PERFECT MASTERPIECE IN THE PERFECT WORD
THE WHOLE TRUE CONGREGATION OF THE LORD IS HOLY, BECAUSE OF THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
The Great I Am, the Almighty God, has
come as Spirit to fill His true church. He has a right to move anywhere
He wants to, and upon anybody He wants to. We don't
make any "holy men" amongst us, but the whole true congregation of
the Lord is holy, because of the presence of the Holy Spirit. It is He, the Holy
Spirit, that is holy, not the congregation of itself.
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SO WILL THE
CHURCH HAVE TO BE A MATCH TO EVERYTHING GOD HAS PROMISED.
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 youare 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.
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."
BUT HE DID DO IT WHEN THE WOMAN'S SEED BECAME THE MASTERPIECE, CHRIST
Now we find this perfect
Masterpiece that God had completed. Now, we notice that He was all that it was
promised to be.He's all the promises, all of the prophecies, everything that God
had made a promise of. "Thy Seed shall bruise the serpent's head."
Now, He could not bruise it with the law, He could not bruise it with the
prophets, but He did do it when the woman's Seed became the Masterpiece,
Christ.He
was the Stone that Daniel saw hewed out of the mountain. He was the One could
smite. He is the One that could bruise, bruise the serpent's head.
His life matched, exactly, the
life of Moses. His life matched David. Let's see if it was, if He's the
Matching-piece.
GOD BUILDING
BACK HIS MASTERPIECE.
It pleased God, the great Sculptor, to
smite Him, and to do it this way.We see Him in Isaiah here, as I read, "We
all did esteem Him, we turned our face from Him. There is no beauty that we
should desire Him,"everybody talking about Him, make fun of
Him. I'm talking about Him now in this day, everybody making fun of Him.See?
"We did esteem Him, we saw Him." Esteemmeans to "look
at.""We did esteem Him smitten and afflicted of God." Yet,
He, what did He do this for? "He was wounded for our transgressions;
He was bruised for our iniquity."
Now, we could go on and on with
that, but I believe you have the picture of what I mean now, God
building back His Masterpiece.
IF
HE TOOK FROM HIM, THE ORIGINAL CREATION, TO MAKE THE BRIDE FOR HIM, HE NEVER
MADE ANOTHER CREATION.
But let us not forget that in
the beginning when He smote the side of Adam, He took something from his
side.
Now, the
smiting of Christ was for a cause, that He might take from Him, one, to be a
family, the Bride; He might take Him a Bride.So when His
Masterpiece was perfected, then He had to smite It, to take from Him; not
another piece, not another creation, but of the same creation.
My brother, don't think bad at this,
but think a minute. If He took from Him, the original creation, to make the
Bride for Him, He never made another creation. He took a part of the original
creation. Then, if He was the Word, what must the Bride be? It's got to
be the original Word, living God in the Word.
THE MASTERPIECE
MUST BE CUT.
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?“
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.
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 victrolaneedle, and
the victrolaneedle 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.
BUT THROUGH THE YEARS GOD HAD MOLDED THE MAN'S CHARACTER
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Notice, all these years, as far as we know, he just had that one baptism
of the robe going over him. But through the years God had
molded the man's character into a place to where, after he was called, that he
would fit into the robe and be the servant of the Lord.And then when Elijah
passed through and throwedit on him, and they started up towards Gilgal, and
many of the other places, they went on to the school of prophets, on their
road, journeying on. And finally Elijah was trying to get Elisha to turn back.
Did you notice it? Trying to get him to turn back, said, "I... Otherwise
maybe the road's a little too steep for you, son. Maybe it's a little too
narrow for you to walk." You know where Elijah was, was
straightness. And wherever God's true servant preaches the Gospel, it's a
straight, unadulterated Gospel, where it's preached.
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AND THE HOLY SPIRIT MOLDS THAT CONDUCT WHEN HE COMES INTO YOU…
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watch the type of person He was. Let's look at His character; watch
His ministry. And as He worked then, He works now. As He was
then, He is now, and will be forever.And just what He did in them days,
He'll do it today, He'll be just the same forever. He's the same Jesus,
yesterday, today, and forever, the same type of character. A man that
professes to be a Christian, must have a Christ-like nature.If it isn't, there's
another nature there which it isn't Christ-like.
If I told you I had the--the spirit
of some famous mechanic, you'd expect me to know what was wrong with your car
if I looked at it. If I told you the Spirit of Christ was in me, I
must act like Jesus. You must act like Jesus. Your character and conduct must
be molded like that.And the Holy Spirit molds that
conduct when He comes into you, when you're really bornedagain of the Spirit of
God.
HE CHOOSES A BRIDE TO REFLECT HIS CHARACTER, TO WHICH THE MODERN CHURCHES OF
TODAY CERTAINLY MISSES HIS--HIS PROGRAM …
He's looking for her character,
the character of Christ.Now, just a moment now. That's it. He chooses
a Bride to reflect His character, to which the modern churches of today
certainly misses His--His program here, a million miles, 'cause they deny This
to be the Truth. So
how could it be? Now, He's looking for the day for that Bride to be
formed, Hebrews 13:8, just exactly like It was, like He was. It's got to
be His same flesh, same bones, same Spirit, same everything, just exactly built
up, and them two then become one.Until the church becomes that, they're
not one. The character of Him, the Word, for this age, must be molded. She must be
molded like He is.
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ANOTHER
MASTERPIECE IS IN MAKING.
His life matched all the peples.
It pleased God to smite Him. And, now, why did He smite Him? For the
same cause He had to smite Adam.
Now we see Him stricken, smitten
of God and afflicted, the perfect Lamb for sinner--sinners slain, a perfect
Masterpiece.
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.
HE CAN ONLY BE A PERFECT MASTERPIECE WHEN IT'S THE PERFECT WORD.
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.
Anydirt, 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.
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