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

God had a problem. The paradox of His being brought Him to this problem – the paradox of His love and the paradox of His oneness. Brothers and sisters, I want you to know God was very alone. He was passionate, He was young, and He had the idea of a counterpart. But He was One. What’s He going to do? Something marvelous so that He can let that love tear loose from His endless being and fall in passion upon His likeness. From this motivation came the creation, the heavens, the earth, man, fall, and redemption. You, me, the church, and God’s eternal purpose. It is real; it is true. And it is His passion.

Brothers and sisters, God began to create. The very first thing He created was the unseen. Now, what is the unseen? The heavens. Are the heavens real? Are they real? They are real. Are they seen?  The heavens, the third heaven, is it seen? Does it have any weight? Is there matter involved in it? But is it real? Well, yes, it’s there. It’s in a locatable place somewhere in the dimension of the spiritual. The first thing God created was the unseen universe. What did He create within that universe in the heavens? He created the angels; they were living creatures with everlasting life. They did not have eternal life, but they had everlasting life. What started, they cannot end. Okay, then God moved to the “seen” world. What is the first thing He created in the “seen” world? Well, I’ll tell you because I’m not sure you can follow what I’m saying. He created that which was not alive, that which was only matter.

Now, He begins to create that which is seen and alive. I can’t explain what I’m telling you. Just get it in here somewhere, would you? That which is unseen, can it reproduce? Can it be two? All that is not seen is one. The Lord told us that the angels do not marry nor give in marriage. That which is unseen is very much like God in His present condition. Did you understand that? I don’t think you understand that. His present condition. He was one, and He was alone, and there was no counterpart, and that was His present condition, and everything that is unseen is like that.

Now, I ask you to do something you did before? Go home and pray and consider before the Lord, and tell us why, in the unseen realm, there cannot be a counterpart. He then began to create the “seen”. He created the “seen” universe. S-E-E-N. And in this seen universe, He created first what was not alive. But then He began creating that which was alive, and when He did it, I want you to know that in doing so, He pictured His very nature. He pictured His very divine nature. Now, I ask you, what was the first thing “living” God created? Vegetable life. I ask you…some of you are really going to have to scratch for this: can vegetable life reproduce itself? Yes. Does it have a counterpart? Much of it does, my brother. Much of it does. I don’t know my biology very well, but it can reproduce, and much of it has a counterpart. There are even male and female in the vegetable world, but I want you to know that the purpose of the vegetable was not to show this. It was to show the life and the reproduction of that life. How is it possible that this could show forth God when this was not God’s present to status? For God isn’t like this; God is like that. You can’t peg a place where God is. That’s all I can say. We go on.

The next life was the life of the sea. Does the life of the sea have a counterpart? Yes. Then, the life of the air…does it have a counterpart? Then the life of the tree, the life of the land…on the land… It’s getting higher. We now have the dog, the cat, and the oxen. Do they have consciousness? Do they have reproduction? Can they be two? Do they have a counterpart? Is there a Mr. and a Mrs.? And this shows forth God. It may not show forth God as He is, but He shows it for God as He wishes to be. He comes now to create the highest of all created beings. What is it? Audience: Man.

Now, brothers and sisters, what is the highest created being on earth? Man. What is the highest created being of heaven? Angels. In a way, they vie for contention…for second place. Which is higher, an angel or a man? Which is higher, a man or an angel? They vie; one has everlasting life, one has temporal life. The everlasting angel is now ahead of the man, but one was created in the image of God, and the other one was not. Now…they’re tied.

Brothers, sisters: one’s got to get out front. One is seen, and one is unseen. God reached down into the dirt; the particular dirt He reached into that day was red. He took the dirt, and He fashioned, and He worked, and He concentrated on every emotion He had, and He poured that emotion into man in “type-form”. He poured the physical strength. He poured everything of His likeness into that red dirt, and He brought him forth out of the soil. That man could look straight in the face of God, who was invisible except that He was light. And I believe man, though visible, was clothed in light. I can’t prove it, but I believe it. Man looked at God and comprehended Him. He felt what God felt in a smaller way. He sensed what God sensed in a smaller way. He had the sense and feeling of God.

Now, there are three high forms of life in the universe. Three. The highest. Visible or invisible? Invisible. The second one. Visible or invisible? Invisible. The third one, visible or invisible? Visible. Was God one and alone? The angels: were there one or many? Could they reproduce? No. Could they love? Absolutely not. Could they comprehend God? Yes.

(continued in Part 2)