All right. So in verse nine, I mean, in verse four, but the life with the flesh or but the flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat? Now, there's a limit to what we can eat. Now, over there in Timothy, the Bible says that it's a doctrine of devils to abstain from meats. And we don't command to abstain from meats. There are some religions that still live in the Old Testament time. You take your Seventh-day Adventist and things like that, and they go back to the Old Testament law, and if it was good, then it's good today. And so we don't eat certain kind of meat, and we don't eat certain kind of fish, and we follow the unclean, clean animal dietary laws. Well, that's all done away with in Christ. And in Christ, the Bible says as long as you give it with prayer and thanksgiving, you can eat it whatever you want. So don't get tied up in your religious activities about, you never know, if you want to avoid it for health reasons, that's fine, too. But don't, you know, don't have to look down your nose at any. But there is one thing that you're not supposed to still eat to this day, and that's blood. You say, well, why is that? Well, we'll talk about it here in a minute or right now. As mentioned in Chapter 8, the Bible is a bloody book. if you remember last week we talked about that and emphasize emphasizes it should say the significance of blood Leviticus 1711 is right on your paper it says for the life of the flesh is in the blood now that's important the fact that the life of the flesh is in the blood means that your life comes from your blood what keeps you alive today temporarily keeps you alive is your blood because you're gonna die someday because of the wages of sin so there's sin in your blood Right? It all goes together. So, and that's part of the reason why you're not supposed to eat it. And then here goes, it says further, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls. For it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. Now who did that for us today so that we could have an atonement for our soul? Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross. Alright? It's meant for an atonement for the soul. And so, back in the Old Testament, they gave less than best sacrifices. The Bible even tells you in Hebrews that it was not the best. That it was something temporary, that they were to shed that blood, and that blood was to show life. Someone's life was being bled out of them so that I could be forgiven. So, let's see here. Here in Genesis 9-4, man is prohibited from eating blood. The commandment is still in effect today. Go to Acts chapter 15, Acts chapter 15, and look at this. There are some things, if you were in dispensational class in Bible Institute, you know we didn't get to it, but you know that there are some things that are meant for other times, and they're not for you. The Bible is all written for you, so you can read the whole Bible, but all the Bible is not written to you. right? Everything in the Bible is not to you. We're studying Adam right now, and we're studying Noah right now. All the things that we're reading about Adam and Noah were never to me. You know, don't eat of a tree. I can eat all the trees, you know? And go build an ark, and the commands that were given, that's not to me. It was to them. Alright, but there are some things in the Bible that are to everybody, and they cross dispensational lines. They are eternal truths of God, and this is one of them. And well, I'll keep my thoughts together here. Acts chapter 15 and verse 20. Acts chapter 15 and verse 20 is where the disciples got together, or the apostles, I should say, got together, and were deciding on the gospel. And the gospel was decided by Paul, because Paul was getting all the conversions among the Gentiles, and he came and told Peter and the rest of them, hey, the Gentiles are getting saved just like we are, and I'm not going to teach all that today, but we have taught it when we went through the book of Acts. And let's see, what verse did I have on your paper there? Verse 20. Well, look at verse... 19. They're deciding that the gospel is just simply the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. And in verse 19, wherefore my sentence is that we trouble... They were arguing about whether they should keep the Mosaic law or not still. You can go all the way back to earlier in the chapter and see that. But now they're concluding, wherefore my sentence is that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God, but that we write unto them that they abstain from pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled, and from blood. For Moses of old time hath been every city then that preached him, being read in the synagogue every Sabbath day. So they were talking about keeping the law. They said they don't have to keep any of the law. All the unclean and clean animals don't have to worry about that anymore. Don't have to keep the Sabbath day anymore. But one thing I want them to do, my sentence is that they abstain from pollutions of idols, from fornication, from things strangled, and from blood. Why? Why is that an eternal truth in the Bible? Well, we'll look a little deeper here. Because it's diseased. I gave you that. Romans 6.23, we don't have to turn to it. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. So, the life of the flesh is in the blood, but there's something wrong with your blood. Your blood has sin in it. Your blood has disease in it. So we had to wait for a man who came with perfect blood. We had to wait for a substitutionary atonement. Couldn't have been an animal, because the animals still have the blood. Right? In fact, we are told when we eat the animals, back in Genesis 9-4, we don't eat their blood. Why? Because they die too. They're sinful too. They're carnivorous too. They'll eat each other too. They're savages, right? They're bloody. And so we don't eat their... They're sinful. The only blood we're supposed to ingest You reading your paper? Everybody's looking attentively at me. That's good. Just look right at me. It's fine. The only blood we're supposed to ingest is the pure blood of Christ. Go to John chapter 6. Now Jesus said something in John chapter 6 that blew even his own disciples' minds. John chapter 6, and all the way to the end, go to verse, not the complete end, but 53, verse 53. Well, don't start there go to verse 48 all the way back up to John 6 48 I am that bread of life your fathers that eat man in the wilderness and are dead This is the bread which can't cometh down from heaven that a minute that a man may eat thereof and and not die I am the living bread which came down from heaven if any man eat of this bread he shall live forever and and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. Then the Jews therefore strove among themselves saying, how can this man give us his flesh to eat? Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whosoever eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. And the Living Father hath sent me, as the Living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father. So he that eateth me, he shall live by me. Now when it says, go down to verse 60, it says, many therefore of his disciples, his own disciples, the ones who walked and talked with him, when they heard this, said, this isn't hard saying, who can hear it? Verse 61, when Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, doth this offend you? Now see how Jesus talks. He talks and says, eat my flesh and drink my blood, and He knows He's getting them. He knows He's messing with their minds. And He says, does this offend you? And so, you know, in other words, if Jesus says something that bothers you in the Bible, are you just going to say, well, I just don't know if I can handle that. You know, this thing about animals, John, that's your personality, that's you. But I know I love animals, and I don't care if God says it or not, I'm going to go ahead and join PETA, and I'm going to go ahead and save the whales, and I'm going to give my offering to that instead of to the work of God. You know, does this offend you? So Jesus says things on purpose to offend people, and he asks them, does this offend you? And what and if you shall see the Son of Man, verse 62, ascend up to where he was before? It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. Now he's explaining it to them. The flesh doesn't profit anything. You don't eat my flesh. The words that I speak unto you, they're spirit and they're life. I'm talking spiritual now and you just can't handle spiritual truths. That's your real problem. I'm giving you something that you can understand. Eat my flesh, drink my blood. I'm the bread of heaven. But you can't understand it, so I'm going to have to dumb it down and explain it to you. The flesh doesn't profit anything. The words that I'm talking to you, they're spiritual words. Right? But we still have to drink that blood. You say, well, how do we do it? How do we drink it? Well, if I'm a Catholic, you know how I do it. If I'm a Catholic, I go to Mass, and they have the Eucharist, right? And I go ahead and I drink the blood of Jesus Christ. I drink the wine. They'll give you fermented wine. See, the Catholic Church is not only wicked, they're very wicked. You're never supposed to drink fermented wine for the pure blood of the grape of Jesus Christ. When Jesus even gave it to his disciples, it was fresh from the vine. All right. But we won't get into all that because Tuesday night, if you come to Bible Institute, we're going to talk about all this. We're going to talk about the Lord's Supper on Tuesday night and we'll get into more detail. But they believe in transubstantiation, meaning that if I take this this this wine and I drink it, it magically turned because of the priest's power. It magically turns into the real blood of Jesus Christ. Therefore, they will take you to this passage of scripture and say, therefore, I am obeying John chapter six and I am eating and drinking his flesh because they do the same thing with the wafer. They say, if I take that in, it turns into his actual body and I'm eating his real flesh and I'm eating his real body. And once is not enough, by the way, they do it over and over and over and over. So they on multiple levels, they're wrong. But Jesus clearly cleared this up for his own disciples, which they're so dumb, and I don't apologize for saying that, because if you're a priest, you are willingly ignorant. And if you're the Pope, you are willingly ignorant. You're a world leader, Pope. He's nothing more than a dictator world leader, all right, with the dress on. and a funny hat to try and convince you that he's religious so that you'll fall at his feet. Now, if Joe Biden said, I'm religious and put on a dress, you'd all laugh at him and kick him out of the White House. But when the Pope does it, you fall at his feet and you say, Holy Father. It's wicked. It's abomination. He's the anti-Christ is what he is. He's the anti-Christ. The King James Bible translators knew it, and they called him our most hellish father. They didn't respect him at all. And people say, if you were in class last Tuesday, we talked about baptizing. Well, the word baptize is a transliteration, because the King James translators were afraid of the Catholics, because they didn't want to put the word immerse in the Bible. And I won't get into all that. If you weren't here, if you were here, hopefully that jogs your memory a little bit. But they weren't afraid of Rome. Right in their dedicatory, right in their writings, they called him our most hellish father. They weren't worried about that. But anyway, how do we drink Christ's blood? Well, go over to 1 Corinthians chapter 12, and I'm going to show you where we do this. We actually do do this. Jesus was giving spiritual words, but he is actually telling you what's literally happening when you get saved. 1 Corinthians chapter 12, and look at verse 13. We've quoted this often. 1 Corinthians 12, 13. It says, for by one spirit are we all baptized into one body. Now, if you were in class Tuesday night, we covered that, right? We're all baptized into one body. That's a spiritual holy ghost baptism. That has nothing to do with water. You're not water baptized into this local church to become a member. You're not water baptized into the body of Christ. You're not water baptized into salvation. The only thing water does for you after is if you take a shower, you'll get clean from it. And if you get saved, it's a testimony to the world that I was saved and I received Jesus Christ, and I'm showing you that I'm getting immersed under the water, total immersion, not sprinkling. Sprinkling is wrong and bad. Say, what's wrong? It's bad. It's misrepresenting, it's totally misrepresenting the type of the death, the burial, and the resurrection when you come up out of the water of Jesus Christ, showing the world that I'm anti-Catholic. That's why I'm called a Baptist. You know that, right? I'm called a Baptist because I'm a re-baptizer. I don't take your sprinkling of an infant. I take the death, the burial, and resurrection after salvation, and they will kill you and burn you at the stake for that. If they could get away with it, they'd still do that today to you. But they can't. So I'm just telling you that you can't destroy the type, but here in verse 1st Corinthians 12 13 were baptized by a spirit the Holy Spirit into one body whether we be Jews or Gentiles whether we be bond or free and have been made all I've been all made to drink see that word all been made to drink into one spirit now we're talking about what Jesus talking about if you don't drink my blood and eat my flesh now you say well I'll give you another verse go to John chapter 7 John chapter 7 John chapter 7, verse 38. John chapter 7, verse 38, he says, he that believeth on me, have you believed on Jesus Christ? Okay, so if you have, this is what happened. You were baptized with the Holy Ghost, 1 Corinthians 12, 13, and here, he that believeth on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. Huh? That sounds new age doctrine to me. You go to the yoga class and they talk about look at your navel. You ever know that? No, you guys don't go to yoga, do you? Good, don't go to yoga. But if you do study it, they'll talk about your navel, the powers in your belly, the powers in your navel. But look what the Bible says in verse 39. But this spake he of the Spirit. The same capital S Spirit that we read about in 1 Corinthians 12, 13, about those rivers of living water. But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive, for the Holy Ghost was not yet given, because that Jesus was not yet glorified. You see right there, there's one verse by the way, let me just segue a moment and tell you that there's another verse in your Bible that's plain as day, that people weren't saved the same way in the Gospels as they are even today. During the time of the life of Christ, the Holy Ghost had not yet even been given. And it tells you right there, because he was not even glorified. He had not died and risen again. And so you weren't saved under John the Baptist the way you were saved under Paul. There's different kinds in the Bible, and it's plain. It's just plain English. But the point here is that we drink of this spirit. And this spirit is called living waters. Now, if you go back, and we won't go back and teach it all again, but if you go back to our beginning classes about how Adam was a type of Christ, and Adam's body was a little different than our bodies are today. We're made in the likeness and image of Adam today. decaying, dying, wrinkling flesh, right? But Adam's flesh was a little better than ours. It was more of an eternal, I don't, I wish, I don't know what it's gonna look like, but I have a tendency to believe that he looked like the risen Jesus Christ. The risen Jesus Christ could eat and drink, but he could also walk through walls. The risen Jesus Christ could go up and ascend up to heaven and come back down like that. Okay, he has a different body, but he still has a body. And Adam had a different body, but then when he sinned, we got one like this. And we said that maybe, perhaps, perhaps, Adam's blood was water. So when you take of the Holy Spirit, and it's in your belly of rivers of living water, And if you're drinking Christ's blood, maybe what you're drinking, not maybe the Bible clearly tells us we're drinking into one spirit and we're drinking that pure water that flows from the throne of God. Right. And so it's not as it's not as if we're drinking his blood like the Catholics are doing, like vampires, like cannibals eating Christ's body and his blood. Jesus said, no, that's not what you're asking. The words that I'm speaking unto you, they're spiritual, but you just can't handle it because you're a Catholic. Alright, and so anyway, getting back to here, just as Israel, go to 1 Corinthians chapter 10, go back there, 1 Corinthians chapter 10. We'll tie this thought up here in a minute. I'll give you two more references, 1 Corinthians 10 verse 4. Well, I have to back up. Let's go ahead and start at verse one more. First Corinthians ten one. Moreover, brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant. The Bible has pastors preached on that. There's a lot of statements in the Bible that be not ignorant, be not ignorant. Those are the places we might want to read. I would not that you should be ignorant how that all our fathers were under the cloud and all passed through the sea. Now that's Exodus, that's when they were going through the Red Sea, right? And were all baptized unto Moses. Wait a minute, well hold the presses. There's another kind of baptism in there besides immersion. So maybe the King James Bible translators knew what they were doing when they put the word baptism in the Bible rather than immerse. Now pastor is going to teach that in about two weeks, three weeks from now you'll come to institute. He's going to teach you about the seven kinds of baptism that are in your Bible. Alright and they're not all water and if you think that they're all water you'll get yourself messed up and you'll become in the false doctrine you'll become a heretic. But anyway they were all baptized unto Moses by walking through dry ground on dry ground, probably not even a drop of water misting on them because it was dry, and God made point of that. They're walking right through that red sea. What a miracle. But the Bible calls it a baptism. And we're all baptized in the cloud and the sea, and did all eat the same spiritual meat. Now look, that's Jesus, the bread from heaven, the spiritual meat, right? Verse three, verse four, and did all drink the same spiritual drink. They had a spiritual drink too. For they drank that spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ. Now, there's so many directions I want to go right here. That rock was Christ. Christ? Who is Christ? It's Jesus, the anointed one. He's the Christ. He's the Messiah. That's what Christ means. You mean He was in the Old Testament? According to this verse, He was. You mean, and I can't get into it now, He was Jehovah. So the Jehovah's Witness, you're all messed up. You want to make a big deal out of Jehovah, Jehovah, Jehovah, and the Bible calls him Lord. Lord is one of the names for Jesus Christ. Lord is one of the names for God. Lord is one of the names for the Holy Spirit. When you say Lord, you're talking about the Trinity. And when you talk about that rock that Moses got that water to come out of, that rock was Christ. and they drank spiritual water, real water that they physically were able to drink out of that rock. That rock was Christ. What is that a picture of? His blood that we're supposed to drink today. You see how it gets kind of fun here, kind of deep, but it's good. Eating blood. Now, so that's 1 Corinthians 10.4. Go over to Deuteronomy chapter 32, Deuteronomy 32, and this is the last verse, and we'll move on from this subject, if we have time. Deuteronomy 32. Now go back, now just in your minds, go to Deuteronomy 32 with your Bible, in your mind go back to Genesis 9-4 where it says you're not supposed to eat, you can eat all the animals but you can't eat their blood. What a strange thing Lord, I mean over in Thailand they eat blood, they eat blood on a stick, you know, they fry the blood up and they tear it and they eat it. What's wrong with that? You know, it's a delicacy in some countries. Well, it's wrong. According to the Bible, it's wrong. Why is it wrong, God? Why are you making a big deal out of that? I can eat their, you know... Well, I was going to make a statement, but maybe I'll think about what I'm about to say. But have you ever been to a store in certain places and seen you could buy tongue? And some of that tongue is winking at you because there's an eyeball in there, too. And you can eat all this. Do you eat the fish? You know, I go to the Mexican restaurant and you can order the fish and the eyeball is still in the fish. Get the eyeball out of my fish. You think I want to eat that? Well, we eat it. I'm not going to eat that. So, we eat some gross things, Lord. Why can't we eat the blood? Well, because the life of the flesh is in the blood. And you know when you eat that blood, and you think there's nothing to this vampire stuff? There's plenty to that. Why do they want to make a big deal out of it? Why is it entertaining to watch vampires on TV? Why is it, in movies, why is that entertaining? Why do they want to drink someone's blood? That's opposite. Why is it that in satanic rituals they want to drink the blood? That God said, don't drink. He said, drink from the spiritual rock. That rock was Christ. See, it's an opposite. And so why don't I drink the blood? Because the blood is disease, the blood has sin in it, for the wages of sin is death, the life of the flesh is in the blood, and you die. Right? So eating blood from sin-cursed flesh, that's another rock. Look at Deuteronomy 32, what it says about that, another rock. Deuteronomy 32, verse, let's see. Let's go to verse, I guess we'll start in 31. That's what I have on your paper. But I mean, I was just saying if I want to go sooner or earlier, it says for their rock is not as our rock. Verse 31, Deuteronomy 32, 31, even as our enemies themselves being judges for their vine, isn't Jesus the vine for their vine? What's a vine? That's grapes. What did Adam eat in the garden? An apple. See how this is getting connected? So, for their rock is not as our rock, even as our enemies themselves being judges. For their vine is of the vine of Sodom. Flesh, strange flesh, going about strange flesh. That's what Jude says. Even as Sodom, they went after strange flesh. And of the fields of Gomorrah, their grapes are grapes of Gaul. Their clusters are bitter. Their wine is the poison of dragons. What is Satan? That old dragon, right? And the cruel venom of asps. Now you can read more on your own, we'll stop there. But that's why you don't drink blood, Noah. That's why you don't eat blood, Noah. And that's why you don't do it. Apostles agreed in Acts chapter 15 that even to this day we don't drink blood and eat blood. Why? Because it's a type of sin. And we drink and are baptized with the Holy Spirit, pure water. That water is Jesus Christ. So you can see now how you go through the Bible and you connect the dots through the Bible. And here's the problem. If you don't have a King James Bible, you can't do that study we just did. You say, why not? Because we believe, I believe, that the King James Bible is perfect. It's without error. There's no mistake in it. There's no word in there that shouldn't be there. When the King James translators, and I'm going back to Tuesday night, put baptize in there, they were correct to do it. Even though all your Baptists Your fundamentalist Baptist will say, now see people, I appreciate the King James Bible and what they did, but that word baptize is really baptizo in the Greek, and baptizo is the real Greek word, and what that word means is immerse. So if they were really honest and weren't afraid of the Catholic Church, they would have put the word immerse everywhere in the Bible that the word baptize shows up. That's what they say. But that's not right, because every time you do that, then every time you find the word baptized in the Bible, you would consider it to be water. And you would say, oh, OK, it's good that I'm baptized to be saved. That's not how you get saved. And so thank God that the word of God is perfect, and they put the right word in there, which is baptized, because the word baptized, in context of the rest of where you find it, has many different meanings. All right, so we have a perfect Bible, and because of that perfect Bible, you can find out about what Jesus was doing when he said, unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood. And why, God, did you make a crazy thing over to tell Noah, you can't eat blood? And why, when the apostles got together, did they say, you still can't eat blood? I mean, that has nothing to do with my salvation. It has nothing to do with your salvation. You're not going to hell because you ate blood. You're going to hell for rejecting Jesus Christ, but it's a sin to eat blood. And it still is to this day.