26-0501A_TAKING GOD AT HIS WORD PT-5 (STAYING WITH CHRIST IN THE WORD)
Mat 4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
Mat 4:24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
Heb 12:8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Heb 12:9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
Heb 12:10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Heb 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
*... GOD DOESN'T TEMPT MEN,
BUT GOD TRIES MEN, TESTS THEM. GOD CANNOT TEMPT YOU, BUT GOD CAN TEST YOU.
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E-14 Now, God doesn't tempt men,
but God tries men, tests them. God cannot tempt you, but God can test you. And
every son that cometh to God must be tested or child-trained before he can be a
son. And if we can't stand chastisement, the Bible said we become illegitimate
children and not the children of God, 'cause a child of God is borned of God,
and he will stand the test anywhere, any time, on any condition (That's
right.), a child that's borned of God. He that's
borned of God, does not commit sin.
*BUT GOD GAVE MAN A LEADER,
THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND WE TURN HIM DOWN. NO WONDER WE'RE IN TROUBLE ALL THE TIME.
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E-19 How I love to watch Him in the sunrises and the sunsets.
I like to watch Him in His universe. Let's see if He deals and dwells in His
universe. How does this world stand here and can be timed for a hundred years
when the moon and sun will pass each other? What controls that?
I want to ask you
something. I watch wild nature, wild animals. I go way up in the northland on a
hunting trip, and while I'm up there, I begin to notice the little ducks that
go up into the northland, and they make their nest, up there in the slime, and
lay their eggs, and the little ducklings are born. They're raised on that
little pond.
Them great big ducks by the time fall of the year comes, and the first time there comes a snow across that mountain, and they freezes, that cold breeze comes down into that pond there's a certain little duck on that pond. He never left there in his life. He was born there. All he knows is that pond, but he will run right out on that pond, stick that little honker up in the air, make three or four honks, and every duck on the pond will come right to him. And he will raise off of that pond, and go just as straight to Louisiana, as he can go without a compass.
*BUT GOD GAVE MAN A LEADER,
THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND WE TURN HIM DOWN. NO WONDER WE'RE IN TROUBLE ALL THE TIME.
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E-20 Brother, if God isn't in His universe... Surely we ought to have as
good intelligence as a duck, but you see duck knows his leader, but man
doesn't. God gave a duck an instinct to get away from there, and get away
from the freeze, and the duck listens to his leader. But
God gave man a Leader, the Holy Spirit, and we turn Him down. No wonder we're
in trouble all the time.
Watch God in His universe. You go out here and read the newspaper. And the newspaper will say, "Tomorrow it's going to be pretty weather." And you watch that old sow take the shucks off of the north side of the hill and bring them over on the south side of the hill; don't you pay any attention to what that news commentator's saying. That hog knows more about it than he will ever know and that's right. Certainly. She's got an instinct that God gave her, and she abides by it. But we've got an instinct, not an instinct, but a Leadership, and we're afraid of It. That's the difference.
*HOW THAT GOD DWELLS IN
NATURE, HIS UNIVERSE.
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E-21 How that God dwells in nature, His universe. How He makes the big hills and
the little hills. I have noticed all how... He's a God of variety. He makes
white flowers, and blue flowers, and red flowers. He makes little men, big men,
black-headed, red-headed, blond-headed; light people, dark people, brown
people, black people. He's a God of variety. He's not a Sears and Roebuck
harmony house. He is absolutely a God of variety,
and I'm glad that He is. He's in His nature, His universe.
How he makes every star to move to its perfection. Everything in the heavens will move at His command. But the man that He made in His image, will turn his back and say, "I don't believe it." That's the difference. That's the reason we're in the condition we are, because ducks know their leader, but we don't know our Leader.
*IF GOD MADE A WAY FOR A
FLOWER TO LIVE AGAIN, WHAT ABOUT A MAN THAT'S MADE IN HIS IMAGE?
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E-22 Notice. One day I was... I'd go to the mountains, not so much to hunt
the wild game, but to be alone. My mother's almost a half Cherokee Indian. And
the... My conversion never took that love of the wild out of me. I love it,
'cause I see God in His universe. It was my first teacher to set down by mother
nature, and she's taught me of the things of God.
I watch a little flower how it dies and goes into the ground. It may be young. It may be old. But when the frost hits it, it bows its head, commits itself to death. They'll have a funeral procession. The stars weep, and the rains fall. It buries the little flower--the little seed, and all the seed's gone, freezes, bursts open, pulp runs out, stalk's gone, petals gone. Is the flower gone? Never.
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E-23 When springtime comes, there's a little germ of life
there that no scientist never can or never will find. And just as certain as
the spring sun begins to shine, that little flower will live again. If God made a way for a flower to live again, what about
a man that's made in His image? See how the resurrection is? Not
reincarnation but resurrection, not replacement but bringing up the same that
went down.
Oh, I was setting here
not long ago eating a little ice cream with an old Methodist minister. And we
was listening at the agriculture hour. And it was said that the little 4-H Club
had perfected a machine to where it could produce a grain of corn, so perfect,
that you could take a handful out of a sack out of the field and a stack that
the machine had produced, mix them together; you could never tell them no more
apart. Both would make the same kind of corn flakes, same cornmeal. Both of
them cut the grains open, the heart was in the center, the same amount of
calcium, the same amount of potash, the same amount of petroleum, the skin on
it, everything just perfect.
And I said,
"Listen to that, Dr. Spurgeon."
He said, "Yes, Billy, I was just listening." He said, "There is one way to find out." Said, "Bury them, and the one that man made never lives again. But the one that God made in the field has a germ of life, and it lives again."
GOD.IN.HIS.WORD_ OAKLAND.CA SATURDAY_ 57-0323
E-24 I said, "Brother Spurgeon, you better hold me. I'll embarrass you right here in this restaurant, 'cause I just got to shout." That's right. You may look like a Christian, act like a Christian, set by a Christian, and belong to a Christian church. But if the germ of the life of the resurrected Christ, isn't in you, you'll die, and that's the finish of it. You'll be gone. But they that are borned again will live again just as certain as God's Word is true.
*IT'S SOMETHING THAT MAN
LONGS TO SEE... IT'S JUST THE WAY YOU LOOK AT IT.
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E-16 Job stood up and he said, "I know my Redeemer
liveth, and the last days He will stand on the earth: though the skin worms
destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God." The prophet in the Spirit, things turn.
This
same Job longed to see God. One time he said, "If
I could only go to his house as it was. If I could knock [Brother Branham
knocks--Ed.] on his door." It's
something that man longs to see.
And I taken it upon myself tonight by the work of God--the Word of God, and the works of God, to prove to you that every one of you can see God. It's just the way you look at it.
*...YOUR
EMOTIONS TOWARDS THE WORD OF GOD IS WHAT WINDS YOU UP WITH THE HOLY GHOST IF
YOU’RE TAKING GOD’S WORD. THERE IT IS, THE NEW WATCH.
57-0324 — Why Some People Can't Keep The Victory
121 Hasn’t Jesus said, “Haven’t you heard that the Stone that the builders
rejected has become the Chief of the corner?” Certainly, the Mainspring.
122 Now, when the mainspring is in the watch…And this watch is not a self-winding, it’s a God-winding
watch. And the only thing
you do to—to a self-winding watch, the only
way you do, is your emotions with the watch is what winds
it; and your emotions towards the Word of God is what winds you up with the
Holy Ghost if you’re taking God’s Word. There it is, the new watch.
*THE GREAT WORD OF GOD, AND
THE SPIRIT OF GOD TAKING THE WORD OF GOD, REFLECTS JESUS CHRIST IN HEAVENLY
PLACES TO HIS SHEEP...
64-1221 — Why It Had To Be Shepherd
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