24-0719A_THE MESSAGE OF GRACE PT-2

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. 

*WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE, THAT THROUGH FAITH, NOT BY WORKS. WORKS SHOWS THAT YOU HAVE BEEN SAVED.

THE.MESSAGE.OF.GRACE_  JEFF.IN  V-13 N-3  SUNDAY_  61-0827

  57    So in the Deity of Jesus Christ, if the Lord God could come there and confirm that that is the truth, not only that, but by His Word He confirms it's the truth, and by signs and wonders He confirms it's the truth. Then, also, grace is the truth. Then why could anyone criticize and say that grace is wrong, that we're saved by works? We are saved by grace, that through faith, not by works. Works shows that you have been saved. But what saves you is the grace of God. Grace saves you. Grace is what God does for you. Works is what you do for God to show appreciation of what God did for you. But by grace are you saved.
 
 
*GOD HAS TO DO IT. YOU CAN DO ALL THESE THINGS AND STILL BE LOST. IT'S GRACE THAT SAVES YOU, GOD'S GRACE TO THE HUMAN RACE.

THE.MESSAGE.OF.GRACE_  JEFF.IN  V-13 N-3  SUNDAY_  61-0827

  58    Some people thinks, "Because I go join church, put my name on the book, that's all I have to do." Some people thinks, "Because I shout, that's all I have to do." Others think, "'Cause I speak with tongues, that's all I have to do." Some thinks, "Because I got power to heal the sick, that's all I have to do." It's not. It's the grace of God that saves you, God's amazing grace. I cannot trust in any merits. Some said, "Oh, there's a great man. That man, I've heard him stand up and do this; I've heard him stand up and do that."

Paul said, in I Corinthians 13, "Though I speak with tongue of men and Angels, though I have discernment, though I have gifts, to feed--I'll take all my goods to feed the poor, though I can move mountains with faith, though I have knowledge to understand all things, I am nothing till love comes in, which is grace." God has to do it. You can do all these things and still be lost. It's grace that saves you, God's grace to the human race.
 
 
*…AND STILL YOUR GRACE IS SPREAD ABROAD IN OUR HEARTS BY THE HOLY SPIRIT

THE.MESSAGE.OF.GRACE_  JEFF.IN  V-13 N-3  SUNDAY_  61-0827

  60    To think of Him... I was thinking of that grace immediately after that appeared Friday morning just at the break of day up there in that field when I set on a log later, and tears come down in my eyes. I thought, "O God, Your grace has stooped to save me. Why did You ever have such pity upon a poor illiterate wretch like myself? How did You ever come down to our humble little Tabernacle, where peace, and people of low walk of life, poor, have nothing of this world, and still Your grace is spread abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, that You heal our sickness, and save our sins--save us from our sins, rather, and make us Your people, deal with us?"
 
*BUT COME TO FIND OUT THAT CHRIST IS THE VERY HEART OF GOD.

WHEN.DIVINE.LOVE.IS.PROJECTED.SOVEREIGN.GRACE.TAKES.ITS.PLACE_  LIMA.OH  SATURDAY_  57-0126E

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.

WHEN.DIVINE.LOVE.IS.PROJECTED.SOVEREIGN.GRACE.TAKES.ITS.PLACE_  LIMA.OH  SATURDAY_  57-0126E

  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.

Joh 1:13  Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 

Joh 1:14  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. 

Now, a few weeks ago at the Christian Business Men's Convention in Minneapolis, I heard a testimony that struck me. And the man is a great plow man. What is his name? I forget now. Brother Krause, very fine man. Brother Krause made a testimony which brought this to my mind. That when he got sick, he was a bosom friend to Oral Roberts. And Oral Roberts is a fine Christian brother. And he and Brother Oral were just like that together.

Well, first thing you know, he thought, "Well, if something would ever happen to me, only thing I'd do would be go to Oral and that'd be over with."

LOVE_  SHREVEPORT.LA  THURSDAY_  56-0726

  E-25    Now, when you get those ideas, you're wrong. That's right. Don't you never think that man has anything to do with it; it's God alone. It's all right for you to respect men and love them as your brother, but don't never put the love of anybody in your heart like you have of God, or before God. Keep Him first. Love one another. But that love in the Greek love is "phileo" which means "human love." But the love you have for God is "agapao" love, which is a Divine love.

So now, keep God's love first. But then, Brother Krause said that he always had such great faith in Brother Roberts. One day he--he found out he had a kidney trouble: kidney stone. He said, "Oh, my, that's easy. I'll just go down to Brother Roberts. When I have dinner with him..."

Oral said, "Sure, we can take care that. Right away, Brother Krause." Raised up, laid his hands on him, said, rebuked the thing.

Said, "He felt better." Went home for a day or two, it was back again. Goes back to Brother Roberts, and said, "Brother Roberts, the thing's back on me."

"We'll pray again." And he rebuked the thing again. Felt better for a few hours, back again. Kept doing that, till he found out that He didn't--wasn't getting anywhere. Oh, there.

"Oral, fails, I know somebody won't fail, Brother Branham. He sure won't fail." So he said, "I know, I'll go down stand before the--that gift, he will tell me just exactly what to do." Said, "I'll find where he's at."

LOVE_  SHREVEPORT.LA  THURSDAY_  56-0726

  E-26    I was in Shreveport, Louisiana, on my last meeting here. He come over to the Washington Rio Hotel, him and his lovely wife. And he said, "Brother Branham, I'm going to try to get a prayer card." They give it to him every night; he never was called in the line.

LOVE_  SHREVEPORT.LA  THURSDAY_  56-0726

  E-27    Loving him the way, just--just when he was starting to leave, he was down in the--the lobby. I was there when he come by. He started to crying, and he went out and shook my hand. I said, "Brother Krause, I want you to come up to the room. Come with me." And I went to the room.

And I said, "Now, Brother Krause, let us pray. I'll stand before you and before God, before God and you, rather, and I'll see what the Lord tells me." I humbled myself before the Lord, went out the way I always do, to try to find... And the Holy Spirit come down and struck me, and refused to say a word to me.

I said, "That don't happen very often. Let us try it again." And we prayed again and said, "Now, Lord, if we did anything wrong, why, You forgive us for it. We don't mean to be doing anything wrong. But Brother Krause is my good brother, and he wants to know what Your will is for him. Will You speak to me, Father? And now, I offer to Thee, not myself, for I have nothing to offer, but I come in the Name of the Lord Jesus, for His sake. And now, Brother Couch, my brother stands before me, who's helped me many times in great troubles and things and--and so forth, and we've been brothers. Now, will You speak, Lord?" And I humbled myself before the Lord, and the Holy Spirit refused to say a word. Then nothing I could do. Very seldom, about once or twice in my life, I ever seen it do that.

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  E-28    So then, I didn't know what to tell him. I said, "Brother Krause, I don't understand it." And I said, "I'm afraid to ask again." So we went ahead, and I prayed for him, laid hands on him, went away.

And he said, "You know, I feel better; I ain't got a pain right now." Went away for about, for about three or four weeks. He was all right. All at once, one night it begin to come again.

Now, he said, "Lord Jesus, I love You. And I've been to both Brother Roberts and Brother Branham, and what am I going to do?" He said, "Now, I'm... Don't want to go to any doctor. I don't want to go. But I... What shall I do?"

And so then, finally he was drove to a doctor. And when He went to the doctor, they sent him to Mayo's. Mayo's looked him over and said, "Well, friend, you got about one chance out of one thousand of ever living over another month." Said, "Your operation might be, if we would remove the stone, but it's set in something." And said, "If we remove that, it might kill you on the operation." He said, "You're just near death. And you got one chance out of a thousand of ever pulling through it."

"Well," he said, "let me think it over."

LOVE_  SHREVEPORT.LA  THURSDAY_  56-0726

  E-29    And he loves the Lord, anybody that knows Brother Krause; he's a real Christian. He said, "Dear God, You know I love You. I've done everything I know to do, but then, now, if it's my time to come Home to You, I'm ready to come. But I love You, and my last words to You is: 'I love You.' And You know my heart that I love You."

And he went on to the operation, and the doctor kind of hesitated a little bit to do it. But after the operation was performed, he woke up, and he said, "The whole entire room was lit up by the Glory of God." And the doctors couldn't even understand how quickly and what happened.

When love has been projected and come to its end, sovereign grace stepped in and took its place. It'll do it every time. That's God's nature. He can't do nothing else for anybody. But when you really, truly, love Him... Loving Him is not just a mythical thought, but I mean in your heart He becomes dear to you.