26-0529A_TAKING GOD AT HIS WORD PT-7 (TAKING SIDES WITH THE WORD)
*AFTER ALL, IT'S YOUR ANTICIPATIONS.
TAKING.SIDES.WITH.JESUS_ JEFF.IN COD FRIDAY_ 62-0601
750-30 What if God would've told John the Revelator, "Now, it's going to be two thousand years before My coming?" John would've come back and told the church, "Well, I guess we might as well eat, drink, be merry, 'cause there going to be many generations. (See?) Jesus ain't coming for two thousand years." See? So... See, the church had been loose, there'd have been no "on the mark", there'd be no waiting. After all, it's your anticipations. If you fall asleep in that watch that you wake with them same anticipations, 'cause it ain't going to hinder one thing; you're going to be right there on time anyhow. See? See what I mean?
Now, when--when St. Martin awakes in the resurrection, St. Paul, all the rest of them, it'll be just as fresh as if they was right in the battle, battling right away, 'cause they went right down under those same anticipations, looking for His coming. And there'll be a scream come, and up will come the whole church. You see? That'll be it. So it doesn't matter.
*WE'VE GOT TO BE LOOKING FOR HIM RIGHT NOW.
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750-32 See, we've got to be looking for Him right now. Even... We don't know. It--it could be possibly... It could be a hundred years from now, it could be five hundred years, a thousand years, ten thousand years. I don't know; nobody knows. But say, for instance, that we live each day that He was coming that day. See? If we live like He was coming this day, when we awake (if we sleep and we awake in the resurrection), it will be just as fresh as if we'd just fallen asleep, just woke up. The trumpet will sound and the dead in Christ shall rise first; we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air. See? So it will be just as fresh.
*BUT NOW, TO CARRY ON FURTHER, WE'VE GOT TO PUT FOOTPRINTS HERE ON THE SANDS OF TIME THAT OTHERS CAN SEE.
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750-33 But now, until that time, until He comes, we want to live each day like He might come the next minute, because it might be the end of your life at that minute. You don't know when you're going. This may be some of our last breath; we have it in us now, so you want to live like it is.
But now, to carry on further, we've got to put footprints here on the sands of time that others can see. If Paul hadn't have went on the way he did, then John wouldn't have knowed how to follow. If John hadn't have went on, Polycarp wouldn't have knowed how to follow. If Polycarp wouldn't have went on, Irenaeus wouldn't have knowed how to follow. If Irenaeus wouldn't have went on, Martin wouldn't have known how to follow. See what I mean? Each one has to put footprints on the sands of time.
*GOD RESPECTS ANYBODY WHO'S SINCERE.
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757-66 God respects anybody who's sincere. Peter said that: he perceived that God was no respect of persons. All nations calling when--on--at the house of Cornelius when they received the Holy Ghost like they did at the beginning. See? God is no respect of persons. We see a person deeply in sincerity be sincerely wrong, but if he is sincerely, God will lead him to the Light somewhere. He'll come to It, 'cause God's obligated to do that.
*YOU'VE GOT TO BE ENTHUSED ALL THE TIME (SEE?) AND JUST KEEP PUNCHING; IT'S THE DEVIL TRYING TO GET YOU.
TAKING.SIDES.WITH.JESUS_ JEFF.IN COD FRIDAY_ 62-0601
764-96 And I think that that's the thing to do to keep on carrying on until Jesus comes. And that's what I wanted to say in that manner. And I believe that if you'd have like...
See, you've got to be enthused with It. If you're not enthused, then there's something wrong. There's something wrong. You've got... Just not say, "Well, last month I was pretty well enthused, but I don't know." See, then there's something wrong somewhere. You've got to be enthused all the time (See?) and just keep punching; it's the devil trying to get you. Like I always liked our last President, Mr. Eisenhower. I had a great admiration for General Eisenhower. He said, "When we were fighting," he said, "there's many times we've picked up a shell and throwed it into the gun and pulled the hammer on it and let her fall, and it snapped, it didn't go off." Said, "We didn't surrender." Said, "We might've put in another one, and it snapped too." He said, "We didn't give up," said, "We kept on snapping till one went off."
*IF IT DON'T FIRE, I WON'T QUIT; I'LL THROW THAT ONE OUT AS A THUD AND TRY ANOTHER ONE.
TAKING.SIDES.WITH.JESUS_ JEFF.IN COD FRIDAY_ 62-0601
765-102 But now, I'm punching away right now. I throw a shell in, if it fires, there it is. If it don't fire, I won't quit; I'll throw that one out as a thud and try another one. One of them's going to go off; that's all there is to it. One of them's going to fire somewhere. Then I--I want to be on the target, so when it does fire, I'll hit the object that I'm shooting at. And I, you know what I mean, I'm sure. See? There's something somewhere.
*THEM TAPES WILL FALL RIGHT INTO THE HANDS OF THE PREDESTINATED OF GOD; HE CAN DIRECT THE WORD; HE'LL DIRECT EVERYTHING JUST EXACTLY TO ITS COURSE.
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766-104 Well, one Message that I preached here to you all. Look, I've been preaching from one to six hours to you on a message. Well, if I had to use one of those message, I'd take a week to take It just a little bit here and a little bit there (See?) because It's been stored up here.
It's on tapes; It'll go worldwide on the tapes where people in their houses. Them tapes will fall right into the hands of the predestinated of God; He can direct the Word; He'll direct everything just exactly to its course. That's the reason He sent me back to do this. "Store up the food here"; He forbid me to go overseas.
*DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN.
TAKING.SIDES.WITH.JESUS_ JEFF.IN COD FRIDAY_ 62-0601
766-109 .....You brethren out yonder with your little churches and you want to--you're doing a work, God will reward you for that. Go out there. Preach. Do everything you can. Let all of you get together, you bunch of men, and have meetings and talk on deep things of the Scripture and pray. Don't--don't just come here together unless you come for a prayer meeting alone. Do your praying in secret. Stay out in the place, and go into your rooms, hide out somewhere, and just kneel down, and just stay before God and stay there. Then if you find out, look like something's moving up, oh, you just going, and you find out it gets a little bit off the Word, then be careful. No matter how good it looks, stop right there. A wrong spirit struck you, 'cause the Message of this day is to the Word. See? Don't...
*...BUT THEM TRUE BELIEVERS, THAT WAS PREDESTINATED TO HEAR THAT MESSAGE, HEARD IT AND SEEN NO FAULT IN IT AT ALL.
TAKING.SIDES.WITH.JESUS_ JEFF.IN COD FRIDAY_ 62-0601
774-142 So, the people tried, them Pharisees, and Sadducees, and hypocrites, and Herodians, and all tried to cast a shadow on Jesus; but them true believers, that was predestinated to hear that Message, heard It and seen no fault in It at all.
Same now, those who believe Him love Him, those who believe Him see no fault in Him. They don't see any heresy; they don't see anything wrong; they don't see anything wrong with His Word; they don't see anything wrong with His people; they just see Jesus and that's all. They're--they're--they're predestinated to Eternal Life, so they just take sides with Jesus and stay there.
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