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1Pe 5:6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
1Pe 5:7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
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1Pe 5:6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
1Pe 5:7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
*LIFE
ITSELF MEANS AN EXISTENCE… IF THY LOVEKINDNESS IS BETTER THAN LIFE, THEN WHAT
COULD BE ANY BETTER?
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Now, we wonder
then the word "life" must have a--a--a compound meaning to it, must
mean more than--than--than one thing. Life itself
means an existence. So then, if Thy
lovekindness is better than life, then what could be any better? Because
God alone has Eternal Life. God alone has Eternal Life. If we can get that
straight now, it will be easy for us to see the great picture God sets before
us. How that someday that everything that isn't of
God will vanish and perish and go away.
Now, everything that had a beginning
has an end. There's nothing that ever began but what has an end. But something
that had no beginning has no end. And--and God alone is the only One that had a
never beginning. He had no beginning of days nor ending of years. And therefore, we have to become a part of God by birth
to live, have an eternal existence.
*THE WORD "LIFE" HAS HAD A PERVERTED
ASPECT TO IT, BECAUSE THAT EVEN LIFE ITSELF HAS A PERVERTED ASPECT.
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And David
screamed out, "O Thy lovekindness is better to me than life." Now,
life, everyone wants to think of life. And life... The
word "life" has had a perverted aspect to it, because that even life
itself has a perverted aspect. And many times people want to refer to
life as having a big time, drinking, riling, and going out. They say,
"This is life." How mistaken they are. That's
death. See? It's not life. It's death.
*THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY TO HAVE LIFE. THAT'S
RIGHT. AND TO KNOW HIM IS LIFE.
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And I read a
article in a magazine one time when I was on an airplane, and it was about
Hollywood. And it said that, "Life begins after midnight. You should come
down on certain streets and certain things." And they had the picture of
burlesque and so forth that goes on. And I said, "How perverted that
is."
You see, if
Satan has a kingdom, he's got to have a false economy. He's got to have
something that he can present to them to make them think they are living. But
it's absolutely on the vice versa side. It's death
in the form of life. See? It's a perversion from real life, because...
Let us settle this in our minds now
once and forever. There's only one way to have
life. That's right. And to know Him is Life. And that's the only way that we can have Life and no other way for God has
only promised Life through Jesus Christ.
*THE SCRIPTURE IS SO
INSPIRED…
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Watch. These
things... We could take many, many views of this. The Scripture is so inspired, that two thousand years,
ministers, through the ages, who's in glory tonight waiting the glorious second
coming of the Lord, has
preached this text ten thousands of times. And if this world would spend a hundred billion years
through the aeons of time, that Word would still be just as inspiring as It was
the hour It was said, because It's God's Word. It has no end at all.
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E-34 God's
inspired Word is Himself. You're no better than your word. If I can't take your word, you don't
have to sign no papers. If I can't take your word I can't do business with you.
That's the way with God; I take His Word. God said so. And it's eternal. And it's inspired. And every age it's new, and new, and
new, and new; it has no old. And we're just going take one view tonight for a few moments. That was
done to my opinion for this we might look at.
*WHAT WE NEED TODAY IS AN
INSPIRATION OVER US, GOD SWEEPING DOWN WITH A NEW INSPIRATION AND BREATHING
OVER US HIS POWER, AND HIS LOVE, AND HIMSELF…
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So what we need today is an
inspiration over us, God sweeping down with a new inspiration and breathing
over us His power, and His love, and Himself, that it might inspire us to
quicken us and waken us to His Word. And then the Word being brought into that spirit of inspiration,
then you'll see miracles happen, and things take place, because the two just comes together.
*…MANY SETTING RIGHT HERE WHO'S ABSOLUTELY LIVING UNDER YOUR
PRIVILEGE AS SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD….
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Now, many people is in
earth today. And I say this with all respect. There's,
perhaps, many setting right here who's absolutely living under your privilege
as sons and daughters of God. I won't say you'll be lost. No, because
when God saves and then loses then He...
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E-27 …..But if God saves you knowing He is going to lose you, He
defeats His purpose. He don't do that. When He
saves you, you're saved. "He that heareth My Words, and believeth on
Him that sent Me, hath Everlasting Life, and shall never come into judgment;
but's pass from death unto Life."
*AND YOUR CONDUCT EACH DAY,
AS THE HOLY SPIRIT BRINGS IT BEFORE THE FATHER, GIVES AWAY THE THINGS THAT YOU
DO
So you're still a son
and daughter, but you're living under your privilege. And
your conduct each day, as the Holy Spirit brings it before the Father, gives
away the things that you do, and you're still a son and daughter, but you'll
never be brought to the place where you should be.
Great gifts that are
in the Church are so misused, no reverence to it, and just a--a bunch of carry
on until it even brings disgrace to the public. How that the Holy Spirit would
like to govern that, bring it down.
*IF HE GIVE US THIS GREAT
SACRED OFFICE. HE'S GOING TO REQUIRE IT AT OUR HANDS. SO IF YOU'RE INSPIRED...
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E-28 But sometimes ministers are... It's meal tickets to
pastor a church, instead of thinking of heaven and what we'll answer for at
that day. We better preach the truth, 'cause
God's going to... If He give us this great sacred
office. He's going to require it at our hands. So if you're inspired...
Notice, the tutor
brought the message to the father and said, "The child is progressing
right or wrong." Then if it came up... Now, no matter what the outside
people had to say about this child, what the servants on the farm had to say,
he tried to work every way to please the father.
*DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO
BUILD THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
And no
matter what the world has to say about you, work to please God. Do everything
you can to build the Kingdom of God. Don't never separate
it. Build it together. Don't never divide it by denominational barriers. Don't
let those little thing that man has put into the Church ever separate
brotherhood. Because you're a Methodist, shake hands with a Baptist. Because
you're a Presbyterian, shake hands with a Pentecostal. We are brethren. And
don't let man's little barbed wire barriers separate you from the fellowship of
the saints of the living God who are our brethren in like precious faith.
If they
don't know just as much as you feel, then you pray for them, and associate with
them, and fellowship with them, and God will spread His love abroad in their
hearts too.
*THEN IF IT'S GOD'S INSPIRED
WORD, THEN IF THE INSPIRATION OF GOD IS HERE WITH US TO MAKE THIS WORD LIVE TO
PROVE THAT HE'S HERE…
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Now, now, if--if this God Who made the Bible, Who
wrote the Bible... You believe God inspired--the Bible is inspired, God's Word?
You believe it? Do you believe it with all your heart? All right. It's God's inspired Word. Then if it's God's inspired
Word, then if the inspiration of God is here with us to make this Word live to
prove that He's here, surely you can receive Him. Is that right?
2Pe 1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
2Pe 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
2Pe 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2Pe 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
2Pe 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
2Pe 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
2Pe 1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
2Pe 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
*BUT GOD HAS BROUGHT US
TOGETHER AGAIN TO SERVE HIM.
1 Sickness and many bad things... And death kept some away.
And sickness kept others away. And disappointments
kept others away. But God has brought us together again to serve Him. We're
so happy for these things.
…The preaching of the cross brings observation; it brings troubles; it brings stir-ups; and we can't expect to be immune from all those. We just have to take them as they come…
*…THE LORD'S WORD IS ALWAYS PERFECT. …
You
know, the Lord's Word is always perfect. You know, we just watch the ages roll
on, watch science raise up and say, "Oh, God was mistaken there."
In a few years they come back around, say, "You know, He was right."
See? They always... See, they scientifically proved He's wrong, first, then
they have to tear all their theology down, come back, and prove that He was
right. See? So God just sets in the heavens and
laughs at them, I suppose, and say, "Oh, my. Poor little kids, why don't
you just come to yourself? Come, serve Me, and just believe what I said about
it." See? That settles it.
2Ki 4:30 And the mother of the child said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her.
*WHEN THE WORD OF GOD IS PUT
INTO THE FERTILE GROUNDS OF THE INSPIRED BELIEVER, IT PRODUCES JUST EXACTLY
WHAT GOD SAID IT WOULD DO…
E-16 And when the Word of God is put into the fertile grounds of the inspired believer, it produces just exactly what God said it would do, because it can't fail. It's God's eternal Word. Got to waken the people, got to bring us to something when the Word is received. And that's the inspiration. And man is in no condition, outside of repentance; he's no condition to receive the Word until first he has been inspired.
*THAT'S WHAT BRINGS THE
RESULTS (SEE?), IS YOUR INSPIRATION BY THE WORD.
E-17 …..See, salvation is not based upon what someone else
thinks. It's what you think of Him. Divine
healing isn't based on what the critic says, or what the church says; it's based on your perfect faith in the inspired Word of
God, and how you're inspired to believe that. That's what brings the results
(see?), is your inspiration by the Word. What does It do for you?
"Who does men say I, the Son of man, am?"
And he said, "Some Jeremias, and some the
prophets."
Said, "But Who do you say that I am?"
E-18 …..But I like Peter. He has a lot of mistakes like I
have. But this one time he was really inspired. Yes, he stood up quickly, said,
"Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." Oh, my, what
a statement. "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."
He said, "Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and
blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father which is in heaven has did
this. And upon this rock I'll build My church; and the gates of hell can't
prevail against it." There you are, inspiration, inspired
revelation. Oh, how he was inspired, standing there in the front of the Messiah
Who was the Word. "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living
God."
He said, "Flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but My Father. And upon this rock I'll build My church."
*IT'S UPON INSPIRATION (YOU
SEE IT?), UPON INSPIRATION OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST THROUGH HIS WORD.
E-19 What is it? It's upon
inspiration (You see it?), upon inspiration of the Lord Jesus Christ through
His Word. "I will build My church; and the gates of hell will not
prevail against it." Though it shows all the gates of hell
would be against it, but they cannot prevail.
God said, "When
the enemy comes in like a flood, I will raise up a standard against it."
God will do it. And when all the gates of torment
is pressing against that little church, yet it will never prevail. She
will go right on.
I think of the
disciples in the early days when they're just a little handful of people, with
all--no education, no ability, earthly speaking; they had no degrees; they had
no--they had no denomination behind them; they had nothing but one thing, and
that was the Holy Spirit they had received on the day of Pentecost. They didn't need no more, for God had already said, "Upon
this inspiration, I will build My church."
Why, the ecclesiastic
world of that day was well able to shut them out. The great Sanhedrin Courts
could've turned them down. And if they'd been standing in their own philosophy,
or in their own theology, they would've been smothered out in the beginning. But nineteen hundred years has passed, and the gates of
hell's still against it, but she's moving on and will; for Jesus said it
cannot.
Inspired... That will take the rich man, the poor man, the beggar, whoever he is, and set them together and call each other brother, who will worship the Lord together without shamefaceness.
*IF THE WORD IS PUT IN
INSPIRATION, THEN THE RESULTS HAS GOT TO COME.
E-20 The Bible said, "My
people shall never be ashamed." How
they're fully able by the inspiration of God to declare Jesus Christ the
resurrected Son of God, Who's just the same yesterday, today, and forever.
And if the old time
Pentecostal blessing that fell in A.D. 33, is just as great today, and inspires
men just the same today as it did then, and brings the same results. Regardless
of critics, and what people has to say, it does just... It'll do that because inspiration will always bring it. If the Word is
put in inspiration, then the results has got to come.
2Pe 1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
2Pe 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
2Pe 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2Pe 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
2Pe 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
2Pe 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
2Pe 1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
2Pe 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
Mat 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
*GOD THROUGH THE DEATH OF
CHRIST NINETEEN HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY, PERFECTED THE BELIEVER THAT HE
FORESAW…
50 Then Jesus said, "Be ye therefore perfect." Then it was perfected forever. God through the death of Christ nineteen hundred years ago today, perfected the believer that He foresaw before the foundation of the world forever. And those who He has called, He has justified. Those who He foreknew, He has called; those who He has called, He has justified; those who He has justified, He has already glorified. He has perfected His believers.
*… NOW YOU'RE BUILT UP IN TO
A LIVELY HOUSE.
58-7 Peter said, "And because
you have escaped the corruption of the world through the lust of money, and
lust of big times, and pleasure, and the eating, and drinking, and lust that we
have, you've escaped that; and now you're built up in to a lively house.
I'm addressing that to the church," he said. There you are. Did you read
it? Did you get it? Did you hear it when we read it back here? In II Peter,
just listen what he says here; how beautiful that's wrote in here, how he--he
addresses it. All right listen to him now as he speaks. All right.
Peter--Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus
Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the
righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
... peace be--be multiplied unto you through the
knowledge of God, and through Jesus Christ our Lord,
According as--as His
Divine power has given unto us all things... (Who's going to
inherit the earth and all things? Sure pertaineth... Yeah, all right.)... that
pertaineth unto life and godliness, through the knowledge
of Him that has called us to glory unto glory:
Whereby are we given to the exceeding great precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the Divine nature, having escaped the corruption... (Listen to that.)... that is in the world through lust.
*THE BLOOD CELL, THE GERM OF
LIFE OF GOD HIMSELF, WRAPPED IN THIS BLOOD CELL THAT BROUGHT FORTH THE SON,
CHRIST JESUS…..TO MAKE YOU PERFECT AND TO BRING YOU BACK INTO FELLOWSHIP, HE
BRINGS YOU THROUGH THAT BLOOD CELL INTO HIMSELF.
E-16 Then the next time God was manifested, was in His Son,
Christ Jesus. Then He come through a virgin birth. Conceived by a virgin,
overshadowed by the Holy Spirit.
God Himself came down into a blood cell and wrapped the Blood around Him. The Blood cell, the germ of Life of God Himself, wrapped
in this Blood cell that brought forth the Son, Christ Jesus.
Now, what He did--does
by that, to make you perfect and to bring you back
into fellowship, He brings you through that Blood cell into Himself. You
get it? Through the Blood cell of the Lord Jesus that in-veiled the Life of
Jehovah, and we, coming through the Blood cell, becomes a part of that Life.
So, Deity itself lays in the man that's received the Holy Spirit. You are a son. I'm a Branham by birth. And a part of Mr. and Mrs. Branham is in me. And if you become a son or a daughter of God, part of Deity lays in you.
*HE SAID THERE IS NOTHING
IMPOSSIBLE WITH YOU. "WHATSOEVER THINGS YOU DESIRE, WHEN YOU PRAY, BELIEVE
YOU RECEIVE IT, AND YOU SHALL HAVE IT."
E-17 See how the devil robs you. Say, "Oh, you can't do
this." All things are possible to them that
believe. No matter what it is. You are a part of Deity, a son or dau... not a
servant, a son and a daughter.
Why, brother, it
surpasses all Angels, Archangels and everything else. It comes right into the Presence
of the Potter Himself. And how are we brought? Through
the Blood. Amen. Then you come into Deity.
You become a part. You're welded in.
Let's think of God
folding around Him now. We're going to enlarge it billions of times from this
Blood cell. And there God, in this Blood cell,
folded Himself up, and wrapped Himself in this Blood cell, and come to redeem
man to Life. Hallelujah.
There, when that Blood cell spread out, spread out, and brought the body Christ Jesus, Jehovah Himself was tabernacled in Him. That through the bursting of that Blood cell at Calvary might
bring sons and daughters to Himself, in the Blood cell to the Blood of
the Lord Jesus Christ, into Himself. And we become
a part of God. Amen.
That's what makes
Satan mad. That's what shakes him. When the Church
of Jesus Christ only knew who they were, brother... Oh, you say, "I
know there is nothing impossible with God." He said there is nothing
impossible to you. Amen. That changes the subject, doesn't it?
Oh, they says,
"There's nothing impossible to God." He said there is nothing
impossible with you. "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe
you receive it, and you shall have it." Amen.
2Pe 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
Luk 1:80 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.
29 Now, let's go to our subject right quick.
Yesterday we studied the technique of demons. I've been thinking today, as God
dealing. You don't know what a liberty it is to get out. Now, I'm not a
teacher; I'm a long ways from being a Bible expositor. And I am... My education
is limited to a seventh grade, so that's... And, that, I come out of school
about twenty-five years ago, so that's a long time off. And I don't have--had
very much of an education, but all that I know is what I receive through
inspiration.
And if that inspiration doesn't compare with the Bible, then it's wrong. See? It's got to be the Bible. No matter what inspiration it is, it's got to come... Here is God's Foundation. No other foundation is laid but This. And what This is, if what I would say would be contrary to This, you let my words be a lie, because This is the Truth. See, see? And if an angel would tell you something that'd be different from This, Paul said, "Let him be unto you accursed." Even an angel of light... Now, there's many great things. I only... the only... I chose two days, 'cause to get this subject to the people, that was yesterday and today, of the afternoon meeting.
268 A prophet is God's reflector. How many knows that? The--the reflector doesn't reflect itself, the--the reflector isn't the reflection. There has to be something strike the reflector--reflector to make it reflect. So a prophet is a chosen vessel of God that cannot reflect nothing at all but he's in direct line with that reflection, God, to reflect the image of Christ the Word. See, nothing else can do it. You are a reflector, that's the reason the prophet had to eat the book. That's the reason he had to eat the scroll. He had to reflect that Word for that age. You got it?
269 Notice Enoch, God's
perfect reflector in type. When God was through--through with him, He just
translated him, took him up. The mechanics that he had reflected become dynamics
with the Spirit, and took him up.
270 Same in the days of Elijah. Elijah, even to his bones, where that reflection... Reflector of God in his body being made manifest the Word of God. They laid a dead man on it, he sparked to life again. We are flesh and bone of Him, as long as we are the Bride of Christ. Do you believe that? All right. He died for us, and we died to ourselves and are buried in His Name, that we would "no more be of the world, but in Him," of which both the family in Heaven is named after Jesus Christ. That's Ephesians 1:21. For both Heaven... the family in Heaven. What's the family in Heaven named? Jesus. What's the family on earth named? Well, that's the house of God where the Blood's at. Is that right? That's the door, that's the gate, that's the place He put His Name, and the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us. It's the Word reflecting and sparking off the age that you're living in. That's what He was, that's what Moses was, that's what Jacob was, that's what the rest of them was, sparking off that Word of God, the reflector that God was reflecting Himself. And come to that perfect image of God, Jesus Christ, God's Masterpiece; was struck that He might take the rest of them for a Bride that's been reflecting Him.
271 Moses was in Him. Joshua was in Him. And if you are in Him, you was in Him before the foundation of the world, the family of God; you suffered with Him, you died with Him, you went to the cross with Him, you raised with Him; and now you're still with Him, setting in Heavenly places, reflecting the Message of the age to the world, the Light of the world. "Ye are the Light of the world," but if it's hid by a denominational bushel basket, how are, they going to see It? For your traditions, you make the Light of no effect! By trying... You denominationals, trying to keep the Light away from your church; you won't go in, neither will you let them. Amen.
If you're more blessed when you're dead, and you can do more for the Lord when you're dead than when you're alive, well, go ahead and die. But God wants you here to fulfill His program. The grou--... The Bible said, "Above all things, I would that you'd prosper in health." That's Scripture, "... above all things, that you'd prosper in health." The writers of the Scripture, inspired by the Holy Spirit, which the Scripture says, "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God." Amen.
E-52 Watch just a moment. When Abel, by inspiration come, no beauty, but he come in inspiration... He had no Bible to tell him it was a lamb. But God revealed to him it was a lamb, no inspiration to tell him that it wasn't... Cain said, "Well now (reasoning), it's fruit, we... They must've eat apples, so I'll bring fruits an offering, and Jehovah will receive this because it looks better than what that would be, so Jehovah will receive this."
E-17 Now, we lose our glory, if we lose faith.
Now, if we get away from faith, then we take the church into an intellectual
realm. And many times, it's been thought amongst people, that because a
congregation was large, and they had great churches, great steeples, and a
great lot of well-dressed and groomed peoples, and a lot of finances, that they
could afford such things, we many times, thought that was inspiring--that this
certain church must be inspired. Or we've often referred to different
ministers, who get out on the field and have great gatherings of crowds, and we
think, sometimes, that they are the signs of inspiration. But that's not
altogether the truth. That's human inspiration.
But the real inspiration comes by
doing the will of God (See?), whether it is a one or just a handful. Whether it
is a big church or a small church, it matters not. Whether he is a great
eloquent speaker or just a man that hardly knows his ABC's, it doesn't matter.
It depends on the message that he brings, whether it is inspired by the Word of
God or is it inspired by intellectuals conceptions of human inspiration.
Some people can be inspired because of an eloquent speaker. That doesn't make it right. Sometimes they're inspired, because the man is so trained, till he could put his point over. That doesn't mean that it's of God. See? It's only through God's everlasting, eternal, blessed Word can we receive inspiration, and that's given by the Holy Ghost. By faith we receive it.
21-2 I remember when I read Zane Gray's
"Lone Star Ranger." I tore up two or three brooms for mama, riding
around the house a-galloping, when I was on this hobbyhorse broom. I--I read
that story of--of the lone star ranger, and how he brought the justice to the
Big Bend.
Then I read Edgar Rice Burroughs'
fiction story of "Tarzan and the Apes." Mother had an old fur rug, a
sealskin rug or something that Mrs. Wathen had give her from the fire. And it
laid on her room. And I--I--I took that rug out... Mama done knowed the wind
didn't blow it out. And I took it out, and cut it up, and made me a Tarzan
suit; and set up in the tree. I--I lived half my time in a tree out in this
Tarzan suit, because I had seen what he done; I wanted to do it too.
But one day, by the grace of God, I got ahold of the real Book, the Bible. My song and story has been: "To be like Jesus; on earth I long to be like Him." I don't want to be a bishop, or a--or some great fellow in the church, some pope, or some priest, I want to be like Jesus.
22-2 An absolute, it makes you different. There's something about it to read His Word and... Something in your heart you long to be like Him. You're certain... It's like...
125 Like "Father Chiniquy," if you ever read his books. All right. He's "going to deliver all the Protestants," you know, and he become one, himself. So, this great priest, years ago, "Father Chiniquy," you ought to get his book and read it. They call him, "father." He's just Brother Chiniquy, what it was. We don't call no man "father," like that. So we find that--that we... He was going to read the Bible, so he could get out there and disprove the Protestant religion and make it all Catholic. And when he went to read the Bible, the Holy Spirit come upon him, and he got the Holy Ghost, and then--then he become one of them.
E-39 Notice this now. As this Shunammite woman,
she said to her husband, "You know there is a holy man that comes by to
see us. And let us, I pray thee, build just a little chamber on the side of the
house for him. In other words, we want to be just as close to him when he's in
this neighborhood as we can be. We know he's a Jew and we're Gentiles. But yet
he's a holy man, and we recognize him to be that way. We believe he's a
truthful man. And so, we've got enough money to do that, so let's just build us
a little chamber on the side of our house, and put a little stool in there, a
little bed, that when he comes by... And some water, pitcher and so forth, he
can refresh hisself, and lie down and stretch out." How God foreknows all
things and making preparations for it... Amen.
God knows all things. He's
omnipotent. He's omnipresent. He's omniscient. He knows all things when the
world... Before there ever was a star in the heavens, before there ever was a
light in the firmament, God knew every prophet that ever lived or everything
that men and women would ever do. He's infinite. And how that He warns His
people to get things ready like in the antediluvian destruction, like He's
getting people ready today, like He got that woman ready. Watch what that little
bed did later. Hallelujah.
E-40 Notice. She built the bed because she was inspired to do so. And when God gives you a revelation to do something, and if it's the right thing for whatever you do, do it. Don't wait till tomorrow. Do it when God says do it. She was able to do it.
E-41 This little woman said,
"I believe." In other words, if I could put it like this... This may
be drama. "Husband, this is a godly man, and something just tells me that
I should do something for him. So I'm going to ask you; you're the husband and
the head of the house, so I'm going to ask you if you will permit me to have
the carpenters to come and build just a little room there for this holy man.
And somehow, husband, I think we ought to buy him a little bed and put it in
that room. Wouldn't it be nice now? I just feel led to do so."
E-48 It come to be about twelve
years old, and one day while he was out in the field with his father, probably
in his seventies, an old man, and was out there in the harvest, because he was
probably a rich man, he must've got a sun stroke or something. He begin to cry
out, "My head, my head." And he had asked one of the servants to take
him in to the mother, and the mother set him on her lap till it got about
noontime, and the baby died, the little child.
Now, the baby's dead. What good
did the baby do her if God gave her the baby and then here He takes it away
from her? So you know what she did? If she'd been just a lukewarm church
member, she would've got bitter right then. But being that she wasn't, she was
blessed of God, because she'd made preparations. When that happened, she took
the baby (Look what she did.), took the baby out the door, down the street, and
around the corner, and took him in Elijah's room, and laid him on Elijah's bed.
What a place to put him (Amen.), on Elijah's bed?
Look, I'm trying to say that the
woman was inspired. And inspired people through all ages act strange to the
world, but they're always doing God's will. It was a strange thing that Paul
taken handkerchiefs off his body and aprons, and sent to the sick and afflicted.
Something inside... Oh, I wish I could get you to see it. Something...
Now, what--what if the doctor
standing there? Here come the mother with this stiff, dead baby, fell in the
sun stroke, and his eyes walled way back, and his mouth open, his tongue out.
And here she comes packing him, dead, going around to lay him in the preacher's
bed. Why, he'd say, "You fanatic." She wouldn't have paid any
attention to it. She was doing exactly what her inspiration was telling her to
do.
E-53 When Jesus come off the Mount
Transfiguration... Let's seal this right now. When Jesus come down off of Mount
Transfiguration, He said to the apostles; He said, "Who does men say I the
Son of man am?"
One of them said, "You're
Elijah."
And the other one said,
"You're the Prophet."
Another one said, "You're
Jeremiah."
He said, "But Who do you say
I am?"
And Peter said, "Thou art
the Christ, the Son of the living God."
He said, "Blessed art thou Simon: for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father which is in heaven has revealed this to you. And upon this rock I'll build My church; and the gates of hell can't prevail against it."
E-54 That's what the Shunammite
woman was going by. It was unreasonable to take a dead baby to that preacher's
bed. But inspiration spoke. And if inspiration'd speak to you and say that
you've been playing church, if inspiration tells you tonight it's time to get
rid of your dirty habits, listen to inspiration. It's the Holy Spirit speaking
and making a way. Don't never turn it down, if it's anything... Unless it's
contrary to God's Word. And anything that you do clean and righteous is--is in
accordance with God's Word. It's in accord. Amen.
No matter what the people think, what others say, it's the inspiration leading you, if it's according to the Word. And if it's according to the Word then the inspiration is a leading you.
E-55 And she takes the baby;
she goes around and she lays it on her bed--on his bed. What took place? Her
husband came in. They were weeping and screaming and going on; the baby was
dead. But the woman... Amen. I love this. Her faith was in action. She's just
as cool as she could be. Something had struck her in that crucial moment.
Something had taken a hold. And if something would take a hold in the time of
death in the family, what more ought to take hold tonight when the coming of
the Lord Jesus Christ is at hand?
Something struck her:
inspiration. She walked around; she took the little fellow, laid him on the
prophet's bed. And her husband said, "Oh, dear, oh, dear, what will we
do?"
She said, "All is well, husband." Amen. Her faith sprung her to action. And no matter how much, sister, you in the wheelchair, believe that God is a Healer, if your faith can't go to action, you'll always be in the wheelchair. But when your faith can take action to a place that down in your soul that says so, not reasoning, but something in here says so, then, brother, something takes place. You begin moving. 'Cause it's impossible for it not to be. That's true.
E-66 Notice. He went to the room. Quickly now,
as we close... He went to the room where the baby was; he didn't know. He
walked up-and-down the floor, and up-and-down the floor, the people outside
raging and going on. He walked up-and-down the floor, back and forth, until the
Spirit anointed him real deep. He run over and throwed hisself on that baby,
put his lips against its lips, and its head against his head, his nose against
its nose, his hands against his hand, and the Spirit of God come through him
onto that baby, and like laying hands on the sick or whatevermore. And the baby
sneezed seven times and come to life. The woman's inspiration was paying off.
Joh 14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Joh 14:14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
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