<TITLE>14. Par 127-133</TITLE>L-127 And now what made Him exactly, to me, the--the Masterpiece to me and to you, is because God smote Him. He smote Him at Calvary. If He hadn't been smitten... No matter how many dead He had raised, how great He had preached, what His great life was, what His claims was, He was proven there. He was so pleased, God was, till He was the only Man that ever stood on the face of the earth that God could smite for the rest of them. That perfect One was smitten for the imperfect. The whole creation that had fell, through Adam, it was redeemed through Jesus Christ. God's Masterpiece has stood the test. How did He do it? By the Word. "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'"

L-128   Oh, Christian friend, put on the whole armor of God. Don't stand back with some little idea of some creed, or something that you're standing by. Put on the whole armor of God when you go to fight against the enemy, like our Lord did. He showed that how the weakest of Christian can defeat Satan just with the Word. He had powers, He could have smote Satan any way He wanted to, but He didn't use it. He just took the Word and defeated him with it. "It's written. It's written." Everywhere, "It's written." So He defeated Satan by the Word of God.

L-129   Now, that was a perfect Masterpiece and God smote it. What an example It was! What a real thing! Talk about Michelangelo's piece of--of sculpture over there, by Moses being smitten on the leg? The Bible said, "This Man was marred above all men. He was marred so much till He didn't even look like a son of man. He was beaten. He was bruised. He was bloody. He was striped." He... Everything that could be done. He looked like just a--just a big pile of Blood and bones, walking together. He didn't even look like a human being, as He drug that up Calvary. God smote Him for us. That's what makes Him the perfect Masterpiece.

L-130 Oh, how I love Him, know that He did that for me, know that He did that for you. How can we--how could we match it? No one could match it. Nobody is worthy to match it. We were here without hope. We without God. We without any way of redemption. Every one of us born sexual, and we just had to pay the price. But He came, the perfect One, and was so perfect and so pleasing till God smote Him for you and I.

L-131   Now, for nearly two thousand years, God has been trying to cut Him a masterpiece Bride, called a Church. That's right. How does God do it? He does it by His never-changing method, the Word. God never changes His method. Anybody, you can. You change. I change. Time changes. The world changes. But God doesn't change, He's perfect. He doesn't change. And the way He does anything the first time, He does it every time the same way.

L-132 He saved man one time because he repented. That's the way he will save man again. He healed one man because he had faith. He will heal the next one on the same basis. He never changes His way, because, see, He is sovereign and He's Eternal. He's infinite, omnipresent, omniscient. He's God. And therefore He don't have to ask anybody for wisdom. He don't have to wait till He learns more. He don't need a new degree. He's perfect. And whatever degree, and whatever thing He makes first, His first decision remains the same forever. It can never be changed. Oh, how glad I am!

L-133   And when He made His first masterpiece, He put him behind the Word. When He made His second Masterpiece, He was the Word. Amen. He was the Word; not behind the Word. But, He was the Word. God never changes His plan. That's exactly what He started off to do His first church with, the Word.


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