God’s Only Provided Place of
Worship # 70
Sunday Morning
The
Ten Commandments
Wednesday night we spoke from PP. 233 and Hebrews 10: 22 where Paul tells us that
we have a true heart in Full Assurance of faith. And since faith is a
revelation we then have a true heart in full assurance because of this
Revelation. Now if our assurance comes from Revelation, then how much more
assurance could you have than at the Revelation of Jesus Christ. And especially because you see yourselves responding to the
Revelation and preparing yourselves by the Revelation.
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1 John 3: 1 - 2,
but notice verse 3 is our response.
In Hebrews 10 : 22 the word assurance
is a Greek word "Plero - phoreo" and it used in other scriptures as, " to fully believe", to be
"fully persuaded",
to "show full proof" and to be "fully known". The word actually means "to fill one with any
thought or conviction or inclination and hence to make one certain. To persuade, convince and be assured."
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Romans
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Colossians 2:
2 (read) God wants our hearts to be
knit together by having a Full Assurance of understanding
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Thess
1: 5 Now what gives us this Full assurance except
that the Word comes with power and with the Holy Ghost alongside backing it up.
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Hebrews 6: 10 - 12
Now you see how this ties
together with what we have been trying to tell you, that your expression of the
Revelation of Jesus Christ will bring forth a Full Assurance of Hope or an
earnest expectation in you because you actually see the effect of the Word in
your life. That's why we spent so much time on this one paragraph and thought
of brother Branham's statement when he said, " My action and the
vindication of God's Word in my life shows whether I'm a child of God on
not."
And what we said last Wednesday night is that he is
making two things clear here. It is not our actions alone for that would be
works. But he is saying, " My action which is one
thing, and which we know is a conjunction, the vindication of God's Word in my life which is another thing altogether,.
He is telling us that these 2 things, my actions and The vindicated Word in my Life shows or outwardly demonstrates whether
I'm a child of God or not."
So we see by all of these scriptural proofs that our
assurance comes as a result of receiving a certain understanding or a
knowledge which as brother Branham put
it, when we have this knowledge and we see ourselves responding to this Revelation
of Christ in our Midst, we come to the place where we just know. Everything
just adds up to one thing, We possess God - Seed and
therefore, God - Life in us.
Now this morning I wish to continue with this great
Message of Brother Branham's entitled
"God's Only Provided Place of
Worship" as we pick up at paragraph number 233 again...."My
action, and the vindication of God's Word in my life shows whether I'm a child
of God or not. Now, there's God's only place. See it? The only place that God
will receive your sacrifice (I don't care how sincere you are) is in Christ."
Now notice how this ties with the next couple paragraphs. 234 And
remember... You say, "Well, I believed I come in too." Remember, the
Bible says... You say, "Well, the Bible said, `Whosoever
believeth that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, is saved, shall be saved.' " Now listen carefully as
we keep reading on.
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It says that, but remember it also is
written, also is written, "No
man can call Jesus the Christ, only by the Holy Ghost." See? You might say "he is," but he
isn't until the Holy Spirit Itself which
gives Life to the Word proves it by vindication that you are the son of God. That's the Scripture.
Notice how well this fits with last Sundays Message.
He says here that just because you say it, doesn't make it so, even if you are
saying what is True. Now you might ask yourself " what are you
driving at preacher? You are probably
thinking, If I say it and it's true then what I'm saying is so." But brother Branham is telling us here that,
"just because you say you believe it, doesn't really mean that you believe
it." And that is what I'm trying to
tell you. The only way I can tell if you believe it is if your life is
manifesting what you claim to believe.
If Noah really didn't believe God's Message of the
rain, he would not have built the ark. If Moses did not really believe God's
Message of an Exodus, He would not have left
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"The
place that I chose to put My Name. You shall not worship in any other gate, but
in the gate I put My Name in; then I will receive you, you're in My
family." So until God accepts your Revelation, you are not even
accepted by Him as part of His family.
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Matthew 13: 10 - 17 (read) To Him that Hath, That
"Echoes" That is of such a
nature as "to hear, recognize and act upon the Word of God." That is the ones I have chosen to place my
name in them as part of my Family. And only those who were in Him before the
foundations of the world
will be of such a nature as to echo back His Word in an outward
expression or manifestation. You won't
be able to help yourself. Now, I am not
just speaking some legalistic thoughts here, I am telling you what God's
Prophet under inspiration of the Holy Ghost is telling you. Notice as we read
further in pp 237.
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Now, the family of God obeys the
order of the Father of the family. "And He is the Prince of Peace, the
Mighty God, the everlasting Father; and of His dominion and reign there shall
be no end, the government shall be upon His shoulders." And Him being
Governor, King, Emmanuel, First, Last, Prince of Peace, the Mighty God,
everlasting Father, every one of His
children obey every Word to the order because they're a part of Him.
You say, I don't believe that. "Well, that just shows your
an unbeliever, that's all. From page 25-1 THREE.KINDS.OF.BELIEVERS Ahab,
he was an unbeliever, though he--he act
like he wasn't. No, no, he was
amongst the believers, but he was a unbeliever.
What did he do? He married an idolatrous, and brought
idolatry right into
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You go to church; don't set at home, go
fishing, and hunting, and things like that on Sunday. You say, "Well, I'm not a
legalist." Well, you'd better be in
that manner for a while, dishonoring the resurrection of Christ. You go to
church somewhere.
Look, How many of you who
claim to be the Bride of Christ even know the 10 commandments? Name them!
Exodus 20: 1) "Thou shalt
have no other Gods before me"... what is a god, an object of worship . Cars, jobs, friends, family, whatever comes between you and God is
your true God.
2)
Thou shalt not worship any graven images... worship comes from two
words, worth and ship
which is the state or condition. So do not put too high of a value on anything outside of God and
God alone. Tv's ,
cars, boats, whatever it is that you elevate so high.
3)
Thou shalt not take God's name in vain....Don't call on Him when you
know that you aren't
serving Him. You get right with God first and then call on Him. He even said,
If a man regard
iniquity in His Heart, I won't even hear his prayer. So get right with God and then seek Him and
call upon Him. How many people make promises to God that they
will put Him first and yet where
are those promises today? He said, let
every mans word be
a lie and mine be true. He said, let your yeah be yeah and your nay be nay. He
also said, you will give an account for every idle
word you speak. Remember Matthew 7 where the cry out,
Lord, Lord, and He says, Depart from Me I never knew you!
4)
Remember the sabbath to keep it holy....... You go
to church; don't set at home, go fishing, and hunting, and things like
that on Sunday. You say, "Well, I'm
not a legalist." Well, you'd better
be in that manner for a while, dishonoring the resurrection of Christ. You go to church somewhere
5)
Honor thy father and thy mother..............That
means to obey them and respect them.
6)
Thou shalt not kill..................................Brother
Branham told my father in law in a
letter
that there are more ways to kill a man than with a bullet. He said, You can talk
against
a person and kill his influence with
others.
7)
Thou shalt not commit adultery...............
And yet Jesus said to even look upon another woman with lust in your heat
you're guilty. And brother Branham added, you women that
would
wear clothes that would attract another man your guilty of committing adultery
wit
him.
8)
Thou shalt not steal................................What
about robbing God? That's a double sin.
9 ) Thou shalt not bear false witness ..........
10)
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors goods.. That's
keeping up with the Joneses. Running to the fashion mart.
Trying to keep your kids in style. The Bible says
"do not be conformed to this world or the things
of the world. Now that's not saying you can't dress nice. But it does mean that
just because others are wearing something, you had better not
follow in their pattern. Be a
leader. When I was in school, I wore what I wanted to wear and I never worried
about being stylish. A leader sets the styles. Be a leader, not just like some
dumb driven cattle who do whatever the media tells you to do. Set your own fashions of holiness and purity.
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Matthew 5: 17 -
19 (read)
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Genesis 6: 3
(read) Now
look, what I'm about to say might be kind of rough, but hear me out, I'm trying
to help you make it.
God will not always strive with man. One of these days
soon you will have to give an account for all your unbelief. Your excuses might
sound OK to your own selves but God knows what is in your hearts. He knows
better than you do yourselves. I can hardly believe that people are so stupid
as to keep on feeding their flesh and pandering to their lusts and somehow
think that they won't reap what they are sewing. And then they wonder why their
kids get into trouble and their daughters get pregnant before marriage or their
boys run off with some little slut. Shame on a people who
know to do right and don't do it. Shame on parents who take off for
weekends and leave their kids at home to care and fend for themselves and don't
even make sure that they and their kids will be in service to hear the word of
God. Your post of duty is in church with
your families. Don't think that you won't reap for your transgressions.
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Hosea 4: 6
(read) He says, because you have
forgotten His Laws, He will forget your children. Just keep on sewing to your flesh and watch
your kids go out into this world. Death Doomed...By Who?
By the parents who do not believe the commandments of God that said, Keep Holy
My Sabbath!
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We live in our home like Branham’s live. You
live in your home, the Joneses, like the Joneses live.
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And in
the House of God we live by the Word of God and every One that proceedeth out of the mouth of God, and any other,
fraud, we won't listen to him. See? Now before we go further, I just want to add
this. There is a preacher who is telling his people that "under the shout
the Husbands are supposed to control their families, but under the voice we no
longer are responsible to control our families." To me that man needs to be born again. Where
does he get that from anyway? Show me scripture and verse. And yet you might
think that he is off into lala land somewhere, but you do the same by your
actions. Then who is the hypocrite? The one who says it and does it or the one
who doesn't say it yet does it by your actions. He said ,
"in the House of God we live by the Word of God and every One that
proceedeth out of the mouth of God,"
Now brother Branham continues here in pp. 239 by
saying, "You shall eat unleavened
bread, every church age, just as I give It to
you." But don't try to go back and inject that over into This, because it's come into a stalk. "You shall take
the bones and things that's left over of the sacrifice
and burn them!" Gone, the church age died, went on; we're in another one
now. Amen! 240
"The
place I choose to put My Name in." Oh, my! I Corinthians 12.
241 Notice
Ephesians 4:30: ... grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby you
are sealed until the... (next revival?)... until the day of your redemption. ... grieve
not the holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed until the day of your
redemption.
You say, well preacher, I am under so much stress I
need to get away. Then wherever you go you had better be in church. That's your
post of duty to God and to man. "Well, I worked so hard and I was to tired. " Oh good
excuse when you see God forget your kids. When you see your kids get into
trouble and leave the Word of God. Don't blame anyone but yourselves. He
said, You forget my Word and I'll forget your
kids." How are you supposed to apply the Token when He is the Token. You should be here every time the doors open
with your kids instead of them off to some ball game. That's applying the
token.
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Now notice. Let's apply that to our Scripture lesson. Then we better go,
I think I'm wearing the people out. Don't you? People getting
up and going home, see, 'cause they got dinner cooking. And somebody
else wanting to leave, they didn't expect come down here to listen all day
long. See? But look, you know the... 243 Ben, I ought to work on you! Bless you! Thank you, Brother
Ben. I love you, Brother Ben.
Pp
246 whereby
you're sealed until the day of your redemption. 247
Notice! Now this
might pinch just a little bit, but look (don't fall out with me) just
remember.
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When Israel once looked on that door, with that blood on the door, the
name (the blood, the life), and entered in under that blood, they never went out again until they
went out of Egypt. ... grieve not the
holy Spirit of God, whereby you go in and don't go out anymore until the day
that you are redeemed out. (see?)
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Well, the Bible's always right. He puts words in there you got to place
It out where It goes, to make it... make the whole picture of redemption, see.
See? ... grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby
you are sealed until your redemption. (till you're
redeemed)
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You're sealed in there, you're beneath the Blood. You don't go out no more. And then what are you? God's son in God's family, sealed in by
the Holy Spirit. The Devil couldn't get you if he had to; for you are dead,
your old husband part is dead; and you are buried, and your life is hid in God
through Christ, and sealed by the Holy Ghost. How's he going to get you? How
you going to get out? You're there! Glory! Now I will leave that alone; just
enough so you'll know what I'm talking about.
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Then a new creation, not to a denomination but to the Word. You're a
creation of the Word. Because the foundation stone was
laid in you before the foundation of the world, predestinated to be sons and
daughters of God.
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And upon this come stone upon stone, in each age, to vindicate that Word
that's coming up, just exactly as Jesus did in His age, which is the Capstone
of it all. In Him laid every age. In Jesus was Moses.
In Jesus was David. In Jesus was the prophets. Is that
right? Look at Joseph, sold for almost thirty pieces of silver, throwed in,
supposed to be dead, taken out, went and come to the right hand of Pharaoh.
Look, exactly, Jesus was... Joseph was in Jesus.
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And when He come, He was the fullness of the
kings, prophets (hallelujah), the godhead bodily rested in Him. He come to redeem out of there a Bride, a Masterpiece. A
Masterpiece that says to Satan that...
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When he says, "Days of miracles is past. There's no such a thing as
these things you're talking about."
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"Get thee behind me, Satan." See? See, a Masterpiece standing
and a-guarding.