25-0414P_THE COMFORTER
Joh 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
Joh 14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Joh 14:14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
Joh 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Joh 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
Joh 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Joh 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Joh 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
Joh 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
Joh 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
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WHO IS THIS COMFORTER THEN? JESUS…"YOU KNOW HIM, FOR HE DWELLETH WITH YOU IN A BODY OF FLESH NOW,"
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46 Isn't that plain? Who is this
Comforter then? Jesus. See? He said, "I'll pray the Father; He'll send you
another Comforter, even the Spirit of Truth; Whom the world cannot receive,
because it knoweth Him not, neither seeth Him; or, seeth Him, neither knoweth
Him. But you know Him." See, He's talking about
Himself. "You know Him, for He
dwelleth with you in a body of flesh now," talking to the
disciples, "and
shall be in you; and will abide for ever," never leave.
Oh, isn't He a good God? Jesus is so good to us. And it's well expressed, that, "Our God is a good God." He's so good to His children. He has provided every good thing for us. Everything that we have need of He's provided it. Truly you could say, "Our Father, Who art in heaven," because He is a Father. And though we be disobedient, though we be arrogant, He still provides for us just the same. Whether we are good or whether we are bad, He gives us food to eat, clothes to wear, house to dwell in. Oh, He is so good.
BUT THEN, IF WE'LL JUST LIVE CLOSE TO HIM, HE'LL PROVIDE SOMETHING ELSE
FOR US.
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48 If we would just look around and
count the good things that He is to us... We don't stop to consider that. What
if you had no eyes? What if you had no nose, you had no mouth, you had no ears?
What if you had no feet or limbs, and could not walk around? But you... But,
see, He provided you feet. What if you had no eyes and could not see, and yet,
you could hear noises, but you knew not what they were? Now, them's all in the
five senses that He provides.
But then, if we'll just live close to Him, He'll provide something else for us. There is an insight, that we can see what the ordinary person never sees. When we're borned again, we see Him. See? "You know Him. You have seen Him. He will abide with you forever." Oh, He's a good Father. He is the... He's the Fountain of goodness; the great resource of all goodness and Fatherhood belongs in our God. He's so good to His believing children. But now perhaps...
*BUT YET NOAH WAS COMFORTED, BECAUSE HE
HAD GOD'S PROMISE.
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84 Noah. I spoke of him, I believe,
this morning, the comfort he must have gotten, though in the midst of
criticism. Certainly.
"And the world cannot receive Him," Jesus said
so, "because it knoweth Him not. But you know Him, and have seen Him. And
He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you."
Noah had met God. He heard God. He had God's Word. So it didn't make any difference what anyone else said; Noah had God's Word. So It was a comfort to him, when the critics would come, was going on what they were doing, criticizing him, and science, saying, "How can waters fall from the skies, when there's none up there? We can prove there's no water there. You're a fanatic, Noah. Why, I can prove to you that you're a fanatic. Look at here, where's there any water? Show me." They might've had glasses that could've seen a hundred and twenty million years of light space, as we have today. So you know it had never rained. But yet Noah was comforted, because he had God's promise. Amen.
*THERE IS AN INSIGHT, THAT WE CAN SEE
WHAT THE ORDINARY PERSON NEVER SEES.
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50 One thing that He provides for
us is sunshine. Oh, how that... You know, you couldn't live without sunshine.
You couldn't live but a little while, because there'd be nothing growing. And
sunshine is such a great thing and so needful, yet we just look and say,
"Oh, it's the sun," and go off. See, we so look over it. But that sunshine is important to our life. It helps us, and
it gives us strength. And now, that's to the natural man. And then there is a
spiritual Sunshine that we can live in.
All the natural are types of spiritual. Like we had good
food that we eat at the table; it's a type of the good Food that we eat from
the Word. See, it's just a type. It's the outward expression (the physical
part) of the spiritual part, which means more to us than the physical part.
See?
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54 But now, take for instance, what
if a man that knows about sunshine, and it shining, and then he just refuses to
acknowledge that sunshine? He said, "I just don't believe it." And he
goes down into his basement, and shuts the door, and just refuses to know the
sun is a-shining: "I do not believe it."
Someone said, "Oh, it's warm. It's healthy. The
people who live in the sunshine has color, and they're healthier if they live
in the sunshine."
"I do not believe it," he'd say, just shut hisself in. Now, that man is in a pitiful condition. There's something wrong with his mental powers, if a man does that.
* IF A MAN WILL SHUT
HISSELF FROM GOD'S SPIRITUAL SUN--SUNSHINE, THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH HIS
SPIRITUAL CONDITION
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57 And if a man will shut hisself from God's spiritual sun--Sunshine, there's something wrong with his spiritual condition; for when a man refuses to walk in the leading of a good God, like our God, Who is our Comfort and our Strength... And to live in His Sunshine is spiritual growth. It's spiritual strength to live in His Sunshine, the shining of His glory. Why, it's the greatest privilege that we have, to live under the Sunlight of God's glory. Look at the good, healthy Christians.
*IT TAKES THAT SOLDIER WHO'S LIVED IN THE
SUNLIGHT OF GOD; IT TAKES THAT SPIRIT WHO KNOWS GOD,
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58 Take the man or the woman that
would put--put himself down into some cellar, and would not see the sunshine,
the natural sunshine that God has provided for him, but he refuses to believe
it. And because of selfishness, he shuts hisself off.
That man will soon become anemia. He will become pale. He won't have
good strength. He won't have health. And he'll soon... Because
that he has shut hisself off from the very privilege that God gave him. That's right. He did it willfully.
Then if we shut ourselves off from the glory of God, from
the baptism of the Holy Ghost, or the fellowship of the Spirit, the first thing
you know, we become pale, sickly Christians. Our experience is growing out and
dim. And when the great trials come, we shrink and go back.
It takes that soldier who's lived in the Sunlight of God; it takes that spirit who knows God, where there's not a wave of doubt; they can stand in the midst of trouble, and cry out, "My Redeemer liveth." Hallelujah. That's it. See?
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60 We shut ourselves off. And they
do it automatically; we do it because that we want to do it. But God's good; He provides it for us. But too many
today don't want to get into that healthy place with God, a healthy Christian,
have a healthy spirit. You'll certainly would rally for a healthy body, anybody
would. Well, that body, no matter how much health you put in that body, it's
going back to the dust.
But, oh, my brother, that soul cannot get too healthy. And every time it grows, it grows in the strength and grace and power of God. We need to walk in the Sunlight of God, because He is good.
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63 We have a great
heritage, a great sacred trust that's been given us. You might wonder now,
"Brother Branham, you're talking about Sunshine, great Sunshine of God's
glory to make healthy spirits, to make us strong Christians?" That's what we're here for tonight,
is to find out. "How do we get those things? Where do they come from? What
are they? Show me what it is, Brother Branham. Can I buy it at the drugstore?
What kind of a vitamin is it?"
You don't buy it at a drugstore. But there is plenty of
it right close to you, if you'll just receive it. It's just knowing the
formula, how to receive it.
There'd be drugs in a drugstore, but there's got to be a
doctor to diagnose the case. If he didn't, you--it might kill you. So
therefore, you've got to have a diagnosis of the case. You just can't go and
take a sinner and give him the Holy Ghost. He's got to repent first. He's got
to be washed, his sins away. He's got to be prepared for this great Vitamin
that's going to be given him.
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