25-0908P_INSPIRATION PT-4
(BE STRONG & OF GOOD COURAGE)
2Ki 4:30 And the mother of the child said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her.
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*BUT IF HE SPEAKS GOD'S
WORDS, IT CAN'T FAIL, BECAUSE IT'S GOD SPEAKING. THEN, HIS INSPIRATION COMES
FROM GOD, AND IT--IT HAS TO BE RIGHT.
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94
You must take the whole Thing. Then, if
God is in that, then God will manifest that to be the Truth. Like Divine healing, if it isn't Truth,
then it isn't Truth; God will have nothing to do with it. But if He manifests
It to be the Truth, then It is the Truth. Just as Jesus...
95 God said, "If there be one among you, is a prophet, or spiritual, I'll speak to him. And what he says comes to pass, then hear it. That's it. But if his prophecy is wrong, then..." God can't be wrong. He's infinite, infallible, omnipotent, and He cannot be wrong. So, if the man is speaking, then it shows the man. If he spoke his own words, it'll fail. But if he speaks God's Words, it can't fail, because it's God speaking. Then, his inspiration comes from God, and it--it has to be right. That's the way God said to tell it. That's the way the Bi-...
*SICKNESS, NOTHING BOTHERS YOU AS LONG AS
THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS NEAR AND YOU KNOW IT.
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E-18 Elijah, I always thought of him
as a great, big man, tall, maybe skinny, and we see that he was a fearless man
when the Spirit of God was upon him. He did not worry about what anyone thought
about him or what the world had to say as long as the Spirit of God was on him.
And you know, I--I kinda believe that's just about the attitude of the church now, or any time, or anybody. Sickness, nothing bothers you as long as the Spirit of God is near and you know it. Let a person be so, ever so sick and let the Holy Spirit come into the room and anoint that person, you'll see a changed person in a few moments.
*EVERY WORD IS INSPIRED OR NONE OF THEM IS INSPIRED.
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84 Then if Christ was in us today,
He'd do the same things He did when he was here on earth. If the Lord Jesus is
arisen from the dead today, and lives among us, and said, "The same things that I do, you'll do also, for I'll be
with you to the end of the world," then there's only one way to prove
whether He's raised from the dead; that is, when the Church that believes that,
Christ will make Hisself known to that Church by His same power of His
resurrection. It's got to be, friends.
85 This is either the Word of God
or It's a deceiving Book. That's right. It's either right or It's wrong. And It's either all right or all wrong. Every word is
inspired or none of them is inspired. I want to believe it.
Paul said, "I never come to you preaching with enticing words and wisdom of men; for if I did, then your faith would be built upon wisdom of men. But I come to you, preaching the Gospel of the power of God, the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: that your faith would be steadfast." Paul never come with some seminary experience to polish around, and take out, and add to. He said, "I come knowing only one thing: Christ crucified. I only come knowing one thing, preaching to you the power of the resurrection, that Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." And in Galatians 1:8, he said, "If an angel preached anything else, let him be accursed unto you." That's right.
*THAT'S THE WAY JESUS WANTS
TO FIND YOU WHEN HE COMES: POLISHED UP, NOT WITH A LOT OF WORLDLY STUFF, BUT
WITH THE GOSPEL THAT CLEANSES.
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E-43 …..That's the way Jesus wants
to find you when He comes: polished up, not with a lot of worldly stuff, but
with the Gospel that cleanses. Doesn't whitewash but it washes white
(Amen.), all cleaned by the purging of the Holy
Spirit in your life, separating you from the things of the world. Old
things die and pass away, and all things become new. You see it? All right.
E-44 …..I wonder if Christ would come to our hearts tonight, if He'd find it with everything of the world gone, that He might fulfill where it's "Come unto Me all ye that heavy--heavy laden. And take My yoke upon you; learn of Me; I'm meek and lowly: and you'll find rest," resting with Christ, what a wonderful thing.
*…WHEN YOU ONCE COME TO
CHRIST, ONCE BELIEVE HIM, ONCE ACCEPT HIM, ENTER INTO THE REST, ALL THE THINGS
OF THE WORLD SEEMS TO DIE AWAY.
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E-45 The other night the Lord give me a message on resting.
The whole Christian principle is based upon rest. I woke up about ten o'clock
in the night. I didn't have no audience to preach to, and so I just, well, I
went over and woke up my wife and preached to her till one o'clock in the
morning about resting: good audience. But I was burning in my heart, resting. I
said, "Why are we troubled? 'Let not your hearts be troubled,' He said.
We're just resting. 'Come to Me and ye shall
find rest. Take My yoke upon you, learn of Me,' finding rest."
Then, while... I said when you once come to Christ, once believe Him, once accept Him, enter into the rest, all the things of the world seems to die away. You've got rest then, rest to your soul. And you enter into that state, and there you are. You're resting then with Christ.
*NOW, IF YOU WANT TO FIND A
FAVOR FROM GOD, BE A FAVOR TO GOD. COME TO HIM.
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E-46 …..Now, if you want to find a favor from God, be a favor to God. Come to Him. If you're a sinner and you want to be healed, come first and give your life to Him. Come first if you're just a church member and want to be a Christian, come first to Christ, then you can be a church member after that.
*IF HE'S ALMIGHTY GOD, HE CAN
DO ALL THINGS. IF HE CAN'T DO ALL THINGS, HE'S NOT ALMIGHTY GOD. INSPIRATION
TELLS YOU THAT.
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E-50 Now, when the woman realized that this inspiration was on
her, she obeyed exactly, because she knowed it was in harmony with the
supernatural.
Say, "What are
you talking about, Brother Branham?" I'm
trying to base your faith on a level with God being almighty, and supreme, and
all powerful, and omnipotent. And He hasn't changed. His nature doesn't
change. My nature might change; yours might change; but God's nature will never
change. If He's still the great Jehovah God that created the heavens and earth
and had all powers in His hand, He's still the same Jehovah tonight. If He's Almighty God, He can do all things. If He
can't do all things, He's not Almighty God. Inspiration
tells you that. Reasonings will say it's not so, but inspiration says it is so,
inspiration from the soul not from the mind.
It's mind reasonings, theology, man-made so called, will make you very religious; it'll make you just as religious and keep the sabbath days and do all these other things, but will deny the existence of the Almighty to perform miracles and do supernatural. Didn't the Spirit say in the last days they'd be that way, "Heady, high minded, having a form of godliness but would deny the power thereof; from such turn away"? Wake up, Church.
*AND GOD, BY THE FOOLISHNESS
OF PREACHING, IT PLEASED HIM TO SAVE THE WORLD OR THEM THAT WOULD BELIEVE.
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E-51 Today the people in general act like Cain. They said...
Cain no doubt said, "If we build a nice altar, we'll make it beautiful,
for Jehovah will worship in such a place." He got the lilies of the field;
he put them on the altar. He got the fruits of the land; he laid them there. He
made them all nice, built him a nice church, a nice altar, and knelt down, and
said, "Jehovah, this I offer to You." And God refused it.
And today people are trying to go to the better church where people dress better, where the pastor's a little more formal and not so fanatically, as they call it. Do you know, the mind of the world is an enemy to God. The wisdom of this world is foolishness in the sight of God. And God, by the foolishness of preaching, it pleased Him to save the world or them that would believe. How one's contrary to the other. Now, quickly, let's come to this close or this conclusion.
*WHEN ABEL, BY INSPIRATION
COME, NO BEAUTY, BUT HE COME IN INSPIRATION...
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E-52 Watch just a moment. When Abel, by inspiration come, no beauty, but he come in inspiration... He had no Bible to tell him it was a lamb. But God revealed to him it was a lamb, no inspiration to tell him that it wasn't... Cain said, "Well now (reasoning), it's fruit, we... They must've eat apples, so I'll bring fruits an offering, and Jehovah will receive this because it looks better than what that would be, so Jehovah will receive this."
*NO MATTER WHAT THE PEOPLE
THINK, WHAT OTHERS SAY, IT'S THE INSPIRATION LEADING YOU, IF IT'S ACCORDING TO
THE WORD.
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E-54 That's what the Shunammite woman
was going by. It was unreasonable to take a dead baby to that preacher's bed.
But inspiration spoke. And if inspiration'd speak to you and say that you've
been playing church, if inspiration tells you
tonight it's time to get rid of your dirty habits, listen to inspiration. It's
the Holy Spirit speaking and making a way. Don't never turn it down, if
it's anything... Unless it's contrary to God's Word. And anything that you do
clean and righteous is--is in accordance with God's Word. It's in accord. Amen.
No matter what the people think, what others say, it's the inspiration leading you, if it's according to the Word. And if it's according to the Word then the inspiration is a leading you.
*AND IF WE COULD ONLY
RECOGNIZE THAT BY INSPIRATION THAT LEADS US TO THE--MAKE THE--IN THE CRUCIAL
MOMENT TO MAKE OUR DECISION ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF GOD
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E-56 …..And tonight the Holy Ghost is the vindication that He's
here, that His power is with the believer. And if
we could only recognize that by inspiration that leads us to the--make the--in
the crucial moment to make our decision according to the Word of God,
not according to what the neighbors is going think or according to what somebody
else is going to say, or what my pastor will say, or my members will say, what
my neighbors will say, but what God is leading you
to.
Psa 144:1 A Psalm of David. Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
Psa 144:2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
Psa 144:3 LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
Psa 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Psa 144:5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Psa 144:6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Psa 144:7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
Psa 144:8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Psa 144:9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
Psa 144:10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
Psa 144:11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
Psa 144:12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
Psa 144:13 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
Psa 144:14 That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
Psa 144:15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.
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