24-1011A_THE IDENTIFIED CHRIST OF ALL AGES PT-26 (CHARACTER)
Php 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Php 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Php 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
Php 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Php 2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
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IT'S THE CHARACTER ON THE INSIDE THAT MAKES A HOME.
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E-8 …..But it doesn't take a big house to make a home. It's the character on the inside that makes a home. And I'm thankful for a home.
*IT'S CHARACTER THAT GOD LOOKS AT, NOT
JUST EARTHLY CHARACTER, BUT HOLY SPIRIT CHARACTER.
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E-43 You might have the name of church, might have the name of Branham Tabernacle, or Methodist, or whatever church you go. That isn't it, friends. See, it's something different; it's your character; that's what God's a looking at. You might be Methodist; you might be Baptist; you might be Presbyterian. It's not that. It's character that God looks at, not just earthly character, but Holy Spirit character. "These signs shall follow them that believe," said Jesus in the 16th chapter of Saint Mark.
*…GOD TAKES THRONE IN HIS CONTROL ROOM,
TO CONTROL YOUR EMOTIONS, TO CONTROL YOUR FAITH, TO CONTROL YOUR CHARACTER.
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88 "Go ye into all the
world, and preach the Gospel," said Jesus, His last commission to the church. "These signs shall follow them that
believe." How far? "All the world." Who
to? "Every creature." These signs shall follow some of them? The
Scripture says, "Shall follow
them," all of them that believe. "In My Name they shall cast
out devils. They shall speak with new tongues. If they shall take up serpents
or drink deadly things, it shall not harm them. If they lay their hands on the
sick, they shall recover." That's what Jesus said.
"These
signs shall follow believers," not negative thinkers, not intellectual
church members, but borned again believers who's come from the
intellectual to the heart where God takes throne in His control room, to
control your emotions, to control your faith, to control your character.
90 God wants to fill you. Why does He want to fill you? What does He want to fill you with? He wants to fill you with Himself, the Holy Spirit, filled with the Holy Ghost.
*WE'RE LIVING IN A DAYS WHEN
IDENTIFICATION IS REQUIRED.
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14 Now I want to
take this subject this afternoon: Identification.
15 Now, anyone, that must be, we're living in a days when
identification is required. You can't, unless you're known at a bank, you can't cash your check
unless you have something to identify yourself.
16 I know, my wife, she can't cash a check. Yet, when we get our check, we put it in the bank. But she don't cash it, because she doesn't drive, she has no social security number or nothing to identify herself, so therefore it's a hard thing for her to cash a check. You've got to be some official identification, and I think it's just that time that we're living in.
*WE ALSO, THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH ITSELF…..
IT IS THE MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST, AND IT'S IDENTIFIED, ALSO. JESUS IDENTIFIED
HIMSELF.
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17 If you notice, if you go to a
certain denominational church, like a Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, or
something, you have to have something to identify yourself if you're going to
speak. You have to have a credential, or a card, or fellowship card, or
something to identify yourself as where they know where you come from and what
you're going to say at that platform. You have to be identified. And--and it's identifying age.
18 Now all that that happens in the natural is only a type that's going on in the spiritual. We also, the Christian Church Itself, which is of no denomination, but of a Nature. It is the mystical Body of Christ, and It's identified, also. It bears identifications. Jesus identified Himself.
*AND HE TOOK OUR UPON HIM, OUR FORM, THAT
HE MIGHT MOLD IN US HIS CHARACTER.
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81 God identified Himself as we are. He took--He took His strain, what He was, His strain as God, and stretched His tent down here and become human. He made Himself a tent, a body to live in, and that body is known as Jesus. God lived in Christ. See, He become human, in order to save us. And He took our upon Him, our form, that He might mold in us His character.
*AND HIS CHARACTER WAS, THAT, HE DID
EVERYTHING THAT PLEASED GOD, AND HE STAYED WITH THE WORD. THAT'S WHAT HE WANTED
US FOR, WE'D STAY WITH GOD'S WORD…..
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82 And His character was,
that, He did everything that pleased God, and He stayed with the Word. That's
what He wanted us for, we'd stay with God's Word, find our place, and then know
where we were at. Stay with His Word! And, think of it, we are invited
to shape our own character to His. Now we're going to find out what
we've done. Shape our character to His Own, by His Own
Spirit. Then we, by Him, are sons of God, just
what I've expressed, by having His mind in us, to shape our character to His,
His mind. "Let the mind that
was in Christ be in you." If that mind is in you, then, you see...
83 He only did that which pleased God. He knowed Who He was. He came, the Son of God. He knowed He was to take that place. His character had to be that way. And then when He, having taken this place, He knowed what the Messiah was required of, and He always sought at God to do those things, and did nothing until the Father showed Him.
*YOU FIND YOUR PLACE AS A CHRISTIAN,
BECAUSE YOUR CHARACTER IS MOLDED AS CHRIST'S.
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84 Now if you find your place,
sister, don't let me hurt you, or brother, but you'll
find your place in the Word, as a Christian. Not what the creed said;
that's down here in this lower cannon fodder that's going to be destroyed. See,
you find your place as a Christian, because your
character is molded as Christ's. You are Zoe the same as He was Zoe. Then
if the Bible said for "a woman not to cut her hair," how can you do
it? It says "a man is the ruler of the house," how can you women be?
What's the matter with you man that's sons of God? See? See, you don't find
your place. See? Watch now. In... You're invited to
come and take His character. By having His character in You, it molds you into
the same mind that He was, and His mind was always to do what the Father had
ordained Him to do.
85 He said, "Search the Scripture. They testify of Me." In other words, "If I don't do exactly what the Scripture said I'm to do, then show Me where."
*HIS MIND WAS TO STAY WITH THE FATHER'S
WORD. … AND IF HIS MIND IS IN US, WE'LL DO LIKE HE DID.
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86 Now what
if God stood on the platform today, and said, "What's required of a
Christian?" Then where would we all be? See, the character isn't expressing itself.
87 His mind was to stay with the Father's Word. Their--their mind was to... The same mind that was in them was to be in us. And if His mind is in us, we'll do like He did. If His character is in us, we'll be as He was. Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] All the prophets had that, we know. We took, take about Noah, how he did in his day, Moses, how he did in His day, Daniel in his day, the Hebrew children, and so forth.
*THE WORD MOLDS GOD'S CHARACTER TO US,
AND ANYTHING THAT'S TRIED TO BE MIXED WITH THAT CHARACTER, BREAKS THE MOLD.
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88 The Word molds God's
character to us, and anything that's tried to be mixed with that character,
breaks the mold. You
can't mix creed with Word. You can't mix the world with the Word. Jesus said, "You can't serve God and mammon."
Mammon means "the world." You can't
be; one or the other. "If you love
the world, or the things of the world, the love of God is not even in
you." Is that true? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Then,
you see, you can't mix it.
89 You can't mix oil and water. It just won't mix. You can churn it up-and-down,
do anything you want to, it won't mix.
90 And your character will not mix with the world, if you are being molded in the form of God, by letting the mind that was in Christ be in you. That's the control tower, the direction.
*…THE--THE WORD CREATES A CHARACTER, WE KNOW THAT, NOW WE LOOK INTO HIS
MIRROR AND IDENTIFY OURSELF BY SOME--SOME PERSON IN THE BIBLE.
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91 Now let's look into God's
mirror, His Word, and identify our present character by some Bible character.
And we'll close just in a few minutes now. Identify ourself. Now This is the
mirror that you want to do like that little boy did, look into. Let's look into This and see if can see ourself reflected by
some Bible character. See what they did under certain circumstances, and
see what we are doing now. Now get me real close now, see
what your present character as a Christian is.
92 Now you can judge. That won't make nobody judge you; you judge
yourself, see. Nobody is judging you. I'm not passing judgment. But let's just reflect, see how it reflects from some
characters of the Bible, as we mention them, and see what your character
is at this present time. Now notice, the--the--the Word
creates a character, we know that, now we look into His mirror and identify
ourself by some--some person in the Bible.
1Pe 4:1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
1Pe 4:2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
1Pe 4:3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
1Pe 4:4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
1Pe 4:5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
1Pe 4:6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
1Pe 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
1Pe 4:8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
1Pe 4:9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
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