<TITLE>06. Par 51-59</TITLE>L-51   This, bringing us now in view of these shadows of time, brings us Christ in view. All the Old Testament foreshadowed Jesus. In Egypt, that night when there was to be a--a passover lamb killed for the protection of the people, we realize that God had one place, one condition. No matter how young, how old a priest, a clergyman, whatever you was, you must be in this certain place. All outside that place, perished. You must be in this one place, a place that He provided.

L-52 Now, we could spend much time, this afternoon, in explaining that, which would be just reviewing what we already know, that how Christ foreshadowed in the types. The sacrificial Lamb, how it must be kept up, a male without blemish, and how it must be killed by the elders, and how that the blood must be sprinkled on the door, all foreshadowing the coming of Christ. And under this shed blood was the place that God met the worshiper, when the Death angel passed through the land.

L-53   I believe that we're ready to go out of Egypt, one of these days, and go into this promised Land. And it's time that we got in the right place, and quit this here fussing around, "I'm Presbyterian. I'm Methodist. I'm Baptist. I'm this. I'm that or the other." Get out of it, and find where this place is, because there is death everywhere besides His chosen place. Death will strike just as sure as the world, if we're not in His chosen place. But where He chooses, death cannot come.

L-54 If you notice in the sacrificial lamb, death had already visit there. Death had come to this place because the lamb had died. Death had already visit. And so where death had visit, then God promised that would be His place. Then, Him in view, we see now what the sacrificial lamb was, what the place of life was at that time.

L-55   Now, to me, this denounces all arguments. With Christ being in view, being the sacrificial Lamb, then that denounces all denominations, all creeds, all dogmas, all church-anity. It denounces the whole thing. That's right, for we find, here, Him in view, for He is the pure unadulterated Word of God. Saint John 1, said, "In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." Therefore He is God's unadulterated Word made flesh, made manifest.

L-56 And this in view, we could not attach that to any church in the world today, any denomination. Any place like that, we could not attach it, because it isn't so. We put Christ's Name upon a building, call it the churches of "Christ," and this, that, or the other. That doesn't make it so. That doesn't do it, at all. But when God puts His Name in something, that's what does it.

L-57   Now, there is nothing in the Bible that would type our modern organizations, except Babylon. That's the only type in the Bible of our modern organization, organized religion, because it was founded by Nimrod and a forced unity amongst religious people. And that's what the creeds and our denominations do today, force unity, "You either belong to this or you're out!" And we're coming now, as we can see, to a forcing all into one great unity of it. But that is a mechanical made advice by a man, and it cannot stand. It is not God's will. It is not God's program, no matter how people try to say it is. It is not. It can't be. It's just impossible, for it to be. God wouldn't put His Name in such a thing as that that denys His Word. How can God live in something that denys His Own Word? You cannot do that.

L-58   So we find out, it doesn't attach to any church, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Catholic, Greek Orthodox, whatever it may be. It's not God's place of worship, yet.

L-59 Now let God, Who made this promise, come forth and prove it, that it's right. That's the way to do it. If He is still God, He is still God! If He ever was God, He remains God!


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