<TITLE>14. Par 103-112</TITLE>L-103   Kimberley, South Africa. Once I was looking at diamonds, how they was brought up out of the ground. And I seen them laying there. As, well, the--the superintendent of the plant, or the mine, was one of my ushers in the prayer line. And I noticed the diamonds, valued at tens of thousands of dollars, piled together, but they didn't sparkle even under the light. And I said to the superintendent of the mines, I said, "Why don't they sparkle?"

L-104 He said, "Sir, they haven't been cut yet. They must be cut. Then, when they are cut, then they reflect the light." There you are.

L-105 The Masterpiece must be cut. Notice, cut for what? Is the piece cut off? No, no. The piece that's cut off, it's made a victrola needle, and the victrola needle is put upon a--a--a record that's unseen music to the world. But the needle is what brings it out, brings out the true interpretation of the Word.

L-106   His life matched all the peoples. It pleased God to smite Him. And, now, why did He smite Him? For the same cause He had to smite Adam.

L-107 Now we see Him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted, the perfect Lamb for sinner--sinners slain, a perfect Masterpiece.

L-108   Now, for nearly two thousand years, God has been again making Him a Masterpiece. Because, He struck Adam to get a ma-... a piece off of him, part of him, a rib to make a wife for him. And now that perfect Masterpiece that He struck at Calvary, He got a piece off of Him. It's just the New Testament, that's all. He fulfilled the Old Testament. Now it's the New Testament, another piece to be fulfilled. See, the New and Old is husband and wife. See? And it taken the New to fore-... The Old to foreshow the New; Christ come, the Masterpiece, to fulfill that. Now His Bride will fulfill everything that's in the New Testament. Another Masterpiece is in making.

L-109   As it taken Him four thousand years to make this Masterpiece; now He's been, for nearly two thousand years making another Masterpiece, a Bride for Christ, another Masterpiece. In so doing it, He does it by His never-changing method, the same way He made the Masterpiece; His Word. That's the way He makes His Masterpieces, because He can only be a perfect Masterpiece when It's the perfect Word.
Any dirt, trash, injections, it'll break. "But the heavens and earth will pass away, but that Word will never break." You remember, in cutting a diamond, that you have to have a perfect tool to do it with, not just any piece will do it. I've seen tons of them big grinders crash right through it, and move them big tons over, pass that diamond right on through. No, it don't break the diamond. It has to be cut.

L-110   Now He's doing the same thing in His never-changing method. We find out, in Malachi 3, He said, "I'm God, and I change not." He cannot change His method.

L-111 Now, as He started in Abraham. After the fall of the first masterpiece, He started in Abraham, on a foundation, to build another masterpiece.
He started on the Day of Pentecost, to build another Masterpiece, the original Seed, Word. Started in the first Church. What was it? The Seed, Word, the Word manifested, the promise that had been given. Joel said, "It shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I'll pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your old man shall dream dreams, your young man shall see visions." What He would do in the last days, two, last two thousand years.

L-112   Notice, and it started out as the original. As Jesus said, "The Word of God is a Seed that a sower sowed." And He was the Sower. The Seed was the Word. And, notice, any seed that abides alone never does nothing. It's got to fall into the ground to bring forth its production again. And this Seed, that perfect Church, fell to the ground at Nicaea, Rome, when she become a denomination.


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