God’s Only Provided Place of Worship # 9
Sunday Morning
Fully Grown
Heb 10: 38 - 39 Wednesday night we spoke
from pp. 39 where brother Branham said....
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Amazing grace, how sweet the
sound! See? Just no way of ever explaining what it is.
Just take my word if you believe me. Be sure to burn every bridge of the world behind you.
We spoke on this subject of
burning every bridge of the world behind you. We examined this thought by the
scripture and we know by common sense that he was not ordering us to physically
go out and be destructive and burn bridges. But what he is saying here is a
metaphor.
How many know what a
metaphor is? It is a saying or expression that really means something else. It
comes from two words,
So then what does he mean. “To burn every bridge of the world behind you”. What does it
mean to burn every bridge. What do you do when you
burn a bridge. Now, you know that what he is saying
here is not a literal thing that you are supposed to do. HE is not telling you
to go out and burn every bridge you can find. Neither is he even suggesting that
you burn even one physical bridge. But what this expression is telling us is
that we are to leave the world and the things of the world behind.
Now the way this expression
came to being. This metaphor was used to express the brave men who would have to go on very dangerous missions, one that was so
important and many times so trying that the men were often tempted to turn
back. So in order to prevent them from turning back they were ordered to
destroy every bridge they crossed over, any means of escape that would enable
them to change their mind and turn away from their goal.
I believe this latter
meaning is what brother Branham is referring to here, when he says we should “Be sure to burn every bridge of the world behind you.”
Hebrews 11: 13 - 16 Now we could go on
and on about this subject, but get the tape from Wednesday night and you will see
how pertinent this subject is and how timely it is for the Bride. We see that
it is one of the essential strategies that God used in every age when He came
down to help His children through an Exodus.
But this morning I want to
press ahead for
time is running out.
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I believe the church is beginning to hear the Message, and beginning to understand. But friends,
listen, we've got to lay
in the Presence of the Son, we've got to be ripened. Our--our faith isn't ripe. Intellectually we're hearing the Message
that God has give us, and seeing the
signs that He showed us, and proving
it by the Bible as that; but, oh, how the
church needs to lay in His Presence till it tenders up in the heart, gets sweet
in the Spirit so that it can bathe down. Sometimes in speaking the
Message, you get harsh, have to break it in like that,
because you've got to clinch a nail to make it hold. But when the Church once gets It, the Elected
is called out and separated (then in the Presence of God), I know it'll be
something like the people was there when it takes its Rapture.
Now notice what he says
here. The church is now just beginning to hear the Message. He preached over
1100 messages that were recorded before this one and he is saying they are now
just beginning to hear and understand mentally?
So what were they doing all this time? From 1933 to
1965? For 33 years what were they doing?
Matthew 13: 10 - 17 They hear but do
not perceive.
Romans
upon
what is said, they will miss it entirely.So then the
action is the real indication
that
you are hearing. Because you hear and obey.
RIPE: Webster
= fully grown or developed. sufficientl
advanced by being kept in storage or
subjected to treatment. to be ready for use. fully developed by study experience etc. Mature in knowledge
and judgment.