Eph 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
Eph 2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
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190 What a rebuke to Christianity! We're
supposed to represent God and Eternal Life. There's only one form of Eternal
Life, and that's God. He alone has Eternal Life. And we are products of His,
because we're genes of His Spirit. Then we should conduct ourself, women and
men, like the Bible said for us to do. Not Jezebels of the street, and Rickies
of the organization; but Christian gentlemen, sons and daughters of God, borned
of the Spirit of God, manifesting the Light in our days and scattering It. That's
exactly right.
112 "I got the baptism, the Holy
Spirit." That still has nothing to do with it. That's just only a temporal
gift for you.
The real gift is your soul down
in there, see, that was born of God, and that controls the whole thing to the
Word of God and the will of God. And there you grow up, see, then you're a son
and daughter of God. You're a child of God. And these things, as you come up...
Like the mother, now you're in the bowels of the earth, trying to come forth.
You're a son of God, coming forth, and you see the Word says, "I should do
this. I should be born-again."
"Well, I belong to
church." That don't mean one thing. See?
113 "Well, my, I'm Pentecostal. I belong." That, if you don't line with that Word, there is something wrong. See? Then, you see, your real father ain't God. See? Because, that real start in your soul, before there even was a spirit, it was your soul. That soul didn't come from God, then it wasn't a germ of God, to begin. You're deceived. You're in a patch of weeds and bearing the world's record of the weeds coming forth. Acting like the world, loving the world, is because the love of God is not in you.
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31 You were all pre-planned by God. Nothing happens by chance, with God. He knows all about it. It's all pre-planned, planned for many generations back, so that you could be here tonight. Did you know that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
Just think, that, you, at one time... I'll repeat this again. You, at one time, was in your father, in the gene of your father. Now, he didn't know you at that time, neither did you know him at that time. But, you see, then you were put in the bedding ground, in the womb of mother, through holy wedlock. And then you become a person expressed in the image like your father, then there's fellowship.
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212 Now, it was nature, associated with death. Your first husband, that had rule over you, was your nature by natural birth. Natural, you love the world because you are the world, and part of the world. That right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Your desires was, by nature, to love the world which you're a part of. You're a part of nature. You believe that? ["Amen."] And that's your natural thing.
213 That's the reason you have to be born again. You have to separate; you have to die to that first husband. You can't live with it. You just can't say, "Well, I'll divorce him, and hang him up here till occasion." No, sir. No writing of divorcement! He dies. The nature of the world has to die. Every speck of him has to die. You have to be reunited, again, with another Nature.
214 Your name of your first nature, was born, and put in a book of life. All your deeds was wrote in it, too. Everything you done under that nature was put in a book, called the book of life.
215 You notice, in Daniel, when he come to "the Ancient of Days, Whose hair was as white as wool. Ten thousand times ten thousands came with Him, to minister to Him; the--the Bride. And then the books were opened." "And another Book was opened, which was the Book of Life." See? There is saints already there, the Church, the Bride. "Another Book was opened, which was the Book of Life."
216 Now, you, but when you were separated from that union, by spiritual death. Your natural desire is to cut your hair. Your natural desire is to wear shorts, paint your face. Your natural desire is to be intellectual, smart man, know something better than the other. That's what Eve wanted. That's the very thing she wanted.
217 "Well, say! You little two bit, two-by-four preacher, stand up there and tell me? I've got a Ph.D., LL." That just makes you farther away from God, every time you add one thing. See? See? That's right. It's true. See?
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44 Like in the Book here, and the spot there we was talking about the--the two Books being One, the Book of Life. The first Book of life coming up, was when you were born, that was your natural birth. See? But then one time, way back down in there, there was a little grain of Life as I was explaining to some of the young sisters at the house this afternoon. See, there's a little grain of Life laying there, that you wonder, "Where did It come from? What--what these strange things?"
164What's It drawing? It's drawing through
the Word, because you are a part of the Body of Christ of this age. And if that
Word is in you, It can only draw through the Word, the Spirit that quickens
that Word that's in you. Just the Word alone won't live. That's the reason,
"All the Father has given Me will come to Me; and if I be lifted up, I'll
draw all men unto Me." See? See, "the Father," the part of the
Body of Christ that's in the world, predestinated, put into the heart.
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121You are here because your name was placed
on the Lamb's Book of Life before there was even a foundation of the world.
That's exactly right. You're a gene, a spiritual gene out of your Heavenly
Father, a part of God's Word. That be so, as I've said, then you was with Jesus
when He was here because He was the Word: you suffered with Him, died with Him,
buried with Him, and rose with Him, and now setting in Heavenly places in Him!
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162 The choice of your conduct. You could... You can't mix it now. You're either for God or against God, and the outward expressions shows exactly what's on the inside. See? The cocklebur... Many of you think, "I got the baptism of the Holy Ghost, I'm going to Heaven." That don't mean one thing that you're going to Heaven. No, sir. You can have the baptism of the Holy Ghost every hour in your life, and still be lost and go to hell. The Bible says so. Uh-huh, that's exactly right.
163 Look here, you are a outside person. You have five senses that contacts that outside body. God gave you five senses; not to contact Him, your earthly home: see, taste, feel, smell, and hear.
164 Then you have a spirit on the inside of that, and it has five outlets: conscience, and love, and so forth. Five outlets that you contact the spirit world with that, but with your spirit.
165 Your physical contacts the physical. Your spiritual contacts the spiritual. But inside of that you've got a soul, and that soul is that gene that come from God.
70Then I've got to tell God the same way.
And tell both her and God, with the sincerity, that I'll never do it again, by
the grace of God. See? Don't just really... Now, I might be able to put it over
her, and she (see?) won't see. Maybe my speech to her would--would convince
her, but my speech won't convince God. He looks in my heart and He knows. And
after all, just a few more years with her, if God permits, and we'll be taken
out of this world. But with God, it's Eternity, so I must be deeply sincere
with God. And then if I am sincere, He'll hear me. But if I'm not sincere,
there's no need of me wasting God's time listening to me.
71And that's where it's come to today, amongst
people, there doesn't seem to be the depths of sincerity that--that they ought
to have.
72And I believe that a man or woman corning
to be prayed for, should first confess everything that they have did, and make
everything right. Because, you see, you notice lots of times on the platform,
you notice, watch how far away that THUS SAITH THE LORD is. See? See? The
people, the vision will materialize, of course, with their faith, God promised
that by a gift. But the healing is something different, see; God recognizes it
then, see.
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107 Our confessions today has begin to come just like a--a I-don't- know-what, some riddle or something. We go down and pray a prayer about two minutes long, and get back up; do something wrong, say, "O Lord, You know I didn't mean to do that, but, hallelujah, I'm alright," go along. No, that's not it, brother.
108 You've got to be godly sorry. You've got to confess that thing. You've got to make it right. You cannot do it... Jesus said, "When you go to the altar, remember the brother has ought against you, go to him first before you offer your gift here, be reconciled with the brother." See? It's becoming us, to us, that we fulfill all righteousness.
Gen 18:1 And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; Gen 18:2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, Gen 18:3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: Gen 18:10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him. Gen 18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. Gen 18:12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? Gen 18:13 And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old? Gen 18:14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. Gen 18:15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh. Gen 18:16 And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way. Gen 18:17 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; Gen 18:18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? Gen 18:19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. Gen 18:20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; Gen 18:21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. Gen 18:22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.
Gen 19:1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; Gen 19:9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door. Gen 19:10 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. Gen 19:11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
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188 Look at Sodom now, look what
happened. He said, "As it was in the days of Sodom." There was a
group of people that was looking for a promised son. We believe that. That was
Abraham and his group. There was a lukewarm bunch, Lot, half backslid, yet a
believer; down in Sodom. Three classes of people.
189 There is always them three classes. Ham,
Shem, Japheth's people. Also, believers, make-believers, and unbelievers.
They're everywhere, and we--we find them in every group. And, everywhere, you
find them. And that groups is still here.
44 The first is believers, make-believers, and
unbelievers. Now, that is quite a--a--a subject. But, as sure as we sit here
tonight, that group is always gathered together. Wherever the people gather, we
find this group, and always have found them, and we probably always will have
them until the Coming of the Lord. And I want us, tonight, to picture
ourselves, as I speak of these three groups, and see what group that we are in.
234 Remember, there's always three groups of
people in every bunch of people you gather, that's, make-believers,
unbelievers, and believers. We have them in every group. They've had them in
all time. There was the Sodomites, there was--there was the Lotites, and there
was Abraham.
192 What happened? There was three classes of
people in that day, and there's three classes of people today. First, there was
the Sodomites; the world. There was Lot and his people; the church, formal,
intellectual type. And there was Abraham and his group; Abraham and his group,
setting up there, the Elected and called out Church.
193 Remember, now, there was three groups. The
Sodomites; sinful, wicked world like today. There was the church member,
lukewarm, cold; Lot, his group. There was Abraham, the called out of it, and
was setting out here in the desert, taking the hard things. Right. And the Lord
came down in a form of a Man, the Speaker of these three Angels that stood.
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86Now we find the people much the same. The people doesn't change. These
people were divided in three groups. And we'll look at that for a few minutes
now.
87 They were divided, there, in three different groups, with three
different opinions. Some of them believed Him (Abraham). Some of them hated Him
(Pervert Homosexual). And some of them didn't know what to do (Lot).
88See? That's--that's just the way we got it.
I preached, I believe in this church, once: Believers, Make-believers, and
Unbelievers. Them three in the group, you--you have that everywhere. This is
three in the group, too; seeing this state of the people has always been. We
can go way back and prove, that's the state of the people always. They've
always been in that kind of a condition.
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364 Now watch, today, when was there ever a
time? Tell me when a time ever went out to Sodom.
365 Remember, that was Abraham, A-b-e-r-h-a-m,
or A-b-r-a-h-a-m, rather.
366 When was there ever a messenger ever went
to the local denominational churches with a man ending his name in h-a-m,
G-r-a-h-a-m?
367 What about to the pentecostal group? It's
never been known in history. I come through it just recently, checking names.
You say, "Names don't
mean nothing."
368 Why did Saul then have his name changed to
Paul? Why did Simon to Peter? Why did Jacob to Israel? Certainly, it is.
G-r-a-h-a-m; 6 letters; 666
Man’s number representing the Nominal (so- called, supposedly, titular) church
201 Now, there is three groups of people.
There was a genuine believer; and there was a lukewarm, which any teacher will
tell you that Lot represented the nominal church which was in Sodom; and there
was the Sodomite then. Now notice. Just before the... They were...
202 Abraham and Lot was looking for a promised,
miraculous son. Is that right? Is that what the Church is looking for today?
[Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] A return of this Son, Jesus Christ,
the Son of God, we're looking for Him to come.
203 Now look at the position. Everybody will
admit she's in a Sodom condition. I passed over California, here the other day,
and got a hold of a magazine, or a paper, read where, "Homosexuals had
increased sixty percent, in the last year." See? Oh, my! It's pitiful.
See? It's just because women has throwed themselves away. That's right. And
just on the street, naked. And it's just--it's just a shame. But the Bible said
they'd be that way. And even to men, it's just they're--they're--they're
changed. See? And it's going to get worse. In another, another, if the world
would stand another fifty years, the whole world would be totally insane. Look
at the sanity from forty, from twenty years ago, till this time. See?
205 But watch what kind of a sign He done. Now
look. He was setting with His back turned to the tent, and Sarah was in the
tent, behind Him. He had never seen her, yet. And remember, just a day or two
before that, his name was Abram; and, her, she was Sarai. Now she is Sarah,
S-a-r-a-h. He's A-b-r-a-h-a-m. He said, "Abraham, where is your wife,
Sarah?" S-a-r-a-h.
Said, "She's in the tent,
behind You."
206
He said, "I'm going to visit you according to the time of
life." Now, he had looked for that child for twenty-five years. She is
nearly a hundred now. He is a hundred.....Said, "Me have pleasure with my
lord, Abraham, and him being old, too?" See?
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But you got to find out where
your loose screws is. Sometimes you got (Excuse me.)--got plenty of them. Some
of them even gets too tight. You have to loosen it up a little (That's right.)
to make the vibration. Like a musician with his--with his guitar, training his
strings, he has to know the ting of it. A Spirit-filled man could tell the ting
of it, whether it's way beyond the Bible, or way behind the Bible. It has to be
right in the Bible, exactly with THUS SAITH THE LORD, must be trained in right.
Then it'll zero. Then it'll hit the spot.
36 Now, the soul of man is not the body of man, it's the soul. See? And the soul is something that's the--the nature of the spirit. And then when the nature of a man... When he said, "We are dead," the Scripture plainly tells us that, "we are dead, and our lives are hid in God through Christ, sealed there by the Holy Spirit." Now, it wasn't that your body died; it wasn't your spirit died. It was the nature of your spirit died; see, the nature, which is the soul. The nature of your soul is--is God, if you're born again. If it's not, it's of the world. Anything that begin has to end, so therefore the only way that you can have Eternal Life is to have a Life that never did begin. And then your life did begin when you were born, when God breathed the breath of life into your nostrils and you became a living soul, then you begin then. But when you...
37 That nature that was in you, by nature you was of the world, alienated from God, you were actually an animal. That's exactly right. Anyone knows that we are mammal. How many knows that? We, we are mammal, we are warm-blooded animal, but that is what we are by our earthly creation. But, you see, what made us different from other mammals, that--that God put a soul upon us. See?
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119 When He said, "You must be born
again." That don't mean jump up-and-down at the altar; that don't mean
walk back there and shake hands with the pastor; that don't mean all this
foolishness that we've seen done; it don't mean putting your name on a church
book. It means death to your first being, and Life to the second being. It
means that the Blood has been applied, and you're identified by the Life of
Jesus Christ. And if He be the Vine, and we be the branches, the Life that's in
the branch is in also from the Vine. It'll bear the fruit.
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73 So has God, in every age, ordained His Church for that age, a Message for that age. And they could have laws and anything that they want to. But when that hour comes, the Holy Spirit of God, which was at the beginning thought out and spoke out for that age, that Spirit hunts that egg. And when he hears that Message, there is no church denomination going to hold it. It'll rise to the heights. It's got to. It's a different bird. It's a different creature. He's an eagle, and he'll hear the scream. "My sheep hear My Voice."
As someone said, Brother Williams, "Sheep Food."
74 "My sheep hear My Voice. A stranger they will not follow." No matter how loyal the church has been, and how much its big of name it's got. "When My sheep hear My Voice," which is the Word, "a stranger they will not follow." They'll go right straight to that Word, and can do it. It's like a--a--a magnet.
85 Now, when this Holy Spirit, represented as the eagle flying over the land, and finds the believer. "No man can come to Me, no man can come to Me as he wants to. All the Father has given Me will come to Me, but no man can come by himself." It isn't your own thinking, your own drawing. It's God, drawing. See? "All the Father has given Me will come to Me."
86 Now, the Holy Spirit is here on earth, looking out those individuals that God has ordained to Life in this age. And as soon as It finds it, It does just like It did on Jesus Christ, the great super Son of God Who redeemed us all. It comes down and takes Its place of abode into the human life, now, notice, brought the quickening power. Now, that quickening power that come upon Jesus quickened Him to manifest every promise of the Word of that day. So does the Holy Spirit that come upon us in this day, if it's not a mockery holy spirit, you're not the Devil mocking the Holy Spirit, but is the real, true Holy Spirit. It'll manifest the promise of this hour.
87 When It fell upon Luther, It manifested that promise of that hour. When It fell upon Wesley, It manifested the promise of that hour. When It falls in this day, It manifests the promise of this hour. When It fell upon Moses, It manifested the promise of that hour. Fell upon Noah, It manifest the promise of that hour. When It fell upon Jesus, It manifest the promise of that hour. See?
88 It's the Holy Spirit coming down, to quicken, make alive those people that's foreordained of God to be in the Rapture. Notice. That is, if he is a true eagle,
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100 Notice, we find today that people... There's many people just can't believe It, even Spirit-filled people. I'm going to give you one that'll choke you. The baptism of the Holy Ghost don't mean you're going in, not at all, not on that, don't have anything to do with your soul. That's the baptism, see. Here's the inside soul, in here, that has to come from God. But then on the outside you have five senses, and five out... inlets to your... contact your earthly home. The inside, you have a spirit, and in there you have five outlets: your conscience, and love, and so forth, five outlets to that spirit. Remember, in that spirit you can be baptized with the genuine Spirit of God and still be lost. It's the soul that lives, that was ordained of God.
Well, now that's a hard one. But
the first thing you are, a triune being, just like Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is three titles going to one Person, which is Jesus
Christ. And you're soul, body, and spirit. But it takes those three to make
you. With just one of them, you're not you. It takes the three to make you.
Like I said the other day,
"This is my hand; this is my finger; this is my nose; this is my eyes; but
who's me?" Who is me that this belongs to? It's what's on the inside of
me; that's the--the intelligence.
If this eyes, if this hands, if
this body stood here just as it is today, yet I--I could... My body could be
here, but me could be gone, what I am. What--whoever I am inside of me has gone
on. That's--that's the part--part that is the spirit. The soul is the nature of
that spirit, that when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, It does not do nothing...
You... It changes or converts your spirit to a different soul. And that soul is
a different nature that's on that spirit. So the soul is the nature of your
spirit.
48 And then after a while, you heard the
Gospel. Maybe you went to church, you picked out this and that, and went from
denomination to denomination. But one day, you being part of God, you had to be
part of the Word. And when you heard the Word, you know where you come from,
you knowed what was the Truth. You were always, the seed was in you always. The
Word seen the Word that was in you, that was before the foundation of the
world, saw the Word and you come to It.
50 And that's the way it is with every born-again believer. You can hear all the theology you want to, and all the man-made discrepancy; but when that Word flashes out there, then there is something takes a hold, you come to It. "You who were once dead in sin (that life) has He quickened." There has to be a Life there to quicken to, first. God, by His foreknowledge, knowed all things. And we were predestinated to be sons and daughters of God. "Ye who were once dead in sin and trespasses, wherein we all had our times past, but hath He quickened."
51 Look at Paul, when Paul was a great
theologian. But when he come face to face with that Word, Jesus, it quickened.
He come to Life right quick, because he was ordained to be that. The... He was
part of the Word; and when the Word saw the Word, it was his nature. All the
clucking of the hens, in the orthodox churches, didn't have no effect upon him;
he had saw the Word. It was part of him. He was an eagle. He wasn't a chicken;
he was just in the barnyard with them. But he was a eagle, to begin with.
107 He has showed or revealed it in every type that's in the Bible. Therefore, the entire Bible is the revelation of God's mystery in Christ. Hum! The entire Bible is an expression of one goal that God had, one purpose He wanted to achieve in the entire Bible. And all the acts of the--of the believers in the Bible has been in type, and expressing what God's great goal is, and now in this last day He has revealed it and shows it. And God's help, well, you'll see it right here this morning, what the Lord has had in His mind all along, and has expressed it.
108 Therefore, you can see the great meaning of what it's been to know this, and then try to bring it to the people. See? And then you don't... I haven't went into details to try to explain It as God has revealed it to me.
121 He is the principle theme of the entire
Bible. If you read the Bible, and don't see Christ in every verse of It, go
back and read It again. See? If you can't see Christ in every verse of the
Bible, then you read It again, because you've missed something. The Bible is
Christ. He is the Word. When you read, "In the beginning God
created," there is Christ. See? Every... From that, to the
"Amen" in Revelations, is every Word testifying of Jesus Christ.
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108 Notice, that Word cannot deny Itself. Then it is satisfied, or it's the desire. It's a desire of what? What made you desire It, in the first place? Because down in your soul there was a predestinated seed which was Eternal Life, always laying in there, always was in there. "All that the Father has given Me will come to Me. There isn't any of them going to be lost."
109 A thinking man's taste, when a thinking man hears the Word of God, "My sheep hear My Voice, a stranger they will not follow," for down in there is Life, and Life connects with Life.
Sin connects with sin, and sin is so hypocritical until it thinks that it's saved when it isn't saved. It's in the very depths of hypocrisy.
110 Church members want a denomination filter so that they can have their own desire and still be classed "religious" people. You hear them say, "Oh, he's very religious."
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What is it? It's the germ, seed
Word from the beginning, that you was in God at the beginning, standing here
drawing the seed Life. The seed is in your heart, by foreordination.
Hallelujah! The seed is already in there, by the foreknowledge of God,
predestinated. And when it draws, it can't draw through nothing else but the
Word.
And then it's the taste of the
thinking man, the righteous man, the holy man who sees the Bible, that Jesus
Christ is the same yesterday and forever. What comes into that place down
there? That Word, that's in the heart. "I've hid Thy Word in my heart,
that I sin not against Thee."
What is it, when it's drawing
through the Word? There's only one thing will pass through the Word; that's the
Holy Ghost. That's the only thing that can pass through the Word, is the Holy
Ghost. And a thinking man's Filter gives a holy man a taste.
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137 "I go to this church; they don't never name that thing. They don't say nothing about this, nothing about that. None of these things are brought up. Our preacher is more wide-minded than that. We don't say things like that." What is it? You've got the taste of the world you're sucking for. Right!
138 But a thinking woman won't take that kind of a thing. She knows she's got to be holy. And the only thing that you can draw through God's Word is the Spirit, the quickening Power to make the Word Itself, which is in you, live to manifest Jesus Christ in the age you're living. Hallelujah! Brother, if that ain't the Truth, I don't know what the Truth is. I've lost my mind if that isn't the Truth.
139 It is the Word Itself in your heart, predestinated there, that's drawing. And it spits out that world; it don't want it. But when it gets over here in the Word, it begins to draw. And when it draws through the Word, it can be nothing else but the Holy Ghost to quicken that Word.
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180 Leave the world's denomination, religious pack. Let it lay like that cigarette pack in the woods. Let it rot and decay. It's--it's a wrong filter. And take the Word, which is Christ, that gives, and reaches, and preserves the taste of Eternal Life, to everyone that will take It, Eternal Life.
181 The Word, if you are predestinated, you see It. There's no way to hide It from you. You look there and say, "Why, It's just so plain before my face! I'd look at It; there It is. I'm looking right at It. I see It. Here It is, the Word; every Word, just Word by Word, living out." Then there's a taste of Eternal Life that you want.
And when you breathe through That, what can come through That, God's Filter? Nothing but the Spirit; no world, at all; no unbelief, at all. It's God's Filter. And when you breathe through That, nothing can get through That but the Holy Ghost.
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190 What a rebuke to Christianity! We're supposed to represent God and Eternal Life. There's only one form of Eternal Life, and that's God. He alone has Eternal Life. And we are products of His, because we're genes of His Spirit. Then we should conduct ourself, women and men, like the Bible said for us to do. Not Jezebels of the street, and Rickies of the organization; but Christian gentlemen, sons and daughters of God, borned of the Spirit of God, manifesting the Light in our days and scattering It. That's exactly right.
Joh 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Rev 3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
Rev 3:22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
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And here I am standing here just
yielding myself, and the Holy Spirit's a moving, and this is what you call
heavenly places in Christ Jesus. But remember, Satan's always skeptic at the
sons of God. You know, he always does that. Someone with a skeptic idea, when
they do that, just he's trying to interfere. But Christians always overcome.
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51Now, we see these hours that we're in,
this stage, and we see what it was. And the Holy Ghost is rebuking the age that
put Him out. But, in all that, did you notice, "To him that overcometh"?
[Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Even in that worldly, wicked church
age, "Him that overcometh."
52We find here that God has always had
overcomers. He's had overcomers in every age. There's always, every time, in
every age that there's been on the earth, God has always had somebody He could
put His hands on, as a witness in the earth. He's never been without a witness,
though sometimes just one. But somebody overcome, now, like the saints of old.
him a morning star." And I
pray, Father, that You'll let every one of us be overcomers tonight, overcomers
of unbelief, overcomers of anything within ourself, that we might overcome
ourselves that Christ might live in us.
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E-23Now, faith is a conqueror; faith is an
overcomer. It just isn't a--a peace maker, it overcomes. Faith is the victory
that overcomes the world. What does it do? What is faith? What is the
conqueror? Conquer and victory is the same. To conquer, it means to beat down,
to override, to handcuff, to throw into prisons. It means that the sin, that
once ruled you, you rule it now. It means that you have overcome it, you
are--you've whipped it. You're greater than it is. Oh, I feel religious, right
now.
Which was first, a sinner or a
Saviour? A Saviour, for a Saviour is more powerful than a sin. Which was first,
the Healer or a sickness? It couldn't be a Healer, 'less it was over the
sickness. It is a Healer; it could conquer the sickness. And faith is the
victory that overcomes every curse of the devil. Faith is the victory.
Num 13:30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
1Jn 2:13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
1Jn 2:14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
1Jn 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
1Jn 5:5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
1Co 1:21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Pro 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Pro 14:8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit. Pro 14:9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
Job 19:25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: Job 19:26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Gen 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: Gen 3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. Gen 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
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For, brother, sister, God makes
the enemy crazy. Why, Judas Iscariot throwed down the silver and said,
"I've betrayed innocent blood." See? Is that right?
The Roman said, "Truly,
that's the Son of God."
Pilate's wife... Look at Pilate,
said, "I wash my hands. I find no fault in Him." Is that true? That's
His enemy.
Look at his pagan wife. Said,
"Have nothing to do with this just Man, for I've suffered many things in a
dream today, because of Him." Is that right? A heathen... God makes His
enemies to testify. The demons that were in those people screamed out and said,
"Why, You're the Son of God, the Holy One of Israel." Is that right?
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E-19Demons, fortunetellers
spoke out to the apostles. When others said they were impostors, these
fortunetellers said, "Why, they're men of God that tell us the way of
Life." See? Makes the demons testify of Him. Everything has to testify.
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77A few years ago, the people around here
said, "You people up there at that Tabernacle is holy-rollers. You're all
this, that, and the other. You're crazy!"
But, oh, my, we've stood on that
Rock that's True, with the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and now the power of
Almighty God is pouring on and the church, coming forth. Hallelujah...?... I
just want to shake the whole thing everywhere. Brother, it's already in session
right now. It's going on. That's right.
79The Deity of Him, Who is He?
Some of them thinks Him a little baby back there. He's the One that stood on
the invisible (oh, my) platform, reached out His hands, and spoke, and said,
"Let there be light," and there was light. That was Jesus Christ.
"For He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world
recognized Him not." He was, and He's the Deity of God. Look what He did
back there. Talk about the miraculous back there, you talk about shouting? When
He performed the miraculous things, to make things which are now, out of things
which was not, He spoke and it was so.
80And that same power, that
same Christ... Hallelujah. Let the fundamentalists, let them people who deny
the power of God say it's wrong; but that same power that spoke the world into
existence is in those people that's got the Holy Ghost. That's right. Men and
women, it's time that we found out who you are. The devil's trying to hide you
back, tell you that you're some little trod-down something. You're not. You're
sons and daughters of God. The Deity is not in heaven; it's in you. Hallelujah.
I know you think I'm crazy, but
let me tell you something, brother. When you realize that Almighty God lives in
you, Immortal Life. "My Life, I give Zoe," the Life of God is in the
human being.
1Co 3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
1Co 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
1Co 3:20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
1Co 3:21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
1Co 3:22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
1Co 3:23 And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
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Rev 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
Rev 1:6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
68 Now, the different between Him and you, as a son. See, He was, at the beginning, the Word, an en morphe body. He came in and lived in that, in the Person of Melchisedec. Then, later, we never heard no more of Melchisedec, because He became Jesus Christ. Melchisedec was the Priest, but He became Jesus Christ. Now, you by-passed that. Because, in that form, He knowed all things, and you have never been able to know that yet.
You come like Adam, like me, you became from the attribute to the flesh, to be tempted. But when this life is finished here, "If this earthly tabernacle be dissolved, we have one already waiting." That's where we go; that is the Word. Then we can look back and see what we done. Now we don't understand it. We have never become the Word; we've just become the flesh-man, not the Word.
69 But, and look, clearly makes it clear, you will never be the Word unless you was a thought at the beginning. That proves the predestination of God. See? You can't be the Word unless you're a thought. You had to be in the thinking, first.
But, you see, in order to stand temptation, you had to by-pass the theophany. You had to come down here in flesh, to be tempted by sin. And then, if you stand, "All the Father hath given Me will come to Me, and I'll raise him up at the last days." See, you had to be first.
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153 God vindicates It to be true. Sure, It is fulfilling this age, when the Seven Seals. Or, just proving the denominations has just been carriers, that's another one of Father's business, to prove. And the Father's business now is to show you that them denominations is not His. They're a man-made systems that deny the Word. Right.
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448 Now notice, God making Hisself known. Not, we're not suppose to make converts to Christianity by a government; but by the revelation, the Christ in you, as God was in Christ. As God was in Christ, Christ in you! When, what God did in Christ, Christ does in you! What signs did God in Christ, Christ does in you! Oh, isn't that beautiful? Uh! Oh, my! I like that.
449 Jesus said, "At that day," that's this day. "At that day," when this revelation is made known, "you will know that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me; I in you, and you in Me." When the revelation is made manifest, "At that day ye shall know that I and the Father are One; I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me." Then when the revelation comes forth, then it's, "I in you, and you in Me." There you are. See the manifold, threefold mani-... What for? To bring it back. We've got to be.
As Jesus was the Word of God. He vindicated the same, if He--if He wasn't Word.
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218 It's not expressions of some church that we should express something. It's a life that you don't live yourself, but He comes in you and lives by Hisself, and you become a prisoner; to any human intellectual being at all. You're led by the Spirit. And how do you know?
219 Now, you say, "I might know I was losing my mind. Maybe a man that loses his mind does that."
220 But if you have the mind of Christ, Christ expresses Himself through you, shows that it's Him and not... you've not lost your mind.
221 Some people, under illusions of things, goes out and becomes insane. Well, that, we know that's wrong. That's the devil trying to impersonate the real thing before it gets here. See? They're always a bogus. See?
222 But a real man, and to lose his own thoughts and his own thinking! Not come up blindly like that. No, sir. You come up with your right senses, and Christ takes you over and expresses Hisself. And now, to the world, you're an insane person.
223 Now, if you're insane, you're actually insane, then there's nothing, the devil can't take you in complete control. He'll make you do everything contrary to this Word.
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138 Now watch, He came to be a Redeemer. Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] What does redeem mean? "Bring back." Why didn't He get the priest? He never was up there. See? See, he had no representation.
139 He came to redeem that which had fallen. In the fall, this got messed up, with that girl; but God had her in His thinking before the foundation of the world, and He come to cleanse her. See? Then He... She had Eternal Life. See?
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161 And notice, not only is the Bride washed, forgiven, but She is justified. See? Did you ever try the word justified, to see what it means?
Now, for instance, if Brother Green heard that I had been drinking, I been doing bad things, then he found out that I didn't do it. Then he come, say, "I forgive you, Brother Branham."
162 "You forgive me? I never done it. What you forgiving me about?" See? But if I'm guilty, then I can be forgiven; but I'm still not just, because I did it.
But the word justified is "though you never done it, at all." Justified! And then the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us so from sin, till it's put in the Book of God's forgetfulness. He's the only One can do it.
163 We can't. We can forgive but not forget. I could forgive you, but I always remember you done these evil things. Then, you're not just; you're forgiven.
But, in the sight of God, the Bride is justified. She never done it, in the first place. Amen. Standing there, married to the virtuous Son of God; never sinned, in the first place. Why? She was foreordained. She was trapped into this. And now when She heard the Truth and come forth, the Blood cleansed Her. And She stands there, virtuous. See? She, no sin on Her, at all.
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It's becoming to every Christian to stand by the Word. Exactly right. Stand by God's Word. Heavens and earth will pass away. You'll pass away. I'll pass away. Churches will pass away. Organizations will pass away. But God's Word shall never pass away. Be faithful, faithful pilgrim.
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167 But, in obedience, this little faith Woman, that lives by faith, the Bride; the person here, there; here, off somewhere else, some other church, some other denomination, whatever it is, in some not... Believes the Word of God, obedient, waiting in love, for the promise of the age to be confirmed. She is watching for it. She is part of that Word, and She is watching for Her life to manifest that Word.
Brethren, can't you see that? I hope that didn't go over you.
The Body is waiting for (which is the Word), waiting for the Life (which is the Spirit) to confirm or make It alive. That's what She is waiting for. No other life will work in Her. She can't come to life any other way. Yet, She feels it out there, and She knows it's going to happen; then here it happens, then She wakes up. God said, "Let there be," and She came forth like the first one come forth.
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Eze 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
Eze 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
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E-19 Notice, now Ezekiel is speaking; he said how that He would put a new heart (same chapter), take away the old stony heart, and He'd give you a new spirit. And then He'd put His Spirit in you.
Now, the new heart does not mean work up the old one. It doesn't mean that the church needs a face-lifting. It means the church needs a birth. God's church don't need a polishing; it needs a conversion. That's right. Then just to take the old church and set, say, "Well, I tell you, we'll change the deacon board. We'll swap pastors."
That isn't what the church needs. It needs the baptism of the Holy Ghost. It needs the power of the living God.
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E-37 When you get this Spirit in you, then the--the burdens of life becomes light. You don't notice them any more. The yoke is lined with feathers. They become so easy. And then the people pile things on you... You know what? You're like Samson at the gates of Gaza, who picked up the big brass gate and packed it up on the hill.
And when you get to a place that the Holy Spirit has you, not you the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Spirit has you... You say, "I got the Holy Ghost." I don't think that should be said. You must say, "The Holy Ghost got me." And then when the Holy Ghost gets you, the burdens, the yoke is easy. Then you pick up the big gates of Gaza and pack them straight to Calvary. And there on Mount Calvary you lay them at the feet of Jesus and pray for your enemies, not with a grudge, "Lord if You'd bust him open." No, but with something within your heart that, "Dear God, that man is a man like I am." You see what's lacking in the church, friend? Now, what we need is a... We need to be--start all over.
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E-52 Today there is so much based upon intellectual. There's so much based in Pentecostal, upon fantastics, upon emotions. Now, don't take a substitute when Pentecostal skies are loaded with the real thing. Don't take some little emotions, some little work up, some little oil falling from your hands, or a bloody face, don't take these little emotions when the whole skies of God is full of real genuine Pentecostal blessings. He will give you a new heart, a new spirit, and put His Spirit in you.
AN EXPOSITION OF THE SEVEN CHURCH AGES - THE MESSENGER
I Timothy 4:1,
"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils."
Now in every case you will notice that a false prophet is one who is outside the Word. Just as we showed you that 'antichrist' means 'anti-Word' so these false prophets come perverting the Word, giving it a meaning that fits their own devilish ends. Have you ever noticed how the people who lead others astray bind them closely to themselves by fear? They say that if the people don't do what they say, or if they leave, then destruction will follow. They are false prophets, for a true prophet will always lead one to the Word and bind the people to Jesus Christ and he won't tell the people to fear him or what he says, but to fear what the Word says. Notice how these people like Judas are out for money. They get you to sell all you have and give it to them and their schemes. They spend more time on offerings than the Word. Those who attempt to operate gifts will make use of a gift which has a margin of error in it and then ask for money, and neglect the Word and call it of God. And people will go to them, and bear with them, and support them, and believe them, not knowing it is the way of death.
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E-34 Now, when you receive the Holy Spirit It goes right in the middle of that new dispensa--disposition of yours. "Oh," you say, "I quit drinking; I quit smoking. You know, I--I--I just feel like a different person." Oops. Wait a minute. See, you just got a new spirit, but the Holy Spirit comes into the middle of that spirit and then He makes you every--every main motion, every intellectual, everything agreeing right into this middle of the wheel. What God says, that's... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] If the days of miracles,... If Jesus is the same yesterday and forever, the Holy Spirit would bear record with that, and every intellectual move of yours will say the same thing.
And when you have these little temper fits and you fly out, and you tell lies, and you proselyte, and you jump the fences, and you so selfish with your organization that you're so narrow minded you couldn't hear another minister, just remember, the Holy Spirit isn't ticking in the inside of you. Whew. I didn't know I was going to say that, but--but that's right. See?
E-35 The Holy Spirit will make every movement like Christ. It'll make you Christ-like. The fruits of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience, faith. Those things are what the Holy Spirit controls, our emotions.
Our emotions is not so much as jumping up-and-down. You could do that. A shindig will bring that to you. But the Holy Spirit brings you into operation, or in control of God, that you walk in peace and in love and in joy with longsuffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience. You see? It isn't something that you do. It's something the Holy Spirit does in you. You see, it's no longer an intellectual thought of your own; it's a subconscious moving of the Holy Spirit. Oh, I wish I could shout the praises of God around the world to that.
Church of the living God, there's where our Pentecostal move failed. We have some man-made musical, clap hands, jump up-and-down emotion. When if we go back out on the street and the Holy Spirit doesn't govern our lives to cooperate with that, we have not got the Holy Spirit. That's not skim milk. But, brother, that's what the church needs. Only life can come by the Holy Spirit.
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E-27 Now, many people's thought that to be the Holy Spirit. And they made a mistake. The Methodist thought surely they had it when they shouted. Said, "Brother, we got it." Anybody that shouts, but they found out, there was a lot shouted didn't have it. That's right.
Along come the Pentecostal and said, "When we speak with tongues we've got it." But they found out a lot spoke with tongues that didn't have it. That's right. You admit that.
Well, now we got all kinds of everything for coming, and you haven't got It, till you get it. But brother, you haven't got it until there is the Spirit of God comes from heaven and changes your life, that makes the fruits of your life a different person. "By their fruit you shall know them." That's the reason you have so much ups-and-downs.
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