25-0502A_THE STATURE OF A PERFECT MAN PT-6 (PARTAKERS OF CHRIST'S DIVINE NATURE)
2Pe 1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
2Pe 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
2Pe 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2Pe 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
2Pe 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
2Pe 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
2Pe 1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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*CHRIST
SENT ME TO BUILD INDIVIDUALS TO THE STATUE OF JESUS CHRIST...?... DWELLING
PLACE OF HIS SPIRIT BY HIS WORD --BY HIS WORD.
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27-5 Were not building an
organization. I'm not here this morning to build an organization. Christ never
sent me to build an organizations. Christ sent me to
build individuals to the statue of Jesus Christ that they might be the power
house...?... dwelling place of His Spirit by His Word (Uh-huh.)--by His Word. See?
Build up the individual to that place, not build an organization to a greater
denomination, but build the individual to sons and
daughters of God. That's the idea.
See, add to your faith virtue; to your virtue, add knowledge. Well, now, you're coming to a place.
*AND
THE ONLY WAY YOU'LL EVER BE ABLE TO HAVE THEM IS TO HAVE HEAVEN-BORN KNOWLEDGE.
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28-2 Now, when they begin to say,
"Well, we don't have to accept that today." You do have to. It must
be. The Scriptures cannot lie and, "There are no private
interpretation," the Bible said. You just believe it the way it's written
there. See, you've got to have these things. And the
only way you'll ever be able to have them is to have heaven-born knowledge. And
heaven-born knowledge will vindicate the Word.
See, you've got to believe, now, not make-believe it. None of these are make-beliefs. See, if you try to say, "I got it..." Don't be a blackbird putting peacock feathers in yourself (See?), 'cause they'll fall right out. They're not naturally growed in there; they're just stuck in.
TEMPERANCE
*THIS IS BIBLE TEMPERANCE, HOLY SPIRIT
TEMPERANCE.
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33-4 Fourthly... (We'll have to hurry
because I'm just...) It just feels so good to stand here and talk about
it...?... Yeah. Fourthly (Thank you), add temperance. Oh, my. We come to temperance. Now,
you've had faith first. You have to have that to begin with. Then you add virtue to your faith, if it's the right kind of
virtue. Then you add knowledge, if it's the right kind of knowledge. Now,
you're going to add temperance.
Temperance doesn't mean: stop drinking alcohol here either. No, no. Temperance doesn't mean alcoholic cure, not in this case. This is Bible temperance, Holy Spirit temperance. That's just one of the lust of the flesh. But we're talking about Holy Spirit temperance. That means how to control your tongue, not be a tattler; how to control your temper, not fly off every time anybody speaks cross to you. Oh, my. Boy, a lot of us are going to fall off 'fore we get started, aren't we? See? Then we wonder why God's not in His church doing miracles and things that He used to do.
*TEMPERANCE, HOW TO ANSWER IN KINDNESS
WHEN WRATH IS SPOKE TO YOU.
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33-6 Yes, sir. See, add these things.
Add temperance to it. Oh... Temperance, how to answer
in kindness when wrath is spoke to you. Somebody say, "You bunch of
holy-rollers down there." Don't jump out and roll up your sleeves now. See?
Not that, but talk with godly love. Temperance,
kindness, is that the way you want to be?
When you're riled upon, rile not back. Let Him be
your Example.
When they said, "If Thou be the Son of God, turn these stones into
bread," He could've done it and show He was God;
but He had temperance. When they called Him Beelzebub, He said, "I forgive you for it." Is that right? They pulled handfuls of beard out of His face, and spit in
His face, and said, "Come down off the cross."
He said, "Father forgive them; they don't even know what they're
doing."
**I SAID, "WAIT A MINUTE; NOW, DON'T SAY NOTHING, BROTHERS. THERE'S
ONLY ONE OF HIM AND A BUNCH OF US."
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32-1 I was down to Brother Wright (I think they're back there somewhere.)
one night, and there was a minister down there. I was speaking, and four or
five preachers together. This preacher
raised up and said, "Now, I want to tell you dear people something. Oh, I
think you're a fine people."
I said--I told somebody, I said, "That--that's one setting right there;
watch." So Junior Jackson, back there, just got through speaking,
and he said--speaking on the grace of God. Oh,
my, he was burning up waiting.
And he got up there and he was trying, saying, "Now,
I want to say that Mr. Branham here, I'll tell you, is an antichrist," and
he started off like that all night.
And some of the preachers started; I said, "Wait a minute; now, don't say nothing, brothers. There's only one of him and a bunch of us." I said, "Just let him alone now; he picked on me." I wanted it myself so bad, I didn't know what to do. See?
*I WAITED TILL HE RATTLED OFF THERE FOR ABOUT A HALF HOUR; I SAID,
"WAIT JUST A MINUTE…AMEN! THROW THAT KIND OF KNOWLEDGE OUT.
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32-4 So
he said, "Mr. Branham is an antichrist," and he went ahead saying
everything, you know about... He said--he said, "There... A baptism of the
Holy Ghost," said, "the Bible said there was only twelve got the
baptism of the Holy Ghost." Talking about Divine healing, "Only the
twelve apostles had Divine healing." He said, "We speak where the
Bible speaks, and silent where the Bible's silent."
I waited till he rattled off there for about a
half hour; I said, "Wait just a minute. I've wrote down so many
here," I
said, "I... Give me a chance to answer some." And when I got up I
said, "The sir, he said that he spoke where the Bible spoke, his church
did, and was silent where it was silent. You all are witnesses."
"Yes."
I said, "Now, he said there was only twelve received
the Holy Ghost. My Bible said there was a hundred and twenty the first
shot."
Amen! Throw that kind of knowledge out. You see? That he was trying to...
*…YOUR
TEMPERANCE BECOMES THE SAME KIND OF HOLY GHOST TEMPERANCE THAT HE HAD, THEN
IT'LL VULCANIZE WITH HIM.
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34-2 When He had the gift... He
knowed all things, for in Him was the Fullness of the Godhead bodily. They had
seen Him perform miracles by telling people what was wrong with them, and so
forth like that. They put a rag around His head like
that, around His eyes, and hit Him on the head with a stick, and said, "Prophesy; tell us who hit you; we'll
believe you." See? He had temperance.
Now, if you've got it like that;
add it to your faith. If you still blow up and sass, and fuss, and stew,
and carry on. Huh, uh. You ain't got no... You can't add that, 'cause it won't
add.
See, it won't vulcanize. You couldn't take a piece of rubber, you know, and vulcanize it to a piece of iron. It just won't work. No, it's got to be flexible just like the rubber is. See? And when your faith and your temperance becomes the same kind of Holy Ghost temperance that He had, then it'll vulcanize with Him. You're added to it.
*BUT
WHEN YOU CAN REALLY, WITH THE SWEETNESS FROM YOUR HEART FORGIVE EVERY MAN, HOLD
YOUR PEACE; LET IT BE GONE (SEE?), THEN IT'LL VULCANIZE.
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34-5 When your
virtue is like His virtue, then it'll add to it. When your knowledge is like His knowledge, "I come to do Thy
will, oh God."... With the Father's Word He
defeated every devil. Heavens and earth will pass away but the Word will not. See, when
you got that kind of knowledge, it'll vulcanize with your faith. When you got the right kind of temperance, like He had; it'll
vulcanize. If you haven't--just a man-made, halfway, soused-up belief,
or temperance, "Oh, I ought to slap him down, but--but maybe I'd better
not, 'cause they might put my name in the paper about it." That ain't the
kind of temperance He's talking about. Don't try to add that; it won't work. But
when you can really, with the sweetness from your heart forgive every man, hold
your peace; let it be gone (See?),
then it'll vulcanize. You can add that to
your faith.
Whew. No wonder the church is so short. Isn't that right? No wonder.
*THEN
IF YOU'VE GOT ALL THIS, YOU CAN ADD THIS TO YOUR FAITH.
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35-1 I say, "Repent and be
baptized, the Bible said, in the Name of Jesus Christ," and a strict
trinitarian don't believe that, would say, "That old antichrist; He's a
Jesus' Name; He's a Jesus only." Look out, boy. I don't know about your
temperance right now. See?
Why don't you come and say, "Let's reason
this together, Brother Branham. I'd like to hear this explained." See? Then come down and listen to
it; and then it's put right before you, and then you walk away, we'll--we'll
get to that in just a few minutes in godliness.
But when you--when you fly loose, want to jump at every
conclusion, huh-uh, that's--that's not it. See? You haven't got Bible
temperance yet when you do that. How to answer back. Then
if you've got all this, you can add this to your faith.
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