HIM, THE WORD, REFLECTED IN THE MASTERPIECE IN HIS OWN LIKENESS, GOD BACK AGAIN IN HIS OWN LIKENESS
As Isaiah said, "Behold My Servant, My Masterpiece,
that I have portrayed through all the ages of this perfect One coming. And here
He stands right before Me, a perfect!" There, in His Own image, reflecting God! For He
said, in Saint John 14, "When you see Me, you see the Father."
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And, then, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,"
and the Word was hewed out and reflected
what the Word was at the beginning. Him, the Word, reflected in the Masterpiece in His Own
likeness, God back again in His Own likeness, the Word form being reflected in
the image of a man, the Masterpiece.
SO PERFECT REFLECTED
OF THE BUILDER HIMSELF, HIS OWN IMAGE WAS REFLECTED IN HIS WORK.
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All the prophets had flaws; all the ones was a portion. But here, at last, coming up through that, finally comes the
Masterpiece, the perfect One, no fault in Him at all, so perfect reflected of
the Builder Himself, His Own image was reflected in His work. "God
and Christ were One," insomuch until He put His Own Spirit into Him, and
then even the image and the Builder became One. God and His sculpture work,
His Masterpiece! Where Mose--Moses was, in the work of Saint Angelo, was a...
or Michelangelo, rather; was a--a sculpture work that was dead, because it been
made out of stone. But here, the Master Builder, when He got His handiwork
perfected, He stepped into It.
AND HE WAS THE FULFILLING OF ALL THE PROPHETS.
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So
perfected a Redeemer of man, so perfect, so godly; yet, there was no beauty we
should desire Him. When this virgin-born Son of the living God become so
perfect, and humble, and in the image of God, until the great Master Who had
brought His Life up through the prophets... And He was the fulfilling of all the prophets. He was so perfect,
until, God seeing this, He smote Him and has cried out, "Speak!" as
Michelangelo did. "Speak!"
You say, "Is
that so?"
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Mark 9:7, we find, upon the Mount Transfiguration, when there stood Moses, the law, there stood Elijah, the prophets. All the way back from the patriarchs, the
fathers, the law, the prophets, and all of them standing there. We hear a Voice
coming down from the cloud, and said, "This is My beloved Son; hear ye Him!"
And if they're going to hear, He's got to speak. It was just a few days
before He was smitten. "This is My
Son, Who I'm pleased to dwell in. I have molded Him. I've been four thousand
years bringing Him to this. And now, He is so perfect, I've got to smite Him so
He can speak. Hear ye Him! He is the perfected One. He, He is the Masterpiece."
WE FIND HIM BEING THE ROCK IN THE WILDERNESS
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Remember, He was portrayed all times, back through the Old Testament.
We find Him being the Rock in the wilderness, that was
smitten, Rock in the wilderness. "I am that Rock that was in the wilderness."
But that was a stone that had not come
to its perfection yet. But in type form It followed the church, to draw
from It that that He could draw, give Life to those Who He could give Life to.
But He was that Rock in the wilderness. He had not been made man yet. He was
only in type.
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saw Him standing on this Rock. He saw Him pass by, and he said, "It's the
back part of a man." You see, the Sculptor was presenting to Moses, which was a potential
image of Christ, what the great Masterpiece would look like when It was
perfected. He passed His... He injected, or--or projected to Moses
the vision of what the Masterpiece was going to look like. It was the back part
of a man, when It passed by in the wilderness.
HE SPOKE THROUGH THE PROPHETS AS THEY WERE IN THEIR
POTENTIAL IMAGE, AS HE WAS BRINGING IT UP TO THE HEAD
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Remember, Angelo could only cry out and smite the image, and say,
"Speak!"
But how different it was to God, the great
Sculptor. When He made a man in His Own image, so perfect that It reflected
Him, God spoke through the image of man, showing what He would do.
He spoke through the prophets as they were in their potential image, as He was
bringing it up to the Head.
But when He come
in the Head, He was all the image of God; He was portraying Himself.
Then, smitten
for us, now He is the Masterpiece to us, the Gift of God, Jesus Christ, Eternal
Life. I hope we never forget that.
WE SEE THE CONDITION
OF THE WORLD. IT CAN'T STAND. IT'S GOT TO SINK, LIKE THE TITANIC.
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As we see the days darkening, as
we see the shadows falling! When, I predict, "It's just a few more turns
of the sun. This nation is gone." Do you know...
Yesterday,
fourth of July. Thomas Jefferson had signed the declaration of independence,
him and the other board that was with him, and the Liberty Bell rang, and we
was declared an independence, as a nation. According to history, there has never been a
democracy at any time last over two hundred years. And that was 1776, July
the fourth. And we're just eleven years left. Will it make it? No, can't, see. Eleven years. And, if it
does, it'll break all history.
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And we see the condition of
time. We see the condition of the people. We see the condition of politics.
We see the condition of the world. It can't stand. It's
got to sink, like the Titanic. It must go down, for theirs give
room. One nation gives room to another, as it falls. And this kingdom must fall, and every other kingdom, to give room to that Kingdom that's coming, which cannot
fall. "For we receive a Kingdom that
cannot be moved," through this perfect image of God, the Masterpiece.
HE WAS SO INSPIRED
THAT IT WOULD BE THE PERFECT MASTERPIECE OF A REDEEMER, JESUS THE REDEEMER
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God, when He looked upon Him, He
was so inspired! He was so... to see Him the way He looked, and to see the--the
form of Him, He was so inspired that it would be the
perfect Masterpiece of a Redeemer, Jesus the Redeemer. So, God, in order to be smitten,
Himself; because, to pay His Own penalty, God and Christ became One, so God could be smote in the Image, He could be scarred.
And that's why Isaiah said, "We did esteem Him smitten and
afflicted of God. Yet He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for
our iniquity; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes
we were healed."
THE PERFECT IMAGE, THE GOD-MAN! GOD, IN ENMORPHE, HAD
CHANGED FROM SUPERNATURAL TO THE VISION, AND THE VISION WAS PROJECTED INTO THE
IMAGE.
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The
perfect Image, the God-Man! God, in enmorphe, had changed from Supernatural to
the vision, and the vision was projected into the Image. And the Image was smitten so that the
Supernatural could taste the feeling of death, God's perfect Masterpiece.
He could not do
it in Moses. He could not do it in the prophets; Isaiah, who was sawed with
saws till he was sawed to pieces. He could not do it in the
prophets that were stoned. He could not do it, because He couldn't feel it;
there was just a portion of Him.
GOD'S PERFECT
MASTERPIECE! GOD, SO INSPIRED BY SEEING IT
But in this perfect Masterpiece, He was the
fullness of the Godhead bodily. He could not only project
Moses; He could project His entire Being into this Person, and taste death for
the whole human race. God's perfect Masterpiece! God, so inspired by seeing It, He
become the Redeemer of all ages; to speak for those in the backgrounds, who had
been before, and now.
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promises was met in Him. He was the Perfection
of the perfection. All
types was fulfilled in Him; our Kinsman
Redeemer, in Ruth and Boaz; our Law-giver,
from Mount Sinai; our Prophet, from
the wilderness, as He come from the mountain, as He come from the wilderness; as He come from Eternity and become man,
the perfect Image!
GOD, DOWN THROUGH THE AGE, HEWING AWAY
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God, down through the age, hewing
away, by the patriarchs, and made His
platform, and brought them up from the different things that He would lay this
foundation upon. Upon this He
begin to build His Word, the prophets. And then, finally, come out to the perfect Prophet,
the perfect Foundation, the perfect vision God had.
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now, in order for this to speak, He is the Word. And for the Word to
speak, He must come into the Image. And then for the Image to speak, it's
got to be smitten. He comes
into the Image, and then in order to speak, the perfect Redeemer.
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the types of the Old Testament was met in Him. As I said the other day,
Jehovah of
the Old Testament is Jesus of the New. Yes.
YOUR DIRTY CLOTHES
THAT YOU BROUGHT IN, YOU COULD REDEEM THEM BY THIS TICKET, BECAUSE IT MATCHED
THE TICKET THAT WAS TURNED IN.
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Like many of you, man, women, my age; we used to have, around the
country, a lot of Chinese laundries. When the Chinese first started in, they
come from the West Coast, moving eastward, coming over from the Eastern
country, moving this way. And as they did, they were a people who were not
acquainted with our language and our ways, but they were fine laundrymen. And
they couldn't write the ticket so you could get your right laundry back.
But, the Chinaman,
he got himself a bunch of little cards with nothing on it at all. So when you
come for your laundry, he would take this card and tear it in a certain way;
and hand you one piece, and he kept the other piece. And, now, it's a little better than what we have now, because when
you come back to claim what was your own, those two pieces must dovetail.
You couldn't impersonate it if you had to. There's no way of doing it. You can
make copies of letters, but you can't impersonate that tear. It's got to fit exactly with the other
piece. Therefore, your dirty clothes that you
brought in, you could redeem them by this ticket, because it matched the ticket
that was turned in.
SO WILL THE CHURCH HAVE TO BE A MATCH TO EVERYTHING
GOD HAS PROMISED.
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And when God, by the prophets, and under the law, condemned us to sin;
and the law has no grace, it's only tells you you are a sinner. But when Jesus came on the scene, He was
the fulfillment, He was the--the fulfillment of everything God had promised.
He was the
perfect, identical image of the promise.
Therefore, all
promises of the Old Testament was met in Jesus Christ. It couldn't be met in Moses, it couldn't be
met in any of the prophets, but it was met in the Masterpiece. It matched all
that It said It was going to be.
So will the Church have to be a match to everything
God has promised. It must be the piece that's smitten off of It. So if the original is the Word, so will the subjects that's been taken from It be the
Word, to match Its side.
THE REDEMPTION THAT
GOD HAD PROMISED BACK IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN.
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Therefore, the Chinaman, you could claim... Where, the law condemns you and said you were dirty, and you were
guilty, and could put you in the prison. But when He
came, He was the Match-piece for it, that could take you out; and bring you
back, to--to be the complete ticket, the redemption that God had promised
back in the garden of Eden. "Thy
Seed shall bruise the serpent's head. But, His heel shall bruise--bruise its
head."
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