Desperation
no 28
God only
recognizes your Faith in Desperation
May 29, 2016
Brian Kocourek, pastor
49 Now, the Word plainly states (if you want to
put this down) in Galatians
5 and 6,
that faith
worketh by love. See? Faith worketh by love. And the only way that you can have
faith, is have love first. Because after all, faith is love's incentive. Incentive,
that's exactly what faith is, is an incentive to love. Now, if you don't have love you can't have faith.
See?
In the last couple sermons we showed you how that this word "worketh"
where Paul said, "faith worketh by love" this word worketh was translated from the Greek word energeo,
and it speaks energy. Thus Paul is telling us that "faith is energized by love."
And noticed that brother Branham said "the only way that you can have faith, is
have love first".
Wednesday night we showed you that if it is necessary to have Love
first before we can have Faith, then we also must have a rapturing Love before
we will ever have a Rapturing Faith.
In fact brother Branham nailed home that point when he said,
From his
sermon, Beyond the curtain of time 61-0305 P:25 he
said, "Never let me compromise with the Word. Let me stay straight
on the Word. I don't care what anyone else does, Lord. Let me press on to that
beautiful, joyful place."I am more convinced than ever in my life, that it will
take perfect love to enter that place. There was no jealousy,
no tiredness, no sickness, no old age, no death,
only supreme beauty and joy. (Hallelujah!) Whatever you do, lay aside everything else until you get
perfect love. Get to where you can love everybody, even every enemy.
No matter if the plane is rocking, the lightning is flashing, or the guns of
the enemy are upon you, these things do not matter; get perfect love. If
you're not saved, accept Jesus Christ as your Saviour, now. If you have not
been baptized in water, be baptized now. If you have not received the baptism
in the Holy Spirit, receive It now. Press on in that perfect love, which
will take you to that beautiful and joyful place beyond the curtain of time.
Hallelujah. Glory to God. Amen.
Now, he never said, "you
got to get your doctrine right first in order to make the rapture",
no that's not what he said. And he never said, "you've got to set under
the right teacher to make the rapture." No he didn't say that either. Notice he said, ."I am more convinced than ever in my life, that it will
take perfect love to enter that place." And he also
said, "Whatever you do, lay aside everything else until you
get perfect love".
Therefore if we say what is on the tapes and only what is on those tapes
and line it up with the Scriptures as we did Wednesday night, then it out to be
a no brainer. YOU must first have a rapturing Love before you can have a
Rapturing Faith.
Now, this morning we will continue at paragraph number 50 brother Branham sermon Desperation
where he said, "How can you have faith in your wife if you don't love her? That's
in Phileo. Now, how about Agapao to God?
How can it be if you don't love God? If you said you love your wife and never
tell her about it, and never set down and make love to her, expressing it to her, kiss her, hug
her, and tell her she's the best cook in the country, all the things that you
know, and how pretty she is, and how
much you love her; if you don't do that she'll never know it. That's the
way. If you do love her, you express it. That's the way we do to God.
When we love Him, we tell Him about it. We set down and we adore
Him, and worship Him, and... See, love drives us to that.
51 Now,
what if something's got to be done for your wife. Why, it'd throw you into
desperation to get it done. What if somebody says your wife's got cancer? What
if somebody says your wife's got TB; she's fixing to die? Yet, you'll do
anything. See, it'll throw you into
desperation. That's the same thing that it is. We must have
love before we can have faith, and faith... When we have genuine
love, what does it do? It pushes our
faith out on the battlefront for God. Genuine
godly love for God and for His Word and for His people, will push faith out
there. Love just takes a-hold of faith and just... "Come on; let's
go." And out it goes, 'cause that's what love does.
You know for years I fellowshipped with so many brothers who believed
in Br. Vayle's teaching ministry and how he took the doctrine of Christ as
William Branham taught it and broke it down for us so that we could tie that Revelation
of Jesus Christ to this End-Time season in which we are living, and it bothered
me that no one had a burden on their heart for others outside that little
circle. And I kept thinking about our brothers and sisters in Africa, and Asia
and South America and other places around the world that would benefit
tremendously by having this Revelation of Christ and understanding of the son
of God and His relationship to the Father.
And out of love for my brothers that I had never even met, my Love for
the Father and his children, I went against my own self will, because I no more
wanted to go to Africa or Asia where there is so much sickness and disease, yet
the Scripture tells us "The Love of God
constrains us to do what the Father wants to be done."
And so as
Isaiah said, "When
the coal of Fire had touched the prophet, Making him as pure as pure can be,
When the voice of God said, "Who will go for us?"Then he answered,
"Master, here, send me."Speak, my Lord, speak, my Lord, Speak, and I'll be quick
to answer Thee; Speak, my Lord, speak, my Lord, Speak, and I will answer,
"Lord, send me."[Brother Branham begins humming,
"Speak, My Lord."--Ed.] Think of it now, teenager, while
they're humming that song. Think of it, minister, businessman, housewife.
We're down at the house of the Lord now. Look above you and see your Example,
the Cherubims. Just think, you're at the end of time now. Time will fade
into eternity, maybe today. We don't know just when. Think of it. There's
millions now in sin and shame are dying; (Look on the street.)Listen to
their sad and bitter cry; Hasten, brother, hasten to their rescue; Quickly
answer, "Master, here am I."Oh, speak, my Lord, oh, speak...
(Mean it from your heart now. Isaiah, where are you?)... and I'll be quick to answer
Thee; Speak, my Lord... (Methodists, Baptists, Pentecostals, where
you at?) Lord,
speak, and I will answer, "Lord, send me." Influence
63-1130B P:84
Now, let's continue with Desperation and we will pick up at paragraph 52. John 14:23,
Jesus said, "If a man loves Me he will
keep My words." Now, you can't keep
His words without having faith in what He said. So you see, if he loves God, then he keeps God's Word.
If He said, "I'm
the Lord that heals thee," he believes that. Love makes him believe it, because love
dominates all. "Though
I speak with tongue of men and Angels and have not love, it's nothing."
See? "Though
I have faith to move mountains and have not love, it's nothing."
Love dominates all, 'cause God is love, a God of love. Now. Yes, sir. If Jesus
said, "If a
man loves Me, he will keep My words"...
1 Corinthians
13: THE MESSAGE Translation 1 13 If I speak with human
eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a
rusty gate. 2 If I speak God’s Word with power,
revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith
that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.
3-7 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the
stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no
matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.
Then Paul gives
us a complete list of the attributes and characteristics of Love. He says,
1. Love never gives up.
2. Love cares more for others than for self.
3. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
4. Love doesn’t strut,
5. Love doesn’t have a swelled head,
6. Love doesn’t force itself on others,
7. Love is never “me first,” because
Love is living for others, Because Love is eternal Life.
8. Love doesn’t fly off the handle,
9. Love doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
10. Love doesn’t revel when others grovel,
11. Love takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, no
matter who or where it comes from.
12. Love puts up with anything,
13. Love trusts God always,
14. Love always looks for the best, in
others and in circumstances
15. Love never looks back,
16. Love keeps going to the end.
8-10 Love never dies. (Why
Because it is eternal, for God is Love). Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues
will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the
truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete Vindicated
Word arrives, our incompleteness will be canceled out. For that is
when the Capstone will arrive and cap the pyramid with Love, which is God
Himself.
53 We
know it is true that God will meet a desperate soul.
Now, we all know that. But it usually
takes something to drive us into that despair, to the desperation. It takes
something to do it.
54 We
find out in James
5:15 that the Bible said that "the
effectual, fervent" (that's
desperation) "effectual,
fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much". When a righteous man, a good man, gets in
travail, or soul travel, or travail,
either one... (I think "travel" is a better word. Travail or travel,
either which one you want to call it.) But when
the a soul gets in desperation in travailing, an effectual fervent prayer of a man that can show the Token, it does
something. See?
55 Notice
what the Bible said here also in James 16-5:16, said, "Confessing
our faults" (getting right, making ready for it)... "Confess our faults one to
another." Having no faults... ask people to pray for you, "confessing our faults one to
another and praying one for the other"... There you
are. With love that I got confidence, I can confess to you my wrong. You can
confess to me your wrong; I love you well enough that I will pray for you and
you pray for me; and will stay with it with an effectual, fervent prayer until it's answered.
That's desperation. That's what we should have all the time.
56 Let's
take some Scriptural examples of that, what happened, now for another, about
fifteen minutes, the Lord willing. Jacob,
he was a man. He was first a, kind of a carefree boy. He thought in his own
mind that he knew that the birthright meant everything to him, and he didn't
care how he had to get it, just so he got it. And after he got it, he thought everything was all right because
he had the birthright. He thought the thing was settled. He come up to his
brother when he was hungry, coming in from the field from working with the
cattle and hunting the deer. And his brother, he needed a big pot of pottage,
wild peas and things together. Might've been very tempting when a man's hungry
after walking all day. And his brother said, "I'm
just about ready to faint. Give me some of this."
And he said, "Well now, if you'll swear to me I'll get
the birthright." See? He didn't care
how he done it, just so he got it. And he thought when he got the
birthright that settled it.
Now, you might think what a skunk, if he were my
brother and was starving I would have fed him for nothing. But Jacob fought
with Esau for their birth right even in the womb, and still when they were coming
forth from the womb. Esau was the bigger and stronger of the two and he won out
by shear strength and pushed his way out of his mother's womb first, but Jacob
came out holding onto the heel of his brother.
So Jacob was
born with the desire for birthright because God made him that way. And he saw
the disdain his brother Esau had for the
things of the Lord, and he thought, "Esau could care less about the
birthright, and he thinks more about this life than the next one, so I'll put
him to the test. And Esau didn't think twice about selling out his birthright,
and God knew this, and permitted this to happen. And that is the doctrine of
Twins, And brother Branham said, "Every revival produces Twins".
In his
sermon, Blind Bartimaeus 61-0124 P:49 brother
Branham said, "Every revival produces twins. The two sons of Isaac is well represented. Every time
there's a revival, there's a Esau born and a Jacob born. One religious
man of the world gets starchy, and takes some seminary experience; and the
other one wants that birthright regardless of how he has to get it. If he
has to be a holy-roller, or anything else, he wants the birthright, I don't
care. That's what's the matter with the people today. They're afraid of that birthright.
Oh, how that they hate that. But it produces twins. The men of the
world, very religious inclined, do good alms and things, but cares nothing
about the birthright... Those two great factions has been fighting since
the world begin. And they're about ready to come to a head right now, where
something that Jesus said, "they'd be so
close alike they'd deceive the very elected if it was possible." It's true. You see what a deceiving hour that we're
living in. Stay with
the Word, brother. Don't leave that Word. That's right. The Word will speak for
Itself.
Now, back to Desperation
and we will pick up at paragraph 57 And we will see how brother Branham ties the Pentecostal's failure to
the same failure of Esau. "Pentecost, there's where you failed.
You thought because you were born of the Spirit, born of the Spirit of God, the
birthright, that settled it. But it only
starts it. You remember in the message of "Hear Ye Him,"
how that the child, after it was born in the family, become a son. It had rights to the birthright, but it had
to be proven, child-trained. And then, if it did not prove out to be an obedient
child to the father's will, then it must be... Well, it did not become heir. It heired nothing, yet it was a son. But he heired nothing, if he wasn't interested
in the father's work. And so, when the Holy Ghost fell upon the Pentecostal
people and begin to restore back the gifts and things that was in the church, they thought because they were born in the
Spirit, that settled it. But you
see, there's a placing of a son. And after
this son proved to be a real son, then he was taken in a public place, and then
was set up, and changed robes, and set up there, and then there was a placing
of the son that he had heir of everything the father had.
58 God did the same thing to His Son on Mount
Transfiguration. He was overshadowed by a cloud and was transfigured, and
His raiment shined like the sun, and a voice said, "This is My Beloved Son in whom
I'm well pleased. Moses and the law had failed, and this is Him. Hear ye Him."
He was placed. See?
Now, catch how brother Branham speaks of Jesus
being placed on Mount Transfiguration. That is when he received his adoption,
and his
being placed as a son. And what did he do next? He went right down
from that mountain and went straight to the job His Father had placed him on
earth for to do. And you know what that was? It was the job God had ordained for him to do even before the very
foundations of the world. To become the
bleeding dying lamb for the sins of the world. That was his placement in the
family.
In Ephesians 1:3-4
we see God calling us and ordaining us to the adoption or placing of sons even
before the foundations of the world were laid.
Ephesians 1:3 "Blessed be
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all
spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 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
His Presence): 5
In love Having predestinated us unto the adoption
of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his
will,
And at the
very same time, before the foundations of the world we are told according to Revelations 13:8
that God predestined the eldest son in a vast family of brothers to come forth
and take his role in the family as the bleeding dying Lamb. "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the
world."
Notice, "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." The same time God our Father was
ordaining the rest of His children to the adoption of sons. And he could not
have done this if He had not the Love of God in him constraining Him to do it.
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.
For the Bible
also tells us in John 15:13 Greater
love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Desperation 59
"Now, Jacob thought because that he had the birthright that everything was
made. So did the Pentecostal people, and they begin to organize the oneness,
three-ness, and trinitarians, and all kinds of organizations, and fussing and pulling at one another, proved
that the Token wasn't showing. Malice,
envy, strife... See? But that's where it got to. Now see, Jacob thought the same thing. But in
fear one night of his own life, desperation
took a-hold of him. When he thought that, "Just
across that river yonder, my brother's waiting to kill me. He's going to..."
See, the birthright that he'd gotten was the thing that was
going to cause his death. And sometimes that very thing that you
received as the Holy Spirit, and is, and are born again of the Spirit, if you
don't watch, that same thing will
condemn you at the end. That's right. The
very waters that saved Noah, condemned the world. The thing that you would
call fanaticism might be the very thing that condemns you at the end of the
road.
Oh how I wish
I could get that message across to my brothers who believe the doctrine. The
very thing that you received from God is the very thing that will undo you if
you have not The Life to go with it, and the love of Christ in your heart.
Revelations 3 tells us that the condition at
the end time is that Laodicea is miserable blind and naked, and yet she doesn't
know it because she is so blessed in riches and she is increased in goods.
In other words
the very blessings She received as a nation for honoring God and hearkening to
her voice becomes a curse to her, because the very God who blessed he "the Judge is standing
at the door and he is knocking trying to gain entry to her and she has forsaken
him." But she has what she wants and has no room for the
one who gave it to her.
Now, back to
brother Branham's sermon Desperation and we'll pick up at paragraph 60 "Now, Jacob
knew that his life was close at the end. He had a messenger come told him
that his brother with four hundred armed men was coming to meet him, knowed he
was on his road. Fear took a-hold of him.
He sent men on ahead with ox, and cattle, and sheep to make a peace offering
with Esau. Then after that, he started another group with another load of
stuff. Then he started another group with another load of stuff, trying to meet
him first, to try to turn his wrath. Then he got to thinking, "That won't
stop him, because he's probably richer than I am. He doesn't need it."
Then he took his wives and his little children and sent them across, that Esau
would see them little children and his wives. And surely all his own little
nieces and nephews, he would not slay them. Then he still, he couldn't do it. God knows how to get a man. Jacob
crossed the brook. There he got down on
his knees. You know, he'd been kind of a little shyster before that. Excuse
the expression, but kind of a little... He was a Jacob. "Jacob" means "a deceiver," and that's what he
was. But there's something had to happen
to him. There in desperation, there when death lay before him...
61 There
may be men and women setting here tonight that death lays right before you, and
the only way that you'll ever be able to achieve the thing that you're wanting
is to desperately come. "I must have it tonight. I get it now, or I'm
finished. Tomorrow's too late; I must have it now." When you pray for the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the Token, don't say, "Well, now I'll go up and try.
Lord, I'm a little tired." Oh mercy, stay in your seat. Don't even, don't
even make an attempt. If you come say, "I'll pass through the prayer line.
Put the oil on my head; I'll see if it does me any good." Might as well set where you're at until you
get to that place. Until the whole church gets to a place that it's between
death and life, you've got to have it now or perish, then God will
move on the scene. It takes desperation
to bring God on the scene.
Exodus 17:8 Then
came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim. Niow, Israel
didn't go looking for a battle, no more than the Elect of God go out looking to
do battle, but the battle came to them.
9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with
Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God
in mine hand. 10 So
Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up
to the top of the hill. 11 And it came to pass,
when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his
hand, Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses' hands were
heavy; and they took a stone, and put it
under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the
one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek
and his people with the edge of the sword. 14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and
rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly
put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. 15 And
Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi: 16 For he said, Because the
LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to
generation.
Notice we see
here that when Moses was praying to God with his hands stretched out in the
form of the cross of Christ we see he kept praying but when he began to grow weary
and dropped his hands, Amelek began to have victory. So we see Aaron the high
priest along with another brother named Hur, who was of the tribe of Judah went
over to him to help Him in his desperation, because they were in battle, and as
long as Moses held His hands out in the sign of the cross Israel was victorious
in battle, but when he grew weary and tired and dropped his arms, then the
enemy had victory. And when we grow weary of the Cross, and our cross, that is
when the enemy gains a victory over us.
Now, back to
brother Branham's sermon Desperation and we will continue reading
at paragraph 62 "Jacob
cried like never before. Desperately he
called until he got ahold of God; and when he did, he wrestled not for fifteen minutes. He wrestled to
keep Him in his soul all night long, and still he knew he didn't have the
blessing; and he was able to hold on until the blessing come. He wrestled desperately until the blessing come.
Then... And when he seen... Until God
came on the scene, and then in despair, "I'll not let You go,"
when he begin to feel the blessing coming down on him... A lot of people say,
"Glory to God, I got it now." There,
you're deceived. Yeah. Somebody say, "Oh, I just feel so good, Brother
Branham; I went down there and prayed. Oh, shivers run over me and I..."
That might've been God. "I saw a great light before me." That still
might've been God, but that ain't what
I'm talking about.
63
The Bible said, Hebrews the 6th chapter,
"The
rain falleth on the just and the unjust,"
just the same. Now, you take wheat and
take weeds and put them in the field. And the rain is actually sent for the
wheat, but the rain falls on the weeds
the same as it does the wheat. And the rain... And the weeds is just as happy about the rain as the wheat is, and it's
the very same rain. The very Holy Ghost can fall
upon an unbeliever and make him act just exactly the same way a believer acts,
but by their fruits they are known. That's what I'm speaking of;
that's the Token.
64
And Jacob, in desperation he said, "I know, I feeled You; You're here with me, but I'm not going to let
You go." Somebody sees it fine, the first little sensation, get up
and jump up-and-down, and run up the aisle, and say, "I got It, I got It,
I got It." Oh, no, huh-uh, no. Jacob
stayed there until something happened that made him walk different, made him a different person, because that
he stayed until that happened, and he was able... The Bible said he held
until he prevailed. How can a man prevail over God? But you can do it. You can
do it. A man can prevail over God.
65 One
time there was a man named Hezekiah,
had been told by the prophet, "THUS SAID THE LORD, you're going to die."
Hezekiah turned his face to the wall,
and in desperation he wept out, "Lord, consider me. I've walked before
You with a perfect heart, and I need fifteen more years." After God had
told him that something was going to happen; he was going to die. And in desperation he changed the program of
God. Desperations, he wept bitterly in desperation.
And Job in desperation applied the token without fail
every single day for his kids, not knowing what sin they might be getting into.
But Job was desperate, and he had a promise from God that all his offspring
would be with him. And he applied that Token every single day without fail,
without weariness, without giving up, and God honored His desperation, and God
gave Him his children back because God had kept them for Job in Heaven.
Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose
name was Job; and that man was perfect and
upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. 2 And
there were born unto him seven sons and
three daughters. 3 His
substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five
hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household;
so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east. 4 And his sons went and feasted in their houses, (Notice they
were no longer living under Job's roof, but under their own) every one his day; and sent and called for their three
sisters to eat and to drink with them. 5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone
about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the
number of them all: for Job said, "It may be that my
sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts".
Thus did Job continually.
Unpardonable sin 54-1024 P:5 "This
morning we turned over into Job, mentally speaking, found Job living under the
days of the offering, and the burnt offering. And he thought maybe that
because that his children might have sinned some way, that they didn't
understand that they had sinned, Job made a burnt offering for his children, to be sure.
I like that. Don't you? Interest in your children... Making a burnt
offering, offering up a prayer under the sacrifice of a sheep's death, that his children
would not be lost if they had sinned, that God would forgive them of
their sins...Then we take on through Job and find out, in the end, how it
paid off. God, after Job had went through his time of chastisement and trials,
at the end it paid off. Job never lost any of his children. He was
restored all of his sheep, all of his cattle, all of his ox, all of his camels,
double. And then God restored or gave him his children. They were all
dead to the earth, but they were waiting in glory for him to come, none of them
lost. See? God gave Job his daughters and his sons. What it means to
live and walk in the Light that you have to walk in, living up to all the rules
that dispensationly rule.
Condolences to Stadsklev
family 60-0924 P:5 "Every one that
cometh to God must be chastened and tried." And Job, in all of his
suffering, and in his troubles and temptations lost all of his children,
and all of his wealth, and everything. He said, "The Lord gave;
the Lord taken away. Blessed be the Name of the Lord." God
straightened everything up for him. Did you ever think there, Brother, Sister
Stadsklev, he said, "And He restored to him his children." After He
restored the camels, and the sheep and everything, and He restored his
children. Do you ever think of where those children were? They were in glory waiting for
him. Remember he'd made a sacrifice, and had for his children,
"peradventure they might have sinned," he said.
Thy house 61-0808 P:29 "Job,
You don't want to confess it (See?), because you're a secret sinner. You're
doing it secretly, and God's punishing you for it, so that's the reason that
things are going for you the way they are." But he said, "No, sir. I am
not a sinner." Because he was standing pat upon that
righteousness of God, that burnt sacrifice. He'd offered it. That's all he
had to offer. That's all God required. And did you notice, after the
Spirit of God had come on the prophet and everything got all right (You see?), God
restored back to Job what? He restored back to him his... Where he had ten
thousand cattle, He give him twenty thousand cattle. Where he had
forty-thousand sheep, He give him eighty-thousand sheep. See? And He restored
everything back to him that he ever had. And you notice, it said, "And He restored his seven children." See?
He gave Job his seven children. Not, didn't give him seven other children, but
He gave Job his seven children. Now, what was it? His house, "Thy
and thy house." Because he was righteous, because he was standing
on everything that God gave us to be righteous--or gave him, was to offer that
burnt offering. And he knowed that that was God's Word, and it could not
fail. So, did you ever think where them children was? They was in heaven
waiting for him. See? He's with them today. And God saved Job's
children. They were in heaven waiting for him. See?
Faith 61-0813 P:9 Did you notice,
after the days of his tragedy, when God begin to restore to him again, where he
had ten thousand cattle and so forth, He restored double: and doubled his
sheep, and doubled everything. But did you notice... And God also gave Job
his seven children. Did you ever think where they were at? That burnt
offering stood for them. They were saved in glory waiting for him to
come. He's with them today."Thou and thy house shall be saved!" See? Now, Job had had one
thing to do to be righteous, was to offer the burnt offering. You have
one thing to do to be righteous; that's have faith in God. For by faith are you saved; by faith are
you healed; by faith you get every thing that you have. See? It's by faith, that you
believe it. Now,
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou and thy house shall be saved!
Approach to God 55-0123A P:44
He
had ten thousand head of cattle, he had twenty. He had ten thousand head of
sheep, he had twenty. If he had thirty thousand head of a goats, why, he had
sixty: God doubling to him. And then again, I believe he had seven children.
And God restored his seven children. Did you ever notice? He never
doubled his children, He just restored his children to him. Amen. Why?
How did He do it? Through
the approach, the burnt sacrifice. That's right. Yes, sir. They
were all in glory, waiting for him to come. God restored Job his
children after they were dead. He never restored back, making him fourteen
children. He restored his animals and so forth back, but he restored to him. Because
why? He become God's provided way of approach through the burnt offering.
That's the approach.
Way to have fellowship
55-1009 P:47 And notice, God restored to him all that he lost; it
doubled. He doubled his sheep; He double the camels. But you notice, He just
give him seven children, just what he had. What children was that? It
was the same children he'd lost. They were under the Blood. They were in glory waiting for
him. That's the way to have our children, isn't it. That's
right. Give him back his children, sure, he's with them, tonight and will be
forever more.
Acts 16:25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and
sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. 26 And
suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison
were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands
were loosed. 27 And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the
prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself,
supposing that the prisoners had been fled. 28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are
all here. 29 Then
he called for a light, and sprang in, and came
trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, 30 And brought them out, and
said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" 31 And they said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house". 32 And
they spake unto him the word of the
Lord, and to all that were in his house. 33 And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. 34 And
when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced,
believing in God with all his house.
Questions and answers COD
64-0823M P:100 Remember the Philippian jailer. Believe for both you... If
you've got enough faith for your own salvation, can't you have that same faith
that'll work upon your people? What is faith? It's an unseen force.
See? What is, it's a Spirit. The Holy Spirit brings faith.
See? It's a unseen force.
Faith 61-0813 P:7 The Philippian jailer, being a
centurion (which to lose his, his prisoners was to be... His own life would
have to pay for the prisoner's.), he pulled his sword and was going to commit suicide,
when Paul run forth and said, "Do yourself no harm; we're all here!"And this
centurion had some impressions they'd had about Paul and them. They might have
sung hymns; they might have testified or done something. But whatever it
was, they knowed that they were holy men. They knowed there was
something different about those men, because quickly he asked, "What must I do
to be saved? What must I do to be saved?" Now, Paul said, "Believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ, and thou and thy house shall be saved."
One of the meanest men in
town 61-0429B P:26 When the Roman was converted, Paul... The Philippian
jailer, down at Philippi, he said, "What can I do to be saved?" Most of us would tell him what not
to do: quit drinking, quit stealing, quit lying, quit smoking. But that wasn't
his question. "What
must I do?" Paul said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou
and thy house shall be saved." Say, "When a man gets saved, does that
save his house?" No.
But if he's got enough faith to get saved himself, he's got enough faith
that his house will be saved also, the same faith that saved him.
Now in closing
let's read from brother Branham's sermon Desperation paragraph 66 "Jacob
stayed there until the blessing came and changed his name from "a
deceiver" to "a prince with God." Even the nation was
called by his name. Yes, sir. What was it? The results was because he got
desperate about the thing. And the next day when he met Esau, he didn't
need any guards. He walked right out and met him. See? Why? He had got in
desperation till he got the assurance. And you get desperate until you get the assurance.
If you don't, don't even come to be prayed for. Don't even come to go at the
altar. Wait till it's between life and death to you, then something will
happen. Certainly. Desperation.
Let's pray...