IS TRUE LOVE BLIND?

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335 - 2 IS TRUE LOVE BLIND?

January 23, 1977

Henry F Kulp

 

Colossians 1: 1 - 8 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints, For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth: As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ; Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

In verses 1 and 2 we have Paul’s greeting. He addresses them as saints and faithful brethren. And the key word in Colossians is fullness.

And we are fullness of Him. We receive His fullness. 

1/ In verse 3 - 5 we have Paul’s gratitude. We keep on giving thanks to the God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Praying always for you. Paul has gratitude for them. He is thankful for them. The word, praying, is very interesting here. PROSS-U-KUH-MY You know the word, pross means face to face with God. What a privilege we have on this earth even though we can’t see God to go face to face with Him with our petitions. 

U-KUH-WRIST-O and right in the middle of the word is the word, KAR-RIS which is the word, grace. So we are thankful for that which we receive which we do not merit or earn.

2/ Then it is important for us to see that prayer is always addressed to God the Father—No exceptions to this ever. When you hear someone pray, “Dear Jesus,” You are listening to apostasy, and God will never hear that prayer. Also, when you hear someone pray to the Holy Spirit you are hearing apostasy, God will not hear that prayer. Remember you must always pray to God the Father.     

3/ Let us look at a very important chapter on prayer. 

Romans 8: 26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Here the dwelling Holy Spirit prays to God the Father as He helps us in our prayers. Then in Verse 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

We have Jesus Christ in Heaven praying to God the Father for us. We cannot do less.

4/ For you – PEAR-EE and it means concerning you. Remember, he had never met them, never seen them, yet he prayed for them. Is it possible for me to pray for someone I have never met? Of course. 

5/ Notice, Paul says they had the three graces, faith, love, and hope.

(1) Faith in Christ Jesus

(2) The love which ye have to all saints.

(3) The hope that is laid up for you in Heaven. 

6/ Faith in Christ Jesus, let us look at Colossians 2: 5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

Here we read of the steadfastness of their faith in Christ. The word, faith, means a firm persuasion. They are fully persuaded concerning Jesus Christ. Either you believe something or you don’t believe it.

Many know Him as Saviour, as sin-bearer, but they are not well acquainted with Him, They do not know Him in an intimate way, they do not walk with Him day by day. It is only when you are well acquainted with Him, and walking with Him that you will be at peace.

8/ We must realize that faith is the most dangerous thing in the world. If we have faith in the wrong thing it can destroy us or kill us. We had a member of our assembly who moved away, but when he lived in our midst he want out into his yard to burn some leaves, his clothing caught fire and he was badly burned, he was rushed to the hospital, given Penicillin and though he had never reacted to it before, he did this time and it nearly cost his life. It is necessary to have faith in that which is faithful.

9/ Galatians 3: 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

Ye are all the full-grown sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus. Then they had the second grace which is love. The one word in the English language that expresses all varieties of love. Love to God, to child, to parent, and to friends. Many people call the sex act making love, and the Greek word, EAR-OSE and that is usually love between the sexes. It can be a passion. It is selfish love, it only all goes one way. It is never used in the New Testament.

10/ Then there is the Greek word, PHIL-LET-O gives us our word, Philadelphia-brotherly love—and it means fondness, and the basic meaning of the word, to befriend.

11/ The word used here is AH-GOP-A—God is love.

(1) It is a word used for God the Father for His Son. John 17: 26  And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

(2) It is the word used of the Father’s love for the human race.

John 3: 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 16: 27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.

Here we read the Father, Himself, loveth you because you loved me.

12/ You cannot love with this love unless the Holy Spirit controls your life.  

13/ Last week some disagreed with me because I said you must have faith in God and not in saints, but love the saints. And this is true, because no one is really dependable and faithful, and there is a point here I want you to see. LOVE IS NOT BLIND 

I Corinthians 13: 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

Love rejoiceth in the truth, Does love depend upon the one being loved being perfect? Do we stop loving people because they sin, because they make mistakes? If we do we won’t love anyone. Does the truth of our old nature and our failures keep us from being loved by other believers? Love that can be killed by the truth is not the love of God. We must be like the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who loves us, not because of our fruits, but in spite of them. 

Romans 5: 8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

I John 4: 19 We love him, because he first loved us.

14/ Some are foolish enough to never see the flaws in one they claim to love—some mothers or fathers love their children always glossing over their faults and feelings, but that permits one to grow up undisciplined and having the wrong view in life. A believer’s true love is a love that can bear to know the truth about the one loved, and not be discouraged.

15/ Then the third grace is the hope which is laid up for you in Heaven. This hope is described in Titus 2: 13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

And every believer has this hope given to him by God.

16/ The basis of this hope is found in I Timothy 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;

He is our hope.

17/ Hope has three parts to it.

(1) Desire – there is no hope if we don’t have a desire for that hope to be realized. But hope isn’t desire only, for we may desire what we do not expect.

(2) Expectation—Nor is hope merely expectation, for we may expect what we do not. So we must put desire and  expectation together, combine them.

(3) Patience – We must be patience for that desire and expectation.

18/ We must see there is a great deal of difference between Israel’s hope and the believer’s hope today. Let us look at the difference very briefly. 

(1) Israel’s hope is earthly.

(2) Our hope is in Heaven.

(3) Israel’s hope has Christ as the Son of Man, Son of David, Son of Abraham.

(4) Our hope has Christ the Son of God, the Head of the Body.

(5) Israel’s hope is in Christ’s coming to this earth.

(6) Our hope is in Christ catching us up in the air.

(7) Israel’s hope will be after the great judgement and tribulation on this earth.

(8) Our hope will be realized before the judgement and tribulation comes upon this earth.

19/  I Corinthians 13: 13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

The only one of these graces that is lasting is love. 

Faith and hope will one day disappear but love will remain.

AMEN

Ref: 01/23/1977/ 335-2 IS TRUE LOVE BLIND? / 05/06.2021

THE OUT-RESURRECTION

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206 - THE OUT-RESURRECTION

March 9, 1975

Pastor Henry F. Kulp

 

 

Philippians 3: 11-14 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

I want to speak on a very important subject this morning—the out from among the dead resurrection, or the out-resurrection. When you read Verse 11 you would have the distinct idea that Paul was not sure, or that he had some doubts that he would be resurrected. For he says, if by any means, I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

1/  By comparing Scripture with Scriptures, we know that if there is one thing Paul was sure about, it is that he knew his body would be resurrected. He had absolute confidence that he was going to be raised with every other member of the body of Christ. 

Titus 2: 13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

The word, hope, here in the Greek is AL - PUS. It is spelled, alpis, and it means confidence. He was sure of taking part in this blessed confidence.

2/  To take part in a resurrection is inescapable, for we are told in the Bible that the just and the unjust shall be raised, so Paul had no doubts as to his resurrection.

3/  Verse 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect:

If, introduces a first-clause condition. By any means is the Greek word Poe-se and it means one way or another. Paul knew he was going to be resurrected, but he didn’t know if it was going to be that he would die and be resurrected, or if he would live and have his body changed. Of course, we know that Paul would go by physical death. When he died the second time, (first death was at his stoning at Lystria) he was beheaded. And so he will go by resurrection of his dead body.

4/  I might attain is COT—ON—TUH—O and it does not mean to attain—it means to reach a goal, to score—to arrive at a destination—to cross the goal line—to break the tape as in a sprint.

5/  It could read, In one way or another, death or still living, I might cross the finish line unto the resurrection of the dead.

6/  Unto the resurrection should be—to the resurrection. It is ice—a preposition plus the accusative, of the ex-onna—status. Ex means out from the resurrection. Of the dead is EK—NECK-ROS. So it means out from the dead ones. NECK-ROS is corpse. 

So Paul is saying, By any means, death or living, I might arrive at the resurrection from among the dead.

7/  From among the dead is an important point. There is no general resurrection. 

Acts 24: 15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

Here, Paul in his defense before Felix, he is saying that the Pharisees believed in the resurrection of the dead—both the just and the unjust.

8/  Mark 9: 10 And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.

Here we have the disciples coming down from the Mount of Transfiguration, and they speak among themselves saying what the rising from the dead should mean. Didn’t they know as much as the Pharisees?

9/  John 11: 24  Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.

Martha knew about the resurrection of the dead, and it is amazing to think that the Twelve disciples did not know about the resurrection.

10/  But, actually in Mark 9: 10 And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.

They are saying, what does it mean to rise from among the dead. The phrase that we have in Philippians 3: 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

In Verse 9  And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

Jesus Christ told them to tell no man what they had seen on the Mount of Transfiguration until Jesus Christ had risen from among the dead ones, and this is what they did not understand.

11/  Romans 1: 4 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

Here we have the same phrase. By the resurrection out from among the dead ones.

12/  Paul was sure that he was going to be resurrected from among the dead ones, for the church the body of Christ will be resurrected from among the Israelites who are also dead, and will be resurrected at the second coming of Christ their Messiah, not at the Rapture. 

Then after the Millennium, the unsaved dead will be resurrected. So as Christ was resurrected from among the dead, so will the church the body of Christ be resurrected from among the dead.

13/  Paul was sure of this fact, but he was not sure of what the context teaches. For he is not speaking about the hope of the believer that is fixed by the grace of God, he is talking about the prize—the reward of the high calling. He is not sure about this.

Colossians 3: 22 - 24 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God; And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

Ref: 03/09/1975 /  206 - THE OUT-RESURRECTION / 05/03/2021

WHAT ABRAHAM FOUND OUT

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238 – WHAT ABRAHAM FOUND OUT

December 17, 1961

Henry F. Kulp

 

Romans 3: 23  For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

We have been talking about justification by faith plus no human works. The book of Galatians is very clear on that. And this morning I want to show you that Paul taught the same thing in the book of Romans. In the first three chapters of Romans, Paul is acting as prosecuting attorney. He brings before God’s bar of justice and righteousness, all of mankind from the uncivilized pagans to the civilized pagans, and these are Gentiles, and then to the religious Jew who had all the advantages. And  then, in the 23rd verse. Paul says all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

1/  But then he says in the 24th verse Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

We are justified freely without cause by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. All this is in Christ Jesus, whom God has sent forth to be a propitiation. We told you that was the mercy seat where God communed and fellowshipped with the nation Israel. So Jesus Christ is the meeting place between sinners and God. He makes them righteous. Notice, He is the propitiation, He is the mercy seat through faith in His blood. 

You will remember that in Galatians 3: 14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Paul said he gloried in the cross—not in the flesh, not in what a man could do, and he says it is through faith in His blood that Jesus Christ becomes a propitiation for us. The meeting place between God and man.

2/  It is necessary for you to see faith in anything other than the blood of Jesus Christ as a starting point is all wrong. Faith can be the most dangerous thing in the world. but you must have faith that starts with the blood of Jesus Christ.

3/  Somebody has said that the Bible is a bloody book and that is all true. There were times when Solomon, who typifies of the fullness of Christ in His finished work, offered a thousand bullocks at one time, and thousands of sheep. Think of that, all that flowing blood. Yes, there absolutely is blood in the Bible. Blood is the beginning.

4/  This morning I thought it would be good for us just to strengthen ourselves in the great doctrine of the blood, to see what God says about the blood. You say, but Pastor Kulp, I believe in the blood. Yes, I believe you do, but you don’t know all that God says about it. There may be a lot that you didn’t even know, that I didn’t even know, so it is a good idea sometimes to take the whole book and start at the beginning and find out everything God says about a certain subject.

5/  There is much God says about the blood, And I thought that this morning we would take our Bibles and search out some great Scriptures on the blood, and I thought the best place to start would be in Exodus 12 the Passover. This was the last of the great plagues and then Israel was to be delivered. God said to Moses—tell the people to take a lamb—every man a lamb, and he is to kill the lamb, and when he kills the lamb, let him catch the blood in a basin. The death angel will pass over tonight, and if he would save his family, let every man take the blood and sprinkle it upon the side-posts of the door, and on the upper lintel of the door, and behind the blood everybody will be saved. 

Exodus 12: 13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye 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. 

6/  I think the first emphasis is the one we want to see.When I see the blood, and the emphasis is on “I”, the first personal pronoun, “I”. And it shows you what God is looking for. He was not looking for good people in those houses down there. When God looked at the great cloud of Jews down there in Egypt, He wasn’t looking for Rabbis, for good people, God was looking for blood. God said, when I see the blood.  

7/  The same thing is true today according to Romans 3: 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

You need the blood because God is still looking for it. Don’t try to get into Heaven without it, because you’ll miss Heaven. 

8/  Down in Egypt in those Jewish homes, there could be great peace in the homes where the father had obeyed God. Where he took the blood and put it on the sides-posts and then on the lintel of the door. The death angel was to pass over at 12 o’clock midnight, and you know, I would again like to use my sanctified imagination with you. I would like to think about these portions of Scripture as I read them, and the angel was to pass over at midnight, and as the hour approached, I think I see the homes of some of the Israelites, children talking that about the death angel was coming—they had heard about these plagues, they knew about them, and they had heard that every house in Egypt that had the blood on the doorposts was safe. And one little boy might say to his sister—did you see daddy put the blood on the door? Have you been out to look at it? Did you see him do it? Do you know whether we are safe? Perhaps the girl would be the oldest child, and she would take a candle, because it was getting near midnight, it was dark. She would go outside the house to examine the doorposts, and to see the upper lintel to see if the blood was there. Then she would come rushing back into the house, and I think I could hear her cry, “Yes,” daddy took care of it—the blood is there, it is all settled. We don’t have to worry, the death angel is going to pass over our house, and then these children sing and rejoice because they had peace in their hearts—they were safe—they knew what God had demanded had been done, and they knew that God would keep his word. It is the same way here—do you have peace in your heart because you trusted in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ that was shed on Calvary? 

9/  Now let us turn to the next book—the book of Exodus—Exodus 17: 11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

The life of the flesh is in the blood, but it was not the blood in the animal that saved them. Let us read it for you, for the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you, now notice, apart from the altar. Blood on the altar is not in the animals. Blood on the altar is not in the animal’s body. Blood on the altar is blood that has been poured out from the animal that has been killed. It is the poured out blood that saves.

10/  This same thing is brought home to us in Hebrews 9: 22 Without the shedding of blood is no remission. 

You see, blood must be poured out, blood must be shed—it is not the blood in the body. It was not the blood of Christ when He was born as Bethlehem. It was not the blood in His body on that glorious day when He was transfigured, it is not even the blood that was poured in the bloody sweat of the garden. It was the blood that was shed when He died on Calvary. I want to show you that God makes a point of this. 

Notice, Colossians 1: 20 And having made peace through the blood of His cross. 

Mark that—not the blood of the transfiguration, not the blood of His birth, not the blood of the garden, but the blood when the Lord Jesus Christ gave up His life. You see, it is the blood, it is the offering of Jesus Christ that saves—faith in the blood.   

11/  But man does not want this. Man despises this—he wants no part of it, and so we come to the 4th chapter of Romans, and here God gives an example to us. 

Romans 4: 1 What shall we say then, that Abraham our father, as pertained to the flesh has found. 

That is, the great man, Abraham, didn’t he have anything naturally to do to be justified with God? Let us see. What did Abraham find out pertaining to the flesh? 

I would like you to turn to Genesis 12: 2, 3 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

It was in this chapter that God begins with Abraham. God is speaking to Abraham for the first time. He told him to go out of the land into the land that God would show him. And God says to Abraham, You are going to be a blessing to the whole world. Was that to be because Abraham was a good man? What do you think? If you are saved by how you live—if you can show people you are saved by the way you live, then Abraham was a good man, and he was a blessing to the world, because he was a pretty good fellow. But in the same chapter, beginning with verse 10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

There was a famine and Abraham went down to Egypt, and he was afraid. He was afraid of the king of Egypt, who he thought would want Sarah, his wife, because she was just so beautiful and glamorous.

Genesis12: 13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.

And so he said to his wife, tell them that you are my sister, and it will be well for me for thy sake, and my soul shall live because of thee. And you know the trouble that caused. 

Genesis 12: 17, 18 And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife, and Pharaoh called Abraham and said, what is this that thou hast done unto me? 

Now instead of Abraham being a blessing you’ll have to admit that he was a curse to the Gentiles—he wasn’t a blessing to them at all. God had said—Abraham, I will make you a blessing. Instead of being a blessing to Pharaoh and his family, Pharaoh said to Abraham, What have you done to us? You have been a curse to us. 

Genesis 12: 18, 20 And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

And they said, Abraham we don’t want you.

12/  So you can see, Abraham found he was a sinner, and although God said, Abraham you will be a blessing, Abraham in the flesh is not a blessing, and neither are we. It is not our goodness—it is what the Lord has done through us and because we have believed in Him, In His shed blood, the blood of the cross.

13/  Notice, Romans 4: 3 For what sayeth the Scriptures? Abraham believed God, and was counted unto him for righteousness.

14/  Notice in the 4th verse. Now, to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned of grace, but of debt. 

That is the truth—and if God lets you do anything, it wouldn’t be of grace, God would be in debt to you. Heaven would be a strange place—every man would be telling how good he was. He would tell you how he got there—he would be able to boast. Whenever we have a testimony meeting—don’t like to hear people get up and brag how much he is able to do for the Lord, or how much he has accomplished. In a real testimony meeting we like to hear how much the Lord has done for the individual. That is a true testimony meeting, and you know, heaven is going to be like that. No one in Heaven is ever going boast. All he is ever going to do is praise God for what God has done for him.

15/  Then we come to the 5th verse. But to him that worketh not. 

So you recognize something this morning? I am sure I would never have the courage to stand in the pulpit and tell folks not to do anything at all except it were for such a verse as this. I am sure in the flesh I would never have nerve to say, don’t do anything, just believe in Jesus Christ, because I recognize, right off the bat, that I just wouldn’t believe it myself, and neither would you. This is what makes Christianity different from all the religions of the world. Man would never dream up anything like this. This is God’s Word. 

16/  You will notice in Romans 4: 5 But to him that worketh not. Let me show you how particular God is about this matter of not working. 

Turn with me to Leviticus 23: 28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God.

And here we have depicted for us the day of atonement. Verse 28 tell us that this was the observance of the Day of Atonement. That was the day when the high priest, and it was only once a year, having killed an offering, took the blood and brushed aside that wonderful veil that hid the presence of God from man, and dared to walk into God’s presence. One man, once a year, with blood, and on that day God settled the account of Israel for their sins —that marvelous Day of Atonement.  

17/  Now let me read, Leviticus 23: 28 And ye shall do no work in that day, for it is a day of atonement. 

Notice, God said, don’t do anything don’t do any work—and then He emphasizes it again in verse 30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day—that is the day of atonement, that same soul shall be destroyed from among the people. 

That is pretty pointed, isn’t it? When God was dealing with sin, God forbid any man to do any work of any kind. When the high priest, with blood on his hands went in to the presence of God for the sins of the people, if any man should dare to chop up sticks—if a man should dare to do anything the curse of God was upon him. That is emphasized through all the Scriptures. When God is putting away your sin, don’t dare do anything. He either did it all, or it is nothing.     

   

18/  Notice in Romans 4: 5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, now notice, his faith is counted for righteousness. 

His faith in what? His faith in the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ—the blood of the cross. No wonder Paul says in Galatians 6: 14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. 

Paul glories in the cross. 

19/  Let us turn to one last Scripture that will tie together all we have said today. 

Acts 20: 28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

Here Paul tells the Ephesian elders—take heed therefore unto yourselves and all the flock over which the Holy Ghost has made you overseers—to feed the church of God, which He—and, of course, that means God—hath purchased with His own blood. 

It was God, the Son of God, it was the Lord Jesus Christ who shed His blood, and it says it was God’s blood. First of all we get from this an assurance that Jesus Christ is God, and the church was purchased, bought from the slave market of sin by His blood, so you see it was divine blood. It wasn’t just common blood that purchased our salvation it was not common blood that made us children of God—it was divine blood, it was the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.  

20/  But how man hates this—this is all through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ who shed His blood. 

Men do not want to face these facts, they want to turn their backs upon them, they want to ignore them, and they want to offer to God their filthy, foul, corrupt works.

AMEN

Ref: 12/17/1961 / 238 - WHAT ABRAHAM FOUND OUT / 04/11/2021