<TITLE>14. Par 54-57</TITLE>L-54 A man that's ever come in contact with God knows God doesn't do such things as that. They were perfect. Then after they had sinned... Notice, when they'd sinned and realized they'd done wrong, and Eve... Adam never sinned, the Bible said, that he was not... He... Eve sinned, and Adam loved Eve so well, till he took his place with her to leave the garden. Adam was not deceived. Eve was deceived. Adam wasn't. And Adam was a type of Christ in every figure. And Christ was not deceived and neither was He a sinner, but He come down and so loved His Church, Eve, till He went to Calvary for Her to redeem Her back again. Christ come to take the sinner's place.

L-55 Did you ever think of it, sinner? I thought this, "Me, unlovable, me, not worthy, and Christ, the Son of God, came down and become me that I through His grace might become Him. And we stand in the Presence of God not as sinners but as sons and daughters of God washed by the precious Blood of Jesus Christ. Amen. That ought to tear the heart of any sinner to realize that Christ become sin that you through the righteousness of His obedience to God might become Him in the Presence of God to stand without a blemish or with out a...?... through the shed Blood of His offering.
And I see Eve and Adam standing there, heard their sentence of death pronounced upon them, and the tears running down Adam's cheeks and dropping off onto Eve's head, and her with her little head laying over on his shoulder, and they had to depart out of the Presence of God, standing there wrapped in those old bloody sheepskins. And as they started out of the garden in the Presence of God, I can hear them old sheepskins flapping together on their legs like that, as they went out. God, the Father, looking down and seeing His children being turned out like that because of disobedience, He stopped and He couldn't stand it. He said, "I'll enmity between her seed and--and the serpent's seed; and his head will bruise her heel, and her heel shall bruise his head," promising a Deliverer.

L-56 Down through the years the only place for fellowship come in between that time waiting for the come of that promise was through the offering of the burnt sacrifice, the lamb. And finally one day four thousand years later down in the city of Jerusalem...
Let's take a little trip down into the streets of Jerusalem leads out by the Damascus gate or goes out to the hill of Golgotha. Let's pull up the shade. I hear a noise outside. What is it? You hear some of them saying, "Away with such a Fellow."
I see a little woman run in front of the crowd, say, "What's He done but preach the Gospel, and heal your sick, and do good things?"
I can see some of them throw her aside and say, "Would you listen to that woman in the stead of your priest? Would you turn that--accept what that woman has said and turn your priest down there? Certainly. Away with Him."

L-57 "What's this Man done?" I hear something dragging, bumping, coming down the cobblestones; and I look, and I see a little frail body of about a hundred and twenty pounds with a cross equal His weight laying on His shoulder, coming down the street dragging it along, rubbing His head against the side of it, and the thorns breaking His brow, and the blood coming down. His Body being rubbed like this as He walked down through the streets, I hear the bump, bump, bump of that old cross.
After awhile I begin to notice that all over His little robe that was throwed over His back and wove throughout without seams, seeing they taken Him up to Calvary, and take that off of Him and vulgar, nakedness exposed Him there... But with this robe over His shoulder as He walked down the street, I noticed little red spots all over the back of that robe, and as He goes down towards Golgotha, I notice they get bigger and bigger, bigger and bigger. After while they all run into one, one great big solid mass of red.


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