<TITLE>10. Par 96-106</TITLE>L-96 Then the people sinned later, and as they've always did, and made the idol out of--out of it, making it a--a--a... trying to get healing without sincerity, and they "belonged to something," and the way we do today. And now we see then, the difference of it, was, that God...

L-97 It was a good atonement and a good sign for that time. That time, it was all right. But it was just to be for that time, for that journey. That's all it will work for, that journey.

L-98   And the message that Martin Luther brought, of justification, was all right for Luther's age. That's as far as it went.

L-99 Sanctification was fine in Wesley's age. That's as far as it went.

L-100 Then we come into the pentecostal age. And the restoration of the gifts is a very fine thing, it was fine in the age, but we are going beyond that now. We are beyond that, just as sure as there is a world. We've got to become beyond this thing, because we have done the same thing with it that they did before, make an idol out of it. "I belong to this order of it, I belong that order of it."

L-101 God will send somebody that will smash the thing and tear it to pieces, and confirm His Word, the full Word. Notice. Praise be to God! Now we see that that's true. God, rich in His mercy!

L-102   Then when the prophet destroyed this, it left them without any sign of healing, of an atonement, because their idol was destroyed. But God, rich in mercy, made them another one. And what did He do, that? He troubled water at the pool at the temple, and many come and was healed, by stepping into this water. Jesus came down to this same pool, and saw a man that had been laying there for a number of years, waiting for the troubling of the water. See God, rich in mercy! Although they idolized that thing, although the prophet had to tear it up, God made another way for them, 'cause He's rich in mercy. He wants them to be healed, and He made a way for their healing.

L-103 Now, then that went on, the world become more sinful and more sinful, all the time. And finally the world got so sinful that God could have destroyed it, He said in Malachi 4, "unless I come and to smite the earth with a curse." He could have done it; just the question.

L-104   But then God, rich in mercy, He sent forth a Saviour, Jesus Christ. He sent forth Jesus to be both Saviour and healer. For He said, "As Moses lifted up the brass serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up," for the same purpose. He, the atonement, that's what we have claim upon, nothing but the atonement. What Jesus purchased by His Blood, that's what we have claims upon. And the Bible said, "He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquity, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we were healed." That's what we can claim, because that's what the atonement, that we stand for, ordered for us. God, rich in mercy!

L-105 This was to be an Eternal atonement, because He came Himself. God came Himself, in the form of sinful flesh, to make a--a--a--an Eternal atonement; and suffered in the flesh, and made the atonement; and returned back in the form of the Holy Ghost, to confirm that atonement. Where no brass serpent or no trouble's water could do it, it all pointed to that perfect Atonement. God, rich in His mercy, has did this.

L-106   Now, today, being it's the day that we are living in, we have come through these church ages and explained everything away from That. Our theologians of the day has far lost that side of It. They explain It all away, to some other day, some other age, some other something, way back, from long ago. And Divine healing was just about played out, hardly found anybody who would believe it. They made fun of it. Not no more than about twenty years ago, they were making fun of it. The Pentecostals had practically got away from it. They started in the early days, but they got away from it.


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