<TITLE>06. Par 44-51</TITLE>L-44   But when He seen that His creation had--had fallen, now His own loving character molded Himself into the Person of Christ. God's Own character of love projected Himself in the Man, Christ. As Paul speaking here, "Thinking it not robbery, but making Himself equal, equal to God, rather." See? His Own character molded that kind of a Person. Oh, no one could ever do that but God. This was done so that He could pay the penalty of the fall of His creation. See? He...

L-45   There must be something save this creation. And nothing could save it, because the highest specie of His creation had fallen, and everything under it fell with it, because it fell. There's only one thing left, that did not fall, and that was God, the heavens. So something of the heavens had to come down to redeem this creation, because there was nothing here that could create it. And God's own love for the world created the character expressed in Christ. He was God's character. He was God's expressed image. In Him was God, God in Christ, revealing Himself to the world. And no love could ever be greater than that love, that, such a Person would become what He did, in order to--to redeem what had been lost.

L-46 That ought to, just that thought right there, should set Phoenix and the whole world to shame, to see what a condition that we have fallen into. And what... God, projecting Himself, to make a plan of redemption, to--to redeem this fallen character of ours.

L-47 This was done so that the penalty could be paid, because the--the penalty was death. And one under the sentence of death could not pay the penalty for the next one under the sentence of death. So there had to be Somebody come who was free from death, in order to pay the penalty. And none other could come but God, because He was the only One that was free from the penalty of death.

L-48   Now, therefore, His loving character of love, oh, for us, it--it makes plain John 3:16. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but would have Eternal Life." God, projecting Himself, and become Man, that He might have upon Him the form of His creation. In other words, He changed His tent. He spread it amongst human beings.

L-49 And the infant, Jehovah, crying in a manger, could you imagine it? It ought to alarm the hearts of believers. And that was all done... Could you imagine, Jehovah being a baby in a--in a manger, in a--in a stable of manure? Could you imagine that? Could you imagine, little Jehovah playing as a--as a boy? It's an example. Could you imagine, Him as a teen-ager? Could you imagine, Him in the carpenter's shop? And could you imagine, Him in such complete obedience to God, dying on a cross, to redeem His fallen creation? That's the kind of a love that God had. And He had to become that, in order to die, to hold the sting of death.

L-50   Now, I believe, a few nights ago we was expressing something on that order, when He came. And He sent prophets and great men, and He sent Moses and the prophets, and He gave laws. But all these could not redeem, because they were still men under the penalty of death. And they could not pay the penalty of death, although they were pointing-posts that pointed to that perfect One coming, because they were not perfect. But when this One was born, He was born without sin.

L-51 God, Jehovah, overshadowed a virgin and created the Blood cell. And when That was born, It was the Son of God. In other words, it was a tabernacle. It was a dwelling place where Jehovah could live among His people and express Himself, what He was.


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