<TITLE>08. Par 67-79</TITLE>L-67 So the only way to know what He is today, is find out what He was. See? That, He said, "He's the same yesterday, today, and forever." And if we can find what He was, then He has got to be the same today, because He can't change. The Bible said, "He's the same," s-a-m-e, "same yesterday, today, and forever."

L-68   Now in First John, or Saint John the 1st chapter, we find out. Here is what the writer said, the inspired by the Holy Spirit, he wrote this. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us."

L-69 May I break it down? "In the beginning was the Eternal." He wasn't even God. God, our English word god, is a--is an "object of worship." But, He, there wasn't nothing to worship Him. He was just the Eternal.

L-70 In Him was attributes. Anyone knows what an attribute is. In other words, in Him was His thoughts, just thoughts, that's His attribute. Then, His Word. And a--a thought, expressed, is a Word. "In the beginning was the Word." Before it was even expressed, it was a thought, attributes.

L-71 In this thinking, He was to be God. Probably created the Angels, first, then He was worshiped. He was God.

L-72 And, then, in Him was attributes to be Father, be Son, be Saviour. Nothing lost; something had to be lost, so there had to be a way made for that. To be healer; nothing sick, so He had something had to get sick so He could heal it. It's only displaying His attributes.

L-73   And now, remember, if you ever did, or ever will have Eternal Life, you had It with Him then. See, you had It with Him. Because, Jesus came, and Jesus was the Redeemer. To redeem anything, is, "bring it back" from where it fallen from or went from. Redeem it, "bring it back." And you, the way you look, who you are, who, what your name is, that was God's thinking before the foundation of the world. And Jesus came not to save the whole thing; He wanted to, but He come to redeem, bring back them that was in His thoughts before the beginning.

L-74 That's the reason, He was the Word made flesh. See? "God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself." The Word, God's thinking of how He would do it, He expressed Himself in Jesus Christ. It was God becoming material.

L-75   Now, where you are now, you have to die, because you're yet... Just like snapping a picture. You're the negative. Any negative has to go into the darkroom, through acids, to develop the picture, to make you see what it is. We are now in the expressed imagine of Him. It's the negative has been taken, we're human life. But we must go in the darkroom, down into the grave, to go through the developing, to come back forth in the image; oh, my, young forever, all the old age and all the dis-... defects and everything will be taken away.

L-76 Then we are redeemed, God's attributes, right back. God, material, with Christ in the Church; just like man and his wife, that's right, Christ and the Bride. Cause, it redeems back, His thinking, and His thinking is expressed out.

L-77   Now you say, "That took a long time." Not to God. We are finite. We just have to hurry.

L-78 I was thinking. When I left Jeffersonville, and driving thirty miles an hour, I drove down to Birmingham in one day and a little bit of the night, and I thought that didn't mean so much to me. But what if a little ant tried to run that? What it would mean to him! See, he couldn't make it in thousands of lifetimes. But it didn't mean nothing to me, much to me. What about a airplane? What about a jet? Then, an astronaut? Then, what about God?

L-79 See, Jesus was only crucified yesterday afternoon, in God's time, if He had time. "A thousand years is only one day with God, as it was." It ain't even that. Only, "as it was, one day." So this hasn't been just hardly a week, if you want to count it time to Him, the whole since the beginning of creation, just developing it out.


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