<TITLE>14. Par 637-645</TITLE>L-637   What was it? Why didn't He take it then? He had never been born like you and I. But He had to be born in the flesh, so He could hold that stinger. That was a created body. That was a body that He just pulled the calcium and potash out of the earth, and said, "Whew," and stepped into it. That was the same thing Melchisedec was. He stepped into him, in a body that He could walk out before him under the veil, of a veil of His own creation; not a veil of the creation of a woman, through the womb of a woman, through a--a cell, never. But He created this and stepped out into it, and talked, in the order of Melchisedec.

L-638   Who is this Melchisedec?
For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, (which is Jerusalem), prince of the most high God, certainly, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
To whom also Abraham give a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, (that great love, love, that great Spirit in the beginning)... King of righteousness,... after that... King of Salem, which is, the King of peace;
Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, or ending of life;...

L-639 Who was it? He never was born, He never will die. Who is it? It was God, sure, it was, in the foreshadow of the Lord Jesus. Certainly was. But He had to come through a woman, in the order you come through a woman. And He had to come the way you come, in order to bring you back to Him. Hallelujah!
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a poor, blind wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now I'm found, by
His grace,
I was blind, but now I see.

L-640   I understand what He had to do. God became me, that I by grace might become of Him. He taken my sins, that through His righteousness I might have Eternal Life. I could not choose myself. My nature was a sinner. I had nothing to do with it. I was "born of the world, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies." Not even a chance, at all; nothing, not even a desire.

L-641 Tell a pig he is "wrong, eating slop," will you? See how much he'll listen to you. Tell a crow he is "wrong, eating on a dead carcass," and see what he'll tell you. If he could talk, "You tend to your own business." Certainly.

L-642   Oh, but the grace of God that changed this nature, and give me the opportunity to desire and to crave and to thirst, "Thy love, kindness, is better to me than life, O God. My heart will longs after Thee."

L-643 David said, "As a hart panteth for the water brook, so my soul thirsts after Thee, O God."

L-644 God gave man that thirst, to worship Him, to love, seek after Him. But man perverts it by the call of the Devil, and he goes and lusts after women and pleasures and things of the world, trying to satisfy that holy creation that God has put in, to love Him. He places it upon the things of the world. But, brother, when he's once changed, and that fountain with wiggletails in it, all kinds of--of disorders of the cistern, has been cleansed out and sterilized, and the pure Water of God is put in there, sin can never touch it. Amen.
O how I love Him! How I adore Him!
My life, my sunshine, my all in all!
The great Creator became my Saviour,
And all God's fullness dwelleth in Him.
Down from His glory, the ever living story,
My God and Saviour came, and Jesus was His Name.
Born in a manger, to His own a stranger,
The God of sorrow, tears and agony.
O how I love Him! How I adore Him!
My breath, my sunshine, my all in all!

L-645   O God! How could He do it? Man has tried to write it. One said:
If we with ink the ocean fill,
And every straw on earth a quill;
All the skies of parchment made,
And every man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above.
How that great God of Heaven became flesh and taken my sins!
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry;
Or though the scroll contained the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.


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