24-0729P_ACCEPTING GOD'S PROVIDED WAY AT THE END-TIME PT-2

Gen 22:7  And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? 

Gen 22:8  And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. 

Gen 22:9  And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. 

Gen 22:10  And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. 

Gen 22:11  And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. 

Gen 22:12  And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. 

Joh 12:24  Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. 

Joh 12:25  He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. 

Joh 12:26  If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour. 

Joh 12:27  Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. 

Joh 12:28  Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. 

*HE COUNTS SINCERITY IN HIS PROVIDED WAY.

ACCEPTING.GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY.AT.THE.END.TIME_PHOENIX.AZ  TUESDAY_  63-0115

  140      Now, neither have they ever found any better idea for ducks and geese to come south, from the north, than to swarm and then fly their way down. No other way. You see, before they fly down south, or fly from the south back north, they swarm, first. Before they leave their grounds or homes, to a new home, they swarm. Bees does the same thing. They swarm. That's a nature. What is it? They have a revival. They all swarm and get together. You never heard such a noise in your life.

141    And before we can ever leave this habitation, to a new one, we got to swarm in a revival.

142    Oh, you get around a bunch of ducks and geese, you never heard so much jabber in all your life. What are they having? A revival. They're fixing to take to the air. Amen.

143    That's what we need today, is a swarming revival. No other way; not membership. God doesn't count majorities. He counts sincerity in His provided way.
 
* GOD'S UNDER OBLIGATION TO MAKE A WAY . GOD MAKES A WAY FOR NATURE.

GOD'S.WAY.THAT'S.BEEN.MADE.FOR.US_  JEFF.IN  V-25 N-3  52-0900

  28    Look, God has always made a provided way. God's under obligation to make a way. God makes a way for nature. Why do we have these big floods through the country? You cut off all the timbers and things like that, let her wash down. You build up a dam down here and fills up the riverbed; there she goes, the water. You interfere with nature. God had a provided way. That's what causes the flood. Anything that man tampers into, that God has made perfect, then you imperfect it. That's right.

GOD'S.WAY.THAT'S.BEEN.MADE.FOR.US_  JEFF.IN  V-25 N-3  52-0900

  29    Now, just like, for instance, like the--the ducks. I like to watch the ducks, of seasons when I go hunting up in the mountain. I'd be up there in the fall of the year. Well, there the ducks all come out of Louisiana and down there, and down in the swamps. And go up north and they settle down, make a nest and raise their little ducklings. Then the little fellows raise up, maybe come along about September, this time of year, or late September. And then the little old duck, little drake, he's never been off that pond. He's just right there in a pond.

After while the frost flies up there on the mountain. A little snow hits up there, and a cold breeze blows down across that mountain. That little old duck feels that. Now, he's never been nowhere but on that pond, he ain't a year old yet. He sticks his head up in the air, a little honker, and run out in the middle of the pond, and go "honk-honk," every duck on the pond will come to him. Every duck on the pond knows that he's a born leader. And that little old duck will rise off that pond, without a compass or anything else, and go just as straight to Louisiana, to the rice fields, as he can go.

GOD'S.WAY.THAT'S.BEEN.MADE.FOR.US_  JEFF.IN  V-25 N-3  52-0900

  31    Looks like Christians ought to have duck sense, anyhow. Doesn't it? That's right. Right.
Why? You say, "It's instinct." No, they go God's provided way. God give them a way, an instinct to lead them down there, and they believe it.

But God give man the Holy Ghost, and he rejects It, he wants his own way. But God has a provided way for us. Hallelujah. I feel kind of religious tonight, after this, and a few nights of revival.
 
*AND HE PROVED HISSELF, THAT HE WILL GIVE THOSE THE HOLY GHOST THAT'LL COME GOD'S PROVIDED WAY TO RECEIVE IT

AT.THY.WORD.LORD_  PHOENIX.AZ  FRIDAY_  48-0305

E-25    …..There's a many one in this city tonight wants to believe the full Gospel, but they're afraid of their position. That's right. They want it. They're hungry to have enough salvation to holler, "Gloria a Dios" That's right. There's a lot of them like that. But the trouble of it is, they think more of their pride and their dignity than they do of the lovely Christ of God. Oh, my.

But He's here. He's still Christ. And He proved Hisself, that He will give those the Holy Ghost that'll come God's provided way to receive it. Amen. That's right. Now, He will heal those likewise that'll come God's provided way to receive it.
 
 
*GOD PROVIDED YOU WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. GOD IN HIS NATURE, IN HIS UNIVERSE...

SHOW.US.THE.FATHER.AND.IT.SUFFICES_  CLEVELAND.OH  SATURDAY_  50-0819

E-33    This little old duck, all of them will get right around him. He'll raise off of that water. Never been off of there in his life, and go just as straight to Louisiana as he can go, to the rice fields to dodge all the cold weather, because God's given him a provided way to detect. He's never been off of there. He has no compass. He don't trust a compass; he's trusting instinct that God's give him.

If a... We ought to have "duck sense" anyhow. If God could give a duck enough instinct to dodge the cold and go to safety, how much more ought He give His church with the baptism of the Holy Ghost to trust God. God in His nature, God provided a duck with instinct. God provided you with the Holy Spirit. He's your Leader. He's here now tonight to save you, to heal you. God in His nature, in His universe...

SHOW.US.THE.FATHER.AND.IT.SUFFICES_  CLEVELAND.OH  SATURDAY_  50-0819

  E-35    How bears is my favorite hunting. The old mother bear, she... In the fall of the year when mating season, they'll go up into the mountains. There she'll eat hemlock cones, and she never eats anything else. Her stomach is all shrunk up to just about big as my fist. Summertime, it'll hold five gallons. And it shrinks up. She stand over the back. The little ones are born about February. She never wakes up. She maybe has anywhere from two to four little bears. And she never knows nothing about it until about May when she wakes up, and her cubs are great big fellows then. Never eats a bite, and those little bears nurse from her.
What is it? God's provided way. That's right. God makes a way.
 
*SO DOES THE HOLY SPIRIT TAKE THE CHURCH TO GOD'S PROVIDED PLACE. …..BUT TO BE FILLED WITH HIS PRESENCE, TO SEE HIS WORD MADE MANIFEST, VINDICATED.

GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY.FOR.THIS.DAY_  BAKF.CA  V-22 N-6  THURSDAY_  64-0206E

48      Remember, the education wouldn't be the instrument to lead them to God's provided place. The instrument they have is instinct. And they, them ducks, know that that instinct will take them to God's provided place.

49    So does the Holy Spirit take the Church to God's provided place. Not to join a church, but to be filled with His Presence, to see His Word made manifest, vindicated. That's God's provided way for the church, always, for the people, to bring them to the place that God has provided for them. That's exactly what the church should be today. Now, we know that's true.

GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY.FOR.THIS.DAY_  BAKF.CA  V-22 N-6  THURSDAY_  64-0206E

  50      There is no better way for a... They never found a better way for a baby to get what it wants than to cry for it. If you give him a bell, and say, "Junior, you're only three days old, but now when you want to, when you want your bottle, raise up this bell and ring it," see if it works. It don't work. The baby cries for what it wants. That's God's provided way. The louder you cry... Don't whip the little fellow, he is only following God's provided way. He wants something. That's right. It's the only way he knows to call his mother; scream for it, cry for it. That's right.

GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY.FOR.THIS.DAY_  BAKF.CA  V-22 N-6  THURSDAY_  64-0206E

  51      God recommends this for His children. God recommends this for His believing children. He did. Not intellectual speeches, not some great theology, theology to teach. He wants you to cry for your needs. And that's right, cry out for it! You're too stiff and starchy, you'll never get it. If you are ready to limber yourself up a little, and cry, God will give it to you. He likes to hear His children cry. Cry your needs to God! God wants it. That's His provided way. Cry out for it! That's the way the baby cries; that's the way He wants you to cry.
"Cry how long?"

52    How long does a baby cry? Until he gets satisfied. And that's the way the believing Christian should do, God's child. If you see that God made the promise, don't give it up, cry till it's answered. Cry till you see God vindicates His Word. When God vindicates His Word, and proves it's here, then you don't have to cry no more; you got it, walk away and thank Him for it. Until you do that, scream out till you get it. I like that, persistent, holding on.

53    Not a hybrid plant, not one that has to be babied and petted, and packed around. Christians are real, genuine, born, articles of God. They fight for their position, and fight till they're finished on this earth. Every move of it is a fight.
 
*BUT GOD HAS A PROVIDED WAY. IF YOU'LL ALWAYS GO IN GOD'S PROVIDED WAY, YOU'LL NEVER GO WRONG.

THE.CRUELTY.OF.SIN.AND.THE.PENALTY.THAT.IT.COST.TO.RID.SIN.FROM.OUR.LIVES_  JEFF.IN  V-25 N-4  FRIDAY_  53-0403

87    Because God has to keep His Word, no matter how good a man you are, how good a woman you are, what you are. It's God. God has got to keep His Word.

That's the reason the virgin Mary had to go up at the day of Pentecost, and receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost, just like the rest of them did, because she was born here as a mortal and had to be borned again before she could go to heaven. Amen.
 

THE.CRUELTY.OF.SIN.AND.THE.PENALTY.THAT.IT.COST.TO.RID.SIN.FROM.OUR.LIVES_  JEFF.IN  V-25 N-4  FRIDAY_  53-0403

  89    Now, look, lady, let me tell you. Just because the times has changed, God hasn't changed. You come anything short of that, you're lost. See? Now, I'm only speaking in behalf of what God did nineteen hundred years ago today on Calvary, to show you what a sacrifice that had to be made to pay this, and that's God's way. Now, there's a way that seems right; but God has a provided way. If you'll always go in God's provided way, you'll never go wrong.
 

*NOW WE FIND OUT THAT ENOCH COME INTO GOD'S PROVIDED WAY, WITH HIS WORD, AND WALKED FIVE HUNDRED YEARS, AND PLEASED HIM. 

GOD'S.PROVIDED.PLACE.OF.WORSHIP_  LA.CA  V-18 N-2  SUNDAY_  65-0425

140      Let's take a man here that kept all the Word of God, back in the Old Testament, by the name of Enoch. He was so quickened by the Word of God, that he had a testimony, that, "He pleased God." There wasn't one thing that God commanded Enoch to do but what he did it.

141    I wonder how many Enoch's would be here this afternoon, that, if you know it's in the Word of God? How many of you bobbed-haired women could call yourself an Enochist, see, see, and know that God condemns that? How many of you man, that let's them women do that, could call yourself an Enoch? Oh, my! That's just one thing, how about the thousands? And we smother down, say, "I belong to this, and I belong to that." You may belong to that, but... till you come into God's provided place! And you can't get in there unless you become part of that Word. And, being part of It, you become all of It, subject to all. Notice, we have this here that the Bible calls "the Word of God," and, which, it is the Word of God.

GOD'S.PROVIDED.PLACE.OF.WORSHIP_  LA.CA  V-18 N-2  SUNDAY_  65-0425

  142      Now we find out that Enoch come into God's provided way, with His Word, and walked five hundred years, and pleased Him. And we find out that the mechanics was so perfect in Him, that when the dynamics got to working in the engine, It just took him off the earth. He took the first airplane flight, like, to Heaven. Working on God's mechanics and dynamics, together, "he was not," because God took him out of the earth, without death. That's exactly right. He was walking in God's provided way.

Jas 5:1  Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. 

Jas 5:2  Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. 

Jas 5:3  Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. 

Jas 5:4  Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. 

Jas 5:5  Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. 

Jas 5:6  Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you. 

Jas 5:7  Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. 

Jas 5:8  Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. 

Jas 5:9  Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door. 

Jas 5:10  Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. 

Jas 5:11  Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. 

Jas 5:12  But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation. 

Jas 5:13  Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. 

Jas 5:14  Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 

Jas 5:15  And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 

Jas 5:16  Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. 

Jas 5:17  Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. 

Jas 5:18  And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. 

Jas 5:19  Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; 

Jas 5:20  Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. 

 

24-0726A_GREATER IS HE 

2Ki 6:15  And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? 

2Ki 6:16  And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. 

2Ki 6:17  And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. 

2Ki 6:18  And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha. 

1Jn 4:4  Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. 

1Jn 4:5  They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. 

1Jn 4:6  We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. 

IT.IS.THE.RISING.OF.THE.SUN_  JEFF.IN  V-3 N-12  SUNDAY_  65-0418M

108    There has been churches, churches, brides, brides, churches, brides, brides.

109    But there has got to come One! Hallelujah! There has to come a real Bride! There must come One that's not only got the Mechanics, but the Dynamics of It, makes that Church live, move in the Power of His resurrection. Until we come to that place, until we find that place, what good does it do to polish the hubs? What good does it do to give her a facelift or a simonize job, when there's no Dynamics in it? No matter how much the Mechanics prove to be right, there has got to be a Dynamics to make It work.

1Ti 5:19  Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses. 

 2Ki 6:19  And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria. 

2Ki 6:20  And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria. 

2Ki 6:21  And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them? 

2Ki 6:22  And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master. 

2Ki 6:23  And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel. 

 

24-0726A_THE MESSAGE OF GRACE PT-3 (FALLING APART)

Heb 12:24  And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. 

Heb 12:25  See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: 

Heb 12:26  Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 

Heb 12:27  And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 

Zec 4:1  And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep, 

Zec 4:2  And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof: 

Zec 4:3  And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof. 

Zec 4:4  So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord? 

Zec 4:5  Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord. 

Zec 4:6  Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. 

Zec 4:7  Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it. 

*THERE'S NO--THERE'S NO FOUNDATION NOWHERE. COMMUNISM, CATHOLICISM, PROTESTANTISM, POLITICS, MORAL, EVERYTHING HAS FALLEN APART.

THE.FALLING.APART.OF.THE.WORLD_  JEFF.IN  V-10 N-6  SUNDAY_  62-1216

  38    If that isn't the picture today, I don't know the world. It's looking for something to hold it together. It's just like it was two thousand years ago. The world two thousand years ago was looking for a Messiah to hold the thing together. But two thousand years ago, God gave the world a Messiah. Because if we're expecting something and looking for something, God will send it to us. And now, the world after two thousand years, has got back into the same condition it was two thousand years ago. She's dropping apart, nations... There's no--there's no foundation nowhere. Communism, Catholicism, Protestantism, politics, moral, everything has fallen apart.

And they're praying for a Messiah. But here's what I want to say: If He would come, would we receive Him, or would we do like they did? Would we refuse Him? Do we know what we really need? Sometimes we want--we pray for our desires, and sometimes our desires is not our need. We must realize that we do not understand what we need; we think we do. But God promised to supply our needs, and that He'll do.
 
*…IF YOU'RE A SENSIBLE THINKING FATHER YOU WOULDN'T DO SUCH A THING AS THAT; BUT YOU WOULD KEEP IT FROM HIM.

THE.FALLING.APART.OF.THE.WORLD_  JEFF.IN  V-10 N-6  SUNDAY_  62-1216

  40    Now, what if my little Joseph, seven years old, would want to go a-hunting with me, and would cry and scream to take my automatic shotgun loaded up with shells, "I can kill a rabbit, daddy"? Well, I--I could not let him do that, yet he--he thinks he needs it, but I know more about it than he does.

And what if your little baby of a year and a half old would see you shaving with a straight razor, and scream and cry for that razor? Yet he seen you shaving, he wants to do the same thing. Why, you know what's best for him. Yet you--you wouldn't let him have it, because if you're a sensible thinking father you wouldn't do such a thing as that; but you would keep it from him. And then many times that we want something that's contrary to God's knowing of what we have need of, so He wouldn't give it to us.
 
*HE CAME, AND--TO THEM, BUT HE DIDN'T COME IN THE FASHION AND IN THE WAY THAT THEY DESIRED HIM TO COME.

THE.FALLING.APART.OF.THE.WORLD_  JEFF.IN  V-10 N-6  SUNDAY_  62-1216

  41    And they were praying for a Messiah. They wanted a Messiah. But here's where it's at. They wanted Him in the way that--that they wanted. And God sent Him in the way that He wanted Him, and they refused Him. And they'd do it again today, do the same thing today. They'd refuse It again.

They do the same thing now as they did then. Why? For the same reason, the same reason. He came then, and we know He come. He came, and--to them, but He didn't come in the fashion and in the way that they desired Him to come. And if God would send us something today, we calling out for it, and the church, and when God sends it, we don't want it. It don't come to suit our denominational test. It don't come to suit our--our theological conception of it sometimes. But it's the--the very thing that we prayed for. The very request that we asked before God, God sent it to us, and we refuse it.

We want a Christmas gift from God, but we want it the way we want it. God sends it the way we need it. He knows what the nation; He knows what the church needs. But we think we know, but He knows really what it is.
 
*THE DEATH OF MODESTY.

THE.FALLING.APART.OF.THE.WORLD_  JEFF.IN  V-10 N-6  SUNDAY_  62-1216

  44    Now, as I said a few minutes ago, we come to this Christmas again, the world falling apart. Let's just name a few things that I jotted down here.
Look at the immorality of the world: never was in a lower state, hardly. I--I got an article here that I would just like to read a couple verses of it. It's found in a--a paper, a "Standard Bearer of Africa," says, "The death of modesty. Feminine modesty that beautiful quality that God has placed in the human family to safeguard its moral standard is dying today, as innocent mere women and girls have bowed their knees to the goddess of fashion and do not hesitate to confirm to the most extreme of shamefulness of modest modern styles." I got about a page of it here, how I never heard such a thing. "And sex appeal is regarded as legitimate both among Christians and non-Christians."
 
*THAT'S THE GOD-GIVEN QUALITY TO SAFEGUARD OUR MORALS.

THE.FALLING.APART.OF.THE.WORLD_  JEFF.IN  V-10 N-6  SUNDAY_  62-1216

  46    As this our precious Brother Arganbright and I came down the road early this morning, was talking about the subject. It's hard to find a girl with enough modesty to blush. They've heard so many dirty jokes and filth, and, why, you couldn't say nothing to make them blush. When a few years ago, no more than when I was a boy, a little thing wrong, their face would color up, a little thing pass by, and another little girl's little underneath skirt was showing in school, and I was standing, talk, and when she looked over and seen this little girl's underneath skirt showing, her little face turned red, and she walked away from me, a sixteen year old girl. Why, what a... That's the God-given quality to safeguard our morals.

Then can you wonder why I cry out against such nonsense as we're getting today, calling ourselves Christians, and women dressing and acting, and men smoking cigarettes, and everything else, and carrying on like this. And ministers in the pulpit, compromising, and won't even let you come to their pulpit to preach against such stuff. Wonder if we're not doing a whole lot today like they did back two thousand years ago.
 
WHAT WE NEED TODAY IS A MESSAGE ANOINTED WITH THE MESSIAHSHIP OF CHRIST.
 THE.FALLING.APART.OF.THE.WORLD_  JEFF.IN  V-10 N-6  SUNDAY_  62-1216
  48    Remember, when Israel got to doing that, God raised up an Isaiah. When that time was lived out, and they started again, He raised up a Jeremiah, on down through. And God doesn't change His way of doing things; He's the eternal God. He can't change. His first idea of doing it has to ever remain the same.

What we need today is a Message anointed with the Messiahship of Christ. But would they receive it? They pray for it, but would they receive it? No, sir, they wouldn't receive it. They crucify it like they did the first place. The human heart is deceiving.

Morality, national strife... Where was the world any more ready to fall apart in morals than it is today? And who set the--who set the pace? We Americans.

When I was at--at San Angelo in Rome, here not long ago, by the San Angelo catacomb, there was a sign up there to the American women to "Please put on clothes to honor the dead, before entering the catacomb." A religious nation, supposed to be a God-fearing nation, we're living on past experiences of other people, our forefathers which were Christians.
 
*NATIONAL STRIFE...

  50    National strife... There's never been a time in the world that this world was any more in a national tear up and falling apart than it is right now. Why, you see editorials, and newscasts, and--and commentators, and--and predictors, and so forth, saying of the bombs and what they could do: just any little nation destroy the whole world. And there's no peace among them. You can't bring peace that way. Peace and fellowship cannot come by--by politics; it come by Christ. They don't want to receive It.

How I could speak some things here: The corruptness in our own politics, why, politics is so rotten. You was hearing "Monitor" the other night, I suppose, or think this broadcast, hour or two out of Louisville here, where they connect across the nation. And they was giving... They do once in a while on different subjects, and they gave it on Mr. Nixon's turning away from politics when he lost his race, political race in Los Angeles, or through California, and would he ever come back? And when the broadcast, after two or three hours, I'd listened at it coming from down to Brother Charlie's house here, and listened at it coming up, Brother Wood and I, on the radio. And come to find out that Nixon, on all eastern country here, as far as the broadcast reached, from Mississippi to Pennsylvania, that he had beat Mr. Kennedy, and the people calling and expressing, almost four to one votes. Then a man stood and said, "If you hadn't have had crooked machines he'd be President." There you are. Politics, cheating, rotten on both sides. I don't blame him; I'd throw up my hands too, and let the nasty stuff corrupt. It's going with the world anyhow. But hold your hands towards Christ and say, "Here I come, Lord."
 
*AND THEN THE CHURCH CORRUPTION, OH, MY, THE RELIGIOUS CORRUPTION

THE.FALLING.APART.OF.THE.WORLD_  JEFF.IN  V-10 N-6  SUNDAY_  62-1216

  52    National strife... And now, where you ought to think that they ought to be trying to hold together, they're so separated. That's the way it was in the coming time two thousand years ago when the world was falling apart. It's falling apart today under the same conditions.

And then the church corruption, oh, my, the religious corruption... Oh, it's ridiculous to see the world after two thousand years of the Bible and the Holy Spirit being here on earth, and today it's falling apart as bad as it was two thousand years ago. Religious corruption, politics entered religion, and religion entered politics. Such a horrible thing to see the condition... I know it's... You say, "Brother Branham, you oughtn't to be painting us a picture like this here at Christmas time." You ought to know the truth, what you ought to know. Now, how can...
 
*GOD WILL BLESS, BUT THAT BLESSING'S GOT TO COME UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES, CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS THAT YOU MUST MEET.

THE.FALLING.APART.OF.THE.WORLD_  JEFF.IN  V-10 N-6  SUNDAY_  62-1216

  54    God will bless, but that blessing's got to come under certain circumstances, certain requirements that you must meet. And if you don't meet those requirements, then the blessings and promises of God is non-effect to you. God promised to meet Israel as long as they kept those solemn feasts and things with--with sacredness and sincerity. God met them. But when He--they just went to making it just like a family ritual, then God refused to do it any more; He said they stunk in His face. So it's the same thing today, that we--we--we got to get back to what's the truth of the thing.
 
*DENOMINATIONAL STRIFE... WHAT CAUSED IT ALL, FRIEND, IS BECAUSE THAT POLITICS TOOK THE PLACE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

Political strife in the churches, we stand today with around nine hundred different denominations of Christianity each one fighting the other. Well, that's--wasn't quite that bad when He come, there was only about four or five sectors of them, Pharisees, and Sadducees, and so forth. But now we got nine hundred and something. Why, it's in a worse condition, the church is, at this Christmas, than it was nineteen hundred years ago at Christmas. Was in a worse condition now. Denominational strife... What caused it all, friend, is because that politics took the place of the Holy Spirit.
 

*THE HOLY SPIRIT WANTS TO TAKE THE WORD OF GOD AND LEAD THE CHURCH TO VICTORY, BUT EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND POLITICIANAL PROGRAMS… 

THE.FALLING.APART.OF.THE.WORLD_  JEFF.IN  V-10 N-6  SUNDAY_  62-1216

  55    The Holy Spirit wants to take the Word of God and lead the church to victory, but educational programs and politicianal programs, creeds and denominations has led it in nine hundred different directions. So the church has no, the what's called church... I don't mean the real Church; she's still waves right on. Oh, yeah. She still stays the same. But what is called church in the world, that seems to be the--the framework that puts the--holds the world together, that knits what we call today the morals and things of the world, it's polluted. Its--its fibers are rotten, and she's... The termites of selfishness and--has eat the very foundations out from under her. It certainly is true. Now, just in the condition It said it would get, II Timothy 3, "Heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God," and so forth.
 
*CHURCH, PLEASE HEAR THIS….BACK TO THE WORD. THAT'S WHAT THE MESSIAH WOULD SAY.

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  56    Then if we see politics in the condition that they are in the nations, and we see the churches in its corruption in its denominations, and yet we want God to come to us in those things... God will not come down in that gutter with us, under the things that we want Him to come by. He will not do it. He's holy, and He--He--He knows what's best. If we call, He answers us. And when He sends the answer, we refuse it. We want it the way we want it. And we try to get God, and try to save ourselves, by the very thing that's proven to us... Church, please hear this. The very thing that's godly proven to us, that's corrupted us, and yet were looking to that very system to save us. Back to the Word. That's what the Messiah would say.

Now, but we look to--to politics. We try for the national world; we try to save it through politics. The church wants our world saved (church world) through politics. This episode has struck the world time after time ever since the time of Moses: Same thing, politics trying to rule. And it's corrupt. There's no way a man can do it; there's nothing good in a man to begin with. That's the reason he has to die.
 
*I'D RATHER HAVE MY CONSOLATION BUILT UPON THE WORD OF GOD, AND THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST…

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  57    And when we--when we--when we see this world in this condition, seem to be falling apart in every age, when the world gets in that condition, the people prays. Oh, even the President calls for (What was it?) ten minutes or an hour or something of prayer. That won't do any good. What we need is not a praying, but a repentance, turning back, getting away from, forsaking. Come back to God. I'd rather have my consolation built upon the Word of God, and the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the Presence of Christ, than all the security that politics or churches could ever give you. Certainly, 'cause I know That'll stand.
 
*WHEN THE WORLD…GETS IN THIS CONDITION, FALLING APART, THEN GOD ALWAYS ANSWERS THEIR PRAYER, SENDS THEM A PROPHET OR SOMETHING…

THE.FALLING.APART.OF.THE.WORLD_  JEFF.IN  V-10 N-6  SUNDAY_  62-1216

  58    We didn't even have a nation, we'd been better off if we'd just have the nation of God, God's Kingdom. God always answers and sends them relief, but they don't want to receive it. That, God answers when the nation gets in these kind of conditions, every time. When the world, rather, gets in this condition, falling apart, then God always answers their prayer, sends them a prophet or something, some mighty prophet to blast it. But they won't listen to him. What do they do? Put him in the tomb. Jesus said, "Which one of you, your fathers didn't put the prophets out there in the tomb, and then white, make them white now, and build up their sepulchres? And you're the one that put them in there." That's right. "Which one of you?"

They cried for help. God sent it to them, and they rejected it. Then what, is God to blame or is the people to blame? The people's to blame. Certainly.
 

BUT GOD SENDS US PEACE. GOD SENDS US HOPE. WE DON'T WANT IT. 

THE.FALLING.APART.OF.THE.WORLD_  JEFF.IN  V-10 N-6  SUNDAY_  62-1216

  69    He sent a Saviour, not to stomp out the nations. As we'd think today, we need a man who can stand up. America wants a man who will knock Russia to who wouldn't have it. Russia wants a man who will knock the rest of the world out and take them over to the moon. But God sends us peace. God sends us hope. We don't want it. Oh, say, "We--we can have peace; the nations wants peace." Truly. And they think they can have it when the U.N. gets together. Why, the U.N. is as far off of it as...

The peace that this world's got today is like a rubber balloon floating in the air: just every little wind can carry it anyway it wants to. Certainly. Any little change of politics just sways it from one side to the other. Can't say a prayer in the U.N. on account it might hurt the other peoples name, feelings that don't even believe in God. Oh, that's stabilization isn't it, just puff any way? And another thing, a balloon will blow up at anything too. Amen. And this world's so-called peace, by U.N. and so forth, will blow up. Right. There's no peace in that. Can't find peace by man-made achievement. It's not there. Carried away with every wind...
 
*LET HIS MIND BE IN YOU; YOU JUST THINK THE SAME, AND THAT'S HIS WORD. HE'S DONE EXPRESSED HIS THOUGHTS TO US.

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  70    The church wants one. They want... Their peace is about waved about with every wind of doctrine too. Everything sweeps around, one of them say, "Oh, I think all we have to do..."

You think? You ain't got no think coming. God's done expressed His thoughts. You ain't got no right to think. "Let the mind that was in Christ be in you." And He purposed and done the will of God. He said, "If I do not the works of God, then don't believe Me." See?

You ain't got no think coming. He's the One does the thinking. Let His mind be in you; you just think the same, and that's His Word. How you going to think different? He's done expressed His thoughts to us. But we want to do our thinking, "I think they ought to do this."
 
 
*BUT HERE'S GOD'S THOUGHTS IN THE BIBLE. THAT'S GOD'S THOUGHTS EXPRESSED TO US.

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  72    I was riding with a dear old soul yesterday, going up to pray for a sick child. And when we got to the sick child, the family didn't want us to pray for it; that was just this man's idea. However, on the road up, this lady said, an old lady about eighty-one years old, smart, brilliant woman, very nice, but she said, "I think what ought to take place (See? 'I think'), that all the churches ought to come together and be one." That's exactly what the devil thinks. But God wants a separation of His church from the things of the world. He don't want it mixed up in church politics. See? And what if God sent a Messiah to the world? And that--that lady was only thinking the thoughts of the whole world. What's the Confederation of Church but the same thought? What's the World Council of Churches but for the same purpose to achieve that very thought? That right? Well, then, lady, that lady only expressed the thoughts of the world.

But here's God's thoughts in the Bible. We ain't got no right to take different from That. That's God's thoughts expressed to us. We feel--find the world falling apart, and we're crying for something. Let's receive It. Now, if it receives and tries to lead us off to politics, that's the very thing that's corrupted us.
 
*BUT COME TO FIND OUT THAT CHRIST IS THE VERY HEART OF GOD.

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E-11    ….And that's the way it is with John 3:16. It isn't how much Scripture is written, it's what it holds. It holds a message to the world, that God so loved.

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  E-12    …..And when God so loved the world, God's Divine love to Adam's race, when He so loved it, Christ stepped out and sovereign grace took its place. God's love was met by sovereign grace. God gave His only begotten Son. You see it?

Now, I used to think that God was angry with me, but Christ loved me. But come to find out that Christ is the very heart of God. And in this beautiful type of the coming out of the children of Israel, how that Christ in type, was the smitten rock. And the only way that those people... After searching everywhere for water, they were perishing. And Moses, God's servant, took the judgment rod, which it was a judgment stick... It had brought judgment upon the unbeliever of Egypt, flies, gnats, all kinds of diseases, affliction. God's judgment stick that was waved in the hand of His servant, smote the rock, and rock gave forth its water, and a perishing people was saved. What a beautiful type of John 3:16.

  E-13    God loved the world that He... The smiting of the just judgments that belonged to us, they were all smitten onto Christ. And out of Him came forth rivers of living waters, speaking of the Spirit, that a perishing people might live. The waters of life coming from Him, a smitten sacrifice, an accepted One... And no matter how little... I love God for that.
 
*AND HE'LL CRY TO IT, "GRACE, GRACE, WITH SHOUTINGS AND CRYINGS." THAT'S WHAT IT IS TODAY: GOD'S AMAZING GRACE TO HIS PEOPLE.

  65    We've got theologians today; we've got Doctors of Divinity; we've got great men all over the world that's smart, intelligent, and educated. But it takes the simplicity of believing God to make His Word speak out to show that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Takes a humble heart dedicated to God, bring Jesus Christ unto present tense. Amen. If it taken theology, what would the Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, and so forth, we wouldn't have a chance us poor unlearned people. But it doesn't take knowledge. "Not by power or by might, but by My Spirit," saith God, "I'll unfold this mystery." And he'll cry to it, "Grace, grace, with shoutings and cryings." That's what it is today: God's amazing grace to His people. How He takes the illiterate, the unlearned, shows that Jesus is the same.
 
*IT'S A ABSOLUTELY, GENUINE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD THAT BINDS OUR HEARTS TOGETHER IN CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP AND LOVE.

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E-62    Love, God is love. "He that loveth is of God." Divine love, not affectionate love... There's two different kinds of love. Now, we know we get into this here "free love," and all kinds of stuff called love. But that's not Divine love. That's a mockery of the devil. You know that. There's two different loves: there's a love called "phileo love," and there's a love called "Agapao love."

A "phileo love," the Greek word, means "the love like I would have for you as a fellow, or my wife." You have for your wife a phileo love. Now, that love, if you'd catch a... You'd be jealous of her. If you'd catch a man insulting her, you'd kill the man for it. That's phileo love.

But Agapao love would make you pray for his lost soul. That's the difference. That's where people don't understand. See, it ain't some kind of an effectual, worked up mental condition. It's a absolutely, genuine Holy Spirit of God that binds our hearts together in Christian fellowship and love.

E-63    …..Then when God sees that you're moving on... Every son that cometh to God, must what? Be first chastised of God, tried, proven. Did you know that? You do that on any decision you make. God does it in making you. Every son that cometh must be chastised of God.

Eph 2:18  For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. 

Eph 2:19  Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; 

Eph 2:20  And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; 

Eph 2:21  In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: 

Eph 2:22  In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.