Day of Pentecost, to be identified with the Sacrifice that died for them. There is no other way in the world we can get it. A positive Token!

L-41   Look, if you was guilty of death, and you knowed you was going to the electric chair. And remember, to reject...

L-42 Dallas, listen! To reject the Blood of Jesus Christ, the Token of His Blood, if you see It and reject It, you are going to face the Judgment with His Blood on your hands. Sinner, church member, remember that.

L-43 What if Lee Oswald would have been able, them few days, and that sweating before that Supreme Court that he had to face; and knowed, from killing the President, there wouldn't even be one speck of mercy, how that man must have felt! It must have been in a terrific thing. He never got to face it, because the other fellow shot him. But think of sitting there before an angry Supreme Court, with the blood of your fellow man on your hand, the President of the United States! That will be a mild thing, to you people who pass by the Blood of Jesus Christ, when you'll stand by the courts of God. Sweat it out when you know. Oswald could done no more than depart this life for him, but God departs you Eternally from His Presence. It'll be a terrific thing. Notice.

L-44   If you had to come to the courts, of being guilty, you would seek the best lawyer you could find. Anybody would do it.

L-45 And every man that's born in the world, I don't care how good of home he come out of, he is guilty of the Blood of Jesus Christ until he has accepted the pardon of it. And the only way that you know the pardon is right, when the Token puts Itself upon you, and you have the Token.

L-46 Notice, you are guilty, and you would hunt the best attorney that you could find to plead your case. And if I was going to the Judgment of God, I don't want no priest, I don't want no man; I want the best attorney I can find to plead my case.


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