<TITLE>06. Par 50-59</TITLE>L-50 Now, someone said the other day, a--a--a Baptist minister out in Tucson, "How can you say that--that Jesus and God would be the same Person?"

L-51 I said, "Well, it's very easy if you just let your own thinking get away, and think the Bible terms of it. They are the selfsame Being. God is a Spirit; Jesus is the body that He was veiled in. See?" I said, "Like in my home. To my wife, I am her husband. And I have a young daughter, Rebekah, I am her father. And I have a grandson, and his name is Paul, I am his grandfather. I am husband, father, and grandfather. And my wife has no claims on me as father or grandfather; she has claims on me alone as husband. And my daughter has no claims on me as husband or grandfather; she is my child. See? But yet all these three persons is the same person. See? That's God; Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, is just the dispensation claims." God is same, the same God.

L-52   God changed Himself, changes His form. If you notice here in Philippians, He said, "Not thinking it robbery, but took the form of man."

L-53 Now, the Greek word there for that form, I've been looking at it all day yesterday, trying to think out what it was, I find, come with this word of "en morphe." It's spelled e-n m-o-r-p-h-e. Looking in the Greek, to find out what en morphe was... I may pronounce that wrong, but reason I spell it, when if a tape is released, the people will, scholars will, know what I--I mean by it. He, when the en morphe, that means that He changed Hisself. He, He come down. Now, the Greek word there means, that, "Something that could not be seen, yet it's there, and then it's changed and the eye can catch it." See?

L-54   Like Elijah was, at Dothan. See, the--the servant couldn't see all those Angels around there, and God just changed; not brought the Angels down, but He changed the seeing of the servant. And there was the mountains full of Angels, and fire, and horses of fire, and chariots of fire, all around His prophet. See, they, He changed the seeing. The--the thing is already there.

L-55 So, that what I'm trying to say, that God that always was is here. The only thing He done when He become man, He changed His mask. See? He--He, this en morphe, He--He changed Himself to what He was to what He is, or His mask, another act.

L-56   Like in a great drama. As I was speaking this morning, kind of catching up on this of Shakespeare. It's been a long time. But when Shakespeare wrote the--the--the drama, the... for King James of England, when he... the character of Macbeth. See, Shakespeare did not believe in witches; but in the play, for the king did believe in witches, so he had to include witches. See? And now, in order to do this, they change the cast.

L-57 Becky here, in Carmen, they acted that in the--in the school where she just graduated a few weeks ago. Now, maybe one person played three or four parts. In order to do that, he--he changed his mask. Sometimes he comes out, he's this character; and the next time he comes out, he's another character. But it is the same person all the time.

L-58   And that's God. He changed Himself from--from a Pillar of Fire, to become a Man. Then changed Hisself from that, back in the Spirit again, that He might dwell in man. God acting in man what He really was. Jesus Christ, was God acting in Man, in a Man. In a Man, that's what He was. He had changed from the Pillar of Fire, and then had come in; which was a veil in the wilderness, that hid God from Israel. Moses seen the shape of His body, but really He was hid all the time behind this Pillar of Fire, which was the Logos that went from God.

L-59 Now we find here, now since Pentecost, God is not acting in man, or act... now He is acting through man. See? He was acting in a Man then, Jesus. Now He is acting through man that He has chosen for this purpose. God, in the form of man, He changed Himself from the form of--of a... of God, to a form of man.


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