The Coming of Jesus Into His Temple

Cecil duCille

Florida Convention, April 1998
(Published in Keeping in Touch July 28, 2002)

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Let us pray. Father, we thank You that You have brought us to Your dining table to eat of Your bread. Just as the priests used to be in the old tabernacle, just as Your angels in heaven come together to praise and to feed upon the life which comes from You, we come to You tonight, hungry and asking for Your bread. Let nothing of man come forth, oh God, but let Your Spirit anoint us with the glory of God, that the Christ in us will be fed, that the Christ in us may grow and destroy the flesh in us. Lord God, we know that some are more flesh than others and some are more Christ than others. Lord God, lift all of our levels we pray, that we might fully come into that fullness of Thee which You have promised in Jesus Christ. We thank You, Lord. Amen.

Turn with me, please, to Romans 8 and let us read from the 19th to the 29th verse. 19For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 20For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 21Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. 24For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Praise God. I want to speak to you about the coming of Jesus into His temple, or “the change.” We just finished singing about how we will be “changed, changed, changed from glory to glory.” I want us to let our minds go into what God is talking about. You know, sometimes when we use these theological terms like glory, ask anybody here, “What do we mean by glory?” and I might get as many answers as people here for the meaning of glory.

The Word of God is on different dimensions, on different levels. You can understand the thing on the basic, natural level, but when it gets to the spiritual level, you have another understanding. There is yet another level beyond the spiritual level, which is the fullness of the understanding of all the levels. Beyond this point, it is not humanly possible to understand. Have you ever thought of anything that is not humanly possible for you to understand? You do? You accept it? There are some thing that are beyond our human capacity to understand. Have you ever tried to understand God? Did you ever try to think about God and then you just say, “Lord God, forgive me, don’t let me think anymore.”?

Let’s look at this God that we call God. He made the heavens and the earth. Can you imagine anybody making the heavens and the earth? Have you ever seen what the astronomers see in the telescopes? Massive worlds swirling around. Some of them are on fire! A sun that keeps blowing out energy for God knows when and never burns out. Where is it getting the energy from? There is no pipeline to the sun and this thing just keeps on, and we are supposed to be, what, 90 million miles from it? Well, you see, if you guys, especially those of you from Germany and up North, spend too much time out in the sun, you will get all sun burned! Who burned you up? A sun that is 90 million miles away burned you. This thing has been going on for a long time and it has no place that it is going to stop putting out fire and light. It is throwing energy and fire 1500 kilometers off the surface of the sun. How about a God who made that? And we understand that that is the smallest sun in the galaxy. They have seen a planet that, you listen, now, the diameter of the planet is the distance from here to the sun! What are we talking about? God! We are talking about God.

Now, when I try to think about this God, I tremble because I think, “Where did He come from and where did the place come from that He came from?” And, “Who am I?” All I can say is, “Thank You, God, that You are on my side.” Yes! Don’t try to go any further with that thought. You just thank God that you are existing and if you exist, then God exists. I cannot understand any scientist who would admit that he is, that he exists, and yet he would say that there is no God. It is just so utterly illogical and stupid. Downright stupid. I go outside there and I see cars parked from that end right down the line. Here is a Ford, and here is a Buick, and here is a Toyota. Well, what the car tells me is that there is a place where they make Fords. It tells me that there is a place where they make Buicks and Toyotas, and these places are different places. I have never been to the Toyota factory, but it’s not even a good guess – it’s right there, the fact remains!

Now, when I look at my body, this marvelous human thing, I must say, “Well, whoever made this, He is God. He is God! So, we should not have a problem, for the Bible says that if any man comes to God, he must first believe that God is and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him (Hebrews 11:6). Now, that is a proper, good foundation for us to start with. We are here because God is. Now, the same God who is, He says that whom he did foreknow, He did predestinate to be made in form as His son Jesus Christ (Romans 8:29). Now, we have assurance, then, that we who are sitting here, have the seed of God in us, to become like Jesus Christ! Amen!

Let us consider who Jesus Christ is. Jesus Christ, somebody says, is the son of Mary. Would you say amen to that? [Congregation: No…. One person says, “Yes!”] Yes! Mary had Him as a baby, therefore, He is her son. If we are agreed on that then we can go on. Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Do we say amen to that? Now, God got together with Mary, planted a seed out of His own bosom into the woman and brought forth a Son. Now, whose blood is in your son? Your blood is in your son? This is the basic principle, that the blood of the father is in the son. So then, Jesus Christ had the blood of this God that made the stars and the sun and the moon and that made you and me. So then, if Jesus had the blood of God Almighty, the life of God Almighty was in a man! Are you with me? I am going step by step. If the blood of God was in a man, then it is not impossible for the blood of God to be in you! Amen. In other words, God laid a foundation, set up a principle and let it work.

Our world was robbed, completely robbed of life. Satan robbed our world of life, because life and sin could not dwell in the same place. So when Adam sinned, he lost his life. Now, if Adam lost his life, then Adam became a dead man. But, if Jesus came with life, then among all the dead men there was a living man. Now, God had to contrive a method of transferring the life from that living man to all of the dead men. Now, if He had transferred the life physically, then you would have a man with a living physical body and a dead soul. It would do you no good. Are you with me? Don’t fall asleep on me now!

Now, according to the Catholic doctrine, when you take the bread, you take the flesh of Jesus, and when you take the wine, you take the blood of Jesus, but you take it into your natural body, therefore, if it were even true, which it is not, you would have someone taking in the life of God into their physical body, but their soul would remain dead. Therefore, Jesus Christ died for the soul of Man. Amen. When Adam was created, what was Adam? A living soul. So he was a live man when he was made, so when he died, he became a dead soul. Now, I am going to explain to you the difference between a living soul and a dead soul. Let us say this represents man (the drawing of the three circles). This is spirit, this is soul, and this is body. That soul, then, that is alive, if this is God, the living soul must have some God in it, for it is God that brings the soul alive. But, because the man is spirit, soul and body, the life must come from the spirit to the soul. So the life must come from God to the spirit. The life comes from God to the sprit, from the spirit to the soul, and let’s leave the body for the time being. So, God brought Christ, and Christ sends the Holy Spirit. Therefore the life must come through God to Christ and through Christ to the Holy Ghost. WhenJesus, therefore, shed His blood… you know, this is Easter time and the peculiar thing about Easter is that we call it Easter. That word Easter is derived from Ishtar. That is the name of a goddess that was worshipped in Egypt and in all of the ancient world. That goddess was supposed to have had no mother or father, and was supposed to have hatched from an egg that fell down from the sky on Easter morning. Children, have you ever heard that before? That is the reason why they have Easter eggs. That is the reason why Christians do not keep Easter. That is the reason why Satan has pawned it off on the church to keep Easter. Now, you have heard of Lent. Lent is forty days before Easter, beginning with what is called Ash Wednesday. Have you ever heard that before? Do you know what Ash Wednesday is? Ash Wednesday is the day when they put ashes on their foreheads. It is all from the heathen world. It has nothing to do with Jesus Christ, but the church does it. Forty days of Lent, wherein you are not supposed to eat any meat, is a heathen thing. They used to do this in mourning for Nimrod. They called him Tammuz in some places. This mourning, not eating meat, was because Nimrod was killed at Easter time.

Let me tell you a little of the story. They worshipped Nimrod as the Messiah. He had certain spiritual powers, just like some of our preachers today. He had powers that he could stop an arrow from coming to him. He would just stand up and they would shoot at him. He would just stand there and all the arrows would be deflected by his spiritual powers. Well, the story goes that Shem, who is the first son of Noah, saw the destruction of the people, and prayed about it and sent a man to the tournament with an arrow over which they had prayed and fasted for ten days. The man shot the arrow at him and it struck him dead. They cut his head off and cast it into the river. That started another religion, because they began to worship the river and they said that Nimrod would be coming back one day to return, like the return of Christ. The Jewish Passover was the time when Jesus Christ was crucified and because it goes by the moon, up and down, sometimes the Passover and Easter come together. It so happens that it comes together at this time.

I want you to look with me a little bit on the Blood of Jesus Christ and what the Blood of Jesus Christ means to us. Up to the year of 1, or it might have been near 33 1/2, counting from Jesus Christ, the time of the Passover was right. It was correct. Let me say that over, because some of you don’t understand what I am saying. Time is not always right according to God’s time, because man sometimes has a different calculation for time than God. There are two types of time calculations that are used in the Bible. One is lunar and one is solar. The solar year is 365 days plus .4. Amen. A lunar year is 360 days. At the time of Jesus’ crucifixion, he was about 33 1/2 years old. It was exactly at the day, exactly at the hour, exactly at the moment Jesus Christ was crucified and it was correct. How do you know it was correct at that time? It had to be the perfect time according to the Passover. The Bible says that Jesus Christ would die at the Passover, as the Passover Lamb. He was killed exactly at the Passover. The Bible says that when the fullness of time was come, so that means to say that God had a special time when He was going to allow Jesus Christ to be killed in for the lamb that was to be slain. I want you to see that very carefully because if we are counting time, we have to remember that up to approximately 2,000 years ago time was right.

Now, why did He have to die? Why did Jesus have to die? You remember, Jesus asked the Father in the garden if it could be possible to do this another way and God said, “No, we must go through with it.” So, Jesus had to die , because He was the only living man on earth. He was the only sinless lamb on earth! He contained within Himself the Blood, or the life, of Almighty God. Oh, praise God!! Amen. Yes, He had the life of God within Himself. Now, this life could only come into me by the laws of God and the only way is if Jesus gave it up and paid the price for me, and if I accept it. I want everybody here to see that, because you know, for Jesus Christ to die and for us to accept it, is basic. He had to get the blood drained out of him. I asked God, as a young Christian, to show me the crucifixion. This is one part of my life I will never forget. Jesus took me step by step in the crucifixion. I saw the crown of thorns put on His head. Now, we talk about revelation. I saw the crown of thorns put on his head. A man took a stick, a rod, and hit him on the head, and it came out like a pincushion through the side of his head, and the blood ran down from the points of the thorns like sweat down His face. He was beaten with what we call a Roman cat-o-nine. It had nine tails and when you got one stroke, you got nine blows. They would put a little lead ball at the end of each tail. Whenever the lead ball hit, it would leave a bruise, like a blood bruise. The cat-o-nine made of leather would take off the skin on His back. When His back was raw, they would rub either salt in it, or vinegar. Then they put this mock robe onto Him and gave Him the cross to carry.

Jesus was a carpenter and He was used to carrying wood on His shoulder and this wood was in the shape of a cross. A lot of people say, “Oh, it was a stick, one straight pole,” and what not. Nothing like that. I saw a cross. Amen. I saw a cross. And they led Him. When they got to one point, a man, mocking Him, came before Him and spat in His face. He could not even wipe it off. When Jesus was explaining this to me, He said, “It was very hard to bear.”

When they got to the cross, you know, generally, the Roman soldiers would have to fight the man to get him down. Jesus laid down on the cross. The Bible says that like a lamb to the slaughter, like a sheep before his shearers he opened not his mouth (Isaiah 53:7). They put the big, old, rusty nail in His hand and drove it down and they drove down the nails in both hands. They put the feet together and they drove a nail through them. All this time, God was protecting every bone. The nail went between the bones. They never touched a bone. The Bible said not one bone was broken (Psalm 34:20, John 19:33). Then they lifted up the thing and whump, and he sagged on His hands and that wasn’t all. The beating that they had given to His body drove the blood and the water down into His stomach. The Roman soldier came along and plunged his sword into His side. The idea of plunging a sword in the side is to puncture the heart, to make sure that the person is dead.

All this they were doing, they were bringing forth the Word of God that the scriptures might be fulfilled. Blood and water gushed out. You know, when we used to kill animals, we would hang them up and we would cut the throat and drain the blood so that the meat was properly drained of blood. Jesus was drained of His blood. You ask the question, “Why?” This is the reason: when the blood of Jesus left His body, the Holy Ghost at last had a weapon that He could use. Do you understand? The scriptures says that the Blood of Jesus Christ had more power, more glory, than the blood of the lamb. Now, remember, Moses killed the lambs and took the blood and daubed it over the lintels and on the door posts, and when the evil spirits came, they could not enter through those doors, (Exodus 12:23) because of the glory of God that shown from those doors. Now, if the blood of lambs, with the faith of man, could have such a power, what does that say about the blood of Jesus Christ? Amen. Hallelujah!!! It was the absolute weapon to defeat Satan. Hallelujah!!!!!!!

The Bible said that the lamb for the sin offering should be burned with fire, and that it should be burned without the camp (Exodus 29:14, John 1:29). Therefore, Jesus Christ had one more duty to do. He had to go to hell. I am going to say something that may shock you now, for Adam was in hell, Abel was in hell, Abraham was in hell, David was in hell and Jesus had to go to hell to set them free. There is one more reason He had to go to hell. He had to go to hell, not only because Abraham had gone to hell, but he had to go hell because I would have gone to hell! The wages of sin is death and He had to pay for my death! The price was not fully paid until He paid it in hell. So Jesus went and paid it.

I don’t want to confuse you, but look here, we have Jesus, the same Jesus is Christ and the same Christ is Lord. Let us see what that means. Now, Jesus is the son of Mary. This is actually “Yeshua.” So, “Jesus” is English and “Iosus” is German and they are all Latin languages. Do you know who first called Him Jesus? Pilate gave Him the name “Jesus.” He said, “Write it in Latin.” The word “Jesus” is the end of the Latin nominative. He said “Write in Greek: Iesous.” He said, “Write it in Hebrew: Yeshua.” So, there were three words there, and we call Him Jesus. Jesus, then, would be son of Mary. Christ is God, and Lord, Savior So, when Jesus died, He was split in three parts. Are you with me, brethren? When Jesus died he was split in three parts. Look at these three parts here. When a sinner dies, what happens? His spirit goes back to God, that’s gone. His soul goes down to hell and his body to the grave. Three parts. The Bible says that the word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword, dividing asunder of soul and spirit (Hebrews 4:12). Amen. We need the proper doctrine of Christ. So, Jesus was split in three parts. The body went to the grave. The soul went to hell to pay the price of sin, but Jesus Christ was the High Priest. He was both the High Priest and the lamb. Now, when the high priest sacrifices the lamb, what happens to the lamb? You have to help me, please. The lamb dies and is burnt outside of the camp, but the high priest, where does he go? He takes the blood of the lamb and he goes through the tabernacle. Where is he going? He is going to the Holy of Holies. Why? What is he going to do in the Holy of Holies? He is going to offer it before God for the sins of the people. Hallelujah!!! Hallelujah!!! Now, when God accepts the offering, what happens? Tell me now, please. He comes back out. If God didn’t accept the offering, what would have happened to the high priest? He wouldn’t come back out. So, when the offering is accepted, the high priest, Christ, must come back and He must give the people the deliverance that they need from their sins. Are you with me? Now, let’s look at Jesus. So, Jesus being the lamb and Jesus being the high priest, for the high priest and the lamb to come back together to bring deliverance to the people, the lamb must be resurrected. Amen. Can you see that, brethren? It is absolutely necessary that the lamb had to be resurrected.

When Jesus went to hell… somebody said, he only went to hell in order to preach to the spirits in prison. My question would be, “Why did it take Him three days?” He went to atone for our sins. Hallelujah. He preached to the spirits in prison after the resurrection. Come on now. Somebody said, “Hey, you are wrong.” He didn’t preach to the spirits in prison as a dead man. He came alive in Hell!

When the high priest when to the Father, remember, the Bible says that God is the judge. Every man that dies God judges him. Did you know you go before the judgment seat of God when you die? When Christ was presented before God, God judged Him innocent. God judged Him sinless. When God judged him sinless, the devil was in trouble! All the men who died before, they had sin and because they had sin, the devil took them. The devil contended! The Bible says death reigned from Adam to Moses (Romans 5:14). Why Moses? All the men who died from Adam down to Moses, the devil took them. Why? Because the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23), and none of them were sinless. So, then how did Moses beat the devil? Moses was the only man who died and the devil couldn’t touch him because God told Moses exactly when he was going to die (Deuteronomy 31:14). And if you could offer sacrifices, brother, and God told you exactly when you were going to die, you would offer a sacrifice for yourself and get sinless before you died!

So, in the law, there was a way of escape and one man out of every dispensation escaped. In the dispensation of innocence Enoch escaped. By faith Enoch walked with God and Enoch was not, for God took him (Genesis 5:24). The only way Enoch could have escaped is by not dying. Now, Elijah made an escape, too, but he couldn’t die or he would go to hell. Amen. The next man came under the law and under the law, all Moses needed to know from God was when he was going to die; so he made a sacrifice for himself and the Bible says that Satan contended over the body of Moses (Jude 1:9). We knew that Moses escaped, because he appeared on the mount of transfiguration with Elijah, who didn’t die (Matthew 17: 3). Now, you and I have an escape. Hallelujah. That’s what we are coming to. Jesus preached to the spirits in prison and after He preached to them at His resurrection they resurrected also. We are talking about a physical resurrection. Amen. Their souls were not perfected. Did you ever hear any doctrine like that before? Their souls were not perfected, yet their bodies were resurrected, because Jesus said, if you believe in Me, I will raise you up at the last day (John 6:40). Now, what raised them up? It was the Blood!! Amen!! Let’s read it. We are in Romans 8. He said He would quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you. Read verse 11, But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Do you know what that means? It means that the mortal bodies of the people here, all of us here, that if Christ dwells in us, the same Spirit, which is the Holy Ghost, that raised Him up from the dead, will quicken your mortal bodies. Now, He did not say that He will quicken your dead bodies alone, He will quicken your mortal bodies, that is, while you are alive. You will be quickened while you are alive. What do we mean? It means that the life that is in God, in the Blood of Jesus Christ, will come into you, into your soul and that it will quicken your mortal bodies, because of the life that is in your soul.

I am speaking from first hand experience. Amen. I did not believe in tongues, mainly because I did not know about tongues. I was innocent of God. Innocent, didn’t know God, and I was praying and God showed me an explosion. He said that three explosions would come in my life. The scriptures call it dunamin, dynamite. That’s what the scriptures call it. He said, “On the 7th of February,” and I saw an explosion, boom!! He said, “On the 14th of February,” and I saw another explosion, boom!! He said, “And then…,” and the next explosion was under my feet and that explosion threw me flying and I got up off my knees gasping. I had no idea what it was, but on the 7th I had a vision that I was walking with Jesus Christ, and as we walked along, He talked, and it was so glorious just to be walking with Him and He was talking and He was talking. I didn’t know what He was saying. I didn’t know what He was saying, but it was sweet until He stopped. He went up three flights of steps and He turned around and stopped. “Turn back,” He said. “But…” “Turn back.” I turned back. When I turned back, I came out of the vision, and I was kneeling beside my bed, but I still heard Him talking. I started searching the house. Where was He? I went outside, went around the house, came around and He was till talking. But, when I went outside, He was still talking as loud as when I was inside. So, I came to the conclusion that He was with me! He was on me somewhere! I opened my shirt and this talking was going on, no movement, and man, you talk about being frightened! I was in this wilderness house alone. I didn’t know that God did these things and all of a sudden there is talking going on inside of me. Tell me now, wouldn’t you be frightened? So, I said, “My God, what is this?” When I asked God what it was, He frightened me more. I opened my eyes and saw a scroll on my bed and the scroll began to rise. Talk about levitation, now. The scroll began to rise until it came up to my eye level and it turned and it said, “I Corinthians chapter 12.” I began to read it, reading the chapter, I came down to the part where it said tongues. When I said, “tongues,” my whole body quickened like this. “Oh, oh, my God!! This is tongues!!” Aren’t you glad you don’t have to learn like that? Come, tell me now! Aren’t you glad you don’t have to learn the hard way? All these people around you to tell you to talk in tongues, you’ve heard tongues, you know what tongues is! I didn’t know anything. That was the 7th.

The 14th, I was sitting down again, forgot everything. A brother came to me and said, “Can you take me up to a church at Chalkie Hill up in the mountains? I have a preaching engagement and I have no transportation.” I had a little pickup, a Ford. We all jumped into this Ford. This man, my friend, and these other two preachers, now, four of us, we went up to this church. When I sat on the bench there, long pew, suddenly… you think Bro. Burt shouts. I was sitting down quietly and suddenly, “Hallelujah!!!” I jumped out of my seat. I was ashamed, now, very much ashamed. This was a Holy Quietness Church. No, no, they do not do those sort of things. I was ashamed now. “Hallelujah!!” Remember now, I was going to keep my experience quiet. I was not going to tell anybody. I remembered D. L. Moody said that the Holy Ghost is for ministers, so I thought to myself, “Well, God is making me a minister now.” So, I locked my arms around the bench. The next explosion came, the bench went up, all the people fell off the bench. I felt like I could bore a hole down in the floor. Everybody was looking at me now. Everybody was looking at me. I was ashamed now. The brother who I went along with, they called him to give the message. I never forgot what he said. That made me more ashamed. He said, “Brethren, if we don’t let this man preach, we won’t have any service here today.” I picked up my Bible and went up. I went up to the podium and I started to preach Matthew 24, the coming of Jesus. All I wanted to do was to finish with that thing and to get down, because that was the first time I had ever preached in a church. I did not want them to think that I wanted to take over the meeting, because the moment I got up there I was all right. No more shouting. I started to preach and, lo and behold, the whole congregation was bent forward, low down. I was looking at the top of their heads. I said to myself, “What is this? I am putting them to sleep!” I was worse ashamed now. This same brother, he suddenly pitched forward onto the floor and he rolled, rolled, rolled, rolled, rolled, and he hit his head on the wall. He rolled back, and hit his head on the other wall and he rolled back. I had never seen anything like that before. Of course, I was not used to church. Never been in church like that before. And then, they kept going down, down, down, down, until everybody laid down flat on the floor. I said to myself, “Well, probably they practice this here every Sunday.” I grabbed my Bible and sat down. I didn’t understand what was happening.

They stayed there for about two hours. Then one sinner in the middle jumped up, “Praise God for salvation! Thank God, Jesus saved me!” And she gave such a wonderful testimony. Another one jumped up and said, “Oh, thank God!” Then people started getting up one by one. There was a man near to me, an older man. I saw him struggling to get up so I helped him up. He stood up. The meeting, now, was dismissed. I went to shake some people’s hands, because I wanted to know what happened, but they ran from me! So, I had this old man now, and I said to him, “Friend, what happened?” He said, “Brother, I am a deacon in this church.” He said, “I have been here for thirty years, and I’ve never seen this before.” That answered my question about it I said, “So, what happened to you?” He said, “I was here and I felt like somebody put a hand on the back of my head and began to press me down.” He said, “I began to resist, but the more I resisted, the further down I went, until I just sprawled out on the ground.” He said, “When I hit the floor all my sins came before me. I began to confess before God.” He said he felt such a cleansing and deliverance. I knew then the meaning of Pentecost. Hallelujah!!

All that we see going on in the churches, the drunkenness, the laughing, if it was bringing fourth glory to God, we couldn’t say anything about it. You understand? If these things are happening every night and the same people that got blessed the night before come back and the same thing happens again the next night and the next night, and that becomes the form of the service, then it is not bringing glory to God. You see that God says He is bringing us forth in the image of His Son. I want to take you to 2 Corinthians 3:18. We want to look at a few things there. As we were singing about being changed from glory to glory, God quickened it to me. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. This is saying that the God that is out here is coming into the body. When he comes there, he is going to come into the world.

What we are talking about is the coming of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ comes from the Father. He comes through Jesus, He comes through the Holy Ghost, He comes into my spirit, He comes into my soul, He comes into my body and quickens my mortal body. Then he is going to show himself forth in the world. Now, this is not a strange doctrine. Some people preach it as a strange doctrine. If I preach this without telling you that Jesus is coming from the sky, I still would be shortchanging you. Do you understand, brethren? Jesus must come in His temple before He comes in the world. The temple of God must experience the fullness of God before the world can see Him. So what is happening now is that Christ is manifesting more and more through us. This is why we are finding so many faults among us. When Jesus begins to manifest in the human being, it exposes your faults. The first knowledge that you have of the coming of Jesus is a rejection inside and a disgust with your own self, with your own thoughts, with your own desires, with your own emotions. You find fault with yourself. You see yourself as base! That means that Jesus is coming forth in you. Hallelujah!!!

Now, where does that Blood come in? For the Blood of the Lamb must first sanctify the temple before the Spirit of the Lamb can come in. You see, that’s what the high priest does. He sprinkles the blood and sanctifies. As our brother showed us yesterday, he said “Focus.” So you are going to focus, first, on the sanctification of the temple. How do you sanctify the temple? As a man beholdeth himself in a glass, from glory to glory. You begin to look at Jesus Christ. Look at Him in the Word. Look at Him in the Spirit. Look at Him from your own mind and while you are looking, you are changing. Do you understand that? God is not asking you to do wonderful things to cleanse yourself of sin. All He is asking you to do is to look at the Lamb of God. I believe, brethren, that everyone of you should take your Bible and study the crucifixion and the shedding of blood. Since the time Jesus showed me how the blood was spilt, I have a weapon that is most destructive to demon spirits and devils.

I’m going to tell you a story and I am going to close with this. I have had many confrontations with devils. Two of these confrontations are the most outstanding and they sound like fairy tales. We were preaching in a place where a sorcerer ruled the people. He was so terrible that he hurt a man with an ax and the man took him to court. The sorcerer told the judge that he could not try him in court, that the judge would have no power to try him. Every time the judge got on the bench to try the case, he fell off, and the case would keep being put off. Finally the judge fell off of the bench and the sorcerer said to the man, “If you want to live, withdraw the case.” The people were so afraid of him that the man had to withdraw the case and ask his forgiveness. To cut the long story short, we had a confrontation with this man. He came to me and told me, “I’m going to kill you. I’m going to kill seven of you, and I’m going to take over the church.” He went to all the elders and he told them, “I will be your next elder.” He called the whole village together and he went on the train and stood on the step of the train and said, “I’m going to Daddy in Bagwa. I am going to this great sorcerer. Your elder will be dead.” He said, “Good-bye, good-bye, good-bye duCille, good-bye.” Now, duCille laughed. I forgot everything about it. That night I went home, put on my pajamas, was about to step into bed, when all of a sudden I noticed that there was no wall in the house. The wall was gone, no wall. I was looking outside and yet I knew the house was standing, so the wall was there. It was bright moonlight and you have to go to Jamaica to know what Jamaican moonlight is like. You could see every pebble on the ground. I was looking outside and I got the knowledge that God had lifted me up into another dimension, so that I could see through the wall, because an attack was coming. So I stood at the bottom of the bed looking outside and instead of covering myself with the Blood, I was enjoying the moonlight. That is one of the mistakes that you make in the spiritual realm. You can be too complacent. Suddenly I saw a thing, maybe nine feet tall. It had the shape of a man, but the head was like some kind of animal. It stepped into the yard, snuffing around like he was smelling for something. I called to him in the name of Jesus, but the words didn’t come out. The moment I said, “Aahh…” it turned through the wall like lightening and struck me, you know, like when a lion would jump on a prey. I was thrown down on the bed and this thing was on top of me. My hands were like a ton each and my tongue couldn’t move. The only thing that was moving was my mind. I heard another thud in the bed. Although I couldn’t turn my head, I saw Jesus. He just came and touched me on the shoulder. “It’s not a natural fight,” He said, “it’s a spiritual fight.” Immediately, I relaxed. Seeing Jesus, I knew the battle was won. I saw Him hanging on the cross. Immediately, immediately He touched me, I saw His eyes and a cross rose up before me. He was listing like this, to the left. I saw the blood twining around His armpit, coming down. It was vivid! The blood was coming down His cheeks and the blood was draining from His side down on His legs. The blood on the leg was draining down on the wood. A drop from the left hand, it made a sound, “tip.” I said, “Thank you, Jesus.” By this time I was choking. In my mind I said, “Thank you, Jesus. That one drop of blood could save every soul and I thank you, Jesus.” Then there was a drop from the right hand. I said, “Thank you, Jesus, that drop can destroy every devil in hell.” My soul rejoiced. The third drop dropped right off His beard, right into my face and my whole body convulsed. “JESUS!!” It threw the thing off me against the wall and the battle was over. The sorcerer died suddenly, the one he went to, a train ran over him. We knew that God had given us the victory through the Blood. Never forget, brethren, the Blood of the Passover is here, in the heart. It’s in the heart.

When I went to India, the great killer of men, the spirit of Kali came in to attack me. They were offering sacrifices down the road. Somebody told us, that they were saying, “Kali, we give you goat’s blood tonight, but we will soon be giving you American blood.” Well, Kali came in and his intention was to bite me. He has two big teeth in the front. As he came in and grappled with me, I spoke the Word of God, “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus!” and he disappeared. I was walking out of the room, in the vision, to go and tell the brethren what had happened and suddenly out of the wall he jumped on top of me and I called upon the Blood of Jesus. I am telling you, brethren, you have to have the Blood in here, inside, to be able to use it. Your gun has to be loaded before the battle. You can’t wait for battle before you load your gun. In other words, concentrate upon the Blood of Jesus Christ. Call upon the Blood of Jesus Christ. Speak it. Let it abide in you and when you are in trouble, God will come forth out of you. When I called upon the Blood, I saw the Blood coming down from the ceiling into his head and when it hit him he crumbled on the floor like a piece of cloth. God bless you.

Oh the Blood of Jesus, Oh the Blood of Jesus, Oh the Blood of Jesus, It washes white as snow.