<TITLE>03. Par 19-24</TITLE>L-19   Philippians 2.
If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels of mercy,
Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of--of one mind.
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem the other better than themselves.
Look not every man to his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
Let this mind be in you, which also was in Christ Jesus:
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of man:
And being found in fashion of a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient to death, even the death of the cross.

L-20   Now if we shall turn now over to Second Corinthians, the 3rd chapter, we will begin with the 6th verse, and reading this to the 18th, and down to part of the 4th chapter.
Who also has made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
But if the ministration of death, written and engraved in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfast behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
For if the ministration of condemnation be glorious, much more does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
For even that which was made glorious has no glory in this respect, by reasons of the glory that excelleth.
For if that which is done away was glory, much more hath... which remaineth is glory.
Seeing then that we have such a hope, we must greatly... plainness of speech, use great plainness of speech.
And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which was abolished:
But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their hearts.
Nevertheless when it shall be turned to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord... there is liberty.
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, has changed into the same image from glory unto glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
But have renounced the hidden things and the dishonest, not walking in craftiness and handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth condemning ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them which are lost:

L-21   May the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Word!

L-22 Now, my subject this morning, I trust that God will reveal this. And each time, if you who take the tapes and listen, and I hope and trust that--that you have had a spiritual understanding of what that God has been trying to get over to the Church without saying it right out. See? It's a thing, sometime, we have to say things in such a way that it might thin down, it might bring some to go out, some to leave, and some to--to--to ponder over. But that's done purposely. It must be done that way.

L-23   Then it might be that some would say, "You mean God would purposely do a thing like that?" He certainly did. He does yet.

L-24 He said one day, when He had thousands around Him, He said, "Except you eat of the Flesh of the Son of God, or Son of man, and drink His Blood, you have no Life in you."


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