<TITLE>04. Par 21-27</TITLE>L-21 And showed what He did to the whole human race, the way God represented Himself in Jesus Christ. He expressed His opinion to the human race to forgive and to love those who were unlovable. And I wonder, on this Easter morning, how short we fall at that. We could love those who love us, but He loved those who did not love Him.
He was the greatest, the first representation of love that ever hit the earth, and was despised of those who lived on the earth, to whom He loved. No man could ever love like Him; and no man was ever hated like Him. They hated Him, and despised Him, and rejected Him, but it did not stop His love. They laughed when He was hanging on the cross, after that life that He had lived had been done nothing but good things, forgiving the guilty, healing the sick, and done things that were good. When He was last breaths on the cross, with the vulgar mocking spit of them who stood by hanging from His sacred face, He cried with a heart full of love, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."

L-23 He could understand. Being God, He understands. That's why He could love us when we're unlovable, because He's God and He understands. "Living, He loved me." Never a life lived like it, because it was wrapped in love.
Dying, He saved me. A death, when in the garden of Eden God Jehovah required... The penalty of sin is death, and there could be no alteration. It could not be any other way taken care of. Because God is supreme, and He is infinite, and the Judge of all heavens and earth. The penalty of sin is death, and there was no one who could pay this penalty for another. For every man, though he might die for another man, but he was guilty to begin with. There was none of us that could help the other, because we were all guilty. We are borned in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies. And there was not a ray of hope nowhere. We were condemned to death by God, and every creature that ever moved on the earth was under this condemnation. There could be righteous men rise and do great things, but he was a sinner to begin with.

L-25 There was only one way for it to be paid, and that was the death of God Himself. So God, being a Spirit, could not die, but He came down in a body of flesh and expressed Hisself in a life of love, to take all that goodness that He was and give it willingly as the supreme Sacrifice, that He might take the guilt of the guilty. All of us being sinners, and not a way in the world for us to ever be saved, He came not only to be seen on earth, but He came to die as a Sacrifice.
Abel expressed it when he offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain; when he brought the little lamb, with a piece of grapevine wrapped around its neck to a rock. There laid the little fellow upon the rock, pulled its little chin back, and with a--a rock, pounded its little throat; and it bleating and dying, and the blood squirting out, this little white locks become bathed with blood. Abel expressed Calvary there.

L-27 When the Lamb of God, slain from the foundation of the world, came to take the place of guilty sinners, and was mashed and bruised, and--and scoffed, and made fun of, and died a death that no creature could die except God Himself, and His bloody locks hanging from His shoulders, dripping to the ground, expressed what a horrible thing that sin is, when He had to die to redeem man from a life of sin. Nothing could die like that. Nothing could stand that death. It said that when they pierced His side that there came forth Blood and water.


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