22-0520A_REDEMPTION IN COMPLETENESS OF JOY Pt-4_(JUMALAN RAUHA, "GOD'S PEACE UPON YOU")

REDEMPTION IN COMPLETENESS, IN JOY

LOUISVILLE KY

54-0330    71

REDEMPTION BY POWER

V-25 N-8

 Num 20:7  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 

Num 20:8  Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink. 

Num 20:9  And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him. 

Num 20:10  And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock? 

Num 20:11  And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

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. 

Psa 62:1  To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. 

Psa 62:2  He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. 

Psa 62:3  How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence. 

Psa 62:4  They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah. 

Psa 62:5  My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him. 

Psa 62:6  He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved. 

Psa 62:7  In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. 

Psa 62:8  Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

Gal 5:22  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 

Php 4:6  Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 

Php 4:7  And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 

Col 3:14  And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. 

Col 3:15  And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. 

1Jn 1:1  That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 

1Jn 1:2  (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) 

1Jn 1:3  That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. 

1Jn 1:4  And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full. 

1Jn 1:5  This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 

1Jn 1:6  If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 

1Jn 1:7  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 

1Jn 1:8  If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 

1Jn 1:9  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 

1Jn 1:10  If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. 

29    Now let's turn in the Bible to two places, the books lay close together. It's in the Old Testament. I take the text for the reading, from two places, Isaiah 62 and Psalms 60. Now in Isaiah 62, we'll turn to read first. And in this, we are reminded of the great powers of our Lord God, and how--how great He is, and how mighty our God is. I am sorry, it's Isaiah 60 instead of 62. Isaiah 60. All right, now we read this, Isaiah 60:1 and 2.

Arise, and shine; for the light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.

For, behold,... darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall rise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

30    "Gross darkness upon the people." Of this, course, this is a prophesying of the day that we're now living.

 

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  31      Now let us turn then to Psalms. I believe that I may be a little confused where I've wrote my Scriptures down here, when in a hurry last night in writing them, writing out this. Psalms 62:1 to 8.

Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.

He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.

How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain of all of you: as a bowing--bowing wall shall... be, and as a tottering fence.

They only consult to cast him down from the excellency: they delight in lies: they bless their... with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectations is from him.

He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.

In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength and my refuge, is in God.

Trust in him all the times; ye people, pour out your, hearts before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

 

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  32      Now, if you noticed in the Scripture reading there in the Psalms, it kept saying, "God is my rock." Do you know what a rock represents in the Bible? A rock in the Bible, here, represents "the revelation of God." See, "God is my revelation." He is, see. The revelation of the Word is the rock.

33    Cause, Peter one day when... Jesus had asked the question, "Who does man say I the Son of man am?"

34    And one of them said, "You are... Some of them say you are Moses, or Elijah, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets." But that wasn't the question.

"Who do you say I am?"

35    He, Peter spoke up, these famous words, and said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."

36    He said, "Blessed art thou, Simon, son of Jonas, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to thee, but My Father which is in Heaven. And upon this rock!" See?

37    And David speaking here, "God is our rock." God is our rock when God has been revealed to us. That becomes a rock, see. God is our rock.

 

***JUMALAN RAUHA, WHICH MEANS "GOD'S PEACE" UPON YOU.

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  38      Now, my text, for this morning, is an odd word: Shalom. Shalom, in the Hebrew, means "peace." And that's what I say to the Church this morning, "Shalom!" That's peace.

39    In Finnish it's called Jumalan rauha, which means "God's peace" upon you. Rauha. God, see, God's peace, shalom.

40    My new-year's Message is to the Church elected in Jesus Christ, for 1964. Not--not just the church groups; but the Elect, the Lady, the Lady of--of the Church, Christ's Bride, see, that's who I'm addressing.

41    We're facing here, in our two subjects that we read, the two Scriptures, rather, a very contrast, one to the other. In Isaiah, it says, "Arise, and shine, for the glory of God has come upon you. The Light is here." And then the very next verse, he says, "Gross darkness is upon this people." And then when we are in a mixtury of Light and darkness, and then my address to the Church is "shalom, peace," let's find out what it's all about, see. We are facing this year, with both darkness and Light. We are... the world is in one of the most chaotic times of darkness that it's ever stood in; and yet it's standing in, again, the most blessed Light that it ever did shine in. And there is...

 

AND I BELIEVE THAT WE ARE NOW LIVING IN THAT HOUR AGAIN, THAT WHEN GOD IS SEPARATING LIGHT FROM DARKNESS

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  42      The difference is just like it was in the beginning, when there was gross darkness upon the earth. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the water and said, "Let there be light." And God separated the light from the darkness. And I believe that we are now living in that hour again, that when God is separating Light from darkness, and He's pressing it to the other side of the world, that the Light might be made manifest. And we are...

43    Then, the--the Church, the reason I'd say "Shalom" to them, is because that it's God's Peace. That's what I want to bring to you this morning, for the new year's, not looking back, but we're looking forward to the breaking of a new day. Until, there is something great laying ahead of us, where the years has been the joy that we've looked forward to, the pressing, coming of the great Light. And now we can see it breaking over the horizona, horizonal realm, it's breaking between mortal and immortality. We see it breaking between heavens and earth, from an earth-bound sickness and troubled world, into a bright shining day of an immortal Life and an immortal body and an immortal earth that shall never pass away. It--it's "Shalom," unto the--unto the Church. Now, it's Light time coming for the believers, but a gross darkness for the people. I...

 

NO MATTER HOW SHARP THE THING MIGHT BE, AND TAKE A HOLD OF HIS HANDS

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  44      The other day we was talking, the wife and I, and we were talking about the--the hour that we're living in. Now, the reason I chose this place, I felt like I could just let down and talk to you, see. See? It's, there seems to be a time that's upon the people that it's the most pathetic time that I could think about.

45    I have constantly done my very best to try to, in disagreeing with man in religious terms; but if I couldn't take his hand afterwards, no matter how sharp the thing might be, and take a hold of his hands, and say "this is in the light of a better understanding between us," and still love the person (not just say it from my lips, but from my heart), then I'm no--no subject at all to go out there and to try to talk to people. Because, see, we must do that, we must love the person. See? And going amongst the people in all kinds of classes, and different cults and clans, and religions and so forth, and trying to lay the Bible down, and say "let's--let's discuss it not from your creed or from your book of ethics, but from the Bible." And then not... Maybe sometime man get up real sharp; but if I got one thought that I didn't like that person, then--then I know one thing, the Spirit of Christ has departed from me. If I--if I can feel that I don't like that person, there's something wrong with me.

 

BECAUSE THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, WHEN THEY... THE... AT--AT CRUCIFYING HIM

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  46      Because the Spirit of Christ, when they... the... at--at crucifying Him, and His Own people driving the nails, and--and His very creation He created was putting the nails, that He created, back into His human flesh. And yet, with a heart full of love, He cried, "Father, forgive them, they don't know what they're doing," you see.

 

IT SEEMS LIKE THERE--THERE'S A SHADOW OF DARKNESS, JUST OVER THE PEOPLE, THAT PRESSES THEM.

   47    And I--I've come to that spot. I believe that people don't know what they're doing. It comes to the time to where the human being has, look like, become such a subject to evil until it--it's a pathetic thing. It seems like there--there's a shadow of darkness, just over the people, that presses them.

  48      Like, for instance, this one thing. Crossing the nation around and speaking, and the Lord God identifying, vindicating His Word and showing that's exactly, and never let nothing be said unless it comes to pass exactly what He said, speaking it right into existence, and so forth, as He's been doing. And people sit and look at that, and continue right on in their same condition. See?

  49    See, not any disregarding, but like our sisters, many time when I speak to them about wearing those clothes, and cutting their hair, and little things. And man, how they'll continue on into their creeds, and--and serve under those creeds and things. And--and they're good people. They're fine people. But yet it seems like that they--they--they can't understand, look like they can't get it. Why? I go back the next year, and, instead of being any better, it's worse. It--it continues on. Here's a sister that once had lovely long hair, she cut it off. Here's a man that once looked like he took his stand and went out for the thing was right; he's right back in the... like a dog to its vomit, and a--and a hog to its wallow. See, goes right back out in it. It seems like there's something that has struck our people, it struck the world, that they don't seem to have the--the understanding, there's something's wrong.

THERE'S SOMETHING THAT PRESSES HER THE OTHER WAY.

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  50      Just like you notice man today, you don't find that genuineness in man. You don't find it in women. Now I'm not talking about... Reason I'm basing this, is get to "Shalom." See?

51    But you notice the women in our day, they don't seem to have that ladylike they once had. They're just like they--they want to, but there's something won't let them do it. It seems like there's a heaviness. That, you tell a--a lady that she. should not do such-and-such a thing, and the lady looks upon That and believes That, she wants to believe That, but there's something that presses her the other way. See? Poor thing, I--I--I feel sorry for her. She's so caught in such a web of Hollywood, and the advertisements in television, radio, newspaper, on the street, in--in the store windows, with modern dress and so forth, and the way that other women meet her. And it seems to be that there is something that they just can't pull away from; our young people, our old people, our middle age.

 

YOU TAKE MAN TODAY, MAN DON'T SEEM TO BE BURLY LIKE THEY USED TO BE…IT'S THAT GROSS DARKNESS UPON THE PEOPLE, IT'S SOMETHING THAT--THAT'S PRESSED THEM INTO IT.

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  52      There seems to be something among man. Man don't seem to be, have that masculine touch that he used to have. Women don't have that feminish touch she used to have. You take man today, man don't seem to be burly like they used to be. It's all some sort of a... They want to wear suede shoes with purple, and--and they want to act like women. Now that is true. It seems to be, more or less, like a perversion. A woman wants to cut off her hair and act like a--a man. And a man wants to act like a woman. See? And yet you can talk to them, and they're nice people to talk to, nice people, friendly, sociable people. What's caused this? It's that gross darkness upon the people, it's something that--that's pressed them into it.

 

*LIKE THE JEWS WAS IN THE DAYS THAT JESUS CAME TO THE EARTH, ISAIAH HAD PROPHESIED OF IT… AND IT'S RETURNED AGAIN TO US…"GROSS DARKNESS UPON THE PEOPLE."

  53      Like the Jews was in the days that Jesus came to the earth, Isaiah had prophesied of it and said, "There would be, they would have eyes but couldn't see, and ears and couldn't hear." And that's the reason Jesus prayed their forgiveness, because it had to be that way to fulfill the Scripture.

54    And it's returned again to us. The Bible has spoke of this day that we live, and said these things would come, "gross darkness upon the people." And we see it, that there's something that just, simply, the people want to but they can't.

55    Nicodemus expressed it one time before the Lord, "Rabbi, we know that Thou art a Teacher come from God, for no man could do the things that you do if God wasn't with Him." But it was that darkness, or blindness, upon the Jewish race, that the Messiah might come to take from the Gentiles a Bride. They had to reject Him.

*AND THAT'S THE GROSS DARKNESS THAT'S UPON THE CHURCHES AND THINGS TODAY, TO FAIL TO SEE THE LIGHT THAT'S SHINING.

  56      And that's the gross darkness that's upon the churches and things today, to fail to see the Light that's shining. See? See, there seems to be such a heavy press. We take some of the noted evangelists today, they are constantly screaming for a revival, and working right against It; see, not understanding, without understanding.

57    And I don't say that in the--the motive of trying to say, "Now we've seen This, and, 'glory to God,' they--they're not in it." I'm not trying to--to say that in the... to get people to think, "Well, Brother Branham, you--you got the only Truth there is in the world." No, that is wrong. See?

58    I'm only saying it in the Light of the hour that we're walking in, and for the benefit of people who are trying to seek this Light. Truly, Jesus said, "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him." No man will never see It. It's that predestinated Seed, and that only, is going to receive It. But we've come to that place again. The Bible said that, "You're the light of the world."

*** GOD, IN HIS GREAT MERCY, AS I HAVE ALWAYS PREACHED AND TRIED TO STAND FOR, THAT HE ALWAYS SHOWS HIS--HIS EVENTS FROM HEAVEN, HIS GREAT MAJOR EVENTS, HAPPENS IN HEAVEN BEFORE IT HAPPENS ON EARTH.

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  59      The prophet said, "Gross darkness upon the people," upon the people of the world at this time. And that's exactly what we've got, gross darkness upon the people.

60    God, in His great mercy, as I have always preached and tried to stand for, that He always shows His--His events from heaven, His great major events, happens in heaven before it happens on earth. He reflects Himself. In other words, before Messiah came into a place where His ministry would start, there came forth a--a Star out of heaven that guided the man to the--the--the place where He was, the wise men. As you heard in my last Message how that God dealt with the--the wise men, and--and in the day that He--He turned them aside by a dream, and He told Joseph by a dream how to take care of the welfare of His Own Son. Because he had the dream, there was...

 

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  61      A dream is secondarily, something off to one side, 'cause people can have dreams that's not right. But there was no prophet in the land in that day, see, there was no prophet, therefore God had to use what He had to use with. And teaches us that--that God can use every faculty and everything that we do, if it's consecrated to Him. But it first must be consecrated to Him. Let your--your meditations, which really reflects your dream, see, 'cause it's your subconscience. If you'll watch a dream, you'll see that it's something that you been thinking of, or something like that. Usually, you see. And let your mind be on God, then, see, so it reflects something for Him. And whatever you are, let it reflect Him.

 

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  62      Now, in the heavens above. Did you notice I'm looking on this, the--the Light on the picture there out of the Life Magazine, that the brother that lives here in this home has put on his wall, that triangle of Light.

63    I just happened to run across my mind. If any of you have the Lamsa Bible translation, if you'll notice over the cover of it, is a triune, trinitarian light, a three-cornered light like a halo. And when Dr. Lamsa, a friend, my personal friend, was translating the Bible, that is the old Hebrew symbol of God in the true trinitarian way that He is; not three Gods, but three manifestations of the same God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Light is one complete circle of Light in a triangle shape, which means that God will dwell in three offices, the Fatherhood, Sonship, and Holy Ghost dispensation, all the same God.

 

***BUT HE DECLARES IT IN THE HEAVENS BEFORE HE DOES IT ON EARTH.

… But before He broke forth on those Seven Seals to reveal them, that He showed miraculous, He showed it first in the heavens.

65    That day they took pictures all across southern United States and Mexico. There it hangs now in the Life Magazine, still a mystery to them. But He declares it in the heavens before He does it on earth. He always does that. He shows His signs in the heavens first.

 

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  66      And even in the Zodiac. I'm not going back to teach Zodiac, but I'm just showing you the heavens declare It. In the Zodiac we find out, in the constellations of the stars, that He declared the whole Bible in the constellation of the--of the Zodiac. We find out there that He starts off, the very--very first figure in the Zodiac is the Virgin, and the last figure in the Zodiac is Leo the Lion; showing that Jesus would come first to the earth by a Virgin, He'll come the second time as the Lion of the tribe of Juda. See? He goes through the crossed fishes just before that. Cancer Age, what we're living in now. "And all the heavens declare Him," the Bible said.

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  67      Now, a few months ago I preached, for a series of meetings at the tabernacle, on The Seven Church Ages. You, perhaps, all have heard them. And when I finished drawing out on the blackboard the Seven Church Ages, how the Light come in and how the Light went out. And I guess you have that, perhaps, here somewhere; but it's among us, anyhow, we know. And the strange thing, on the last day when the last Church Age was drawed out, this great Pillar of Fire (which is among us) came down among hundreds of people, and took Itself back to the back wall of the tabernacle. And there, before these hundreds, drawed those Church Ages, darkening and lightening, just exactly the way I had it drawed on the board. Mysteriously!

 

***THE MOON REPRESENTS THE "CHURCH," AND THE SUN REPRESENTS "CHRIST."

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  68      Now, the other day, we've had in the event of the history of the church now... In the--the Bible, the moon represents the "church," and the sun represents "Christ." For we find that in Revelation, the 12th chapter, the woman which was the "church," she was found with the moon under her feet and the sun at her head, twelve stars in her crown. Which, the--the old Orthodox Jewish law was under her feet, she had crossed over that into the light of the sun. Twelve stars are the "twelve apostles" that brought the messages to us, now, under the Holy Spirit. Now we find that the moon in the heavens is to reflect the light of the sun, in the absence of the sun. It gives us--it gives us light to get around. But it's still... No matter how much it reflects, it's still not the perfect light, because it is reflecting. And the sun shines against the moon, and the moon reflects its light in the absence of the sun. But when the sun comes up, then the moon is not needed no more.

 

***AND TODAY THE CHURCH IS REFLECTING THE LIGHT OF THE ABSENT SON OF GOD.

69    And today the Church is reflecting the Light of the absent Son of God. The Church is a reflection of the Light. Because He said, "A little while and the world seeth Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the age. The works that I do," Lights that He made manifest. And there's no Light except through the Word of God. There was...

 

***THAT SUN IS THE WORD OF GOD. … AND WHEN THE MANIFESTED WORD OF GOD, WHEN THE WORD OF GOD WAS MANIFESTED, THERE WAS LIGHT.

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  70      That sun is the Word of God. In the beginning, God said, "Let there be light." And when the manifested Word of God, when the Word of God was manifested, there was light. First, God spoke it. What if it didn't manifest? Then it wasn't light yet. But when He spoke it, and then it was manifested, vindicated, His Word was a-vindicated, light come into existence.

71    And that's the only way it can be done now, is when the Word is vindicated, God's written Word vindicated, then it shows Light. It's, a portion is lit, or put out for each age. We find it in the Church Ages, we find it in the Old--the Old Testament church ages. Each time that there come a time for a--a certain manifestation of the journey, there was a prophet came to the earth. And the Word came to the prophet, and he made that Word live. And when that Word was identified, it reflected God. And there was the--the age, there was the Light. And that's the way Light comes today.

 

AND NOW THAT CHURCH, SINCE THAT TIME, HAS EXACTLY REFLECTED DARKNESS, BECAUSE AT THAT TIME WE GO THROUGH, WHAT WE CALL, "THE DARK AGES," ABOUT A THOUSAND YEARS

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  72      Now, I have nothing against any denomination, people. But I have all that I can think about against the systems, because they're wrong. And the first system that ever rose up, was the--the Roman system of the Roman Catholic church. That was the first organization that ever was organized, was the Roman Catholic church, Nicaea Rome. About three hundred and twenty-five years after the death of Christ, 325, came forth the Roman church organization that put the people together and blanded out anything else that was contrary to it. That's where they got their strange doctrines and started off in a system away from the Word. And now that church, since that time, has exactly reflected darkness, because at that time we go through, what we call, "the Dark Ages," about a thousand years. Its known to all historians and Bible scholars, and so forth, as the Dark Ages, is when the Roman church controlled everything.

73    And this Roman church is "the--the mother of harlots," the Bible said, in Revelation 17, "she was a whore, and the mother of harlots." Now, that is immoral, unclean living of a woman. Both of them is the same thing, both the same. So if--if harlot, it would have to be a woman. So therefore, you notice it's not harlot, but "harlots." See? She is "her," singular, "whore." Then the churches is called "harlots," daughters of the Roman whore. She is the mother of all of it, the mother of organization.

 

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  74      And is it not a strange thing, that in this day that when we have come through all these things, and the Message has crossed the earth against organization, It's blasted it from right to left, that, in this hour that's been told since 1933, when the Holy Spirit gave me that visions and showed me the end time, seven things that I spoke of, and five of them has already happened, perfectly, right on; like Germany and--and Italy and all the wars, and the national things (seldom speaks to me on those things). But they happened just exactly the way He said they'd happen. How Mussolini would go to Ethiopia, and Ethiopia would fall at his step, and then how that he'd come to a disgrace, and be spit on by his own people; and disgraced, hung upside down, with that prostitute that he lived with, on the street. How that the Americas would go to war with Germany, they'd take an awful beating at a place called, a great line where there would be concrete fortified in there, I believe it's called the Siegfried Line. And there's one called Maginot, I believe that was the French. Was that right? And the Siegfried Line was the German line. And the Lord let me see that, eleven years before it was built. And they never would admit getting a beating on it, the Americans wouldn't, till they almost sunk the complete army. When they went in there, the Germans had their guns just trained right out on that fleet, and let it get right in there, and almost sunk it. And I seen that, eleven years before the line was ever--ever a foundation was ever poured for it, or anything, the Siegfried Line. And all these other things, like machines and automobiles, and--and how everything has come right down exactly what He said, until a woman ruling this nation, which, perhaps, is the church. And then the end come.

 

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  75      Now we find that in this, all this thing and how I've blasted against organization, isn't it a strange thing that the pope of Rome would leave Rome for his first time to go back to Jerusalem? And doing this... Jerusalem is known the oldest church in all the world.

76    When Melchizedec met Abraham from the slaughter of the kings, he was the King of Jerusalem, a Priest, which was Christ, it was God; no one else could be Melchizedec but Christ Himself, God Himself, rather, see, God Himself, because he was without father and without mother. See? Jesus had both father and mother, see. So this Man was without father, without mother, without beginning of days or ending of life. And whoever He is, He still lives. And He was King at that time, of Salem, which is interpreted, "King of Peace, Shalom." King of Jerusalem, who met Abraham and give him wine and bread, communion, after the battle. A very beautiful type there in the 7th chapter of Hebrews, we find it. Now, gave him bread and wine after the battle was over. As He...

77    That's the first thing we'll take after we enter into the New Kingdom, we'll eat it anew with Him in the Father's Kingdom, the bread and wine. "I'll not drink the fruit of the vine, nor eat the bread anymore, until I eat it with you, anew, in the Father's Kingdom, and at that day."

 

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  78      Now, now when we find out that after King Shalom was in the... come from the city, then creed took it over, later. And it's constantly been creed, but it represents the old church. And we're taught in the New Testament, don't fail to get this, in the New Testament that we are not of this city Jerusalem, on earth, but we are from the New Jerusalem, above. So this must be the moon, Jerusalem, and not the New Jerusalem, above. So the moon representing the church, earthly.

 

PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICISM JOINING TOGETHER, WHICH THEY ARE DOING AND WILL COMPLETELY DO. AND GOD REFLECTED THIS TO US, IN THE MOON, OF A TOTAL BLACKOUT.

79    And isn't it strange that just before the pope took his journey to Jerusalem, that the moon in the heavens made a total blackout, just a few days before he took it, his journey. He's coming here also, you know, see. Now that's never been known, see. But what does it show? That, this, he's doing this to win fellowship as he met on the day after he come into Jerusalem, he met the Greek Orthodox hierarchy. And what does that reflect? Fellowship, they're wanting Protestants and Catholicism joining together, which they are doing and will completely do. And God reflected this to us, in the moon, of a total blackout. By His mercy and grace...

 

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  80      Did any of you see the paper where they took the pictures of the moon? I have it here. If it ain't a perfect image, leaving out the seventh age which is not yet, exactly the way I drawed by the Holy Spirit, the Church Ages. There's the six of them, the seventh is not finished yet. The six conditions of the moon, how in its brightness in the first church age; dark in the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth; just the way the Holy Spirit let me draw them on the board, and then identified them with Hisself on the wall of the tabernacle, two years ago. The moon reflects itself, and science again picks up the picture of the, Church Ages, just as they picked up that Light yonder and put it in Life Magazine, of the opening of the Seals, of the revealing in the age of the seventh angel. In the days of his ministry, the seventh messenger, the mysteries of God, which all the mysteries has been along the ages, should be revealed, made manifest, it should be at that time. And He did it! His words don't fail. Isn't that a mysterious thing? God drawing in the heavens the same thing that they hold, same God let me draw on the blackboard, and then by Himself. That's three times He's perfectly identified it, and just before the pope goes into Jerusalem.

 

 

*AND THE REFLECTION OF THE MOON THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE GIVING LIGHT TO THE EARTH, IT WAS BLACKED OUT

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  81      Which, that was the church, the moon is the church, represents the church. And before the church, the shadow of the world crosses the moon. And the shadow of worldly-ism, the shadow of worldliness, worldly church, has swept across to blackout the entire Light of the Bible. The world got in the Light of the reflection. Do you understand? The world crossed in the light of the moon, and blinded out the sun. And the reflection of the moon that's supposed to be giving light to the earth, it was blacked out. And It come in and drawed the pictures just exactly like It did, by inspiration, before it happened.

82    Now that, I believe, Sister Simpson, was the Tucson paper. I don't know if Sister Simpson knew... She didn't understand it then. She said, "I cut out some pictures for you, and some notes, out of the paper," handed it to me.

83    And I thought something strange. I went in there and picked it up, and looked at it, I said, "There it is, just exactly, see, just what I've been looking for." And there it was in the paper.

 

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  84      Sister Simpson might tell you what paper it's in, if you want to get a copy of it. [Sister Simpson says, "It's December the 28th."--Ed.] And--and what say? ["It's the evening edition of December the 28th."] Evening edition of December the 28th.

85    See, before he went to Jerusalem to block out its Light, or what access it does have. What time, position, and what rights It has to shine, now it's cutting It off altogether, for the last age, the seventh church age where she goes into darkness. What a great thing the Lord is telling us. In everything, It's never failed but what God in the heaven has declared it and told it, looked to it, and here has identified it and a-vindicated it, that it is the absolute Truth.

 

DARKNESS, GROSS DARKNESS UPON THIS PEOPLE.

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  86      Darkness, this Laodicea Church Age. Now when Jesus, which is the Word, in the Laodicea Church Age was on the outside of the church, knocking at the door, trying to get in. Darkness, gross darkness upon this people. Was the Bible right? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]

  87    The perfection of the Scripture, glory of His great Name. The pope's visit was a sign of the churches blackening out His manifested... The manifested Light of the world was the Bible. Jesus said He was the Light of the world. The Bible said that He is the Word. And the manifested, or the vindicated, Scripture is the Light. Now you'll not be permitted to do it when this takes a hold. And we seen it foreshadowed, told by inspiration before it happened; foreshadowed by the moon, and shows it happening, and here it is taking place.

 

 

***GOD HAS BEGIN TO SEPARATE THE LIGHT FROM THE DARKNESS, SEE, PRESSING IT BEHIND, LIKE HE DID IN THE BEGINNING, TO SHOW THE DAWN OF A NEW DAY.

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 89    "Fear not, little flock, it's your Father's good will to give you the Kingdom." All right.

90    What does it mean? God has begin to separate the Light from the darkness, see, pressing it behind, like He did in the beginning, to show the dawn of a new day. The Church Ages are fading out. Pardon me. The Church Ages are fading out. God is pressing the darkness into a place, it has to do it, to fade out the church organizations, fade out the world. The world is covering the thing over, and worldlyism has took the whole thing. Then isn't God right? By worldly things, and worldly dressing, and worldly acting, and worldly living, it's the world!

91    You are not of the world, little children. You are of Heaven. This is not your Home.

92    Why should I look, to us older people, try to look back and get young again? We can't do that. But we're looking forward, not looking back. Looking here, what has been, and we want to know what's going to be. And we're looking for that hour, pressing for it.

***NOW THE BLINDING OF THE GENTILES IS THE LIGHTENING OF ISRAEL…. THE CHURCH IS MAKING HERSELF READY, BEEN MAKING HERSELF READY FOR A TIME, IT'S TIME FOR THE RAPTURE.

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  93      So many good, sincere people today are caught away in these creeds, these churches and organizations, "having a form of godliness, but denying the Power thereof," as Second Timothy, 3rd chapter, says so.

94    Gross darkness, blinding of Israel, was for the lightening of the Gentiles. Now the blinding of the Gentiles is the lightening of Israel. It's just like the day and night; one side has got darkness, the other side has got light; and then the light comes over on the other side. So the--the moon passing the way it did, and the reflection of the darkness of the world blinding out its light, is a reflection to us that the Gentile church age is finished. The Church is making herself ready, been making herself ready for a time, it's time for the Rapture. For darkness is fading upon the Gentiles, and dawn will soon break upon the Jews. The sun has traveled from the East to the West, and we're on the West Coast. The Light can only do one thing, go back East, on the other side. You understand, do you? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] The Light can only go back East again, to where it began at, Israel. God blinded them for a while, but the--the darkness now is pressed upon the Gentile world that's covered the whole thing. The Gentiles will trod down Jerusalem until the Gentile dispensation will be finished. Jesus said so. And now it's finished, gross darkness upon the people! God reflecting it in the skies, as He has shown it on earth before it all happens. We're in it.

 

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2Co 12:1  It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 

2Co 12:2  I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. 

2Co 12:3  And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) 

2Co 12:4  How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. 

2Co 12:5  Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.

 
2Co 12:6  For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me. 

2Co 12:7  And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. 

2Co 12:8  For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. 

2Co 12:9  And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 

2Co 12:10  Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

1Co 2:1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

1Co 2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

1Co 2:3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

1Co 2:4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

1Co 2:5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

1Co 2:6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

1Co 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

1Co 2:8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

1Co 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

1Co 2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

1Co 2:11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

1Co 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

1Co 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

1Co 2:15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

1Co 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Pro 3:1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

Pro 3:2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

Pro 3:3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

Pro 3:4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

Pro 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Pro 3:6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Pro 3:7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.

Pro 3:8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

Pro 3:9 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

Pro 3:10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

Pro 3:11 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:

Pro 3:12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Pro 3:13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.

Pro 3:14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

Pro 3:15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.

Pro 3:16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.

Pro 3:17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

Pro 3:18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

Pro 3:19 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

Pro 3:20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

Pro 3:21 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

Pro 3:22 So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.

Pro 3:23 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.

Pro 3:24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

Pro 3:25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.

Pro 3:26 For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

Pro 3:27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

Pro 3:28 Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.

Pro 3:29 Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

Pro 3:30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.

Pro 3:31 Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

Pro 3:32 For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.

Pro 3:33 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.

Pro 3:34 Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.

Pro 3:35 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.

Psa 118:5 I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.

Psa 118:6 The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?

Psa 118:7 The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.

Psa 118:8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.

Psa 118:9 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.

Psa 118:10 All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.

Psa 118:11 They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

Psa 118:12 They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

Psa 118:13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.

Psa 118:14 The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.

Psa 118:15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.

Psa 118:16 The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.

Psa 118:17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.

Psa 118:18 The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.

Psa 118:19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:

Psa 118:20 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.

Psa 118:21 I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.

Psa 118:22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. Psa 118:23 This is the LORD'S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.

Psa 118:24 This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Psa 118:25 Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.

Psa 118:26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.

Psa 118:27 God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.

Psa 118:28 Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee.

Psa 118:29 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

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115    That's what's us today; we yield ourself today in our great denominations and realms. We yield ourself over to the denomination, what it's got to say, what they say about it. But that is contrary to God's will. We've got to yield ourself to the Spirit of God and go where the Spirit says go. That's right.

God's Hebrews that we... Or God's soldiers, rather, heroes (We just read in the Book of Hebrews the 11th chapter and the 34th verse.) out of weaknesses was made strong. They had to get weak before they could get strong. Out of their weaknesses they were made strong. You that's putting the Scriptures down, out there, Hebrews 11:34. All right.

 

***OUT OF WEAKNESS AND HUMILITY GOD CHOOSES THE PEOPLE TO BUILD HIS KINGDOM OUT OF… GOD TAKES THAT PERSON AND BEGINS TO MOLD HIMSELF INTO THAT PERSON:

PERFECT.STRENGTH.BY.PERFECT.WEAKNESS_  JEFF.IN  V-8 N-1  SUNDAY_  61-1119

  118    Here's something to console us. Here's something that encourages. Out of weakness and humility God chooses the people to build His Kingdom out of. If we ever get to heaven, if we ever stand in the Presence of God with His Church, we'll stand in a bunch of people that's been weak and rejected and cast out by the world, and know-it-nothings.

Isn't it strange that God likened us to sheep? A sheep is the most helpless thing there is. There's nothing so insufficient of defense than the sheep. A rabbit can run; a squirrel can get in a tree; a dog can bite; a lion can tear; a horse can kick; a bird can fly; but a sheep stands helpless. That's the way God wants us. Realize that we are totally insufficient, then God takes that person and begins to mold Himself into that person: make his hands do what God would have hands to do, make his lips speak what God's lips would speak; because they're not his; they're God's. He begins to build a character, begins to take this weakness and to make His Ownself.

*BUT GOD'S SIDE WAS WEAK AND HUMBLE. THAT'S HOW GOD USED THEM. PERFECT.STRENGTH.BY.PERFECT.WEAKNESS_  JEFF.IN  V-8 N-1  SUNDAY_  61-1119

  121    He brings us here in the earth. But then we are educated; we're smart. Did you ever notice the lines, the lineages? When we take, for instance, like in Abel, from Abel come Seth; Seth's lineage come right down, on down to Noah's time, all of them were just humble farmers. But Cain's children become smart, shrewd, educated, great men, builders, professional men. But God's side was weak and humble. That's how God used them. That's God's opportunity. That's God's way of getting to us, is when we're weak. We get something then.

This encourages, of course, 'cause God's whole Kingdom is built out of these kind of people. Then when you get to that kind of a way then you--you can--you're in His Kingdom.

The case is, with us, that, not that we are too weak, the case is we're too strong. We're--we're--we're just too strong. That's all. The thing of it is we're too strong-headed. That's right. We're too strong in our head. We know too much. God wants to get that out of us. That's right. We're too strong; we're too strong to yield to Him. We got... We--we yield to ourselves. We got to think, "Well now, here, I--I got sense enough to know."

 

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  124    I was amazed a few nights ago when mama was sick, out at the hospital. I went to... There was a little lady next door... If that little lady's here, you forgive me, sister. She's a little Kentucky girl from down there, and we was--and that was her mother-in-law. And I was a-talking to her that night, wife and I, there along about one o'clock in the morning. And her husband had laid down on the floor and went to sleep; she said, "Get out of here. You're no good to your mammy anyhow." And run him out, her husband, out of the room, 'cause he was laying right straight across the door where the nurses, nobody could get in; just snoring away on the floor. So she got him up and run him out.

 

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  125    And she got to talking there. I got to talking to her about the Lord, and so forth. And she said, "Well," she said, "all I ever know was a gooseneck hoe in a tobacco patch, early of a morning, cutting out the weeds and suckering tobacco, and so forth like that." Said, "But I tell you," said, "pappy sent us, every one, to school." And said, "We still ain't got no sense."

I thought, "Well, maybe that's the reason."

See, you--you got to keep the things of the world from you. Now, I'm not supporting ignorance, not--not that, but I'm trying to think when you get to a place where you think that you just--you just know so much till nobody else knows anything about it... Your knowledge is all right as long as it don't--as it don't interfere with the promises of God.

 

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  127    We're controlled by five senses, and those five senses: see, taste, feel, smell, and hear is very fine until they interrupt the sense of faith. Then when they come against faith... And how do you know which one's right? Because faith will always agree with the Word. And then if--if your faith is contrary to the Word, or you think it is, then you haven't got faith. You've got a make-belief. You've got a boast in your senses of some scholarship that you've learned about, or something. But when you get away from that and depend completely upon faith, and faith can only be built upon the Word of God: correct faith.

 

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  128    A doctor once said to me, said, "I believe, Billy, if them people--if you'd tell them to go out there and touch that post, that tree, and they believed that they'd get well, they'd get well just the same."

I said, "No, sir. It cannot, doctor, because of this one thing (See?); them people knows that that's just a post. They know there's no virtue nor no strength in that post."

But any man that's mentally balanced would know that that is the Word of the living God, that I can base my faith upon that and know It's THUS SAITH THE LORD. And if anything is contrary to That, then I don't believe my senses. No, sir, just leave it alone. Go by your other sense, the sense of faith.

 

 

*ALL RIGHT, GOD TAKES THOSE PEOPLE TO DO... WHEN THEY ARE NOBODIES, THEY'LL YIELD TO HIM.

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  131    All right, God takes those people to do... When they are nobodies, they'll yield to Him.

D. L. Moody of Chicago, he was of Boston; he was a shoe cobbler; a little, bitty fellow, insufficient, didn't depend upon himself. Now, you take these great schools that they got, the Moody School up there, if Dwight Moody could raise up again and see that school, the first thing Dwight Moody would do is get rid of that school.

If Martin Luther could raise up, the first thing he'd do is get rid of the Lutheran organization. John Wesley would do the same. Them men never founded those organizations; it was the men that followed them that did it.

 

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  134    Paul never organized no church, because he said himself, "After my departing, many of your own crowds will raise up among you, speaking perverse things." It was after Paul's death, and a hundred or two years after that, that they formed the Catholic church, the first organization. Men raised up. It was after Moody's death that they had the Moody School; after Wesley's death that they formed the Wesley church; after Luther's death that they formed the Lutheran church. God sends heroes; and they build...

No wonder Jesus said, "You--you whited walls." He said, "You--you garnish the prophets tombs, and you're the one that put them in there." That's right.

These great men raised up; then they'd build a memorial to them. I think, just like David, "Served God well in his own generation." So that's the way to do it. Let the organizations and things afterwards keep away from you.

 

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  138    Moody, little old shoe cobbler, he was weak. He was an example of weakness. The first thing it says that Moody did... He had no education at all, and his grammar was so poor it was horrible. A man come to him once time and said, "Mr. Moody," said, "your grammar's the poorest I ever heard in my life."

He said, "I'm winning souls with my ignorance, what do you do with your education?" I think that was a good answer. Sure was.

And now, you become a member of that School, you'll certainly have to be a polished scholar. That's right. [A brother says, "Just reversed it."--Ed.] Now, yeah, they reversed it is right, go right back the other way.

 

PERFECT.STRENGTH.BY.PERFECT.WEAKNESS_  JEFF.IN  V-8 N-1  SUNDAY_  61-1119

  141    That's what people do. When I said in the beginning of my message... Instead of Christians humbling themselves and emptying themselves to find more of the room of God, they try to build themselves up in a homemade knowledge, or some technical school knowledge, or something, that drives them farther away from God than they was when they started.

That's what I'm thinking about these artificial altar calls. You bring him in, and next time it's ten times harder to get him back again. Let him set and listen until God does something for him. And then let him come and confess it, rise, calling upon the Name of the Lord. That's right.

 

PERFECT.STRENGTH.BY.PERFECT.WEAKNESS_  JEFF.IN  V-8 N-1  SUNDAY_  61-1119

  143    Notice Moody, weak in education, weak in speech, he whined through his nose. I was just reading his history the other day, "Whined through his nose, nasal condition." Physically little, baldheaded fellow, whiskers hanging down his...?..., and a little, bitty, short fellow, physically, he was a physical wreck. So he had nothing but weakness continually. But God used him to shake the world in his day.

One time there was a reporter went to his meeting (I was reading), and reporters, to make a report on what kind of a man was this (a great man, a great fellow).

Where's that little switch that you turn the tapes off with? This it? I'll just have to hold that then.

 

PERFECT.STRENGTH.BY.PERFECT.WEAKNESS_  JEFF.IN  V-8 N-1  SUNDAY_  61-1119

  146    A--a great man, Moody was. He was a fine man. And so he could attract the attention of people, hold them spellbound. So there was a reporter went to Mr. Moody and said--went to the meeting to make a report on what kind of great buildup...

As the reporter just went and reported on another great evangelist, recently, said, "That man is eloquent. He is a Doctor of Divinity. He uses the best grammar I ever heard. He holds the people in his psychology. He can hold the people spellbound."

 

PERFECT.STRENGTH.BY.PERFECT.WEAKNESS_  JEFF.IN  V-8 N-1  SUNDAY_  61-1119

  148    "Dwight Moody," when the reporter went, said, "I don't see what's in him that's attractive to anybody." Said, "The first thing, he's ugly as he can be. The next thing, he's a physical wreck. The next thing," he said, "he is... He has no education. His grammar's the poorest I ever heard." And said, "He's got a whine and a wheeze when he's preaching." And said, "I don't see nothing in Dwight Moody would attract the attention of anybody."

Mr. Moody was brought the article. He read it, kind of chuckled to himself, said, "Certainly not; it's God." Sure. People don't come to see Dwight Moody; they come to see God.

The people ain't caring how much you testify; they want some reality there in your life that proves that God's got ahold of you. Let you be Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal, whatever you may be, they want to see God. That's right. Man of... Great men, men who are weak and realize their weakness...

2Co 4:4  In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 

2Co 4:5  For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. 

2Co 4:6  For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 

2Co 4:7  But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. 

2Co 4:8  We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 

2Co 4:9  Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 

2Co 4:10  Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 

2Co 4:11  For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. 

2Co 4:12  So then death worketh in us, but life in you. 

2Co 4:13  We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; 

2Co 4:14  Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. 

2Co 4:15  For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. 

2Co 4:16  For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 

2Co 4:17  For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 

2Co 4:18  While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. 

 

22-0513A_REDEMPTION IN COMPLETENESS OF JOY Pt-3

22-0513A_REDEMPTION IN COMPLETENESS OF JOY Pt-3_(THOU SHALT BE CALLED HEPHZIBAH & BEULAH)

Num 20:7  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 

Num 20:8  Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink. 

Num 20:9  And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him. 
Num 20:10  And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock? 

Num 20:11  And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

Jer 32:40  And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. 

Jer 32:41  Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.

Isa 62:1  For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. 

Isa 62:2  And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name. 

Isa 62:3  Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. 

Isa 62:4  Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. 

Isa 62:5  For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. 

Isa 62:6  I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence, 

Isa 62:7  And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. 

Isa 62:8  The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured: 

Isa 62:9  But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness. 

Isa 62:10  Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people. 

Isa 62:11  Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. 

Isa 62:12  And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken. 

Isa 43:1  But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. 

Isa 43:2  When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. 

Isa 43:3  For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. 

Isa 43:4  Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. 

Isa 43:5  Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; 

Isa 43:6  I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; 

Isa 43:7  Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him. 

Isa 43:8  Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears. 

Isa 43:9  Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth. 

Isa 43:10  Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. 

Isa 43:11  I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. 

1Th 5:16  Rejoice evermore. 

1Th 5:17  Pray without ceasing. 
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. 
1Th 5:25  Brethren, pray for us. 
1Th 5:26  Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss. 
1Th 5:27  I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren. 
1Th 5:28  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

Php 2:13  For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. 

Php 2:14  Do all things without murmurings and disputings: 

Php 2:15  That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; 

Php 2:16  Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. 

Php 2:17  Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all. 

Php 2:18  For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me. 

Php 2:19  But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state. 

Jas 1:1  James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. 

Jas 1:2  My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 

Jas 1:3  Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 

Jas 1:4  But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 

Jas 1:5  If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 

Jas 1:6  But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 

Jas 1:7  For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. 

Jas 1:8  A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. 

Jas 1:9  Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: 

Jas 1:10  But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 

Jas 1:11  For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. 

Jas 1:12  Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. 

Jas 1:13  Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: 

Jas 1:14  But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 

Jas 1:15  Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. 

Jas 1:16  Do not err, my beloved brethren. 

Jas 1:17  Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. 

Jas 1:18  Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. 

Jas 1:19  Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 

Jas 1:20  For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. 

Jas 1:21  Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 

Jas 1:22  But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 

Jas 1:23  For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 

Jas 1:24  For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 

Jas 1:25  But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 

Jas 1:26  If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. 

Jas 1:27  Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. 

Psa 16:1  Michtam of David. Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust. 

Psa 16:2  O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee; 

Psa 16:3  But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight. 

Psa 16:4  Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. 

Psa 16:5  The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. 

Psa 16:6  The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

Psa 38:1  A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 

Psa 38:2  For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. 

Psa 38:3  There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. 

Psa 38:4  For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 

Psa 38:5  My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. 

Psa 38:6  I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 

Psa 38:7  For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh. 

Psa 38:8  I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. 

Psa 38:9  Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. 

Psa 38:10  My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. 

Psa 38:11  My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. 

Psa 38:12  They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. 

Psa 38:13  But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. 

Psa 38:14  Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. 

Psa 38:15  For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. 

Psa 38:16  For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me. 

Psa 38:17  For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. 

Psa 38:18  For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. 

Psa 38:19  But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. 

Psa 38:20  They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is. 

Psa 38:21  Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me. 

Psa 38:22  Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation. 

Pro 8:28  When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: 

Pro 8:29  When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: 

Pro 8:30  Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; 

Pro 8:31  Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men. 

Pro 8:32  Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. 

Pro 8:33  Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. 

Pro 8:34  Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. 

Pro 8:35  For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. 

Pro 8:36  But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.