<TITLE>07. Par 52-61</TITLE>L-52   What an example, how that the holy God made manifest, and then took the place of a servant, to wash feet! And spoke, that, "The birds have nests, and the--and the foxes have den, but I don't have a place to lay My head." Then, what an example! How would our life reflect, to His? And He made the example of what we should do, how we should be. We should see Him when you look in the mirror. See Christ, the mirror of His Word, how that He did that for love.

L-53 And we gave a little drama the other night, of Christ going up Golgotha, and how that the footprints, of His Blood running down His back, where He had been scourged, and mistreated, and bruised. And all this, for you. He had no sin. He had no sin, but He was made sin by becoming a sin-offering.

L-54   And now God had to--to reveal Himself in His attributes, into this Person called Christ, in order to take death upon Himself. As Jehovah, He could not die, so He had to create Himself a body. And no woman could produce that body. So His Own character... Amen. Excuse me. When I think of it! His character projected that lovely Person of Jesus Christ. No woman could bring it. Moses' mother, she, Jochebed, she was a great woman, and so was Rebekah and many other of the women, but none of them could produce this type of character, because it was come through sex by a fallen people. But God projected His Own body, His dwelling place. That's the reason He was the Son of God, 'cause nothing else could project it. But His own Divine character projected this tabernacle, to express Himself in.

L-55 And, yet, He took Himself away from the great thing that He was. And at His birth, He could have come with a full-Angel salute. He could have come with the chariots and Angels of Heaven, but He come by the way of a barn. That's His--His love, bringing Himself down to the lowest.

L-56   Now, you study that character a little bit and then look at yourself, and I look at myself. But, that's what He was, that's Who He was, and that's why He was, to save you. He took... He become you, that you might become Him. He took your load of sin.

L-57 Therefore, when we come to meet Him, we will not have to stand... We could not stand in the Presence of God. There's no way for us to do it. But when we stand in Him, see, He's already recognized the Sacrifice. "This is My beloved Son in Whom I'm well pleased." He recognized it. There was no blemish on Him. And, yet, He suffered temptation like any other man. Yet, He was scorned. He was made fun of. He was persecuted, from the hour He was born until the hour He died, and yet He returned good for evil.

L-58   You cannot, no way, ever produce a Character like that; only, accepting that Character in you. A church cannot do that. A creed cannot do that. A denomination cannot do that. An education cannot do that. It must be a Birth. It's got to be a--a dying out, and let God in, by the grace of Christ, mold this type of character in you, that you become Him, and your life and His is the same, then you are sons and daughters of God.

L-59   Then, when He was going up the mountain, and His cross was dragging out the footprints. Oh, I wish I was an artist. I wish I was could speak so that I could mentally paint you a picture of Calvary, that most dreaded hour that the world ever knew. And, yet, they were not conscious of what was going on. Millions was not conscious.

L-60 And could I turn that picture to what I've said this week? We're entering again a dreaded hour, a fearful time. And Phoenix and the world is bathing, and the churches is bathing themselves, in worldly-ism, and in Hollywood showmanship, one out-doing the other. And our members are becoming worldly. It seems they don't catch the picture, and the seriousness, and the revelation, of the appearing of the Son of God in this last days.

L-61   What a terrible time it was! They just knowed that there was a malefactor, under capital punishment, was going to die that morning. That's all it was to them.


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