<TITLE>15. Par 158-168</TITLE>L-158 I--I--I just know Him. That's all I want. "And to know Him is Life." Know these other things I don't know about, it might--might identify as a smart man. And I don't want to be a smart man; I just want to know Him. "I know Him," as Paul said, "In the power of His resurrection, that when He calls I'll come out from among the dead." That's all. That's all. And I want Him. I want Him. I want my name on the right place.

L-159   Now, it was a paradox when God caused a woman to conceive. It was a paradox that how God, the Eternal that fills all time and Eternity, could come down, become one little Baby crying in a manger. That was a paradox.

L-160 It was a paradox when He died at the cross. That was a paradox, to think that God would come human, so He could die as a human, to redeem His own creation. He had to do that. There's nobody else. If that was anybody else besides God, see, if that was anybody else besides God, we're lost.

L-161   For instance, what if I had the jurisdiction over you as God had over everything, and I'd say, "Well, I'll tell you what, anybody looks at that light is going to die, like take the tree"? And the first thing you know, this brother setting here, this would look at that. I feel sorry for him. I--I don't want him to die. So I'll have Terry here, to... That wouldn't be right. No. Well, if I'd have my own son to do it? That wouldn't be right. There's only one way I can be just, and that's take his place.

L-162 And God could not take a human's place, being He is Spirit. So God created a Blood cell, which was His own Son, Jesus Christ. And God came in and lived in there, and lived, identified Himself in Christ. That was God, Emmanuel. Jesus said, "I and My Father are One. My Father dwells in Me." See? "God in Christ, reconciling the world." Jesus was the body, the tabernacle, God was the Spirit that lived in Him.

L-163   Now, for instance, we have the Spirit by portion. He had It without measure. He was the fullness of the Godhead bodily, God. But we have It by measure.

L-164 Now, for instance, like the little gift that we have among us now. Now, that's like taking a spoonful of water out of the ocean. Jesus was the whole Ocean, but this is just a spoonful. But remember, the same chemicals that's in the whole ocean is in this spoonful; only it's more of it out there. See?

L-165   He was God. We are not God. We are not God. But, together... If you notice, it's so beautiful, illustrated. When that great Pillar of Fire that followed the children of Israel through the wilderness, It appeared to Saint Paul. When It come down on the Day of Pentecost, It broke up, and tongues of Fire set upon each of them. It was God in this Pillar of Fire, the Logos, separating Himself among His people, showing that Christ and the Bride, see, God and His church, are becoming one. Why, it's just the most beautiful thing you ever seen. Then, together, brother; not in different organizations, we'll never stand.
I'm a Kentuckian. "Together we stand, and divided we'll fall."

L-166 Why did the Indians lose this country to the white people? Is because they was--they was divided among themselves.

L-167 How are we going to lose this great race? Is because we're divided. How we going to do it? We got to stay together. We're all believers in God. The Holy Ghost takes us all in. It'll be a paradox if God ever gets us together, but He will. Just trust Him. The virgin birth... He knows how to send the persecution that will run us together. Now, the virgin birth was...

L-168   Now, Pentecost was a paradox, how that God chose a bunch of illiterate fishermen that didn't even know their--their ABC's. There is told that Peter couldn't even sign his own name. The Bible said that he and John, Acts 4, was ignorant and unlearned, but yet they taken notice that they had been with Jesus. That's the main thing. And how God chose...


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