22-1128P_LIFE Pt-5 (IDENTIFIED BY BELIEVING IT, IT GIVES CREDENTIALS OF IDENTIFICATION)

Luk 14:16  Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: 

Luk 14:17  And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. 

Luk 14:18  And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. 

Luk 14:19  And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused. 

Luk 14:20  And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. 

Luk 14:21  So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. 

Luk 14:22  And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. 

Luk 14:23  And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 

*AND A LIFE THAT DOESN'T FOLLOW CHRIST, DAILY, IS NOT WORTHY.

IS.YOUR.LIFE.WORTHY.OF.THE.GOSPEL_  JEFF.IN  V-5 N-5  SUNDAY_  63-0630E

76    We cannot do that. We've got to follow, every day, every hour of the day, every step of the way. We've got to be led by the Lord Jesus Christ. If we don't, we take an organizational life. And a life that doesn't follow Christ, daily, is not worthy.

  77      A man that's a Christian on Sunday, and goes to church, sets back there and thinks he owns the church because he does this, that, or the other, and on Monday will steal and lie. And women that'll go out on the public beaches, and--and out upon the streets, with immoral clothes on!

78    I thought of--of the first lady, wouldn't even put on makeup, to go before the pope; and come back, and set a waterhead haircut spree for the women in the nation. And all these dresses, that, when she's become mother, every woman in the country wants to wear one of them mother-type dresses now. That's right. It's examples. And they know that those people would do that. They take on a spirit of the world. And that don't belong in the Church of the living God.

79    Women ought to look to Jesus Christ. You ought to look to Sarah and them of the Old Testament.

*BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.

IS.YOUR.LIFE.WORTHY.OF.THE.GOSPEL_  JEFF.IN  V-5 N-5  SUNDAY_  63-0630E

  103      I heard a fellow say, not long ago... Well, he was kind of... He was Hope's stepfather. And I was telling him about the baptism the Holy Spirit. He said, "Now, who would believe a thing like that, 'less some kind of a bunch like you got up there?" He said, "You let So-and-so, a businessman here in the town, wicked as all, let him say that he received the Holy Ghost, then I'd believe it."

104    I said, "Don't worry. You'll never say it." The man died instantly, without God. See?

You be careful what you're doing. Be careful what you're saying. You want a life worthy of the Gospel. Right.

*AND YOU'RE IDENTIFIED BY BELIEVING IT, AND IT GIVES YOU YOUR CREDENTIALS OF IDENTIFICATION.

That Word is the Truth. Right. And the Spirit of God will recognize His Own Writing. He's identified by His Writing. It--It--It speaks of Him. And you're identified by believing It, and It gives you your credentials of identification.

156    Don't fuss with others. And don't--and don't have these family fusses, as I said. Love breeds love. And temper breeds temper.

*THE REAL WAY, IS, GOD BEING THE KING, AND GOD SENDS A PROPHET. 

IS.YOUR.LIFE.WORTHY.OF.THE.GOSPEL_  JEFF.IN  V-5 N-5  SUNDAY_  63-0630E

  134      The real way, is, God being the King, and God sends a prophet. Didn't Samuel tell them before they ever got a king? He said, "God is your King. Have I ever told you anything in the Name of the Lord but what come to pass?"

They said, "No. That's right."

"Have I ever bummed you for your living?"

"No. You never did bum us for a living."

"I've never told you nothing but what was right, before the Lord." Said, "God is your King."

135    "Oh, we realize that. And we know you're a good man, Samuel. We believe the Word of the Lord comes to you, but we want a king, anyhow." See? That's what they get.

136    Pentecost wanted an organization, anyhow. It got it. That's right. Wanted to be like the rest the churches. You are. Go ahead, that, that's just what it takes. But God is our King. God is our King. Yes, sir.

*LIKE THEY DID IN THE DAYS OF CHRIST, LIKE THEY HAVE IN EVERY AGE, THEY FIND AN EXCUSE. THEY HAVE THEIR OWN CREEDS.

IS.YOUR.LIFE.WORTHY.OF.THE.GOSPEL_  JEFF.IN  V-5 N-5  SUNDAY_  63-0630E

  137      What is it? Is because that the people, like they did in the days of Christ, like they have in every age, they find an excuse. They have their own creeds. You might not want to say, "I--I bought a cow, and I got to go see whether she--she will work or not, or give milk, or--or what stock she is." You might not have that excuse.

But here is the kind excuse the people may say. "I'm a Presbyterian. We don't believe in That. I'm Baptist. We don't believe in no such stuff as That. Well, I'm a Lutheran." Well, that don't have anything to do with It. That don't mean you're a Christian. That means that you belong to a bunch of people that's organized. And you belong to the Lutheran lodge, the Baptist lodge, the Pentecostal lodge. There is no such a thing as Pentecostal Church. There is no such a thing as Baptist Church. It's Baptist lodge, Pentecostal lodge, Presbyterian lodge.

*THE NEW BIRTH IS THE ONLY THING THAT WILL PRODUCE RELATIONSHIP TO GOD.

But there's only one Church. And there's only one way you can get into It, and that's by Birth. You're born into the Church of Jesus Christ, and a member of His Body, of the spiritual delegation of Heaven. Then the signs, that Christ is with you, lives through you.

IS.YOUR.LIFE.WORTHY.OF.THE.GOSPEL_  JEFF.IN  V-5 N-5  SUNDAY_  63-0630E

  138      Christians, oh, you must have a personal relationship to God. In order to be a son of God, you must become relation to God. He must be your Father, in order for you to be a son. And only His sons and daughters are saved, not the members of a church, but sons and daughters. There's only one thing that will produce that, that's the new Birth. The new Birth is the only thing that will produce relationship to God. That right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Sons and daughters. Then when this takes place, then the men...

*IF YOU ARE BORN AGAIN, YOU'RE ENTIRE NATURE IS CHANGED… IF THE VERY GOD, IF HIS LIFE IS IN YOU, LIKE YOU'RE IN THE LIFE OF YOUR FATHER.

139    Here's the question I want to get to you. The man says, "What do we do then after we been born again?" So many ask me that question. "What should I do then, Brother Branham?" If you are born again, you're entire nature is changed. You are dead to the things you once thought.

IS.YOUR.LIFE.WORTHY.OF.THE.GOSPEL_  JEFF.IN  V-5 N-5  SUNDAY_  63-0630E

  140      "Well," you say, "Brother Branham, when I joined church, I got that."

Well, then, when, God said, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He still heals the sick. He still shows vision."

"But, Brother Branham, my church!" Now, you're not born again. See? You can't be; for, if the very God, if His Life is in you, like you're in the life of your father. And if the very Life of God is in you, the very Spirit that was in Christ, in you, how can the Spirit live in Jesus Christ and write This, and then come back down in you and deny That? See? Can't do it. It'll punctuate every Word to be so.

AND GOD IS IDENTIFIED BY HIS GREAT CHARACTERISTIC, THAT, "HE CANNOT CHANGE."

47    We got women today that wants to be man. They dress like them, but they're still... Watch them walk and what they do, they're still... Their characteristic shows that they are women, yet, just the same, see, because it's just that way. We'll get to that later. But, however, we're on something else right now.

Remember, you are identified by characteristic.

THE.IDENTIFIED.CHRIST.OF.ALL.AGES_  LOUISVILLE.MS  WEDNESDAY_  64-0401

  48      And God is identified by His great characteristic, that, "He cannot change." He said, in Malachi 3:6, "I am God, and I change not." See? He absolutely doesn't change. His characteristics are the same.

49    Each time He appeared on the earth, at the end of an age, He always sent a man and anoint him with the Holy Ghost, Christ. The Holy Ghost is Christ, "the anointed," the Logos, and It went out, and It comes to identify the--the Words of that age. "The Word of the Lord comes to the prophets," the Bible said so, and identifies that age. See, He does nothing outside of man. Now He can't do it in a group. You can't do it. It just never has been done. He never did use a group; never did. He uses one single person. You're not...

Isa 54:6  For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. 

Isa 54:7  For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. 

Isa 54:8  In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer. 

Isa 54:9  For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. 

Isa 54:10  For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee. 

Isa 54:11  O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. 

Isa 54:12  And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. 

Isa 54:13  And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children. 

Isa 54:14  In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee. 

Isa 54:15  Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake. 

Isa 54:16  Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. 

Isa 54:17  No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.