24-0226P_TESTIMONY OF A TRUE WITNESS PT-4
Act 1:1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
Act 1:2 Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
Act 1:3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
Act 1:4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
Act 1:5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
Act 1:6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
Act 1:7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
Act 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Act 1:9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
Act 1:10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
Act 1:11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
Joh 3:31 He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
Joh 3:32 And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.
Joh 3:33 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
Heb 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Heb 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
THAT PRINCE OF THE
PROPHETS, THE ONE THAT HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF INTRODUCING THE MESSIAH; AND SAW
THE SIGN OF THE MESSIAH…
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152 Thirty years after the birth of Jesus. I've got several other prophets wrote down here. But thirty years after the birth of Jesus, there was that prince amongst the prophets (Oh, my.) John the Baptist. All men knowed he was a prophet from God, the forerunner of coming of Christ, which is predicted again in the last days.
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155 Listen at this great prince,
coming with a piece of sheepskin wrapped around him, living off the herbs of
the woods (Hallelujah.): no theological seminary experience behind him; but a experience that he'd talked to God and was born for the
purpose to do it. The Word spoke that he would come. Yes, sir. Walked
out on the banks of Jordan with his feet in the mud, said, "Don't you think, you Pharisees that say, 'We have Abraham to our
Father,' for I tell you, God's able of these stones to rise children to
Abraham."
That prince of the prophets, the one that had the
privilege of introducing the Messiah; and saw the sign of the Messiah, and
recognized it, as that Light fell from heaven and went upon Him, was a witness
of it, what
did he say about it? Here's his word, that prophet said as a witness.
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he
that come after me, who's mightier than I, his shoes I am not worthy to loose;
he will baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.
And his fan is in his hand, and he'll thoroughly purge his floor, and gather the wheat into the garner; but... burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.
*HE PROPHESIED THAT THERE WOULD COME THE WITNESS FOR THE CHURCH, THE HOLY
GHOST.
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157 He prophesied that there would come the Witness for the Church, the Holy Ghost. "I indeed baptize you with water; that's my mission. I'll baptize you with water unto repentance." Hallelujah. "But there's coming One after me. I bear this witness with water, but there's One coming that's going to send something greater. He'll send another Witness, not water, but Spirit. He'll baptize you with the Holy Ghost and Fire." Hallelujah. God's Witness, He'll take all the church membership away from you. "He'll give you a true witness, for He'll baptize you with the Holy Ghost and Fire. And His fan is in His hand. The axe is laid to the root of the tree; and every tree that don't bring forth good fruit, will be hewn down and cast into the fire. Wherefore, repent, get ready, for the hour is at hand."
… *WAIT UNTIL YOU BE ENDUED WITH POWER FROM ON HIGH.
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159 In Luke 24:49, at the end of His ministry, when His earthly ministry was finished, He said in Luke 24:49, "Behold, I send the promise that these testimonies has said. I send the promise that Isaiah spoke of. I send the promise that Joel spoke of. I send the promise that all the prophets, that the Father showed through the prophets, I send the promise of My Father upon you. Behold, I'll send the promise of my Father upon you: but wait in the city of Jerusalem." Stop your preaching, stop singing, don't do nothing else but go up there to the city of Jerusalem, and wait until you be endued with power from on high.
*WHAT KIND OF A WITNESS WAS IT GOING TO
BE?..JUST LET POWER FROM ON HIGH COME, IT'LL TAKE CARE OF ITSELF WHEN IT COMES.
"YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU'RE ENDUED WITH POWER."
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160 What kind of a witness was it
going to be? "Wait at Jerusalem until you have completed twenty years of
high school or seminary"? "Wait till you have received your Bachelor
of Art degree"? "Wait till you have learned to--to speak in other
languages, so, if He happened to call you to the mission field, you could speak
in them"? No, that wasn't it.
Just let power from on high come, it'll take care of itself when It comes. "You wait until you're endued with power." O God, why can't the people see that? It's not a joining of church. It's waiting for power. "Wait until you're endued with power from on high, for I'll send Him. He's a promise of God, and I'll send Him. I'm going to bear record. He, when He comes, He'll bear record. for He'll not speak of Himself, but He'll speak of Me." Amen.
*THAT'S THE TRUE WITNESS OF GOD. "HE'LL BRING THE GOSPEL BACK TO YOU,
THIS HOLY SPIRIT.
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162 Watch what He'll do. "He'll bring these things that I've taught you." Not some seminary thing. What? "He'll bring these things that I have taught you to your remembrance, that they're Words of God. You'll forget about all your seminary experience. You'll get these things, the Words that I have taught you. He'll bring them things to remembrance. And He'll do something else: He'll show you things that's going to come." That's the true Witness. That's the true Witness of God. "He'll bring the Gospel back to you, this Holy Spirit. Though It may be forsaken for about two thousand years, may--they may tramp It under their feet on man-made theology; but when He comes, He'll bring you back to It. Not only that, but He'll tell you things that's going to come. He'll speak to you with stammering lips and other tongues. All these things He'll do. Everything that God has promised, He'll do it. I have... I'm going to send the promise of the Father."
*THERE WAS THREE DEFINITE WITNESSES AT PENTECOST.
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166 They said, "We are--we are
His witnesses." Now, there was three definite witnesses at Pentecost.
First, the Word of those
prophets, that God would pour out His Spirit in the last days upon
the people. The witness that
the prophets had, was the Word of God, It had been fulfilled. That was one witness; the prophets' message was fulfilled. "I'll pour out of My Spirit upon all
flesh. They shall have stammering lips, and other tongues will I speak to this
people." There it was. They couldn't deny it. Then
there was three witnesses. That was one, that the prophets' Word had been
fulfilled.
Another witness, was the people. They were testifying, "Something has happened."
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173 There
was the prophets'
Word fulfilled.
There was the people bearing witness. And there was the Holy Ghost Itself. There's three of them. And the
Bible said, "In the mouth of three witnesses, let
every word be established." That's right.
There was the prophets' Word fulfilled. There was the people, said, "Oh, something's happened to me. Something's happened. I'm no more afraid. I'm not afraid of death. I'm not afraid of nothing. Something happened. I forgot all my theology. I forgot all of my man-made traditions. Something's happened. Let this be known to you, and hearken to my words, these are not drunk." They did; they lost all their dignity. They were just drunk on the Spirit, just...
*WHAT WE NEED IS A FILLING, A COMING OF
THE HOLY GHOST.
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169 "I was hid up there in a
room. I was too bashful. I was ashamed. I--I--I knowed that He'd been taken
away, and I--I was ashamed of all this great dignified group around here. I was
ashamed of them. I was ashamed that I'd, maybe, I didn't want to say anything
about it, because I was afraid I'd start an emotional something another."
That's what's the matter with the self-made churches today. They're afraid they're going to raise too much disturbance. They're afraid they'll do something that's not right. Oh, you, the self-made, self-satisfied... What we need is a Pentecost. What we need is a filling, a coming of the Holy Ghost.
*THAT'S WHAT THE CHURCH NEEDS… BUT A
FILLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, A WITNESS INSIDE OF YOU, BEARING RECORD OF THE
RESURRECTION OF CHRIST, AND TO THE WORD OF GOD.
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171 They said, "We are His
witnesses, because we are filled with It." Peter said, "You men of
Judaea, and you that dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known unto you. These are
not drunk as you suppose, seeing it's the third hour of the day. But this is
That which was spoke of by the prophet Joel, 'It shall come to pass in the last
days, saith God, I'll pour out My Spirit upon all flesh.' We are bearing
witness that the prophets' Words are true, because we are filled now." Oh,
my.
That's what we need. That's what the church needs. That's what these, a hundred and seventy million professed Christians around the world need, is another Pentecost: not go back and study twenty-five years; but a filling of the Holy Spirit, a witness inside of you, bearing record of the resurrection of Christ, and to the Word of God.
*THAT'S WHAT WE NEED, A SANE, SENSIBLE
GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT CAN WALK UP AND FACE GOD AND SAY, "LORD, DON'T MAKE
ME A CHURCH MEMBER, BUT MAKE ME A WITNESS.
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175 That's what we need. That's what we need, a sane, sensible group of people that
can walk up and face God and say, "Lord, don't make me a church member,
but make me a witness. Pour out Your Spirit upon me and fill me. Let me
be Your witness." That's what we need. That's what
the church is suffering the lack of today. It's anemic condition, is
because it has rejected the Blood of Jesus Christ.
Yes, the Holy Ghost bearing record Itself, saying, "It's so." There they was. And the men couldn't deny It.
*HAD THREE WITNESSES... WHAT? THE
PROPHETS' WORD, GOD'S WORD.
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177 These men hadn't waited in
school to find any great education. They were ignorant and unlearned men,
fishermens and peasants. They were common people. The Bible said, "The
common people heard Jesus gladly," not the riffraff, no, not the celebrity,
but the common people heard Him gladly. And there was common people; they'd
heard Him, and they said, "We're witnesses that we have received
something; and we don't know, hardly, our own language."
But the men said, "How do we understand them? Are
they not all Galileans?" Galileans was a poor class of people. Said,
"How do we hear them Galileans speaking in our own language wherein we
were born?"
Giving testimony of the Holy Ghost, bearing record
that the Word of God had been fulfilled. "I'll pour out My Spirit upon all
flesh. And
with stammering lips and other tongues will I speak to this people, and this is
the rest": bearing record, a witness. This is the record of it. Sure.
Had three witnesses... What? The prophets' Word, God's Word. Because those prophets spoke not their word, but it was the Word of God as He put It in their mouth.
*"IT WOULD COME TO PASS THAT HE
WOULD SEND HIS SPIRIT, AND IT WOULD BE A CROWN OF GLORY FOR THE CHURCH…
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150 But Isaiah prophesied and said
that, "It would come to pass that He would send
His Spirit, and It would be a crown of glory for the Church, and strength for
him that stands in the gate." How would we know it was the Spirit?
Said, "'Cause, with stammering lips and with other
tongues will I speak to this people, and this is the rest and the
refreshening."
Psa 119:2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
Psa 119:3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
Psa 119:4 Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
Psa 119:5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
Psa 119:6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
Psa 119:7 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
Psa 119:8 I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
Psa 119:9 BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
Psa 119:10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
Psa 119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Psa 119:12 Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
Psa 119:13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
Psa 119:14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.
Psa 119:15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
Psa 119:16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
Psa 119:17 GIMEL. Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.
Psa 119:18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Psa 119:19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
EXPECTATIONS_ RICHMOND.VA WEDNESDAY_ 61-0308
... And the Bible said, "He's a rewarded of those that diligently seek Him." That's right.EXPECTATIONS_ RICHMOND.VA WEDNESDAY_ 61-0308
E-39 You seek Him with all your heart and get down to business, God will be there to meet you. That's right. But you have to not just kind of slop-way through; you've got to come right straight to God and confess everything, and lay it out, and come on those grounds and God will meet you there. He will do something for you. He will answer your prayers.Now, they'd never been any rain on the earth. Why there's... God watered the earth... Up to, before the antediluvian destruction, why, He watered it through irrigation, up through the earth. It had never rained. And God spoke to--to Noah and told him to prepare an ark for the saving of his house, that it was going to rain. Rain was going to come out of the skies and the whole earth was going to be covered with water. And Noah was expecting that to happen. If he would not have expected it, the first critic come by, he would've said, "Well, I guess maybe I was wrong. It wasn't God." See? So he'd went away.
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E-40 Now, that's about the way that the 1961 version of the church would act. But that's not really... The real borned again Christian, when God says so, we expect it to be that way. God said it, and that's the way it's going to be. It's just got to be that way.He said... You know, why we're that--why we are the way we are today? How the church is lukewarm in this Laodicean church age? Why, it's... God said it would be that way. You can't expect nothing else. It's got to be that way. That's right. But He's got... "All that he loves He chastens and rebukes," and "I stand at the door and knock, and if any man would hear My voice..." that's the address to this church age by God in the Bible of Revelation the 3rd chapter to the Laodicean Church Age.
*BE ON HIS HANDS, EVERY MORNING, EVERY NIGHT, EVERY DAY, ALL THE TIME, CONSTANTLY. JUST KEEP SEEKING, KEEP ASKING, KEEP KNOCKING.
PERSEVERANCE_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 63-0113E
96 First thing you have to do, if you're going to find Christ, you've got to know that you've got a need of Him. When you think that you just don't need Him, then you'll never find Him, 'cause you won't search Him diligently.PERSEVERANCE_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 63-0113E
99 That's the way you want to get God. Be on His hands, every morning, every night, every day, all the time, constantly. Just keep seeking, keep asking, keep knocking. Just don't knock a little while, and get tired and go away. Just keep standing there, "Lord, I'm here, and I'm not going to leave. I'm on Your hands now. I'm going to stay right here. You getting tired listening? I'm having a great time knocking, 'cause I know You're coming." Amen. That's when something happens. He has to get you off of His hand, see, so He comes out to answer you. Now, faith finds this.*WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT THE HOUR YOU'RE LIVING IN? WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR JESUS AT THIS TIME?
TRYING.TO.DO.GOD.A.SERVICE.WITHOUT.BEING.THE.WILL.OF.GOD_ JEFF.IN
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204 I looked at him, he used to be a handsome little fellow, real black shiny hair combed back; now it's as white as snow. He used to be so straight; tummy way out like this. I said, "Hello, Jim." I looked at him.
Then, I know my days are numbered. I know it can't be too much longer. I look around, and think, "What can I do, Lord? Help me. I don't want to go ahead of You. I want to stay right--right behind You. You lead the way." I look, and think, "Fifty-six years old, oh, my, can't be much longer!"
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205 And I look down, see my good friend Bill Dauch setting there, seventy-two or seventy-three years old. I look around, I see these kids, they think, "Well, I'll wait till I get as old as Brother Branham, I'll think that." Honey, you may never see that. I doubt very much you seeing it. See? But, just think, if Brother Bill Dauch lives through this day, he'll out-live hundreds of fifteen-, sixteen-year-old people. They're dying every hour.WHAT IF SHE HADN'T HAVE COME? NO HOPE
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E-82 The other night I asked that down here in California. A seventy-six year old woman raised up her hand when the altar call was made, had a glorious conversion, went home, and laid on her pillow, and went to meet God: seventy-six years, and right at the last moment was brought in. What if she hadn't have come? No hope. Will you raise your hand and make that one all-sufficient stand?A.TESTIMONY.ON.THE.SEA_ SALEM.OR FRIDAY_ 62-0720
E-83 Now, smoking, drinking, committing adultery, cursing, that's not sin. There's only one sin. That's unbelief. You do those things because you are a unbeliever. If you was a believer, you wouldn't do those things.*YOU ARE SECURELY ANCHORED IN HIM BECAUSE YOU WERE ORDAINED TO THAT LIFE.
I.HAVE.HEARD.BUT.NOW.I.SEE_ SHREVEPORT.LA V-7 N-3 SATURDAY_ 65-1127E
…You see, when a man or a person has once really come in contact with God, with that genuine, revealed faith that "God is!" There's nothing, no time, no where, can ever separate that man from his God. I believe it was Paul said, "There's no strife, no hunger, no perils, neither living creatures, or death, or anything that can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus." You are securely anchored in Him because you were ordained to that Life.I.HAVE.HEARD.BUT.NOW.I.SEE_ SHREVEPORT.LA V-7 N-3 SATURDAY_ 65-1127E
56 But Satan thought he could twist him around a little bit, and cuff him up, and make him do it. But, you see, Job with his perfect revelation of God, and who God was, and how God loved him, he waited! No matter what the circumstances was, he waited for his faith to be confirmed, because he had had a grip on God, a revelation. That I spoke of last night.57 Now, when the sick people that's in the building, the crippled people, or you that have a need of God, when you can get that type of a revelation that you are "justified," when you are actually justified in asking the thing that you're asking for, and believe that "He is a rewarder of those that diligently seek after Him," there's nothing can ever separate you from that faith that's anchored to you. See? But, first, it has to be revealed to you.
