25-0519P_THE COMFORTER PT-5 (HE CARES FOR US)
Joh 14:11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.
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.
*STAY
WITH GOD'S WORD, AND GOD WILL OPEN UP THE WAY, BECAUSE HE IS THE WAY.
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126 Someone said to me once,
"Brother Branham, aren't you afraid when you go to the pulpit there, and
are called to a showdown? Aren't you afraid sometimes, standing in that line,
there'll be a mistake?" No, sir.
I'm not afraid, because I solemnly rest upon His Word,
"I'll be with you," when He said to me that night, "No man shall
stand before you, all the days of your life," He said. "I'll be with
you." And He's cut off every enemy. He's stood by
me when I wasn't deserving to be stood by. But because He promised it, because
of His grace, I've rested solemnly upon that Word. Why? Because He promised it. He promised it; He's able to keep
what He has promised. That's right.
Moses knew that. "How you going to cross the
sea?"
Moses said, "I don't know, but He promised that He
would be with me."
So don't never cross the bridge till you get to it. Stay with God's Word, and God will open up the way, because He is the Way. Yes. Moses was comforted by the Word that God spoke to Him.
*ALL THESE GREAT HEROES ….., WE KNOW THAT THEY WAS COMFORTED BY GOD'S WORD.
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150 Now, all these great heroes (Which I got many of them wrote down here, but to save time...), we know that they was comforted by God's Word. Here's what they did. They looked back, like. One would look back and see what the other one kept the Word and was comforted, and come out. And then this other one, he looked back and seen what he did, so he followed the Word and come out, was comforted, knowing he had God's promise. The next come along; he felt the Spirit on him, and knowed; so he followed God's Word, had the comfort he did. Each one of them following God's Word, that was a comfort.
*THAT
WORD OF GOD WAS MADE FLESH, THE COMFORTER.
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151 Oh, brother, listen to this now. One day that Word was made flesh. That's it. That Word was made flesh in the form of a Man. The Word of God, that brought comfort, was made a Man here among us. We could handle the Word of God in our hands. We could shake hands with the Word of God. He was the Word. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us." That Word of God was made flesh, the Comforter. He lived here on earth. We see that He was the Word. He acted like God. He looked like God. He preached like God. He healed like God. He was God; in every manner He was God. He talked like the Word; He looked like the Word. He preached like the Word. He was the Word. Amen.
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152 Oh, what a comfort it would've
been to sit down by Him. Wouldn't you have loved to have done that? You say,
"Oh, sure I would, Brother Branham." Just a moment. Why, I would've
run to Him, set down by His side, when He was here on earth.
There never was a man that could ever stood on His shoe leather, could ever stood in the earth, and said, "I am the Resurrection and Life," at the grave of Lazarus. "He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." Oh, my. Who was that? What was that? That was the Word. He was the Word. No wonder He could stand there and rub the tears out of His eyes, as a Man, and could speak to a man that was dead, four days in the grave, and said, "Lazarus, come forth." What was that? That was the Word. Amen. That was the Word in action. He was the Word. That was the Word that came to the prophets. That was. Each one of the prophets foretold Him.
*… WHEN THE FUNERAL PROCESSION; AND HER
ONLY SON, A CORPSE, EMBALMED, GOING TO THE GRAVE, BUT THAT CORPSE COME IN
CONTACT WITH THE WORD. THOUGH A CORPSE, YET HE LIVED.
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154 Said Stephen to the Sanhedrin
court, "Which one of your fathers hasn't persecuted them that saw Him
coming, saw the Just One before, that told He would come? Which one of your
fathers didn't persecute him? Now, you've took the Prince of Life, and has
slain Him." Oh, my. "You took the Word of Life, for He was the
Word."
There He is; the Word was among them. They seen Him walk
to the grave of the dead. They saw Him stop the woman of Nain down there, when the funeral procession; and her only son, a corpse,
embalmed, going to the grave, but that corpse come in contact with the Word.
Though a corpse, yet he lived.
"Though he were dead, yet shall he live." A corpse came to life, because it come in contact with the Word. Oh, what It'll do when in contact with that Word. That's the comfort.
*BUT THEN LOOK WHAT A PROMISE HE MADE. "I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU
COMFORTLESS. I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU COMFORTLESS.
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163 What a comfort to
those Galileans. How they believed Him, how they loved Him. Now, one day they seen Him go to
Calvary. They heard Him saying, "A
little while, and the world seeth Me no more. Oh, I'm... The Son of man, must
go up to Jerusalem, and be put into the hands of sinful men, crucified,
die." How could they stand it? Their hearts was broken. They were
depressed. There... They was all in gloom. How could they ever give Him up?
Because the word that the prophets had spoken, the words that the sages, and
all the great holy men back to the end, in the beginning of the world, had
spoke of that Word, and here It was among them.
But then look what a promise He made. "I will not leave you comfortless. I will not leave you comfortless. I'll pray the Father, and He'll send you another Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, and He will abide with you forever; even the Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive, because it knoweth Him not. It seeth Him not, now, neither does it know Him--knows Him. But you know Him. You know Him because He is with you, and He shall be in you."
*…IF WE DON'T COMPROMISE THAT WORD, WE
STAY RIGHT WITH IT, IF WE DON'T COMPROMISE IT, THAT SAME WORD LIVING IN YOU
WILL PRODUCE THE SAME THING THAT IT DID WHEN HE WAS MADE FLESH…
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165 There It is. And how long's He
going to abide? Forever. Then what is the Word of God? What is our comfort
today? It's when we receive the baptism of the Holy
Ghost, and the power of the living God living in us. And that's with the Word
of the living God, we stand; that Word's made flesh and dwelt among us. Now,
that same Word that was made flesh and dwelt among us has become our flesh.
"He is with you now, but He shall be in you." Now, that same Word
that the prophet spoke, that same Word that was made flesh, that same Word
dwells in the Church. Therefore, if we don't compromise
that Word, we stay right with It, if we don't compromise It, that same Word
living in you will produce the same thing that It did when He was made flesh,
because your flesh holds It.
That's the reason visions can break through the sound barrier. That's the reason a vision can break through time barriers and say, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, it shall be so-and-so." And that's the way it is. What is it? It's the Word coming forth from a Spirit.
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167 You do not see me; you see my
body. You don't see me. I don't see you, because I only see your body. This is
my hand, but who is me that owns the hand? This is my body, but who is me? It's
a spirit.
And if I'm born again, if you are born again, it's God's Holy Spirit, God's Word living in us. And if we compromise upon this Word, and say that we have the Spirit of God, how can we claim to have God's Spirit? When God's Spirit testifies of His Own Word, He'll never move an inch from It, no matter what denominations says. How's He going to move from It, when It's His Own Word?
*…WHEN IT MOVES INTO A CHURCH THAT'S
BORNED AGAIN, IT'LL COME WITH THE POWER AND DEMONSTRATION OF ITS BEING: GOD'S
WORD, THE COMFORTER IN US, BRINGING FORTH THE EXACT THING.
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169 The promise, "I'll be with
you: the Comforter." He said, "I'll send the Comforter."
…..And when It comes again, and when It moves into a Church that's borned again, It'll come with the power and demonstration of Its Being: God's Word, the Comforter in us, bringing forth the exact thing.
*LET THE WORD COME IN YOU, MADE FLESH BY
THE POWER OF THE HOLY GHOST, AND TAKE OVER YOUR FLESH AND CONTROL YOU, TESTIFY
THROUGH YOU, THE WORKS AND THE MIGHTY POWERS OF THE LIVING GOD.
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177 Don't shut yourself up in the
cells of some organization, like a cellar somewhere of unbelief to deny God's
Word. I don't care what any bishop or anything says. Let
the Word come in you, made flesh by the power of the Holy Ghost, and take over
your flesh and control you, testify through you, the works and the mighty
powers of the living God. That's right. No matter what the churches
says. Those denominations only put you in the cellar, and you're hiding himself
from the blessed Sunlight. I know that to be the truth. Do you want to stay in
the cellar? Nobody does. Don't get in that cellar. Come out in the Sunlight. Come out where the Word, you can take the Word and believe
the Word, and the Word will manifest Itself to you, and manifest Itself through
you; manifest His Word, bringing to pass...
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