<TITLE>08. Par 73-78</TITLE>L-73 What are you? You're a Christian, you live before everybody as a Christian. And if you take that and don't live as a Christian, you're not discerning the Lord's Body. You're putting a stumbling block in somebody else's way, see, as they see you trying to do that and then not living what you're supposed to live. See, you're not discerning the Lord's Body. Now watch what it... what the curse of it is:
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many are sleep. (The right translation of that word, Brother Pearry, is "dead." See? See, "many are dead.")
For if we--for if we would judge ourself, we should not be judged. (See, if we judge ourself we won't be judged. See?)
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. (See, not any attach to the world.)
Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, tarry one for the other. (See?)
And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that you come not together unto condemnation. And the rest I will set in order when I come. (See?)

L-74 Now, in other words, don't just come to take it as a... As I said a while ago, about what the Jews, their sacrifice, they... It was wonderful, it was given by God, but it got to a place where they didn't do it in sincerity and reverence and in order, then it become just a... it become a--a stench in His nose.

L-75 Now, the same thing is by our coming to take the Lord's supper, that, we must come knowing what we are doing. Just like when you go into the water to be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, you know what you're doing, you're putting on to the church what God has put in you, Christ.

L-76 When we take this, it shows to the church, that, "I believe every Word of God. I believe that He is the Bread of Life that come from God out of Heaven. I believe every Word that He says is the Truth. And I live by It, to the best of my knowledge, God being my Judge. Therefore, before my brothers, before my sisters... I--I do not swear, I do not curse, I do not do these things, because I love the Lord, and the Lord knows it and bears me record. Therefore, before you, I take the parcel of His body, to know that I am not condemned with the world." See, there you are, then it's a blessing.

L-77 And, remember, I could give many testimonies on this, where I've took that and explained it in a sickroom, and seen them healed.

L-78 Remember, when Israel taken the type of this, they had journeyed forty years in the wilderness and their clothes never even wore out, and they come out without one feeble one--one among them, with two million people as a type of this. Well, what will the Antitype do? If the body of a sacrificial animal did that for them, what would the Body of Jesus Christ, Emmanuel, do for us? Let's just be reverent when we come. Let us be just as reverent as we know how, to come.
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