Faith
no 34
Hyrbid
Faith
September 17,
2017
Brian
Kocourek, Pastor
This morning I would like to address a
subject I've entitled "Hybrid Faith", and I want to
show you that hybrid Faith can produce only one thing and that is death.
From
his sermon Condemnation by representation 60-1113 P:41 brother Branham said, "As I've often said, "If eating
apples caused women to realize they were naked, they had better pass the apples
again," because it's time. I don't say that to be rude, but I'm saying it
to make a point, that it's the truth. It wasn't apples. Let's not get
that ridiculous about it. It wasn't no apple tree; but let's take it on
another tree so we can bring it out and fulfill our text. Let's take it a
tree of faith, that Eve taken of this forbidden tree of unbelief.
Then we can make the text come out. It was faith. She disbelieved God's Word.
God said a certain,
certain thing will happen. She ought to have let it alone.
She ought to have
believed it the way God said it. But no, Satan come along
with his theology;
and she mixed it and gave it to Adam, and it caused a hybrid faith. That's what the church has got
today (so-called church), a hybrid faith. It's mixed with fears,
doubts, flusterations; if it was genuine faith, it wouldn't move.
When God said anything it would be that way. But see, she mixed it,
took what God said and what Satan said, and churned it
together, and said, "Here it is."
42 That's the way many people do today. See, they take what the Bible
says and what man says: makes a hybrid faith. And when they do, they bring it back...
Oh, it makes a beautiful church. Sure, but there's no Life in it: dead.
A hybrid faith: "Oh, I do believe that God was, yes;
but now He's not a healer today." That's hybrid faith. "I believe
that He gave the Holy Ghost to the Pentecostals back there on the day of
Pentecost, but that's not for us today." A hybrid faith, condemned
by God, hybrid, no good.
Stay away from it. It's
evil. It brings in doubts, "Maybe I'll go up and
get healed. Maybe
the Lord will heal me." That's hybrid faith. It's no good.
That's church faith. We want God's faith. God said something, and that's
the Truth; stay with it. Amen. Oh, I
wish my words was wrote with a iron pen. Stay with what God said; it's the truth.
43 Hybrid faith. It'll read Hebrews
13:
it say, "Jesus
Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever." Hebrews... And then the hybrid faith comes
in: "Well,
in a certain way, He's
the same yesterday, today and forever; but He's not... He can't heal today,
'cause that's out of His program." But genuine faith will say He is the same. It's not hybrid. It's
not... It's not all churched up with theology of man, not mule religion:
man's word and God's Word mixed together.
Notice brother
Branham in this sermon is showing us two very important things here.
1) When
you mix God's Word with man's word you hybridize your faith right there.
2) The
moment your faith becomes hybrid it dies.
And so we see
that the church by organizing on man's ideas about God's Word instead of taking
God's Word for what he said, they died and could not reproduce that Life back
into the church again.
Again from his
sermon Condemnation by representation 60-1113 P:69 brother
Branham said, "So when they see the inspirator" (Just
a note: but this word "inspirator" that brother Branham uses
here is not in the English dictionary, but what he is using this word for is
"the source of inspiration". So brother Branham is speaking of the
source of inspiration concerning Eve, which was the devil himself.) So when they see the
inspirator of his wife, Eve, when he come to meet Jesus, it said, "Oh,
yes, it is written that he'll give the Angels
charge over thee lest anytime they dash thy foot against a stone, they bear it
up.""Yes," He said, "And
it's also written." Oh, He couldn't
cross Him up. He was God made flesh. He was my Saviour, my God. He
couldn't cross Him up. What did He do then? He embraced the cross. And on the
cross He died for me, and for you, and for the world, that He might restore
back again to God, what? Sons and daughters, like in the garden of Eden before they got crossed up in theology.
Oh God, if people could only see that, if I could only pound that into the
people. Jesus died
that He might take people away from this hybrid church stuff,
that He might bring your minds and faith away from what man has said,
back to what God said, not a hybrid faith: "Well, maybe the days of
miracles is past. Maybe that won't happen."Oh, brother, God said it happens, and that
settles it. That's for always. God said so.
Again we see
that brother Branham's ministry was to restore the children to the Faith of the
Fathers as we see in Malachi chapter 4.
Malachi 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: 6 And
he shall turn the heart (understanding) of the fathers to
the children, and the heart (understanding) of the children to
their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
In his sermon Proving His word 65-0426 P:43 brother Branham
reads from Malachi 4 claims it. "Behold, I will send to you Elijah in the last day (That's right.) and He
will restore the faith of the children back to the fathers again (See?), the faith of the
fathers to the children also." See,
it's got to be.
And again in
his sermon Super sign 63-1129 P:66 he
says, "We're
promised in the last days, according to Malachi
4, that someone would raise up in the last
days that would try to bring back, and shake back all the coldness and all
their traditions, and things, "and
restore the Faith of the people back to the apostolic fathers again, to the
original Word."
So we're
talking about a restoration of the apostolic faith which is the Faith in the
original Word of God. And if there is to be a restoration, then there had to be
a deviation from the Faith of the Fathers in order for that original Faith in
the Word of God to be restored again in the children. And along with that
restoration of The Faith of Christ will come an impartation of life, an
infusion of Life, a true revival of life back in the church again.
In his sermon Trying to do God a service 65-0718M P:72 brother
Branham quotes the prophet Joel as telling us that God himself will restore the
original Faith that had been hybrid down through the ages by organizations of man
who influenced the church away from the Original Faith of the first church.
"Now, let's
look at the vision we have today. Is it building churches? Is it new things? Is
it great things that's going to happen, or is it judgment? Look back and see
the promise of today, see what season we're living in. You say,
"Well, bless God, brother, I'm sincere. I join church. I got my bachelors
of art. I done this." That's all right. That's fine; nothing against it.
So had David; so had the priests of that day; so had the theologians;
but it was contrary to the Word. God said how He would do it
today, how He would restore all things, what He would do again. He
promised to restore. That's exactly right. In Joel 2:28 He promised He would restore: "I will restore, saith the Lord, all the years that the
cankerworm's eat." They got a... See, that's
the same worm. It's in a different stage of life. And when
Catholicism started eating, then Lutheran, Methodists, and Pentecostals, and
all down, He said, "I will
restore everything back to a church exactly like that one was at the first
place."
And in his
sermon Proving His Word 64-0816 P:120 brother
Branham quotes Scripture saying, "And in the last days, it shall come to pass, before the great
and terrible day of the Lord shall come, that I will send to you... Before that
great and terrible day of the Lord shall come, I will send to you Elijah the
prophet, and he will restore the faith of the children back to the fathers." And watch, the faith of the fathers to the
children, the Jews. See? Their promise of the Scripture, the
Gentiles and where they had fell from. Look at that dual just as
perfectly, exactly. And here we see it, God proving His Word.
So we see
during the seven church ages the church had fallen from the original Faith and
God by mixing the Word of God with the thoughts of men who formed organized
religions, and God said I will restore that faith at the end time by sending the Spirit
of Elijah back to the church.
In another
place in his sermon, Condemnation by representation
60-1113 P:85 brother Branham prophetically pointed out what he was
seeing in his day in seed form that which we are dealing with today in the
fully manifested form everywhere. Notice he tells us the results of what hybrid
faith produces..., "Hybrid, they don't even know whether they're man or woman. That's right. You
can hardly tell what sex they belong to by looking at them and listening to
them. That's true, friends. I'm not saying that about you
Christian women. My voice is going around to many nations. But it's a hybrid. This
America has become condemned. And what did she do, according to the vision?
She elected the wrong person. I don't know how long it'll take it to run out,
but it will be someday.
THUS SAITH THE LORD. It will. She's on her downward move right now. She'll never come back again.
She's gone.
That's right. She's
been gone since 1956 when she condemned and turned away God from
the great revival hours.
Oh, my, there is
no way they can make America Great Again. It will never happen. You could put
an Abraham Lincoln in every county across America, and a Donald Trump to push
the agenda and it will never get done because just look at the generation of
the Millennials. They're lost. Now, I'm not talking about that 1 in a million
who have the Holy Ghost. I'm talking about the children of the Baby Boomer
generation. If 80% of the baby boomer generation were mentally deficient back
then, what about their children? They don't even know if they are male or
female, and if you don't know if you are male of female then you can't even reproduce.
And God help us if they could? Because
what would they give birth to?
Brother
Branham said in his sermon One in a million 65-0424
P:23 "just eight
months before going home to be with the Lord, "And Brother Shakarian now just made a real
statement just now about what he thought about these days that we're living in.
I truly believe that with all my heart, that we're living just at the
closing time, just in the evening shadows. The sun is far advanced. And
when we see things taking place the way they are today, why, it's
hard telling what another generation would bring. A few days ago...Just
let me give you a little inside something. They made an analysis throughout
Arizona, where I live; of all the schools. They gave the children, unknowingly
to them, a mental test. And guess what? Including high schools and grammar
schools, there was eighty percent of the children suffering with mental
deficiency. Seventy percent of them was television watchers.
See, the evils has just slipped up on us and we don't... You wonder why
it comes. You can hear the Voice of God screaming out against it, and yet here
we find ourself webbed
into it.
Oh, my I think
he just spoke prophetically, because he said we are just webbed into it, and he said it's
causing a breakdown of the mind, insanity. Notice, back then by
television they were "Webbed into it,"
and today we have a "world wide
web" doing the same thing. Today they are www "webbed into it" just as he
predicted here. And you know that people are actually addicted to the web and
everything that television had is on the web and even more and what kind of
mental delusion is it causing this generation. Well, if in his day he started
seeing in seed form boys and girls who did not know what gender they were what
would he say about this generation who ha 72 genders they are choosing from.
Why even the head of the John's Hopkins Psychiatric unit said that
transgenderism is a mental condition. I read his article a year or more ago to you.
(CNSNews.com) -- Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current
Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, said that transgenderism is a
“mental disorder” that merits treatment, that sex change is “biologically
impossible,” and that people who promote sexual reassignment surgery are
collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder.
Dr. McHugh, the
author of six books and at least 125 peer-reviewed medical articles, made his
remarks in a recent commentary in the Wall Street Journal, where he
explained that transgender surgery is not the solution for people who suffer a
“disorder of ‘assumption’” – the notion that
their maleness or femaleness is different than what nature assigned to them
biologically.
He
also reported on a new study showing that the suicide rate among transgendered
people who had reassignment surgery is 20 times higher than the suicide rate
among non-transgender people. Dr. McHugh further noted studies from Vanderbilt
University and London’s Portman Clinic of children who had expressed
transgender feelings but for whom, over time, 70%-80% “spontaneously lost those
feelings.”
While
the Obama administration, Hollywood, and major media such as Timemagazine promote transgenderism
as normal, said Dr. McHugh, these “policy makers and the media are doing no
favors either to the public or the transgendered by treating their confusions
as a right in need of defending rather than as a mental disorder that deserves
understanding, treatment and prevention.”
“This intensely felt
sense of being transgendered constitutes a mental disorder in two respects. The
first is that the idea of sex misalignment is simply mistaken – it does not correspond with physical
reality. The second is that it can
lead to grim psychological outcomes.”
You watch
these people who are webbed in
as brother Branham put it, and they are walking around in a dual reality.
Walking like zombies down the street or in the malls, webbed into the web on
their cell phones. And you see them even texting to their friends who are even
in the same room. Driving down the road while their eyes are glued to the web
on their phones.
Brother
Branham said in his sermon God's provided place of
worship 65-0425 P:77 Look at this teenage insane. Why, we had a, I told you the other day, they was taking an
analysis there of the schools in Arizona where I live, and eighty percent
of the children in school is mentally retarded. What will their children be?
We can't have
another generation. We're at the end. Jesus said these things
would come. Look at all the televisions and things getting these
fictitious things in order. It'll come a time, I predict, that
people will be completely totally insane; the world will be. The Bible
speaks of such hideous sights as they show in movies today of some prehistoric
creature's age, that's lived in the earth for so many thousands and millions of
years, hatch and come forth to some... That's just a minor thing to
what's going to happen. When hell is opened and the Devil comes out with
all of his mysterious things, of women, or locusts with hair like
women, and teeth like lions. Why, the world will be completely, totally
insane. It's not but just about one degree from it now.
Notice brother Branham says, When hell is opened and
the Devil comes out with all of his mysterious things,...Why, the world will be completely, totally insane. And
there are a lot of people that believe CERN will open a trans-dimensional
portal that will open the gates to hell before the end comes. And what has caused all this
insanity? Hybrid Faith, Hybrid religion. Man eating from the
tree of knowledge that Eve ate from, bring death and destruction into the
world. That is what has caused all this transgenderism and sodomite condition
is hybrid faith from a hybrid Gospel.
From his
sermon It wasn't so from the beginning 60-1127M
P:35 brother Branham said "Then people today are as past, they hybrid the church to organizations to creeds
and mix up people's minds, and then they say, "Where is
God? Where is the God of the Old Testament? Where is the Lord Jesus that
promised these things?"
Notice they mix up the people minds,
"their minds are placed into a blender of "hybrid theology" as
brother Branham calls it in his sermon Greater than
Solomon is here 61-0412 P:71.
Hybrid theology, which takes God's Word
and mixes it with man's ideas, and produces confusion in the minds of the
people and ultimately death.
In his sermon Leadership 65-1207 P:119 brother Branham warns us again of the mental confusion leading to a total
and complete insanity because of this hybrid Faith which has produced nothing
but confusion and destruction. Notice his words. "O God, let me go, Lord. Don't leave me behind,
Jesus. Let me go with You, Father. I don't want to stay here on this earth to
watch these tribulations coming on. I don't want to stay here in this insanity.
I don't want to stand here when hideous sights, the people losing their
mind. We look at men trying to act like beasts and look
like beasts; and the women trying to look like animals,
with the paints on their face. Knowing that these things are
predicted to happen, that the thing will, they'll go so insane till locusts
will rise up with hair like women to haunt the women, and teeth like lions,
and things that You've said; the mental condition of the people will be completely gone.
We see it in the making right now, Lord. Help us. Restore
us to the sane mind of Christ Jesus our Lord. O great Leader of Eternal
Life, we accept Your promise tonight, Father. I plead for this people. I plead
for every one of them, in the Name of Jesus Christ, Lord. I pray that Christ
the Son of God will come into the hearts of every one of us, Lord, and mold us
and make us into new creatures in Jesus Christ. Grant it, Lord God. We love
You. And we want our dispositions--our change to come into us, that we can be
Your children, feel of Your Spirit moving in our hearts, Lord, tendering us and
bringing us to realization of this insane age that we're living in. Grant it,
God. When we see young women so caught up in the web of the Devil,
young men, perverted minds, children, dope addicts, cigarette smoking,
drinking, immoral, Satan's Eden.
God, it taken You six thousand years,
according to the Bible, to build an Eden. And You put Your son and his wife in
there (his bride) to rule over it. And Satan come around and perverted it;
he's got six thousand years, and he's built his own intellectual Eden through
science, and education, and so-called intelligence, and he's built it into a
mess of death. O God, take us back to Eden again, Lord, where there's no death,
where there's no sorrow. Grant it, Lord. We stand humbly, waiting for the
Second Adam to come for His Bride. Make us part of Him, Father. We pray
in Jesus' Name. Amen.
And from his
sermon Calling Jesus on the scene 64-0319 P:25 Brother Branham said, "And now, hybreeding's got into the church
too. Instead of having a real rugged bunch of Bible believers, they've hybrid it by
denomination. And they have to... "I got this, and I got that.
And I belong to this, and I belong to that." It's hybrid. And
the thing can't produce itself again. We need a Book of Acts again. But the only way you'll do
it, is get back to the Bible, and away from some of this hybrid
religion. Hybreeding,
have to be babied, no
faith, just a bunch of powder puffs, just sissified, babied
into it. I say, "Are you a Christian?""I'm
Methodist.""Are you a Christian?""I'm
Presbyterian.""I'm Pentecostal."That don't mean that [Brother
Branham snaps his finger--Ed.] to God. You're a Christian because you're born in the Spirit of
Christ, and the Word of God lives in you.
And from Perseverance 62-0520 P:51 he said, "Jesus said,
"No man can come to Me, except My Father
draws him. And all the Father has given Me will come."You don't have to baby, and pet them, and promise
they're going to have a fleet of Cadillacs if they'll receive the Holy Ghost.
And they're business is going to prosper, and they're going to have
bigger churches, and higher steeples, and better educated
preachers, and... Oh, nonsense. Get away from it. Faith that holds the Word of God
yields the power of God. Right. Then you're persistent."Why,
I ain't got no fleet of Cadillacs yet, and I been over here with you all a
year. All I got's a lot of persecution." Oh, you
hybrid donkey, don't even know what papa and mama is. That's the way it
is though. My, my. Yeah.
From his
sermon It
wasn't so from the beginning 60-1127M P:25 he said, "The revival
that come forth in the days of Luther, it cannot reproduce itself, because
they hybrid it.
The days of Wesley, they cannot reproduce it. Tell me one of them ever
raised when they fell. When
they hybrid the church, it goes right back again. It's done. It can't
reproduce itself. It can bring members in, make an organization,
but it can't reproduce itself again. What we want is something to
reproduce, to
bring sons and daughters to God. You can't do it from a seminary. It's got to
come from the Holy Ghost above like a rushing mighty wind, like it did at the
beginning. Hybrid
religion perverting things, changing things, men perverting, and when Jesus come in
His days, He said, "In vain do you
worship Me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of man." What have they did? They've taken the commandments of God and hybrid
it to their own ideas, and have brought it back, and it said,
"Thou shalt not and thou shalt this and so forth," but they with their traditions makes the commandments of God
of non effect
because they had hybrid it.
Now, in his
sermon Harvest time 64-1212 P:44 brother
Branham points out that when you hybridize
anything you take the life out of it. "Now, this grain must be a good grain. It must be free from
fault, failures, and so forth, in it. It must be a thoroughbred grain. It
can't be a hybrid grain, because when it comes up, you plant it again, and
your wheat is done, because a hybrid grain won't grow again. It can't grow
again. You
take the life out of it when you hybreed it. And that's
what's happened to the churches. They've been hybrid to the world, and
that's the reason that each revival coming on, and you can't have another
revival behind it. Every
organization that ever organized, dies on the spot and never raises again,
because it organizes the world into its systems; therefore, it never did. There is no history ever shows
that any church that ever organized ever raised again. She died there. Why? You
hybrid it.
And again in
his sermon Abraham's covenant confirmed 61-0210
P:43 br. Branham points out that anything that is hyrbid is polluted
and dead because it can not produce life. Anything
that's hybrid is polluted. And religion that's hybrid from this Bible into organization or
denomination or church creeds, is hybrid. Now, look, a hybrid
produces a more beautiful art, more beautiful product. You take wheat... We got
corn, hybrid corn, some of the best corn we ever had, but it's no good. You
take that hybrid corn and plant it back; it can't reproduce itself again. The best
worker they got is a mule. It's mother was -a mare horse; it's father was a
little jenny, or little jack. And that mule cannot raise another mule; it
cannot breed itself back again. And what we got today is a bunch of mule
hybrid religion. Just exactly. Bred from Methodist to Baptist and the
Pentecostal and Presbyterian creeds and denominations till we got nothing.
Laodicean church age 60-1211E
P:91 As soon as the church goes into a denomination, it's dead. It never rises again.
What is it? It's
hybrid. Martin Luther was all right, but when he organized, what
did he do? Methodist was all right, when he organized, what did he do?
Pentecost was all right, but when you organized it, what did you do? You hybrid it and bred it into the
Nicolaitane Catholic church. Exactly what you done. Took up her
form of baptism took up her ways and actions, and the Bible said, "You are
a daughter to a whore, a harlot: a daughter of harlot." Exactly right.
Now, back to
br. Branham's sermon, Condemnation by representation 60-1113 P:33 he
said, "Can't
cross itself back... When the grain was first planted; the second place they
come in, then hybrid
it. And the first thing you know, it can't never come back. I
ask any scholar to go with me through history. Any church that ever left its original foundation
has never been able to come up again. When God sent Luther, and
he had a revival, he swept the world; but he organized it and hybrid it with the world,
like the Catholic church. And when he did, what did he do? He produced a bunch of
renegades, hybrid: and he never has rose and never will rise.
Along come John Wesley and done the same thing with the revival. As soon as
him, and Asbury, and the old founders died, they organized it and
made the Wesleyan Methodist church; and they never raised, and they never will
raise no more.
From Christ is the mystery 63-0728 P:172 brother
Branham said, "Get the revelation, brother. This generation's spurning
God's revelation. See? False prophets are doing that. By their fruits you shall know them. They're
hybrid. They're
bred into an organization instead of the Word of God, the
revelation of God revealing Himself through Christ, Who is the Word."
Perseverance 62-0608 P:46 She wasn't a
hotbed plant, to have to be babied. No, no. No, no. She wasn't a hotbed plant,
had to be babied. She wasn't a modern hybrid, so-called believer of the
crop today. She had a hold of something. Not, "Well, I'm Methodist, and I
don't have to take that." "Bless God, I belong to the
Assemblies. I belong to the Church of God. I don't have to take that." No,
no. That's a hybrid type. You're bred into some organization. But
a real true, thoroughbred Christians is born of the Word of God and holds
on, no matter what takes place.
The law of
Life in Genesis 1:11 tells us "every seed must bring
forth after it's Kind," but if you mix it, if you hybrid
it to another seed with a different nature, then it won't bring forth again of
its kind because it is no more it's kind..., it can't bring forth after its
kind, because it's a seed of life mixed with death.
And don't
think men will not have to answer for hybridizing the Word of God. From his
sermon Spoken word original seed 62-0318M P:60 br.
Branham said, "To mix it brings forth a hybrid crop; and a hybrid crop is a dead crop--far as
rebreeding. It won't rebreed itself; it can't, 'cause God said so. It has to bring forth of its kind, and you've mixed it. Now, you
can see the church right there, where we're going to wind up. It dies there,
for it
cannot bring forth of its kind. Why? It's
mixed. You can't do nothing with it. It's dead; it's finished. All
right. That's why each generation has its own revival, a chance at the
Word. Oh, the sovereign God at the judgment... John
Wesley's group will raise up, and these "starched-washed" Methodists
of today will answer for it. Luther will raise up. The Catholics
will raise up. And back behind Irenaeus, Martin, Polycarp, and those, and will have to stand the judgment
for hybreeding the Word of God to dogmas. This group of Lutherans that
followed Lutherans' revival will answer the same thing. The group of
Baptists that followed John Smith's revival will do the same thing.
Alexander Campbell's will do the same thing. And the Pentecostals will
do the same thing. That original revival, when the Holy Ghost fell,
called out a people, and God trying to get His Word to it, and they organized it,
and set over here, and denominated, and died right there.
In his sermon Masterpiece
pp 136 brother Branham said,
when "But what denominated,
dies. Notice that he said, “As soon as it begin to denominate, right there
it died.” And so we see that
denomination which is hybridizing the Word of God with man's ideas of that Word
shows that the Life has gone out, because to denominate means to set a specific
value on that thing. When we talk in terms of currency we say what denomination
of bills do you have?
The word denomination according to our
dictionary has several meanings but they all speak of one central theme. While
I read the definitions, I want you to think in terms of what theme carries throughout
these definitions. 1. A
large group of religious congregations united under a common faith and name and organized under a single administrative and legal hierarchy. 2. One of a series of kinds, values, or
sizes, as in a system of currency or weights:
Notice that each example of denomination speaks
of an assessed value, size, or kind. So you see when we think in terms of
denomination we must think in terms of what value or assessment is associated
with the denomination we speak of. And it does not matter what they
hold to, for a vindicated prophet told us when they denominate
they die right there.
So you see that to denominate means certain
death to the church. And what does that mean? It means that the Life has left it and
they are now holding to a value that they have assigned. In other words
if the word they preached and emphasized was a certain, certain thing, then if
God brings further light upon that certain thing, or even upon another thing,
and the people see that other thing doesn't hold the same value to them as the
thing they already had, then they turn it aside and right there they have
denominated. And right there God can no longer help them because they have
turned down further light from His word.
From His sermon called Seed not heir with shuck 65-0218 P:65 Brother Branham was talking about how that
Sarah tried to make the promise happen by giving her concubine to Abraham,
thinking that would fulfill the promise that God had made to Abraham. And that
is how carnal believers always think. They do not trust for God to work out His
Promises, because they really do not trust His Word. So they try to work them
out for themselves and in doing so they always miss the promise.
That is what Brother Branham was saying in this
sermon, Seed not heir with shuck
65-0218 P:65 How true it is, Sarah trying to get the promises
all fulfilled (You see?), in a great, like the church today, a great revival in
our time by what? By a perverted promise. How are you going to do it when God never did bless organizations. He never did use an organization. When a message went forth, and
they organized, it died right there. I challenge any historian
to show me where it ever raised again. It died right there and stayed right there. God
just moved right on out of that carrier into another one, right on out of
the Lutheran into the Methodist, right on out of the Methodist into the
Pentecostals. Now, He's moved right on out of the Pentecostals into the
Seed, because it has to be the Seed. You
can't beat nature. There's no nothing else there for it to happen but
the Seed. So the Seed will produce
Itself, He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, the
same Pillar of Fire, showing the same signs, the same power, the same God, the
same miracles, the same things. Vindicated the Word and the Bible just
exactly, He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He's leading tonight. God help us to see it and
believe it. Sure.
Again from his message Jehovah Jireh 61-0209 P:48 He said, What happened to Luther
as soon as Luther saw the Pillar of Fire? Why, he followed It. But
what did he do? After Luther's day, they organized a church called
Lutheran. Then
it died right there on the organization, 'cause it's just like
the Catholic church. Then, the first thing you know, along come Wesley. The
Pillar of Fire moved right out of the organization and went on. Wesley saw
it, and away he went after it. And as soon as the first round died
out, they organized it, called it the Wesleyan Methodist, or the
Methodist church. When
they organized it, it died right there. Then the
Pentecostal seen it, going out, not from justification, under Luther, and
sanctification under Wesley, but they saw the baptism of the Holy Ghost, back
to the original blessing. Here they went after it (Oh, my.), went out and begin
to speak with tongues and the power of God working through them. But what did
they do? Organized it. It died right there. But now the Pillar of Fire
is moving out. It's
moving again. It'll never... 49 Never one time did an organization ever
rise up that didn't die and never come back again. I challenge any
historian.
And so you see, the minute men begin to talk of
organizing the Message or even the Doctrine of Christ, or the minute they try
to take over a man’s ministry whether to protect it or for whatever motive they
have, right there they die and if
that ministry allows it, then that ministry dies along with them. And
the Pillar of Fire will move right on. And those who gravitate to organization
will miss the Rapture. It will all be over very soon, my brother so be very
careful not to organize what God is doing. Just let go and let God have His
way.
Now, let’s follow through with what brother
Branham is saying here because he really nails down the attitude that lets you
know the attributes and characteristics of organization.
Brother Branham continues, Jehovah Jireh 61-0209
P:49 I'm looking in the
face there of one of the best there is in the nation. That's right. A historian
of the historians is setting right with us. And I'll ask that man, or any other
man, to ever show me one time that a church ever organized, but it didn't die
and stay dead. It never did rise again in the history of the churches of the
world: never did. God don't want that. God
wants us to be free in Him. He wants us to a place where we can accept all of God. Not stay on
this mountain; move out. Abraham's seed.
In the Sermon Masterpiece brother Branham
said, The Masterpiece
64-0705 140 Living, they produced in their early revival a holder of a certain
portion of the seed Life; but when they organized, the Life
moved out of it. That's proved by all history. Never an organization ever done a thing
after it organized. It was
dead. That's right. Watch, the life's traveling on now. It's
moving on. Notice. What they have done, all these have done, is proved by
history just exactly the way the church has come, never to be useful to Him
again. Organization is laid on the shelf. There never has been in all the
history of church after it organized, but what it died. And the
organization died and never did raise again. Can't you see it? Men who are
blind, open your eyes. Nature and the Word coordinating together and proving it
right here that this is the Truth, that it is the Truth: That Life leaves the
stalk to make the tassel; from the tassel it makes the husk; and from the husk
it goes into the original again. Notice, never again to be useful to Him. 143 How noticeable this life is in its
travel in the corn of wheat than it is in the tree. God called His people like
a tree. See? The life goes down in a tree and comes back up again, goes down
and comes back up. See? It goes down and comes back up. But in the corn of
wheat it goes up from the original stalk through the stalk, tassel, and husk;
and the thing that it passed through dies so it can't get back through it
again. What is it? It's no use any more. It goes on to its perfection. Amen.
Don't you see why He never used an organization? He can't get back in it again.
It's dead. But the Life passes on from one to the other. See? They put creeds and inject... "Whosoever shall add one word or take one word out..." See? He's
blocked off from it. It must be the Life seed traveling on.
To organize is death, and to organize then is no
different than to denominate. To do so is to die spiritually. Why? Because it
is a hybridization of the Word with the ideas of man.
In paragraph 118 Lean not to Thy Own Understanding 65-0120, brother Branham said, You know, the Bible said you can believe a lie and be damned by it. See? That's exactly the truth. They form, no matter what the Word of
God says, they lean to their own understanding. They
lean on it; they believe it; they think it's the Truth. You can keep believing a lie over and over
and over till it's the truth to you. That's right. But how do we know whether it's
Truth or not? God proved it's Truth,
'cause it's in His Word and He a-vindicates It. He does His own interpretation of It. How do they do, get to
this? They do it by their culture, their education, of their understandings of their, the
degree of doctor's degree, and so forth, that they have come from some certain
seminary and learned these things.
108 God's Only provided Place of Worship 65-1128.1M Now, if you get everything running
just right, it's going to run; everything's set in order. If there's a short in
that wire, that light won't come on; because it's been grounded. And when you'll take one of God's Words or one of His places,
and in your own heart have selfish objectives, it'll ground the power of God
right there. If you do it
because you want to be smart, you want to be different from somebody else, or
something, right there it's grounded, it'll blow the fuse. You're wrong.
You've got to come with sincerity, with all your heart. Your motives and your objectives, placed right on God. Then
search for His place, find where He said, and bring it there. See?
101 God's Only provided Place of Worship 65-1128.1M How can you teach the great things,
when you won't do the simple, common thing? Because, you see, your motive and your
objective is wrong.
A year or so before br. Vayle
died, I went to him and said, brother Vayle, we've talked about John 14:12,
but perhaps let me say it this way, "I do not believe that we should be
looking for big miracles and things like that, but to me John 14:12 is having
my motives right and my objectives right so that if God does want something
done, I will do whatever he tells me to do. And he said "That's
right, you've got it".
So with that in mind, let me close by reading just one
more quote from brother Branham before we go to prayer. From his sermon God's only provided place of worship
65-1128M P:47 he said, It's your love
to God, "Lord, I don't care what You want me to do; I'm willing to do it."
Then you're getting somewhere, but if you don't do it that way, the
way He said do it...It's His choosing, "The place that I have chosen. That's where you
worship with your sacrifice." Cain brought his sacrifice; Abel brought his;
it depends on what place you take it into. If you take it into the
place where He's chosen, it'll be all right, He'll
accept it; if it's not, He won't accept it. Don't care
it's the same sacrifice, whatever it is, it's still rejected, unless it's
brought to that one certain place. Now, we want to find out where we want to
bring this sacrifice. We could find out... We all want to go to heaven, don't
we? And we all know we've done wrong. We all believe that Jesus is the
Sacrifice. Now, we want to know where to take Him, it'll be accepted. See?
That's right. The Bible tells us where to take Him at, and then it'll be accepted;
outside of there, it won't be accepted.
Let us pray.