Luk 2:26 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
Psa 5:7 But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple. Psa 5:8 Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
Psa 25:4 Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. Psa 25:5 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. Psa 25:6 Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old. Psa 25:7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD. Psa 25:8 Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
*BUT IF YOU COME EXPECTING
GOD TO DO SOMETHING FOR YOU, HE'LL DO IT.
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E-12...Did you ever expect something?
Usually, you get just what you expect. Did you know that? If you come to the
meeting and would say, "Well, I'm going down there. There's nothing to
it." Well, that's just what you'll get out of it. If you'd get down there
and say, "Well, I--I'll go down there; but there's no need of me going
because I--I ain't going to get healed," well, that's just the way you'll
go back. But if you come expecting
God to do something for you, He'll do it. If you expect to find something to criticize the meeting,
criticize the way it's conducted, Satan will show you plenty of it. You'll find
plenty. But if you come, not to
criticize the meeting, you've come, saying, "God, I want to see where You
are in it," God will show you Himself in it. Just whatever you expect, God
will give it to you. It's your expectancy.
*IF THE HOLY SPIRIT HADN'T
BROUGHT YOU HERE AND YOU'D BE OUT SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD.
E-12Yes, He's here
tonight. He is risen from the dead. He's given you the promise; the Holy
Spirit's drawed you together. If you wasn't here tonight... If the Holy Spirit hadn't brought you here and you'd be
out somewhere in the world. But you're setting here in this hot building, fanning, because why? You're expecting to see Jesus Christ come on the scene
and confirm His Word: expectations.
E-13If you expect to
come just to find something to criticize, the devil will sure show you plenty
to criticize. He certainly will. You get what you expect. Some of them say,
"Well now, if I... If I don't get it from the prayer line... If I see
something like this then I'll believe." You'll get what you expect.
I'm expecting tonight to see the Holy Spirit come and manifest Hisself
in power, pour out His glory upon this building here, many receive the baptism
of the Holy Spirit, sinners weep their way to Calvary, sick be healed, all
manners of signs and wonders because Jesus Christ has promised it. And I
believe His promise.
*GOD'S WORD TELLS US WHAT WE
CAN EXPECT. JESUS.CHRIST.THE.SAME.YESTERDAY.TODAY.AND.FOREVER_ TUCSON.AZ
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E-25There was a
question asked here in the Scripture, and this morning I left off speaking on
the word of "expectation," to expect... Now, I trust that you took it
home with you, and searched through the Scriptures to find out what to expect. God's Word tells us what we can expect. And if we receive
this Word without any doubt mixed into it, we will receive what we come for. But if you go away saying, "Well
now, just as expected, I..." Well, you won't see a thing. But if you come expecting to see the Lord Jesus manifest
Hisself amongst the people, you'll go away satisfied. You certainly will. You'll know that
something happened.
But if you say, "Well, I... just as I expected, just another, oh,
an evangelist standing up speaking," and that--then that's what--all
you'll get. You usually get what
you're looking for.
So open
up your heart tonight, and take down the umbrella, and just, oh, just receive
God in your heart.....
*IT'S POSITIVE. YOU HAVE TO
HIT THE SPOT IF YOU'LL TAKE HIS WORD, BELIEVE IT.
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E-21And if God made a decision in the beginning that
on faith, if we believed His Word, He would make every promise come true, then
God still is the infinite God to His promises. Cannot fail. It must be that way. It's positive. You have to hit the spot if you'll take
His Word, believe it.
...If He
give the one the Holy Ghost that obeyed Him, in the Bible, exactly as He
promised there in Acts... He said, "The promise is unto you and your
children, them that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall
call." If a man meets those qualifications,
God's obligated by His Word to fill him with the Holy Ghost. Because if
He didn't, then He made a mistake. And if God made a mistake, He's a man and
not a, and not God, then He's finite, like we are. So you see, as Abraham's
children we take God's promise and just hold onto it.
No matter what takes place, we hold right there just the same, because God said
so and that settles it.
*THAT'S THE WAY WITH
CHRISTIANS TODAY. THEY FAIL TO EXAMINE THE PROMISES OF GOD AND SEE THEY'RE TO
"WHOSOEVER WILL, LET HIM COME."
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E-23.....
If a church, a people, ever comes to a place where they completely separate
themselves from the things of the world, then you can look through every
promise in the Bible. It's all yours.
It's like a great big
arcade. By one Spirit we're baptized into an arcade. Some people just come into
the arcade by the Holy Ghost baptism, say, "Well, thank the Lord, I got
in. Thank the Lord, I'm here."
That
isn't it. To me... what did God say to Abraham?
"Get up and look all through the land. It
all belongs to you."That's
the way, when I come into Christ, I wanted to look around. Not just know He
saved me, but what else have I got in there? If somebody give me a big arcade
and I went into it, I'd like to examine the thing, see what I got. That's the way with Christians today. They fail to
examine the promises of God and see they're to "whosoever will, let him
come." I found something a little high, I'd get me a stepladder and
get up to it, look on the shelves and see what belongs to me.
*WHEN A MAN'S FILLED WITH THE
HOLY SPIRIT, GOD GIVES HIM A CHECKBOOK WITH JESUS' NAME WROTE ON THE BOTTOM OF
IT. SEND IT IN.
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E-24You Christians sometimes don't examine, find out what
belongs to you. Healing's yours, salvation's yours, joy is yours, peace...
every promise in the Bible is yours. When a man's
filled with the Holy Spirit, God gives him a checkbook with Jesus' name wrote
on the bottom of it. Send it in. Don't be afraid to write it out. Send
it in, and He will send down His bountiful blessings upon you of what He
promised.
E-16.....All right, led by the Spirit of God. Be expecting it. Simeon was expecting God to keep His
Word. Abraham was expecting God to keep His Word. David was expecting God to
keep His Word when he met the giant. Samson was expecting God to keep His Word
when he laid his arms around the pole. Samson was expecting God to keep His
Word when he picked up a jaw bone of a mule and beat down a thousand
Philistines. The Hebrew children was expecting God to keep His Word when they
walked into the fiery furnace. Daniel was expecting God to keep His Word when
he went in among the lions. The woman that touched the hem of His garment was
expecting God to keep His Word. Martha was expecting God to keep His Word when
He said, "I am the Resurrection and Life."
*AND THAT'S THE ONLY HOPE THAT WE HAVE,
THE ONLY SUBSTANTIAL HOPE THAT WE HAVE, IS ON THE WORD OF GOD.
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E-15And 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.
For no man is any
better than his word. If I can't take a man's word, I just can't have any
dealings with him. He must be honest, he must be
truthful, and especially as he professes to be a Christian.
Rom 3:1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
Rom 3:2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
Rom 3:3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
Rom 3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
Psa 37:7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
Psa 37:8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
Psa 37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
Psa 37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
Psa 37:11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
Isa 6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Isa 6:2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
Isa 6:3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
Isa 6:4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
Isa 6:5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Isa 6:6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
Isa 6:7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
Isa 6:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
1Ch 16:26 For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
1Ch 16:27 Glory and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place.
1Ch 16:28 Give unto the LORD, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength.
Joh 14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. Joh 14:14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. Joh 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. Joh 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Joh 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. Joh 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Joh 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. Joh 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. Joh 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Joh 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. Joh 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. Joh 15:6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Gal 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. Gal 5:24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. Gal 5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
*... BUT WHEN WE EVER COME
INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD, THEN WE SEE HOW LITTLE WE ARE.
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8May the Lord bless His Word. I think that's
a most striking Scripture. We find that, in the Presence of God, men recognize
themselves to be sinners. We may feel pretty good when we're out different places, and feel like
that we're pretty good people, but when we ever
come into the Presence of God, then we see how little we are.
*THEN WE REALIZED HOW LITTLE
WE ARE WHEN WE REALIZE HOW GREAT HE IS, AND HOW CLOSE WE COME IN OF COMING TO
HIS PRESENCE.
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11Then we realized how little we are when we realize
how great He is, and how close we come in of coming to His Presence. Somehow another, it's always throwed a great effect upon people to come
into the Presence of God. I've seen the time in my ministry when you'd
see the Presence of God come into such a place that it would bring a person up
and just reveal the life to them, and call out their sins of all kinds of
immoral acts, and it bring such a holy hush amongst the people till they'd drop
out of the prayer line before they ever come up to be prayed for, and run to
the altar and get right with God before they come up into His Presence. See, there's something about coming into the Presence of God
that causes things to happen. I've seen people laying in cots and
stretchers.
*... AFTER JOHN HAD WALKED
WITH JESUS, TALKED WITH HIM, SLEPT WITH HIM, EAT WITH HIM, BUT WHEN HE SEEN HIM
STANDING THERE, THAT GLORIFIED STATE, HE SAID HE FELL LIKE A DEAD MAN AT HIS
FEET.
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26What about the great Saint John of Revelations 1:7, when
he was showed the vision, and looked, and heard a Voice speaking to him. And he
turned to look to see the Voice, and he saw seven golden candlesticks. And One
stood in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, with hair like wool, eyes
like flames of fire, feet like pillars of brass; He was girded with a golden
girdle around the paps, and He was called the Word of God. And when the great
Saint John had walked with Christ, leaned upon His bosom, when he done all
these things... As I said this morning, Paul's ministry exceeded any of them. Here, after John had walked with Jesus, talked with Him,
slept with Him, eat with Him, but when he seen Him standing there, that
glorified state, he said he fell like a dead man at His feet. Amen.
Think of it.
*WE MIGHT THINK THAT WE KEEP
THE LAWS OF THE CHURCH AND RECITE ALL THE CREEDS, BUT ONCE LET US GET A LOOK AT
HIM, THE WHOLE THING'S CHANGED ALL THE WAY AROUND.
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27We can come to church, and talk, and praise God, and so
forth, but, oh, brother, when we see Him coming, something will be different in
our hearts. We might think we do our religious duty by go to church and pay our
tithings. We might think that we keep the laws of
the church and recite all the creeds, but once let us get a look at Him, the
whole thing's changed all the way around. Yes, it's sure.
This great man, Saint
John, a great man like that, the Bible said in Revelations 1:7, that, he fell as if he was a dead man. After three and a
half years of fellowship with Christ, was one of the writers of the Epistles,
rode behind Him, eat with Him at the table, slept with Him at the bed, and
fellowshipped with Him wherever He went, but when
he's turned to see Him, he had no more life left in him. He fell like a dead
man to the floor, or to the ground. All right.
*HE SAID, "WOE IS ME,
FOR I AM A MAN OF UNCLEAN LIPS," A PROPHET, A MIGHTIEST PROPHET OF THE
BIBLE, ONE OF THEM.
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29We see Isaiah in Isaiah 6:5, as we've just read, this
great mighty prophet, he's one of the greatest prophets there is in the Bible.
There's sixty-six Books of the Bible; there's sixty-six chapters in Isaiah.
Isaiah starts off in Genesis, the middle of Isaiah he brings in the New
Testament, at the end of Isaiah he brings in the millennium; just exactly
Genesis, the New Testament, and Revelation; perfect. Isaiah was one of the
major prophets. But one day he had been leaning upon the arm of Uzziah the
great king, Uzziah had been taken from him, and he was down. He was a pretty
good fellow; he was a good righteous man, if that righteous king (a good king)
recognized him as a holy man and kept him in his temple.
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30Isaiah saw visions. He was a prophet. Isaiah preached the
Word. He was a minister. Isaiah was a holy man. But
one day, standing in the temple, he fell into a trance and he saw the Glory of
God. He saw the Angels with wings over Their face, wings over Their
feet, flying with wings, crying, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God
Almighty."
That prophet realized
he was nothing. He said, "Woe is me, for I am
a man of unclean lips," a prophet, a mightiest prophet of the Bible, one
of them. "I am a man with unclean lips, and I dwell among people with
unclean lips, Woe is me, because I see the Glory of God."
*BUT WE RECEIVE A KINGDOM
WHICH IS THE WORD OF GOD HIMSELF, AND GOD IS HIS WORD.
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35This is evangelism. This is the time to shake people.
This is the time that--that God said there'd come a time, He shook Mount Sinai
one time but there'd come a shaking again, that He wouldn't only shake Mount
Sinai, but He'd shake everything that could be moved. But did you notice the
rest of the Scripture? "But we receive a
Kingdom that cannot be moved."Hallelujah.
Everything that can be shook will be shaken. The heavens will shake. The earth
will shake. "Heavens and earth will pass away,
but that Word shall never pass away. For upon this rock I'll build My Church,
and the gates of hell will never prevail against It." Everything that can
be shook will be shaken. But we receive a Kingdom which is the Word of God
Himself, and God is His Word. He don't shake Himself. Amen. Oh, my. But
we receive a Kingdom that cannot be moved; it's unshakable, said Paul the
Hebrew writer.
*NOT WHAT I CAN DO, WHAT I
CAN JOIN, WHAT I CAN SAY; BUT IT'S BY HIS GRACE THAT HE SAVED ME.
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38Repentant sinners though, doesn't have any fear. Oh, no. A sinner that will repent, he knows that there's a bloody
Sacrifice waiting and standing in his place. That's what gives me the consolation.
I've seen the Glory of God. I've felt His power. I know the touch of His
hand. I know the touch of His chastisement. I know that He's God. And I know I'm undone, but there's One standing there for
me. Amen.
There's One Who stands
there and says, Father, lay all of his iniquity
upon Me, because he stood for Me down on the earth." Hallelujah.
Then I've walked to the throne of God, boldly,
having grace in my heart to know it's not by good works, but by His mercy I'm
saved. Not what I can do, what I can join, what I can say; but it's by His
grace that He saved me.
No wonder the poet
that caught that, screamed out, "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that
saved a wretch like me. Once was lost, but now I'm found; blind, but now I
see."
Luk 2:26 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
Job 14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
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E-8 And that's the way tonight. Many
of you here may seem like that your time of deliverance is way away. But
sometime when it seems the farthest away, and the darkest of hour, that's when
you receive help from God. There's an old God dishonoring proverb which says,
"God helps those who help themself." That's an error. God helps those who can't help themself. If you could help yourself, you
wouldn't need God's help. But God has mercy
on those who cannot help themself.
And Simeon, he wasn't ashamed of his testimony. Why? Because the Holy
Spirit told him so.
Now, if I wanted to base the thought here for a few moments, which I
will for just a moment, I'm going to take the word: "Expectancy."
And usually a person gets what you expect. Many people comes to
meetings, they go to church. Say, "Why, I didn't see nothing. I didn't
expect to see anything in the first place." That's the reason you didn't
see nothing. "I didn't get helped. I didn't expect to." You usually
get what you expect to get. If you come to the service and you're expecting to
find something to criticize, a religious service, Satan will be sure that you
see it. He will show you something that you can go away and criticize the
meeting.
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E-9 And if you come expecting to get help from God, God will
meet your expectancy. He
always does. Wherever you go, whatever
you do, what you expect brings your faith. If you come saying, "Well, there's nothing to
it," that's just the way you'll go back home, with nothing to it. If you
come tonight saying, "Well, if I don't get prayed for, I'll go home and
won't be healed," that's just the way you'll go. If you come here tonight saying, "I come for one
sole purpose, that is to contact Christ for my body or my soul," you'll go
home just as happy as you can be, for you'll contact Him.
Now, no matter what the
opposition looks like, Christ is the answer. Faith brings Christ. Notice, could you remember? Eighty
years old, white beard, white hair, and yet the old man went around telling
people that he wasn't going to die until he seen the Lord's Christ. What a
beautiful picture of faith.
Faith
knows no defeat. Faith is perfect. Faith brings things when there is no things
to be brought. Faith creates. Faith takes doubt away, takes negative and makes positive. How
beautiful. The old man had a basis for faith. Faith is not mythical, something
mentally worked up, it's an absolutely, fundamental result that happens in a
persons heart. When faith is
appropriated, then it is something in the person's heart. But it can't be based on, say,
"Well, go touch a tree and you'll get well," or--or, "Pray to
the--the post." It's got to have a foundation.
*EXPECTATIONS USUALLY IS
BASED UPON A FAITH. YOU HAVE TO HAVE FAITH BEFORE YOU CAN EXPECT ANYTHING.
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E-14 .....I'm going to use a subject of "Expectation."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.
2Th 3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
Psa 62:5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him. Psa 62:6 He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved. Psa 62:7 In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. Psa 62:8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
Psa 130:5 I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
Pro 8:34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. Pro 8:35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. Pro 8:36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Isa 30:18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. Isa 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Psa 59:9 Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence. Psa 59:10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.
Joh 16:32 Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
Joh 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
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52We find here that God has always had
overcomers. He's had overcomers in every age. There's always, every time, in
every age that there's been on the earth, God has always had somebody He could
put His hands on, as a witness in the earth. He's never been without a witness,
though sometimes just one. But somebody overcome, now, like the saints of old.
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66Oh, my beloved friends, don't let that
door shut. Jesus said, "As it was in that day, so shall it be in the
Coming of the Son of man." (Thank you, brother.) "So shall it be in
the Coming of the Son of man." Now, there's somebody is going to get
caught outside that door.
Many of them might have had good
intentions, and, "Some day, if such things happen, we'll go in with
Brother Noah, 'cause he's a fine fellow." But, you see, it caught just
eight inside.
67Now, think hard now. If you are laying
around, getting doty, get in. Hurry, quick, 'cause the door might close at any
time.
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68And there's always been an
ark in God's economy. There was an ark in the days of Noah, for the saving of
His people. There was an ark in the days of the law, ark of testimony. In the
days of the law, they followed the ark.
And there is a third dispensation
now; like Noah's time, Lot's time, and now this time. There is an ark now. And
that ark is not a denomination, neither is it a good works that you do.
"It's by one Spirit," Romans 8:1, "we are all baptized into one
Body, in the domain of that Kingdom, one Spiritual baptism." No matter how
good, how bad, whatever, you're in that Kingdom by--by Holy Ghost baptism. See?
That's the only way you overcome. It's all that is under the shed Blood is
overcomers, 'cause you cannot overcome, yourself. It's He that overcome for
you. You're resting.
69"How will I know then, Brother
Branham, that I'm in There?" Watch what kind of a life you're living. Just
look around. See if it's just lived out of you, automatically. Or, you have to
strain and pull, see, then you're doing it. But don't try to do it. Did you
ever try? Yeah. Don't.
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70Just like putting a little
baby's arm in a sleeve hole, you see. He's just up, down, over, and everything
else. See? He can't do it. "Put on your coat, honey." He can't do it.
Little arm is up, down, around. It takes your steady hand.
Oh, how glad I am, I can just
yield my hand to Father, say, "Lord Jesus, I can't get in There. You help
me. Put the coat on me." I quit trying. Just let Him do it. See?
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71If the little baby keeps
trying, "Oh, I can do it. I can do it." And he's just everywhere. He
can't do it.
Neither can you, neither can I,
but if we'll just hold still and let Him do it. Just yield to Him, "Here,
Lord, here I am. Just--just let me be nothing. I--I yield. You put my hand in
the right place." That's the victory. That's overcoming.
72The thing you have to overcome is yourself,
your idea, your thing, and surrender yourself to Him. He overcome for you. He
knows the way; we don't.
73But in Noah's time there
was eight overcomers, and that's what went in. They were caught inside.
Now look, friends. I believe
they're taping this. And if it's on television, or not tel-... pardon me, a
tape. Whatever you do, who is listening now, or who will listen hereafter, the
hour is very late, and you do have good intention, but be caught inside. Now,
don't struggle. "Not him that willeth, or him that runneth, but God."
Just let God. Just yield yourself to Him and walk on, with a perfect, satisfied
faith, that, "What God has promised He is able to perform." Not
joining one denomination, another denomination, running this, that, or the
other, trying this. Just yield yourself to God, and walk with Him, peaceful, quiet,
not interrupted. Just keep on walking with Him. That's right.
74That's what I told our brother that just
had the--the breakdown. See? "Just yield to Him. He's here, He Who knowed
what you have done, and what caused your being and doing this way, and all
that. He knows all about you, and now He's just told you back just what to do.
Now," I said, "only thing you have to do is just go do it. That is,
forget all about the past, walk, live for the future, in the Glory and Presence
of God.
Eight overcomers.
75 In the days of Daniel's time,
there was four overcomers that could stand the test of fire and lion.
Now, we're expected to be tested.
That's a good lesson for my--my brother back there, also. "He that cometh
to God must first be tested." Tested (what?) with the Word. That's God's
test. Do you believe it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] "He
that cometh to God must be tested." That only shows a true child, then,
see, be tested, and when the test comes on. You can't overcome 'less there's a
test give to you. And when test is given, it's to see whether you can overcome
or not. And Jesus said, "To him that overcometh," the test. The test
is the greatest thing that ever happened to you. I believe it's written in the
Scripture, Peter said, that, "Our trials are worth more to us than
precious gold." It's a testing time. It's one good evidence to us that God
is with us, when we're tested, for all children of God are tested and tried.
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76And Daniel, a man, a prophet.
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, Daniel was the prophet, and that was the size
of the Church in that day, I mean, the Bride. There's lots of church, about two
million of them went down there. But there was... That was the size of the
overcomer. And them overcomers was put to the test. And every overcomer has to
be put to the test. When they said, "You take back what the Word says, or
either be throwed in the fiery furnace." They refused anything but the
Word.
77And when Daniel was given
a test, that he should take back what the Word said, that they should lean
towards the temple, as Solomon prayed, and He would deliver them from all
things. God would hear from Heaven if they'd lay... look towards the temple and
pray. And said, "If any man prays within these amount of days... And we
are Medo-Persians, who cannot change or alter our laws. That man will be
throwed into the lions' den."
78They set a trap for him. I believe that
prophet knew that. But they set a trap for him. He walked humbly. When it come
time for him to pray... When, he knowed, at the home place in Jerusalem, there
was a burning sacrifice on the altar. Daniel wasn't afraid of them spies.
Raised up the shades, and threw back the shutters, and knelt down on his knees,
and throwed his hands up to God and prayed. Why? Live or die, he had the
victory. And, therefore, so much victory till the lions couldn't eat it. He--he
overcome.
79The Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, had so
much victory until the lion... till the fire couldn't burn them. You know,
victory is a hard thing to burn out, or eat up, or anything. See? So, they,
they had it.
515-2{346}Nebuchadnezzar made a statue of a man. And if you've got a spiritual
mind... (Now, listen to this revelation). That spirit, that man that he made a
revelation of--or he made an image of by his revelation was Daniel--a religious
man being worshipped (See it?), because he named him Belzar, wasn't? Or
Belteshazzar, which was the name of his god. And he made a image of that god,
which was the image of Daniel, and Daniel refused to bow to his own image. See,
see? And here it is again. See?
Now watch. The Gentile kingdom
was issued in in the days of Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar, a Gentile king,
putting church and state together by taking a holy im--a image of a holy man
and forcing worship to it. The Gentile kingdom ends in the feet with a
handwriting on the wall by a political power that's united church and state
together to force kissing images again (You see?), same thing: image of a holy
man. Sure.
You know, Israel started out, I could say the same thing and bring it in
here. They started out, two million strong, and ended up with two men. Right.
They saw the works of God. They saw the manifestation of the Spirit. They saw
great, mighty miracles being done there in Egypt, and everything, and started
out. But it--it wasn't in their heart. They didn't overcome. They just come
out. And Jesus said, "And they perished in the wilderness," and are
Eternally dead. "Every one of them is dead," that means Eternal
separation. Every one of them rotted in the wilderness.
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85But there was two men,
Joshua and Caleb. And when it come to the showdown, the obstacles was so great
till they looked like grasshoppers side of them. Joshua screamed out with
Caleb, and said, "We are more than able to do it." Why? "God
said so." And they were overcomers. They overcome. They was the ones that
was privileged, out of that whole great organization of people, to take the
real, elected Bride into the promised land. Joshua and Caleb in the front lines
out there, as the two generals, led them right down to the river, and crossed
the river, over into the promised land. Why? They believed the Word, no matter
what.
86Then, Dathan raised.
Dathan, rather, raised up, and so did Korah, and they tried to say, "This
man is trying to make himself above all the rest of us; he's more holy than the
rest of them." After God had thoroughly vindicated the man. They said,
"We'll just start a group of people. We'll make this, that, or the other.
We'll make our organizations. We'll do." And they died and perished.
But those men had that Word of
the Lord, and they stayed with It, and they went over.
"Not he that starts; he that
finishes." Many start the race, but there's One finishing it. There'll be
many churches start, many groups of people. There'll be one Group finish.
That's the overcomers.
87Lot's day, yes, she had to
have that one great, long look back. "Oh, I'm leaving So-and-so down
there, them fine times we used to have. I'll never forget it." And she was
caught, shut out, like it was in the days of Noah. She was shut out, without
mercy, and she perished. And the--the lump still stands there today. They claim
(I don't know) you could break a piece off of it and it'll grow back, a salt
pillar. You ever see that picture of Sodom And Gomorrah, you'll see the original
pillar of salt that stood there.
88Now, there's a difference between a pillar
of salt and a Pillar of Fire. See? You have to turn one way. Yeah.
89Notice, in John the
Baptist's time. In John the Baptist's time, there was found six that had
overcome. All ages, they've had overcomers. In John's time they had six, that
was Joseph and Mary, Zacharias and Elisabeth, Simeon and Ann. A man and a
woman, a man and a woman, a man and a woman; see, type of Christ, the Church;
Christ, the Church; Christ, the Church; Christ, the Church. See? See?
90Notice, it starts from the natural man. No,
Mo-... Joseph, the natural man, Joseph, what was he? A carpenter. Then the
priest, what was he, see? A minister in the house of the Lord; Zacharias. And
from that, to Simeon, a prophet and a prophetess. See?...?... Justification,
sanctification, baptism the Holy Ghost. Amen. Don't you see it? [Congregation
says, "Amen."--Ed.] Perfectly. Six overcome. All the rest of them,
they offered their sacrifice and everything, but these were Elected. They
overcome.
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E-53I... One way, you feel like you want to
scold them, yet you're sorry for them, because they've been listening to
something else that's contrary. But always come back and see if it's THUS SAITH
THE LORD. If it's the Bible, then that's certain. And every ounce of It is
certain. Not even one little phase will ever fail: as much as Lot's wife would
turn her head at her own screaming children and grandchildren, burning up in
the flames of hell. God's wrath and judgment poured out upon Sodom, and the
poor grieved-heart mother just turned her head and looked back. But the Angel
said... Now, the Angel, the Messenger of the hour to their people said,
"Don't even look back," and she disobeyed that Messenger and just
turned her head. And she stands yet today.
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92See, as I said at the beginning, you are
born defeated. And that birth can never bring you to--to Life, because you're
born defeated. And you're in a defeated world, amongst defeated people, amongst
defeated creeds, defeated denominations. You've got to come to victory some
way.
103Jesus told us how to do it. He overcome.
Means... Overcome means "to stand the test," that's right, like all
the old saints did. Like Jesus did, amidst of all of His enemies, He stood the
test. Everything He was tested against, He stood it. In the very face of
sickness, and Him being Messiah, He healed them. In the face of death, He
brought it back to life. In the face of Calvary, His Own death, He defeated it
by surrendering Himself. Why? By the Word. Said, "You destroy this Temple,
and I'll raise it up in three days." The Word said so. See? And in the
presence of death, He defeated it. He overcome death. In the presence of hell,
He defeated hell and overcome hell. Yes. In the presence of the grave, He
overcome the grave. Why? All by the Word, and humility. Oh, my! There's the
real Man. There's the One to make your example. See? He defeated everything,
overcome it.
104Look. Temptation was for
Him. You know that? The Bible said, "He was tempted in all points like we
are, yet without sin." He was tempted by--by drinking. He was tempted by
women. He was tempted by everything that could be tempted by. He was tempted by
everything that we are. He was a Man, and yet you couldn't put a mark on Him. Yes,
sir.
105Overcome means "to recognize the Devil
in every one of his tricks." Lot of people says, "There is no Devil.
It's just a thought." Don't you believe that. There's a real Devil. He's
just as real as you are, anybody. A real Devil, and you must recognize him
real. You must know he's a devil. Then, the same time that you--you recognize
him, and know that he's a devil and he's against you, then, to overcome, you must
recognize that the God in you is greater and mightier than he is, that the One
that's in you has already overcome him. And, by His grace, you are more than a
match for him. Amen. There's real overcoming, when you recognize.
106You look back, say,
"I'm doing this and I'm doing that," then, no, you--you, you're
defeated.
"But there's no condemnation
to them which are in Christ Jesus, that walk not after the flesh, but after the
Spirit." Then you realize that you've overcome.
And you know that he's a devil.
You can't say, "I got a sickness, and I--I--I--I don't believe it is a
sickness." Oh, yes, it is a sickness. You got cancer, you "don't
believe it is a cancer." It is a cancer. It is a cancer.
But, remember, "Greater is
He that's in you than he that's in the world." You must realize that the
Holy Spirit that's in you has already overcome this thing. And He's in you, and
you can overcome by Him. That's exactly sensible, exactly the way the Scripture
is written. Overcoming!
107Notice, overcome! The God that's in you
is greater than the one that's in him. The god of the world is not as great as
the God of Heaven, which is in you, no more than darkness can stand in the
presence of light.
108Now, darkness cannot stand in the presence
of light. I don't care how dark it is, light will put it out. It can't stand.
Glory! But you take as much darkness you want to, and try to stand against
light one time, see what happened.
That's the One that's in you, is
Light. And the one that's in the world is darkness. So, the Light has proved to
overcome the darkness, and the man that's in Christ and knows that he's overcome
the things of the world. Amen. It has no more ties to you, at all. You're free.
"Walk in the Light, as He is in the Light, and the Blood of Jesus Christ
cleanses us from all sin, and we have fellowship one with another." There
you are.
109"He that's in you is
greater than he that's in the world." Now, if you look back, you're
condemned, then you're still in the world. But if you're living above that,
then He that's in you has led you above the darkness.
Like the lily, he's above the
darkness of the mud. He's above the darkness of the muddy waters. He's in the
light, reflecting the beauty that was put in him before he left the mud. Amen.
110Now I--I feel like a shouting Christian.
What was in there by God, at the beginning, it pressed its way through,
overcome. It overcome the shell. It overcome the mud. It overcome the waters.
It overcome everything, and was an overcomer, and reflected the beauty and
Glory of God.
111That's the way every
believer does. That's the way Noah did. That's the way Lot did. That's the way.
Look what a mess he was in. That's the way Moses did. That's the way Joshua
did. That's the way Daniel did. That's the way Shadrach, Meshach did. That's
the way John the Baptist did; Zacharias, Elisabeth. That's the way that Simeon,
that's the way that Anna, every one of them did. They overcome the mud that
there was around them and packed into them. Stuck their head above the thing,
and shined forth the Glory of God. That's what a real Christian does.
112Remember, Jesus showed Her how it's done.
Forty days of temptation, He was tempted above any man that ever could be
tempted, in the temptation of Jesus Christ. Watch. He showed us how it's done.
Now I will close, just in a few
minutes.
113Look. He showed us how it's done. How did
He do it? By the Word. That's how He done it, for He was the Word. And Jesus
said, "If ye abide in Me, and My Words in you," you're back to Word
again, the Word of promise. What is the Word of promise to every Christian?
"Greater is He that's in you than he that's in the world." Then how
do I overcome? Not me, but the Word that's in me. The Word is God. Then I
overcome the things of the world, because it's the Word in me. "If ye
abide in Me, My Words in you, then just ask what you will." Just keep
pressing up. You're coming to the top, as sure as anything. See? You got to
come to the top.
114His forty days of
temptation, by God's Word He overcome. I want to express something here just
for a few minutes. Satan made three major assaults upon Him in that temptation.
Watch. It's always in them three. Don't forget it. See? He made three major
assaults, from the highest to the lowest. He tried his best to conquer Him. But
He was the Word. Amen. What did He use? Himself, the Word. Satan's three major
attacks or assaults upon Him, but He met it with the Word. Every attack, He
could make it with the Word. Watch this now, from the highest to the lowest.
115The first he made his
attack upon, to use His great power. Which, He knowed He was the Word. He
knowed His position. You believe He did? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
"I the Son of man." He knowed His position. And Satan come and want
Him to use His Own power on Hisself, to feed Him, want to feed Hisself. He was
hungry. A man gets hungry, he can do almost anything. He'll steal, rob, beg,
borrow, anything. See? He had that appetite. And Satan used his first great
major assault upon Him, to take His power that He had been given to overcome
with and use it on Himself. He didn't use it on Himself. No. He used it on
others. That's right. He used it on others, not Himself. It wasn't for Him.
Though, He could have done it. He certainly could have done it.
129Then, the second assault.
I'll hurry. Just looks like the time just goes so fast. The next great assault
was, that he made upon Him, that He would be a show-off.
And how that does hit God's
servants, to be a show-off, to show what you can do. "Glory to God!
Hallelujah! I'm a deliverer! I'm so." See? See?
130"Come up here, on top of the temple,
and set down here." He tempted Him to do it. Now, remember, He was tempted
to do it, hard. Said, "Now, if You want to be something before the people,
stand up here on this temple, jump off." See? "I'll give You a
Scripture for it, because it's written, 'He'd give the Angels charge over Thee,
lest, any time, dash a foot against a stone. He'd bear Thee up.'" To make
Him a show-off, to show His authority.
131No true servant of God ever does that. You
see a man showing off, his chest out, and all like that, just remember, there
is something wrong there. No. God don't want that. Jesus set the example. He
could have done it. He certainly could have done it, but He didn't do it. No
servant of God is a show-off, of himself, to try to take God's power and show
himself above somebody else.
132You remember Moses did that?
Remember it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] God give him power to
do whatever he wanted to; made him a prophet. He walked down to that Rock, and
he smote the Rock the second time. That was against God's will.
God said, "Speak to that
Rock. Don't smite it again. You break all the--all the--the type here. The Rock
is only going to be smitten once." But he spoke of the weakness of the
Word when he did that; That wasn't sufficient. Yeah. The Word was what was
going on. That Rock was the Word. See?
133 He, first time, he smote the Rock and the
waters come forth. And then they got thirsty again. He said, "Now go back
and speak to the Rock." It was only smitten once. See?
"The insufficiency of the
Word," Moses testified to it. "The Word wasn't right; He had to be
smitten again."
134So Moses went down there and smote the Rock
like that, said, "Come forth!" Didn't come forth, so he smote it
again, and said, "Come forth! I command you to come forth." And the
waters come.
135God said, "Come up here. Come here.
You glorified yourself. You took My power; instead of sanctifying Me, you
sanctified yourself. Now you're not going over in the land. Look over, see what
it looked like; but, here, you're going to leave right here." Oh, my!
There never has been one like Moses, you know. No, no.
But, oh, Delilah, the first thing
you know... Samson oughtn't to have made his first stop. When Delilah flirted
her eyes at him, he ought to have turned his head and walked on. Eve stopped
just for a moment and she got in trouble. Samson stopped for a moment and got
in trouble. And when the world presents something to the church or individual,
don't stop; keep moving on. That's what the church needs tonight, is don't stop
for these intellectual, classical prides, is keep moving on in the Holy Ghost.
Just keep pressing on, going on...?...
And I'm praying to God, that
through the battles that I know that you've had a coming along this way; it's
rugged, but it's the blessed way, isn't it?...?... I just... If you--if there's
no battle, then there's no victory. But you've got to have a battle to have
victory. If it was just given to you, it wouldn't be--wouldn't be no--wouldn't
be a victory. But he that overcometh is the one who has the victory. So Jesus
came to the earth; He had a battle; He won the victory. And tonight we have a
battle, and with Christ, we can have the victory. Now, the Lord bless you.
Luk 17:28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
Luk 17:29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
2Pe 2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
2Pe 2:7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
2Pe 2:8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
2Pe 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
Mat 1:1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Mat 1:2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;
Mat 1:3 And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;
Mat 1:4 And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon;
Mat 1:5 And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;
Rom 4:1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
Rom 4:2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
Rom 4:3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Rom 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Luk 4:2 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
Heb 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
2Ti 2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Rev 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
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.
Rev 2:17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Rev 2:26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
Rev 2:27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
Rev 2:28 And I will give him the morning star.
Rev 2:29 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Rev 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Rev 3:6 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Rev 3:12 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 the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Rev 3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
Rev 3:22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Luk 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
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