24-0531A_IT WASN'T SO FROM THE BEGINNING
Mar 7:9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
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*AND WHEN MAN GETS A HOLD OF ANYTHING, HE
PERVERTS THE MAIN CAUSE. AND MAKING ANYTHING PERVERTED IS DIFFERENT FROM THE
ORIGINAL.
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E-12 And when man gets a
hold of anything, he perverts the main cause. And making anything perverted is
different from the original. Like unrighteousness, unrighteousness is nothing more than
righteousness perverted, what perverted mind of man change around.
God made man to live happily with one another. Perversion changes them and makes them enemies one to another. Man makes us enemies one to another, while God made us brothers one to another. Man made man to be immoral. God made man to live true to his wife. But man comes along and perverts that around, and he's not satisfied with his own wife, but wants to live with the rest of the wives. God gave us good clear water to drink. Man's got to mix alcohol or something else with it before he drinks it. It's perverting from the real beginning of it.
HE DOESN'T TAKE IT JUST THE WAY IT'S WRITTEN, BUT HE GETS HIS OWN IDEA
MIXED INTO IT.
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E-13 And in doing so, we find that in
the church these things is taking place, because man
begin to tamper into the things of God. And he draws his conception of
what it means. He doesn't take it just the way it's
written, but he gets his own idea mixed into it. And then by that he
makes a tradition. And he teaches that.
And Jesus said when he was on earth and found such, He said, "In vain do you worship Me." Now there is then possibility, and it is so, that there can be a genuine worship of God wrong. "In vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of man."
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E-14 Now, in our Scripture reading tonight, if you would read on, you would find that where God said, "Honor thy father and thy mother. And if a man dishonors his father or mother, let him die the death." But He said, "In your traditions you have made the commandments of God of non effect," and said, "if it is... If a man dishonors his father or mother, that it is a gift, and he shall just go free." You see how man gets things twisted up?
*AND I'M SURE AFTER THE ABSENCE OF CHRIST
FOR TWO THOUSAND YEARS, SOMETHING HAS GONE WRONG SOMEWHERE, BECAUSE WE GET TOO
MANY IDEAS.
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E-15 But they like to worship.
And they think that they are worshipping right, when they're worshipping wrong.
And I'm sure after the absence of Christ for two
thousand years, something has gone wrong somewhere, because we get too many
ideas. And tonight there's almost nine hundred different denominations
of churches in the world; that's Christian denominations. Different ideas and
each one holds their traditions.
But, oh, how they love to say that my tradition is right. And then when one church will explain it in such a way and say, well, make it just almost perfect, that that church is right... And we've been through that in the last few nights here of why we are not a denomination.
*BUT GOD WANTS US TO STAY FREE. HE WANTS
US TO A PLACE THAT WHERE IF HE GIVES US SOME LIGHT, WE CAN RECEIVE THAT…
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E-16 And when a denomination is
started, it started on the basis of someone gets a revelation of something,
which may be altogether good. But he makes a denomination out of it, and then
he cannot go any farther.
But God wants us to stay free. He wants us to a place that where if He gives us some light, we can receive that, and get some more light, and some more light, and just keep on going. That's why we like to stay free, so we can just preach the Bible the way It's written and believe It just that way.
*WE DON'T CLAIM TO PREACH THE GOSPEL BY OUR OWN INTELLIGENCE. WE PREACH IT BY THE POWER OF GOD.
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We don't claim to preach the Gospel by our own intelligence. We preach it by the power of God. You ministers do that. And that's the power of God comes upon you and anoints you. And even in your own--your ministry you say things, and sometimes you... "Why'd I change my text?" And you know how it is. See? That's God doing it. You see? And He--and He... You might think that the whole audience missed it. And maybe one little individual setting out there, God was directing that entire message right to that one person.
*LET'S TAKE OUR LORD AS OUR EXAMPLE
BECAUSE HE SAID HE WAS OUR EXAMPLE. NOW, HIS LIFE IS IN US.
IT.WASN'T.SO.FROM.THE.BEGINNING_ SANTA.MARIA.CA SATURDAY_ 62-0630B
E-11 Now, let's
take our Lord as our Example because He said He was our Example. Now, His Life
is in us. Now, we think like this--for just to get a little thought of
a--not a text to preach from, but Jesus said one time, speaking about marriage
and divorce, He said, "It wasn't so from the beginning."
Now, we will have to go back to the beginning to get every thing, because every thing had a beginning, that we see now. It's eternal things that had no beginning, 'cause eternal never began, never ends. And it's the things that has a beginning has an end, everything. Now, Genesis is the seed chapter, so we'll have to go back to Genesis.
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E-12 And studying through many books of the history of the church, the Hislop's "Two Babylons" (you've probably studied it), and Foxe's "Book of Martyrs," and--and the Pre-Nicaea Councils, Nicene Fathers, and so forth. You go back and find that every spirit in the land, and every cult, and everything, if you go back, it begin in Genesis. It's coming up to a blooming time, a blossoming time. You see them come out like Cain and Abel. And watch those two boys come right down to be Judas and Jesus. And just right on through (You see?), it comes right on out into this last days, where the antichrist and the Christ Spirit, so close, it'd deceive the very elected if possible. Now, we're taught that, and we know that's true.
*WE REFLECT GOD, AS GOD IS IN US.
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E-13 Now, we take our Lord. When He
was here He did not claim to do miracles. He said it was the Father, God, that
dwelt in Him, and He was... He expressed God through Himself. God, in
otherwise, built Himself a body that He lived in Himself. God came down, was
manifested in flesh in Christ. And it was not Jesus, the body, the Son of God;
it was the God of glory in the Son of God, showing the glory of God (You see?),
through Himself: the God of glory manifesting the glory of God. And in Him...
God dwelt in Him, and He reflected God.
Now, that's the way each of we ministers do. We reflect God, as God is in us. And then that's the only way that God can move, is--and people can see God, is through we, His servants. That's how... People won't read a Bible, but they'll read you. See? And so you reflect Christ. Your walks, your talks, your actions all reflect Christ.
*JUST YIELD YOURSELF TO THE SPIRIT, AND
GOD WILL REFLECT HIMSELF THROUGH YOU, AS I SAID, LIKE A VINE.
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E-14 You might not think that people are watching you, but they're watching every move you make. You are a Bible to many people. Therefore, we got to watch what we do, our business deals, and everything that we do in our entire walk. Just yield yourself to the Spirit, and God will reflect Himself through you, as I said, like a vine. Jesus said in John 15, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." Well, now remember, the vine does not bear fruit; it's the branch that bears fruit. But it gets its life from the vine.
*IF A VINE PUTS FORTH A BRANCH OF A GRAPE
VINE HERE,… AND JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER.
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E-42 If a vine puts forth a branch of a grape vine here, the next branch
will be grape vine, and the next branch will be grape vine, and the next branch
will be grape vine. And Jesus Christ is the same
yesterday, today, and forever. And He can only have one type of branches, and
that's Pentecostal branches in His church with Pentecostal experiences.
Oh, you say, "Brother Branham, just a minute. I am loyal to my
creed."
If your creed teaches that all
you have to do is shake hands with the preacher, Jesus said, "It
wasn't so from the beginning."
You say, "Brother Branham, I belong to a great
denomination. And my church says that the days of miracles is past."
Jesus said, "It wasn't so from the beginning." Where was the beginning? Pentecost, where the power of the living God fell upon an hundred and twenty people and baptized them with the Holy Ghost and power for the services came. That changed the known world.
*"I WILL RESTORE THAT PREDESTINATED
ROOT." HALLELUJAH. AND ALL THEM NAMES THAT WAS BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF
THE WORLD PREDESTINATED…
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E-76 Then along come the church, begin to grow. Then here come these four
termites in: one, the same insect, just different stages. Along come the--the
palmerworm. What did it do? First thing, it took the fruit, brotherly love, off
of it. Next thing come around was the cankerworm. It come another worm come
around, and eat off the joy, the leaves, the fellowship. The next come along.
What did he do? He eat off the bark, the cankerworm. What next come? The
caterpillar, and sucked the life right out of it.
But there was a stump, 'cause Joel said, "I will restore that predestinated root." Hallelujah. And all them names that was before the foundation of the world predestinated, "All that the Father has given Me will come to Me." Yes, sir. "All that He foreknew He called. All that He calls He justifies, and those that He justified, He has glorified."
*RESTORE WHAT? ONE WITHOUT AN
ORGANIZATION TOUCH TO IT, ONE WITH THE PURE UNADULTERATED WORD. IT HAS TO COME.
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E-77 Paul according to Ephesians
1:by--or Ephesians 1:5, He said, "God predestinated us before the
foundation of the world to the adoption of sons in Jesus Christ." How you
going to stop it? All devils in hell, you might as well quit fussing about it. It's going to be there without a spot or a wrinkle. It's
going to be a what? A bride church. Hallelujah. God said, "I will
restore." Restore what? One without an organization
touch to it, one with the pure unadulterated Word. It has to come.
Why did we get a bunch of denominations this time out of this revival? We sowed denomination seed. What we need today... Brother, you can say what you want to about it, we need the Gospel, pure, holy, unadulterated Word of God, sown. And when this Light comes out it'll bring forth that church, God's predestinated. Amen. Don't presume about nothing. Take God's Word and move right on. He promised He'd be here. He's here. Amen. I'd better stop.
*BUT SHE IS COMING BACK WITH THE PURE,
UNADULTERATED WORD OF GOD BEING MANIFESTED.
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412 Now, you can see now, the end-time Message, why It's rejected. Can you? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Now, no denomination, but the revelation of His mystery. See, no denomination. The revelation! God is not known by denomination. He is known by revelation.
Joh 15:1 I am the true
vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
Joh 15:2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and
every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more
fruit.
Joh 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto
you.
Joh 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of
itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in
me.
Joh 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I
in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do
nothing.
Joh 15:6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is
withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are
burned.
Joh 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what
ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Joh 15:8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall
ye be my disciples.
Joh 15:9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in
my love.
Joh 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as
I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
Joh 15:11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain
in you, and that your joy might be full.
Joh 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have
loved you.
Joh 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his
life for his friends.
Joh 15:14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
Joh 15:15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not
what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have
heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Joh 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you,
that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain:
that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it
you.
Joh 15:17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
Joh 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated
you.
Joh 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but
because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore
the world hateth you.
Joh 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not
greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute
you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
Joh 15:21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake,
because they know not him that sent me.
Joh 15:22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin:
but now they have no cloke for their sin.
Joh 15:23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
Joh 15:24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man
did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my
Father.
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