26-0615P_PERSEVERANCE_Message of the Hour Believers Tabernacle

 

26-0615P_PERSEVERANCE

Mat 15:21  Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. 

Mat 15:22  And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. 

Mat 15:23  But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. 

Mat 15:24  But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 

Mat 15:25  Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. 

Mat 15:26  But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. 

Mat 15:27  And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. 

Mat 15:28  Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour. 

Mar 7:24  And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid. 

Mar 7:25  For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: 

Mar 7:26  The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. 

Mar 7:27  But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs. 

Mar 7:28  And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs. 

Mar 7:29  And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter. 

Mar 7:30  And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.

Rev 3:13  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. 

Rev 3:14  And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; 

Rev 3:15  I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 

Rev 3:16  So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 

Rev 3:17  Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 

Rev 3:18  I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 

2Pe 3:9  The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

*AND I THINK THAT'S THE ATTITUDE THAT ALL CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE IN AT ALL TIMES. BE PERSEVERANT.

PERSEVERANCE_  CHICAGO.IL  SUNDAY_  62-0520

  E-11    "Perseverance," according to Webster's dictionary, I was--I was just looking, it means to be "persistent, to--in making a goal." You must be fully persuaded and be persistent. Then you're perseverant. And--and now, it's--it's a good word. I like it. I'm very fond of that fine word: perseverant. And I think that's the attitude that all Christians should be in at all times. Be perseverant.

And men through all ages that has faith in what they are trying to achieve, has always been perseverant. All down through the history of time, men that's ever done anything has been men trying to achieve something. And they have to have faith in what they're trying to achieve, and when they do, then they are perseverant.

PERSEVERANCE_  CHICAGO.IL  SUNDAY_  62-0520

  E-13    Then I got to thinking on perseverance. And I thought, "Yes, many men is perseverant." Before you can be perseverant, you have to have faith in what you're trying to achieve. You've--you've got to first have faith before you can be perseverant. So faith and perseverance works hand in hand together. They are brothers. You must believe, or you'll have no--you have no confidence. You--you won't--you won't know whether you're right or wrong. But when you have reached that place that you have faith in what you're trying to do, then you can be perseverant.

*"PERSEVERANCE" MEANS "TO--TO BE PERSISTENT, TO MAKE A GOAL."

PERSEVERANCE_  JEFF.IN  V-10 N-3  SUNDAY_  62-0218

  23    Now, this morning we want to talk on faith. Now, my subject this morning is: "Perseverance." "Perseverance" means "to--to be persistent, to make a goal." Now, "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

*YOU'VE GOT YOUR MIND SET ON SOMETHING, AND YOU'RE--YOU'RE PERSISTENT IN IT, BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE IT'S THE THING THAT YOU WANT, AND YOU BELIEVE YOU CAN GET IT.

PERSEVERANCE_  JEFF.IN  V-10 N-3  SUNDAY_  62-0218

  27    Now, perseverance, to be persistent, to try to make a goal, trying to... You've got your mind set on something, and you're--you're persistent in it, because you believe it's the thing that you want, and you believe you can get it. Now, pardon me. To be persistent, you've got your mind made up now that what you're going to do. Now, you cannot have faith in God without knowing the Word of God or knowing something about God.

*IT'S, YOU'RE BASED ON FREE MORAL AGENCY, AND WHATEVER SPIRIT THAT YOU LET DOMINATE YOU WILL BRING FORTH THE FRUITS, YOUR LIFE WILL BE DOMINATED BY THE INSIDE.

We have our body, and our being here is like a seed. And a seed on the outside has a shell; inside the shell has a crust, or a pulp, pardon me; and inside the pulp has a germ. That's the way we are: body, soul, spirit. Now, to the body there's five senses: see, taste, feel, smell, and hear. To the soul there's conscience, and so forth: five avenues to it.

The inside is one, one avenue. And that avenue is the same place that God set every man from Adam and Eve: self-will. You will to live or you will to die, either one you want to. It's, you're based on free moral agency, and whatever spirit that you let dominate you will bring forth the fruits, your life will be dominated by the inside. And faith...

*AND IF YOU GOT THE SPIRIT OF GOD IN YOU, YOU'VE GOT FAITH, AND YOU'LL BELIEVE EVERY WORD THAT GOD WROTE.

So many people rely upon these five senses on the outside. They're fine, nothing against them, if they agree with this sixth sense. This soul... This spirit only can be of two kinds, one of them is the Spirit of God, the other is the spirit of the devil. You can't serve two masters at the same time. You're wholly given to one or wholly given to the other. And if you got the Spirit of God in you, you've got faith, and you'll believe every Word that God wrote. And if you haven't, you might be...

*BUT WHEN YOU DISAGREE WITH THE WORD, THAT SHOWS THAT IT ISN'T THE SPIRIT OF GOD, 'CAUSE THE HOLY SPIRIT WROTE THE BIBLE.

PERSEVERANCE_  JEFF.IN  V-10 N-3  SUNDAY_  62-0218

  26    Now, the devil is not like some people think; he's mean and everything, but he's deceitful. The devil makes you think that you're right. But when you disagree with the Word, that shows that it isn't the Spirit of God, 'cause the Holy Spirit wrote the Bible. And then it's got to be agreeable with the Word. And remember last Sunday, just one little disbelief in God's Word... Eve, Satan told her the truth, and he never denied the Word being true, but that one little part of the Word caused all this trouble. The woman disbelieved It because she was hunting for wisdom instead of staying with the Word. When God says anything, heavens and earth will pass, but His Word shall never pass away. God's Word must be fulfilled to the dot. Just to the very tittle and jot, It must be fulfilled.

*BUT WHEN YOU THOROUGHLY UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS, WHAT YOU'RE AFTER, AND ARE SATISFIED YOU'RE GOING TO DO IT, THEN YOU CAN BE PERSISTENT

PERSEVERANT_  SOUTH.GATE.CA  SATURDAY_  62-0623

  E-23    And men through all ages that's ever tried to achieve something has been persistent. Man, in order to be persistent (I might quote again), is to know what you are after. And if you do not know, you're not certain of your standing. But when you thoroughly understand what it is, what you're after, and are satisfied you're going to do it, then you can be persistent, get really persistent, holding on.

I like the--the approach. I like people that's persistent when they are... Realize, no matter if the man is--is wrong, but yet he believes that he's right. But now, when he gets to a place he's proven wrong, then to try to be per... He cannot be persistent then, because he's done proven wrong. But when he is right, and then will hold onto it...

*YOU'VE GOT YOUR MIND SET ON SOMETHING, AND YOU'RE--YOU'RE PERSISTENT IN IT, BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE IT'S THE THING THAT YOU WANT, AND YOU BELIEVE YOU CAN GET IT.

PERSEVERANCE_  JEFF.IN  V-10 N-3  SUNDAY_  62-0218

  27    Now, perseverance, to be persistent, to try to make a goal, trying to... You've got your mind set on something, and you're--you're persistent in it, because you believe it's the thing that you want, and you believe you can get it. Now, pardon me. To be persistent, you've got your mind made up now that what you're going to do. Now, you cannot have faith in God without knowing the Word of God or knowing something about God.

...I believe the virtue is in Christ, and Christ is the Word. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us." Now, the Word Itself comes back in the form of the Holy Spirit, into us, and It's Word in you: God in you. So many wants to point God to some mystical something way away, or so far away they overreach it. God is in you. The hope of Glory, Christ, the mind that was in Christ in you. You're reaching plumb away from it, trying to get what's been given to you. God, in the human being. All, God...

*YOU'VE GOT TO SURRENDER YOURSELF, GOT TO GIVE YOURSELF COMPLETELY TO GOD.

PERSEVERANCE_  JEFF.IN  V-10 N-3  SUNDAY_  62-0218

  33    You've got to have faith in what you're doing. "And if your heart condemns us not..." If we know the Bible teaches us something and we fail to do that, then there's something we can't have faith in. See, you--you can't get yourself together, because you know there's certain things there that God teaches, that you will not cope with. And when you do that, then where you at? You see, you--you can't have faith on what you're coming to. You can't come up here and say, "I--I--I, last night I was out drunk, and, Lord, I want You to heal me this morning. I--I--I'll--I'll won't drink too much more." You've got to surrender yourself, got to give yourself completely to God. You've got to obey every bit of the Word, sell out completely and then take the Word. That Word is in the church. It's a living Word.

*THAT'S IT, PERSISTENCE, PERSEVERANCE, STAY RIGHT WITH THE WORD OF GOD.

PERSEVERANCE_  JEFF.IN  V-10 N-3  SUNDAY_  62-0218

  142    Oh, brother, fight till every symptom's gone. Hallelujah. Fight till every--every doubt is gone.

Say, "Well, my case is different." Take that jawbone and knock it out of there.

This one said, "But, you know, I'm just a little different; I'm getting too old." Knock it out. Abraham was a hundred. Go on.

"Well, but my case is very bad." Jonah was in the belly of the whale, hands tied behind him, laying down in the whale's vomit. Everywhere he looked was whale's belly. He had plenty of symptoms, but he turned over and said, "Once more will I look to Your holy temple, Lord." Can't hide Him. That's it, persistence, perseverance, stay right with the Word of God.

1Co 13:7  Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 

1Co 13:8  Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 

1Co 13:9  For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

Jas 1:12  Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. 

Jas 1:13  Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: 

Jas 1:14  But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 

Jas 1:15  Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. 

Psa 136:1  O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. 

Psa 136:2  O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever. 

Psa 136:3  O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever. 

Psa 86:15  But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. 

2Pe 3:9  The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 

2Pe 3:10  But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 

2Pe 3:11  Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 

Mat 10:18  And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles. 

Mat 10:19  But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. 

Mat 10:20  For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you. 

Mat 10:21  And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death. 

Mat 10:22  And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved. 

 

26-0612A_TAKING GOD AT HIS WORD PT-9 (TRUSTING & EXPECTING FROM THE WORD OF GOD)

Mat 25:26  His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: 

Mat 25:27  Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. 

Mat 4:23  And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. 

Mat 4:24  And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them. 

Mat 4:25  And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan. 

Psa 18:30  As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him. 

Psa 18:31  For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God? 

Psa 18:32  It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. 

Psa 20:7  Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. 

Psa 20:8  They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright. 

Psa 20:9  Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call. 

*YOU HAVE TO HAVE FAITH BEFORE YOU CAN EXPECT ANYTHING.

EXPECTATION_  TUCSON.AZ  SUNDAY_  61-0205M

   E-3   .....Expectations usually is based upon a faith. You have to have faith before you can expect anything. And now, like many of the servants of God in the Old Testament... Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word.

EXPECTATION_  TUCSON.AZ  SUNDAY_  61-0205M

  E-4   .....And He remains God, and His heart is just as anxious to give us what we ask for as we are to ask, and more so: because He "so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." And if He loved us while we were sinners, alienated from Him, the commonwealth of God, how much more is He willing this morning to give us exceedingly abundantly above all that we could do or think.

*GOD BEING INFINITE, AND CANNOT MAKE A MISTAKE, AND HE'S PERFECT, THEREFORE, ALL OF HIS... ALL OF HIS PROMISES MUST BE PERFECT AS HE IS PERFECT.

EXPECTATION_  TUCSON.AZ  SUNDAY_  61-0205M

  E-15    And I've often quoted this, that God is obligated to His Word. I like to read just a word or two of It, because what I say will fail, because I'm man, but His Word cannot fail because it's God. What... God is ever called on the scene at any time to make a decision... And the first decision God makes has to be the same decision every time.

Now, there's where you must solemnly base your faith, on THUS SAITH THE LORD. You must believe it, that it's God's Word. And that's the only hope that we have, the only substantial hope that we have, is on the Word of God. And now, God being infinite, and cannot make a mistake, and He's perfect, therefore, all of His... all of His promises must be perfect as He is perfect. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God... And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." the Word itself. So therefore, the Bible is the Word of God. It is God Himself placed upon paper.

*WHEN WE TAKE GOD AT HIS WORD, WE HAVE TO SEPARATE OURSELVES FROM ALL THINGS AROUND THAT'S CONTRARY TO THAT WORD.

EXPECTATION_  TUCSON.AZ  SUNDAY_  61-0205M

  E-17    Now, we find out that Abraham of old, when he was seventy-five years old and his wife sixty-five (Sarah), how that God spoke to him and revealed to him that he was going to have a baby by Sarah, his wife. He was sterile and she was barren. And they'd been this way all their lives, but yet God told him that he was going to have a child by Sarah.

And He asked him to separate himself because of this promise. And that's the way we have to do. When we take God at His Word, we have to separate ourselves from all things around that's contrary to that Word. You can't go to people and say, "Now, do you think I got my healing? You think...?" Nothing what they think--that has nothing to do into it. It's what you think. It's up to you. So he was asked to separate himself, and he did so with great expectations of receiving the child.

*BUT INSTEAD OF GROWING WEAK BECAUSE IT NEVER HAPPENED THE FIRST MONTH, HE GREW STRONGER ALL THE TIME, BECAUSE HIS EXPECTATIONS WAS GREATER.

EXPECTATION_  TUCSON.AZ  SUNDAY_  61-0205M

  E-18    Now, we find out that that child never arrived until twenty-five years later. But instead of growing weak because it never happened the first month, he grew stronger all the time, because his expectations was greater. If Sarah was one month older, it'd be one month greater in the expectations, because God kept His Word. It would be a lot better for her to have the child at a hundred years old than it was at sixty years old. See what I mean? It was a greater miracle all the time. And he never grew weak, but grew stronger all the time.

Now, we are the children of Abraham. The Bible said so. We, being dead in Christ, take on Abraham's seed, and are heirs according to the promise. We are heirs of the promise with Abraham, because Abraham was given the promise. Now, if we are his heirs with Abraham, then we are Abraham's children. And the same faith that Abraham had we have ourselves, that when God makes a promise, just know it's going to happen. It can't do anything else.

26-0608P_DESPERATION PT-4 (HE SATISFIETH THE LONGING SOUL)

26-0608P_DESPERATION PT-4 

(HE SATISFIETH THE LONGING SOUL) 

Jer 29:10  For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. 

Jer 29:11  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. 

Jer 29:12  Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. 

Jer 29:13  And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. 

Jer 29:14  And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive. 

Jer 29:15  Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon; 

Jer 29:16  Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity; 

Jer 29:17  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. 

Jer 29:18  And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them: 

Psa 107:7  And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation. 

Psa 107:8  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! 

Psa 107:9  For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

Ecc 7:1  A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. 
Ecc 7:2  It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. 
Ecc 7:3  Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. 
Ecc 7:4  The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. 
Ecc 7:5  It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. 
Ecc 7:6  For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity. 
Ecc 7:7  Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart. 
Ecc 7:8  Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. 
Ecc 7:9  Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. 
Ecc 7:10  Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this. 
Ecc 7:11  Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun. 
Ecc 7:12  For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it. 
Ecc 7:13  Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? 
Ecc 7:14  In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. 

Pro 1:23  Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. 

Pro 1:24  Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 

Pro 1:25  But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 

Pro 1:26  I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 

Pro 1:27  When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. 

Pro 1:28  Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: 

Pro 1:29  For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: 

Pro 1:30  They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. 

Pro 1:31  Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. 

Pro 1:32  For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. 

Pro 1:33  But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. 

*GOD, IN THESE LAST DAYS, HAS MANIFESTED HIMSELF SO TO US, BY HIS GREAT SIGNS AND POWER, SHOULD MAKE US DESPERATE.

DESPERATIONS_  JEFF.IN  V-4 N-1  SUNDAY_  63-0901E

127    God, in these last days, has manifested Himself so to us, by His great signs and power, should make us desperate. That's right. And His willing to heal us and save us, ought to throw us all into desperation to get to that healing Stone. That's right.

*WHEN MEN AND WOMEN GET TO A PLACE THAT THEY'VE GOT TO HAVE GOD OR DIE, YOU'LL GET TO THE WATERBROOK.

THIRSTING.FOR.LIFE_  CHICAGO.IL  SATURDAY_  59-0613

  E-43    David said, "As a hart thirsts for the waterbrook, my soul thirsts after thee, O God."

Could you imagine the little deer with the blood streaming out of it, and it's running, and the hounds is right behind it. And it's got its little nose up [Brother Branham imitates panting--Ed.] sniffing everywhere. "If I could just smell water. I've got to get to water, or I'll die." Once to water it's safe. It's got to find water or die. David said, "As the hart panteth for the waterbrook, my soul thirsts after thee, O God."

When men and women get to a place that they've got to have God or die, you'll get to the waterbrook. That's right. If you're sick and you need healing, if you're in a desperate condition, I can say there is fountain filled with Blood drawn from Immanuel's veins, Where sinners plunge beneath the flood, Lose all their guilty stain. It's Life Everlasting to know Him, not to know His Book, not to know His church, not to know His creed, but to know Him, know Him your personal Saviour Lord, fills you with the Holy Spirit. It puts Life in you to walk forward. That's the Life that David was talking about.

My lips shall praise Thee, because Thy lovingkindness is better to me than Life. My lips shall praise Thee.

*YOU GET--WHEN YOU GET DESPERATE FOR IT, REALLY GOT TO HAVE IT OR DIE (SEE?), THEN IS WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT.

QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_  JEFF.IN  COD  WEDNESDAY_  59-1223

  483-65    That Holy Ghost ought to be more important to you than everything else there is in the world: your prestige, your life, your job, your anything that there is. You should not cease until you have It. You must receive It. It must be the most... And you say, "Well, I'm afraid they at--they my work. I'm afraid that my husband, my..." Don't be afraid; let That be first place. Let everything else go. Let That be first. "Well, I expect to get It one of these days, Brother Branham." Not one of these days: now. This is the time. "Let It be first before I--before I do anything else. Let me have It now." Desperate. That would help answer our question. You get--when you get desperate for It, really got to have It or die (See?), then is when you're going to get It.

*YOU'VE GOT TO COME, DESPERATE, DYING, THEN YOU GET IT. THAT'S RIGHT. HE PROMISED IT.

GOD.HIDING.HIMSELF.IN.SIMPLICITY_  ALBQ.NM  FRIDAY_  63-0412E

  320      Now it's up to you. Now, if you'll believe with all your heart, it'll be settled from right now. This will be a memorial night. They probably won't close these doors tonight. You'll stay all night in here. But if you do like this, say, "Lord, I'm standing on my feet. Until You fill me according to Your promise, I'll never move from where I'm standing." You mean business with God, He'll get to business with you.

321    But until you do, you're hammering, "Lord, will You give me the Holy Ghost tonight? I don't feel nothing. Well, maybe I'll try tomorrow night." You're not going to get anything from God, like that.

322    You've got to come, desperate, dying, then you get It. That's right. He promised It. If it isn't, what are you using your time for, if them promises are not true?

*OUR DEAR LORD JESUS, HIMSELF, IN THE WORLD'S GREATEST BATTLEGROUND, GETHSEMANE, HE CRIED OUT, IN DESPAIR.

DESPERATIONS_  JEFF.IN  V-4 N-1  SUNDAY_  63-0901E

  126      Our dear Lord Jesus, Himself, in the world's greatest battleground, Gethsemane, He cried out, in despair. Should He take the sins of the world, or should He just remain on earth with His beloved disciples, what He wanted to do? But watch His humility as He humbled Himself, "Not My will but Thine be done," humbled Himself to the Word, the promised Word of the God of Heaven.

Notice, then, He went a little further. And if He went a little farther, how much more ought we to go a little farther. See? And notice, the Scripture says here, in Luke, that He prayed earnestly. Brother, sister, if Jesus had to pray earnestly, how much more have we got to pray earnestly. If Christ, the God of Heaven, made flesh, had to pray earnestly, then how much more are we, sinners saved by grace, pray earnestly! If--if the decision throwed the Son of God into despair, what will it do to you and I? Desperately we must cry.

* THAT'S WHEN YOU'LL HAVE TO CRY OUT LIKE ISAIAH DID...AND WHEN YOU GET DESPERATE ABOUT THIS THING, SOMETHING WILL TAKE PLACE.

HEAR.HIS.VOICE_  JEFF.IN  SUNDAY_  58-1005M

  E-56    You'll be kicked out some of these days from these interdenominationals like this. It'll come a time when you'll have to belong to an organization or you can't worship. As you know, the Scripture says it will be. They just make fun of you now. But there'll be a time where there'll be a boycott. For the mark of the beast must come. You'll either belong to the confederation of the churches, the beast like it is in Rome, or you won't worship at all. That's what the Scripture says.

That's when you'll have to cry out like Isaiah did. And he got down in the temple, and he realized that; he raised his hands, and he said, "Oh, Lord, I am a man of unclean lips." You think you're good, but wait till that time comes. "I dwell among peoples of unclean lips." What did he? Got desperate. And when you get desperate about this thing, something will take place. You're not desperate enough.

HEAR.HIS.VOICE_  JEFF.IN  SUNDAY_  58-1005M

  E-57    "Oh, well, I join church that settles it." But you have to be desperate about it. You have to really need God. Jesus said, "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled." But as long as you're satisfied with the things of the world, how can God ever speak to you? You say, "God never spoke to me." Why? He wants to. But you're too filled up with the things of the world. That's what's the matter with us today. We put all of our time on things of the world and the pleasures of the world, and give no time to God. It's true.

*THEN IN HIS LATE YEARS, HE WROTE A COMPLETE BIBLE. HE STARTED AT GENESIS AND ENDED UP IN REVELATION. WHY? BECAUSE HE GOT DESPERATE IN A TIME WHERE HE SEEN IT NEEDED MOST.*

HEAR.HIS.VOICE_  JEFF.IN  SUNDAY_  58-1005M

  E-59    So will it be with every individual God calls. You've got to be borned again, changed and made new, not imagination but from your heart, something that really takes place.

And one of the Angels... If you ask you shall receive. One of the Angels went over to the brazen altar, and took the tongs, and reached over, and got a coal of living fire, and ran over to Isaiah, and placed it in his mouth, said, "Now, you're clean, go speak the Word."

Isaiah was changed after he heard that voice. Then in his late years, he wrote a complete Bible. He started at Genesis and ended up in Revelation. There's sixty-six Books of the Bible. There's sixty-six chapters of Isaiah. Why? Because he got desperate in a time where he seen it needed most.

 

 Psa 66:16  Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul. 

Psa 66:17  I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue. 

Psa 66:18  If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me: 

Psa 66:19  But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer. 

Psa 66:20  Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me. 

26-0605A_TAKING GOD AT HIS WORD PT-8 (TRUSTING & TAKING SIDES WITH THE WORD OF GOD) 

Mat 4:23  And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. 

Mat 4:24  And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them. 

Isa 53:1  Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? 

Isa 53:2  For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 

Isa 53:3  He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 

Isa 53:4  Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 

Isa 53:5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 

Isa 53:6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 

Isa 53:7  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. 

Isa 53:8  He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. 

Isa 53:9  And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 

Isa 53:10  Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 

Joh 9:26  Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes? 

Joh 9:27  He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples? 

Joh 9:28  Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples. 

Joh 9:29  We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is. 

Joh 9:30  The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes. 

Joh 9:31  Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth. 

Joh 9:32  Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind. 

Joh 9:33  If this man were not of God, he could do nothing. 

Joh 9:34  They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. 

Joh 9:35  Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? 

Joh 9:36  He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? 

Joh 9:37  And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee. 

*IT'S GOD'S GOOD PLEASURE TO DO THAT, THAT'S THE WAY HE LIKES TO DO IT.

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

  770-123    ...Now, do you know when those early men went out, sometimes there were only about six or eight of them together, and they shook the country. Well, you know when Aquila and Priscilla, that great revival that Apollos was having over there, there was only about six or eight men and women in that bunch. That whole church meant six or eight. You got five or six, seven times as many here tonight as they had then.

You know, Jesus only had twelve apostles. We always thinking for something big, but God don't deal in them big numbers. It's in these little groups is where He gets it. You see? Look all down through the age, at any time He ever met with men, it was in small groups (See?) and spoke with them and ordained them. It's God's good pleasure to do that, that's the way He likes to do it. And now, we just want to keep God in our midst and go do these things.

*LEADERS OF HIS DAY ALWAYS TRIED TO BELITTLE HIM BEFORE THE PEOPLE..

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

  771-128    ...The Pharisees and leaders of His day always tried to belittle Him before the people. That was just a way that the devil had of working. All the Pharisees and the teachers of His day constantly tried to belittle Jesus. They... All the throw-off that they could give to Him, they done it... They were trying to cast a shadow upon Him to get the people to disbelieve Him. That's the work of the devil, and that old scheme has never ceased.

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

  772-130    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...

*BUT IN ALL OF THAT, THE ONES THAT BELIEVED HIM, AND LOVED HIM, AND HAD SEEN HIS SCRIPTURAL MIRACLE SIGNS WOULD NOT BE HINDERED BY THEM.

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

  773-134    But Jesus, they--they just tried to find every little shadow that they could find to try to belittle Him in the sight of the people. And that's what the devil wants. They want to--they want to hurt your influence before the people. That's the way you want to watch careful what you do. Walk like real men of God; talk like men of God. See? Act like men of God; live like men of God; because the devil, your adversary, is going about like a roaring lion trying to devour what he can...

See, they were trying to belittle Him. But in all of that, the ones that believed Him, and loved Him, and had seen His Scriptural miracle signs would not be hindered by them. No, sir. Them who believed Him believed Him. Those who loved Him stood by Him. They would not see what others pointed out to them.

*... BUT THEM TRUE BELIEVERS, THAT WAS PREDESTINATED TO HEAR THAT MESSAGE, HEARD IT AND SEEN NO FAULT IN IT AT ALL.

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

  774-142    So, the people tried, them Pharisees, and Sadducees, and hypocrites, and Herodians, and all tried to cast a shadow on Jesus; but them true believers, that was predestinated to hear that Message, heard It and seen no fault in It at all.

Same now, those who believe Him love Him, those who believe Him see no fault in Him. They don't see any heresy; they don't see anything wrong; they don't see anything wrong with His Word; they don't see anything wrong with His people; they just see Jesus and that's all. They're--they're--they're predestinated to Eternal Life, so they just take sides with Jesus and stay there.

*HE WOULD BE REJECTED, THERE'D BE NO BEAUTY OF HIM WE SHOULD DESIRE HIM.

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

  775-148    And so, they tried. They was not willing to admit that He was doing the work of God, so they were trying to sow discord and get the people not to believe, but them people who believed Him stayed right with Him; they took sides.

You know, I thought here, a couple of people I got wrote down here. The blind man would not be changed by them, that man He'd just give his sight; we know the story. And He gave them a very stinging question besides.

Now, they come up there, and Jesus walked by, and He was a man that was despised and hated. The Bible said He would be rejected, there'd be no beauty of Him we should desire Him. And all we like sheep have gone astray. He was a man of sorrow, acquainted with grief. And how all the Bible said what He would be. He'd be despised and rejected. And we see that man.

*GOD RESPECTS ANYBODY WHO'S SINCERE.

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

   757-66    God respects anybody who's sincere. Peter said that: he perceived that God was no respect of persons. All nations calling when--on--at the house of Cornelius when they received the Holy Ghost like they did at the beginning. See? God is no respect of persons. We see a person deeply in sincerity be sincerely wrong, but if he is sincerely, God will lead him to the Light somewhere. He'll come to It, 'cause God's obligated to do that.

*GOD LETS THINGS HAPPEN JUST TO, FOR THE WORKS OF GOD TO BE MADE MANIFEST.

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

  775-150    Now, those who believed the Word, they knowed that the very things that Jesus was doing and the things was of His life, they knew Who He was. So they couldn't put nothing blight on Him, because they couldn't see it. And you know, love is blind anyhow to them things; love covers up a multitude of sin, you know. Perfect love casts out fear, and sin, all discord; love does.

Now, this blind man was setting there, and Jesus and His disciples come by, and I think Jesus gave them a little lesson here. When they seen this poor, blind man, they thought, "Well, now surely, there's a sin behind that somewhere." When we see something happen to a man, we always say, "Well, he sinned; he got out of the will of the Lord somewhere." When Brother Crase hit the post, he got out of the will of the Lord somewhere in somebody's idea. When the gun blowed up on me, "Well, he was out of the will of the Lord." Brother Neville hit the car, "He was out of the will of the Lord." That's not exactly right. No, sir, it isn't. God permits those things.

  776-152    Jesus turned around and taught them a lesson. They said, "His father must've sinned, or--or did his mother sin, or did he sin?"

Jesus said, "Neither of them sinned, but that the works of God might be made manifest." Amen. See? God lets things happen just to, for the works of God to be made manifest.

*BUT GOD HAS TO KEEP HIS PROMISE, IN ORDER TO BE GOD... NOW, THE MAIN THING IS, IS TO FIND OUT WHETHER IT'S THE WILL OF GOD.

FOR.HIM.WILL.I.ACCEPT_  HAMMOND.IN  FRIDAY_  52-0718

  E-26    .....But God has to keep His promise, in order to be God. If He doesn't keep His promise, then He isn't God. Now, the main thing is, is to find out whether it's the will of God. It's easy to go... If God said, "Tomorrow, come down here in this audience," and stood here, and we really knew that it was the Son of God, knew He was, and said, "Go not, any of you all tomorrow. It's going to rain all day long."

*WHAT YOU KNOW GOD'S WILL IS, THEN YOU CAN LOOK IN GOD'S WORD HERE, AND FIND GOD'S WILL FOR YOU.

FOR.HIM.WILL.I.ACCEPT_  HAMMOND.IN  FRIDAY_  52-0718

  E-27    Well, be easy for me to go home, and just go to bed, and say, "I ain't going out tomorrow, 'cause it's going to rain all day." See? 'Cause if He said so, it's going to rain. Don't you believe that? What you know God's will is, then you can look in God's Word here, and find God's will for you. Don't you believe that?

And then the only thing that this other does is straighten the individual. See? This is for the entire Church, for everybody. And then if you get a full...?... of faith, clean yourself up, or accept Jesus Christ, and believe Him, it's bound to bring God's Word to pass, 'cause it's a seed.

*IT'S SOMETHING THAT MAN LONGS TO SEE... IT'S JUST THE WAY YOU LOOK AT IT.

GOD.IN.HIS.WORD_  OAKLAND.CA  SATURDAY_  57-0323

  E-16    Job stood up and he said, "I know my Redeemer liveth, and the last days He will stand on the earth: though the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God." The prophet in the Spirit, things turn.

This same Job longed to see God. One time he said, "If I could only go to his house as it was. If I could knock [Brother Branham knocks--Ed.] on his door." It's something that man longs to see.

And I taken it upon myself tonight by the work of God--the Word of God, and the works of God, to prove to you that every one of you can see God. It's just the way you look at it.

Psa 18:30  As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him. 

Psa 20:7  Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. 
Psa 20:8  They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright. 
Psa 20:9  Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call. 
Psa 36:5  Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds. 
Psa 36:6  Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast. 
Psa 36:7  How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. 
Psa 36:8  They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. 
Psa 36:9  For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light. 

Isa 12:2  Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. 
Isa 12:3  Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. 
Isa 12:4  And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted. 
Isa 12:5  Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth. 
Isa 12:6  Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee. 

2Co 3:4  And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: 
2Co 3:5  Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; 

1Th 2:3  For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: 
1Th 2:4  But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts. 
1Th 2:5  For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness: 
1Th 2:6  Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ. 

1Ti 6:17  Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; 
1Ti 6:18  That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; 
1Ti 6:19  Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life. 

Heb 2:11  For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, 
Heb 2:12  Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. 
Heb 2:13  And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me. 
Heb 2:14  Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 
Heb 2:15  And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 
Heb 2:16  For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. 
Heb 2:17  Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. 
Heb 2:18  For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.