The Love of God – Why God Created Man (God’s Counterpart – Part 1)

He was Life. What else? He was light. Now, what in the world is light? Well, brothers, I’ll put it another way, but it’s not that. I’m going to use a word, but it’s not that. It’s the closest word to it. What do you get when you get the Lord’s light? You get revelation. You get illumination. Yes, a sense of liberation and freedom. The closest word I can come up with is you get knowledge, but it’s not knowledge because it’s deep within, and you don’t even comprehend it. You’re only impressed with it. So, I will put it this way. He was the only illumination, the only knowledge. He was the only consciousness. That’s a vague term. I can’t tell you what light is. I’ll just leave “light”.

Brothers and sisters, I would like you to look at God. Two other things I want to tell you about the Lord. There was one other thing that He was, but there are two things I want to tell you about Him. Can we imagine Him as a great illumination? I don’t know how to imagine God before the beginning. I don’t know what to conceive, but I see a light too big for me to see the edges of. I see nothing but brightness, so bright. The only way you can really see brightness is to see it in contrast to something. Even the sun, if you’ve ever dared try to look straight at it, about all you can see and know is that you’ve looked at the sun, that you get the outer edge, the reflection of the outer edge of it. When you look straight at it, you can’t see it. I don’t know if you understand what I mean. You only see the edge of it.

Well, there was just so much that was light. He was light. He was living, and He had consciousness. There is something awesome about this One. He was One; not only One, He was alone. There wasn’t anything else but Him. Just a little further, He was one. He was alone. He was utterly alone. He could speak with Himself, He could counsel Himself, but He was eternally alone. There were two more things about God. I don’t think you’ve ever had this thought. He was young. Don’t you think He was older? That’s a religious conception. It’s got to go. He was a young man, or if you please, He was a young God. He is quite young. He is not affected by time, and He has not grown old. Will you allow me to say He was young? May I say that God was young? Do you know how old He is?

Brothers and sisters, I can tell you no matter what measurement you put upon Him, the oldest that you can make God, the absolute oldest that you can make Him is 33 years old. Because before He touched time by becoming literally part of it, He was young, and when He left it, He became ageless again. I want you to know that the God who made you, the God you serve, and the God you love, is young.

There was one other thing about Him. He was not only young and alone. Down there in the depths of His being, He was something else. I cannot call Him the incarnation of it; He was the essence of it. Whatever it was, that’s He. Whatever He is…is that. There was one thing God was, and God is the only one who is this. He’s the only one who has it, but it’s not “has” because it is God Himself. You have known God as a God of power. Great, but I want you to know that no matter how powerful you may understand the power of God, this element pulsated in Him with the greatness of that power behind it. There was one other thing He was: God was Love. God is Love. Pulsating deep within this being whom I cannot comprehend, but I am the only one, as a man, or mankind are the only ones…I am the only one because I am a man of all His creatures who could vaguely comprehend that beating deep in the very being of God is Love; that He is a God of intense passion. He is a passionate God.

From here on, I’m lost because I am a living soul. From here on, you’re lost. God was love. God is love. But don’t you dare go back to kindergarten now, stay with me, would you? I’ll use any instrument at hand to get this point across if your spirit can be touched, hallelujah. I am a living soul, and nothing that I say beyond this will be true. It will only be pictorial words, because when God created me, He created me with a comprehension of love. But actually, He didn’t. He created me with a comprehension of the picture of love.

Let me see if I can explain that a little more clearly. There are only two creatures in the universe who love; only two. Now, I know that some of you have a dog. Very affectionate puppies. He comes, jumps up in your lap, and then goes. I know I’ve had lots of dogs, and he’ll come and he’ll lick your face, and he looks for all the world as if he loves you. That’s a big lie. He does not love you. He does not comprehend love, and he never expresses love. There are only two things dogs are interested in. Number one is: he’s interested in eating. You follow him and watch him come into the room, the house, no matter what time of the day, and the first thing he does is go over to his bowl and sniff it. When you eat, he has one thought. He watches with all his being. He watches the food. Now, he has one other thing that he’s interested in, and that’s playing, and that’s all. He’ll play with you all day long. The only thing he ever wants out of you is to be petted or played with. He just wants to have fun. That’s all he can comprehend.

But a man can picture love. I would say a man can love. Man can “picture-love”. That’s one word; there’s a hyphen there. He can “picture-love”. He can express the “type” of God’s love. What is the difference between these two creatures who can express and comprehend love? One is man, the other is God. Man’s love is on the level of his soul. God is a spirit, and His Love is on the level of the Spirit. From here on, I will talk to you about this matter, but I will have to use human words that express the soul; things that I can comprehend. I comprehend the picture; I cannot comprehend reality. But God is Spirit, and true love is not in the soul. It is not in the body. Nor is it experienced there nor known there. It is known in the spirit.

Which love is the stronger? Which is more powerful? That which is the “picture-love” of man, located in the soul, or the “reality-love” that is located in the very inner being of God. You have to say, God’s passion is greater than man’s. Then you won’t understand anything beyond this, but I will tell you this: if you can get any kind of understanding of it, it’ll be enough, brothers and sisters, to alter us forever.

I want you to go back and look at God and know that He is all alone, and yet there is a paradox in God. Remember, I am speaking now in pictures, and I don’t even know what I’m talking about. And don’t you try to comprehend what I’m talking about. God is filled with love. There is within Him the constant consuming passion of love, and it’s there, but there isn’t any place for it to break forth. God is alone. He is a “He”, is love, He is alone, and He has been that way through all eternity.

Brother, one day God had an idea that is so natural to you; what I’m about to say will not even impress you. But the day, the non-day, that God had this idea, you can be sure it was revolutionary. You and I are so used to this that there’s just nothing to it. One day, one non-day, God had an incredible, staggering idea. It flowed out of the very need of His being. God had the idea of a counterpart. God had the idea of a counterpart. He had the idea of a “she”. Please say, “Wow.”

A divine creature other than God, upon whom the intensity of this infinite being, with all the incomprehensible power that is divinity, can gush forth a torrential love. Yet He was God, and by nature, He was One He could not beat. What should we be? Frankly, I’m not clear till this minute how He solved the problem. All I can tell you is that, to solve it, He had to create a universe. I can tell you what He needed. He needed another creature, a non-creature. He needed an eternal being who had His nature, His life, His light, and His reality, made of exactly what He was made of. And yet was both separate from Him and the same as He; different from Him but one with Him.