<TITLE>07. Par 65-73</TITLE>L-65 God coming down to become man, to die. God could not die as a Spirit, because He--He could not die. He is Eternal, and He could not die. But God could make Himself in such a way that He could feel pain, and He could feel and suffer. God could not suffer, as the Eternal Spirit. But when He become Man, He could suffer, and feel the--the pain and the temptations that man went through, like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and everyone since.

L-66 He had to become that, in order to--to fulfill His Own law, to take upon Himself His Own law. He could not have been the second person. He could not have been the third person. He could have been nothing else but the Person. See? He had to be.

L-67   If I had the jurisdiction of the... this congregation, this morning, in the same measure that He has the earth, and I would say, "If anyone looks at the post, he must die." And this young Catholic woman setting here would look at the post. Well, I would say, "After all, she is just a newcomer among this, let her die the death"? But yet I--I feel sorry for the--the lady. I would say, "Then let this man here die in her place"? No, that wouldn't be right. Well, I'd say, "My son, Billy Paul, I'll let Billy Paul die in her place"? That's still not just. Because, the suffering is upon somebody else, and leaving me secluded from it. But the only way I can be just, as God is just, would be take her place. I've got to take her place.

L-68 Therefore, God had to be manifested in the flesh, in order to suffer death, the only way He could die, and through that He brought redemption. And this young man saw, in Jesus, something more than the commandments had.

L-69   Now I realize this, gentlemen, maybe not in the faith that we are trying to represent, don't... We are poor representatives of what we're trying to say; I am, myself, with a bowed head and heart. The--the Message that has been given me for the church in this day, I'm a poor representative of it. And my life, though I try to do what's right, I--I have my up's and down's. But I--I don't ask you to look that what I am, what I am. Look at what I'm saying, Who I'm talking about, is the Lord Jesus, in Him is salvation.

L-70   And this young fellow saw that, that this Man surely had God in Him. He--He could look down into the hearts of the people and see what was wrong, and could tell them of it; could raise up the dead after they had died. Now, he knowed that the law did nothing like that, he knowed that his own church did no such miracles as that, yet he was conscious that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, was alive; He could not die. But he saw all that God was, in this Man called Jesus, and his heart hungered.

L-71 And he knew that, yet he would be a member of a church, a fine church member, maybe his father was one of the great, the trustee, or the--the one of the great executives, or something on the board. And the boy had been raised to that law, and he had kept it, reverently, and respected it. Yet, down in there, there was something that longed to--to find something more.

L-72   I trust that that's in the heart of every man and woman here this morning, to find something that's real. You remember, you can't come back and make the second trial. You got to get it now. "The way the tree leans, that's the way it falls." I...

L-73 There is no Scripture for a hereafter repentance. That's, that's your time now. No matter how it becomes popular today, and a--a purgatory somewhere, there is no such, there is no such thing in the Bible. It was wrote in one of the books of the Maccabees, or something another, but that wasn't added to It. And, look, in that one book, is purgatory mentioned, yet in the rest of the Bible it's not mentioned nowhere. And, after all, Jesus speaking of this same young man when he died, He said, "There is a gulf fixed that no man has ever crossed, and never will, after death." See? And that settles it, when Jesus said so.


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