25-1117P_THE DANGER OF UNYIELDED HEART
Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Jer 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Psa 26:2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
Psa 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
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THE.INVISIBLE.UNION.OF.THE.BRIDE.OF.CHRIST_ SHP.LA V-2 N-15 THURSDAY_ 65-1125
213 That's the reason you have to be born again. You have to separate; you have to die to that first husband. You can't live with it. You just can't say, "Well, I'll divorce him, and hang him up here till occasion." No, sir. No writing of divorcement! He dies. The nature of the world has to die. Every speck of him has to die. You have to be reunited, again, with another Nature.
THE.MANIAC.OF.GADARA_ CHICAGO.IL TUESDAY_ 54-0720A
E-44 God has to take you off your feet sometime
to let you know that you don't know. We have to depend on Him. And one day way
atop the Adirondack... I just taken... My little boy, Billy back there, was
just a little bitty fellow then. We was in a little old lean-to. The ranger
hadn't come up yet. We was going to go bear hunting. I said to the wife, I
said, "There's a group of deer that goes down here in the giants." I
said, "I want to walk down there today."
And I got out and there come up a
storm. And you know in the New England states when the storms come, the fog
comes and you can't see nothing. And I... I'd just shot a dear, and I was going
back up. And I said, "Well, I'll go back up and get to her." 'Cause I
told her I'd be in at two o'clock.
THE.MANIAC.OF.GADARA_ CHICAGO.IL TUESDAY_ 54-0720A
E-45 And I went up along, going
up a little branch like this, going along. I kept walking, walking. I thought,
"Well, say, I ought to be getting up towards the place to turn off in a
few moments." And I happened to look up and I was right back to my deer
again. Well, I thought, "How did I miss that?" I kept walking again
and walked about thirty or forty minutes and I was right back at my dear again.
Now, the Indians call that the
death walk. You're walking in a circle, but you don't know where you are. And
the fog's so low you had no markers or nothing. And then I seen I was caught.
And I said, "Well, I must take some course." I thought, "When I
come, the wind was in my face, so I, perhaps, better keep the wind right in my
face and go this way."
THE.MANIAC.OF.GADARA_ CHICAGO.IL TUESDAY_ 54-0720A
E-46 And I started that way, and I thought, "Oh..." I kept getting... I, why I couldn't see hardly as far as the wall. And those great tall trees swaying. And I thought, "What can I do?" And I was walking this way, and I thought, "You know, my wife she's young and in that lean-to, and it's almost zero weather. And that little baby boy of mine, they'll freeze to death tonight. She'd scare to death to be in these wilderness, about twenty-five mile from any road or any thing."
I said, "It'd scare her to
death to be here alone, 'cause there's a mountain lion we seen over there this
morning, and she'd be scared of that." And I said, "I don't know what
to do." And I started moving on, and seen that I was all mixed up. I
didn't know where to go. And I kept hearing Something in my ear saying,
"I'm the Lord, and I'm a very present help in the time of trouble."
E-47 And I said, "Looky here, William
Branham, why, you--you know more--more about the woods than to get nervous
now." Why, I... Many of them die every year like that, get a fever and
then you die when you get lost. And I said, "Why, you know more about the
woods than that."
And something kept telling me,
"That baby will perish; that wife will perish; and you'll perish here in
this woods." Now, if it'd been ordinarily (my wife not there), I'd have
found me a place and built me up a fire and wait till the storm was over, a day
or two, and I'd have went on out.
So, but the wife in the woods and
the--and the baby there, so I just didn't know what to do. So I kept walking,
and I could hear a Voice saying, "I'm the Lord, and I'm a very present
help in the time of trouble." So I just set my old rifle down against a
tree; I pulled off my hat and laid it down. And I looked up, I said,
"Heavenly Father, I'm not no woodsman." I said, "I was mistaken.
And, Lord, I can't--I can't do nothing without You. And I'm lost, absolutely
lost."
THE.MANIAC.OF.GADARA_ CHICAGO.IL TUESDAY_ 54-0720A
E-48 And you don't know what a
feeling it is, till you are lost one time. And I said, "Oh, I'm lost,
Father. I know I'm going wrong. I don't know which a way to turn. And there's
only one way I know to turn, that's heavenly, and look to You, Lord, and ask
You to help me get out of here. I'm not worthy that I should live; but my baby
and my wife, I want them to live, Lord."
And I said, "I pray that You'll help me get out of here, will You, Father?" And I raised up and I was weeping a little and took my hat and shook it off. It was kind of damp on the grounds, some snow. And I put it on my head; I picked up my rifle. I said, "Now, the best of my knowledge, I shall go this way." And I started that way again; I felt a hand lay on my shoulder.
THE.MANIAC.OF.GADARA_ CHICAGO.IL TUESDAY_ 54-0720A
E-49 And I turned to look, and just as I looked, I seen Hurricane Mountain, this way. I was going exactly backwards right into Canada, right like that. And I stood there and just held my course like this. And I thought, "Oh, thank You, Lord." And for about the next three or four hours I climbed just in that direction, not moving at all, watching, going just as straight as I could to that place, and holding my course.
EL.SHADDAI_ YAKIMA.WA TUESDAY_ 60-0802
E-14 When you come to total obedience, then you
can have possession. But until you totally obey. You've got to completely
surrender your own thoughts, your own will, your own mind, and let the mind of
Christ operate in you. Now, do you think Christ would--the mind of Christ, in
you, would say, "The days of miracles is past"? Do you think the mind
of Christ, in you, would say, "The Bible's right in some places and not in
others"? The mind of Christ would sanction every word that Christ ever
said. It's right. So if you don't use your own mind, just use His mind.
That's how visions at nighttime... If I use my own mind, how--what could I do? I couldn't do nothing. But just yield myself to Him, and then He uses my mind, my eyes, my mouth. He's my all. Just yield. That's the way you do it. That's the way these ministers do when they're preaching the Gospel. They get up there and take a text, why, they just start off to preach, and yield themselves to God, they're ministers, the first thing you know, the Holy Spirit maybe take them on another text, take them somewhere else.
GOD.HIDING.HIMSELF.IN.SIMPLICITY_ ALBQ.NM FRIDAY_ 63-0412E
When you surrender fully, He'll come in fully. But until you surrender, He can't come in fully. Surrender. Surrender your thoughts. Surrender your thinking. Surrender your life. Surrender your all. Surrender your prestige. Surrender everything to Him now, and He'll come in and fill you with the Holy Ghost. That's what He's here to do. He's already struck two or three here in the building. There's more than that, wanting the Holy Ghost. Just keep believing. Glory to God! Either right or wrong...?... Humble your own thinking. Humble your own ways.
WHERE.HAS.THY.STRENGTH.GONE.SAMSON_ LA.CA THURSDAY_ 59-0702
But, oh, Delilah, the first thing you know... Samson oughtn't to have made his first stop. When Delilah flirted her eyes at him, he ought to have turned his head and walked on. Eve stopped just for a moment and she got in trouble. Samson stopped for a moment and got in trouble. And when the world presents something to the church or individual, don't stop; keep moving on. That's what the church needs tonight, is don't stop for these intellectual, classical prides, is keep moving on in the Holy Ghost. Just keep pressing on, going on...?...
THE.UNFAILING.REALITIES.OF.THE.LIVING.GOD_ JEFF.IN V-16 N-1 SUNDAY_ 60-0626
87 When Satan met Him, Satan tried to detour Him. He got the road map, Satan did, out, and said, "You see, here it says this here."
He said, "But it's also
written..."
Oh, there's lots of bypasses,
this, that, or the other, "Oh, as long as I do this." That's not it.
You--you've got to find God in a personal relationship and experience. If you
claim you have it, and still live for the world, then there's something wrong.
The devil has detoured you on the wrong Scripture.
If we follow the road map, if it
says "turn on highway so-and-so here," turn that way. If Acts 2:38
said, "Repent, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ for remission
of sins," it didn't turn left; you must turn that way. I don't care how it
is; you've got to follow the road. If He said, "The promise is to you and
your children," that didn't mean for a age past. "As many as the Lord
our God shall call," is what It said. That's God's road Map. We must
follow It. The road's marked out.
You say, "How will I know I'm on it?" The Bloody footprints of the Lord Jesus made the road, and the disciples laid on that same foundation. And the Holy Spirit directed them. Follow that road map.
THE.UNFAILING.REALITIES.OF.THE.LIVING.GOD_ JEFF.IN V-16 N-1 SUNDAY_ 60-0626
You say, "Well, I've got the
Holy Spirit," and still living the same way you do? Something's happened
to you. You never got the Holy Spirit that come on the day of Pentecost; It
made you different.
"I don't believe in speaking in tongues. I don't believe in Divine healing. I don't believe in these things." Then you never got the Holy Spirit fell on Pentecost. You certainly didn't.
74 The Holy Spirit comes today in like manner
to present God to man; but man wants to go to church. It--it--it drowns
his--his--his thinking. He cannot--he cannot fathom it. And we must learn that
God is not known by intellectual conception. God is known by the new birth, by
the Holy Ghost, not by any other way. Jesus, the Bible has plainly quoted us
that, "No man can call Jesus the Christ, only by the Holy Ghost." And
if you've never received the Holy Ghost, you don't know that He is the Christ,
for that's the only way He reveals Himself.
You're not converted until you
receive the Holy Ghost. The Bible said so. After Peter had both been saved and
sanctified, give power to cast out unclean spirits, and to preach the Gospel,
Jesus plainly told him he was not converted, until he received the Holy Ghost.
And He said, "After you're converted, then strengthen your brethren."
That was on the night of the betrayal, that he was not yet converted. And no
man is truly converted until he's been changed, and died to himself, and the
Holy Spirit has control of that person. They don't want to do it.
THE.UNFAILING.REALITIES.OF.THE.LIVING.GOD_ JEFF.IN V-16 N-1 SUNDAY_ 60-0626
76 Now, the Holy Spirit will not misbehave itself in one person, and behave itself in another. It'll make each person come into Its character (See?), because it's a Spirit that leads you. It brings--makes you subject to Its nature. You don't bring It subject to your nature; It makes you subject to Its nature. And the Holy Spirit makes you live and love to do it. Oh, how you love to give up the things of the world, when the Holy Spirit comes in. How it cleanses you and washes you, and puts a desire in you to--to--to follow Him, and a thirst, and a hunger for more of it, just bathing yourself. He brings realities.
CONFERENCES_ BLOOMINGTON.IL MONDAY_ 61-0410
E-53 Now, there was a conference. God seen His
runaway prophet; and when God chooses a man to do a thing, there's no way for
him to get away from it. God haunts him. Maybe some of you here tonight, a
backslider, you'll be miserable all the days of your life (and you ought to be)
until you surrender yourself to God. There he was.
THE.UNFAILING.REALITIES.OF.THE.LIVING.GOD_ JEFF.IN V-16 N-1 SUNDAY_ 60-0626
That's the way it is today. Now,
many men will go away to a seminary and learn, oh, an intellectual giant, learn
all the Greek and everything else; but when it comes to truth, he'll give his
strength of his education to the Lord, yes, but his heart he gives to the
church and not God. That's what's the matter with the people today; they want
to follow their creeds. They don't want the reality of the Holy Spirit. They
don't want to act any different than what they always act. But when you become
a Christian, you are a peculiar person, a royal priesthood, a st--strange
nation, odd people, do odd things and strange things, unbecoming to the world.
And when you're in the world, you're unbecoming to God. One's vice versa from
the other. One makes you act like they do in heaven, the other one makes like
you do on the earth.
THE.UNFAILING.REALITIES.OF.THE.LIVING.GOD_ JEFF.IN V-16 N-1 SUNDAY_ 60-0626
Mar 5:2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
Mar 5:3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
Mar 5:4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
1Pe 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Mat 12:43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
Eph 5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
1Sa 13:5 And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.
1Sa 13:6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
1Sa 13:7 And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
1Sa 13:8 And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
1Sa 13:9 And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.
1Sa 13:10 And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him.
1Sa 13:11 And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;
1Sa 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
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