24-0426A_THE IDENTIFED CHRIST OF ALL AGES PT-21 (FOCUSED HEART TO CHRIST AND HIS WILL)

Heb 9:24  For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: 

Heb 9:25  Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; 

Heb 9:26  For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 

Heb 9:27  And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 

Heb 9:28  So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. 

*THAT'S WHAT THE CHURCH OUGHT TO DO TODAY. LOOK TO THE ONE THING, THE VOICE, THE WORD OF GOD THAT SPEAKS TO US.

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  97      That's what every genuine believer has to do. Separate yourself from these doubters and unbelievers, and walk with Christ. It, it's Life, to you.

98    And Abraham did such a thing. And twenty-five years later, we find him still believing the same promise. Why? He had focused his--his mind to the will of God, by the Word of God, and believed it.

99    If we can focus ourself to the plan of God, to what God wants for us, and what God promised us, and let everything else alone. No matter how long it is, just keep believing.

100    Romans 4 here, we find Romans 4:14. It said, "And he staggered not at the promise of God, through unbelief." He didn't let unbelief contaminate him, at all. He looked to one thing, that was, the Voice that spoke to him.

  101      That's what the Church ought to do today. Look to the one thing, the Voice, the Word of God that speaks to us. Churches and peoples can speak any way. But, look to the Voice. What are we looking at?

*THAT'S WHAT EACH MEMBER OF THE CHURCH SHOULD DO, WOULD FOCUS OUT OF YOU ALL DOUBT. LOOK ONLY TO THAT WORD.

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104    Abraham knew that his--his body was as good as dead, but he considered not his own body. He considered not the deadness of Sarah's womb. A young girl, he had married his half-sister, lived with her all these years. And now she is ninety years old, and he's a hundred years old. But he didn't even think about that. That didn't even come in his mind. Why? He had focused all the unbelief out. Oh, glory!

105      That's what the Church should do. That's what each member of the Church should do, would focus out of you all doubt. Look only to that Word. It promised it. God said so. It's got to be that way.

106    The Bible said, "Against hope, he believed in hope. He staggered not at the promise of God, through unbelief, but was strong, giving praise to God." Each day he got stronger because the miracle would be greater.

 

*YOU ARE ZEROED, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT YOU'RE HITTING THE TARGET.

109    But, you know where you stand, because you been zeroed in with God. You see your own life hitting that target, just like those apostles did. You live the way they did. You were baptized the way they were. You see the same results that they seen. You see it operating in you. You are zeroed. I don't care what the company says and what the denominations say. You are zeroed, because you know that you're hitting the target. Amen. Then you know where you're standing. Depends on what you're looking at. If you're looking to somebody else, you'll go any way. Any little puff of wind will blow you off the target. But, oh, you can't be blowed off the target when you're zeroed in. That's all. There's nothing going to stop it. God carries it to its...

 

*JUST LIKE DAVID'S LITTLE ROCK IN THE SLING, IT WENT STRAIGHT TO ITS DESTINATION…SO WILL YOUR PRAYERS GO STRAIGHT TO ITS DESTINATION

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110      Just like David's little rock in the sling, it went straight to its destination.

111    So will your prayers go straight to its destination, 'cause it's offered in the Blood of Jesus Christ which cleanses you. There's not a sin or a spot on you nowhere. That's right. There can't be. As long as that Clorox is between me and God, how is He going to see my sin? How can He do it?

112    If I make a sin, it's not willfully. "He that sins willfully after he receive the knowledge of the Truth." But there's no willful sin, yet you do sin. But you don't do it willfully, because, in your heart, you--you don't mean to do those things.

113    But when you do it willfully, it's different, then I think you wasn't there at the first place.

114    Now, the thing of it is, is come to a place where that all the stain of sin is washed away. Then you stand, redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb. You are an Adam, like he was before he fell. You are a son of God, washed in the Blood of God's Own Blood.

 

*ONLY GOD HIMSELF CAN TAKE A HOLD OF THE CAMERA OF YOUR EYES AND LET YOU SEE WHAT GOD IS, AND WHAT HIS PURPOSE IS.

116    And the Life comes not by confession in some church, or some creed, or some document. But the Life comes when you been born again by the Blood of Jesus Christ, the--the Germ. "The--the works that I do shall you do also. He that believeth on Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die." There is that Life of God, as a son of God, born by the Blood of God. And you're... The same Holy Spirit that wrote this Bible will focus It right back into you again. There's not a denomination or a creed that can do that. Only God Himself can take a hold of the camera of your eyes and let you see what God is, and what His purpose is. Yes, sir. Certainly.

 

*FAITH IS DESIGNED TO SEE WHAT GOD WILLS AND WANTS. THERE IS NO KNOWLEDGE THAT CAN DO THAT.

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  120      Pharaoh did not have this potential. He was offered it, but refused it. And when he refused it, then he couldn't focus.

121    No man, after he's turned down the Word of God, can ever focus hisself into It, because you refuse the Word that brings you into relationship of Christ. That's right. So...

122    But, Moses looked out of this window, he believed it. Why? Moses looked by faith. That's how Moses looked.

123    Now listen real close to this remark. Faith! Now, don't forget to get this now. Faith is designed to see what God wills and wants. There is no knowledge that can do that. Faith alone is designed, and give to the human race, to find out what the will of God is.

*BUT WHEN YOUR GOD-GIVEN FAITH FOCUS YOU WITH THE WORD OF GOD, YOU'RE DIRECTLY IN LINE AND ZEROED.

124    And you take your faith that you got, and it don't focus with the Word, then leave it alone. You got the wrong faith.

125    But when your God-given faith focus you with the Word of God, you're directly in line and zeroed. Oh, my! God help us this hour, great hour that we live in. Faith, designed to see what God wants! How do you see it? Through the camera of His Word, His promise. This is a full revelation of Jesus Christ.

*THAT'S WHAT DOES IT, WHEN YOU'RE ZEROED-IN WITH GOD, FOCUSED IN, BY THEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE TARGET.

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  126      Then, when the faith that's in you, focus you to this Word, you're focused away from all denominations and creeds and everything. You're focused right straight on the Word of God. You're zeroed in. It only needs is a little touch-off. Amen. That prayer flies straight in the Presence of God, because there's nothing to stop it. Yes. That's what does it, when you're zeroed-in with God, focused in, by then you're looking at the target.

127    You're not looking at what somebody else says, "This can't happen, and this can't happen."

128    You're looking to what you know did happen. Look on your target. You see where they hit it. If they hit it in that day, He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Focus out all these creeds and things you got mixed up. Get right back to the Word, then confess your unbelief, and let God take His Holy Spirit and direct your sights right straight on Jesus Christ. We're looking to Him then, not what somebody else says.

*A FAITH OF THE CHURCH TODAY SHOULD SEE THE SAME PROGRAM OF GOD.

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  129      Not even what the doctor says, as good as it might be. He's got his place. The church, as good as... It's got its place. We don't deny that. But it's got, all got its place. It'll fire, but it won't hit the target.

130    "Only them who look for Christ the second time." That's the zero. It depends on what you're looking at. Yes.

131    Now, today, you see, faith is designed to do this. Same faith today sees the same thing. A faith of the Church today should see the same program of God. I want you to don't miss this now. The Church today, that's called of God, will certainly see the program of God, because the program of God is written out Here, the Blueprint. And the Holy Spirit, by faith, is the One Who reads It and sets It together.

*AND THE MAN TODAY WHO SEES GOD'S PROGRAM, DOES THE SAME THING, LOOKS BY FAITH.

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  134      Moses looked by faith. And the man today who sees God's program, does the same thing, looks by faith.

135    Moses, later, seen this great thing. When the people got in trouble, what did he do? He made a serpent out of brass, put it upon a pole. And said, when they were bitten by serpents, because of their unbelief, that, "Whosoever looked upon this serpent lived." Notice. The man who just come and looked...

136    Now, the stick, the pole it was on, was a piece of a tree that was cut down there in the wilderness, probably a piece of mesquite, or--or something that you'd have here, ironwood, or whatever it might be. It had done been separated from its natural growth. It was dead, within itself. The brass was probably a piece of helmets from the Romans, or--or something that they had took in the salvage. It was molded and put together, and made a serpent.

137      If men come out there, just as an idol, to look upon that serpent, they received nothing.

138    But when the true believer come out there and looked upon that serpent, with the spiritual revealed Truth... That serpent itself, being it was in the form of a serpent, it represented sin already judged. They seen sin, their unbelief, already under judgment, from the serpent from the garden of Eden. And the serpent was made out of brass, which means Divine judgment. See?

139    The altar was made out of brass, brazen altar, which the sacrifice was offered upon; brass, Divine judgment.

*GOD IS SO SIMPLE. THE REASON THAT MAN CAN'T FIND GOD, HE DON'T GET SIMPLE ENOUGH.

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  142      We have become so--so profound in our intellects. We have educated our children till we got a bunch of rickys. And we got what we got, even our churches and things. And our boys going to seminaries, getting out here, and go down there and learn some Ph.D. and L.L.D. Let me tell you something. Every time he gets one, he goes farther and farther from God.

143    God is so simple. The reason that man can't find God, he don't get simple enough.

Someone said, "Brother Branham, how do you see visions?"

 144      It's not me. See? You--you got to get yourself out of the picture. God made a promise. God has got to stay with that promise. But you've got to be simple enough to get out of your own way.

THE WAY TO KNOW GOD IS GET SIMPLE.

145    Someone said, "This would be a great man if he had a L.L.D. out of our college." If he does, he just goes another gap from God.

146    "Men today can send a message," I said, "to the moon, but he walks over a blade of grass where he could not explain if he has to." God is hid in simplicity. See? You can't get simple enough. A man get an education, the first thing he knows, he's so great, he can't humble himself.

147    And God is so great, that He humbles Himself and hides Himself from the sinner. Jesus thanked God for it. He said, "I thank Thee, Father, Creator of heavens and earth, thou hast hid This from the wise and prudent, and will reveal It to babes such as will learn." The way to know God is get simple. The way up is down.

*JUST FOCUS YOUR HEART TO CHRIST AND HIS WILL, AND WATCH WHAT HAPPENS.

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148      Which way is the north or south pole? You stand in space. See?

149    The way up is down. "He that humbles himself shall be exalted. He that exalts himself shall be abased." See? We must humble ourselves, not try to know too much.

150    Just know one thing. Focus everything else out of the way, and look unto Christ. If you don't know how to write your name, that don't have one thing to do with it. Just focus your heart to Christ and His will, and watch what happens. Yes. Certainly.