25-1031A_THE STATURE OF A PERFECT MAN PT-24 (GOD'S WORD IS PERFECT)
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.
2Pe 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
2Pe 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
Job 14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Job 14:2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Job 14:3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
Job 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Job 14:5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Job 14:6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
Job 14:7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Ecc 12:1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
Ecc 12:2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
Ecc 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
*BUT GOD HAS BROUGHT US
TOGETHER AGAIN TO SERVE HIM.
1Sickness and many bad things... And death kept some away.
And sickness kept others away. And disappointments
kept others away. But God has brought us together again to serve Him. We're
so happy for these things.
…The
preaching of the cross brings observation; it brings troubles; it brings
stir-ups; and we can't expect to be immune from all those. We just have to take
them as they come…
You
know, the Lord's Word is always perfect. You know, we just watch the ages roll
on, watch science raise up and say, "Oh, God was mistaken there."
In a few years they come back around, say, "You know, He was right."
See? They always... See, they scientifically proved He's wrong, first, then
they have to tear all their theology down, come back, and prove that He was
right. See? So God just sets in the heavens and
laughs at them, I suppose, and say, "Oh, my. Poor little kids, why don't
you just come to yourself? Come, serve Me, and just believe what I said about
it." See? That settles it.
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.
2Ti 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
2Ti 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
Psa 119:88 Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
Psa 119:89 LAMED. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
Psa 119:90 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
Psa 119:91 They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.
Psa 119:92 Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
Psa 119:93 I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
Eph 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Eph 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Eph 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Eph 2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
Eph 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
Eph 2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
Eph 2:7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
*WHEN THE WORD OF GOD IS PUT
INTO THE FERTILE GROUNDS OF THE INSPIRED BELIEVER, IT PRODUCES JUST EXACTLY
WHAT GOD SAID IT WOULD DO…
HEAR.YE.HIM_
CHICAGO.IL SUNDAY_ 56-0930
E-16 And when the Word of God is
put into the fertile grounds of the inspired believer, it produces just exactly
what God said it would do, because it can't fail. It's God's eternal
Word. Got to waken the people, got to bring us to
something when the Word is received. And that's the inspiration. And man
is in no condition, outside of repentance; he's no
condition to receive the Word until first he has been inspired.
*THAT'S WHAT BRINGS THE
RESULTS (SEE?), IS YOUR INSPIRATION BY THE WORD.
HEAR.YE.HIM_
CHICAGO.IL SUNDAY_ 56-0930
E-17 …..See, salvation is not based upon what someone else
thinks. It's what you think of Him. Divine
healing isn't based on what the critic says, or what the church says; it's based on your perfect faith in the inspired Word of
God, and how you're inspired to believe that. That's what brings the results
(see?), is your inspiration by the Word. What does It do for you?
"Who does men say I, the Son of man, am?"
And he said, "Some Jeremias, and some the
prophets."
Said, "But Who do you say that I am?"
HEAR.YE.HIM_
CHICAGO.IL SUNDAY_ 56-0930
E-18 …..But I like Peter. He has a lot of mistakes like I
have. But this one time he was really inspired. Yes, he stood up quickly, said,
"Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." Oh, my, what
a statement. "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
He said, "Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and
blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father which is in heaven has did
this. And upon this rock I'll build My church; and the gates of hell can't
prevail against it." There you are, inspiration, inspired
revelation. Oh, how he was inspired, standing there in the front of the Messiah
Who was the Word. "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living
God."
He said, "Flesh
and blood has not revealed it to you, but My Father. And upon this rock I'll
build My church."
*IT'S UPON INSPIRATION (YOU
SEE IT?), UPON INSPIRATION OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST THROUGH HIS WORD.
HEAR.YE.HIM_
CHICAGO.IL SUNDAY_ 56-0930
E-19 What is it? It's upon
inspiration (You see it?), upon inspiration of the Lord Jesus Christ through
His Word. "I will build My church; and the gates of hell will not
prevail against it."Though it shows all the gates of hell
would be against it, but they cannot prevail.
God said, "When
the enemy comes in like a flood, I will raise up a standard against it."
God will do it. And when all the gates of torment
is pressing against that little church, yet it will never prevail. She
will go right on.
I think of the
disciples in the early days when they're just a little handful of people, with
all--no education, no ability, earthly speaking; they had no degrees; they had
no--they had no denomination behind them; they had nothing but one thing, and
that was the Holy Spirit they had received on the day of Pentecost. They didn't need no more, for God had already said, "Upon
this inspiration, I will build My church."
Why, the ecclesiastic
world of that day was well able to shut them out. The great Sanhedrin Courts
could've turned them down. And if they'd been standing in their own philosophy,
or in their own theology, they would've been smothered out in the beginning. But nineteen hundred years has passed, and the gates of
hell's still against it, but she's moving on and will; for Jesus said it
cannot.
Inspired...
That will take the rich man, the poor man, the beggar,
whoever he is, and set them together and call each other brother, who will
worship the Lord together without shamefaceness.
*IF THE WORD IS PUT IN
INSPIRATION, THEN THE RESULTS HAS GOT TO COME.
HEAR.YE.HIM_
CHICAGO.IL SUNDAY_ 56-0930
E-20 The Bible said, "My
people shall never be ashamed." How
they're fully able by the inspiration of God to declare Jesus Christ the
resurrected Son of God, Who's just the same yesterday, today, and forever.
And if the old time
Pentecostal blessing that fell in A.D. 33, is just as great today, and inspires
men just the same today as it did then, and brings the same results. Regardless
of critics, and what people has to say, it does just... It'll do that because inspiration will always bring it. If the Word is
put in inspiration, then the results has got to come.
25-1024A_THE STATURE OF A PERFECT MAN PT-23 (IT'S GOD IN YOU THAT MAKES IT PERFECT)
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.
2Pe 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
2Pe 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
Mat 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
*GOD THROUGH THE DEATH OF
CHRIST NINETEEN HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY, PERFECTED THE BELIEVER THAT HE
FORESAW…
THE.PERFECTION_
JEFF.IN ER 35-54 FRIDAY_
57-0419
50 Then Jesus said, "Be
ye therefore perfect."Then
it was perfected forever. God through the death of
Christ nineteen hundred years ago today, perfected the believer that He foresaw
before the foundation of the world forever. And those who He has called, He has justified. Those who He foreknew,
He has called;
those who He has called, He has justified; those who He has justified, He has already glorified.
He has perfected His believers.
58-7 Peter said, "And because
you have escaped the corruption of the world through the lust of money, and
lust of big times, and pleasure, and the eating, and drinking, and lust that we
have, you've escaped that; and now you're built up in to a lively house.
I'm addressing that to the church," he said. There you are. Did you read
it? Did you get it? Did you hear it when we read it back here? In II Peter,
just listen what he says here; how beautiful that's wrote in here, how he--he
addresses it. All right listen to him now as he speaks. All right.
Peter--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:
... peace be--be multiplied unto you through the
knowledge of God, and through Jesus Christ our Lord,
According as--as His
Divine power has given unto us all things... (Who's going to
inherit the earth and all things? Sure pertaineth... Yeah, all right.)... that
pertaineth unto life and godliness, through the knowledge
of Him that has called us to glory unto glory:
Whereby are we given to
the exceeding great precious promises: that by theseye might be
partakers of the Divine
nature, having escaped the corruption... (Listen to that.)... that is in the world through lust.
*THE BLOOD CELL, THE GERM OF
LIFE OF GOD HIMSELF, WRAPPED IN THIS BLOOD CELL THAT BROUGHT FORTH THE SON,
CHRIST JESUS…..TO MAKE YOU PERFECT AND TO BRING YOU BACK INTO FELLOWSHIP, HE
BRINGS YOU THROUGH THAT BLOOD CELL INTO HIMSELF.
E-16 Then the next time God was manifested, was in His Son,
Christ Jesus. Then He come through a virgin birth. Conceived by a virgin,
overshadowed by the Holy Spirit.
God Himself came down into a blood cell and wrapped the Blood around Him. The Blood cell, the germ of Life of God Himself, wrapped
in this Blood cell that brought forth the Son, Christ Jesus.
Now, what He did--does
by that, to make you perfect and to bring you back
into fellowship, He brings you through that Blood cell into Himself. You
get it? Through the Blood cell of the Lord Jesus that in-veiled the Life of
Jehovah, and we, coming through the Blood cell, becomes a part of that Life.
So,
Deity itself lays in the man that's received the Holy Spirit.
You are a son. I'm a Branham by birth. And a part of Mr. and Mrs. Branham is in
me. And if you become a son or a daughter of God,
part of Deity lays in you.
*HE SAID THERE IS NOTHING
IMPOSSIBLE WITH YOU. "WHATSOEVER THINGS YOU DESIRE, WHEN YOU PRAY, BELIEVE
YOU RECEIVE IT, AND YOU SHALL HAVE IT."
E-17 See how the devil robs you. Say, "Oh, you can't do
this." All things are possible to them that
believe. No matter what it is. You are a part of Deity, a son or dau... not a
servant, a son and a daughter.
Why, brother, it
surpasses all Angels, Archangels and everything else. It comes right into the Presence
of the Potter Himself. And how are we brought? Through
the Blood. Amen. Then you come into Deity.
You become a part. You're welded in.
Let's think of God
folding around Him now. We're going to enlarge it billions of times from this
Blood cell. And there God, in this Blood cell,
folded Himself up, and wrapped Himself in this Blood cell, and come to redeem
man to Life. Hallelujah.
There, when that Blood cell spread out, spread out, and brought the body Christ Jesus, Jehovah Himself was tabernacled in Him. That through the bursting of that Blood cell at Calvary might
bring sons and daughters to Himself, in the Blood cell to the Blood of
the Lord Jesus Christ, into Himself. And we become
a part of God. Amen.
That's what makes
Satan mad. That's what shakes him. When the Church
of Jesus Christ only knew who they were, brother... Oh, you say, "I
know there is nothing impossible with God." He said there is nothing
impossible to you. Amen. That changes the subject, doesn't it?
Oh, they says,
"There's nothing impossible to God." He said there is nothing
impossible with you. "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe
you receive it, and you shall have it." Amen.
Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Rom 6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Rom 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Rom 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Rom 6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Rom 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Rom 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Rom 6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
Rom 6:9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
Rom 6:10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Rom 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Rom 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Rom 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
1Th 4:7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
1Th 4:8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
1Th 4:9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
2Co 4:1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
2Co 4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
2Co 4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
2Co 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
2Co 4:5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
2Co 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
2Co 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
2Co 4:8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
2Co 4:9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
2Co 4:10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
2Co 4:11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
2Co 4:12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
Isa 25:8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
Rom 6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
Rom 6:9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
Rom 6:10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Rom 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Rom 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
2Pe 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
Luk 1:80 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.
DEMONOLOGY.RELIGIOUS.REALM_ CONNERSVILLE.IN DE 41-78
TUESDAY_ 53-0609A
29 Now, let's go to our subject right quick.
Yesterday we studied the technique of demons. I've been thinking today, as God
dealing. You don't know what a liberty it is to get out. Now, I'm not a
teacher; I'm a long ways from being a Bible expositor. And I am... My education
is limited to a seventh grade, so that's... And, that, I come out of school
about twenty-five years ago, so that's a long time off. And I don't have--had
very much of an education, but all that I know is what I receive through
inspiration.
And if that inspiration doesn't
compare with the Bible, then it's wrong. See? It's got to be the Bible. No
matter what inspiration it is, it's got to come... Here is God's Foundation. No
other foundation is laid but This. And what This is, if what I would say would
be contrary to This, you let my words be a lie, because This is the Truth. See,
see? And if an angel would tell you something that'd be different from This,
Paul said, "Let him be unto you accursed." Even an angel of light...
Now, there's many great things. I only... the only... I chose two days, 'cause
to get this subject to the people, that was yesterday and today, of the afternoon
meeting.
268 A prophet is God's reflector. How many
knows that? The--the reflector doesn't reflect itself, the--the reflector isn't
the reflection. There has to be something strike the reflector--reflector to
make it reflect. So a prophet is a chosen vessel of God that cannot reflect
nothing at all but he's in direct line with that reflection, God, to reflect
the image of Christ the Word. See, nothing else can do it. You are a reflector,
that's the reason the prophet had to eat the book. That's the reason he had to
eat the scroll. He had to reflect that Word for that age. You got it?
269 Notice Enoch, God's
perfect reflector in type. When God was through--through with him, He just
translated him, took him up. The mechanics that he had reflected become dynamics
with the Spirit, and took him up.
270 Same in the days of Elijah. Elijah, even to
his bones, where that reflection... Reflector of God in his body being made
manifest the Word of God. They laid a dead man on it, he sparked to life again.
We are flesh and bone of Him, as long as we are the Bride of Christ. Do you
believe that? All right. He died for us, and we died to ourselves and are
buried in His Name, that we would "no more be of the world, but in
Him," of which both the family in Heaven is named after Jesus Christ.
That's Ephesians 1:21. For both Heaven... the family in Heaven. What's the
family in Heaven named? Jesus. What's the family on earth named? Well, that's
the house of God where the Blood's at. Is that right? That's the door, that's
the gate, that's the place He put His Name, and the Word was made flesh and dwelled
among us. It's the Word reflecting and sparking off the age that you're living
in. That's what He was, that's what Moses was, that's what Jacob was, that's
what the rest of them was, sparking off that Word of God, the reflector that
God was reflecting Himself. And come to that perfect image of God, Jesus
Christ, God's Masterpiece; was struck that He might take the rest of them for a
Bride that's been reflecting Him.
271 Moses was in Him. Joshua
was in Him. And if you are in Him, you was in Him before the foundation of the
world, the family of God; you suffered with Him, you died with Him, you went to
the cross with Him, you raised with Him; and now you're still with Him, setting
in Heavenly places, reflecting the Message of the age to the world, the Light
of the world. "Ye are the Light of the world," but if it's hid by a
denominational bushel basket, how are, they going to see It? For your
traditions, you make the Light of no effect! By trying... You denominationals,
trying to keep the Light away from your church; you won't go in, neither will
you let them. Amen.
If you're more blessed when
you're dead, and you can do more for the Lord when you're dead than when you're
alive, well, go ahead and die. But God wants you here to fulfill His program.
The grou--... The Bible said, "Above all things, I would that you'd
prosper in health." That's Scripture, "... above all things, that
you'd prosper in health." The writers of the Scripture, inspired by the
Holy Spirit, which the Scripture says, "All Scripture is given by
inspiration of God." Amen.
INSPIRATION_ OWENSBORO.KY
SATURDAY_ 56-0128
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."
BY.FAITH.MOSES_ JEFF.IN
SUNDAY_ 58-0720M
E-17 Now, we lose our glory, if we lose faith.
Now, if we get away from faith, then we take the church into an intellectual
realm. And many times, it's been thought amongst people, that because a
congregation was large, and they had great churches, great steeples, and a
great lot of well-dressed and groomed peoples, and a lot of finances, that they
could afford such things, we many times, thought that was inspiring--that this
certain church must be inspired. Or we've often referred to different
ministers, who get out on the field and have great gatherings of crowds, and we
think, sometimes, that they are the signs of inspiration. But that's not
altogether the truth. That's human inspiration.
But the real inspiration comes by
doing the will of God (See?), whether it is a one or just a handful. Whether it
is a big church or a small church, it matters not. Whether he is a great
eloquent speaker or just a man that hardly knows his ABC's, it doesn't matter.
It depends on the message that he brings, whether it is inspired by the Word of
God or is it inspired by intellectuals conceptions of human inspiration.
Some people can be inspired
because of an eloquent speaker. That doesn't make it right. Sometimes they're
inspired, because the man is so trained, till he could put his point over. That
doesn't mean that it's of God. See? It's only through God's everlasting,
eternal, blessed Word can we receive inspiration, and that's given by the Holy
Ghost. By faith we receive it.
ABSOLUTE_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1230M
21-2 I remember when I read Zane Gray's
"Lone Star Ranger." I tore up two or three brooms for mama, riding
around the house a-galloping, when I was on this hobbyhorse broom. I--I read
that story of--of the lone star ranger, and how he brought the justice to the
Big Bend.
Then I read Edgar Rice Burroughs'
fiction story of "Tarzan and the Apes." Mother had an old fur rug, a
sealskin rug or something that Mrs. Wathen had give her from the fire. And it
laid on her room. And I--I--I took that rug out... Mama done knowed the wind
didn't blow it out. And I took it out, and cut it up, and made me a Tarzan
suit; and set up in the tree. I--I lived half my time in a tree out in this
Tarzan suit, because I had seen what he done; I wanted to do it too.
But one day, by the grace of God,
I got ahold of the real Book, the Bible. My song and story has been: "To
be like Jesus; on earth I long to be like Him." I don't want to be a
bishop, or a--or some great fellow in the church, some pope, or some priest, I
want to be like Jesus.
ABSOLUTE_ JEFF.IN
V-3 N-18 SUNDAY_ 62-1230M
22-2 An absolute, it makes you
different. There's something about it to read His Word and... Something in your
heart you long to be like Him. You're certain... It's like...
A.PRISONER_ JEFF.IN
V-2 N-8 WEDNESDAY_ 63-0717
125 Like "Father Chiniquy," if you
ever read his books. All right. He's "going to deliver all the
Protestants," you know, and he become one, himself. So, this great priest,
years ago, "Father Chiniquy," you ought to get his book and read it.
They call him, "father." He's just Brother Chiniquy, what it was. We
don't call no man "father," like that. So we find that--that we... He
was going to read the Bible, so he could get out there and disprove the
Protestant religion and make it all Catholic. And when he went to read the
Bible, the Holy Spirit come upon him, and he got the Holy Ghost, and then--then
he become one of them.
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E-39 Notice this now. As this Shunammite woman,
she said to her husband, "You know there is a holy man that comes by to
see us. And let us, I pray thee, build just a little chamber on the side of the
house for him. In other words, we want to be just as close to him when he's in
this neighborhood as we can be. We know he's a Jew and we're Gentiles. But yet
he's a holy man, and we recognize him to be that way. We believe he's a
truthful man. And so, we've got enough money to do that, so let's just build us
a little chamber on the side of our house, and put a little stool in there, a
little bed, that when he comes by... And some water, pitcher and so forth, he
can refresh hisself, and lie down and stretch out." How God foreknows all
things and making preparations for it... Amen.
God knows all things. He's
omnipotent. He's omnipresent. He's omniscient. He knows all things when the
world... Before there ever was a star in the heavens, before there ever was a
light in the firmament, God knew every prophet that ever lived or everything
that men and women would ever do. He's infinite. And how that He warns His
people to get things ready like in the antediluvian destruction, like He's
getting people ready today, like He got that woman ready. Watch what that little
bed did later. Hallelujah.
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E-40 Notice. She built the bed
because she was inspired to do so. And when God gives you a revelation to do
something, and if it's the right thing for whatever you do, do it. Don't wait
till tomorrow. Do it when God says do it. She was able to do it.
INSPIRATION_ OWENSBORO.KY SATURDAY_ 56-0128
E-41 This little woman said,
"I believe." In other words, if I could put it like this... This may
be drama. "Husband, this is a godly man, and something just tells me that
I should do something for him. So I'm going to ask you; you're the husband and
the head of the house, so I'm going to ask you if you will permit me to have
the carpenters to come and build just a little room there for this holy man.
And somehow, husband, I think we ought to buy him a little bed and put it in
that room. Wouldn't it be nice now? I just feel led to do so."
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E-48 It come to be about twelve
years old, and one day while he was out in the field with his father, probably
in his seventies, an old man, and was out there in the harvest, because he was
probably a rich man, he must've got a sun stroke or something. He begin to cry
out, "My head, my head." And he had asked one of the servants to take
him in to the mother, and the mother set him on her lap till it got about
noontime, and the baby died, the little child.
Now, the baby's dead. What good
did the baby do her if God gave her the baby and then here He takes it away
from her? So you know what she did? If she'd been just a lukewarm church
member, she would've got bitter right then. But being that she wasn't, she was
blessed of God, because she'd made preparations. When that happened, she took
the baby (Look what she did.), took the baby out the door, down the street, and
around the corner, and took him in Elijah's room, and laid him on Elijah's bed.
What a place to put him (Amen.), on Elijah's bed?
Look, I'm trying to say that the
woman was inspired. And inspired people through all ages act strange to the
world, but they're always doing God's will. It was a strange thing that Paul
taken handkerchiefs off his body and aprons, and sent to the sick and afflicted.
Something inside... Oh, I wish I could get you to see it. Something...
Now, what--what if the doctor
standing there? Here come the mother with this stiff, dead baby, fell in the
sun stroke, and his eyes walled way back, and his mouth open, his tongue out.
And here she comes packing him, dead, going around to lay him in the preacher's
bed. Why, he'd say, "You fanatic." She wouldn't have paid any
attention to it. She was doing exactly what her inspiration was telling her to
do.
INSPIRATION_ OWENSBORO.KY
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E-53 When Jesus come off the Mount
Transfiguration... Let's seal this right now. When Jesus come down off of Mount
Transfiguration, He said to the apostles; He said, "Who does men say I the
Son of man am?"
One of them said, "You're
Elijah."
And the other one said,
"You're the Prophet."
Another one said, "You're
Jeremiah."
He said, "But Who do you say
I am?"
And Peter said, "Thou art
the Christ, the Son of the living God."
He said, "Blessed art thou
Simon: for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father which is
in heaven has revealed this to you. And upon this rock I'll build My church;
and the gates of hell can't prevail against it."
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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.
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E-55 And she takes the baby;
she goes around and she lays it on her bed--on his bed. What took place? Her
husband came in. They were weeping and screaming and going on; the baby was
dead. But the woman... Amen. I love this. Her faith was in action. She's just
as cool as she could be. Something had struck her in that crucial moment.
Something had taken a hold. And if something would take a hold in the time of
death in the family, what more ought to take hold tonight when the coming of
the Lord Jesus Christ is at hand?
Something struck her:
inspiration. She walked around; she took the little fellow, laid him on the
prophet's bed. And her husband said, "Oh, dear, oh, dear, what will we
do?"
She said, "All is well,
husband." Amen. Her faith sprung her to action. And no matter how much,
sister, you in the wheelchair, believe that God is a Healer, if your faith
can't go to action, you'll always be in the wheelchair. But when your faith can
take action to a place that down in your soul that says so, not reasoning, but
something in here says so, then, brother, something takes place. You begin
moving. 'Cause it's impossible for it not to be. That's true.
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E-66 Notice. He went to the room. Quickly now,
as we close... He went to the room where the baby was; he didn't know. He
walked up-and-down the floor, and up-and-down the floor, the people outside
raging and going on. He walked up-and-down the floor, back and forth, until the
Spirit anointed him real deep. He run over and throwed hisself on that baby,
put his lips against its lips, and its head against his head, his nose against
its nose, his hands against his hand, and the Spirit of God come through him
onto that baby, and like laying hands on the sick or whatevermore. And the baby
sneezed seven times and come to life. The woman's inspiration was paying off.
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.
2Ki 4:8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
2Ki 4:9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.
2Ki 4:10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
Mat 15:22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
Mat 15:23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
Mat 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Mat 15:25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
Mat 15:26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
Mat 15:27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
Mat 15:28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
2Ki 4:21 And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
2Ki 4:22 And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
2Ki 4:23 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
2Ki 4:24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.
2Ki 4:25 So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite:
2Ki 4:26 Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well.
2Ki 4:27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
2Ki 4:28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?
2Ki 4:29 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.
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.
2Ki 4:31 And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.
Mat 15:22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
Mat 15:23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
Mat 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Mat 15:25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
Mat 15:26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
Mat 15:27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
Mat 15:28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
25-1017A_THE STATURE OF A PERFECT MAN PT-22 (IT'S GOD IN YOU THAT MAKES IT PERFECT)
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.
2Pe 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
2Pe 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
Col 1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
Col 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Rom 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Rom 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Rom 6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
Rom 6:9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
2Co 4:1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
2Co 4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
2Co 4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
2Co 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
2Co 4:5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
2Co 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
2Co 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
2Co 4:8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
2Co 4:9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
2Co 4:10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
2Co 4:11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
2Co 4:12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
Rom 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Rom 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Rom 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Rom 8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Rom 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
*AND IF GOD REQUIRED A CHURCH
WITHOUT SPOT OR WRINKLE, HE HAD TO HAVE SOMETHING TO MAKE IT THAT WAY.
THE.PERFECTION_ JEFF.IN ER 35-54 FRIDAY_ 57-0419
37…..No man can come to
this Lamb, except God draws him first. You see God's sovereignty? Oh, I hope
this soaks way down deep now. Look. God knowed He had sheep in this world. He knowed He was going to
have people to be saved, and His love looked down and seen those who would be
saved; therefore, by foreknowledge He predestinated a Church to meet Him yonder
without spot or wrinkle. And if God required a
Church without spot or wrinkle, He had to have something to make it that way. He
could not require His justice... His judgments
could not let Him ask such a thing if there wasn't a way to make it.
THE.PERFECTION_JEFF.INER 35-54FRIDAY_57-0419
39And man cannot do it in himself. He's a total
failure. God let
him see that through the law, through the judges, and through all the Old
Testament. He sent the prophet; He sent the righteous man, and they found out
that every one failed. So God by His sovereign
grace sent from the portals of glory His only begotten Son to take our place.
*IT'S A CONFESSION OF YOUR
WRONG, AND GOD'S GRACE TO YOU. THAT BRINGS YOU TO PERFECTION, AND THEN YOU ARE
PERFECTED IN JESUS CHRIST.
THE.PERFECTION_JEFF.INER 35-54FRIDAY_57-0419
77What is it? Oh, God requires
perfection. He requires your repentance. He requires your loyalty to Him. But
He's looking tonight. No matter how much you've sinned, how little or how much,
you are still a sinner, and cannot get in no other way but by Jesus Christ,
God's all-sufficient Sacrifice. And in Him you are perfected forever. Think of
it.
It's not nothing you
do. It's not new pages you turn. It's not a new life you start. It's a confession of your wrong, and God's grace to you.
That brings you to perfection, and then you are perfected in Jesus Christ.
*… HE WENT AWAY, AND THE
SPIRIT COME IN THAT, THAT THROUGH HIS DEATH HE MIGHT PERFECT THE CHURCH AND
BRING THE CHURCH SUBMISSIVE.
HEBREWS.CHAPTER.FIVE.AND.SIX.1_ JEFF.IN
HEB SUNDAY_ 57-0908M
91Now, but, God
then became in another type of a tabernacle. And that tabernacle was who? Jesus. And God was inside of Jesus, and He was hid, but
He was reconciling the world to Himself, by His expressions. Christ revealed
God. He said, "It's
not Me that doeth the works. It's My Father that dwelleth in Me. I do nothing
in Myself but what I see the Father doing. The Father in Me, showing Me these
visions, and then I go do just what the Father told Me to do." You get
it? God was inside of a human body, not
behind goatskins dyed, but was living, moving. God had hands; God had feet; God had
tongue; God had eyes; and it was Christ. There He was.
92Now, He went
away, and the Spirit come in that, that through His death He might perfect the
Church and bring the Church submissive. And then the same
Spirit that was in Christ is in the Church, doing the same things Christ did. "A little while and the world
won't see Me no more; yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you,
to the end of the world."
*…HE'D PUT SOME IN THE
CHURCH, PROPHETS, SOME WITH GIFTS AND SO FORTH, TO--TO BRING THE CHURCH
TOGETHER, TO PERFECT THE CHURCH, AND TO KEEP YOU IN HARMONY AND LOVING ONE
ANOTHER
E-59Everything of
God... Now, just think of this. Everything
of God is a finished work. It's finished, everything. Healing, salvation, everything's a
finished work, done finished. Now, the
only thing it is, is our personal faith in that finished work. If that ain't the Scripture, I don't
know it. That's our personal faith
in a finished work. Now,
we draw the remunerations of our--of His--of His death at Calvary by our
personal faith in what He died for. He was wounded for our transgressions; with
His stripes we're healed.
Now, God, first He told that in the Bible. That should settle it
forever, but not with God. He said
He'd put some in the church, prophets, some with gifts and so forth, to--to
bring the church together, to perfect the church, and to keep you in harmony
and loving one another, and moving on with faith knowing that He's raised from
the dead. He'd
do the same thing through His Church that He did then. Then He's obligated to
that Word. Is that right?
52-2Isn't that wonderful? And
then God, through that, has brought also seven church ages to show the seven
steps that He brought building His individual into His image. He's built a
complete church in His image. And at the
resurrection this complete Body will be raised up to live with Him forever,
because it is a Bride. See? So that cuts in every age, every age that
comes.
*HE WENT AWAY, AND THE SPIRIT
COME IN THAT, THAT THROUGH HIS DEATH HE MIGHT PERFECT THE CHURCH AND BRING THE
CHURCH SUBMISSIVE.
91Now, but, God then became in another type of a
tabernacle. And that tabernacle was who? Jesus. And
God was inside of Jesus, and He was hid, but He was reconciling the world to
Himself, by His expressions. Christ revealed God. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works. It's My Father
that dwelleth in Me. I do nothing in Myself but what I see the Father doing.
The Father in Me, showing Me these visions, and then I go do just what the
Father told Me to do."You
get it? God was inside of a human body, not
behind goatskins dyed, but was living, moving. God
had hands; God had feet; God had tongue; God had eyes; and it was Christ. There
He was.
92Now, He
went away, and the Spirit come in that, that through His death He might perfect
the Church and bring the Church submissive. And then the same Spirit
that was in Christ is in the Church, doing the same things Christ did. "A little while and the world won't see Me no more;
yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the
world."
58-7Peter said, "And because
you have escaped the corruption of the world through the lust of money, and
lust of big times, and pleasure, and the eating, and drinking, and lust that we
have, you've escaped that; and now you're built up in to a lively house.
I'm addressing that to the church," he said. There you are. Did you read
it? Did you get it? Did you hear it when we read it back here? In II Peter,
just listen what he says here; how beautiful that's wrote in here, how he--he
addresses it. All right listen to him now as he speaks. All right.
Peter--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:
... peace be--be multiplied unto you through the
knowledge of God, and through Jesus Christ our Lord,
According as--as His
Divine power has given unto us all things... (Who's going to
inherit the earth and all things? Sure pertaineth... Yeah, all right.)... that
pertaineth unto life and godliness, through the knowledge
of Him that has called us to glory unto glory:
Whereby are we given to
the exceeding great precious promises: that by theseye might be
partakers of the Divine
nature, having escaped the corruption... (Listen to that.)... that is in the world through lust.
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