26-0202P_MY STRENGTH IS MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS

2Co 12:9  And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 

2Co 12:10  Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. 

1Co 1:26  For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

 

1Co 1:27  But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 

1Co 1:28  And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: 

1Co 1:29  That no flesh should glory in his presence.

Jdg 6:15  And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.

1Co 2:1  And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

1Co 2:2  For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 

1Co 2:3  And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 

1Co 2:4  And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

 

26-0130A_LET BROTHERLY LOVE CONTINUE

Heb 13:1  Let brotherly love continue. 

1Co 13:2  And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

 

Joh 13:35  By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Rom 12:10  Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;  

THE.GREAT.COMMISSION_  CHATTANOOGA.TN  SATURDAY_  58-0301B

But did you ever... Let me just give you... If I have found grace in your sight through God, you take my word for this, brethren. If you want to be a blessing, and get a blessing, when a man has done you wrong, and he has absolutely justly, he... I mean he has done you wrong and you know that he's done you wrong; he's done you evil. Don't mention that; you take him to prayer before God. And don't take it in a way of just a selfish and say, "Well, I'm supposed to do this." But stand with your shoulder to his shoulder, and stand in the Presence of God our Father, way a prayer should be made in the Presence of God, say, "Father, here's my brother, and he--he is justly; he deserves punishment because he has--he's done me evil. And I don't see why he did it."

 

THE.STATURE.OF.A.PERFECT.MAN_  JEFF.IN  V-2 N-18  SUNDAY_  62-1014M

45-3    All right. Coming in to perfection now... All right. Then sixthly, let's add, the Bible said here, adding brotherly love--brotherly kindness. Now, that's a good one. Right here, the sixth one--seventh. All right, adding brotherly kindness. All right. When we get to that, brotherly kindness, put yourself in his place on the matter. Now, you say, "My brother sinned against me," said Peter, "Shall I forgive him?" He said, "Seven times a day?"

He said, "Seventy times seven." See, brotherly kindness. Now, you see, if a brother's all out of tune, don't be impatient with him. See? No. See? Be kind to him. Go anyhow.

SHALOM_  SIERRA.VISTA.AZ  V-13 N-5  SUNDAY_  64-0112

Maybe sometime man get up real sharp; but if I got one thought that I didn't like that person, then--then I know one thing, the Spirit of Christ has departed from me. If I--if I can feel that I don't like that person, there's something wrong with me.

A.SUPER.SENSE_  JEFF.IN  V-20 N-7  SUNDAY_  59-1227E

And don't love only those who love you, but love those who do not love you. For it's easy for me to love anybody that loves me, but try to love somebody who doesn't love you. That's where you can test whether you're a Christian or not; somebody that don't love you, and yet in your heart you love them... Now, if you don't do that, then just keep holding onto God. It's there, 'cause I know it to be the truth. Amen. I know that it's the truth.

 

A.SUPER.SENSE_  JEFF.IN  V-20 N-7  SUNDAY_  59-1227E

  Now, don't you listen to one foul thing the devil's got to say. See? If the devil shows you some, or tells you something evil about one of the members of the body of Christ, don't you believe it. For as soon as you believe it, you mar your experience.

 

A.SUPER.SENSE_  JEFF.IN  V-20 N-7  SUNDAY_  59-1227E

  36    And if you see one of the members of the Body of Christ doing something evil, don't tell nobody else; but go to that member, and with love, and see if you can't bring them back to Christ again. And if you can't do it, then tell one person, or let them go with you. Do it the way the Scripture said. See? But don't...

If somebody said, "Sister So-and-so, or Brother So-and-so," don't you believe one word of it. You just leave it go. Because, remember, it's the devil trying to tear you to pieces. Now, just look for him to come in, 'cause he'll do it. Now, you let the good man of the house, faith, stand right there, and don't you receive one thing. These people have been set in heavenly places with you, fellowship together around the blessings of God, taking the communion at the table, and the Holy Spirit has witnessed that they are the children of God. So let's just be real sweet, kindhearted, forgiving, loving. And if the other person talks evil against you, you talk sweet against them. Watch how sweeter it comes to you then. See? That's right. Just always return good for evil, love for hate. And just...

 

TAKING.SIDES.WITH.JESUS_  JEFF.IN  COD  FRIDAY_  62-0601

There's many times that a minister will make a mistake. And if he comes into a neighborhood, a precious brother who's trying to do what's right and to lead the people right, everything that the devil can point to the unbeliever or the so-called Christian in that neighborhood to throw off on that man, he'll do it. You know, the real Christian way is to hide everything you can from a brother. Don't tell his bad things; just tell his good things. Just tell what you know about him that's good. If anything's bad, let it alone. The poor fellow's got enough against him anyhow. Don't try to take a pole and shove a man further into the ditch. The Christian attitude is to pick him up and take him out of the ditch. See? Don't never try to shove him down; he's down already. Try to help him up. And... But too many of us today, too many people today, I might say, try to do that. If they could just get something another that they could say that was real bad.

 

TOKEN_  JEFF.IN  V-2 N-19  SUNDAY_  63-0901M

When we see these things upon the earth today, oh, people, this is the last hour. Get that Token over you, quickly as you can; or, you get in the Token, get in the Token. As we see the great end sign, and the time at hand, warning us, "Time is at hand."

TOKEN_  JEFF.IN  V-2 N-19  SUNDAY_  63-0901M

  243      Oh, take this solemnly! We should love one another. Oh, my! We should be so in love! Don't never speak evil against one another. If somebody makes a mistake, pray for him right quick. We are together in this, with God. We are brothers and sisters. Oh, live godly. Live, live like daughters of God, live like sons of God. Live sweet, kind, humble.

244    Let no evil come in your mind, in your thinking. Just, just dismiss it. If it knocks on the door, take it away. Just say, just show your Token, just keep walking, "I am under the Blood!"

 

WHERE.I.THINK.PENTECOST.FAILED_  SAN.FERNANDO.CA  FRIDAY_  55-1111

If it ever gets to a place that I couldn't put my arm around any brother that's working for the Kingdom of God, and recognize him as my brother, I feel I'm backslid. Amen. Sure.

THE.WAY.TO.HAVE.FELLOWSHIP_  CHICAGO.IL  SUNDAY_  55-1009

And when you separate from Divine love, then you can't overlook your brother's mistakes no more. You got to bawl him out for it. That's right. You can't overlook sister's mistakes no more. Because you've got away from that Divine part, that love part. But if you really love the Lord Jesus, if sister or brother, does something to you, "Oh, well, that's all right, they didn't mean to do it." That's the kind of love that Christ had, "Father, forgive them; they don't know what they're doing."

 

BLASPHEMOUS.NAMES_  JEFF.IN  V-3 N-21  SUNDAY_  62-1104M

Now, you might say, "Look, I--I--I sure don't like Brother Neville," or, "I sure don't like Brother Jones; I don't like Brother So-and-so," and something like that. But just let something happen to him; brother, your heart's broke. It just nearly kills you. See? We can obtain brotherly kindness and feeling for one another. See? But to maintain in a group of people...

Why do you care for that brother? Because you broke bread with him here at the altar, as you will tonight; you fellowship with him; you shook his hands; you worship with him. He's your brother. And he might do something in the flesh that you would disagree with, cause you just kind of stay (which you oughtn't to do but)--shun him a little. But in the bottom of your heart, if something happened to that brother, it would just nearly kill you, or that sister.

again." See? See, it's brotherly love. It looks like it won't stick, but it does stick. The honey, it sticks.

 

 Mat 12:50  For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother. 

Rom 12:11  Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; 

Rom 12:12  Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; 

Rom 12:13  Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality. 

1Jn 3:11  For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 
1Jn 3:12  Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. 

Gal 5:13  For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 
Gal 5:14  For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 
Gal 5:15  But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. 

Php 2:4  Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Gen 4:9  And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? 

Gal 6:1  Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 

 

 

26-0126P_CONTINUE IN PRAYER WITH THANKSGIVING

Col 4:2  Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; 

Col 4:3  Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds: 

Col 4:4  That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak. 

1Ti 2:8  I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. 

Mat 6:5  And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 

Mat 9:37  Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; 

Mat 9:38  Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. 

FAITH_  CHARLOTTE.NC  FRIDAY_  56-0427

E-5    We're just looking forward for a great time in the Lord, and with your prayers I'm sure that we'll do the best we can for the glory of God. Prayer changes things. Prayer changes death to life. Prayer changes sickness to health, changes sinners to saints. It's prayer. You may laugh too much. You may shout too much. You may eat too much, but you'll never pray too much. The--the Bible said, "I would that man pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands." So you'll never be able to pray too much.

Now, I was noticing here Brother Osborn's book, the Evangelist T. L. Osborn. He is another bosom friend of mine along with Brother Roberts and many of the other outstanding ministers of the day. I've had privilege of meeting many of them.

BLIND.BARTIMAEUS_  PHOENIX.AZ  FRIDAY_  57-0301

E-10    That being alone... Many times I've climbed up into the mountains. Where every man thought (was with me), I was going hunting. Go up there, and set down on a rock, and just look up to the sky until looked like that my whole innermost being become filled with something that you could just feel... Oh, everything of the world seemed to pass away. Oh, for those precious hours alone with God.

And it's there that when the greatest revelation and inspiration comes, is when we're alone with God. We'd take more time on that, I'm sure, that we would live a better life, more victorious life in Christ.

A.TRUE.SIGN.THAT'S.OVERLOOKED_  JEFF.IN  V-6 N-2  SUNDAY_  61-1112

Isn't it strange that God wants the people to have part into it? When Jesus looked out upon the harvest, He said, "The harvest is ripe; the laborers are few. You pray the Lord of the harvest (That was Him.)--you pray to Me, that I will send laborers into My harvest." It's some part you have to do. God's waiting for His church to call on Him. He's always did it. God is waiting today for the people to call His servant into action. And the servant can't get into action till the people prays.

Israel could not get into action down there with signs and wonders until they fell on their face and prayed for a deliverer. God had His deliverer. God had a prophet hanging up there in the wilderness, kept him there for forty years waiting for them to get right to pray. But when they got right and started praying, then God sent the deliverer. God will do the same thing today, if the people will just get together, get to praying. All right.

 

 

26-0123A_INSPIRATION PT-9 (THE LIFE WITHIN THAT MOTIVATES YOU)

2Ki 4:30  And the mother of the child said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her. 

Job 32:8  But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. 
Job 32:9  Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
2Ti 3:16  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 
2Ti 3:17  That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. 

*THE SPIRIT THAT'S WITHIN YOU MOTIVATES YOUR LIFE…BUT IF YOU ARE OF GOD, YOU'LL DO THE WAY THEY DO IN HEAVEN…

A.DECEIVED.CHURCH.BY.THE.WORLD_  JEFF.IN  CH 67  SUNDAY_  59-0628M

  40    ...We're from heaven. The spirit that's within you motivates your life. If you are a American, you'll do as the Americans do. If you are French, you'll do as the French do, and criticize the other one. But if you are of God, you'll do the way they do in heaven, because your Spirit comes from above and It controls you.

*AND THE HOLY SPIRIT IS HERE, TRYING TO FIND SOMEBODY TO WORK THROUGH, AND WHEN IT FINDS SOMEBODY TO WORK THROUGH, IT CAN DO GOOD.

THE.ONENESS.OF.UNITY_  WATERLOO.IA  V-2 N-7  TUESDAY_  58-0128

  8-3    …..Now, when the meeting going on, a evil spirit in the meeting, that spirit is almost harmless until it can catch somebody that it can work through. Then when it can work through, it'll certainly do damage, because it is a evil spirit. And the Holy Spirit is here, trying to find somebody to work through, and when It finds somebody to work through, It can do good.

See, the two spirits, their motives, objectives? Watch how it is. Watch their works. Watch their fruits. Then you can see what spirit is on you.

THE.ONENESS.OF.UNITY_  WATERLOO.IA  V-2 N-7  TUESDAY_  58-0128

  8-6    You are motivated by spirit. If you have no spirit, you're dead. And if you have a spirit, it motivates your life. And if your life bears the fruit of a Christian, it's a Christian Spirit.

*IF WE'RE CHRISTIANS, WE HAVE A HEAVENLY SPIRIT, AND OUR SPIRIT COME FROM ABOVE THAT DIRECTS OUR LIVES AND OUR THOUGHTS.

WHO.IS.THIS_  CLARKSVILLE.IN  SUNDAY_  59-1004M

32    You'll usually do... You--you'll usually do like the spirit that's in you. It motivates your life. It makes you what you are, is the life that's in you. And when men and women claim to be Christians and still want to be like the world, there's something wrong somewhere; for we are not of this world, for our spirit...

If we were Germans, we'd like Germany. If we were Finland, we would do as they do in Finland. If they're Americans, they have the American spirit. If we're Christians, we have a heavenly Spirit, and our Spirit come from above that directs our lives and our thoughts. That's godly, brotherly love, clean life, honorable, respected peoples.

*YOUR SPIRIT, THE LIFE THAT'S IN YOU, MOTIVATES AND TELLS WHAT YOU ARE.

A.DECEIVED.CHURCH.BY.THE.WORLD_  JEFF.IN  CH 67  SUNDAY_  59-0628M

43    Oh, yes, these people call themselves Christians. They belong to churches….. We're this, that, and the other." That doesn't have one thing to do with it. Your spirit, the life that's in you, motivates and tells what you are. Jesus said, "By their fruit you shall know them."

*WE'RE EXHORTED TO HUMBLE OURSELVES.

A.DECEIVED.CHURCH.BY.THE.WORLD_  JEFF.IN  CH 67  SUNDAY_  59-0628M

  45    That's the same thing the church has done. It's adopted... Here you are. It's adopted politics, educations. It's adopted organizations, societies, big churches, high cafluting preachers. And when the real King comes, they don't know Him, and they're crucifying the very Holy Ghost that's their King. They don't know Him, but they laugh at Him and make fun of Him. As they--Jews did their Messiah, the church is doing their Messiah the same way. They don't know it. They haven't got the spiritual insight, because they're so indocumated with their eyes and what they see, great buildings, trying to compare with the world. We're never exalt--exhorted to compare with the world. We're exhorted to humble ourselves.

*ARE WE TRUE TO GOD? ARE WE TRUE TO HIS WORD? DO WE STAND UNDER TEST OF THE HOLY SPIRIT? THAT'S THE MAIN THING.

A.DECEIVED.CHURCH.BY.THE.WORLD_  JEFF.IN  CH 67  SUNDAY_  59-0628M

  46    And one is the majority in God. And today in the healing evangelists out on the fields, there's such a competiting--competitors. One says, "Well, bless God, I have so many thousand. I got a bigger meeting than you have." What difference does that make? If we have one or one million, what difference does it make? Are we true to God? Are we true to His Word? Do we stand under test of the Holy Spirit? Is it true? That's the main thing.

*THE LIFE THAT'S IN YOU MOTIVATES YOU.

WHERE HAS THY STRENGTH GONE_   59-0702

E-20    We are not looking for these things of the world. And when the Spirit of God comes into a person, it changes them. It motivates you... The life that's in you motivates you. And what's the matter with the church today, it's become too worldly. What we need is the Holy Ghost in the human being, in the heart. It'll take the new birth to do that: change that person, making him or her a new creature.

But let me tell whether it's America, Finland, France, anywhere it is, when a woman or a man is borned of the kingdom of God, he becomes a new creature and stops the things of the world. They are dead to him; for he is dead and his life is hid in God through Christ, sealed by the Holy Ghost. What we need today is a revival, is a shaking, an old fashioned Pentecostal revival. We'd be a lot better off with a tambourine down on the corner, beating the tambourines, than to live in these big morgues with the Spirit of God being grieved away from us. The devil comes to rob and to take away. That's all he knows how to do.

* BUT YOU KNOW, GOD MADE YOU A PERSON TO MAKE YOU DESIRE TO BE THAT WAY, SO THAT HE COULD FILL YOU UP WITH HIS GOODNESS.

THE.ONENESS.OF.UNITY_  WATERLOO.IA  V-2 N-7  TUESDAY_  58-0128

7-2    After you see this great something that I'm trying to build your mind into for a context, I'm trying to let you see out here that there is a--a working of an enemy. And the working of the enemy by a perverted spirit is trying to do that which the Spirit of Christ is trying to do. The enemy is trying, like the pro and con, to unite all the world under one great head. The world's a doing that, Russia, U.N. And now, let me go just a little further. And the church is trying to do it under man-made setups.

It'll never work. It's not God's program. I can prove that by His Word. But you know, God made you a person to make you desire to be that way, so that He could fill you up with His goodness. Now, if a man has to be full of something... That's right.

*THIS IS THE CHOOSING TIME.

THE.ONENESS.OF.UNITY_  WATERLOO.IA  V-2 N-7  TUESDAY_  58-0128

  7-4    This is the choosing time. You cannot stand neutral any longer. You may leave before the message is over, but you can't go out that door the same person you come in. That's right. You'll cross that threshold tonight either a better person or a--a more evil person than you was when you entered. You can't help it. It's up to you to make a decision. Now, notice. It's a choosing time. You can't be neutral.

It's a choosing time. You must choose you this day whom you're going to serve. And the devil has presented many things glamorous that you can choose if you wish to. You can't remain the way you are, because you've got to be... if you're empty...

*GOD SENT THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THE EARTH TO MOTIVATE THE CHURCH. 

THE.ONENESS.OF.UNITY_  WATERLOO.IA  V-2 N-7  TUESDAY_  58-0128

  9-2    Now, what just happened? A re--evangelist comes through. They preach repentance, and you clean up from your sins. And then when you're cleaned up, the devil goes away from you. You take your things back that you've stole. You go, confess your wrongs to your wife or your husband. You're really cleaned up. And then the thing of it is, you're just clean and make a real good target for the devil.

Now, after the people believed and was baptized, they were filled with the Holy Ghost. And that's God's Divine program. Now, if you are filled with the world... And when you get saved, you might be filled with good thoughts and so forth, but unless you are filled with God... God sent the Holy Spirit to the earth to motivate the church. And you might be filled with thoughts. You might be filled with theology. And you might be filled with education, a know it all. And you might be filled with religion, and still be a target of the devil. That's right.

*MASTERPIECE IS SCARRED BECAUSE THE ENTHUSIASM OF GOD TO SEE SUCH A MASTERPIECE, HE STRUCK HIM FOR US ALL. THERE HE DIED, TO PERFECT WE WHO ARE IMPERFECT. THE MASTERPIECE.

GOD’S.ONLY.PROVIDE.PLACE.OF.WORSHIP_   65-1128M

   130 One day, down on Jordan, after that Masterpiece had been formed and made, here He come descending down in a…on the wings of a Dove, said, “This is Him!” He was so enthused with this Masterpiece until He struck Him on Calvary, that He would die for the rest of us that’s imperfect; that through the shedding of His Blood, He might bring many masterpieces (being a Bride) to His Son. Masterpiece is scarred because the enthusiasm of God to see such a Masterpiece, He struck Him for us all. See? There He died, to perfect we who are imperfect. The Masterpiece.

WILLIAM D. UPSHAW

TESTIMONY_   51-0509

   1   I want to say that I’m very happy. I want to start this tonight, that this elderly man who’s eighty some-odd years old, about eighty-four years old. He isn’t able to work no more. He’s served his time. And if he has the enthusiasm to scatter the Message of Jesus Christ, I want to help him do it. God bless my brother. All right. Go ahead, Brother…?…May God bless each one. Come here.

[Brother Hall asks, “What are you going to start it with?”—Ed.] I’m going to start it…[Brother Hall asks, “Some money, huh?”—Ed.] Some money…[All right good, I will help you start it.”] All right, sir; that’s fine. God bless you.

   2 Just I want him to say a word. All right. Come here, Brother Congressman.

   This is the former Congressman of the United States. One time, one of the greatest men in our nation. God…He was crippled for many many years, sixty-six years, was healed here in this meeting. And I feel a great honor tonight to stand before a man, or with a man like this. That these crutches supported him for all those years of his youth, while he was being prayed for time after time to be healed. And at the age of about eighty-four Senator… 

[Congressman Upshaw gives his testimony: Just eighty-four. And I’m eighty-four years young, speak three and four times a day, preach the Gospel of the Christ Who saved me, stood by me on bed seven years, and made me happy, and then took me off of the crutches that I have used for fifty-nine years and now, glory to God I’m walking—Ed.]

   3 Praise the Lord. And you know what this offering is for? He’s not able to send this testimony around the country. He’s…He can’t do it. He’s aged, and he has no income. This here offering is to help him send this to all the big men, rulers, and so forth of the nation. God bless our gallant brother. 

   And I want to give him an…this welcome here, to anywhere in the nation that I have meetings or in the world. I’d be very happy to see Congressman Upshaw come and stand by me at the platform while in services.

[Congressman Upshaw gives comment: Remember, I’m sending this folder to every congressman, and senator, the president, and his wife, and now sending it this week to the king of England for whom he prayed, and Winston Churchill. And I’m going to send one to Joseph Stalin. God have mercy on his soul—Ed.]

 

LITTLE BOY LOOKING FOR AN ANWER IF ANY MAN HAS SEEN GOD

JESUS.CHRIST.IS.THE.SAME.YESTERDAY.TODAY.AND.FOREVER_   58-0515

   31 Now, in my city, there was a little boy, some time ago, who got all enthused in his Sunday school, and when he went home he said to his mommy, “Mommy, can anyone see this great God that they’re telling us about?”

She said, “Ask your Sunday school teacher.”

And she asked the teacher, or, he did, rather, asked the lady teacher, and she said, “Ask the pastor.”

And they asked the pastor, and the pastor said, “No, sonny, no one can see God and live.”

JESUS.CHRIST.IS.THE.SAME.YESTERDAY.TODAY.AND.FOREVER_   58-0515

   32 Well, the little fellow, that did not satisfy his enthusiasm. So he used to fish up on the river with an old fisherman, down there, by the name of Wiseheart, used to be a deacon in our church. And he, one day, coming down the river, there’d come a storm; been a dusty summer, and the water had washed all the leaves off; and the sun was setting in the west, as the old fisherman, the little boy, made their ways down after running the nets. And there was a rainbow came out. And as the old fisherman watched that rainbow, the little fellow noticed that tears begin to run down his bearded cheeks.

   33 And the crystal tears dropping off of his white beard, kind of stirred the emotion of the little boy. So he ran from the stern of the boat up into the middle, and he fell down on the lap of the old fisherman, he said, “Sir, I’m going to ask you something that, seemingly, no one can answer me.”

And he said, “What is it, my lad?”

He said, “God is so great, the God that made that rainbow.” Said, “Can anyone see God?”

   34 And the old fisherman, overcome by the child’s enthusiasm, put him in his arms, and he said, “God bless your little heart, honey, all I’ve seen for forty years has been God.” The way to see God is to get God on the inside, then He looks through your eyes. Then you know Him, you can understand, He will reveal Himself.

The way to see God is to get God on the inside, then He looks through your eyes. Then you know Him, you can understand, He will reveal Himself.

   35 Jesus said, “A little while, and the world, see Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world.” Anyone who reads the Scriptures knows that’s true. Then Jesus’ promise, by His Own Word: that there—there would be people that would see Him until He came again at the end of the world. “A little while, and the world will see Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I…” (a personal pronoun) “…will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world.” Now, is that Scripture right? Or was He just teasing the disciples? If He was teasing, and joshing, and carrying on, then He wasn’t the Son of God. That’s either the truth, or it is not the truth.

    58-0515 — Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever

 

 

26-0119P_THE SPIRIT THAT IS IN YOU

Rev 2:11  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. 

HOW CAN I OVERCOME?_JEFFERSONVILLE IN_63-0825M  118 V-4 N-12

155      Now, let's take now the 12th verse. Now, this is to the church of--of Philadelphia, in the 12th verse. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him my name, name of my God

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EL-SHADDAI_YAKIMA WA_60-0802   108

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But now, if we're getting closer and closer, and the Spirit of God has come from justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost, that church will have to be so close and the Spirit of God so perfect working in that church

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the Spirit of Christ operating in our bodies just like it operated in the body of our Lord. "The works that I do shall you also. More than this shall you do, for I go to My Father."

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GOD IDENTIFYING HIMSELF BY HIS CHARACTERISTICS_DENHAM SPRINGS LA   64-0320    83 V-23 N-3

  26      The Spirit of God can be identified by Its characteristic. See? The Spirit of God, and the spirit of the church. There is a church spirit, and a Spirit of God that's absolutely not like the church spirit, at all.

There is a denominational spirit.

27    There is a national spirit. There is a spirit of the nation. Every nation, when I go into, you walk in there, you find a different spirit. I went into Finland, fine people, but there was a Finnish spirit. I go down into Germany, there is a German spirit.

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THE.SEED.IS.NOT.HEIR.WITH.THE.SHUCK_  JEFF.IN  V-6 N-4  THURSDAY_ 65-0218

89    Notice, see how close it looks. Matthew said, Saint Matthew 24:24, said, that, "The two spirits in the last days," the church spirit of the church people, and the Bride Spirit of the Bride people, "would be so close together till it would deceive the very Elected if it was possible." That's how close.

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WHO IS THIS?_CLARKSVILLE IN_59-1004M  103

E-32    You'll usually do... You--you'll usually do like the spirit that's in you. It motivates your life. It makes you what you are, is the life that's in you. And when men and women claim to be Christians and still want to be like the world, there's something wrong somewhere; for we are not of this world, for our spirit...

If we were Germans, we'd like Germany. If we were Finland, we would do as they do in Finland. If they're Americans, they have the American spirit. If we're Christians, we have a heavenly Spirit, and our Spirit come from above that directs our lives and our thoughts. That's godly, brotherly love, clean life, honorable, respected peoples.

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS_JEFFERSONVILLE IN_61-1015M  130

COD

But it's not--it's not your brain; it is your spirit inside of you. And your soul is the nature of that spirit. That's the soul of the spirit that controls--the spirit that controls the body. See? There you are.

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THY.HOUSE_TIFTON.GA  TUESDAY_ 61-0808

Now, think of it. Every one of you in here, as far as I know tonight is Christians. Now, look. The thing that's in you now, the Spirit that's in you now is the same Spirit that will raise you up. You have power to lay your life down. You're doing it right now for Christ. And then you have power to take it up again. See? You have power to lay it down and power to take it up.

For it's the very Spirit of God that's in you that raises you up, is the very Spirit of God that was in Christ that raised Him up. So, you have power to lay it down; you have power to take it up.

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WHAT.DOES.IT.TAKE.TO.MAKE.A.CHRISTIAN.LIFE_  CHICAGO.IL _SUNDAY_  57-0113

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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WHY IS IT THAT SO MANY CHRISTIANS FIND IT SO HARD TO LIVE THE CHRISTIAN LIFE? PHX 57-0303A  100

A NEW HEART  PHOENIX AZ

E-28    You get a new spirit; you quit your drinking. You get a new spirit you quit your drink--lying. You get a new spirit; you can do most anything with that spirit, but that isn't what God's talking about. "A new spirit," He said, "I'll give you..." Now watch, "I'll give you a new heart and a new spirit." Why, He'd have to give you a new spirit to live for Him.

Why, you couldn't even live with yourself with the spirit you did have. You couldn't live with your neighbor. You couldn't associate with the next man on the next corner. You couldn't associate with these Christians. Why, you'd have had an awful spirit. So He has to give you a new spirit. "I'll give you a new heart, a new spirit." Now, watch. "And I will put My Spirit in you." There's the difference. "I'll put My Spirit in you."

And there's where you find it so hard that you go down to church and you get a different concept. "You know what? I believe I ought to go to church."

E-26    A man thinks with his head, but believes with his heart. That's right. The intellectual will reason. Oh, I'm too bad. I can't do this. This... Oh, if I could go over there, I will be... oh..." See, that's reasoning, but the heart doesn't reason. It just accepts the Word the way It is, and believes It. The Bible said we should cast down reasoning. That's right. We're to believe, not reason. Just believe it.

"A new heart will I give you." Now, here's where many of the people has made a mistake. "And a new spirit will I give you." Now, He never said, "I'll just polish up the old spirit, polish up the old heart," but, "I'll give you a new heart and a new spirit."

 

 

 

26-0116A_THE STATURE OF A PERFECT MAN PT-31 (PARTAKERS OF CHRIST'S DIVINE NATURE)

2Pe 1:1  Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: 

2Pe 1:2  Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 

2Pe 1:3  According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 

2Pe 1:4  Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 

2Pe 1:5  And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 

2Pe 1:6  And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 

2Pe 1:7  And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 

2Pe 1:8  For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

2Pe 1:9  But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. 

2Pe 1:10  Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: 

Luk 23:34  Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots. 

 

*THAT IS THE TABLET THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE WORE IN THE CHURCH: BROTHERLY LOVE, KINDNESS, FELLOWSHIP.

THE.SECOND.COMING.OF.THE.LORD_  JEFF.IN  V-9 N-2  WEDNESDAY_  57-0417

56    Today, if a woman is married, she should wear a wedding ring as a sign that she's married. That's to keep other men from having anything to do with her. They look and they see she's a married woman.

In those days, they didn't have wedding rings; they had a tablet (They call it "tablet.") they put on their head. It had ten coins, and it went around their head. And that was a sign they were a married woman, and no man was to fool with them; no boys was to flirt with them. They were married.

Each one of those coins... If we only have time (but I haven't, I'm going to try to keep my word as close as possible), I could tell you what each one of those coins meant. It was placed in there, and each coin meant a certain virtue of that woman. The first, meaning her love to her husband. Second, her pledge of virtue to live clean for him. And the third and fourth and fifth, on to the ninth and tenth...

*THAT IS THE TABLET THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE WORE IN THE CHURCH: BROTHERLY LOVE, KINDNESS, FELLOWSHIP.

THE.SECOND.COMING.OF.THE.LORD_  JEFF.IN  V-9 N-2  WEDNESDAY_  57-0417

  59    If you want to look it up, look in Galatians 5. You'll find out that that woman represented the Church, and the Church is an espoused Wife to Christ. And the tablet that the Church is supposed to wear is found in Galatians 5, which is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience. That is the tablet that's supposed to be wore in the Church: brotherly love, kindness, fellowship.

61    Oh, if there ever was a time that the church ought to take inventory to find out if you've got all the coins on, it should be now. It's getting dark. The--the very haunts and clouds of destroying civilization is hanging over the earth, sin and debauch on every hand. We're living in a tremendous time, when there's wickedness, people who go to church just for a sham, people who go to church to try to hide from their meanness, people who go to church and profess Christianity and live like the rest of the world, drinking, smoking, gambling; women immorally dressed, wearing clothes that they oughtn't to wear in the--in their own dressing room, out on the streets before public. And brotherly love is a thing that's passing, almost. We have not lost one coin, but we've lost practically every one of them.

*YOU GOT TO BE LOYAL AND HONEST WITH ONE ANOTHER, BROTHERLY LOVE, AND THEN GOD WILL BLESS YOU.

DIVINE.LOVE.AND.SOVEREIGN.GRACE_  PRINCE.ALBERT.SK  TUESDAY_  56-0814

   E-6    And that's the way it is with Jesus Christ. As a sinner, I found Him to be a Saviour. And I know that He saves from sin. I experienced it. And I know that He heals sickness, because I have experienced it. And tonight with all the--the respect that I can give to Him, I can look my--the people in the face, the purchase of His Blood. Remember, to God, you're more than the Blood of Jesus, because Jesus gave His Blood for you. You are the purchase of His Blood. And I can look at you, knowing that I'll meet you at the day of judgment at the end of the world, and say this one thing: that the product that I am telling you about, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, lives and reigns tonight; and He's just as powerful, just as real, and just as alive as He ever was at any time. That's right. And I... If anything a man ought to be is honest. God will respect you when you become honest.

…..Be honest; be honest with one another. If you won't be honest with one another who you can see, how are you going to be honest with God Who you don't see. See? You got to be loyal and honest with one another, brotherly love, and then God will bless you.

*… WHEN GOD COMES INTO YOU. IT'S LOVE, BROTHERLY LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER.

TIME.TESTED.FAITH_  NEW.YORK.NY  FRIDAY_  58-0530

E-55    God is love, and you just can't do nothing but love, when God comes into you. It's love, brotherly love for one another.

Now, in--on the earth, when Jesus was here... Now, God is Almighty, and He doesn't get smarter; He's the same all the time. Do you believe that? The human race gets smarter. The Bible said they would. They'd be weaker and wiser, but God is--is infinite. Do you believe that?

*THE BODY OF JESUS CHRIST, IT NEEDS HEALING. AND IT CAN ONLY BE HEALED BY BROTHERLY LOVE.

ALL.THE.DAYS.OF.OUR.LIFE_  CHICAGO.IL  FRIDAY_  59-0612

E-61    …..This is a sick world, isn't it. But you know what's the sickest body on earth? I say this with reverence, not to be sacrilegious. God forgive me if I say wrong. The Body of Jesus Christ, it needs healing. And it can only be healed by brotherly love. That's the sickest Body I know of, all broke to pieces and tore up. God, I pray for the healing of that Body. And you're the members of that Body. So, God heal you physically and spiritually, make you what you should be.

*AND THE ONLY WAY WE CAN DO THAT IS UNIFY OUR HEARTS TOGETHER WITH BROTHERLY LOVE

A.TOTAL.DELIVERANCE_  JEFF.IN  V-11 N-1  SUNDAY_  59-0712

78    Well, look what He does for us in the condition that we're in, what would He do if we were one heart and one accord? And the only way we can do that is unify our hearts together with brotherly love, obey the offices of the church and the pastor, and the pastor obey God; then God works through the pastor, through the board, down into the church, and all together are one unit to the Kingdom of God. Then God will hear when we have a unified group. Let nothing bother you. Don't be dismayed in anything.

*...DON'T YOU STAND STILL IF YOU HAVEN'T GOT PATIENCE, VIRTUE, ALL THESE THINGS & GODLINESS & BROTHERLY KINDNESS… 

WHY.I'M.AGAINST.ORGANIZED.RELIGION_  JEFF.IN  V-12 N-1  SUNDAY_  62-1111E

54    And that's the way God does the Church. He beats every creed, every denomination, every man-made dogma, until He sees His Own Life reflecting in you. "If I do not the works of My Father, believe Me not." See? If what is purposed to the Church, the Life that was in Christ isn't reflecting in you, don't you stand still if you haven't got patience, virtue, all these things, and temperance, and--and things, and godliness, and brotherly kindness, and all these things that's required of you. No matter what you've done, no matter how much you've shouted, how many churches you've joined, how many feathers you've pinned into yourself, don't do it. Wait till genuinely from your heart you can forgive, till in your heart you have brotherly kindness. No matter if they pull a handful of beard from one side, you could turn the other cheek with sweetness (See?), until those virtues, no matter what they say to you...

*...THE HONEY REPRESENTED BROTHERLY LOVE, BROTHERLY KINDNESS, WHICH IS THIS AGE.

BLASPHEMOUS.NAMES_  JEFF.IN  V-3 N-21  SUNDAY_  62-1104M

  19-3    Now, but in this church age the Message is being poured into the church. But the church body itself, in altogether... Like the--this tabernacle, we'll say; that's where she comes to church. This tabernacle is not a Holy Ghost tabernacle. There's no such a thing. Individuals that come into this church is Holy Ghost tabernacles. They are tabernacles that contain the Holy Ghost, but not the church in the body of group. Therefore, It runs out.

But what, this man who was pouring the water, the messenger to the church, pouring the Message into the church... But what was the water doing? It was boiling out all the trash that was in it. That's what the Holy Spirit does: boils it up.

Now, now, the honey represented brotherly love, brotherly kindness, which is this age. I just got through telling you (See?) of brotherly kindness, the age that we live in now.

BLASPHEMOUS.NAMES_  JEFF.IN  V-3 N-21  SUNDAY_  62-1104M

  16-1    .....Now, our sister's dream now. She was worried whether she had the Holy Ghost or not. When she laid down across the Duofold, where her husband was reading a paper (And she's got little ones, as I have, and they're always making a noise and things.), and so in this, she fell asleep for approximately ten minutes or fifteen; and she dreamed. And she never could understand it or get it altogether from a year ago almost, until this message was taught. Then while I was teaching it, it all come back to her.

And she dreamed that she was praying. She was walking the floor first, before she dreamed, and wringing her hands, and thinking, "Lord, have I got the Holy Ghost? Can You prove to me. Some says because that--that I shouted, or some said because I spoke with tongues. (And we believe in all that.) But have I really got It?"

BLASPHEMOUS.NAMES_  JEFF.IN  V-3 N-21  SUNDAY_  62-1104M

  16-5    .....Notice, and she was worried about it, so she just laid down across the Duofold, where her husband was reading, and she went to sleep. And she dreamed she was up on a mountain. And in this mountain... The best... I haven't got the paper before me, but I think it's like this: She dreamed that she saw a--a rock box like, like a framework setting right in top of this mountain. And her husband was just behind her. And she saw a large man standing there with work clothes on, sleeves rolled up, bailing the most pure water that she ever seen and pouring into this box, this rock box setting in top of the mountain. And the rock box would not hold the water; and it rolled right out of there and just boiled up all the trash and sticks and everything in there, and boiled it out, and rolled down the mountain. And it rolled over her feet, and she was standing right in that stuff; only it didn't stick to her. And--and then she asked why the box didn't hold it, and the man said, "That is not water. That's the Holy Ghost," and said, "nothing will hold It."

BLASPHEMOUS.NAMES_  JEFF.IN  V-3 N-21  SUNDAY_  62-1104M

  17-1    And said, "Then he went back and got another big bucket--and it was full of honey--and poured the honey into there and said, 'Now, it'll hold this.'" And she thought that the box was--a rock box was going to burst out and spill the honey, but it didn't. It finally stuck together and held it.

She turned and went down the mountain. Going down the mountain, she stopped at the bottom of the mountain and looked back. She saw five streams of this pure, crystal water, not contaminated by the things that it'd went through, still pure and clear, coming swiftly. Then it slowed up; then almost fading out. And she was wondering would it ever reach the bottom of the mountain--five streams--and she woke up. I think that's just about close to being right, isn't it, Sister Shepherd?

BLASPHEMOUS.NAMES_  JEFF.IN  V-3 N-21  SUNDAY_  62-1104M

  18-3    Now, here's interpretation of her dream. She was bothered about the Holy Spirit. Now, insomuch as she seen the box on top of the mountain was the rock, rock box is "rock confession." Now, like Jesus said in the Scripture, He said... Peter said... Jesus said, "Who does man say I, the Son of man, am?"

One said, "Thou art Elias, and Moses, and so forth."

And He said, "But Who do you say I am?".

He said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."

BLASPHEMOUS.NAMES_  JEFF.IN  V-3 N-21  SUNDAY_  62-1104M

  18-4    Now, some people say... Now, the Catholic church says, the Roman Catholic church says that His--what the rock was that Jesus said, "Upon this rock I'll build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against It,"... They said it was upon Peter, and Peter was that rock, because Peter means "little stone." "And upon this little stone I'll build My church." And upon Peter they, apostolic succession, they built the church.

Then the Protestant church says, "That's wrong, that it was upon Himself He built the church."

Now, not to be disagreeable, but I--to my way of seeing it, it's both wrong, because He never built It upon Peter, neither did He build It upon Himself; but it's upon Peter's revelation of Who He was. See? "Who does man say I, the Son of man..."

"Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God,"

"Blessed art thou, Simon, son of Jonas: flesh and blood has not revealed this to you (some seminary. See?); but My Father which is in heaven has revealed to you. Thou art Peter, upon this rock (of confession, upon this revelation) I'll build My Church." And that's been...

BLASPHEMOUS.NAMES_  JEFF.IN  V-3 N-21  SUNDAY_  62-1104M

  19-1    Each church age has had that rock confession on up to this rock confession of the Laodicea. And now, you cannot make a holy church. There's no such a thing as a holy church or holy organization. The Holy Spirit can be preached in it, but in there you find good and bad, renegades, indifferent, and everything else. So a organization will not hold... You can't say, "We got It; none of the rest of them has It." No, sir. The Holy Spirit is poured out on individuals. It's the individual.

*... THE HONEY REPRESENTED BROTHERLY LOVE, BROTHERLY KINDNESS, WHICH IS THIS AGE.

BLASPHEMOUS.NAMES_  JEFF.IN  V-3 N-21  SUNDAY_  62-1104M

  19-3    Now, but in this church age the Message is being poured into the church. But the church body itself, in altogether... Like the--this tabernacle, we'll say; that's where she comes to church. This tabernacle is not a Holy Ghost tabernacle. There's no such a thing. Individuals that come into this church is Holy Ghost tabernacles. They are tabernacles that contain the Holy Ghost, but not the church in the body of group. Therefore, It runs out.

But what, this man who was pouring the water, the messenger to the church, pouring the Message into the church... But what was the water doing? It was boiling out all the trash that was in it. That's what the Holy Spirit does: boils it up.

Now, now, the honey represented brotherly love, brotherly kindness, which is this age. I just got through telling you (See?) of brotherly kindness, the age that we live in now.

BLASPHEMOUS.NAMES_  JEFF.IN  V-3 N-21  SUNDAY_  62-1104M

  19-6    Now, you might say, "Look, I--I--I sure don't like Brother Neville," or, "I sure don't like Brother Jones; I don't like Brother So-and-so," and something like that. But just let something happen to him; brother, your heart's broke. It just nearly kills you. See? We can obtain brotherly kindness and feeling for one another. See? But to maintain in a group of people...

Why do you care for that brother? Because you broke bread with him here at the altar, as you will tonight; you fellowship with him; you shook his hands; you worship with him. He's your brother. And he might do something in the flesh that you would disagree with, cause you just kind of stay (which you oughtn't to do but)--shun him a little. But in the bottom of your heart, if something happened to that brother, it would just nearly kill you, or that sister.

I'm--I'm an old man. I was once young and now I'm old. I've seen it down through the age do that. Hear people say, "Well, I just won't have no more to do with him." And something happen to that man, it nearly kills him; he thinks, "Oh, God, I let my precious brother go without making friends with him (You see?) again." See? See, it's brotherly love. It looks like it won't stick, but it does stick. The honey, it sticks.

BLASPHEMOUS.NAMES_  JEFF.IN  V-3 N-21  SUNDAY_  62-1104M

  20-3    Now, insomuch that she come from there, down the hill to the bottom of the hill... Now, this glorious water was gushing over the hills in five streams. Now, five is the number of grace: J-e-s-u-s, f-a-i-t-h, g-r-a-c-e. See? Five is the number of grace. Five streams was pouring from up here at the trough down through here. And each one of these ages had that rock confession. The saints are sleeping, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting (See?) on till this age, but soon the Holy Ghost, being poured out from Christ, will come and will seal up the Church, then the Church will be raptured. It'll be a complete unit of God, a Bride for Christ, who will be the head of all things. You follow me now?