The Love of God: God’s Counterpart (Part2) God’s Greatest Desire: Why He Longs for You

“Gene, I didn’t understand that.” Sister, I didn’t understand it either. “Adam, I cannot create another you while you, I can only take you out of you, and build; then there will be a place for that love to break forth, and praise God, that other you, out of You, has the passion of you and the love of you and can cast back to you the love that is in you. I don’t understand that, but anyhow, there was one condition. You’re going to have to die. And yet, Adam, you’re only a type, frankly. Therefore, you will not die; you will only “type” die.

I’m going to blow your minds, brothers and sisters. If there is only one who is alive, there is only one who can really die. I can “type” live, but I can’t have the life of God. A cow doesn’t have the life of God; is that true? It has only the picture. It can’t die; it can only “type” die. If the only life that ever was…died, you can be sure it was the only real death there ever was. Praise the Lord. Suffice it to say, God put Adam to sleep, which is a type of death. Therefore, God put Adam to sleep, and he did not create anything. He took Adam out of Adam. God took Adam out of Adam, and He built another Adam. Well, praise the Lord.

It wasn’t Adam. It was an “Adami”. The gender had changed. When God reached into that man and pulled man out of man, love came with it. Passion came with it. Emotion came with it. The very essence of man came out. All that man was…was in that. Every feeling that man had was there. And you know that man has, as a reflection, every feeling God has. Brothers and sisters, I want you to know this clearly: that Adam, who had just been put to sleep, knew what it was like to be alone. He knew aloneness that you and I cannot comprehend.

I read a fascinating word. When the first astronauts went to the moon, you know, two went down in a little vehicle and came back up. They didn’t land on the moon. They just got close to it. Do you remember that? That was before the landing. They got just within a few miles and came back up. Do you recall that? Do you also remember that in that master vehicle that was going around, how many men were left? One. That vehicle went around the moon with one man in it. What was the closest point that He was to another creature? How close? About 6,000 miles to two human beings. And from those two human beings, how far to the next human being? 235,000 miles. This was the statement I read when he got on the other side of the moon: he was more alone than any man had been since Adam.

Now, if you can imagine him there, you can imagine the loneliness that Adam knew. Walking up and down the face of this whole creation, it was like a vast, endless wasteland, with his voice echoing throughout eternity as he spoke. He had been alone, and God put him to sleep. And beating within the very breast of that man was love, that no expression. God took Adam, and “Adamed” another Adam. He built him a counterpart, and he took her by the hand. God took Eve by the hand. I don’t know how pretty she was, but I’ll tell you this: she’s the most beautiful woman there ever was. Do you know that? She was completely robed in light. She was flawless beyond comprehension. Beautiful. The word ‘pure’ doesn’t even get close. Beautiful. Holy. Pure.

God took her…you don’t know, brothers and sisters, what even that must have meant to God, for God had done something new: He had divided the image of God, and now the image of God had… a counterpart. Do you understand? God had never had a counterpart, but the image now did. He had a place to go. God took her by the hand, and Adam awoke out of his “type” death. He awoke out of sleep…may I say it this way? He stood up…the very image and likeness of the essence and the sense and the being and feeling of God…he stood there; a being, a creature, capable of deep emotion and passion…and he saw her. And for the first time, all the loneliness and all the aloneness had a place to go, and she was beautiful. And the love broke forth out of his being unto her. And she saw him, for she was his likeness, and the same passion welled up in her. I don’t know what they did, but I don’t know what I would have done. I would have embraced her—a counterpart…whom he could pour in the passion of his love.

Now, there are only two creatures left in the universe without a counterpart. Who are they? Can an angel have a counterpart? No. Can they love? No. Now, answer me in eternity past…can God have a counterpart? No. Can He love? Yes. Speaking of jealousy, I don’t know if God was jealous of man. I tell you, if I had been God, I would have been jealous of man, for here was His very image with one to love. All the universe seemed to scream out. God, you have pictured yourself in everything, and in everything that is alive, there are two…but you’re still alone.

I ask again, could the angels have a counterpart? No. Could they love? No. Could they be seen? No. Were they visible? No. Can God have a counterpart? No…say no. Can he love? Yes. Is He visible or invisible? Invisible. Does God want a counterpart? God has a passion; God is love. If I could explain it, I would explain it now. I want you to know that you and I have the type of it, but even in our…even because we’re souls, and because we are fallen, and something of that love has been changed, but because we are souls, we have the type, but because we are fallen, it is not pure.

There is love in God, more powerful, more passionate than anything that you or I can understand. It is deep within his being, and it pulsates there and cries out for expression, and it is in His Spirit, for He is Spirit. I said to you earlier, I don’t understand why. I cannot explain this, but there seems to be one great basic need: to have a counterpart, you must be visible. God is invisible, and He can love. The angel is invisible and does not love. The angel has no counterpart, and he has no problem. God can love. He is invisible, but He has no counterpart. Hallelujah. Brothers and sisters, He solved the problem.

He can create something in which He can be visible. He would become visible. He would begin the greatest love affair, for He would go to earth to find Himself His counterpart. He would go looking for a counterpart upon whom He could finally unleash the passion of His love and let it flow out upon her freely. And God altered His nature. God stopped being invisible and became the highest visible form. That’s why He created that visible form. He was after Himself…a love, a counterpart. He would divide His nature, and it would be one yet separate. He would divide the Highest Life there was in the universe. He would divide it so that He would have a place to pour that love, and that love could come back from that other, which was He. Yet the gender is changed, yet it is He. That love could come back from that other and be poured upon Him. Do you understand?

God wanted a counterpart upon whom He could pour out His deepest, deepest emotion. To do this, he had to become visible. To do this, He had to cease being God alone, enter time, and become a man. And God became a man. By the way, don’t you discount that one. You must not look at Him the way you have looked before. Do you know what He was? He was young. You know what else He was? He was still alone. Do you know what else He was? He was passionate.

John the Baptist saw Him, and John the Baptist had a need. Do you know what John the Baptist needed? He had a very great need and an incredible need. Do you know what his need was? He had been standing on the Jordan River crying out, “Repent. Repent of your sins.” What, therefore, did he need? He needed one who could take away the sin. Therefore, he saw…he saw…a bachelor. He saw God, and John the Baptist needed a Savior, and he called Him something. What did he call Him? What? The Lamb of God. Who does what?