24-0823A_THE MESSAGE OF GRACE PT-7 (CALLED INTO THE GRACE OF GOD)
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.
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*HE'S ALREADY DID IT. JUST LOOK AT THE
SOVEREIGN GRACE OF GOD.
THE.PROPHET.ELISHA_ CHICAGO.IL FRIDAY_ 54-0723
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…..Could you imagine what He would do if He was standing
here now? As far as healing people, he'd say, "I've already did that when I
died at Calvary."
You say, "I'm a sinner; I
want you to save me."
He'd say, "I did that when I died at Calvary. Do you accept
it, now? See? I healed
you when I died at Calvary. I was wounded for your transgressions, with My
stripes you were healed." He can't do it doubly: He's got
to do it once. And it's already finished; it's settled forever.
Now, the only thing that He can
do now--or I can do, rather--is point you to Him. That's all. He's the Healer. He's already did it.
Just look at the sovereign grace of God. What He's already did.
THE.PROPHET.ELISHA_ CHICAGO.IL FRIDAY_ 54-0723
E-57 Now, if it would be me or you, you would say, "If they can't take my word for it, let them go on. But not God. He sends gifts into the church. He--He persuades. He's not willing for any to perish. See? And He sends then, signs of healing, and miracles, and everything among the people, trying to get them to believe.
*…CALLED INTO THE GRACE OF GOD, BY THE HOLY GHOST
THE.UNCONDITIONAL.COVENANT.THAT.GOD.MADE.WITH.HIS.PEOPLE_ PHOENIX.AZ
SATURDAY_ 54-0306
E-45 Watch! God was then in Spirit. How could God be tore apart? But one day
God was made flesh and dwelled among us, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Emmanuel. And then there at Calvary, the covenant God wrote with us, He
took the Christ to Calvary and tore Him apart, soul and body. And He
took His body up to set at the right hand of His Majesty, and sent the soul back here, or the Spirit on earth to make a covenant to carry out the Gospel.
And the same dovetail power that Jesus Christ had, He's
the same yesterday, today, and forever. And the Church is given a covenant. The
covenant is the baptism of the Holy Ghost which is the Seed of Abraham,
bringing Him to us. And then God making this covenant
that every man that's called into the grace of God, by the Holy Ghost, has the
same promise that Abraham had of Eternal Life...?... Look.
THE.UNCONDITIONAL.COVENANT.THAT.GOD.MADE.WITH.HIS.PEOPLE_ PHOENIX.AZ SATURDAY_ 54-0306
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Now, you can't have a piece of paper that just impersonates it. You
can't have a piece of paper that makes just something like it. It's got to be
the same piece of paper. And the same Spirit that was on
Jesus Christ has come back on His Church, doing the same signs, the same
wonders, the same Holy Ghost, the same power. It's the covenant that God has
given to them.
And Jesus died there in the evening time when the sun was going down, confirming this covenant. And the Holy Ghost is on the Church tonight leading the Church, just like that He was here when He was leading Christ. The same way... The same ministry Christ had is in His Church tonight: same signs, same wonders, same Spirit. Same kind of works that Jesus did here on earth the Church has to do the same thing. If it's not, it is not the Seed of Abraham; it's not the Church of Jesus Christ: can't be.
*THE GRACE OF GOD HOLDS US. BUT HE WANTS
TO GET A CHURCH THAT'LL OBEY HIM, A PEOPLE THAT'LL TAKE HIS WORD AND SAY IT'S
THE TRUTH…
And neither does this church come to its full value. The grace of God holds us. But He wants to get a church
that'll obey Him, a people that'll take His Word and say It's the Truth, regardless
of your organization. He wants a people that'll not say, "Well, I'm just
as good as you are. I'm Presbyterian; I'm Methodist; I'm Catholic; I'm as good
as you are." That's not grace; that shows there's something wrong.
95 But a person, regardless, that'll read God's Word and see that you've got to be borned again and filled with the Holy Ghost, they'll believe that; they'll take it by the Word. They'll take the Word exactly what It says.
*LET'S PUT OUR AFFECTIONS ON CHRIST AND
LOOK TO CHRIST AND HIM ALONE (AMEN.), AND HAVE FELLOWSHIP ONE WITH ANOTHER…
FATHER.THE.HOUR.HAS.COME_ CHICAGO.IL TUESDAY_ 56-1002A
E-39 Now, to think a church being built on that, let the world creep in.
Now, certainly it'll rise the indignation of a real true servant of God. Sure,
it's wrong; let's get the thing out of there. Get away
from this old lukewarm, halfway, say a little prayer of a morning, little
prayer at night, and go to bed, and get up the next morning. No wonder
we're getting worldly. No wonder world sneaks into this church. Because we don't say a prayer; there's no more agonizing;
there's no more staying before God. There's no more digging out, cleaning up.
We need a old fashion revival. We're just fooling ourself... "We're
the Assemblies. We're the Pentecostals. We're the Oneness. We're the Trinities.
We're this, that, or the other. We don't have anything to do with that other
group."
There's where the Holy Spirit leaves you, right there. When you get that in your mind, brethren, you just might as well go back to the altar, because that's the place you belong. That's right. Amen. That's how worldliness creeps in. Let's forget about it. Let's put our affections on Christ and look to Christ and Him alone (Amen.), and have fellowship one with another, while the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin. If He'd come to mark today, every one of us without a fault, who would He mark?
*BUT NOW, WHAT YOU ARE, YOU ARE BY THE GRACE OF GOD, WHAT GOD HAS.
THE.RESURRECTION.OF.JAIRUS.DAUGHTER_LOUISVILLE.KY
WEDNESDAY_ 54-0331
E-9 What is it? It's the Lord Jesus, that loves us all. He loves all you.
He's right here tonight. See? He might not--He might
deal with you in another way, but it's the same Lord. And He might deal with
you in a loving heart. That's the same Lord. He might give you a--a
passion for lost souls. It's the same Lord. See? "But
He sets some in the church: teachers, apostles, prophets, gifts of healing,
working of miracles; and all those things are set in the church. Do you
believe that? I never did say where they'd be set out of the church. He set them in the church for the perfecting of the church
and to be in the church until He comes again. Now, in those things...
Now, many times, of course, I know Christian friends, we
have a lot of impersonations on those things. That's to be expected. It's
always. We said, other night in one of our lessons, when Israel went up, a
mixed multitude went with them. That's true. But now,
what you are, you are by the grace of God, what God has. You're a Christian,
not because you sought God, but because God sought you. That's right.
See?
Man can't seek God. He just can't: it's--it's his nature to be a sinner. So he... Just like the pig; tell him he's wrong eating slop, you couldn't do it. He's a pig to begin with. So you couldn't change that. He's just the begin... But God seeks after man. And man comes to God. And when he comes to God, He gives him Everlasting Life.
*ANY SEED OF ABRAHAM EVERY HEARS THE WORD
OF GOD, THAT SATISFIES THEM.
JEHOVAH.JIREH_ PHOENIX.AZ
TUESDAY_ 55-0222
E-39 Oh, sick people, you setting here tonight, cots and stretchers, and
wheelchairs, come up to El Shaddai, take a hold of the
Word, there go to drawing, go to smiling. "I'm
the Lord that healeth thee. All heavens and earth shall pass away, but My Word
shall never pass away." See it? Start drawing from there, and
watch what happens. Feel if your strength doesn't begin to come back. The first
thing you know, you'll be satisfied. "Yeah, I believe He's going to do
it." He will do it. Just lay right with it. Stay
with it. God will do it, for He's El Shaddai, the strong One, the
all-sufficient One, the Satisfier. Amen.
Any seed of Abraham every hears the Word of God,
that satisfies them. That's
right. If God said so, don't argue about it. Just believe it. That's all. I
love that, don't you? God, the Satisfier, how that we
draw from Him and are satisfied, while we are drawing.
SPEAK.TO.THIS.MOUNTAIN_ BROOKLYN.NY SUNDAY_ 57-1215
E-17 Just some time ago, about four months, I guess, Brother Wood, that lives next door to me; he was a Jehovah Witness, forbidden to go to the church. He had a boy that had a paralyzed leg from--from polio. And at Louisville, Kentucky (where we go next), there was a--a meeting out there at the high school gymnasium. And there was great things the Lord did. His wife is Methodist, or, no, I believe the Anderson Church of God, called the First Church of God. And you probably get the program up here: "Shady Green Pastures." It's a nationwide broadcast, Brother Meekler the pastor.In a few moments she put her hands down to her side and said, "Banks (that's her husband), look here; there's no knot left. Said, "David get on your feet." And the little boy jumped up, both legs just as normal as they could be.
SPEAK.TO.THIS.MOUNTAIN_ BROOKLYN.NY SUNDAY_ 57-1215
E-18 They live next door to me. His father, being a reader in the Jehovah Witness... Now, if there's any Jehovah Witness here, no reflection. But he's excommunicated his son from their fellowship, and then said he had gone off and gone mad. Then a few years, about two years passed, Mr. Wood living next door to me, a wonderful neighbor. One day I was out cutting some grass in the backyard for a little while. And then a car drove in at Brother Wood, and he called for me to come down.He said, "Meet my brother Lyle."
Oh, I had a very cold handshake. Said, "Howdy." And just like that, walked on, great big, strong man.
And I said, "How do you do, Mr. Wood? I'm certainly happy to meet you. I am certainly a great friend to your brother here."
And he said, "Yes," and set down. And real dyed-in-the-wool Jehovah Witness... So just a little bit, he begin... Banks begin to tell him about the things he'd seen in this meeting. And he just turned his back to us.
SPEAK.TO.THIS.MOUNTAIN_ BROOKLYN.NY SUNDAY_ 57-1215
E-19 Just then, by the grace of the Lord, to a lost sinner, unbeliever, said, "Mr. Wood, your wife is a black-headed woman, and you're running around with a red-headed women. You have two little boys."He said, "I guess Banks told you that," Turned his back back to me.
But I said, "Last night when you was with her in the house, and there was a man beating at the window, and you sent her there. It's a good thing you didn't go; he would've shot your brains out.
He said, "Oh, God be merciful to me," and fell in the floor and gave his life to the Lord Jesus: Simplicity. Hundreds of sick children waiting for the vision...
SPEAK.TO.THIS.MOUNTAIN_ BROOKLYN.NY SUNDAY_ 57-1215
E-20 Down on the river, we went fishing with his old daddy, come down, it alarmed his father. And his father said, "If anything like that, I could see it happen, I'd believe it." On the road, he said, "Will you go fishing with me?"SPEAK.TO.THIS.MOUNTAIN_ BROOKLYN.NY SUNDAY_ 57-1215
E-21 Two weeks later Mr. Lyle, and Mr. Banks, and I were back again. Some of my relatives own the dock. We had fished all night with our lines, and we'd caught several big fish. And the next morning we had nothing. That day we baited our lines, was staying away, was kind of getting just a little mental rest. I was catching sunfishes to put on the line. And all of a sudden, while setting on the side of the boat with the little fly line, pulling up the little sunfish for bait, the Spirit of the Lord came down. And I said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD; it shall come to pass that there you'll see the glory of God, for there is a little animal somewhere that will be raised from the dead." And when I come to, I wondered what I had said.I said, "What did it say?"
He said, "About the little animal."
SPEAK.TO.THIS.MOUNTAIN_ BROOKLYN.NY SUNDAY_ 57-1215
E-22 Well, I had in my mind that something was going to take place at home. I have a mixed audience, but I want you to understand this. We're a little skeptic of kitties. I guess they're all right, but I--I just don't care too much for cats: none of the Branhams. So we... all--all... We never had one around the house. So my little girl and little neighbor girl come up.And she said, "Oh, daddy, someone has poisoned a poor cat." And said, "It's frothing out here. Won't you let us keep it?" Said, "We've got it in a box."
And I looked. I seen the condition. So I said, "All right. Just put it in the shed. And of course, the next morning we had a bunch of kittens. And my little boy, Joseph, kinda--kind of a rough, little fellow, he picked one of the little kittens up and squeezed it so hard till he squeezed the breath from the little fellow. And he threw him down, didn't know what to do with him. And I thought, "You know, maybe the Lord's going to raise that little kitten. It's probably died, and He's going to raise it up."
Well, Brother Banks said, "That would be wonderful." And the other Brother Wood said, Brother Lyle, had just been converted, and I had just baptized him, and he had received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAK.TO.THIS.MOUNTAIN_ BROOKLYN.NY SUNDAY_ 57-1215
E-23 And so, we let it go, and all of that night and caught no fish. The next morning we pulled into a little cove, and were going to try to catch some large sunfish to go home. While I was setting there casting a line, couldn't get a bite. And Mr. Lyle Wood pulled real hard till he let his line lay too long, and a little sunfish about that long, little green-looking fellow... You call them here "bream," I believe. Oh, he had swallowed that big hook all the way down in his little belly.And so Mr. Wood looked up and said, "Looky there, all the way down." And he just got a hold of the line wrapped around and pulled. And when he did, the little belly come out, the stomach; part of the gills come out. He pulled the hook out. He looked at him and throwed him over in the water. He flopped two or three times and turned his little fins out, turned over sideways.
And Brother Bank Wood said, "Let me just try once more." He threw--threw his line over behind some pad.
SPEAK.TO.THIS.MOUNTAIN_ BROOKLYN.NY SUNDAY_ 57-1215
E-24 And I was setting there, looking at that little fish laying back in the trash there on the water, been dead for some half hour, with his little belly out of his mouth and his gills had done turned white. And I was fishing there.Brother Banks said, "What's the matter, Brother Branham, you're white?"
And I said, "Little fishy, your creator, Jesus Christ, makes you alive. And as I'm standing in this sacred pulpit, over the Holy Bible as my witness, God, if that little fish...?... to hisself, swam through the water just as hard as he could go, perfectly well.
Mr. Lyle just pitched plumb over in the boat. He said, "Brother Branham, that's a rebuke to me because I said to the little fellow, 'You shot your wad.' I...?... for that."
I said, "No, Brother Wood. He just showed how simple He can work here. He's concerned about everything: the fishes, the...?... He's the God of the harvest. He's the God of all eternity. It's His Word.
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