The Benefits of the son of God to us no. 4

For God So Loved ther World He Gave us His Son

Saturday evening, July 31, 2004

Rev Brian Kocourek

 

This morning I would like to bring out another benefit that I seemed to miss when I listed the 37 benefits that God has given to us through His Son in sermon number two of this series on the benefits of the Son of God. And since this is such an important benefit, I do not see how we could preach this series without it. Therefore, we now have 38 benefits through the Son of God to us.

 

And it is obvious to the Bible student that this benefit must be included in this benefits package we receive as sons from God our Father

 

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life

 

1)     Faith and Love are inseparable Faith is Love, only in a passive form Love is Faith in an active form  Therefore you can say say you have faith but unless there is an expression of that faith  it is dormant and lifeless .

 

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

2 Corinthians   8:7 Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also

2 John   1:3 Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love

2 Thessalonians   3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ

2 Timothy   4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing

Ephesians   3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God

Ephesians   4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

James   2:5Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

James   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

Galatians   5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love

Ephesians   6:23 Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ

Ephesians   3:17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

Ephesians   1:15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,

Colossians   2:2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

Colossians   1: 4 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,

2 Timothy   1:13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus

2 Thessalonians   2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved

2 Corinthians   13:11 Finally, brethren, farewell Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you

1 Timothy   6:11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness

1 Timothy   1:14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus

1 Thessalonians   5:8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation

1 Thessalonians 1:3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

Ephesians   6:24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity Amen

2 Timothy   1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind

 

#2) God is Love, and we express our love for God by what we do with his Word

 

1 Corinthians 8:3 But if any man love God, the same is known of him

1 John   2:5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him

1 John   3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not

1 John   4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins

1 John   4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another

1 John   4:12 No man hath seen God at any time If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us

1 John   4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him

1 John   4:17Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world

1 John   4:18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment He that feareth is not made perfect in love

1 John   4:19We love him, because he first loved us

1 John   4:20If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

1 John   4:21And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother.

1 John   4:7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God

1 John   4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love

 

#3) Love is an action, it is not passive, it is active, and it is an expression.

 

1 John   2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him

1 John   3:23And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment

John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love

John 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you

John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends

John   14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments

John 14:31 But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do Arise, let us go hence

1 John   5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments

 

#4) Love demands fellowship

 

1 John   3:11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another

1 John   3:14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren He that loveth not his brother abideth in death

John   14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him

John   14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him

John   13:35By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another

John   13:34A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another

James   2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

Hebrews   13:1 Let brotherly love continue

1 Peter   2:17 Honour all men Love the brotherhood Fear God Honour the king

1 Thessalonians   3:12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

2 John   1:5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another

2 John   1:6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it

Ephesians   1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love

 

Now, let's examine this fellowship.  Because we are Looking at Fellowship. And what is this word fellowship? Brother Branham said, fellowship is two fellows in one ship. In other words, the people were together. You can not have fellowship staying away from the people.

 

Now, remember, brother Branham taught us that the Pillar of Fire appeared three times for 3 exoduses. With Moses, Paul and William Branham.  Therefore what we are talking about, if it took place in the first exodus, it must repeat in the other 2.

 

From the message EVER PRESENT WATER  61-0723M  87, Brother Branham said,  Now, we find out that, along this road, after they got like this, they come to a place of Horeb. And H-o-r-e-b, Horeb, then we find out... Let's break that name down. That's where the name "Horeb" means, a "dry place" or a "desert." And when we get out of fellowship with one another in the church, and out of fellowship with the Holy Spirit, it brings us to a dry place, a desert, nothing alive, everything got stickers on it. See, a desert, a little piece of cactus with that sticker on it. Did you know what that is? That's a precious little tender leaf that hasn't had no water; it's just wound itself up so tight till it's a sticker. And when you see somebody like that, maybe it's a precious soul that could been watered right, would've been a tender little leaf or something. But instead of that, it's wound itself up till it's a sticker, just punching at everything, you know, finding fault. Only thing it needs is just water. That's all. It just--it just needs a--a revival, or a breaking up, a refreshing from the Lord. it'll unfold its little self, if you'll just put it to the water. 

89  But that's where them who live in that place has to suffer with the conditions of that place. And those who desire to live in that kind of an atmosphere of where everything's just punching and fussing, and quarreling and stewing like that, well, you'll just live under that atmosphere; that's all. But we don't have to live there; it's not necessary for us to stay there.

 

And I say this morning, you don't have to be that way, and you don't have to live under them conditions. There is something you can do about it. You know the people who feel the sorriest for themselves are the people who are the most self centered. Brother Branham taught us the way up is down and the way down is up. He said if you have a selfish heart them give everything away. If you are feeling low, then find some one to help.

 

II CORINTHIANS 8:1   Moreover, brethren, I want you to understand the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; 2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. 3 For to [their] power, I bear record, yea, and beyond [their] power [they were] willing of themselves; 4 Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and [take upon us] the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. 5 And [this they did], not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.

 

These people gave beyond their ability to give, but they had to plead with Paul to take their offering of support for the people of Jerusalem. They were not thinking of themselves, they were thinking of those who were worse off.

 

I heard a top executive of a very large corporation one time say, when I am feeling depressed, I get up from my desk and go try to help someone. I go out onto the street and find someone to help. Then when I can see there are people in a worse condition than I am, and I can help them, it takes my mind off of my own troubles and I see how insignificant my own problems are. Try it sometime, I know it works. What you all need to cure your blues is a good tour of Poland, or Peru or Africa or the Philippines.

 

Or just go down to East Walnut street or Gilbert if you dare, and see how those people live. Just hanging around the streets, nothing to do but watch cars go by. Such a sad condition, and yet they don't have to live that way, but to them there is no way out. You can't go down there and tell those people they don't have to live that way, that's all they know how to do.  But Christians don’t live like that. No matter how poor, yet we have hope. No matter how rejected, yet we have hope. And hope maketh not ashamed.

 

Now the word for fellowship in the Greek is the Word  [koinonia {koy-nohn-ee'-ah}] and it means 1) fellowship, association, community, communion, joint participation, sharing what one has in anything, participation, intimacy: 

 

Without it you will dry up in your Christian experience. Without fellowship, you will begin to find fault, you will begin to pick at and make fun of. I knew a person once who said, he liked to rent videos just to sit around and make fun of the people in them. What a wonderful thing to do. 

 

Now, you don't have to live in an atmosphere like that, you can change it. You can't have fellowship without first having love.  If you don’t believe me try it some time. Go to some church where they despise what you stand for. Go to a Pentecostal church and tell them you believe God sent a prophet William Branham and tell them what you believe, and see what happens. Then try to fellowship with them? You can't.   How can two walk together lest they be agreed.  Try it in this message. Go somewhere that doesn't believe like we do and tell them you believe Brother Vayle is a man of God. You can feel the hatred. Try it on the internet. Go to one of the chat rooms and tell them what you believe and one by one they leave until you are left there alone. I know, I've experienced it first hand.

 

So you must have love before you can fellowship. In fact brother Branham said in His Message called FELLOWSHIP 60-0611B  E-18    Now, fellowship comes by love. And love requires fellowship. If you love your wife, you've just got to get with her and talk with her. If you love your friend, you've got to get with him and talk to him. And if you love God, there's got to be a basis for fellowship. You cannot have complete fellowship and livelihood without these agreements. You cannot be married without an agreement. You cannot have a wife without some kind of an agreement. And that agreement is based upon your vow. You cannot have fellowship with God without coming to God's agreement. And there's a basic thing for fellowship, and that's the Blood, the Blood only. It's been God's way from the beginning, and it will be till the end. The only place of fellowship is through the Blood.

 

GOD’S PROVIDED WAY FELLOWSHIP 60-0709 P:31 And what made God provide this way? Because God is love, and love demands fellowship. Love demands fellowship, like the young boy when he meets the--the young lady. And oh, she's got eyes like diamonds, and she's got teeth like pearls, and a neck like the swan, and oh, she's the prettiest thing in the world.Now, you just can't go up and say, "You're mine; here we go." There's got to be some kind of an agreement. Some kind of an agreement has to be reached, before you can enter into fellowship with this young lady. You have to come to an agreement. And that's the way when we see God and know that He is God. We look at His creation and His great Being, what He's done and how great He is. Then there has to...We have to come upon the basis of God's agreement. And that was by the way of the Blood; that's the only way.

 

And if you can not love your brother, then you do not get together with him, it's just that simple. No love, no fellowship.

 

And that's the problem with so many people today. They don't take the blood of Jesus into their fellowship. And then they hear something they don't like and they get all puffed up and hurt feelings. And pretty soon the devil has you out of fellowship and then watch your family go down hill right then. Brother Branham said you need to carry the blood into your fellowshipping. Instead of getting hurt, you cover it with the blood. When someone says something personal, cover it with the blood. When someone gets a bit nozy, or pries into something you might consider personal? Cover it with the blood. Don’t get angry, don't get uppity, but cover it with the blood. And you can't cover it with the blood if your own motives are wrong. Because Love covers a multitude of sin.

 

Now, Solomon was not the wisest man for nothing. And He said in

PROVERBS 10:11   The mouth of a righteous [man is] a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.  12   Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. 13   In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod [is] for the back of him that is void of understanding. 14    Wise [men] lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish [is] near destruction.

 

PHILIPPIANS 2:1   If [there be] therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, 2 Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, [being] of one accord, of one mind. 3 [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. 4    Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. 5 Let this mind (attitude) be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

 

Jesus gave us a commandment when he said, JOHN 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

 

JOHN 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13    Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

 

JOHN 15:17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.

 

Paul taught this same principle when he said,

 

 ROMANS 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. 9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 10  Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the law.

 

I THESSALONIANS 4:9    But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

 

Peter taught it,  I PETER 1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see that ye] love one another with a pure heart fervently:

 

And John the Apostle of Love brings this to our attention when he said, I JOHN 3:11   For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12  Not as Cain, [who] was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.  Now, notice, the slaying was not the evil thing, his wrong doctrine was and because of wrong doctrine he slew his brother. That's why John  continues by saying, 13  Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. 14   We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not [his] brother abideth in death.

 

From the message THE TOKEN  63-1128E  100 brother Branham said, "As we see the great end-time signs in the earth, warning us the time is at hand, we should love one another more than we ever did in all of our lives. There should be such a hunger to get to church. There should be such a hunger for us to get to one another. It should be a love affair. I can't hardly wait to get to Tucson. Oh, God healed my little wife. She's part of me. I can't hardly wait to get there. The hours, I'm counting the days and the hours, when I can get there to be with her.

That's the way the Church ought to be. Just seeing that the power of God, what It's done for us, we should be counting the moments, getting together in love, that we can fly away someday to meet Jesus. 103    Somebody said, not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, you scare the people, saying that the coming of the Lord is so near." I said, "They shouldn't be worried about that. That should be the most happy thing we know of." Uh-huh, yeah. "And He will appear the second time to all those that love His appearing," who love and longing for it. It's a love affair. And how we ought to love one another, because we're fellow citizens in the same Body. We should have love one for another.  106    Warning us, the time is at hand... Believers should be separating themselves from the things of the world, the cares of the world. That's the reason I hammer at women and so forth the way I have. And then separate yourself from these TV programs. Separate yourself from this Hollywood evangelism. Come back to deepness of sincerity.

 

And he said if you love one anther, love requires fellowship. It's a part of love. How can we say we love the brethren and won’t fellowship with them. I've had brethren who have left this church come to me and apologize for the way they left and tell me they love me. I just said, if you really love me, why don’t you come back. Will they do it? They will if they really mean what they say. And they won't if they don't.  How can people say to one another, I love you brother and then won't visit with you. That's not love. Love demands fellowship. That's thus saith God's Prophet.  He said, Now, fellowship comes by love. And love requires fellowship.  If you love your wife, you've just got to get with her and talk with her. If you love your friend, you've got to get with him and talk to him.

 

None of us are perfect, but that is what the blood is for. If you walk in the light as He is in the light, it brings you into fellowship and then the blood takes over.

 

EPHESIANS 1:5  In love He has predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. 7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

 

His love not only predestinates us, and covers us by His blood.

 

I CORINTHIANS 1:8 Who shall also establish you unto the end, [that ye may be] blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9  God [is] faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. 10    Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and [that] there be no divisions among you; but [that] ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

 

PHILIPPIANS 1:3   I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, 4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, 5  For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now; 6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform [it] until the day of Jesus Christ:

 

Now, the opposite of fellowship is being cut off from fellowship., and we showed you without any doubts a few years ago the scriptural principles that brother Branham laid out for us when he spoke of the world becoming neurotics. And I continue to be amazed to see that Word come forth from this pulpit and then it happens in the congregation. It just shows that it is a living Word we preach.

 

Remember how we showed you the first attribute of neurosis is anxiety, worrying about what might happen. Then that leads to compulsion, trying to fix the problem, and then that leads to obsession which takes place when you get so focused on fixing that problem that it possesses you, and that leads to phobia, and fear has a penalty, it causes you to stop doing what you used to do and that lead's to depression and your depression and dissatisfaction leads to disassociation, which is cutting yourself off from fellowship. Then what happens, step 7 you become a total neurotic. And you are converted, you are changed, and you are gone. And we've seen that Word come to pass exactly like I've preached it right here in this congregation. 

 

EPHESIANS 4:17  This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18  Having the understanding darkened, being alienated (that means cut off from fellowship) from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

 

88-2 EPHESIAN CHURCH AGE  -  CHURCH AGE BOOK CPT 3 The fervent desire to please God, the passion to know His Word, the cry for reaching out in the Spirit, all begins to fade and instead of that church being on fire with the fire of God it has cooled off and become a bit formal. That is what was happening back there to the Ephesians. They were getting a bit formal. The abandonment to God was dying out and the people weren't too careful about what God thought of them as they began to be careful about what the world thought of them. That second generation coming on was just like Israel. They demanded a king to be like the other nations. When they did that, they rejected God. But they did it anyway. That is the history of the church. When it thinks more of conforming to the world instead of conforming to God, it isn't long until you see them stop doing things they used to do, and start doing things they wouldn't do initially. They change their manner of dress, their attitudes and their behaviour. They get lax. That is what "Ephesus" means: relaxed--drifting.

89-1 That cycle of revival and death has never failed. All you have to do is recall this last move of God in the Spirit when men and women dressed like Christians, went to church, prayed all night, took to street corners and weren't ashamed of the manifestations of the Spirit. They left their old dead churches and worshipped in homes or old store buildings. They had reality. But it wasn't too long a time until they began to get enough money to build fine new churches. They put in a choir instead of singing unto God for themselves. They put gowns on the choir. They organized a movement and ran it by man. They soon began to read books that weren't fit to read. They let down the bars and goats came in and took over. The cry of joy was gone. The freedom of the Spirit was gone. Oh, they kept on with a form; but the fire had died down and the blackness of ashes is about all that is left.

89-2 A few moments ago I mentioned that John understood what it was to love God. That great apostle of love would certainly see it when the church began to lose that first love of God. In I John 5:3, he says, "For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments (His Word)." One little deviation from that Word was a step away from Christ. People say they love God, they go to church, they even shout and rejoice and sing and have a great emotional time. But when it is all over, watch and see if they are in that WORD, walking in it, living in it. If they go through all the other and then don't walk in that Word, they can say they love God but their lives tell another story. I wonder if John didn't see a lot of that before he died; people saying they loved God but not obeying His Word. Oh, Ephesian Church, something is happening to you. Someone is trying to either add to that Word or take from it. But they are doing it so subtly that you can't see it. They haven't made a move so big you can see it out there in the open. It is under cover, and they are bringing it by way of reason and human understanding and it will take over unless you refuse it. Go back to Pentecost before it is too late!

89-3 But as usual people don't heed God's warning. That revival fire built upon the sacred Word is so wonderful, and the manifestation of the Spirit so blessed, that a little fear creeps in and a whisper in the heart says, "How can we protect this truth we have? What can we do to see this revival goes on?" That is when the "antichrist spirit" comes in and whispers, "Look, you have the truth now, see that it doesn't get lost. Organize and set up your creed of what you believe. Put it all in a church manual." And they do it. They organize. They add to the Word. And they die just like Eve did for taking One wrong word. It's God's Word that brings life. And it's not what we say about the Word that counts, but it's what God said.

 

INVASION OF THE USA  54-0509   213    You take a little bitty girl, little bitty boy, put them out here, let them live with somebody... You take a man... I can take my boy, let him be out for a day with somebody; let me come in, I can almost tell you who he's been with. Certainly. Watch, that environment, that spirit catches him. You go into a church, where the people all... You go into Holy Ghost churches, or Pentecostal churches, they call it. Look everybody be... Oh, they run and jerk their head back and forth, the pastor does; watch the whole church begin to do the same thing. Let the men, the people, get up and just carry on terrible, or something another; watch the whole thing do that. Get into a place where the pastor's real starchy and cold; watch the whole group do it. You come into that environment. You take a man that's a good moral man, and let him marry a little old woman that ain't worth a dime; it isn't long till he ain't worth a dime either. That's what happened to Ahab. Take the same, vice versa, let a nice little woman marry an old man that ain't worth a dime; the first thing you know, she's doing the same thing he is. How could I go, this morning, and point my hands on little broken up homes and things like that, where lovely little mothers come into a drinking dad, and things like that, and thought they could do something with them, and now the whole mother and all of them is a drinking and going on. It's environment.

  217    What is it? It's the Devil. It's the Devil, the invasion. He swept into this nation like a roaring lion. He set hisself down here in the best place they had, in Hollywood. He said, "I can get the movies here until the television comes on, then I'll get them." And he set down there. And the church people, instead of shutting down the shows and not letting their children go, they give them ten cents on a Sunday afternoon and send them down there, so they could have a little social card party, be out to theirself and ride around. Oh, what a disgrace. Now they just turn the television on and watch all the dirty, rotten tommyrot there is in the world on it. That's right. I ain't got nothing against the movie. I ain't got nothing against television. It's the rotten stuff that's on it. That's what it is. If you'd have kept it moral, it'd a-had to stay moral.

  220    You couldn't sell old fashion button shoes here in town today, at all. Women don't want them. They want the toes out of them. The rest of the women's a doing it. That's right. When you go to church, you can't sell them old-time religion, 'cause the other woman, she don't want nothing to do with that. No, sir. "And no need me going down there. I just believe; that's all there is to it." Oh, brother, the Devil believes too. That's right. You'll repent or perish.

 

RECONCILIATION THROUGH FELLOWSHIP  56-0120   E-21    So we find out that man must come back to his Maker. Then when Adam realized that sin had separated him, he became an alien, a wanderer away from God, without hope, wandering around in the garden, knowing that he was separated from God, knew that he didn't have fellowship no more; it made him a wanderer. And man to this day, when the sin problem, he still becomes a wanderer. He will go to one church awhile; he longs to have fellowship. He will join the Methodists, or the Baptists, or the Pentecostal, or some church. He  will go in there, and he will find imperfection in the church among the people; he will leave this church and take his letter and go to another church. He will go from church to church; he's a wanderer yet, away from God.

 

#5) and 5 is the number of Grace, Love is servitude, for love is giving. And we prove our love to God by serving His Kids.

 

John 10:17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again

1 John   3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren

1 John   3:17But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

1 John   3:18My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth

John   10:17Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again

Hebrews   6:10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister

Hebrews   10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

Galatians   5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself

Galatians   5:13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another

Ephesians   5:33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband

Ephesians   5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies He that loveth his wife loveth himself

Ephesians   5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Ephesians   5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour

Ephesians   4:2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

Ephesians   4:16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love

Colossians   3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them

2 Corinthians   8:8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love

2 Corinthians   8:24 Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf

2 Corinthians   6:6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

2 Corinthians   5:14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

2 Corinthians   2:8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him

2 Corinthians   2:4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you

1 Thessalonians   5:13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake And be at peace among yourselves

1 Thessalonians   4:9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another

1 Peter   3:8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

1 Peter   1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

1 John   4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him

2 Corinthians   12:15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved