<TITLE>12. Par 122-127</TITLE>L-122   Now, here, let's just picture that out and see what--what it looks like, tonight. Here it is, if you want to see it. In all of about twenty-five years I've been a minister. I've studied that. And I've often wondered at gifts in the church. What is those gifts? Prophecy, speaking with tongues, interpretation of tongues, Divine revelation, so forth, that all comes through Christ.

L-123 Now look. Christ is the Head of all things. And He's the Head of the Church. And did you ever see a big diamond? A great big diamond that is chipped right, it's got little chips knocked off of it, chipped off of it. That makes a correct diamond. What's the chips for? The real diamond, the way it comes out, it's been bruised; the real diamond, when it's found.
I was in Kimberly. You, many of you, that's heard you can pick up diamonds on the street, that's correct. Billy and I, and Mr. Bosworth. The president of the Kimberly diamond mines, take... He was my usher in the meeting there. And they taken us over. And just out of... They mine them about, oh, about seventeen hundred feet under the earth. They come out, a blue stone, big blue, like this bluestone you get around here. And those natives, they put them seventeen hundred feet in the ground, to mine them, to keep the price up. You'd go on the river there, they got it guarded for hundreds of miles. Take two ten-gallon buckets, he said, and pick it up, full of--of sand, and if you could get home with it, you'd be a multimillionaire, there'd be so many diamonds in it. But they have to work and mine them, to keep the price up on them.

L-124   Now, the diamond, when it comes forth, it's just a big, smooth, round, like, piece of glass. There's a blue diamond, black diamond, emerald, and a clear diamond, white diamond. But when it come forth... Then when it's made and put into use, there's a part of that diamond has to lose. And it has to lose the--the chips off of it. Knock little chips, because, when it comes in direct light, like that, it makes a sparkle. The chip, what makes the sparkle, the way it's cut. It's cut, chipped, and then, when it does, it makes a sparkle. And one will go a green light, the other one will go a blue light, and maybe another, emerald light, and red light. And different lights go from it, like a rainbow color. They call it, "fire in the diamond."

L-125 Now, each one of those lights represents gifts. But it's, only, Christ is the Diamond. And He was the One Who came, and was bruised, and wounded, and chipped, that He might reflect Himself back as a Light to the world. He's that Master Diamond.

L-126   Could you imagine, before there even was an earth, before there was a light, before there was a star, before there was anything? There's a Great Fountain going forth, of Spirit, and out of this Fountain came the most pure of love, 'cause there was nothing for it to come from that but love. Now, we, what we call love, today, is a perverted love. But just as we get an essence, or a little bit of that love in us, it changes our whole opinion.

L-127 Then out of there come another stream, off this main Fountain, the Diamond, and it was called righteousness, absolutely righteousness. Now, that's the reason we had to have law. That's the reason law has to have judgment. If no judgment doesn't follow law, law doesn't do no good. And when judgment was passed by law, which brings death, and there's no one who could pay the penalty but God Himself. And He paid the penalty of our death, and took our sins upon Him, that we might be the righteousness of God through Him.


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