<TITLE>09. Par 70-79</TITLE>L-70   Now, with our Message, can we stand by the looking glass of God's Word and see Christ reflect in our own lives then? Can we bear such, and the reproach of the Message that we're standing for here? Someone can say something about It, and yet you just don't open your mouth and say nothing about it. He was example, because God was reflecting His character in Him. And then if we're sons and daughters of God, God reflects His character in us, then we become like Him. That's my heart's desire. I think that's every believer's desire, is to become more like Him.

L-71   And then on the road up the hill, when Satan said, "All right, death, now you know I have you in my command. And there He is. We finally wore Him out. It's got to a place to where He--He is at the end of His wits. He doesn't know what to do anymore. He's become a reproach amongst the people. His message fell to the air. And now the government has caught Him, and He is defeated. He is not God. Go down there and sock the stinger in Him. Take Him out of life."

L-72 And on the road up the hill, as the bee begin to buzz around Him. But that is why He had to be more than a man. If He had have been a man, or just a prophet, or anything less than God, if He had have been that, death would have stung Him and He'd have laid in the grave.

L-73 But the bee of death is like any other insect with a stinger. If it ever gets its stinger caught deep, its stinging days are over. It pulls its stinger out.

L-74 Well, as long as human flesh was in the--the form of sin, sexually born under the curse, then when death stung that flesh, the stinger could come back and sting another.

L-75   But when he stung that flesh, it pulled his stinger out. He has no more stinger. He was God in flesh, tabernacling among men. His stinging days were over. That's why God had to reflect Himself into a body, which is, we know as the Son of God, Jesus Christ. And He did that so that He could take away the penalty.

L-76 Because, you see now, we're going to another part of the Scripture. But you see now why that that Man was more than just a teacher, as people say He is today, a philosopher, or a good Man, or a prophet. He was Emmanuel. He was the Son of God, which is Jehovah God made manifest in His attributes of displaying Himself in a body that He built, Himself. Amen. It reflected. And the sinful nature of a man could not do the thing that He did. See? So it had to be God making and reflecting Himself in the Man, making a mirror, that we might see that perfect Man, which is Christ. Yes.

L-77 This, doing that, reflected His noble, loving character. See, in Him was an attribute as a Saviour, and it had to display itself. And He could not be a Saviour and be a natural-born man. He had to be more than a man. And He was. He was the only One could do this, insomuch that He was sinless by nature.

L-78   He was God in Word. Now, Saint John, the 1st chapter, explains that. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh." God become flesh when He represented, or when He displayed Himself to the earth, in the form of His Son, the Person of Jesus, the Son of God. God displayed Himself in that Person.

L-79 Did not Jesus say, "My Father and I are One. My Father dwelleth in Me. It's not Me that doeth the works. It's My Father. He dwells in Me. I have no control of My own. He does that." God's fountain of Word, expressed! Amen. I feel pentecostal. Yes.


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