<TITLE>06. Par 269-278</TITLE>L-269   But now, of course, we, being human, walk in these dark elements here, we--we do not understand it as we should. And, of course, when the choking pangs of death come, it makes the very saint-est of us fear and draw back. It made the Son of God say, "Could this cup pass?" It's a horrible thing. Don't get it wrong. Because we... It's a penalty of sin, death is, and it's got to be horrible.
But if we can look just beyond the curtain, yonder, there is where it's at. Blessed be the Lord! Just beyond the curtain, that's where man desires to look tonight. Little Anna Mae Snelling and them used to sing a song here, "Lord, Let Me Look Past The Curtain of Time." Everybody wants to see that.

L-270   Now, now here we are, in the 16th verse. "For verily He took..."
For verily he took not on him, upon him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.

L-271 Oh, we want to hold to that again now. Now we're coming right down to get... Cause, the first part of this 3rd chapter, the last part of it, blends in on "that day for the sabbath," for this coming Sunday.

L-272 Now watch.
... he took not... the nature of angels;...
Now, who is "He," he is talking about? Christ. Who is Christ? God, the Logos of God.

L-273 Now let me explain this again, so you be sure. God is not three Gods. The trinity of God is One. Father, Son, Holy Ghost, doesn't mean that there is three different Gods. If it is, we would be heathen. That's the reason the Jews can't understand. Never was it taught in the Bible. Now, it's taught in the Catholic church, absolutely, that's where the triune baptism come from.

L-274   In Africa they baptize you three times face forward: once for God the Father; once for God the Son; once for God the Holy Ghost. Now, that's an error. There's no such teachings of that in the Bible. See?

L-275 And now, that's--that's what they taught. It come down through Luther; out of Luther, into Wesley; on down into the ages as it rolls on. But it never was a Bible teaching. It was always been a error, since it was begun.

L-276   Now, so, God was in the beginning. Before there was any light, before there was ever an atom, before there was ever a star, before there was any visible thing, God filled all space. And in That was nothing but purity: pure love, pure holiness, pure righteous. It was Spirit. He covered the whole space all from Eternity, where we can't fathom It. It goes beyond anything that we could imagine.

L-277 Like through that glass, we could see a--a hundred and something million years of light space. Think of it. A hundred million years of light space. And light--light travels about eight thousand miles per second. And a hundred and million years of light space... Just think how many million miles that would be. You couldn't even numerate it. You can just take a row of nines and run it around Jeffersonville, and still you wouldn't have it broke down in miles of miles. Think of it. And beyond that is still stars and planets. And God, before one of them was, He was. See?

L-278   And now the Logos that went out of God, which was the--the Logos, all this begin to form into a--a body shape. And this body shape was called, in the scholar's teaching, Logos, the Logos that went out of God. In other words, a--a better word for it, was what we call a theophany. (Theophany is a human body that's glorified.) Not exactly with flesh and blood like it will be in its glorified stage, but it is of a form of a human body that doesn't eat, neither does it drink, but it's--it's a body, a body that's waiting for us as soon as we leave this one. Now, in there, we enter into that body. And that's the kind of body that God was, for He said, "Let us make man in our own image and in our likeness."


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