23-0707A_THE GREATEST BATTLE EVER FOUGHT
1Pe 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
1Pe 5:9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
1Pe 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
1Pe 5:11 To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
THE GREATEST BATTLE EVER
FOUGHT JEFFERSONVILLE IN 62-0311
171 V-3 N-11
13-1 This great first battle that was ever fought begin in heaven when Michael and his Angels fought against Lucifer and his angels. It first started--the first battle was in heaven, so sin did not originate on earth; it originated in h
eaven. And then it was thrown down from
heaven, cast out of heaven to the earth and fell on human beings. Then the
battle from Angels become human battles. And Satan come to destroy God's
creation. What God had created to be for Hisself, he had (Satan), come to
destroy this. That's what his purpose was, was to destroy it.
Then the battle begin here on earth and begin in us, and it's been raging ever since.
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13-4 And in this, there's a--a
mutual ground, "no-man's-land," and they fight here at this place.
They just don't one fight over here, and one down here, and one right over
here; there's a battle front where they meet and test their powers, where each
army tests its strength against the other army--a mutual meeting place.
Now, don't get--miss this. When
this great battle started on earth, there had to be a mutual meeting place;
there had to be a place selected for the battle to begin, and for the battle to
rage; and that battlegrounds begin in the human mind. There's where the battle
starts. The human mind was chosen for the place of the battle, where it was to
begin; and that is, because that decisions are made from the mind, the head.
Now, they never started it from
some organization; they never started it from some mechanical affair; the
grounds never started there; therefore, that organization can never, never do
the work of God, because the battlegrounds, where you've got to meet your
enemy, is in the mind. You've got to make your choice. It meets you.
I want this little girl here that's very sick to be sure to listen now to this real closely.
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14-2 Decisions are made in the
mind, the head. There's where Satan meets you. And the decisions are, because
that God made a man that way. Now, I have... If you was looking on my note
here, a little map drawed out. I had it here not long ago on--used on the
board.
The human being is made up just
like a grain of wheat. It's a seed, and the human being is a seed. Physically
you're the seed of your father and mother, and the life come from the father,
the pulp come from the mother. So the two together, the egg and the--the blood
comes together, and in the blood cell is life, and in there it begins to
develop making the--the child.
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14-5 Now, if you'll set down when
you get home and draw three little rings, you'll find out that the outside body
has five senses it's contacted by, and that is see, taste, feel, smell, hear;
that's the five senses that control the human body. Inside of the body is a
soul, and that soul is controlled by imaginations, conscience, memory, reasons,
and affections; that's the thing that controls the soul. But the spirit, it's
only has one sense--the spirit. Oh, let's get it! The spirit has one sense, and
that sense is--either dominates it, is faith or doubt. That's exactly. And
there's only one avenue to it, that's free moral agency. You can accept doubt
or you can accept faith, either one you want to work on.
Therefore, Satan begin at the principal part to cause the spirit of man to doubt God's Word. God begin at the principal part to lay His Word in that spirit. There you are, that's what does it.
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15-2 If this church right now could be put together and knitted together with such, that every person would be in one accord, with not one shadow of doubt anywhere, there would not be a feeble person in our midst in another five minutes; there would not be nobody here desiring the Holy Ghost, but what would receive It. If you could just get that certain thing fixed.
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15-3 Now, there's where the
battle begins--right in your mind, whether you will... Now, you remember, it's
not Christian Science now, mind over matter; that hasn't... The mind accepts
the Life which is the Word of God, and there brings the Life. Just your thought
doesn't do it, but the Word of God brought in the channel of your thought. See?
It's not the thought, as Christian Science make it, mind over matter. No. That
isn't it. But your mind accepts it and grasp it. What is your mind controlled
by? Your spirit; and your spirit catches the Word of God, and that's the thing
that's got Life in it. It brings Life into you.
Oh, brother, when that takes place, when Life comes down that channel into you, the Word of God is manifested in you. "If ye abide in Me and My words abide in you, then ask what you will and it'll be done for you."
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15-5 Then what does that do? From the middle of the heart, which is the soul, from there goes forth, feeding every channel. The trouble of it is we're standing in here with a lot of doubt trying to accept what's out there. You've got to stop that and come down that channel with the true Word of God, and then it goes out, itself, automatically. It's what's on the inside. That's the thing that counts, is the inside. Satan's approach is from the inside.
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77 You know, people want power, and really they
don't know what power is. See, they--they don't really know what--what--what
goes with it. The--the way up is down, always. If you want power, see how
humble you can get. Just get away from all your worldly thinking, and humble
yourself before God, and then you've got more power than the man that runs all
over the building and makes a big lot of noise; see, because you have been able
to conquer yourself, and commit yourself to Christ, you see, to humble yourself
before Him. That's really power.
78 You show me a church that's humble, real humble, not a--a arrogancy; a church, just a sweet, humble church, I'll show you a church that has the favor and power of God in it. That's right. That's the thing it takes, humility, humbling ourselves before God, letting God just work through us. Don't have to make a lot of noise.
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81 Above all things, it's our
individual souls that we're responsible before God. See, it--it's you going to
Heaven. It isn't whether I go, or he goes. It's you going, see, and you first.
And you've got to look this out and come sweet before the Lord.
82 And I've always found out that the man that
humbles himself is the man that God exalts. When you take a person with his
chest out and knows everything, and you can't tell him nothing, and he is
arrogant, and--and, well, that--that's the person that never gets anywhere. But
you take that person that humbles themself and walks sweetly.
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I've often said, "The
greatest enemy I got is William Branham." He's the one that gets in God's
way. He's the one that gets lazy. He's the one that gets to a place sometimes
where he thinks he can do something about it, and when he does, that shoves God
right out of the picture. But when I can get rid of that guy, when I can get to
a place that he's out of the way, then God can come over and do things that
William Branham knows nothing about.
That's when God can use you. That's when He can use any of you. He can use anybody when we get out of the way. But as long as we got ourselves in the way, then we cannot. All right.
PROVING HIS WORD
260 Now to heal, I cannot, you know that. "What is a gift, Brother Branham, something that you take?" No. It's something you know how to get yourself out of the way. See? As long as you are there, it'll never work. William Branham is the greatest enemy I got. See? But when I get him out of the way, see, then Jesus Christ can use the body. See? See, now, I come to that woman. Now what? Now say if--if she--if she was sick.
YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN
Still with tempers, still mean, arrogant, somebody say something about you, you right up ready to fight, then borned of the Spirit of God? No. God's Spirit don't do like that. No. God's Spirit is humble, meek, sweet, long-suffering. That's God. loving, kind, forgiving, that's God's Spirit. Oh, yes.
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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.
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