<TITLE>03. Par 23-37</TITLE>L-23 But Israel was just a--a wanderer. They had no certain place they went. They just wandered as the Lord led them. Now, I believe, also, Balaam, later in his prophecy, said, "The people would not be among the nations. It would just be a scattered." And that's what it's always been. And we find out, the clash come.

L-24   Just as Cain and Abel, they also came together in a clash. And them being brothers, and both of them of the same mother, Eve. And we find that they realized that they were mortal, and they had been put out of Life, out of the garden of Life. And they both was trying to find a way to get back in There. And if you noticed, both boys was very religious. Cain was just as religious as Abel was. And they both built altars, otherwise, a church. They both made sacrifice. They both prayed. And they--they served God, both of them, but one of them served Him wrong.

L-25 Now, you see, you can be ever so sincere and yet be wrong. You can be wrong. "There is a way that seemeth right, but the end thereof is the ways of death."

L-26 Now we--we see that this was so true with Cain and Abel. And when they seen... Cain saw that Abel's sacrifice was received. And, I might stop here to say, why did God receive his sacrifice? Is because that--that he was... By a revelation, he understood that it was not apples, or I believe now they got it the pomegranates or something that they eat in the garden of Eden, that caused sin. And he found Adam... or, I mean, Abel believed that it (he) it was blood. Which, it really was. And Abel, by revelation, faith, offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than that of Cain; which God testified by it, he was righteous. See? And the whole Church is built upon a Divine revelation of the Word of God. The whole...

L-27   Jesus said so. One day, coming down off the mount, He said to His disciples, "Who do you say I the Son of man am? Or who does people say I am?"

L-28 "And some of them said, well, You're 'Moses,' You're 'Elias,' or 'one of the prophets.'"
He said, "But who do you say I am?"

L-29 And Peter made that great statement, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God!"

L-30 He said, "Blessed art thou, Simon, son of Jonas." And here is the great argument amongst believers.

L-31 Now the Catholic church says that, "There He--He built His Church upon Peter, for He said, 'Thou art Peter,' little stone, 'upon this stone, little stone, I'll build My Church.'"

L-32 Well, now, the Protestant mostly believe that it was upon Himself that He built, upon Him, the Cornerstone. But, you see, He was the Cornerstone to the building. I believe that what He built the Church upon...

L-33   Not to be different, but, you see, the question was, "Who does man say I am?"

L-34 And Peter said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."

L-35 He said, "Blessed art thou, Simon, son of Jonas, flesh and blood never revealed this to you. You never learned this by going to a seminary. See, you never learned this by some man-made affair. But My Father, which is in Heaven, has revealed this to you. See? Upon this Rock I'll build My Church, and the gates of hell cannot prevail against It," the spiritual revelation of Jesus Christ, Who is the Word. Then it would be the spiritual revealed Truth of the Word, is exactly where the Church rests.

L-36   I think that's what Abel had at the beginning, a spiritual revelation that it wasn't the fruit of the field or the works of our hands, or so forth. It was blood. And he offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than--than Cain did.

L-37 We find in Abraham and Lot, the same thing, in a choice, because Lot went down, when the time come, when the spiritual and the--and the natural church come in a clash, because of the herdsmen. They had to separate one for another. And whenever this does, it sets up a jealousy.


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