The time of the Wilderness wandering of the Israelites was
over. It was time now, to cross over
the Jordan and spy out, the land, Moses and Aaron are dead
Joshua. And Caleb have taken over as the
leaders of God's people. Joshua sends a couple of fellas
out, maybe more than that, but he sent some men out and they
were to spy out the land, as well as the city of Jericho,
which was just over the river. I don't know how long it had
been since these fellows had gotten their.
I don't know how extensive their Espionage was.
But at some point, they found themselves in the house of a
woman whose name was Rahab and the Bible speaks of Rahab as
Rahab the Harlot. Now, this title, was normally
reserved for an immoral woman as I'm sure you all realize.
But probably this woman was no longer practicing that sinful
occupation. However, as is often the case, a
scar that we get from having committed, a sin early on, May
continue with us for a long time.
I do not believe that these men went to her house for any
ungodly purpose. In fact, I believe that it was
God's Providence that put them there.
And I'll try to explain that if I don't forget it in a minute.
But while these men were at the house of Rahab and the Bible
says that her house was on the town wall.
Archeologist, tell us that the city of Jericho was a mighty
walled City in the ancient world.
The wall was great enough. That supposedly, according to
architect archaeologists, it appeared to have been a wide
enough for two charriots to have passed a breasted each other on
the top of it. So it wasn't just a fence that
was built around the city, but I'm Mighty wall and houses were
built on the edge of this perhaps hanging off of The Edge
and rahab's was one of those while the these men were at her
house, somehow word, leaked out and the king of Jericho, which,
you know, we talk about Kings today.
He wasn't a king, like the king of England, or the king of
France, but more like a mayor would be he Was a politically
child uh politically competent, man but did not have the power
that a king in some cases might have had but the king of Jericho
heard about that and he said a message to rehab to send those
men out because she has a said, he said they'd be here to spy
out the land, and the City Rehab had, figured it all out.
You see she had heard about the Exploits of Israel.
She knew how that one city after the other had been falling to
them because God was blessing them.
They were not going to lose. God, never needs numbers.
He only needs dedication and obedience and the wind is
absolutely guaranteed. And so one land and one city and
one nation after the other had been falling before them.
In fact, she told them our hearts have failed or melted
within us, Us when we heard what you did to this one and that one
and the other one. And so she said I'm going to
make a deal with you. I'm going to hide you, and I'm
going to keep you from being caught.
But I want you to promise me that when Israel comes to take
the city that my father's house will be saved and will be all
right, she had, no doubt. That's, is that Jericho would
fall. She just wasn't sure when it
would happen, but she knew if God's people came and besieged
the city that the city would fall.
And so they made a deal with her, they said you take this
piece of scarlet line. Apparently, she had some red
rope that. She had there in the house and
she was going to let that out of a window.
And they were going to climb down the outside of that that
wall, she hid them underneath some stalks of Flax on the roof
of the house when the soldiers came and she told them a, she
told them a story. She said, yes, there were some
men that came in to me tonight but I don't know where they came
from and I don't know where they went, but if you will pursue
after them quickly down by the forward, that is Speaking of the
River Ford Thou shalt to overtake them and so they left.
Now, one of the reasons that I think those men probably went to
her house was that God knew that this was going to take place.
And might I suggest to you there, perhaps was no one else
in all the city of Jericho who could have told such a tail and
had it believed as she did. You ever thought about that?
Who else could say? Yeah, I had company tonight but
I don't know where they came from.
I don't know who they were, and I don't know where they were
going. She was the perfect person to
fit into this part of God's plan.
There's no doubt that God was overseeing all of this because
nearly everything that we're going to talk about today from
the Old Testament, at least until we get to the new was
providential and prophetic in its in its import well, They
said you take this piece of scarlet line that we're going to
go down by and you bind that in the window and it will come to
pass that when we come to take the land and the city that that
line will be seen. And they said everyone that is
in the house will be saved. I don't forget that because the
word house plays quite an important role when you are
studying Taipan data type or Shadow and substance, as we're
doing this morning, everyone that is in the house.
House that is Mark was Scarlet. They're going to be.
All right, we'll take responsibility for them and if
anything happens to them their blood will be up on our head.
On the other hand, if they get out of the house then they're
going to be responsible for themselves and if something
happens to them while they're out of the house, we're not
responsible for what for what happens to them.
So they climb down the red rope and made their way by a
circuitous route. Back to the camp.
And Gave the report back to Joshua and Caleb.
Now, all of you who are have done very much reading and the
Old Testament are aware of the fact that this is in a sense, a
passing over as it were, it was an escape.
It was a rescue, if you will, and interestingly enough all
that are in the house that is Mark was Scarlet were saved and
rescued that has to have an important part.
If you, if you're familiar though, with the Old Testament,
you're bound to be aware of an incident that took place very
similar incident. That took place almost exactly
40 years earlier. That was when Israel was getting
ready to leave Egypt. God told Moses to go before
pharaoh and asked that his people be released remember
that. And one time after the other
favor old would first say yes? Then he would say no.
And so a series of a number of plagues that I don't have time
to go into were visited upon Egypt.
The only one that I'm really concerned about is the last one,
the very last plague that God's in was the plague of the death
angel. And this is an important one
because God had said, the time is going to come when I'm going
to pass over the camp. And so when I come over the camp
every house that is not marked with the blood of the Passover
Lamb Come Morning. The first born in that family,
as well as the firstborn of all family.
Owned animals will be dead. And so in the twelfth chapter of
the book of Exodus, God gave instructions for the killing of
the Passover Lamb. They were to kill that lamb and
just serve a certain way. It had to be a young male
without blemish and so on and then they were to take the blood
of that animal and paint it on the doorpost.
And the Lynne tells that is on the top part in the side, parts
of the house. And so God said, when I see the
blood, I will pass over you. You know, we used to sing the
old song, when I see the blood, I will pass over you and
undoubtedly many of us our son that and never realized the
import of those words. It was literally a passing over
and if you wonder why the lamb was referred to as the Passover
Lamb, it was because of that it was a passing over God passed
over all of those house. Just that had the blood of the
lamb and those that did not death was the result.
And the Bible tells us that that night, that even favor, oh,
rolled out of bed with a cry of Anguish.
Because there was not a house in all of Egypt in which one was
not dead. But Over Yonder in the little
group of Goshen, the little area of Goshen, where God's people
lived strangely enough. No death over there because they
had obeyed the command of God and painted the blood of the
Lamb. Lamb on the doorpost.
So here we have two cases and in each case, those that were in
the house that is Mark with Scarlet are safe and those that
are out of the house. Mark was Scarlet, are not safe.
What we're dealing than with is a symbol or a type.
If you will of people being saved by the blood of Christ.
Now, what we're talking about today and what I want to trace
with you today is the idea of how the blood of Christ began in
Prophecy, at least, even in the Old Testament.
You'll notice that in all of these cases, the word house
plays an important role. Now all that are in the house
that is Mark was scarred. It are safe.
Remember what Paul said in second Timothy 3 verses 14 and
15. When he said these things write
I unto thee hoping to come under the shortly.
But if I should Terry long, that thou mayest know how thou
oughtest to behave thyself. In the house of God which is the
Church of the Living. God, the pillar and ground or
support if you will of the truth.
And so one just simply carries over to the other.
Just as those in the house Mark was scarlet and rahab's, day
were saved just as those that were in the house marked with
the blood of the Lamb Scarlet in color.
I'm sure that's not an accident in Moses day were saved.
So it is today those that are in the house of God.
God that is Mark was Scarlet. The blood of Jesus Christ.
Purchased his church. When you're in the house of God,
Mark was Scarlet today. You were still safe and God is
responsible for you. Nothing will happen to you as
long as you remain faithful and stay in the house of God.
So want to talk with you today about the blood of Christ, and
how it began literally in the very early chapters of the Old
Testament. Remember reading their how that
the Bible says that there came a time when Cain and Abel offered
a sacrifice. Now, this this is kind of
interesting to me and I'll try not to take too much time, but
the Bible tells us that they offered a sacrifice, Cain was a
tiller of the fields or a farmer while Abel was a keeper of sheep
or a Shepherd. Now, the scripture tells us
nothing about in The Genesis account tells us nothing about
their having been. A command of God to do this, but
we know there was, how do we know that?
Because in the 11th chapter of Hebrews, sometimes referred to
as Faith, honor roll. The Bible said by faith Abel
offered a more excellent sacrifice than his brother came.
How did he do it by faith? According to Romans 10:17, Faith
cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
And so while we are not told the command he could not have done
it by faith except to have done it in response to a command of
God if you get my point. So God had commanded this but
notice what happens Cain. And offers a sacrifice that is a
vegetable sacrifice. Well, what's wrong with that?
It undoubtedly represented many, many hours of toil and sweat.
If you've ever worked on a farm, you know what I'm talking about
or even a garden for that matter.
And yet God did not accept that, but Cain and Abel sacrifice.
Rather was a sacrifice in which blood was found because Abel
offered the fatlings of his flock.
And the scripture plainly says that unto Cain, God, had no
respect, but unable Rifice he did and came became very, very
angry, very wrong. The Bible says, and God said to
him, why art thou wroth? Why hast thou countenance?
Fallen? That's kind of amusing to me.
Pardon me for smiling. Because there's many times when
I've been preaching and I've noticed that the, that the
countenance of some Falls when you talk about certain things,
and if you're, if you're a public teacher, you know what
I'm talking about. God knew that, that Kane was
angry, because his countenance had fallen, he was pouting.
And so God said, and listen to this, because this is the key to
understanding it. God said, if thou doest, well
shalt thou not be accepted. In other words, if you are
obedient, won't you be accepted? But he said, if thou doest not,
well, that is if you didn't obey me sin, lieth at the door, so
there's the problem. Cain offers a sacrifice with no
blood, and God doesn't accept it.
And he said, sin is at the door Abel offers a sacrifice that
contains blood, which was a type or a figure of the blood of
Jesus Christ. That would later be a come to
pass the Bible tells, Us in 1st Corinthians, 5 and verse 7.
That Jesus is our Passover and the Old Testament, as well as
the Hebrew letter is replete with passages indicating that
every time a sacrifice was killed.
It was typical or a type meaning that it brought to mind in God's
mind the time when his own son would come and offer his blood
on the cross. These are very, very much
intertwined. So that's obviously the reason
why cable sacrifice was accepted.
And Keynes was not now the Bible tells us that even before that
that Adam and Eve when they sinned in the garden you
remember that when they sinned the scripture tells us that God
took the skins of animals and clothed them.
Now one thing you're going to find let me just interject.
This one thing you're going to find when you study the scheme
of redemption. And that's essentially what
we're doing today. When you study the scheme of
redemption, you're going to find always that.
It is the innocent who suffers for the guilty without exception
without exception. It is the innocent who pays the
priced, it is the guilty who goes free, that's who we are
today. Isn't it?
Romans 3:23 tells us that we are all guilty of sin and have all
come short of the glory of God. Yet.
We sit here today, expecting to go to heaven.
Why? Because the innocent Lord or
Christ suffered in our place and Peter said, by his stripes, are
you healed? And so the innocent always
suffers from The guilty when you and literally from the beginning
of sin in the Garden of Eden that has ever been the case when
those animals died. So that God could take their
skins and make clothing for Adam and Eve because they were naked.
Those animals had to give up their lives, they were innocent,
but they died and the guilty. Pair Adam and Eve went free.
And such was the case, even with Cain and Abel Abel was the
Innocent party, but if you'll remember Cain, murdered him and
killed him and was allowed to go on and live though he was marked
with some sort of a mark so that he would be distinguished from
the rest of the people from that time on.
And so what we're looking at today is is is this when you see
the blood of Jesus Christ in its in its infancy, in its prophetic
Forum, when you look at this red line that Rahab posted in her
Window. What you're seeing in that red
line is a sign of a scheme of redemption from the beginning of
sin in Genesis to its eventual and final eradication.
In the Book of Revelation, it also always speaks of death as
the inevitable result of sin. But interestingly enough blood
is also seen as the inevitable atonement for that sin.
So while blood is shed in death and death, is the result of sin.
Blood is also the inevitable atonement for that sin.
Well, let's begin right here at Cain and Abel sacrifice and
study the bloodline of Christ. As we begin to study in the Old
Testament over here. In Exodus chapter 12, we come to
the time where I And a moment ago of the Passover and remember
that I told you that Paul said in First Corinthians 5 and verse
7, that Christ is our Passover. This means that there is a
connection between the literal Passover and exodus 12 and the
Passover that we enjoy today now.
In Exodus 12 and verse 13. God said, and the blood shall be
to you for a token upon the houses where you are, and when I
see the blood, I will pass over you and the plague shall not be
upon you to destroy you. When I smite the land of Egypt
back up in verses 3 and 4 he said speak ye unto all the
congregation of Israel. Say in the tenth day of this
month, they shall take to them every Manel and listen carefully
they shall take to them. And a lamb according to the
house of their fathers, a lamb for and house.
And if the household be too little, for the lamb, let him.
And his neighbor next into his house.
Take it. According to the number of the
souls, every man, according to his eating shall make your count
for the lamb. Now, you're probably wondering
where in the world I'm going. In Israel, there were many many
houses, but let's just suppose that this represents the
households are houses in Israel. When it came time for the
Passover, God commanded that every one of these house houses
would have a lamb. The only exception to that would
be if your house was too small to complete the eating of the
lamb. In that case, you could invite
someone from your neighbor's house to come and help you eat
it. But, not one morsel of that.
Lamb was allowed to leave your house.
What's the point of all of this? The point of all of this is to
show That the observation, if you will, of the Passover was
congregational, or within each and every household, every
household might contain two or three different generations and
still is such a still, the case in many parts of the world in
the Philippines. For instance, where I often go,
it is not uncommon to see two or three generations of the same
family living in the same house and the older ones taking care
of the little ones as they grow up and so on.
Long. And so this is the way he that
they observe the Passover on a yearly basis.
Now just as every house had a Passover and every house had a
lamb. When you understand that, the
house of God is the Church of the Living.
God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
You can see that there is a connection between the Church of
the Lord Jesus Christ. And the house in Exodus chapter
12 and just as every house has a lamb which was a figure or a
type of Jesus Christ. So every congregation today has
the Lord's supper, and that Lord supper allows us to remember,
who we remember, Jesus Christ. And who is he?
He is our Passover, 1st Corinthians, 5 and verse 7, Now,
sometimes Brethren say, not our Brethren, but some Bradman say,
well, it is true that there is one cup.
But there's one cup for the whole world.
They say the cup is the blood and so there's one cup for the
whole world number 1. The Bible never says that the
cup is the blood. It never says that what it says
is that Jesus said this cup is the New Testament in my blood.
That's quite a difference than saying this cup is the blood.
What Jesus told us was that the cup was the New Covenant or the
agreement. If you will ratify Dorset
enforce by his blood quite It a difference in saying that it is
the blood. There is The Testament, but
there is also the blood that set it in force.
So I hope you can see the similarity sometimes Brethren
say, and you know, when you when you think of the passage, I
think its first Corinthians 10 and 16 where Paul said the
bread, the cup which we bless is it not the communion of the
blood of Christ the bread which we break?
Is it? Not the communion of the body of
Christ and the Brethren ask? Why that Paul or how Paul could
write that to Corinth he apparently was perhaps in
Ephesus? When he wrote that?
And that they say, how could he write something from Ephesus to
Corinth and say speak of the bread?
And the cup, which we bless. There's only one way, and many
of the scholars. Such as we Vine, will tell you
that the word, we there refers to we the assembled by get that
we've assembled in Ephesus, and we the assembled in Corinth.
And we, this assembled here in Nashville and we the assemble,
where I live in Fremont, California.
For Nia. We bless the cup and we break
the bread. And so no, you don't have one
cup for the whole world and I want to tell you something.
If you make that argument, you need to understand that in order
for your argument, and the type from, which it Springs right
here in a Exodus 12. If that argument has any
Credence you're going to have to find some way to get one lamb
for all of real. if there's one cup for all the world, But no,
every congregation in Israel, had a Passover just as every
Congregation of the Lord's church has the Lord's, Supper it
fits, and it's too good to be an accident.
Only the mind of an infinite. God could have conceived of
that. Now every time this animal was
killed It pictured. The time when Jesus would come
and die on the cross. That's why Jesus is said to be
our Passover. Just as they were saved by that
Passover, we are saved by H and so they're connected in type of
antitype though, they were not the same thing.
You continue to study this and you come over here to Joshua
chapter 2, as we all have already read.
And you see that line that is hung in rahab's window.
And as I told you this represents as it were in typical
language in figurative, language a sign of the blood of Christ.
It was not an accident. I'll promise you that it was
scarlet and color it represented, the blood of
Christ, which was literally for the big for the eradication of
Sin from the beginning to the end.
You say, how could that be? We'll look at Hebrews 9 and
verse 15. There, the Apostle Paul said and
what a, what a powerful passage this is he said in for this,
cause he is the mediator of the New Testament.
Are you following me? He said, for this cause he is
the mediator of the New Testament over here is the New
Testament that by means of death.
For the transgressions of the sins that were committed under
the first testament, they, which are the called might receive the
promise. Of Eternal inheritance.
What does that mean? If you boil it all down, what
Paul is teaching in Hebrews 9 and 15?
Is that when Jesus died on the cross and shed his blood, his
blood not only goes forward to take care of our sins but it
also, it goes back retrospective if you will, to the Past during
a time, when these things here, could not really forgive sin.
Remember that Paul said it is not possible for the blood of
bulls and goats to take away sin.
Well, that's why the blood of Christ has to also go back and
cover that they did all that they could do.
It was a temporary fix. But finally, the blood of Christ
will cleanse their sins. What I'm telling you is that
come to Day of Judgement. Every person who is saved, no
matter what year, or what era of time, he lived in every person
who is saved, will ultimately be saved by the blood of Jesus
Christ, though. He may have lived in an earlier
time. I'm and been forgiven on a
temporary or ceremonial basis. Until the real thing came along.
Now let me talk with you a minute about the blood of
Christ. And on the cross.
In Ephesians 1 and verse 7. Paul said in whom we have
Redemption through his blood, the Forgiveness of sins,
according to the riches of his grace.
There probably is no more beautiful subject in the New
Testament than the subject of redemption.
And it is also probably one of the least understood subjects.
I think we all understand that Redemption means somebody has
been saved from their past sins. But let me explain maybe in a
little greater depth. What I understand it to be years
ago, when my family and I were getting ready to leave
Cincinnati Ohio and moved back to California.
We went down to and I'm dating myself.
Some of you're not old enough to remember this, but we went down
to the S&H. Green Stamps store.
Remember, some of you remember. I can see.
He's smiling used to, when you buy groceries or gas, they give
you S&H Green Stamps or sometimes Blue Chip Stamps.
And when we would receive those stamps, we had the option.
If we wanted to to take those stamps back, paste them in a
book. And when we got enough books, we
could take those stamps down to the step store.
And get a piece of merchandise that we wanted or needed.
Well, we had a piece of merchandise that we wanted to
get and I remember when we went down there with our few stamps,
I remember going through the door and to my amazement, it
just kind of clicked like that over the door.
It said, Redemption Center. I thought, Redemption Center.
And I think for the first time, I understood Redemption better
than I ever had, because you see what we had was some old stamps
that we had pasted in these books.
They were totally useless to us. We didn't need those things, we
didn't want those things. They were of, no use to us until
and unless they were Redeemed by that company, that put them out
in the first place. And when they redeemed them,
they would give in its place to us a piece of merchandise.
And eyes that we did need and want.
Now, here we are guilty of sin. And Jesus comes along and dies
on the cross. We don't need those sins.
We can go to heaven with these sins.
There have absolutely no use to us, but Jesus comes and sheds,
his blood. And when we obey the gospel,
those sins are redeemed, their taken away from us and in their
place is given us the promise of eternal life.
That's Redemption. That's what it needs.
You get rid of something, you can't use and get something you
desperately need. And Paul says, we are redeemed.
Through his blood, in 1st Corinthians, 15 and 3.
And and you'll notice that all the way across here, we've been
talking about his blood blood blood.
Blood everywhere is blood, it's always part of the Redemption
scheme, the innocent suffering for the guilty but listen again
in 1st Corinthians 15 and 3 Paul's Road and said for I
delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how
that Christ died for our sins. According to the scriptures and
what he means by saying. According to the scriptures,
he's talking about all of those Old Testament passages that
portray in type and antitype and in figurative language, the
coming of the Son of God. Did you know that?
David in the Psalms actually speaks, though, he doesn't call
him by name but he speaks of Jesus and the fact that his
hands are pierced with nails. Yes, sir.
Absolutely, and Isaiah talks about how that he carried our
burdens and bore our sins and our sorrows.
And and so on. All of that beautiful
fifty-third chapter of Isaiah was all profiting 700 plus
years, before Jesus ever came to the world, Isaiah wrote about
him and what he would do for us. That's what Paul means.
When he says that he died according to the scriptures, he
had to in order to fulfill the scriptures in.
Fact, the Bible plainly says that Jesus fulfilled.
All scripture. In first, John 2 and 2.
The book says, and he is the propitiation for our sins and
not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
The word propitiation is very similar to atonement or
reconciliation. And when Jesus died, he became
the propitiation or the atonement if you will for our
sins again, in First, Peter 2, and verse 24, Peter said, who is
own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree.
Tree that we being dead to sins should live unto righteousness
by whose Stripes, ye were healed.
It ought to make us feel a little more humble to realize
that we can sit here today expecting to go to heaven.
Because somebody came and took our women for us.
Somebody redeemed us. All was to be lost.
But we were redeemed. As the old preachers used to
say, our all was in the devil's pawn shop.
And we had no way to redeem it. But we have been redeemed by the
blood of Jesus Christ. Finally, a second Corinthians 5
and verse 21. Paul said, for he hath, made him
to be sin for us who knew? No sin.
Speaking of Christ, that we might be made the righteousness
of God in him and innocent individual.
Remember, I told you that the innocent always suffers for the
guilty and innocent individual comes and dies on the cross.
This individual knew no sin. But we who did no sin have been
forgiven through the blood of Jesus Christ because we obeyed
the gospel. We have been baptized in water
for the remission of sins, and we contacted his blood that way,
we are made the righteousness of God in him, but let me continue
on this bloodline was right to the cross.
And then from the cross, it begins in earnest.
And over over here. Now, today in 2007, And we're
enjoying the blessings of the blood of Christ.
Still in 2007. There are only two things
regarding the church that I'm aware of that deal with blood
one is when we are baptized into Christ.
And the other is when we observe the Lord's Supper, as we're
going to do momentarily and we drink the cup of blessing.
When you understand that baptism and the Lord's Supper are the
only two things in the church that have one thing in the world
to do with blood. Can you understand why these two
items are perhaps more often counterfeited and changed than
anything else? You don't see the hand of the
devil in that. Of course, he's behind it.
He wants you to be lost. And and when you think about it,
if Rahab had failed to post that line in her window and ask you a
question, when Israel came to take Jericho, do you really
believe her house would have been saved anyway?
I don't, I don't believe that have been saved at all, and I
believe we post that line in our window when we are baptized in
water for the remission of sins. But what if she hadn't kept a
lion in the window? What if after she had, put it up
there and those men left, what is, she took a look at that?
And thought what in the world are the neighbors?
Gonna think of me with piece of red rope tied up in my window?
What if she had taken it out? Would the fact that she hung it
and then took it out? Have resulted in their being
saved? No.
She had to keep it in the window because they had to see it when
they came. And as I understand the type of
data type, we post this line in our window of faith, when we
were baptized into Christ. But we keep it in our window
when we observe in a scriptural manner, the Lord's Supper One
love, one cup back here. During this time, you read of
the table of showbread. On the table of showbread which
contain 12 loaves of unleavened bread.
Do you remember that? God, decreed.
I don't know why, but he decreed that those lows be placed on
that table in two rows of seven. What's wrong with three rows of
four? I don't know, but I'll guarantee
you. One thing I wouldn't have put
three rows of four. If he asked for two rows of six.
God just doesn't deal with or deal well, with men who change
his word, Do you really believe that if he was, that particular
to specify the way the table was set, then that he is not also
particular that the table is set according to the pattern.
Now, all, during the time of Moses sojourn, he kept telling
Moses when they were building the Tabernacle.
He said, see that now do it according to the pattern.
I don't mind to tell you. I am very pattern oriented.
I'm afraid of anything that differs from the pattern. now,
you know, there's a lot of things about this that we could
say, but I've got the clothes, we used to sing a song and and
part of the words went like this, Not all the blood of
beasts on Jewish altar. Slain could give the guilty
conscience peace or wash away his stain.
Some of you are recognizing the words of those songs but the
blood of Christ are Since By Faith.
I saw that stream is Flowing wounds Supply.
Redeeming love has been my theme and shall be till I die in
closing. Let me leave a true story with
you. I told you one.
That was true last night. I'll tell you another one today.
That's true. During the time of the Mosaic,
dispensation and about the time that Israel was getting ready to
leave Egypt. History records, the story of a
little girl She was crippled not able to walk that fast and on
the day that the lamb was to be killed and it's blood painted on
the door. Post this little girl was very
concerned about how the blood was being put on the house.
Because she was the first born. She is the oldest she kept
asking all day, has the blood been painted on the house and
was told that it had been but since she was bed fast, she
couldn't go see, and when her father came in that afternoon,
she asked him and he assured her, that it was And she said, I
want to see it. And finally, he just picked her
up and carried her out there. And to his amazement, though the
lamb had been killed, nobody had painted it on the door and had
it not been for her insistence. She would not have survived the
night, the blood was hastily painted on the door. and then,
She lay back and comfort, and peace.
It's amazing to me that people today.
Can just be a member of a church.
They don't know and they don't seem to care whether or not
they're in the house. That is marked with Scarlett.
They're unconcerned about that. I don't understand that.
I wonder today. Are you sure that you're in the
house? That is Mark was Scarlet.
That's where salvation is promised and it's not promised
in any other. There wasn't another house in
all of Jericho that was promised salvation.
Do you realize that, I don't know how many thousands of
houses there were, but there was only one that salvation was
promised in that in itself is a telling point.
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