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Joh 16:32 Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
Joh 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
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52 We find here that God has always had overcomers. He's had overcomers in every age. There's always, every time, in every age that there's been on the earth, God has always had somebody He could put His hands on, as a witness in the earth. He's never been without a witness, though sometimes just one. But somebody overcome, now, like the saints of old.
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66 Oh, my beloved friends, don't let that
door shut. Jesus said, "As it was in that day, so shall it be in the
Coming of the Son of man." (Thank you, brother.) "So shall it be in
the Coming of the Son of man." Now, there's somebody is going to get
caught outside that door.
Many of them might have had good
intentions, and, "Some day, if such things happen, we'll go in with
Brother Noah, 'cause he's a fine fellow." But, you see, it caught just
eight inside.
67 Now, think hard now. If you are laying around, getting doty, get in. Hurry, quick, 'cause the door might close at any time.
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68 And there's always been an
ark in God's economy. There was an ark in the days of Noah, for the saving of
His people. There was an ark in the days of the law, ark of testimony. In the
days of the law, they followed the ark.
And there is a third dispensation
now; like Noah's time, Lot's time, and now this time. There is an ark now. And
that ark is not a denomination, neither is it a good works that you do.
"It's by one Spirit," Romans 8:1, "we are all baptized into one
Body, in the domain of that Kingdom, one Spiritual baptism." No matter how
good, how bad, whatever, you're in that Kingdom by--by Holy Ghost baptism. See?
That's the only way you overcome. It's all that is under the shed Blood is
overcomers, 'cause you cannot overcome, yourself. It's He that overcome for
you. You're resting.
69 "How will I know then, Brother Branham, that I'm in There?" Watch what kind of a life you're living. Just look around. See if it's just lived out of you, automatically. Or, you have to strain and pull, see, then you're doing it. But don't try to do it. Did you ever try? Yeah. Don't.
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70 Just like putting a little
baby's arm in a sleeve hole, you see. He's just up, down, over, and everything
else. See? He can't do it. "Put on your coat, honey." He can't do it.
Little arm is up, down, around. It takes your steady hand.
Oh, how glad I am, I can just yield my hand to Father, say, "Lord Jesus, I can't get in There. You help me. Put the coat on me." I quit trying. Just let Him do it. See?
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71 If the little baby keeps
trying, "Oh, I can do it. I can do it." And he's just everywhere. He
can't do it.
Neither can you, neither can I,
but if we'll just hold still and let Him do it. Just yield to Him, "Here,
Lord, here I am. Just--just let me be nothing. I--I yield. You put my hand in
the right place." That's the victory. That's overcoming.
72 The thing you have to overcome is yourself, your idea, your thing, and surrender yourself to Him. He overcome for you. He knows the way; we don't.
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73 But in Noah's time there
was eight overcomers, and that's what went in. They were caught inside.
Now look, friends. I believe
they're taping this. And if it's on television, or not tel-... pardon me, a
tape. Whatever you do, who is listening now, or who will listen hereafter, the
hour is very late, and you do have good intention, but be caught inside. Now,
don't struggle. "Not him that willeth, or him that runneth, but God."
Just let God. Just yield yourself to Him and walk on, with a perfect, satisfied
faith, that, "What God has promised He is able to perform." Not
joining one denomination, another denomination, running this, that, or the
other, trying this. Just yield yourself to God, and walk with Him, peaceful, quiet,
not interrupted. Just keep on walking with Him. That's right.
74 That's what I told our brother that just
had the--the breakdown. See? "Just yield to Him. He's here, He Who knowed
what you have done, and what caused your being and doing this way, and all
that. He knows all about you, and now He's just told you back just what to do.
Now," I said, "only thing you have to do is just go do it. That is,
forget all about the past, walk, live for the future, in the Glory and Presence
of God.
Eight overcomers.
75 In the days of Daniel's time,
there was four overcomers that could stand the test of fire and lion.
Now, we're expected to be tested. That's a good lesson for my--my brother back there, also. "He that cometh to God must first be tested." Tested (what?) with the Word. That's God's test. Do you believe it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] "He that cometh to God must be tested." That only shows a true child, then, see, be tested, and when the test comes on. You can't overcome 'less there's a test give to you. And when test is given, it's to see whether you can overcome or not. And Jesus said, "To him that overcometh," the test. The test is the greatest thing that ever happened to you. I believe it's written in the Scripture, Peter said, that, "Our trials are worth more to us than precious gold." It's a testing time. It's one good evidence to us that God is with us, when we're tested, for all children of God are tested and tried.
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76 And Daniel, a man, a prophet. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, Daniel was the prophet, and that was the size of the Church in that day, I mean, the Bride. There's lots of church, about two million of them went down there. But there was... That was the size of the overcomer. And them overcomers was put to the test. And every overcomer has to be put to the test. When they said, "You take back what the Word says, or either be throwed in the fiery furnace." They refused anything but the Word.
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77 And when Daniel was given
a test, that he should take back what the Word said, that they should lean
towards the temple, as Solomon prayed, and He would deliver them from all
things. God would hear from Heaven if they'd lay... look towards the temple and
pray. And said, "If any man prays within these amount of days... And we
are Medo-Persians, who cannot change or alter our laws. That man will be
throwed into the lions' den."
78 They set a trap for him. I believe that
prophet knew that. But they set a trap for him. He walked humbly. When it come
time for him to pray... When, he knowed, at the home place in Jerusalem, there
was a burning sacrifice on the altar. Daniel wasn't afraid of them spies.
Raised up the shades, and threw back the shutters, and knelt down on his knees,
and throwed his hands up to God and prayed. Why? Live or die, he had the
victory. And, therefore, so much victory till the lions couldn't eat it. He--he
overcome.
79 The Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, had so much victory until the lion... till the fire couldn't burn them. You know, victory is a hard thing to burn out, or eat up, or anything. See? So, they, they had it.
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Nebuchadnezzar made a statue of a man. And if you've got a spiritual
mind... (Now, listen to this revelation). That spirit, that man that he made a
revelation of--or he made an image of by his revelation was Daniel--a religious
man being worshipped (See it?), because he named him Belzar, wasn't? Or
Belteshazzar, which was the name of his god. And he made a image of that god,
which was the image of Daniel, and Daniel refused to bow to his own image. See,
see? And here it is again. See?
Now watch. The Gentile kingdom was issued in in the days of Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar, a Gentile king, putting church and state together by taking a holy im--a image of a holy man and forcing worship to it. The Gentile kingdom ends in the feet with a handwriting on the wall by a political power that's united church and state together to force kissing images again (You see?), same thing: image of a holy man. Sure.
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You know, Israel started out, I could say the same thing and bring it in here. They started out, two million strong, and ended up with two men. Right. They saw the works of God. They saw the manifestation of the Spirit. They saw great, mighty miracles being done there in Egypt, and everything, and started out. But it--it wasn't in their heart. They didn't overcome. They just come out. And Jesus said, "And they perished in the wilderness," and are Eternally dead. "Every one of them is dead," that means Eternal separation. Every one of them rotted in the wilderness.
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85 But there was two men, Joshua and Caleb. And when it come to the showdown, the obstacles was so great till they looked like grasshoppers side of them. Joshua screamed out with Caleb, and said, "We are more than able to do it." Why? "God said so." And they were overcomers. They overcome. They was the ones that was privileged, out of that whole great organization of people, to take the real, elected Bride into the promised land. Joshua and Caleb in the front lines out there, as the two generals, led them right down to the river, and crossed the river, over into the promised land. Why? They believed the Word, no matter what.
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86 Then, Dathan raised.
Dathan, rather, raised up, and so did Korah, and they tried to say, "This
man is trying to make himself above all the rest of us; he's more holy than the
rest of them." After God had thoroughly vindicated the man. They said,
"We'll just start a group of people. We'll make this, that, or the other.
We'll make our organizations. We'll do." And they died and perished.
But those men had that Word of
the Lord, and they stayed with It, and they went over.
"Not he that starts; he that finishes." Many start the race, but there's One finishing it. There'll be many churches start, many groups of people. There'll be one Group finish. That's the overcomers.
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87 Lot's day, yes, she had to
have that one great, long look back. "Oh, I'm leaving So-and-so down
there, them fine times we used to have. I'll never forget it." And she was
caught, shut out, like it was in the days of Noah. She was shut out, without
mercy, and she perished. And the--the lump still stands there today. They claim
(I don't know) you could break a piece off of it and it'll grow back, a salt
pillar. You ever see that picture of Sodom And Gomorrah, you'll see the original
pillar of salt that stood there.
88 Now, there's a difference between a pillar of salt and a Pillar of Fire. See? You have to turn one way. Yeah.
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89 Notice, in John the
Baptist's time. In John the Baptist's time, there was found six that had
overcome. All ages, they've had overcomers. In John's time they had six, that
was Joseph and Mary, Zacharias and Elisabeth, Simeon and Ann. A man and a
woman, a man and a woman, a man and a woman; see, type of Christ, the Church;
Christ, the Church; Christ, the Church; Christ, the Church. See? See?
90 Notice, it starts from the natural man. No, Mo-... Joseph, the natural man, Joseph, what was he? A carpenter. Then the priest, what was he, see? A minister in the house of the Lord; Zacharias. And from that, to Simeon, a prophet and a prophetess. See?...?... Justification, sanctification, baptism the Holy Ghost. Amen. Don't you see it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Perfectly. Six overcome. All the rest of them, they offered their sacrifice and everything, but these were Elected. They overcome.
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E-53 I... One way, you feel like you want to scold them, yet you're sorry for them, because they've been listening to something else that's contrary. But always come back and see if it's THUS SAITH THE LORD. If it's the Bible, then that's certain. And every ounce of It is certain. Not even one little phase will ever fail: as much as Lot's wife would turn her head at her own screaming children and grandchildren, burning up in the flames of hell. God's wrath and judgment poured out upon Sodom, and the poor grieved-heart mother just turned her head and looked back. But the Angel said... Now, the Angel, the Messenger of the hour to their people said, "Don't even look back," and she disobeyed that Messenger and just turned her head. And she stands yet today.
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92 See, as I said at the beginning, you are born defeated. And that birth can never bring you to--to Life, because you're born defeated. And you're in a defeated world, amongst defeated people, amongst defeated creeds, defeated denominations. You've got to come to victory some way.
103 Jesus told us how to do it. He overcome. Means... Overcome means "to stand the test," that's right, like all the old saints did. Like Jesus did, amidst of all of His enemies, He stood the test. Everything He was tested against, He stood it. In the very face of sickness, and Him being Messiah, He healed them. In the face of death, He brought it back to life. In the face of Calvary, His Own death, He defeated it by surrendering Himself. Why? By the Word. Said, "You destroy this Temple, and I'll raise it up in three days." The Word said so. See? And in the presence of death, He defeated it. He overcome death. In the presence of hell, He defeated hell and overcome hell. Yes. In the presence of the grave, He overcome the grave. Why? All by the Word, and humility. Oh, my! There's the real Man. There's the One to make your example. See? He defeated everything, overcome it.
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104 Look. Temptation was for
Him. You know that? The Bible said, "He was tempted in all points like we
are, yet without sin." He was tempted by--by drinking. He was tempted by
women. He was tempted by everything that could be tempted by. He was tempted by
everything that we are. He was a Man, and yet you couldn't put a mark on Him. Yes,
sir.
105 Overcome means "to recognize the Devil in every one of his tricks." Lot of people says, "There is no Devil. It's just a thought." Don't you believe that. There's a real Devil. He's just as real as you are, anybody. A real Devil, and you must recognize him real. You must know he's a devil. Then, the same time that you--you recognize him, and know that he's a devil and he's against you, then, to overcome, you must recognize that the God in you is greater and mightier than he is, that the One that's in you has already overcome him. And, by His grace, you are more than a match for him. Amen. There's real overcoming, when you recognize.
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106 You look back, say,
"I'm doing this and I'm doing that," then, no, you--you, you're
defeated.
"But there's no condemnation
to them which are in Christ Jesus, that walk not after the flesh, but after the
Spirit." Then you realize that you've overcome.
And you know that he's a devil.
You can't say, "I got a sickness, and I--I--I--I don't believe it is a
sickness." Oh, yes, it is a sickness. You got cancer, you "don't
believe it is a cancer." It is a cancer. It is a cancer.
But, remember, "Greater is
He that's in you than he that's in the world." You must realize that the
Holy Spirit that's in you has already overcome this thing. And He's in you, and
you can overcome by Him. That's exactly sensible, exactly the way the Scripture
is written. Overcoming!
107 Notice, overcome! The God that's in you
is greater than the one that's in him. The god of the world is not as great as
the God of Heaven, which is in you, no more than darkness can stand in the
presence of light.
108 Now, darkness cannot stand in the presence
of light. I don't care how dark it is, light will put it out. It can't stand.
Glory! But you take as much darkness you want to, and try to stand against
light one time, see what happened.
That's the One that's in you, is Light. And the one that's in the world is darkness. So, the Light has proved to overcome the darkness, and the man that's in Christ and knows that he's overcome the things of the world. Amen. It has no more ties to you, at all. You're free. "Walk in the Light, as He is in the Light, and the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin, and we have fellowship one with another." There you are.
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109 "He that's in you is
greater than he that's in the world." Now, if you look back, you're
condemned, then you're still in the world. But if you're living above that,
then He that's in you has led you above the darkness.
Like the lily, he's above the
darkness of the mud. He's above the darkness of the muddy waters. He's in the
light, reflecting the beauty that was put in him before he left the mud. Amen.
110 Now I--I feel like a shouting Christian. What was in there by God, at the beginning, it pressed its way through, overcome. It overcome the shell. It overcome the mud. It overcome the waters. It overcome everything, and was an overcomer, and reflected the beauty and Glory of God.
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111 That's the way every
believer does. That's the way Noah did. That's the way Lot did. That's the way.
Look what a mess he was in. That's the way Moses did. That's the way Joshua
did. That's the way Daniel did. That's the way Shadrach, Meshach did. That's
the way John the Baptist did; Zacharias, Elisabeth. That's the way that Simeon,
that's the way that Anna, every one of them did. They overcome the mud that
there was around them and packed into them. Stuck their head above the thing,
and shined forth the Glory of God. That's what a real Christian does.
112 Remember, Jesus showed Her how it's done.
Forty days of temptation, He was tempted above any man that ever could be
tempted, in the temptation of Jesus Christ. Watch. He showed us how it's done.
Now I will close, just in a few
minutes.
113 Look. He showed us how it's done. How did He do it? By the Word. That's how He done it, for He was the Word. And Jesus said, "If ye abide in Me, and My Words in you," you're back to Word again, the Word of promise. What is the Word of promise to every Christian? "Greater is He that's in you than he that's in the world." Then how do I overcome? Not me, but the Word that's in me. The Word is God. Then I overcome the things of the world, because it's the Word in me. "If ye abide in Me, My Words in you, then just ask what you will." Just keep pressing up. You're coming to the top, as sure as anything. See? You got to come to the top.
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114 His forty days of temptation, by God's Word He overcome. I want to express something here just for a few minutes. Satan made three major assaults upon Him in that temptation. Watch. It's always in them three. Don't forget it. See? He made three major assaults, from the highest to the lowest. He tried his best to conquer Him. But He was the Word. Amen. What did He use? Himself, the Word. Satan's three major attacks or assaults upon Him, but He met it with the Word. Every attack, He could make it with the Word. Watch this now, from the highest to the lowest.
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115 The first he made his attack upon, to use His great power. Which, He knowed He was the Word. He knowed His position. You believe He did? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] "I the Son of man." He knowed His position. And Satan come and want Him to use His Own power on Hisself, to feed Him, want to feed Hisself. He was hungry. A man gets hungry, he can do almost anything. He'll steal, rob, beg, borrow, anything. See? He had that appetite. And Satan used his first great major assault upon Him, to take His power that He had been given to overcome with and use it on Himself. He didn't use it on Himself. No. He used it on others. That's right. He used it on others, not Himself. It wasn't for Him. Though, He could have done it. He certainly could have done it.
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129 Then, the second assault.
I'll hurry. Just looks like the time just goes so fast. The next great assault
was, that he made upon Him, that He would be a show-off.
And how that does hit God's
servants, to be a show-off, to show what you can do. "Glory to God!
Hallelujah! I'm a deliverer! I'm so." See? See?
130 "Come up here, on top of the temple,
and set down here." He tempted Him to do it. Now, remember, He was tempted
to do it, hard. Said, "Now, if You want to be something before the people,
stand up here on this temple, jump off." See? "I'll give You a
Scripture for it, because it's written, 'He'd give the Angels charge over Thee,
lest, any time, dash a foot against a stone. He'd bear Thee up.'" To make
Him a show-off, to show His authority.
131 No true servant of God ever does that. You see a man showing off, his chest out, and all like that, just remember, there is something wrong there. No. God don't want that. Jesus set the example. He could have done it. He certainly could have done it, but He didn't do it. No servant of God is a show-off, of himself, to try to take God's power and show himself above somebody else.
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132 You remember Moses did that?
Remember it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] God give him power to
do whatever he wanted to; made him a prophet. He walked down to that Rock, and
he smote the Rock the second time. That was against God's will.
God said, "Speak to that
Rock. Don't smite it again. You break all the--all the--the type here. The Rock
is only going to be smitten once." But he spoke of the weakness of the
Word when he did that; That wasn't sufficient. Yeah. The Word was what was
going on. That Rock was the Word. See?
133 He, first time, he smote the Rock and the
waters come forth. And then they got thirsty again. He said, "Now go back
and speak to the Rock." It was only smitten once. See?
"The insufficiency of the
Word," Moses testified to it. "The Word wasn't right; He had to be
smitten again."
134 So Moses went down there and smote the Rock
like that, said, "Come forth!" Didn't come forth, so he smote it
again, and said, "Come forth! I command you to come forth." And the
waters come.
135 God said, "Come up here. Come here. You glorified yourself. You took My power; instead of sanctifying Me, you sanctified yourself. Now you're not going over in the land. Look over, see what it looked like; but, here, you're going to leave right here." Oh, my! There never has been one like Moses, you know. No, no.
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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...?...
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And I'm praying to God, that
through the battles that I know that you've had a coming along this way; it's
rugged, but it's the blessed way, isn't it?...?... I just... If you--if there's
no battle, then there's no victory. But you've got to have a battle to have
victory. If it was just given to you, it wouldn't be--wouldn't be no--wouldn't
be a victory. But he that overcometh is the one who has the victory. So Jesus
came to the earth; He had a battle; He won the victory. And tonight we have a
battle, and with Christ, we can have the victory. Now, the Lord bless you.
Luk 17:28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
Luk 17:29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
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