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 From Mortal to Immortality  Pt.7 (The Masterpiece)

 

 

SEED.NOT.HEIR.WITH.SHUCK_  JEFF.IN  V-6 N-4  THURSDAY_  65-0218

  149    Notice, there will be no more carrier, mother churches, denominations, after this carrier shuck, because after the shuck there's no more... There's nothing left but them and just the grain. Is that right? Got to be the grain. It's got to be the same kind that went into the ground: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.

A Spirit come upon the Bride to do the same things that He did. See, it's the reproducing again of the grain.

The Word, yet young, spake for Itself. "And know not that I must be about My Father's business?"

There's the secret of the Message now. Just exactly, the Father's business. What is the Father's business? Could you think of what the Father's business was to Him? To fulfill what Isaiah said, "A virgin shall conceive." Fulfill what Isaiah said again, "The lame shall leap like a hart," and all these thing that'd take place; like Moses said, "The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet among you liken unto me." It was the Father's business to fulfill that Word. Well, if that come down through them stalks of them natural women, what about these stalks of these spiritual church women? Churches means women--women means churches, rather. Is that right? Then what is it now? "We must be about the Father's business," the wheat would cry back, the grain. Yes, sir. What must it do? Vindicate Malachi 4; vindicate Luke 17:30; vindicate Hebrews 13:8; vindicate St. John 14:12; vindicate all of His Word: vindicate Hebrews--I mean, Revelation the 10th chapter, of the opening of the Seven Seals; and the mysteries of God, even to serpent's seed, and all would be manifested: Marriage and divorce and all these other mysteries that's been hid under the pillars from all these years from the theologians and so forth, but it's now the hour. That's the Father's business. Think they would receive it? They want to be dignified and say, "Our denomination don't teach us that." But the Bible does. That's right. God vindicates it to be true. Sure it is.

 

INVISIBLE.UNION.OF.THE.BRIDE_  SHP.LA  V-2 N-15  THURSDAY_  65-1125

  44-1    Now, we're just ready for one thing. That's the coming of the Lord. There's your name on the Book of Life.

The Book of Life is the Word of God, 'cause the Word is God, and God is the only thing that's Life. So your name was represented in the Bible before the Bible become on Word. And if you're here to do that, won't it vindicate that Word? Won't the church vindicate itself? Won't Malachi 4, and all these other things, perfectly, perfectly, vindicate Itself and show that that's what It is?

When Jesus come He said, "If I do not the works that's promised for Me to do, don't believe Me." Which one of the groups did He join? He said, "They all... You're of you are of your father the devil, and his works you do." See, see? We're in the last days, church. That's my Thanksgiving message to you.

 

RECOGNIZING.YOUR.DAY_  JEFF.IN  V-5 N-1  SUNDAY_  64-0726M

  196    And the rich, blinded, educated Laodicean would put the Word out of their midst. Have they done it? He said they would. As the prophets of old were sent to vindicate the promised Word of their days, so that the people who were predestinated in their day saw It, like the woman at the well, like Nathan, like blind Bartimaeus, like Peter, and the rest of them who recognized It... He was that Word and the production. "If I do not the works that the Father promised I'd do, then believe Me not. But if I do the works, though you don't believe Me, believe them works; they tell you Who I am." Get it? All right. Don't miss the day. Sent... Men and women of other days recognized it, and went in, and were safe.

Pentecostals (Oh, my.), why don't you recognize your day? Recognize the day of the evening time. It is here, and it's here to--to vindicate the coming of Christ: to vindicate it. We're at the end. Recognize your day.

 

SHALOM_  PHOENIX.AZ  V-22 N-1  SUNDAY_  64-0119

  199    How they'd come out in the reformation, they did just exactly that. How he promised in each age it would be, and He promised for this age. And here He is today, making that Word live, just exactly like He did in the beginning. Certainly.

And when every promise is fulfilled, death is swallowed up in victory; Jesus will come. And the last one is vindicated, then there will come an eternal peace upon the earth, and an eternal shalom. An eternal shalom, peace, will rest upon the earth.

When Jesus came, the Prince of Peace, why wasn't there peace? Because all the Word wasn't fulfilled in His day. He's fulfilling It today. But when all of His promised Word, which was a thought of God...

A "Word" is a "thought expressed." God, in His thinking, thought It and expressed It through His prophets, and now It has to be fulfilled. And when He foretold us of these things so we wouldn't make a mistake and blunder in darkness then when we see it being fulfilled...

Now, He promised to send Christ the second time. And whenever He does, when Christ comes the second time, there will be an eternal shalom.

 

CHRIST.IS.IDENTIFIED.THE.SAME_  TAMPA.FL  WEDNESDAY_  64-0415

  E-34    Now, how could it be? God In the beginning 'lotted his Word so much for each age. That's the reason He knew the end from the beginning. In each age there was a prophecy allotted for that age. Usually the churches, and so forth, and the groups of people all had it so twisted up, until He would send a prophet on the scene. Now, we know the Bible said that God in sundry times and divers manners spake to the fathers through the prophets; in this last days through His Son, Jesus Christ.

  Never... The unchanging God never changes His way of doing things. God has one way of doing things, and He doesn't change at all. When man sinned and fell in the garden of Eden, and God made a way for that man to be--to be saved, He's never changed His way. He accepted that man upon the basis of the shed blood of an innocent one, and He's never changed it since. No matter what we tried to build, towers, Nimrod... And we tried to--we tried to build cities, like Nebuchadnezzar. We've tried to have organization, to make all people in one group. We've tried to educate them into it. We've tried everything in the

world to do it, and it's every bit failed.

 

CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY_  JEFF.IN  V-3 N-7  SUNDAY_  63-0728

  16-2    Now, God's secret mystery He had before the world began... Now, back in the back part of God's mind, there was something that He was trying and was going to achieve, and He had a motive in doing it, in order to let Himself be expressed. Because first, there wasn't even a moon, star, atom, molecule, or anything; He was God. But He exactly wasn't God at that time, because God is an object of worship, and there wasn't nothing to worship Him. So in His great mind He wanted these attributes to be expressed. And in Him was love; in Him was to be Father; in Him was to be Son; in Him was to be a Saviour; in Him was to be a Healer. And all these great attributes that we see already expressed, they were in God.

 

CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY_  JEFF.IN  V-3 N-7  SUNDAY_  63-0728

  17-1    Now, God had a purpose and a hidden mystery. And that's what I want to speak on to the church this morning: the hidden mystery of God that He had in His mind before the world ever began and how that it's unfolded itself right down to this present hour that we're living. See? Then you will understand clearly then (You see?) on, I believe, what is being done.

God's great mystery of how... It's a secret. He kept it a secret. Nobody knowed nothing about it; even the Angels didn't understand it. See? He didn't reveal it. That's the reason under our seventh mystery, when the seventh seal was opened, there was silence.

 

MASTERPIECE.THE_  JEFF.IN  V-4 N-7  SUNDAY_  64-0705

  59    So He begin now, taking man from His covenants of--of saying that, "If you will, I will." And He begin with a man called Abraham and give to Abraham a covenant unconditionally. Every time He'd start a masterpiece, Satan would get it, because the Word. But when He started with Abraham, He said, "I have already done it." Now, this is unconditionally, not, what--that--that, "If you will, I will," but, "I've already done it." Now, He... The--the Sculptor is determined to have this masterpiece.

Then from Abraham come the patriarchs. And the patriarchs really... Now, what's God doing? He's rebuilding this masterpiece that had fallen. So in the patriarchs, the first we find was Abraham.

 

MASTERPIECE.THE_  JEFF.IN  V-4 N-7  SUNDAY_  64-0705

  61    Now, watch. Every masterpiece is put on a foundation of sculpture. Angelo's monument of Moses is on three or four foot piece of marble. It's got a foundation. So God in preparing this masterpiece, He put it on a foundation of the patriarchs. And the patriarch foundation, first was Abraham, then Isaac, then Jacob, then Joseph: the four corners.

And now, Abraham was the foundation of faith. Let's say it had four foundations. The foundation of faith was Abraham. The foundation of love was Isaac. The foundation of grace was Jacob (God's grace to Jacob. Anyone knows that). But in Joseph was perfection. There's where He could set the monument, upon, not the first foundation, the second foundation, the third foundation, but on the fourth foundation.

 

MASTERPIECE.THE_  JEFF.IN  V-4 N-7  SUNDAY_  64-0705

  65    Now, the foundations was laid through faith, love, grace, and to perfection through the patriarchs. Now, the body work that come on to this great masterpiece was the prophets, which was the Word (I hope you can read it. See?)--the prophets, not the laws, the prophets. For the prophets was the vindicated Word which makes the body, not the patriarchs, the prophets. They were the Word.

Finally, as He started way back in the days of Moses and come down through the prophets, to each one, it finally--building up the body, coming closer all the time... And the greatest of all of them was John. The Bible said so. Jesus said it: "There's not a man ever born of a woman as great as John the Baptist," for he was the one that could introduce the Word. And then come finally the great Head, the Head of all of it. The rest of the body just spoke of It.

 

MASTERPIECE.THE_  JEFF.IN  V-4 N-7  SUNDAY_  64-0705

  68    The foundation was laid by the patriarch, but the body was built by the Word, which was the prophets. And here comes the Head of all of it; Jesus came on the scene. There when this Headpiece was put upon it, we find in Him the entire handiwork of God. We find in Him the perfect reflection of the Word, for He was the Word, the fullness of the Word. Now, again God has the perfect Masterpiece again, 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 St. John 14, "When you see Me, you see the Father."...