24-0923P_FAITHFUL SERVICE UNTO THE LORD PT-3

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. 

Jud 1:3  Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. 

Jud 1:4  For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Jud 1:5  I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. 

Jud 1:6  And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. 

2Ti 3:1  This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 

2Ti 3:2  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 

2Ti 3:3  Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 

*WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE? GOD A VINDICATED HIM BY SIGNS AND WONDERS AND MIRACLES, AND THEY FAILED TO SEE IT.

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  E-49    Looky here, at Paul. Look when Jesus come. There was those Pharisees, just as fundamental in belief as they could be. They believed the Messiah would come. Jesus preached the same Gospel they preached. But what was the difference between Jesus' bunch and the Pharisee's bunch, or the priests, the religion of that day. Here they was at the temple with all their great beautiful ceremony; the thousands of trumpets playing; the great singers, the angelic choir, as it was, and all the beautifuls robe... And down on the river somewhere, stood Jesus with a bunch of fishermen. The Emmanuel of God... What was the difference? Where they had tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands gathered in the temple, He had three or four thousand gathered somewhere. What was the difference? God a vindicated Him by signs and wonders and miracles, and they failed to see it.

That spirit of Cain from the garden of Eden... Here's the spirit of Abel from the garden of Eden, coming right on. Both of them is going up into stalk now. Look at them. They're ready to bloom out now. The church and the world together; the formal church and the spiritual church, He said, "Let them grow together."

Notice, impersonations and so forth. As Jambres and Jannes withstood Moses, so do these resist the truth: men of reprobate mind concerning the truth." Just for popularity... They won't go into it, because they're afraid to tackle it.
 

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CHARLES FULLER SPEAKING THAT THEY HAD ACCEPTED DIVINE HEALING…

  E-50    Here, not long ago, I heard Charles Fuller speaking that they had accepted Divine healing, had the power of God in the meeting there. And here some time ago, he was the very one that stood on the platform and talked to me; he said, "Why, Brother Branham," he said, "all this here Divine healers... There's no such a thing as that."

I said, "Just as far as you know there isn't."
He said, "Nobody will come hear." Said, "There's four--this thing seats about four thousand people." He said, "Nobody will come and hear that." Said, "They got the Pentecostals over here; they're all Divine healers. They got the McPherson bunch; they're all Divine healers." Said, "All up and down the coast, they got their Divine healers."
I said, "Brother Fuller, I have nothing to say against that, but God will vindicate His gift and powers, if it's in a belly of hell."
He said, "Come on down. Throw your hat in. It's your money you're losing."
I said, "Well, that's all right then."
He said, "I can't--I can't advertise you."
I said, "I didn't ask you to." I said, "I didn't ask you to." Didn't need any advertising; it was up at the Church of God campgrounds with about ten thousand people up there.

He said, "Well, you're going to be left flat here." That afternoon when about eighteen hundred left out, a few in this balcony, a few over here and a few there; in a hour's time, that place was packed plumb back out to the piers. And here, when these intelligent looking bunch of people walking out, preached afternoon a good sermon. Charles Fuller is one of the best preachers in the land. He is: one of the finest Christian men. But the thing of it is, he's been blinded all this time till just recently, of what's truth. He's preached the Word, fundamental, fundamental school, but now he begins to see that God's a Healer and he speaks. He even said the other day, on his radio broadcast here, that they had speaking in tongues and interpretating of tongues right in the Municipal Auditorium. They accepted it. Hallelujah. Oh, my.
 
*WHAT WE NEED TODAY IS AN OLD FASHION…

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  E-51    What we need today is an old fashion Billy Sunday, belly busting, rip snorting, revival. Hallelujah. That's right. We need the power of God back to shake the shackles of hell down in the devil's eyes, and say, "You're a liar. And God's Word's true, and we're standing on It." Hallelujah. Yes sir.

There, all in their fundamentalism, and standing dressed in their robes and dignity; but they failed to see Jesus Christ being the Son of God. But God a vindicated that was Him by signs and wonders. Watch: He saw visions. He spoke prophesies. The sick was healed. Signs and wonders followed Him. The poor people heard Him gladly. And they rejoiced and screamed, and begin shouting one day when He come riding on a little old mule, come trotting in. They said, "Well, this to fulfill which is spoken of the prophet": trotting in on this mule." He said...

Them people hollering, "Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna."
Those big self styled D.D.'s, Ph.D's, and all that standing out there with their collars turned around, why, said, "Make them hold their peace. They just shiver me to death nearly."
He said, "If they hold their peace, the rocks will immediately cry out."

That spiritual Rock that was in the wilderness was coming in, watering spiritually every believer when he come in. They couldn't hold their peace.
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*HUMBLE AND HUMILTY, HARDLY KNOW SOMETIMES PEOPLE DOES WHAT IT REALLY MEANS.

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  E-52    Why, they said, "Did ever you see such church man--manners? What, oh a crucifixion to dignity." Oh my! you don't even know what the speaking of dignity is. This is worldly, self-styled dignity that people talk about. About faith, they say, "Oh, I got faith." Humble and humilty, hardly know sometimes people does what it really means.
 
*BUT GOD WANTS AN OLD SEPARATOR, BROTHER, WHO WILL STAND THERE AND SEPARATE RIGHT FROM WRONG.

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  E-53    That's what God wants today. You...?... when you chose your pastors, you want to get some of these little guys up here from the seminary that's got more intelligence than they got gumption to know how to control. They come in there and say, "He's a good mixer; he goes to the games and things with us." But God wants an old separator, brother, who will stand there and separate right from wrong. That's right.

When you go to get an operation, you don't go and get one of these little doctors that never had an operation before. You go get an old man who's had a lot of experience. Brother, when I want somebody talk to me about Christ, I want somebody that's been through the deep waters (Hallelujah.), somebody who has an experience to know, that's talked face to face with Him, and know what they're talking about. That's what we need today. That's right.
 
No matter what the world says, I'm following Jesus Christ. There you are.

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E-67    Not long ago, talking to one of the greatest evangelists in the nation... Asked him about the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, he said, "Look, brother, people tried to tell me one day that I needed that kind of stuff, till I found out the Lord wanted me to be a teacher."

Another great evangelist said, "I believe that that's the truth, but I couldn't accept it in my meetings. Why," he said, "it would--it would mar my popularity."

Brother, I'd rather lay on my stomach and drink branch water, eat soda crackers, and live for God, than to have my name in gold on any tabernacle door or anything else or say that I belong to some denomination.

I want to be flexible. Wherever the Lord leads, that's where I want to go. What He says, I want to do. If He sends the power of the Holy Ghost, I want to believe it. If He says He still wants me to do this, I want to do it. No matter what the world says, I'm following Jesus Christ. There you are.
 

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  E-68    "Beloved, I give all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, that you would earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints."

I say this today, if you believe me to be God's servant, you are now living in the day of the restoration of the faith that was once delivered to the saints, living under the power of the latter rain of the Holy Ghost Church that's raising up today calling great doctors and divinities of everything out of all the denominations...
 
*AND THE FAITH OF THE SAINTS WAS NOT IN CREEDS, NOT IN DENOMINATIONS, NOT IN CHURCH BUILDINGS, NOT IN ASSOCIATIONS, BUT IT WAS IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LIVING GOD.

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79    Now, not... The people say, "Well, that's against my faith." There's only one faith, one Lord, one faith, and one baptism. You might have a faith, but we want the faith. Earnestly "contend," that's "argue for it, standing--stand up for."
... earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints.

When were they called saints? When they were sanctified. The Holy Spirit sanctified them; they were called saints. Now, Jude says, a brother, foster brother of Jesus, "I want you to earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints." Don't never let that faith drop.

And the faith of the saints was not in creeds, not in denominations, not in church buildings, not in associations, but it was in the Presence of the living God. They had faith to heal the sick, cast out devils, do miracles. All the great promises that Jesus made, that first church held onto that. It was the lifeline.
 

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  82    Listen here; listen close to what I want to tell you. The ever-Presence of the living God is the lifeline of any church or any bunch of people, the ever-Presence of the living God to perform and to do, and to act and to live with the people as He did at the beginning. If the Presence of the living God brought a Pentecost with power, with signs, with wonders, brought a people so full of the glory of God till they shouted and spoke with other languages, and went and martyrs for the faith, let's earnestly contend for that faith until death shall set us free. Earnestly contend for it. We will not compromise, upon reading books, taking some man-made theology. We'll not compromise upon some creeds or some prayer books, or something somebody else has said.

My faith is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' Blood with righteousness;
All around my soul gives way,
Then He's all my hope and stay.
For on Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other grounds is sinking sand.
 

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  83    No creed but Christ, no law but love, and no book but the Bible, no creed books... The Bible has to say it. The Bible has to not only say it, but say it every time the same, must say it from Genesis to Revelations. It must go in every little web, and weave into every part of the Word. If it doesn't, then I've got the wrong interpretation of It, 'cause God cannot dispute His Own Word. And if it doesn't say the same thing to every little fiber...

If this shirt here, it's wove throughout with the same fiber, it's what makes it what it is. It's what makes it white.

That's what the Church is. If it's going to be a white Church, borned again, without spot, without wrinkle, it's got to be woven with the same kind of a fiber that it started off with on the day of Pentecost, the Holy Ghost experience burning and weaving. You cannot add a piece of rotten goods; you cannot add a piece of burlap sack to it; it won't work. It'll mar it.

*NOW WE ARE PROMISED, IN MALACHI 4, BY THE SAME SYSTEM HE ALWAYS DID, THAT WE WOULD BE RESTORED BACK TO THE ORIGINAL FAITH. 

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165    The penalty is just a little old... What is law without penalty? The penalty of God's law is death. Sin is death. That's right. We need a law that's stern. We... Oh, my! What we've got now, a bunch of politics, can be swayed any way you want to. The whole thing is corruptible.

166    Hurry, church, back to the Word of the living God! Live off of That, and That alone, 'cause That's what God's people should live by.
 

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  167      God promised this church a Scriptural sign. He said the resurrection would be reproduced, Jesus Christ and His Church would become so they would be one, in the last days. He promised it. Now we know that it's true.

168    Now, He also promised that there would be a restoring of the Faith. We read over in Jude, that said in Jude, "Earnestly contend for the Faith that was once delivered to the saints." Now we are promised, in Malachi 4, by the same system He always did, that we would be restored back to the original Faith. Oh, oh, my! Back to the original Seed, back to the Seed like it begin on the Day of Pentecost, back to the same Doctrine, Word by Word, power by power, Spirit, by the same thing just exactly like it was back in the beginning, through signs and wonders of the living Presence of Jesus Christ. After two thousand years, He is still alive. And He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.