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Isa 60:1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
Isa 60:2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
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*SO THAT’S THE WAY WE FEEL ABOUT HIM WHEN WE COUNT THE BLESSINGS OVER.
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21 Because, you would love Him so much, to think that—that He loved you so much when you were unlovable, and before you had anything to do with it, He chose you. How could you turn anything down like that? Why, it looks to me like that would just set, that would set election so much higher than—than law. It would, or it would set legalistic idea. Why, it would just go beyond anything; to think that, when I was unlovable, He loved me. And to think, when I had nothing I could do about it, He picked me up and saved me, of His grace. I surely should be grateful enough to serve Him and love Him. See? So that’s the way we feel about Him when we count the blessings over.
*THE RIGHTEOUS ARE READY TO
ACCEPT GOD'S DECISION. HE'S ONLY INTERESTED IN GOD, AND HE WANTS TO ABIDE BY
GOD'S DECISION.
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E-23 All through the years, the righteous has lived by that
decision of God. The righteous never argue about anything. The righteous are ready to accept God's decision. He
doesn't want to make anything for himself. He's only interested in God, and he
wants to abide by God's decision. And the righteous live by it, always have,
for it's the way that righteous should live by. To try to make anything
to it, inject anything into it, would be unrighteousness, because it would be
against the program that God has laid out for us to fellowship by: is through
the shed Blood.
*BUT IF YOU DON'T DO IT WITH
LOVE AND SINCERITY, GOD SAID HE WOULD HIDE HIS FACE
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E-38 Isaiah spilled it out to them and said, "God said
that He's hiding His face from your prayers. You've got your ritualistic form,
yet it's the truth. You're doing what He told you, but you're not doing it in
sincerity. And you squall out day and night, but God said, 'Your sacrifice is a
stink to me, and I will not receive it any more. And when you pray under such
conditions, I'll hide My face from you.'"
Oh, God. If people would think of that, it would start a Pentecost. God said, "Though you be correctly in the Word..." But if you don't do it with love and sincerity, God said He would hide His face, and wouldn't hear your prayers. See? That's the way.
*SINCERITY BRINGS REAL
WORSHIP, NOT FORMS, BUT GENUINE POWER WORSHIP TO KNOW THAT YOU'VE PASSED FROM
DEATH UNTO LIFE.
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E-39 Oh, you said that "You're taking under the Old
Testament, Brother Branham." All right. Let's take the New Testament, II Timothy 3. The Holy Spirit warned us that in the last
days that the church would get away from the sincerity and the faith. They'd
have a form of godliness, but would deny the power that went with the right
thing, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. Yes, sir.
God hates a powerless
religion. And any religion today that hasn't got Christ in it, is powerless. But any religion that Christ in is under His own Blood,
and it's got power in it. You say God hates a religion without power? He
said, "Your solemn feasts is a stink." I guess He does hate it. He
said, "It--it makes Me sick."
And remember, He told
this rich Laodicean church that "Because you're lukewarm (in other words,
you make Me sick), I'll spue you out of My mouth." And we've come to that
age. God, send us an Isaiah to chop the thing to pieces, lay it out before the
people: cry out; spare not. You think he'd be accepted? Certainly not. But he'd
cry just the same. Solemn feasts, they're a stink.
God hates powerless religion. It's got to have power in it. It's got to have sincerity. Sincerity brings power. Sincerity brings real worship, not forms, but genuine power worship to know that you've passed from death unto Life.
*WE'VE GOT TO BE SINCERE. WE
GOT TO DO THESE THINGS RIGHT.
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E-42 And look, friends. If God spared not the original tree
who did that, what about the grafted tree?
We've
got to be sincere. We got to do these things right. God wants to perform and
bring forth the Holy Spirit to operate in His church. The
church wants to perform and bring forth its creeds to make members. That's the
difference.
To do the first, God wants to send the Holy Ghost, which was the Leader of the church; He should do that. And the only way the people can keep from doing it, is to reject It. And when you reject It, you take the power out of the operation. So it leaves you a dead hull. "The Word killeth; the Spirit giveth life." See? That's right.
*NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU ACCUMULATE IN THIS WORLD, HOW MANY
CHURCHES YOU BELONG TO, WHAT ABOUT THAT SOUL OF YOURS? WHAT ABOUT THAT LIFE
THAT'S IN YOU? IS IT RIGHT WITH GOD?
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E-44 .....It's the life that means something. No matter how much
you accumulate in this world, how many churches you belong to, what about that
soul of yours? What about that life that's in you? Is it right with God? And it can only be right by accepting that great
preparation that God made to bring human beings across that chasm to Himself. That's the Blood of Jesus
Christ. No creed will bridge the way; no denomination will do it. No education,
no scientist, no nothing else but the Blood of
Jesus Christ is the only thing that'll bridge it.
* WE MUST COME SINCERITY TO
HIM, AND BY FAITH LAY OUR HANDS UPON HIS HEAD BY FAITH, AND CONNECT OURSELF
WITH HIM ...
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E-46 Now, if any of you, or any man anywhere, ever feels the
burden of his sin, we have a Lamb. Let's not pollute that program. It's the Lamb that takes away the sin of the world. It's
the only provision that God has for sinful men, which I am, and you are; and
sinful women, boys, and girls, is the Blood of Jesus Christ.
We must
come sincerity to Him, and by faith lay our hands upon His head by faith, and
connect ourself with Him, reckoning yourself dead now, and stay there until the
results comes, till the Blood that was shed on Calvary has been applied to your
heart. Then the burden's gone. See? "My burden's
rolled away." Then you're free. He who the Son makes free is free indeed.
No wonder we can't
have things like we used to or ought to have. We haven't come that sincere way
that God has provided for us. You might... We don't want to pollute that, you
know. It won't be polluted. Neither the other was polluted, but God taken it
away from them.
1Th 5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
1Th 5:19 Quench not the Spirit.
1Th 5:20 Despise not prophesyings.
1Th 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
1Th 5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
1Th 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1Th 5:24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
2Ti 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2Ti 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
2Ti 3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
2Ti 3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
2Ti 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
2Ti 3:6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
2Ti 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Psa 50:1 A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
Psa 50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
Psa 50:3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Psa 50:4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
Psa 50:5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
Psa 50:6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
Psa 50:7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
Psa 50:8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
Psa 50:9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
Psa 50:10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
Psa 50:11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
Psa 50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Psa 50:13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Psa 50:14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
Psa 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Psa 50:16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
Psa 50:17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
Psa 50:18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
Psa 50:19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Psa 50:20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
Psa 50:21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Psa 50:22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
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