23-0630A_THE CHOOSING OF A BRIDE Pt-10 (IT'S GOD CHOOSING YOU)
Gen 24:12 And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.
Gen 24:13 Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
Gen 24:14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.
Gen 24:15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
Gen 24:16 And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.
Gen 24:17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
Gen 24:18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
*IT'S GOD CHOOSING YOU. IT'S AN INDIVIDUAL
AFFAIR WITH EVERY PERSON.
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God elected and chose Abraham. It
wasn't Abraham choosing God; it was God choosing Abraham. Can you see
it? And now watch. Now, as it was then, so is it today. It isn't you choosing
God; it's God choosing you.
44 Now, this may be very strong, and I want you to notice. Immediately after choice, election, it's separation from everything else, as soon as He calls. He elects, calls; then when He calls, He separates you from everything that hangs on to you. That proves that it isn't a denomination. It isn't two or three people together. He expects every individual. Amen. It's an individual affair with every person.
*IT'S BECAUSE GOD CHOSE ME IN CHRIST.
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45 It isn't because my mother there is saved, that I'm saved. It's because God chose me in Christ. I want you to see it.
Not you choosing yourself, not your choice, how much you prayed, when you
turned a new page. You had nothing to do with it. God... Oh, my, when you get
to see what's Truth... You say, "You mean that--that I--I didn't
turn to the Lord?" No, sir. You had no way at all
of turning to the Lord. Your whole nature, your whole makeup was against
God. God called you. It's always been that way.
46 In the garden of Eden when man sinned, first, look at the nature of a
sinner: hiding. But it should have been Adam calling God; it was Adam hiding,
and God calling Adam. You see it? That's the nature of
a sinner, hide, run away, get behind something. But God calling... Oh, my.
Grace, amazing grace, God calling.
And now notice, you say, "Oh, that was Adam and
Eve."
It's always, through the Bible, the same. Jesus said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him." Is that right? Now, that's the Word. And that's the way we want it, the Word, then you know where you're standing.
*IT'S AN INDIVIDUAL AFFAIR WITH EVERY INDIVIDUAL…UNTIL
YOU ARE A WITNESS OF THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST BY THE INFILLING OF THE
POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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No matter how much you go to church, how well your name
is engraved on its stained windows, or whatmore, or on its book, it'll never
mean nothing to you, until you are a witness of the resurrection of Jesus
Christ by the infilling of the power of the Holy Spirit. You
are taking somebody else's word. Why, I'd say...
"Well, Brother Branham, I know that Jesus is the Christ, 'cause the Bible said so." The Bible is right, but what do you know about it? See? It's an individual affair with every individual. It must be a personal witness that every person must have in order to know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, is when His Spirit bears record with your spirit, in the Spirit of the new birth, borned again and you cry, "Abba, Father."
*IT'S NOT A CHURCH AFFAIR. IT'S AN INDIVIDUAL AFFAIR.
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15 One of the biggest failures in the world is the church. That's--that's right. Churches has miserably failed. Everything's failed. "But we receive a Kingdom which will not fail: Jesus Christ." It cannot fail. And we're so happy for that, that it's not a church affair. It's an individual affair. It's not whether my church is saved; it's whether I am saved. It isn't whether my deacon's saved, or my pastor's saved, or my mother's saved; it's whether I am saved or not, myself, I must be saved. Then I must tell them. And then, if they're saved, wonderful; if they're not, I must still remain saved. That's... I must retain my salvation. Oh, what a wonderful day.
*SPIRIT OF THE CREATOR HIMSELF COMES INTO
THE INDIVIDUAL AND CLAIMS RELATIONSHIP AS SONSHIP.
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E-28 It's time to clean out and get a hold of something, or somebody who's been in contact with the Lord Jesus Christ, and been borned again. You'll never be able to get them believing the supernatural, 'cause there's nothing in them to believe with. Amen. Now, that's not skim milk. Look, that's right. A man must be borned again by the Spirit of God, and then the [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Spirit of the Creator Himself comes into the individual and claims relationship as sonship. You see it? Then that person is an offspring of God, and God Who spoke the worlds into existence, and this man's an offspring off Him. He can believe anything. All things are possible unto him, for he believes he's a part of God. He's a son of God or a daughter of God.
*IS THE LOVE OF GOD IN THAT CHURCH, THE
LOVE OF GOD THAT'S IN YOU. NO MATTER WHAT YOUR CHURCH IS, IT'S WHAT YOU ARE
BEFORE GOD.
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Listen, let me tell you friends, the time is at hand. I
believe with all my heart. And that's the reason I must preach this a way. I
must, because God's going to hold me responsible. If you believe me to be a
servant of God, if you believe me to be truly from God, then you believe me
tonight. I've told you the truth.
I might've hurt you in your creeds. I don't have nothing against any church. Whether it's any church, I don't care what it is, what name it's got, doesn't matter. But what I'm talking about, is the love of God in that church, the love of God that's in you. No matter what your church is, it's what you are before God. It's an individual affair. You start, and your church will follow you.
*GOD DOES THE CHOOSING, BECAUSE GOD LOOKS
ON THE HEART.
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E-13 And when little old David come
in, sheepskin coat on, little crook in his hand, shepherd's staff, the Holy
Ghost said, "Go anoint him, for that's My choice." See? God does the choosing,
because God looks on the heart.
Sometimes that we think is a
great churches, with the great spires, and the million dollar organ setting in
it, that's where God is. Not all the time, that isn't true. God chooses a humble
heart. I don't care if he is so poor he has to wear overalls, or if he is
beggar in the street, if he's humble and willing to believe God, God will take
him. That's just all there is to it. Amen.
E-14 Abraham, just an ordinary man, God called him one day and said, "Abraham, I'm going to take you and make you a father of nations, and you're going to have a baby by Sarah."
*HE REGULATES THE CHURCH, THE
PREDESTINATED, THE BRIDE, TO MEET THE SEASON THAT THEY ARE LIVING IN.
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40 Like the heat of the sun, to
open up. When it's tender and young, bring it out of the ground, the seed; then
give it its leaves, in another stage of the sun. Hot sun will kill it if it's
the ripening seed... or ripening time. So, He regulates the sun and
regulates nature, to meet His Word.
He regulates the Church, the predestinated, the
Bride, to meet the season that they are living in.
41 Even nature itself tells us
today, as we see the nations breaking, the earth sinking in, the handwriting is
on the wall. We see the church and the states it's in.
We see the Bride and the state She is in. And we
know, by nature, that the Church is getting ready to leave. What
a glorious time! It's a time that all the prophets longed to see, this hour.
43 God reveals this Word in the season, and to whom He chooses to reveal It to. God chooses who He reveals It to. He chose that before the foundation of the world. All of His doings were foreknown by Him, hidden from man. He just reveals them as He will. It is His chosen season, His chosen person. And He never did choose a party or sect; it's a chosen person, how He does it.
*OUT OF WEAKNESS AND HUMILITY GOD CHOOSES
THE PEOPLE TO BUILD HIS KINGDOM OUT OF.
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118 Here's something to console us. Here's something that encourages. Out of weakness and
humility God chooses the people to build His Kingdom out of. If
we ever get to heaven, if we ever stand in the Presence of God with His Church, we'll stand in a bunch
of people that's been weak and rejected and cast out by the world, and
know-it-nothings.
Isn't it strange that God likened us to sheep? A sheep is the most helpless thing there is. There's nothing so insufficient of defense than the sheep. A rabbit can run; a squirrel can get in a tree; a dog can bite; a lion can tear; a horse can kick; a bird can fly; but a sheep stands helpless. That's the way God wants us. Realize that we are totally insufficient, then God takes that person and begins to mold Himself into that person: make his hands do what God would have hands to do, make his lips speak what God's lips would speak; because they're not his; they're God's. He begins to build a character, begins to take this weakness and to make His Ownself.
*A PREDESTINATED BRIDE OF JESUS CHRIST
THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS CALLED OUT, THE ELECT.
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22-3 Now, see, the faith, these five
streams... I had a piece of chalk here, but I guess he never brought it out.
But the five streams you see coming down through here tempers this together.
It's been the Holy Spirit that made the Ephesus church. It was the Holy Spirit
that birthed the Smyrnaean church. It was the Holy Spirit that give the
Pergamos church, and the Thyatira church in the Dark Ages. It's the Holy Spirit
that's built that Bride, that Elect that's pulled out of all the organization
systems down through the ages like that. And there's a elected, a predestinated
Bride of Jesus Christ that the Holy Spirit has called out, the Elect. And it's
been the Holy Ghost in this age, that age, that age, that, that,
that, that, that on up to the top: the Holy Spirit.
And now, as in the individuals, these virtues and things are (knowledge and temperance)--is added to our faith, then when the Capstone comes, the Holy spirit cements it together; There's the baptism of the Holy Spirit. That's why it's so short today.
* HE'S LOOKING FOR THE DAY FOR THAT BRIDE TO BE FORMED, HEBREWS 13:8, JUST
EXACTLY LIKE IT WAS, LIKE HE WAS.
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185 He's looking for her character, the character of Christ. Now, just a moment now. That's it. He chooses a Bride to reflect His character, to which the modern churches of today certainly misses His--His program here, a million miles, 'cause they deny This to be the Truth. So how could it be? Now, He's looking for the day for that Bride to be formed, Hebrews 13:8, just exactly like It was, like He was. It's got to be His same flesh, same bones, same Spirit, same everything, just exactly built up, and them two then become one. Until the church becomes that, they're not one. The character of Him, the Word, for this age, must be molded. She must be molded like He is.
Joh 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Joh 17:4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
Joh 17:5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Joh 17:6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
Joh 17:7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
Joh 17:8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
Joh 17:9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
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