The Invisible Union Of The Bride Of Christ Pt-4
(YOUR NEW LIFE IS IN THE LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE)
YOUR NEW LIFE IS IN THE LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE, YOUR MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
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Now, your name is now in the new Book; not the book of life, but the
Lamb's Book of Life, what the Lamb redeemed. Not the old book of your
natural union, but your new, Bride. Hallelujah! Your new life is
in the Lamb's Book of Life, your marriage certificate, hallelujah, where your
true Eternal germ, from the beginning, takes hold. Now you're not
only forgiven, but you're justified. Glory! "Justified," Romans
5:1 said. Yeah. Romans 5:1 said, "Therefore being justified by
faith."
SO PREGNATED WITH SATAN'S WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE
165 So pregnated with Satan's wisdom and knowledge, the church has become! They send their people away to school, to learn how to say "amen" just right. They learn them how to say all this, and be very intellectual. What is it? It's pregnation of the Devil. What did Satan pregnate Eve with? To disbelieve the Word, for intellectuals, intellects, and it ruined the whole creation. That's exactly what she's done in the Word today, the church. She's pregnated herself with Bible schools and colleges, and things like that, reading, writing, arithmetic, and they know no more about God than a Hottentot would know about an Egyptian night. They know all their creeds, their prayer books, everything else, but know nothing about God.
166 They know when the Word is vindicated,
when God spoke back there and lotted out His Word to each generation as they
come along. Here come Noah along, and he preached that generation.
167 Now, what if Moses would have come along,
said, "Let's build an ark"? He'd been all out of style. But he was a
prophet. He had the revelation of God.
168 God vindicated it to be the Truth. He brought the children about, Israel out, and showed the Pillar of Fire before them, and vindicated the prophet; and said just exactly what He would do, and He did it.
169 They said, "Let not God speak. Let
Moses speak, lest we die."
170 He said, "I'll speak to them no more
like that, but I'll raise them up prophets, and they'll speak."
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There stood Isaiah standing there, said, "A virgin shall
conceive." A man like him in a day when... How is a virgin going to
conceive? "Unto us a Son is born: a child is born, a Son is given. His
Name shall be called: Counselor, Prince of Peace, Mighty God, the Everlasting
Father. Upon the throne of His father, David, He'll reign. There'll be no end
to His Kingdom." How is it going be? He didn't know. He just spoke what
God said. It's beyond any imagination, intellectual. It's beyond any scientific
research. It's the Word of God.
PREGNATED WITH INTELLECTUAL CONCEPTION!
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Now we school our seminary students in all kinds of Bible theology
and things like that, man-made theology, got a bunch of church just exactly a
Laodicea, like God said it would be. Oh, my! When I look at that, and makes
me shiver. Pregnated with
intellectual conception! You've got to be a high school graduate before
you can even enter. You've got to
have... got to stand before a psychiatrist before you can be ordained.
173 Would you imagine Peter, James, and John
going before a psychiatrist? Remember that hundred and twenty up there,
couldn't even sign their own name?
Stand before a psychiatrist, see if they... if all of their... if their reflex
was just right, and so forth? They had a reflex, but
it wasn't the intellectual conception or scientific research. It was through
the Power of God. When It struck them, they knowed nothing to do but act out
what the Holy Ghost said do. They didn't pay any attention to any
intellectual, what the church said, and what the priests said, what this said,
that said. They moved by the Spirit;
fearless men.
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First John 2:15, He
said, "If you love the world, or the
things of the world, the love of God is not even in you." See? So how can you be pregnated with the
Word of God which condemns the world, condemns Hollywood, condemns all of its
fashion, condemns all these parties and carrying on, and so-called that they
have in the name of religion? It condemns it. How can the Word pregnate
a person: how can a bobbed-haired woman, painted face, wearing shorts?
175 How can a preacher, goes out here to a
seminary, and looks at Acts 2:38
and sees that there's not a person in the Bible ever baptized in those titles,
and then still say he's pregnated with the Word of God? Telling you a lie! He sold his birthright. He's committed adultery against the very Thing that he said. He is put
away, in divorce.
God is going to have a virtuous
Church, just exactly, a Bride.
176 Bible said, "The Word is not in you." So what kind of a children are
you bearing? Pregnated denominationals. There has been no death to separate you
from your first lover.
ARE YOU MARRIED TO THE CHURCH? ARE
YOU MARRIED TO CHRIST, THE WORD?
177 "What will the Joneses think if I
go to crying and speaking in tongue? What will they think if I'm
rebaptized?" What a nonsense! Are you married to Joneses? Are you married to the church? Are
you married to Christ, the Word?
178 Now,
that's why she is still bearing his children. What kind of children she have?
Here is some of their names they call today: cats, beatles, monsters,
rickies, rickettas. Cats, beatles, that's church members. Sure. They're all his sons, sons of Cain, which
is the sons of the subtle beast, just as smooth as they can be.
LET THE HOLY SPIRIT SEARCH YOUR MINDS WITH THE WORD, YOU'LL AGREE WITH THE MESSAGE.
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Now take a good look for a
moment, with your own spiritual insight, at your soul. Just look around.
I'm speaking 'cross the nation now. Look just a few minutes, you out there in
the Branham Tabernacle, you in the tabernacles on the West Coast, and Arizona,
and everywhere you're at. Look at
yourself for a few minutes. You say, "That Message you're preaching,
Brother Branham, is wrong." Look at
yourself a little bit. Let
the Holy Spirit search your minds with the Word, you'll agree with the Message.
Let Christ, the anointed Word, search out your own conscience. Let Him get into
you, see if That's right or not. And that's just one or two things I mention,
when there hundreds of them.
LET HIM COME INTO YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW AND EXAMINE WITH THE WORD OF GOD, AND THE DOUBTS ABOUT THE MESSAGE WILL BE ALL DISSOLVED.
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Does the Bible agree with a woman bobbing her hair? [The congregation
says, "No."--Ed.] Does the Bible believe, agree with three, baptisms
in the name of "Father, Son, Holy Ghost"? ["No."] No such a
thing. Does the Bible agree with woman wearing man's clothing?
["No."] Well, just take them
three there, when there's hundreds of more. Search it out in the Light of God's
Word.
181 You say, "I'm a church member." So
was Cain. So was Eve. The Bible predicts, in the last days, that the Laodicea
will be the same.
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Let the Holy Spirit search your
conscience, and you'll agree with Daniel 5:12. When the queen come in
before Belteshazzar, and said she found out that there was a prophet, Daniel,
was among them, and he was a dissolver of doubts. You let the Holy Spirit. He
is the Prophet of the day. Let Him come into your heart right now and examine with the
Word of God, and the doubts about the Message will be all dissolved. He dissolves all the doubts. You find out, it's
exactly on the Word for this day.
183 You cannot preach Luther's message today.
It goes in It, but that's the feet. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Cannot preach Wesley.
Cannot preach Pentecostal. We're plumb beyond that. They denominated and died.
They're the stalk.
184 The stalk come up with the blade, that's
the first condition of the church. Now, that there don't look like the first
grain that went in the ground, the wheat.
185 The second come forth is a pollen. That
still don't look like the grain. Looks more like it. It's coming more in the
image of the real grain. But the blades don't sure look like the grain that
went in the ground. It's a carrier of
the life that was in the grain. But what did it do? It denominated,
just like all other nature fits in with it. It died.
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Then what? The life run right up into the tassel. It's got whole lots of
little--little balls hanging on it, looks like little--little grains in it.
Look like it's a real grain, but it isn't.
187 Then it drops down into the shuck. And what
does it bring forth? A shuck.
188 Now, you take a grain of wheat, when the
wheat is first coming forth. And Jesus said, "A corn of wheat." And
you take that wheat and open it up. You pulled off the stalk. You looked at it.
You say, "We got a grain of wheat." Be careful. It's just exactly
like the grain, but there's not a bit of grain in it. It's the shuck.
189 There's the Pentecostals, "So
much," as Matthew 24:24 said, "deceive the very Elected in the last
days, if it was possible." But you pull leaf by leaf back, you ain't got
no grain. The grain is right back in the back of it. See?
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And then the Life comes out of that denomination, goes into the grain.
Then what happens? When the grain begins to grow, and to get bigger so It can
cover over something, the denomination pulls away from It. Why ain't we got a
denomination out of This? They never will be. It's the grain. It can't go no
farther. We're at the end time. So what does It have to do now? Lay in the presence of the Son, to be
ripened, that's exact, the Word to be ripened into your heart, to bring forth
and live what we're talking about. Yes, sir.
191 Then
you'll have no more doubts, if you let the Holy Spirit reveal It to you, like
the queen said about Daniel.
SO CAN WE BE THANKFUL, AS PILGRIMS, LIKE ABRAHAM, SEPARATED OURSELF FROM THE THINGS OF THE WORLD, ALL OF OUR ASSOCIATES… GOD HAS SEPARATED US FROM ALL THE DEAD RELIGIONS.
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You may say, "What's this all got to do with thanksgiving? What you
talking about, Brother Branham? Here it is, quarter to nine. You didn't say
nothing about thanksgiving." What a Message for the occasion, to me! Yes,
indeed.
193 The
pilgrim fathers were very thankful for their new-found way of life, being
separated from the old English denominations and creed. They could marry to the
new, anointed Word for their age; that's right, the new, anointed Word of their
age, for their day.
194 So can we be thankful, as pilgrims, like Abraham, separated
ourself from the things of the world, all of our associates. Abraham was
a pilgrim. God has separated us from all the dead
religions. I'm speaking across the nation now, all the dead creeds.
And to what? Separated us, and opened to us a new land,
a new Message for this day.
195 Pentecost
dried up and died, like Luther, Wesley, and the rest of them. It's no more than
a bunch of churches pulled together. Good people in there, yet, has got to be
come out.
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What did He do? He opened up the Seven Seals of the last Message. You
notice that? The Seven Seals, which, all
the mysteries of the seven church ages was sealed with Seven Seals. The
reformers didn't have time to do it in their days. They didn't live long
enough. But this blessed revelation of the Seven Seals, it's open to us in this
last days, from a prophecy that went forth to Arizona.
197 How I asked God, the other day, "What
are You doing with me out here in this desert?"
198 Did you know Moses wrote the New
Testament... or the Old Testament? He certainly did. First four Books gives the
laws, everything; Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy. He wrote the Old
Testament. To do that, he had to leave all of his associates and loved ones,
and go into a desert.
THEN WE'VE GOT THE REVELATION IN THIS LAST DAYS, FOR THE MESSAGE OF THE LORD GOD TO GATHER HIS BRIDE TOGETHER.
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Paul wrote the New Testament. That's right. He wrote Romans, and
Romans and all the rest of It there, Hebrews and Timothy, and so forth. And to do that, he had to separate from
hisself, and go down into Arabia, into a desert, for three years, get the
revelation of God.
200 "Oh,"
you say, "how about Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John?" They were scribes
that just wrote what Jesus did.
201 Paul
separated, put the Word together. That's right. Well, then, look, if it taken
that, and had to go to a desert, away from their loved ones.
202 Remember what, What Time Is It, Sir? How
many ever heard it? Say, "Amen." [Congregation says,
"Amen."--Ed.] Was it exactly right? ["Amen."] Then we've got the revelation in this last days, for the
Message of the Lord God to gather His Bride together. No other
age has it been promised. It's promised in this age: Malachi 4, Luke 17:30, Saint John 14:12, Joel
2:38. Those promises is just
exactly like John the Baptist identified himself in the Scripture.
BUT, TO THE ELECTED, GOD IS CALLING
TO THE ELECTED.
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Jesus identified Himself. What'd
they say? "Away with such a person!" "John is a wild
man." The church wasn't able to receive it. That's the pattern. Neither
will the church receive it today.
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But, to the Elected, God is
calling to the Elected. They know it: calling the
virtuous Bride, the Word, the last-day Church, the elected Lady of our Lord
Jesus Christ, Word. If... Jesus is the Word. How many believe
that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] All right. Then, the Bride is always part of the Bridegroom, so the
Bride will not be a denomination. It'll have to be the Word,
manifested, to be the Bride of Christ. He promised to do it. He said
how He did. Never uses... loses His pattern. He always did it by the pattern.
He done it, every time, by the pattern. He does it again, calling out
His virtuous Bride in the last day, the lovely Rebekah waiting for Her Isaac.
What a beautiful time!
205 Here it brings into view, the two books that's going to be mysterious to you when you read the book of The Seven Church Ages. The two books: book of life, said, one says you can put your name on, you never comes off; other one says you take his name out of the Book of Life. This brings it perfectly in view, right here. I'm going to stop a few minutes, maybe, on a few notes here, and catch this before we close.
LIFE IS A SACRED THING, TO GOD, AND
IT'S RECORDED IN A BOOK.
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Life is a sacred thing, to God,
and it's recorded in a book. God is
the author of life. Do you believe that? [Congregation says,
"Amen."--Ed.]
207 Our
natural life here, we have, is just a perversion. It
really should be the right life, to begin with, but it's perverted by the
natural birth. The first life, or your first union, you
were joined in at birth, by nature, a natural act. A natural human being associated, man and woman together, associated
together in sexual affair, which brought your first life here, and that's associated
with sin and death. How can you miss seeing the serpent's seed?
THE
ATTRIBUTES THAT'S IN GOD HAD TO BE DISPLAYED. HE--HE WAS TO BE A SAVIOUR.
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When you see the woman, a
by-product; not another female like her; made in that order, knowing that she
could be deceived. God knowed. If He didn't know the end from the beginning, then He
wasn't God. If He isn't infinite,
if He isn't... And He can't be infinite
without being omniscient, omnipresent, knowing all things, Eternal. So He knowed all things, and He
had to make that woman.
209 The
man didn't have a wife. The wife and the man was the same thing. He had the
feminish and masculine spirit in himself.
210 He had to separate, take a by-product,
after the whole creation made. No female
created by God, in the original creation, can do a thing like that. She was
made thus, to do it. He knowed she would
do it. If He didn't, He wasn't God.
211 But, see, the
attributes that's in God had to be displayed. He--He was to be a Saviour. And to make everything perfect,
the way He had it, then there could be nothing lost. Oh, don't be children. Be
men and women. We're at the end road. Notice.
YOUR FIRST HUSBAND, THAT HAD RULE
OVER YOU, WAS YOUR NATURE BY NATURAL BIRTH…THAT'S THE REASON YOU HAVE TO BE
BORN AGAIN.
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Now, it was nature, associated with death. Your first husband, that had rule over you, was your nature by
natural birth. Natural, you love the world because you are the
world, and part of the world. That right? [Congregation says,
"Amen."--Ed.] Your desires
was, by nature, to love the world which you're a part of. You're a part of
nature. You believe that? ["Amen."] And that's your
natural thing.
213 That's the reason you have to be
born again. You have to separate; you have to die to that first husband. You
can't live with it. You just can't say, "Well, I'll
divorce him, and hang him up here till occasion." No, sir. No writing of divorcement! He dies. The nature of the world has to die.
Every speck of him has to die. You have to be
reunited, again, with another Nature.
AND
ANOTHER BOOK WAS OPENED, WHICH WAS THE BOOK OF LIFE." SEE? THERE IS SAINTS
ALREADY THERE, THE CHURCH, THE BRIDE.
214
Your name of your first
nature, was born, and put in a book of life. All your deeds was wrote in it,
too. Everything you done under that nature was put in a book, called the book
of life.
215 You notice, in Daniel, when he come to
"the Ancient of Days, Whose hair was as white as wool. Ten thousand times ten thousands came with Him, to minister to Him;
the--the Bride. And then the books were opened." "And another Book was opened, which was
the Book of Life." See? There is saints already there, the Church, the
Bride. "Another Book was opened, which was the
Book of Life."
NOW, YOU, BUT WHEN YOU WERE SEPARATED
FROM THAT UNION, BY SPIRITUAL DEATH.
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Now, you, but when you were
separated from that union, by spiritual death. Your natural desire
is to cut your hair. Your natural desire is to wear shorts, paint your face.
Your natural desire is to be intellectual, smart man, know something better
than the other. That's what Eve wanted. That's the very thing she wanted.
217 "Well, say! You little two bit,
two-by-four preacher, stand up there and tell me? I've got a Ph.D., LL."
That just makes you farther away from God, every time you add one thing. See?
See? That's right. It's true. See?
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That's what Eve took. She was
pregnated with that kind of a pregnation. That's what the church is
today, by Bible schools and intellectuals. And, look, every one disagreeing
with the other, a big mess just exactly what the Bible said, "Babylon."
THE BRIDE KNOWS WHERE SHE STANDS. SHE
IS VERY FEW.
219 The
Bride knows where She stands. She is very few. There won't be many saved; just
a very, very, very few. You say, "Well, there, said,
'thousands.'" Yes. But they've come up through the two thousand years,
too, on every age where It come out. Ever...
220 Luther's age and that group; and then died
off, and they went, denominated; then Wesley; and then come pentecostals, and
so forth. All the little out branches of Baptists, Presbyterian, Methodists,
Nazarenes, Pilgrim Holiness, and so forth, see, all those branched off from
there like the leaf.
WHEN IT WENT DOWN; AND THE GRAIN
BEGIN TO RIPEN. YOU FIND, BEFORE THAT GRAIN CAN RIPEN, EVERYTHING IN THAT STALK
HAS TO BE DEAD.
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But,
remember, when it went down; and the grain begin to ripen. You find, before
that grain can ripen, everything in that stalk has to be dead.
Hallelujah! Can't you see where we're standing? Life
is in the grain again. What is it? Just exactly like the same grain that went in the ground, the same
Jesus in the Bride form, same power, same Church, same thing, same Word.
The same Word
sucked up through these and come out here, and come to a head here.
And all that Life that come through
here, picked up its people. Now it's forming up into a
head, for the Rapture. Speaking on that tomorrow night, or next
night, one, the Lord willing.
NOW
YOU ARE BORN AGAIN, OR REMARRIED AGAIN, TO THE NEW SPIRITUAL UNION…
222 Well, you separated from your first union,
by spiritual death. Now you are born again, or remarried
again, to the new spiritual union; of not your natural life of the things of
the world, but of Eternal Life. That germ that was in you at the
beginning, found you.
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Now, your old book is gone, with
your old union. Now, your name in your old, in your... has been transferred.
Now, you say, "Do you mean to tell me that my old book..." God put it in
the Sea of His Forgetfulness. You stand perfectly before God.
YOUR
NEW LIFE IS IN THE LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE, YOUR MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
224 Now,
your name is now in the new Book; not the book of life, but the Lamb's Book of
Life, what the Lamb redeemed. Not
the old book of your natural union, but your new, Bride. Hallelujah! Your new life is
in the Lamb's Book of Life, your marriage certificate, hallelujah, where your
true Eternal germ, from the beginning, takes hold. Now you're not only forgiven, but you're
justified. Glory!
"Justified," Romans 5:1 said. Yeah. Romans 5:1 said, "Therefore being justified by faith."
IN
GOD'S BOOK OF THE SEA OF FORGETFULNESS, YOUR OLD BOOK AND MARRIAGE IS DIVORCED
AND DEAD.
225
Look up the word. The word
don't mean forgiven. The word
means justified. It don't mean you're forgiven.
226 For instance, you heard I got drunk
and--and done some evil things, and everything. Then you come around, say to
me. You found out I didn't do them, then you come around, say, "Brother
Branham, I forgive you." Forgive me? I didn't do it, at the first place.
See?
227 Now, if I did do it, I'm guilty. But you
could forgive me, and I wouldn't be guilty. But yet I'm not justified, because
I actually done it.
228 But
the word, justified, is though you never done it. Amen. It's not even regarded, at all. How is
it done? In
God's Book of the Sea of Forgetfulness, your old book and marriage is divorced
and dead. It's not even
in the memories of God. Amen. You are justified. "Therefore being
justified." It was accused. You was accused. You never done it, in
the first place. The old union is in
the Sea of God's Forgetfulness. You wasn't married to it, to begin with.
He, the Bridegroom, bore your shame,
Himself, for you, in your place. He took your place, for you were predestinated for Him, to be
in His Bride, before the foundation of the world. The Bible said
so. You are the predestinated Seed.
THAT
LITTLE GERM THAT WAS IN YOU, WAS TO BE YOU, BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.
GOD PUT YOUR NAME IN THE LAMB'S BOOK OF LIFE.
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How did you come to do this? You
were deceived into it by your first marriage, to your adulterous parent, Eve.
It's no fault of your own. By your natural birth, you come after
Eve, who committed adultery. That's the reason you was born an
adulteress. You're a sinner, to begin with. That's right. You was deceived into it. You had no... No, you, it ain't your
fault.
230 You
never did it. Because, that little germ that was in you, was to be you,
before the foundation of the world. God put your name in the
Lamb's Book of Life.
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