<TITLE>05. Par 36-41</TITLE>L-36 But tonight, let's go back in the Old Testament. I want to talk on: "The Cruelty Of Sin, And The Penalty That It Cost To--To Rid Sin From Our Lives." In Isaiah 53, the prophet, anointed, seven hundred and twelve years before the coming of the Lord, he said these words:
 Who has believed our report?... to whom are the arm of the LORD is revealed?
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and... a root out of... dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrow,... acquainted with grief: and we hid as it was our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
 Surely he has borne our grief,... carried our sorrow: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquity: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD... laid upon him the iniquity of us all.
 He was oppressed, and... afflicted,... he opened not his mouth: he--he was brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before his shearers is dumb, so opened he not his mouth.
 He was taken from prison and from judgment:... who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off from the land of the living: for the transgressions of my people he was stricken.
 ... he (was) made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was there deceit in his mouth.
 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shall make a soul... or when thou shall... and thou shall see... his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, and shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
If I would call it a Scripture text, tonight, I'd take the 6th verse.
 All we like sheep have gone astray; and the LORD... turned every one to his own way; and the LORD... Laid upon him the iniquity of us all.

L-38 I want to talk just a few moments. We always happy when it comes to having the joy of the Lord in our midst; and how I rejoice with you, greatly. But did you ever stop to think what it cost to have it? Did you ever realize just the price that's behind it, what judgment was and what the penalty of sin? How cruel must sin be, when it caused the Son of God to go to Calvary, and God would strike Him, and turn His face from Him, and smite Him, and--and He'd be afflicted. Look Who He was.
Now, I want to draw just a small picture to you, talking now. Let's all of us take a little trip tonight, on a little ship, and let's... a little spaceship, or airship. Let's go back a hundred million years before there was a world, before there even was a star or anything, and there you can see nothing but space. And all that space was God. In the beginning was God.
And now, we'll watch coming into existence a little white Light. We'll call it, like, a Halo. And that was the Son of God, the Logos that went out of God in the beginning.

L-41 And then that how that He was standing there; and He, in His mind He begin to think of what the world would be and drew all this pictures in His mind. And He said, "Let there be light."
And a atom split and begin to break forward, and a atomic went off, the first atomic explosion. And then them atoms begin to accumulate till it made into cinders, as the moisture, ever what it was, begin to break, and the atoms split. And after while, there came a star, or a piece of the--a missile that flew off and went sailing through the air. He watched it maybe for a few million years, and then stopped it. He had no hurry. He was--had plenty of time, forever. He was from the beginning to the end. There was no--no time with Him. And then another one flies off, and He stops it over this a way.


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