The Most Beautiful Girl in the World Part 2

He didn’t say, “I was added to salvation.” He said, “I was added to him.” Do you understand that, that day, my Lord got a little larger. You understand what I’m saying to you? I’m saying to you that he and I are the same person in the eternals. And He and I are the same person in death, and He and I are the same person in resurrection, and now He’s let the world see visibly. He glorified me that day, and I was shown to be added to Him before the principalities and the powers in heavenly places, and all the eyes of earth that He and I were one, even as the Father and He are one. That’s who I am.

Now, I will ask you a simple question. If I’m all of that, what else is there? If He thinks so highly of me and has done all this in me, for me, through me, to me, if all His eye and heart and concentration and passion and love and zeal is toward me, there isn’t anything else. I’m the most beautiful girl in the world. Do you know how I know that? That’s because He told me so. Praise the Lord.

We’re going to meet her again tomorrow morning. Do you have anything you want to say? Huh? Does anybody want to say anything? Does anybody want to ask any questions? Okay. At this point, Baptist preachers close meetings, when you’re all feeling good and saying, “Oh, that was really a neat message.” No, we’re not going to stop here.  I’m going to give you an assignment, and you’ve got to find this girl. This will shake you folks. You have to come to understand that you’re that girl. You’ve got to enter into that in spiritual reality, and I’m not using words frivolously. I am saying that this has got to be something that you touch outside of space and time. By the way, if you do that, you may have something to talk about when you come together.

When that girl comes to be with him, she has a lot to talk about because she is seen and felt and known. Now, I’m sure most of you don’t have your Bibles with you, but if you do, turn to the book of Galatians. I charge for this, and I hope you’ve got a notebook. Now, every time I do something like this, but I’ve never done this before. That may not be true. Who knows? Who cares? This is a bit unique. Folks don’t understand what I’m saying. So, listen real carefully.

In the book of Galatians, there are passages that are eternal and there are passages that are temporal. Find the passages that are eternal. Now, Peter, having walked into the room, saw that the Jews were eating by themselves, and Peter, who ought to be rebuked, went over and sat down with them, and even Barnabas was led away and sat down with them. Is that temporal or eternal? That’s simple, isn’t it? That’s temporal, that’s a physical fact. He could have said, and Peter blew his nose. You know, Timothy, bring me a cloak. Timothy, drink a little wine with your stomach aches. Temporal!

Now, listen to this. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live. Yet, it is not I, but Christ who lives in me. In the life I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loves me, and gave Himself for me. Is that temporal? It’s eternal. Okay, now, all your life, all your life, you have read that.

I used to live in Rome, Italy, for a summer, and I’d go out on the streets, and I’d memorize that verse and knew it was supposed to be something important, and I memorized it. I’d walk up and down the street, repeating it, trying to understand what it meant. There was no way that sitting in Rome, Italy, I was ever going to figure out what that verse meant, no matter how many books I read or what had ever been said. And the reason is really simple. That verse is really not for me.

I want you to find that girl in the book of Galatians because the book of Galatians was written to that girl. That book is written to her. She’s a little girl from the race of the Phrygians, who were people who were slaves, and she is a slave in the land of Galatia, in an area called Phrygia. Find that girl. Don’t find yourself, and don’t find Peter, and don’t find Paul, and don’t find anything else. And if you will, man, how can I say this? Drop what I just said. If that girl were talking to you right now, you know what she would say to you? She would say, “Let me tell you who I am. I am the bride of Christ, and let me tell you something, my Lord, my Savior, my fiancé, and my husband.” You know what He did?

There’s something called the law of Moses. Somebody went through the first five books of the Old Testament and counted every rule in it and found out that there were 633 laws in the first five books of the Old Testament. Did you know that? Is it 633 or 622? 613? Okay, it’s 600 and some odd. All right, I’ll make it 613.

613 rules, commandments, and laws that I’m supposed to obey. And you know what my Lord did? You know what my fiancé did? You know what my Husband did? He destroyed every one, and he turned to me and said, “Sweetheart, you don’t have to obey a single one of them.” Well, don’t just sit there and say, Praise the Lord. “I have destroyed them, and you don’t have to obey any of them.” And see, I’m looking at an audience of people that don’t believe that. I’m looking at your faces, and you look dumbfounded. But Gene, some of those were the Ten Commandments. I don’t care. He took the Ten Commandments and nailed them to a tree. A cursed tree. Now then, this is on tape, and you’re going to have a duck right now. My mother used to say, “You’re going to have a set of dishes.”

You do not have to obey the Ten Commandments, as they do not exist. You do not live in the realm where the Ten Commandments are applicable. That realm has been destroyed, and you have no memory or recollection of it, and you are free from the ten commands. Well, what about that seventh one, Gene? You’re free from all of them, even the seventh.