23-0306P_HE SWORE BY HIMSELF PT-4 (SETTLED IT FROM ETERNITY TO ETERNITY)

Heb 6:9  But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. 

Heb 6:10  For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. 

Heb 6:11  And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: 

Heb 6:12  That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 

Heb 6:13  For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, 

Heb 6:14  Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 

Heb 6:15  And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 

Heb 6:16  For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 

Heb 6:17  Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: 

Heb 6:18  That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 

Ecc 3:14  I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him. 

Isa 45:5  I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: 

Isa 45:6  That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. 

Isa 45:7  I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. 

Isa 45:8  Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it. 

Isa 45:9  Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? 

Isa 45:10  Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth? 

Isa 45:11  Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me. 

Isa 45:12  I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. 

Isa 45:13  I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts. 

Isa 45:14  Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God. 

Isa 45:15  Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour. 

Isa 45:16  They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols. 

Isa 45:17  But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end. 

Isa 45:18  For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else. 

Isa 45:19  I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right. 

Isa 45:20  Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save. 

Isa 45:21  Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. 

Isa 45:22  Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. 

Isa 45:23  I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. 

Isa 45:24  Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. 

Isa 45:25  In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory. 

Rom 8:1  There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 

Rom 8:2  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 

Isa 50:2  Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst. 

Isa 50:3  I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. 

Isa 50:4  The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. 

Isa 50:5  The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. 

Isa 50:6  I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. 

Isa 55:6  Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: 

Isa 55:7  Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 

Isa 55:8  For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. 

Isa 55:9  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 

Isa 55:10  For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 

Isa 55:11  So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. 

Isa 55:12  For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. 

Isa 55:13  Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. 

*WHEN CHRIST DIED, THAT SETTLED IT FROM ETERNITY TO ETERNITY.

HE.SWORE.BY.HIMSELF_  JEFF.IN  V-26 N-11  SUNDAY_  54-1212

  67    What do you think they went, when they went to their grave looking there? No wonder David said, "My flesh will rest in hope. For He'll not suffer His holy One to see corruption, neither will He... He'll not suffer His soul to be in hell; neither will He suffer His Holy One to see corruption. Wherefore was my heart made to rejoice, and my tongue was glad." David foresaw it in the shadow and rejoiced, because he knowed when Christ died, that settled it from eternity to eternity. Amen. It was all over then.

Isaiah said there'll be a time where there'd be healing. Talk about healing? Said, "He was wounded for our transgressions, and with His stripes we were healed."

How you going to take it out of the Scriptures? You can't do it, brother. You just might knock at it, and fight at it, and everything else, but It'll move right on just the same. Through ceaseless ages and aeons of time, it'll still go on.

*BRIDE OF CHRIST, SEEN HIM STANDING IN THE SEVEN GOLDEN CANDLESTICKS, AND THE FEET WAS MADE OF BRASS.

Revelations 1, Jesus was seen, or the Church, rather, of the Bride of Christ, seen Him standing in the Seven Golden Candlesticks, and the feet was made of brass. Which brass is the Divine judgment of the Church, out upon the world. See? The Divine judgment...

***THERE'S NO WAY OF PREACHING THE GOSPEL WITHOUT DIVINE HEALING. 

HE.SWORE.BY.HIMSELF_  JEFF.IN  V-26 N-11  SUNDAY_  54-1212

  55    The serpent, the brass, speaking of it... Now, watch. It was lifted up, and on the pole represented the cross. Now, three things. Now, watch. It was lifted up for what purpose? That they would be forgiven of their snake, or forgiven of their sins, and healed of their snakebites. Is that right? And ever who looked, lived; who refused to look, died. Now, you cannot deal with sin in no way; you can't deal with sin in any way, without dealing with Divine healing. You just can't do it. There's no way of preaching the Gospel without Divine healing. You can't do it. That's right.

Now, looky here. For instance, if here was a man, and he was standing here, and he was just a hitting me as hard as he could with his fist, well now, to get rid of that man hitting me with the fist, is not necessary to cut his arm off. See? Or maybe he's kicking me with his foot. There's no need of cutting his foot off. Now, the only thing to do is kill the man from the head. Is that right? If you kill the head, you kill the arm, you kill the foot, and you kill all the rest of--of the body (Is that right?) if you kill it from the head.

***SO GOD, HAVING NO OTHER TO SWEAR BY, HE SWORE BY HIMSELF, AND HE TOOK THE OATH OVER THE BODY OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, FORESEEING IT IN A SHADOW.

E-23    Abraham was an old man, a hundred years old, when God appeared to him in the Name of Almighty God. The "Almighty" there comes from the Hebrew word of the "El Shaddai" which means the bosom or breast of a woman. Now, he was old; his strength was gone. But El Shaddai is the Almighty, the strength Giver. And all Abraham had to do to obtain this promise was lay right on that promise, other words, like the baby to it's mother, and nurse from the mother, strength for the baby.

And we do the same thing when we come to God and see His promise. We just lay right to Him and draw from His Word the strength of God, given in its course, not taking our own mind; just believing it. "After He had endured, he obtained the promise." Oh, I just love that!

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  E-24    Now, the same thing works for salvation; same does it work for Divine healing. How God in His great love and infinite mercy give it to us. Now:

... saying: Surely I will bless thee and will multiply thee.

And so, after he had patiently endured, he endured... the promise.

 (Sixteenth verse:) For men verily swear by a greater, and a oath is confirmation (confirmed) is to them an end of all strife.

In other words if the oath is sworn, then that's the end of all things. If you come and say, "Brother Branham, I'll, as a Christian, put my hand upon the Bible and solemnly swear that I'll do a certain thing, if God will let me live to do it, I'll do it." All right. Then to me that's the end of all doubting. See? You have swore to me you that you'd do it.

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  E-25    And God swore to Abraham that He would keep this covenant with him and with his seed forever. God swore by Himself that He would do it. And in doing so, under the old law, when you made an oath under the old law, you killed a animal, cut it in two. And then, the two men on which the oath was taken by, stood between the animal, and they wrote out on a piece of paper a certain contract. And that piece of paper was torn apart and given to one and the other man, and they took a oath over this dead animal that if they broke that covenant between them, let them be as this dead animal.

So God, having no other to swear by, He swore by Himself, and He took the oath over the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, foreseeing it in a shadow. And in the covenant when He took Christ to Calvary, He tore His body and soul apart. And He lifted up His body to set on His right hand and sent back the Holy Spirit to be in the Christian, to do the same thing here in the church that He did in Christ when He was here on earth, and proving by that, that He will raise us up in the last days to set with Him and be with Him in His kingdom.

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  E-26    And today, to see the same Holy Spirit that was upon Jesus Christ, working in the church, confirming everything that God said, what a marvelous hope it builds up in us to think that we are His children, and blessed of His Presence, and now He's here with us as a infallible proof that He is the Lord God Who made the promise to Abraham. Now, listen to the 17th verse:

Wherein God willing, more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise, the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

That by the immutable thing... which is impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.

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  E-27    What a marvelous promise! Two immutable things: God cannot lie and be God. Now, if God has made a promise in His Bible here... We believe the Bible to be the infallible Word of God. And if God has made a promise in this Bible, we have this consolation and know that it's impossible for God to lie. Therefore, when we see He promised it in the Bible, we believe it soul, body, and spirit. It's impossible for Him to lie.

Now, if there's any fault, it's in us, not in God; for God is obligated to His Word, for He's sworn by His Word. Oh, my. I'm sure when we get to seeing it in that light, things begin to shape up and heap up different than what they used to be.

Healing of the body doesn't become a fiction, it becomes a reality. The baptism of the Holy Spirit doesn't become any emotional, worked-up substance. It becomes a reality of the indwelling Presence of the Lord Jesus Christ to change the life.

Psa 119:86  All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. 

Psa 119:87  They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts. 

Psa 119:88  Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth. 

Psa 119:89  LAMED. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. 

Psa 119:90  Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. 

Psa 119:91  They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants. 

Psa 119:92  Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. 

Psa 119:93  I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me. 

Psa 119:94  I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts. 

Psa 119:95  The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies. 

Psa 119:96  I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad. 

Psa 119:97  MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. 

Psa 119:98  Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. 

Psa 119:99  I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. 

Psa 119:100  I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. 

Psa 119:101  I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. 

Psa 119:102  I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. 

Psa 119:103  How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 

Psa 119:104  Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. 

Psa 119:105  NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. 

Psa 119:106  I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments. 

Psa 119:107  I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word. 

Psa 119:108  Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments. 

Psa 119:109  My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law. 

Psa 119:110  The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts. 

Psa 119:111  Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart. 

Psa 119:112  I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.