<TITLE>19. Par 189-201</TITLE>L-189 He is cutting you out now, cutting you down to His Word only, cutting all the creeds and dogmas and everything, away from you, trying to get back to a Bride for the Son, another masterpiece, part of the Word. The Word!

L-190   Jesus couldn't take the place. You remember when they read that day in the book? He read just part of the prophecy, left the rest of it for the last day. We're supposed to take that part.

L-191 So, you see, He has cut, wants to cut the Church out, just like He did the Son out, like He did the Bride and the Groom. To be His Bride, you must be part of Him. Not part of the creed, not part of the church, not part of the denomination, but the part of Him. Hewed out of any other kind of a form, won't work. You got to be hewed from the Word. The world cut off of you, and just leave the Word only live in you.

L-192 The great Sculptor is counting on you, willing to stand and have yourself shaped into the likeness of His requirement that His Word requires. "In the last days I'll pour out My Spirit upon all flesh. Your sons and daughters shall prophesy." Christ is the identified Masterpiece of the Word made flesh. You are asked to identify yourself in Him, by the same Word, to be the masterpiece for the Bride.

L-193   Now, brethren, God had a masterpiece then, to present to the world, now He wants a masterpiece today. Are you willing? Are you ready, my Christian friend? Are you really sure that your life is so reflecting for Christ, no matter what the world says. They say, "You lost your mind. You gone crazy. You went and joined that bunch of holy-rollers." Don't you pay no attention to that.

L-194 If you're not really truly saved, and in that Body, and the Word of God in you and reflecting itself, and the Life of Christ reflecting out of you; brother, sister, don't you take that chance. I don't care what you are, what kind of an experiences you have, let that Word reflect through you each day, because God, in this last days, is taking a Bride for His Son, Jesus Christ.
Let us bow our heads.

L-195   Dear heavenly Father, such a crude way before an intelligent bunch of people. My education is suffi-... insufficient, Lord. I pray that the great Holy Spirit will sink these words into the people's heart, that they will see what I meant, if they couldn't understand in my way of chopping up things, Lord. But, in my heart, I--I see what You're--what You're trying to do.

L-196 I believe, Father, the Bride must be part of the Bridegroom. She must be as same as the Bridegroom, for she is part of Him. She can never, never be His Bride until she becomes part of Him. And that's a part of the Word, today, that says He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-197 The corn of wheat that lived once in the earth, and fell to the ground, raised up in the likeness of the grain that went into the ground. And, Lord, on the Day of Pentecost there came a great Church forth. There came another grain of wheat, to be made a Bridegroom and a Bride for the last day.

L-198   We found, it fell in, for Him, for a thousand years. From the Nicaea council, it laid rotting in the ground.

L-199 The critics wrote the book, The Silent God, "That would let little children be dead, and killed by lions, and burnt. And the gladiators martyred the Christians, and burned them at stakes." If that man only had had the spiritual understanding!

L-200 That wheat has to rot in the ground, but it sprang forth again, not in the likeness that it went down in. It went down in the likeness of a grain of wheat, but, when it come forth, it had some blades, like the young wheat that comes up.

L-201 Finally it growed through, from Luther to Zwingli, and on down, and finally come to a tassel. It changed itself in the days of Wesley. Looked a little bit more like the wheat, and more like it than the blades did. It's coming back to itself again.


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