23-1013A_INVESTMENTS PT-3 (POLICY HOLDERS OF ETERNAL LIFE)
*POLICY HOLDERS OF THIS ETERNAL LIFE AND SEE WHAT IT COST THEM, HOLDERS
OF THE ETERNAL WORD.
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145 But look here. This is first, of course, the Word of God. Now let us
examine some of the policy holders of this Eternal Life
and see what it cost them, holders of the Eternal Word.
146 Now, "Brother Branham, you said, 'Eternal Word.'" Yes, sir.
147 Eternal never did begin. Eternal has no end. And a word is a thought
expressed. That was God's thinking before there was a world, or a star, a moon,
or anything. That was God's thinking, what He would do. And when He spoke the Word, it's Eternal, because He can produce nothing
but something Eternal. That's the only way we have Eternal Life, is when
we get rid of this perverted life and get Eternal Life. That's God, Zoe, the Word right in you. And then the Word comes right
through you and manifests Itself.
148 And that's what this rich fellow seen, that
this Jesus could stand there and He identified the Scriptures.
149 Jesus said, Himself, "If I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me. Search the Scriptures, for in Them you think you have Eternal Life, and They are They what say Who I am. They're the One that testify of Me." See? But they had it so creeded up, like we have today, till they couldn't see It.
*NOAH WAS CALLED BY THE WORD OF GOD, AND
HE TOOK OUT AN INVESTMENT IN GOD… AND IT PAID OFF, AT THE END TIME, BY SAVING
HIS LIFE.
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150 Now watch. Noah was called by the Word of God, and he took out an
investment in God, God's Word of promise. He purposed, no matter how--how bad
it looked, and how much the rest the world didn't believe it, Noah made that
investment. He invested in God, though it was contrary to science. We
could stay there a long time.
151 Lord willing, I
want to preach on "the countdown," Sunday afternoon, see where we're
living. All right.
152 Notice, he, it contrary to their religious belief. It was contrary in the scientific research of that day, that there was any rain in the skies. It never had rained. So, therefore, he had to--to--to take a stand, and to make an investment. And he did so, in the promise of God. Satan tried him in every way that he could, yet he held onto his investment. And it paid off, at the end time, by saving his life.
*NOW BUSINESSMEN, WHAT BETTER INVESTMENT COULD YOU MAKE THAN THAT, AT
THE END TIME WHERE WE ARE?
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153 Now businessmen, what
better investment could you make than that, at the end time where we are? And even science itself now
comes around, is with us, and tells us that it's right, "midnight hour is
fixing to strike." Well, what good is our big things going to do? What
good is our great denomination, a million more, and so forth like this, and
build them like that, when Eternal Life is waiting out yonder? And we have the
opportunity, and we're invited to receive this Christ, that--that God
could take you and position you in His Word in such a place, till when you
speak, the things that--that it's foresaw, and foretold, and so forth, could
work right through you, every time exactly right. Never fails. Can't fail.
154 Oh, you say,
"I seen that tried." Yes. I know. And you see it fail, where there's
impersonation.
155 But when you see something genuine, it cannot fail, 'cause it's God.
And God sets these things for an example, that others might see.
156 "How," you say, "how does it come? By all night fasting?"
That's good. "All night prayer meeting?" That's still good.
157 But obedience to the Word is where it comes, obeying the
Word. See? All
right.
Now, it paid off, by saving his life.
*DANIEL..…HE TOOK OUT ONE OF THESE
ETERNAL LIFE POLICIES WITH GOD, AND HE PURPOSED IN HIS HEART THAT HE WOULD NOT
MAR HIS INVESTMENT.
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172 Daniel, knowing that the world was going to come into the church, and
it did. But watch. He took out one of these Eternal
Life policies with God, and he purposed in his heart that he would not mar his
investment. Amen. That church, of that Business Men, if you people could
only take that attitude, if you could only work to that end, that achievement, that
you'll not defile this investment that you've made in Christ, with the things
of the world, and the glamour.
173 Why, anything can shine and glow, and what reaches for it? A monkey.
That's right. Monkeys always reaching after something that's shiny. See? That's
right. Notice, we are. That's what I mean. See? [Congregation applauds--Ed.] The Devil will make monkeys out of you, if he can. He's
trying to make you think that you come from one, anyhow, so, with their
educational systems and things of this day. But it's not so. That's right.
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174 Daniel purposed in his
heart that he wouldn't defile himself with the world. He was going to keep the
tradition that God had laid down, the commandments of God.
175 Why can't you women and men do the same thing? But Marilyn Monroe or
somebody bobbed off their hair, and then some preacher's wife did the same
thing, and you think you got a right to do it. That don't excuse you from the
Word of God.
176 And you preachers let your wife lead you around. What a shame! What a--what a--what a word, of being a man. "A servant
of Christ can't control his own house, how is he going to control the house of
God?"
177 "Well," you say, "Brother
Branham, that, that's just the minor things." All right.
178 Let's get the minor things straightened out, then we go
to something bigger. See?
Then we'll talk about the Holy Ghost, and the--and the things of how to receive
Divine gifts.
179 Like someone of... made this
rude thing, but it was told me, said, "You're always hollering at them men
about this, and letting their wives do that, and wearing shorts, and out in the
streets, and--and these dressing real sexy, sex appeal."
180 It's very seldom ever talked from the pulpit. They just think that's a regular routine. We need a man of God, somebody to rise up there and condemn that thing.
*IT'S ONE OF GOD'S SIGN POSTS, THAT THE END IS AT HAND.
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E-10 And just before the end time come, there was a
great confusion. And the great church side, looked like, had won out,
just as it is today. For the science...
And another great thing, he said
they were building. There has never been a time in history that building
has been so great as it is now. It's one of the signs of the end time. Never
have we had a time of building.
And now, even in our little city here, I can't find enough room to go rabbit hunting any more. It's all housing projects. Just building and planting... And if we'd open our eyes, it's one of God's sign posts, that the end is at hand.
SCIENCE, YOU SEE WHAT
SIDE IT'S ON? IT'S ON THE WICKED SIDE.
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E-11 And we were preaching this
morning on the sputniks, and the missiles, how they can stand in Moscow and
direct a missile to the middle of Fourth Street in Louisville and never leave
Moscow. And it'll blow a hole in the ground a hundred
and seventy-five feet deep, for a hundred and fifty miles around it. That's how
big the hole would be. Three of them would destroy the entire world, shake it
from it's orbit. Science, you see what side it's on? It's on the wicked
side.
God expects His children to trust Him for
everything that they have.
But we want to trust the hand of man. I'd rather have
my hopes built in Christ, taking my solemn stand upon His grace and mercy, than
any educated group of people who would form an organization, say, "This is
the way."
Christ said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Light. And no man cometh to the Father except he comes by Me."
***NOAH PREACHED A HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS…
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E-13 Now, and Noah preached a hundred
and twenty years. And notice, he was laughed at. Now,
Jesus also said that as it was in the days of Lot, that it would be... In the
days of Lot they were eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage, planting,
building, selling, buying.
Oh, there never was a day that's so much
commercial as today.
Just used car lots and everything, so much till you can buy a refrigerator this
year and pay about four or five hundred dollars for it, and next year nobody
wants it. It's out of style. Don't you see where the
commercial world has your nose to the grind wheel.
You can buy a car this year, and next year it's probably as good as the one you could buy then, but it'll depreciate a thousand dollars, because they change the radiator cap, or they done some little silly something to it. It's only a sales talk to fulfill the Bible. "As it was the days of Noah... and in the days of Lot..."
*HE WAS ENOCH, WHO CLAIMED THAT HE WALKED
WITH GOD FOR FIVE HUNDRED YEARS…
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E-45 He was Enoch, who claimed that he walked with God for
five hundred years, and had a testimony he pleased God. He had a faith that he wouldn't
see death. How could God do it? There wasn't even a jet plane in those days to
get him off his feet. But God provided a way, a
translation, that took Enoch from earth to glory without receiving death.
It was Elijah who stepped across the oce--or the Jordan river that day, was divided from one side to the other. When Elijah was ready to go to heaven without dying, it was God provided a way for him, not a jet plane, but He sent a chariot of fire, trolled by horses of fire. God provided the way in the minute, a way of escape from death.
*AS MOSES, A HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS
AFTER EIGHTY YEARS OF SERVICE FOR GOD…
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E-46 It was Moses, I believe, who
followed the children of Israel, or who led them, following the Light, the
Pillar of Fire through the wilderness. It was Moses who endured to the end. As Moses, a hundred and twenty years after eighty years of
service for God, who stood upon the mount and looked over into the promised
land with the tears rolling down his cheeks, of a old man of a hundred and
twenty years old. He come through the briar patches; he'd waded the deep
waters; he'd tasted the bitter cup of gall and sorrow. He'd been with the
disobedient pe--people as their pastor. He had led them from place to place,
and put up with their murmurings, and throwed hisself in the breach and said,
"God, take me before You do them."
It was Moses who stood there as an old man, knowing that in every way he was a type of Christ, knowing somehow, some way, God surely would take him, 'cause He had to bring him up again as the type of Christ. He was born as a prophet, as Christ, not only a prophet, but leader and so forth. He was hid away in the bulrushes and so was Christ taken into Egypt. He was a law giver as Christ was to the Mount of Olives, laying from Sinai. Every way he was a type of Christ.
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E-47 And when he was old and death
staring him in the face, how would he ever bring forth the resurrection? But
just as the crucial moment come, God provided a way. When
the breath was leaving and gurgling in his neck, he looked, laying by his side,
and there stood the Rock. God provided a Rock; the Rock was Christ Jesus who
was in the wilderness. Moses endured to the Rock.
God give me grace to endure to the same thing. And when my last breath is being drawed from this body, let me see the Rock standing there. Stepped over on the Rock, and the Angels come and packed him away. Eight hundred years later he was standing in Palestine with Elijah, standing there talking to Jesus before the cross. God made a way of escape.
*THIS YOUNG RULER PRACTICALLY DID THAT. SEE? HE MADE A--A HORRIBLE
MISTAKE…
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163 Let's follow this young boy just a moment before we close. Let's follow
him. We find the next place, that, this young fellow, you know what happened to
him? He never become a pauper, for doing this. He never become a beggar on the
street. He increased in goods. He had turned down the
opportunity.
164 Many times, people today will laugh and make fun of the
Holy Spirit, then go on and increase in their business. You know, excuse this
expression... But when they laughing, say, "Why,
look, me! If there's anything to It, see, why, it'd happened to me, something
would happened to me."
165 You know, there is a--a--a proverb, that, "Fools will walk with
hobnailed shoes where Angels fear to trod."
166 This young ruler practically did that. See? He
made a--a horrible mistake, and we find out that it never hindered his
business. He increased. He got more popular, got more goods. We find
out, after a while, that he had got so great till even he had to build new
barns to put his stuff in.
167 And because that the church has turned down the Holy
Spirit, in this last days, it's increased. And now you're going into the Ecumenical Council, just
exactly what the Bible said you would do. Now you're
really Laodicea, "rich and increased in goods," just exactly like that
young man was.
168 He was a type of the church, rejecting. Paul was a type of the one
receiving. Both of them had the opportunity, as you
have tonight, and I have.
169 He increased in goods. So has the church, the Laodicean Age, increased in goods. And remember, he got so great, till he become so popular, till even the monarchs, the great people, begin to come. And he set a great banquet, one time.
*AND THERE WAS A HOLDER OF THE ETERNAL
LIFE POLICY AT HIS BAZAAR, AND WE FIND OUT THAT HE WAS LAYING DOWN AT THE DOOR.
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170 And there was a holder of the Eternal Life policy at his bazaar, and we
find out that he was laying down at the door. Oh, he might sweep some crumbs
off to him. He had the opportunity again, a witness,
Lazarus testifying to him. But he just swept the crumbs off, "Oh,
well, I'll try this, take this quarter, or whatever," you know. That's
about the attitude of 1964. "Oh, I'll help a little. That's all right,
just let him go, see."
171 But he held the policy. "The poor in spirit,"
Matthew 5 tells us that's the one, "theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven."
172 He went on increasing in goods, and getting greater and more popular, and a great man, but his pay off finally come. It finally come. On earth he had a great pay off. He had a great funeral service, no doubt. The great denominational preacher come, probably spoke great words over him. They might have half-masted the flag. Fine businessmen packed him to his burial. But the Bible said, "in hell," his pay off come for rejecting the Eternal Life policy.
*YOU'VE GOT TO MAKE A DECISION. MAKE YOUR
INVESTMENT NOW.
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173 "In hell he lifted up his
eyes, being in torment." And he looked off across the great chasm, that
Jesus said no man has ever crossed or ever will, and he found the policyholder
of Eternal Life, comforted, on the other side. Both of them. One had received
It. Both had their pay off. The crumb-sweeper had the pay off. And now the rich
man becomes the beggar, "Let the policyholder come back and touch my lips
with a--a little water, for these flames are tormenting me."
174 Don't make the same mistake, businessman. You are mortal just like they
were. You've got to make a decision. Make your
investment now. Make it sure. "Make your
election, calling sure." Take out one of the policies.
175 Look just--just a moment or two more, if you can. When Moses, who forsook, being a king of Egypt, a Pharaoh,
esteeming the reproach of Christ. Pharaoh looked out upon them people as
a bunch of mud dubbers, but Moses looked upon them as
the people with a promise.
How do you look on them, God's people?
176 Moses had his pay off. Watch his pallbearers. The Bible said they were
"Angels." Why? Nobody else could take him where he was going. They
were his pallbearers.
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