25-0822A_THE CHOOSING OF A BRIDE
Rev 21:9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
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*THE
WAY OF LIFE, ITSELF, IS A CHOICE.
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31 In many things of life we are
given a choice. The way of life, itself, is a choice.
We have a right to make our own way, choose our own way that we want to live.
32 Education is a choice. We can choose whether we're going to be educated,
or whether we are not going to be educated. That's a choice that we have.
33 Right and wrong is a choice. Every man, every woman, boy and
girl, has to choose whether they are going to try to live right or not live
right. It's a choice.
Choice is a great thing.
34 Your Eternal destination is a choice. And maybe, tonight, some of you will make that--that choice, of where you'll spend Eternity, before this service ends tonight. There'll be one time, that, if you turned God down many time, there'll be one time you'll turn Him down the last time. There is a line between mercy and judgment. And it's a dangerous thing for a man or a woman, boy or girl, to step across that line, for there's no return when you step across that deadline. So, tonight, it might be the time that many will make their--their decision, where they will spend the endless Eternity.
*THERE'S ANOTHER CHOICE THAT WE HAVE IN
LIFE, THAT'S, A LIFE'S COMPANION. ALSO, YOU HAVE A CHOICE, AS A CHRISTIAN.
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35 There's another choice
that we have in life, that's, a life's companion. A young man or young woman, stepping out on life,
has--has been given a right to make a choice. The young man chooses. The young
woman has a right to accept or reject it. But it's
still a choice, on both sides. Both man and woman, they have a right to choice.
Also, you have a choice, as a Christian.
*…WHETHER YOU WILL CHOOSE A
CHURCH THAT WILL GUIDE YOU TO YOUR ETERNAL DESTINATION.
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37 You have also a choice.
Whether... When you choose this church, you can choose
whether you, in this church, whether you will choose a church that will guide
you to your Eternal destination. You can choose a church that has a
certain creed, that you might think that creed is just what you want. Or, the
other church has their creed.
38 And then there is the Word of God, you have choice of. You have to make
the choice.
There's an unwritten law among us, of choosing.
*AND MANY TIME, MEN AND WOMEN
HEAR GOD'S TRUTH, AND SEE IT VINDICATED AND PROVEN, TRUTH, BUT YET THEY DON'T
WANT TO HEAR IT.
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42 Remember, when the jubilee year come, and the--the priest rode with
his trumpet sounding, that every slave could go free. But if they refused to
accept their freedom, then he had to be taken to the temple, to a post, and an
awl bore him through the ear, and then he served his master alway. It
was put on his ear as a type, of hearing. "Faith cometh by hearing." He heard that trumpet, but he didn't want to listen
to it.
43 And many time, men and women hear God's Truth, and see It
vindicated and proven, Truth, but yet they don't want to hear It. There's some other reason.
There's some other choosing that they have, than to face up to Truth and fact,
therefore their ears can be closed to the Gospel. They'll never hear It again. My advice to you, when God speaks to your heart, you act
right then.
44 Elijah gave them a choice which they should. "Choose you this day whom you shall serve. If God be God, serve Him. But if Baal be God, serve him."
*A
MAN SHOULD THINK AND PRAY BEFORE HE CHOOSES A WIFE.
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46 Now, if the spiritual or... The natural is a type of the
spiritual. Then, the choosing of a bride, in the natural, is a type of choosing
a Bride, the Bride, in the spiritual.
47 Now, it's a serious thing when we go to choose a wife, a man, for the vows here is until death do we part. That's how we should keep it. And you take that vow before God, that only death will separate you. And I think we should. A man in his right mind, that's planning a future, that he should choose that wife very careful. Be careful what you're doing. And a woman choosing a husband, or accepting the choice of a husband, should be real careful what she's doing, and especially in these days. A man should think and pray before he chooses a wife.
*AND WE FIND, THAT, IF A MAN
PRAYED AND A WOMAN PRAYED OVER THE MATTER;…BUT WOULD LOOK FIRST TO GOD, AND
SAY, "GOD, IS THIS YOUR PLAN?"
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48 I think, today, what's got so many divorce cases now,
that we lead the world in America, in divorce cases. We lead the rest of the
world. There's more divorces here than anywhere else, this nation, and supposed
to be, and thought of, a Christian nation. What a reproach, our divorce court! I think, the reason of it, is because that men has got
away from God, and women has got away from God.
49 And we find, that, if a man prayed and a woman prayed over the matter; not just look at a pretty set of eyes, or big strong shoulders, or such as that, or some other worldly affection; but would look first to God, and say, "God, is this Your plan?"
*A MAN SHOULD PRAY EARNESTLY,
FOR HE COULD RUIN HIS ENTIRE LIFE… SO, YOU SHOULDN'T DO IT UNTIL YOU THOROUGHLY
PRAY THROUGH.
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51 And if we would study what we're doing when we're going to get married, when we choose our wife, our husband, if we'd study it over! A man should pray earnestly, for he could ruin his entire life. Remember, the vow is "until death do we part," and he could ruin his life by making the wrong choice. But if he knows what, he making the wrong choice and is marrying a woman that isn't fit to be his wife, and he does it anyhow, then it's his fault. If the woman takes a husband and knows that he's not fit to be a husband to you, then that's your own fault, after you know what's right and wrong. So, you shouldn't do it until you thoroughly pray through.
*SO, IF I WAS CHOOSING A CHURCH, I'D CHOOSE A GENUINE, FUNDAMENTAL, FULL GOSPEL, BIBLE CHURCH, I WAS CHOOSING ONE TO PUT MY FAMILY IN.
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52 The same applies by choosing a
church. Now, you must pray over the church that you are fellowshiping in.
Remember, churches carry spirit.
54 But, you go into a church, and if you'll watch the behavior of that church, you just watch the pastor awhile, and you'll usually find that the church acts like the pastor. Sometime, I wonder if we just don't get one another's spirit in the stead of the Holy Spirit. You get to a place where a pastor is real radical and carrying on, you'll find out the congregation is the same way. I'll bring you to a church where I see the pastor stand, jerk their heads back and forth. You watch the congregation, they do the same thing. You take a pastor, just gulp down anything, usually the church will do the same thing. So, if I was choosing a church, I'd choose a genuine, fundamental, Full Gospel, Bible church, I was choosing one to put my family in. Choose. I looked...
*AGAIN, THE KIND OF WOMAN
THAT A MAN WOULD CHOOSE, WILL REFLECT HIS AMBITION AND HIS CHARACTER.
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58 Again, the kind of woman that
a man would choose, will reflect his ambition and his character. If a man
chooses the wrong woman, it reflects his character. And what he ties himself
to, shows truly what's in him. A woman reflects what's in the man when
he chooses her for wife. It shows what's down in him. No
matter what he says outside, watch what he married.
59 I go to a man's office, and he
says he's a Christian; pin-ups all around on the walls, that old boogie-woogie
music going on. I don't care what he says. I don't believe his testimony,
because his spirit is feeding on them things of the world. What, say, if he
would marry a chorus girl, or what if he would marry a sex queen, or just a
pretty, modern ricketta? It reflects. It shows what
he has in his mind, of what his future home is going to be, because he's took
her to raise his children by. And whatever
she is, that's the way she'll raise those children. So, it reflects
what's in the man. A man that takes a woman like
that, shows just what he's thinking of the future.
60 Could you imagine a Christian doing a thing like that? No, sir. I could not. A true Christian will not look for such beauty queens, and chorus girls, and sex queens. He'll look for Christian character.
*YOU BETTER LOOK AT HER
CHARACTER, WHETHER SHE'S PRETTY OR NOT PRETTY.
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61 Now, you can't have all things. There might be one girl that's real pretty. And the other girl, maybe she's a... her statue looks better than this one. And you might have to sacrifice one for the other, but, if she's not the statue of a lady, of a woman. And, she, I didn't care whether she's pretty or not. You better look at her character, whether she's pretty or not pretty.
*…IF A CHRISTIAN WOULD CHOOSE
A WIFE, HE OUGHT TO CHOOSE A GENUINE, BORN-AGAIN WOMAN…
62 Now, for, it is becoming, if a
Christian would choose a wife, he ought to choose a
genuine, born-again woman, regardless of what she looks like. It's what
she is, what makes her. And then, again, that
reflects his own godly character, and reflects what's in his mind and what's
going to be in the future, for his family will be raised by such a woman, for
the future plans for his home.
63 If he marries one of these little modern rickettas, sex queens, what could he expect? What kind of a home could a man expect to have? If he marries a girl that ain't got enough moral about her to stay home and take care of a house, and wants to work out in somebody's office, what kind of a housekeeper will she be? You'll have baby-sitters and everything else. True.
*THE TRUE CHURCH OF CHRIST,
THE BRIDE, IS SO SOLD OUT TO HIM AND HIS PROMISED WORD, TILL THE VERY MIND
THAT'S IN CHRIST IS IN YOU.
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166 Notice, just a minute, a nun in a Catholic church. That
woman, to become a nun, and takes that last veil, she is absolutely sold out to
that church. She is (soul, body, and spirit) property of that church. She has
no mind of her own. She can't have, when she takes that last veil, no mind of
her own, no will of her own. See out here, that
Satan makes them his bogus, like the true.
167 The true Church of Christ, the Bride, is so sold out to Him and His promised Word, till the very mind that's in Christ is in you. What a different!
*THE MODERN WORLD CHURCH AND
ALSO THAT THE SPIRITUAL CHURCH ARE BOTH PREGNATED, TO GIVE BIRTH TO SONS.
168 And we find today, that, the
modern church, a modern world church. The modern
world church and also that the spiritual Church are both pregnated, to give
birth to sons.
169 One of them, a denominational birth, is going to be give, one day to these days, at the World Council of Churches, which will produce to the world the antichrist, through a denomination. That's exactly the Truth. I may not live to see it. I believe I will. But, you young people, remember that you heard a minister say that. That'll finally wind up. And that is the mark of the beast, when she forms that World Council of Churches. And she'll give birth to her son, the antichrist.
*AND CHRIST IS ONE BODY, THE
WORD. THE BRIDE WILL HAVE TO BE THE REST OF THAT BODY.
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170 The other is pregnated by the Word of God and will bring forth the Body, the finished Body of Jesus Christ, which is the Bride. The Body of Christ isn't finished yet. How many knows that? A man and woman is one. And Christ is one Body, the Word. The Bride will have to be the rest of that Body. And the two, together, makes the one Body again. Like Adam was at the beginning: man, his wife, are one. Now, She, the true Bride, so sold out to Him, that She use no mind of Her own. His mind, of course, is His will, and His will is His Word.
*BUT THE WORD OF GOD ATTRACTS
THE BRIDE OF CHRIST.
176 Christ does vindicates His Word, which attracts the people. He don't attract the people at churches that are attracted by big denominations and big doings, and great big carry-on's and fancy things. But the Word of God attracts the Bride of Christ.
*THE TRUE BRIDE ATTRACTS THE
ATTENTION OF GOD, BY KEEPING HIS WORD…..BUT HE ALWAYS COMES IN THE BEAUTY OF
CHARACTER.
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178 While, the
true Bride attracts the attention of God, by keeping His Word. Now notice. Now let us notice
Christ.
179 You say, "Well, now, wait a
minute, what about this beauty you're talking about?"
180 The Bible said, in Isaiah 53:2,
that, when Jesus come, "There was no beauty of Him, that we should
desire Him." That right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
There's no beauty. If He would have come in the worldly beauty, as Satan is
today, the people would have run around Him and accept Him the way they do the
church today. They would have believed Him, received Him, as they do Satan
today. Certainly, they would. But He didn't come in
that kind of a beauty, but He always comes in the beauty of character. There,
Christ wasn't a beautiful, great, strong, stout Man. God doesn't choose that
kind.
*IT'S NOT WORLDLY BEAUTY OF
HIM THAT ATTRACTS HIS BRIDE. IT IS HIS CHARACTER, THE CHARACTER OF THE CHURCH,
THAT JESUS LOOKS FOR
182 The prophet went to pour the oil
on him. He said, "God has refused him." And He refused every one of
them, till he come to a little, old stoop-shouldered, ruddy-looking fellow. And
he poured the oil upon him, and he said, "God chose him." See? We choose by sight. God choose by character.
183 Character, there never was a
character like Jesus Christ. It lives in you and
manifests Him. We see it's true. It's not
worldly beauty of Him that attracts His Bride. It is His character, the
character of the Church, that Jesus looks for; not where it's big
buildings, where it's great denominations, where it's big membership. He
promised to meet with wherever two or three are gathered together. Truly. That's where the true believer rests his hopes, is upon
that Word of God being vindicated in Truth, what is. Choose by His Word,
not a worldly-loving group. They hate that.
184 No wonder she is divorced from Him, because she's missed His revelation, and she don't have it. He cares not for her, the way she acts and does, and how much of this worldly stuff she has.
*HE CHOOSES A BRIDE TO
REFLECT HIS CHARACTER, THE CHARACTER OF HIM, THE WORD, FOR THIS
AGE, MUST BE MOLDED.
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185 He's looking for her character, the character of
Christ. Now, just a
moment now. That's it. He chooses a Bride to
reflect His character, to which the modern churches of today certainly misses
His--His program here, a million miles, 'cause they deny This to be the Truth. So
how could it be? Now, He's looking for the day for
that Bride to be formed, Hebrews 13:8, just exactly like It was, like He was. It's got to be His same flesh, same
bones, same Spirit, same everything, just exactly built up, and them two then
become one. Until the church becomes that, they're not one. The character of Him, the Word, for this age, must be
molded. She must be molded like He is.
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