Now, we're studying the Book of the Hebrews. It's been... Oh, it's one of the most deepest, richest Books of the Bible. I tell you, it's a Book that really will... If God permits, and we just get down into this, I believe we'll find golden nuggets till we'll just shout the praises of God all the time.
So the Blood of Christ, the Gospel, delivers us from sin. Law only makes us sinners. The law only said, "You are a sinner. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not bear false witness." See? It's a policeman that says you're wrong and you're guilty. But the Gospel is the good news. Christ died to save us from all of our trespasses, transgressions of the law. Christ died to take us out.
Now the men that was with him did not see that Light, but It was there just the same. The results give the same. Now, is it possible that--that someone could see Christ in this building and no one else see Him? Sure. It happened there.
And a Bible scholar will never rest his doctrine upon experiences. No, sir. They'll never rest their doctrine upon experience. You can have any kind of an experience. But it must be THUS SAITH THE LORD. Right.
Now, Paul wanted to get this church right in the middle of the road, so he went and studied three years on the Scriptures that he knew. Therefore, Paul wrote the bigger part of this New Testament. God had him do that because it's coming a Gentile age. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the four Gospels, they were Jews. But Paul wrote the most of the letters.
Never did the ecclesiastical system ever produce a man of God; never did, hasn't today, and never will. Organized religion has never been God's theme.
God, before the foundation of the world, knew you, and predestinated you to Eternal Life, or either you was predestinated to Eternal loss.
In that day, He spoke by the prophets, but this day through His Son. That was the word of a prophet, there. This is the Word of the Son, today. Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord! In other words, if you're looking at the shadow, the negative, you might make a mistake. But This is developed, the picture is clear. That was by the prophet; this is by His Son. That was by a negative; this is by a positive. Amen. You see it? There isn't a chance to lose. It's a positive thing, this day through His Son. Oh, how wonderful!
Oh, listen. He was appointed, Christ was, heir of all things. Oh, the Devil knowed that, from the garden of Eden, you see, when the Devil heard that Word there that day, in the judgment of those people. Said, "Because you come from the dust; dust you'll return; and the woman's Seed shall bruise the serpent's head." A promised Seed. Satan constantly watched for that Seed.
The brightness of whose glory? God's glory. The express image of Whose Presence? God's. Oh, I love this!
That Son, that Logos, became flesh, because we were put in flesh. And the theophany, the Logos, became flesh, here among us, and It was nothing else but the dwelling place, for that entire Fountain dwelt in Him. Oh, do you see it? There It is. That was the One, that, in...
I and the Father are One. My Father dwelleth in Me. I'm just a tabernacle called the Son. The Father dwells in Me. Not Me that doeth the works, it's My Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works, not Me"
Then the skeptic would say, "Well, you said, 'Paul wrote this.'" Not Paul, but God that was in Paul; that creative Being that was inside of Paul.