<TITLE>05. Par 12-14</TITLE>L-12 This city, reading newspapers, coming into the meeting is without excuse. They know that God's down here moving and performing miracles. The people who laugh at Divine healing, laugh at the Church of the living God, in saying that they're narrow minded. They're without excuse. They know down in their hearts that that's the truth. They'd have to... Afraid to admit it, afraid they'll lose some of their social prestige. I'd rather lose all my social prestige and gain heaven, wouldn't you? Frankly, I had no social prestige to lose.
But Christ taken me in, and now I'm--I'm a child. Look what He was for us. He in His riches became poor, that in His poverty we might become rich. In His immortality He became flesh that He might take our sickness, that in His sickness we might have health. And all of my sins He became; He was sinless, and taking my sins, that I might be sinless. He became me that I might become Him in heaven.
He stands as mine and your Representative. Then God don't look to us; He looks to our Representative. Oh, isn't that marvelous, Christ standing in our stead, representing us before the Father?
You ever in a court trial? The Representative, He stands as our Attorney, standing to plead. Who knows to do any better than He does, when He's the very Son of the Father, standing in the Presence of God to plead we sinners' case. And if we'll confess...
Being rich, yet, was become poor, that through His poverty we might be made rich. Rich in what? Money? No. Rich in heavenly blessings, spiritual things. We, who were once poor now become rich through His poverty.

L-13 Notice Him. Stripped Hisself, humiliated Himself, come down the great Divine One from above... You... In humiliation come down and brought Hisself down, humbled Himself in a body of flesh to walk among men, hear the cursing and swearing of men, feel the pains of sickness and of death upon Himself that through all that, not because He had to, but because love drove Him to it... That He had done all that and was sick and had troubles...
You say, "Was He sick?" Certainly. Didn't He make the own thing Himself, His own--His own statement, and He said, "Won't they say to Me, 'Physician, heal Yourself?'" Sure, He bore our sicknesses, our grief, our sins, our sorrows. See what He was?
Now, that's Who the apostles talked about; that's Who Nicodemus talked about. Let's see what He was. What kind of representative did He meant of the Christian faith?

L-14 When He was here upon the earth, He'd taken no name upon Himself. The Bible said that He didn't. He made of Himself no reputation. Many times I've thought this: the man that made the false plate for teeth, made a reputation in them. But the Man Who made the real teeth made of Himself no reputation. The man that made an artificial leg made a reputation for himself, but the Man Who made the real leg made of Himself no reputation. See?
He just stripped Himself and come down to save you and me, to heal you and me. The great Physician, the God of heaven, the immortal One, clothed Himself in flesh in order to anchor sickness in His own Body to take our sickness away. It's just never be known. Words can't express what that really is, what God did for us in Christ Jesus.
When He was here on earth He didn't brag about Himself. He come knowing nothing, but what the Father's will was to do. He was offered great things. Even Satan told him, "I'll give You every kingdom of the world, and make You make You master over them, if You'll fall down and worship me."
He said, "Get the hence, Satan. It's written that, 'Thou shall worship the Lord thy God and Him only shall you serve.'" Certainly.
He could've had all the kingdoms of the world. He will have them anyhow. He falls heir to them. He's heir of all things. And we are heir with Him, and joint heirs in the Kingdom.
"Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." That's His sermon. Why, He give us, His promises. That was Him.


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