<TITLE>14. Par 133-144</TITLE>L-133 And it takes the night, to express the glory of the day. It takes the vessel of dishonor, to express the--the love and care for the vessel of the honored. It takes an evil woman, that would wear immoral clothes and--and sell her morals, to express the virtue of a decent genuine lady. See? It takes a crook and a thief, in a man, to express the genuineness of a real believer, a real Christian. It takes the hypocrite, to show up the believer, what he is.

L-134   So, "All things was made by Him." And since He was made all things... made, for all of us, all things was made for, by Him. Then, since that is true, we should make our identification (should be) with Him. We should be identified, ourselves, with Him, because He has identified Himselves with us. We should be identified with Him. How? By living for Him; not just a confession.

L-135 So many people take a confession, say... I say it's got to this place now. Are you a Christian? "I'm Methodist." Well, that's a long ways from being, making yourself known as a Christian. Well, look what the Methodists does. "I'm Baptist." Well, look what the Baptists does. "I'm Catholic." Look what they do. See?

L-136   But the only way that you can actually be a Christian is for Christ to identify Himself in you. How we got some, a stinger there! I hope everybody on the tape gets that, too. See? See? See?
You say, "I'm Pentecostal." That don't mean a thing.

L-137   It's Christ identified in you. That's when He has recognized you.
Say, "I spoke with tongues." Devils does, too.

L-138 "I shouted." The Mohammedans, Buddhas, and everything shouts. The Indians scream at the snake dance. See? Sure. They all do. Cults, clans, and everything else, scream and holler. They holler and shout at a baseball game.

L-139 But when Christ is identified in you, identifying Hisself, then you are Christ-like. Which, the word Christian means to be "Christ-like." There is your identification. All right. Now, and since He is our identification, then we should be identified with Him, by living for Him.

L-140   Notice, God has had a threefold purpose in this great mystery secret. God, in His great mystery secret that He had before the world began, He has got a threefold purpose in it. And now what we want to go upon, this morning, is, what is that threefold purpose? See? Now, I believe, by the help of the... of God, Who is present, and He--He'll show it to us. Now, if He had this threefold purpose, we want to find out what is this threefold purpose.

L-141   The first thing was, that, God wanted to reveal Himself to the people.

L-142 He couldn't do it as a great Jehovah God Who covered all space, time, and Eternity. He could not. He is too great to ever be revealed to people, because it would be too mysterious. How could that great Being that never did begin... that after you went beyond the cycle of a hundreds of billions and trillions and trillions of years of light space, and on out into the infinite, into the Eternity, and a great Creature that was all that, and still is.

L-143   But what He wanted to do, He loved fatherhood, for He was a Father. And the only way that He could express it was to become a Son of man. That's the reason Jesus kept saying, "The Son of man." See, they didn't know what He was talking about, many of them. But now you get it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] See? He wanted to express Hisself. That was His, one of His great threefold purposes, was to express Himself, identify Himself with human beings, to reveal Hisself in Christ.

L-144   Secondly, to have the preeminence in His Body of believers, that is, His Bride, that He might live in people.


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