25-0407P_PREPARATION PT-4
Luk 2:25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
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*GOD'S PREPARATION HAS BEEN ABSOLUTELY
RIDICULOUS TO THE NATURAL MIND, 'CAUSE THE NATURAL CAN'T CONCEIVE THE THINGS
THAT ARE OF GOD.
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E-17 In the garden of Eden there were two trees: one was Life, one was
knowledge. Man left the Tree of Life to eat off the tree of knowledge. And the
first bite he took, he separated himself from God. And
every time a man bites off of that tree of knowledge, he destroys himself.
He bit off gun powder, kills his comrade. He bit off
automobiles off the tree of knowledge, kills more people than all the wars.
He's bit off himself a hydrogen bomb now. What's he going to do with that?
Everything, he destroys himself by knowledge, and knowledge always climbs
for--so far and falls back. But this Tree of Life is endless and goes right
into glory.
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E-18 So in... Don't depend on your knowledge, and don't never try to figure anything out
that God says. If you could figure it out, or I could figure it out, or any
other preacher could figure it out, we would be equal with God. We are
not supposed, and never will be able to figure it out, because when we can
figure it out, it's not faith any more. We've got to
accept it by faith. Is that right? God said so. I don't know how. I
can't tell you how He's going to do it, but He's going to do it 'cause He said
so. That's the basis. God is going to do it because He
promised to do it. He's God, and He can't break His promise, how it is.
And some of God's preparations has been so ridiculous to the people who depend on the tree of knowledge. God's preparation has been absolutely ridiculous to the natural mind, 'cause the natural can't conceive the things that are of God. Because they are foolishness to him, and he just thinks it's horrible to think. "Why, God would do..."
* IT'LL TELL WHEN YOU GET DOWN AT THE END
OF THE ROAD. SO THE BEST THING TO DO IS MAKE PREPARATION FOR IT RIGHT NOW. GET
THE THING STRAIGHTENED UP.
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E-21 Now, God, in the beginning when Adam and Eve... Man has always tried to
prepare himself. Oh, yes, sir, he tries to prepare himself. When he first
sinned in the beginning, the first thing you know, he went out and prepared
himself an apron: fig leaves, wrapped it around him. He's making himself...
Now, the word "religion" means "covering." And Adam and Eve
made themself a religion, a covering. But when God called them and they had to
stand face to face with God, they realized that their man-made religion wasn't
no good.
And if you're anything short of the Holy Spirit
and death strikes your body, you'll find out that man-made religion won't stand
in the time of death.
Oh, don't tell me, I've stood to the hospitals and seen
the doctors shoot hypos in the arm when there was deacons and everything else.
That's right. Hear them scream and say... call to their pastor, "You
deceiver of man. Why didn't you tell me the truth?"
It'll tell when you get down at the end of the road. So the best thing to do is make preparation for it right now. Get the thing straightened up. Get right with God.
*GOD MAKING PREPARATION TO REDEEM.
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E-25 And then in--when I see Adam as it was standing there, and Eve, the beautiful statue of her. And while she's standing there, these old bloody sheepskins, the blood running down her legs... Adam in his great fine statue of a man, the blood off these sheepskins running down him, and God standing there pronouncing death, sorrow, and heartaches, and destruction. Watch.
Then I can see Eve put her lovely head over on Adam's
shoulder and him put his arms around her. They started weeping. Turned around
and started to walking out of His Presence. God depart from him. He sinned.
There's your judgment.
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E-26 Then when I can hear, going down
along that path through the garden of Eden, something like this [Brother
Branham claps--Ed.] What is it? Bloody sheepskins slapping on Adam's leg as he
went down.
Then I could see all that great space-less
eternity come forming down like a funnel to four little letters L-O-V-E. He
loved His children so much till He couldn't turn them away.
Then I hear Him say, "Stop. I'll put enmity between thy seed and the serpent's seed," promising a Redeemer, God making preparation to redeem.
*GOD MAKING READY A PREPARATION THAT
WOULD CLEANSE THE HEART OF SINFUL MEN AND REDEEM HIM BACK TO HIMSELF, GOD
PREPARING, GETTING READY.
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E-27 Let's stop here in the sermon just a minute. Let's go back four thousand years from then. I hear a hollering mob in Jerusalem, screaming, the people were going on. We're setting up now looking down through a window. I hear something dragging on the street. It's an old rugged cross dragging out the bloody footprints of the bearer.
Who is that going there? "Why, that Nazarene down
here, that fanatic, divine healer."
What's all them little red spots on His back? Look at
them; all over His seamless robe, there's little red spots.
And as we watch Him going up towards the capital
punishment grounds, they begin to get bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger. Directly
they all run into one, one big solid mass of blood.
Then I hear something. [Brother Branham
claps--Ed.] What is it? God's prepared Lamb from the foundation of the world,
going yonder to die for sinners like you and me, God making ready a preparation
that would cleanse the heart of sinful men and redeem him back to Himself, God
preparing, getting ready. No other way could be done. How ridiculous His ways
seem.
*BEFORE HE DESTROYED THE WORLD, HE SENT
FORTH A PREPARATION FOR THE SAVING OF THE PEOPLE THAT DESIRED TO BE SAVED.
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E-32 Notice, what I think of God's great program. And to think that we poor, alienated, ungodly, undone sinners have the privilege of coming to His place and accepting Him and becoming His sons and daughters, why, my... "And it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know we'll have a body like His, for we shall see Him as He is." Won't that be wonderful, eating, drinking, just like He did?
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E-33
Now, God in His preparation. Back when God was going to
destroy the world. Before He destroyed the world, He sent forth a
preparation for the saving of the people that desired to be saved. He always
does it. He shows mercy before judgment.
And if men spurn mercy, there's
only one thing left and that is judgment. And God don't judge you; you judge
yourself. That's true.
As long as you're under this spray of blood that's
around the world, you have a--a right for mercy. God's... The Blood of Christ
keeps God from killing you, or He'd kill you just as soon as you sinned. But
that's still... re... holding a gru... holding God from you, from your death.
But when... You're a free moral
agent now. But when you die and your spirit goes beyond that, then your already
judged. You don't have to wait for judgment; you're judged
already. God done said, "The day you eat
thereof, the day you die." And that settles it.
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