24-0902P_FAITHFUL SERVICE UNTO THE LORD
Jud 1:1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
Jud 1:2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
Heb 13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
Heb 13:13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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E-2 Now, hearing this, our brother, on those birds like that, that is a spiritual gift. Try to impersonate it once, see how you get along. God has give that to the brother. I heard this young man singing that song, "Yielded, Lord, to Thee." And how that Brother Cauble, setting there, told me he was just converted out of the nightclub: he and his wife. And how that--that singing, try to impersonate that? It's a gift; it comes from God. Now, the gift was in him when he was born. The gift was in the other man when he was born. But what they use it for, is what goes. Every man will have to answer for his talent. God gives men talent and they have to use it. Some can preach like a house on fire, and the other, different things. But God requires these talents. And I'm so thankful to know that these two brethren, setting back here, have yielded their talents, which they could be out here in nightclubs and everything else, a using those talents, but they surrendered them to the Lord Jesus Christ to win souls. And I'm happy for that this morning. And my brethren, may the Lord ever continue...EARNESTLY.CONTENDING.FOR.THE.FAITH_ LOUISVILLE.KY SUNDAY_ 54-0404M
E-3 The little brother here, the song leader, Brother Cauble, many others here, God has give you talent. Maybe you say, "Well, Brother Branham, He hasn't give me nothing." You don't know, maybe. See? You may just go try something. Maybe you've never went out and testified to somebody. Try that. Everybody can't do that. Maybe you can't--something else that you could do. There's something you can do that you can put it to God. But now, the thing you have to do, is do what the brother sing in his song: yield. The man who could whistle and impersonate all the birds that I ever heard, well then, that--that man yielded himself to it--give in to it. The man who could sing, he yielded himself; he give in to it. Now, for these things here, of the Gospel and the manifestation of visions, I just yield myself and give in to it, and that's what does it. See? It's not me; it's Him. And it's something that you can't help. The man can't help because he was borned to whistle like birds. Why, he's just... He was born that way. The man that sang, was the same way. And to see visions is just as common to me as it is to them to do that. You see what I mean now? It all together, it's for one edification of the glory of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.EARNESTLY.CONTENDING.FOR.THE.FAITH_ LOUISVILLE.KY SUNDAY_ 54-0404M
E-10 Now, for instance, Stephen Foster, many of you all remember him, wrote the old, one of the--gave America its best folk song: "Old Kentucky Home." That's the national emblem, isn't it? That's it. That's right. It's the greatest song. (You know?) Will won't... Some Kentuckians ought to say, "Amen" somewhere. "An Old Kentucky Home," I'm telling you it's famous everywhere.And I was out here not long ago, to the old Kentucky home. A little nurse here in the city, that's out here at the hospital, Saint Joseph's, and she was a good friend of mine. And my wife and all of us went out to, stood at the old Kentucky home. I was leaning over that little desk where Stephen Foster received inspiration to write that song. After they--they'd passed through, I was looking at his picture. And there was the angel that's supposed to touch him to give him inspiration. I thought, "Mr. Foster, you've had it in the head, but not in the heart. And you get inspiration; you go up and write" (You know?), "Old Black Joe" and all those famous old songs. And then as soon as the inspiration left him, he'd go out and get drunk; just stay drunk for weeks at a time. And then finally, he wrote a--a song and when he come out from under the inspiration, he didn't know where he was at, and--and he called a servant and took a razor and committed suicide. That was the end of Stephen Foster.
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E-11 I stood not long ago in London, England, at the grave of William Cowper, where he was this great famous poet, author, and beloved Christian man. He wrote this famous song, the Communion song we use at our Tabernacle:There is a fountain filled with Blood,
Drawn from Emmanuel's veins.
When sinners plunge beneath the flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.
And after writing that song, when he come down out of that inspiration, he didn't know where he was at. And he found hisself in a cab, trying to find the river to commit suicide. William Cowper, considered in England, a neurotic, I stood by his grave while tears dropped off of my wrinkled cheeks, for I had a feeling for my brother and know what he meant.
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E-12 I'm thinking of the--of Jonah, the prophet, when he come up and went down there under inspiration, that God give him inspiration: a prophet, now. And told him, "Go down here to a certain city, Nineveh. It's wicked. Cry out." A city the size of St. Louis, Missouri. "And cry out to them that God would send punishment upon the city." And the man didn't want to go, because he knowed he wouldn't be welcome. And he took a--a boat and went to Nineveh. But when God speaks something, He's determined that it's going to be done. And so you know the story of Jonah.EARNESTLY.CONTENDING.FOR.THE.FAITH_ LOUISVILLE.KY SUNDAY_ 54-0404M
E-19 Jude, wrote 6--in A.D. 66. That would be thirty-three years after Pentecost. Jude, the foster brother of our Lord Jesus Christ, which he now... One time, Jesus' brothers, foster brothers, didn't believe in Him. But we notice Jude here, saying, "The servant of Jesus Christ..." What a difference. And now, we see that in the writing of this Book, there had been something happen to the church. And we want to read a few verses here, and just explain it as we go along. And someone tell me dismissing time. Will you ring your Sunday School bell, or whatever it is till we can get through. And don't forget tonight.EARNESTLY.CONTENDING.FOR.THE.FAITH_ LOUISVILLE.KY SUNDAY_ 54-0404M
E-21 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, the
brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved
in Jesus Christ, and called:
I just love that address. I like the way he places that out
there. Now, look. This letter is not written to
unbelievers. Notice, he's--he states specifically, "to them that are
sanctified." As I heard our brother speaking awhile ago on his little boy
being sanctified... How many believes in sanctification, say, "Amen."
That's right. Without
holiness, no man shall see God.
Hebrews 13: 12 and
13, said, "Jesus suffered without the gate
that He might sanctify the people with His own blood. Let us go forth to Him
bearing the reproach."
Now, sanctification is
a cleansing, cleaning up of the spirit, getting ready for the baptism of the
Holy Spirit. Justification is believing
on the Lord. And you're justified by faith, Romans 8:1, "Therefore being justified by faith, we
have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ": Romans, 8:1.
Hebrews 13 and 12
and 13 is sanctification, and Luke 24:49, He said, "Tarry
ye in the city of Jerusalem, until you're endued with power from on high."
*THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES IN AND FILLS UP
THAT VESSEL TILL RUNNING OVER, BUBBLING OVER, AND THEN YOU'RE "IN"
THE SERVICE OF THE LORD.
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E-22 The first thing, there's a glass
laying out in the hog pen, chicken yard, whatever it is. You want to use it.
The first thing, you pick it up. That's justification. You've
got it in your hand. You can't use it yet; it needs to be cleansed. Then you
take it in; you wash it, sterilize it, boil it, and takes all the germs and
the--out of it. That's what
God does through sanctification: takes all the desire
of sin out of your heart, cleans you up. And then you are a candidate
for the filling of the Holy Spirit. See? Then the word
"sanctify" means "to be cleansed and set aside for
service." That's the Old Testament: the altar sanctified the
vessels. And cleansed and set aside for service is not "in service."
It's "set aside for service." And when it's "in service," "Blessed are they that
hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled." The Holy
Spirit comes in and fills up that vessel till running over, bubbling over, and
then you're "in" the service of the Lord.
Psa 34:1 A Psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed. I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
Psa 34:2 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
Psa 34:3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
Psa 34:4 I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
Psa 34:5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
Psa 34:6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Psa 34:7 The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
Psa 34:8 O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
Psa 34:9 O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
Psa 34:10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
Psa 34:11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
Psa 34:12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
Psa 34:13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Psa 34:14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Psa 34:15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
Psa 34:16 The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Psa 34:17 The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
Psa 34:18 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Psa 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
Psa 34:20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
Psa 34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
Psa 34:22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
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