WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC #112

Three Stages of Life

March 6, 2002

This morning we are going to read from paragraph 115 of brother Branham's sermon on "Who is this Melchisedec". I am only going to read the first half of the paragraph because it speaks of one specific thought and the thought then is expanded in the second half of the paragraph. In fact the person who transcribed this should have broken this paragraph into two because there are two distinct thoughts laid out in it. But to keep the continuity of thought, we will only read from the first half of this paragraph, and we will move onto the second half in another sermon to come Lord Willing next week.

 

WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC  65-0221E  115 Everything's in three. The natural birth's in three. What's the first thing happens to the woman having a baby? What breaks first? Water. What breaks next? Blood. What's the next process? Life: Water, blood, spirit. What happens to the plant? Rots. What's the first thing? Stalk. What's the next? Tassel. What's the next? Shuck. Then the grain comes out of that, just the three stages of it till it gets to the grain. That's exactly. God vindicates that. That's always been right; God vindicates it to be true. Show plainly the predestinated is the only one that's considered in redemption. Did you get it? Let me say that again. The predestinated is the only one that's considered in redemption. People might be making like, think they are, but the real redemption is those that are predestinated. Because the very word "redeem" means "to bring back." Is that right? To redeem is something... To redeem anything is bring it back to its original place. Hallelujah. So it's only the predestinated will be brought back, because the others didn't come from there. See? Bring back...

 

( Three Stages of Life)

 

LUKE 23: 29 <read>

If that isn't the condition of the world today, they would rather have  a  dog or cat, than to mother a child.  And  remember,  the  woman in the bible always typed the church.

 

I JOHN 5:7-8 <read>   PRAYER

                 " THREE STAGES OF LIFE "

Notice,  the Scripture said, and " They will say blessed  is  the womb  that  is barren, not "we shall say", but "they  will  say".  They don't want the responsibility that goes with childbearing.

 

I JOHN 5:7 - 8 <read>

WATER,  BLOOD,  AND SPIRIT. 3 stages of life.

 

God is Perfected in three's.  The Father, The Word, and the  Holy Ghost. These are not three, but it says they are one.

 

3        comings.        3        exodus.        3         pulls.

JUSTIFICATION...SANCTIFICATION...BAPTISM of The Holy Spirit.  The earth is cleansed three times...The first by water, the second by mans  fire, and the third by God's Holy fire. ( Faith, Hope,  and Love,  these  three...) You have in I peter,  Praise,  Honor and  Glory which is three stages of our Growth process into Sons.  You have as the Scripture says here, "water, blood and spirit." Three stages of Life.

 

Now  in order for Life to come forth, in the natural,  the  woman must  receive the seed first. Then the process begins,  then  the life comes forth. CONCEPTION, TRANSFORMATION, and IDENTIFICATION. CONCEPTION: <to take in or receive, to begin life. > A seed being planted.

 

Now  there  are a few things about this Conception that  we  must understand, if we are to understand this process of Life.

 

1)  The seed that is sewn is not the same as what comes up.

    I COR 15:35 - 39

 

2) There has got to be an order or law that governs reproduction in all life. Otherwise, conception would bring total chaos.

 

GEN 1: 11 - 12. Notice, God says it then He performs it.  The  law of God is only God in action. Word and Power. And "HE WHO GAVE THE WORD IS HERE TO CONFIRM IT."

 

3)      The seed must bring forth after it's kind. If there is Life in the seed, then what life is in that seed is the same life that will manifest itself.

 

JOHN 1: 1, 14.  I JOHN 1: 1 - 3                    

 

My wife and I  knew a woman that thought she was expecting a child,   and  she seemed to have all the symptoms, and seemed to be carrying the child to full term & then nothing.  Just  like  some Christians. They say they are born again but to what. There's  no manifested life. The woman saw a transformation within her  self, but  there was no seed in her. No Life in her, yet she could  see herself  being  transformed, she thought. I think  she  was  just eating too much and  she got fat. But oh, how they were expecting but nothing came of it.

 

Now  the Three stages of Life is very important. You  could  have two  and have a still born. JOHN 14: 16 - 17 ( This is  not  com­plete yet) There must be a further fulfillment in order to  bring forth the Life into manifestation. JOHN 17: 20 - 22.

 

Now  here  it says that the Glory or the Doxa  was  necessary  to bring on this special identification. "THAT THEY MAY BE ONE".  We see  it  again in EPHESIANS 1: 13-14 which is the  same  as  JOHN 14:16 but is not the fulfillment itself. But notice verse 15 -17, which the Father of Doxa comes to bring on the fulfillment.

 

Brother  Branham  said, the threefold mystery was "CHRIST  WITH YOU, CHRIST IN YOU AND CHRIST THROUGH YOU."

 

The seed must bring forth after It's kind.

 

I  remember  when I was in Edmonton, I was  walking  through  the worlds largest mall and I stopped at a Zoo that was in there  and I  looked at the monkeys. A man next to me said, "isn't it  some­thing  to think that we came from them", I looked at him,  and  I said,  "you might have but I sure didn't". My mouth gets me  into trouble sometimes.

 

SONG OF SOLOMON. 3:1-4

 

She saw an identification and received a seed and conceived.  You can only conceive of the Life of the one you are having your love affair with. It is either Christ, or Satan.

 

COL  3:4

I JOHN 3: 1 - 2

 

Now these false ministries that you see on TV and the radio,  the people  come,  they see, they hear, but there is  no  conception. WHY?   Because  there is no message. And if  no  message, then  no seed. And if no seed, then there is No life.

 

"Nothing outside the revealed word can come to life."

 

In the SONG OF SOLOMON, the identification was external. The Life was  manifested to her, but it then came to her and then in  her. From  external to internal. This is the age of the ear, which  is the female. The Word spoken is a projectile, the spora.

 

I  PETER 1: 23. The ear is the reciprocal, or the  female  organ, the mind is the womb of the spirit.

 

The EXTERNAL WORD comes in and becomes internal Life.

 

Our Mt. Carmel showdown is when the rapture takes  place.  That will  be our complete identification. That will tell whether  you really conceived or not. or whether you went through a term birth but really had nothing there. This woman I was telling you  about  felt movement, she felt life. But when life is ended it goes back to  gases. and the doctor found no life there so you  figure  out what she had.

 

I JOHN 3: 1-3 <read>

 

The  woman has a sort of seed that must come in contact with  the male to be quickened. The church like the woman can't bring forth life on her own.

 

I  PETER 1:23

 

The  Word is the seed that brings to life. I PETER 1:3 It  is  He that brings to Life.

But  just as the same spirit that is upon the N.O.W. group,  they don't want a man. They think they are self sufficient. Women type the church. A woman can't produce life on their own. It takes the man. A woman that tries to bring forth a child by coming together with  another  woman, is nothing but a perversion. And so  is  it when the church tries to bring forth life. They can't do it. They are only producing a perversion.

 

It  takes the Lord Himself to bring the new birth.  JUSTIFICATION made a way for SANCTIFICATION which MADE A WAY FOR THE BAPTISM OF THE  HOLY  GHOST, which made a way for the  BAPTIZER  HIMSELF  to become identified among us.

 

ABRAHAM: God's appearing made a way for the arrival of the  prom­ised son.

Now let's examine what takes place after CONCEPTION. The  next  stage is transformation. This is the part  that  woman really hate. They don't mind the conception part. But they do not like  the transformation part because it calls for  sacrifice  on her part. I JOHN 3: 3 What hope?

 

WOMAN:  At  first she is not aware that she  has  conceived:  She feels lousy, she looks in the mirror, looks lousy, feels sick.  I thought when I was born again, I would become sinless. I see more that  I hate about myself now than ever before. A time  of  inner turmoil takes place.

 

EVE:  Before she could commit her act, physically, she had to  do it  mentally,  which is spiritually. So too we receive  a  change spiritually before we receive our change physically.

 

II COR 3:17 - 18.

 

ROM 12:1-2 The transformation begins by the renewing of the mind.

 

ROMANS 8: 5-6

 

She conceives, then she goes through a transitional period  where she feels lousy. But there is something happening inside of her. I  remember one time brother Vayle came to  Minneapolis Minnesota and I brought  a friend.  He went home that night and as he prayed about  what  He heard , he got sick. So he thought that it was God warning him to stay away. My goodness, can you imagine a woman who marries a man and  she conceives and when she starts to feel sick she  says,  I need  to get away from this man, he's making me sick.  Don't  you know that when you come to the Lord and Conceive of His Life,  It causes you to have heart ache and inner turmoil and all sorts  of nausea  about yourself. Why? Because something is about  to  take place. Something is coming alive in you and it's displacing other parts of you. It's pushing out the old man.

 

ROMANS 8:5-6 <read>

 

She  who  is  aware of the birth prepares herself.  A  woman  who smokes and drinks when she finds out she is expecting, she  stops her  smoking, her drinking, she prepares herself. She brings  her whole body to nurture that. The very camel that Rebecca watered is the very thing that packed her home.

 

In  the 3rd or 4th seal Brother Branham said, "the very seed  she is watering will take her on out of here."

 

If  the woman has any motherhood in her, her whole  life  becomes dedicated to bringing forth that life that is in her. I JN 3:3

 

When  the  conception occurs, the first thing that forms  is  the head and the spinal cord. Then later on, the body and the  limbs. Then  as cell is added upon cell, the fingers and toes  begin  to appear.  The characteristics of the father are beginning to  come forth in finer detail as the life within you grows. It comes more into the image of The Father as IT comes closer to the birth.  AS THE  NEGATIVE  COMES CLOSER TO THE POSITIVE , THE MORE  LIKE  THE POSITIVE IT BECOMES. (the shadow).

 

I JOHN 3:2

 

It's begins drawing forth. "DRAW ME AND WE SHALL RUN AFTER  THEE, FOR THE KING HAS DRAWN ME INTO HIS CHAMBERS."

JUST LIKE THE LILLY, THE SON DRAWING IT UP. <explain>

 

Becoming more apparent all the time who the Father is. GAL 4:19

 

When  people see her coming they don't know what is happening  to her, until she becomes to a place that it shows in her flesh. When the woman doesn't understand what she is going through,  she doesn't feel comfortable with anybody else, and  she doesn't feel comfortable with herself either.

 

When  she finally understands what is happening, then she  should be  able  to deal with it. Oh, you may still have  your  mourning sickness.  You may still go through the pains and uneasiness,  (I used  to tell my wife that it was all in her head, but she  said, no way, it's in here.)

 

I won't deny that you may feel lousy, but just remember, Life  is coming  forth. You may feel like you are the  lousiest  Christian that  ever  walked the earth, but just remember, Life  is  coming forth. Stick with it. Don't abort.

 

MARK 4: 13 - 15, These are those that miscarriage.

             4: 16 - 17, These are they which abort.

             4: 18 - 19, These are they which still birth.

              4: 20...... These are the Bride who bring forth Life in the Image of the Father.

 

Where  there is a birth, something had to die. There is  a  move­ment. Your body doesn't do what it used to do. There's a   trans­forming power that has taken over. It's bringing forth a manifes­tation  in your flesh that at first is not so noticeable, but  as the development comes forth more and more, it becomes apparent to everyone just what is happening.

 

GAL 4:19

 

He never said it would be painless. The pain is until when? I have actually heard women say that a good reason for having  an  abortion  was that they did not want stretch marks. Others  abort  because the transformation is more than they can bear. But  let's see what Paul said about that. II COR 4: 8 10. 

 

Others  don't  want to be inconvenienced. Others  think  it  will cramp there lifestyle. You know these are the same reasons people abort  there walk with God. They want a religion of  convenience. One which won't cramp their lifestyle. One which won't cause  too much pain. One which will let them live any old way they  choose. But  you  know  abortions not only kill the Life  that  is  being brought  forth, it also puts a mark upon the one allowing  it  to happen.

 

MATT 24 : 3 - 8 <NIV> ALL THESE ARE THE BEGINNING OF BIRTH PAINS.

Now  don't  be  expecting an easy time of it.  Birth  pains  come harder  and  harder  and with less time in  between.  Faster  and faster, harder and harder until the birth comes.

 

II COR 3: 18 <NIV>

 

AND WE, WHO WITH UNVEILED FACES ALL REFLECT THE LORD'S GLORY, ARE BEING  TRANSFORMED INTO HIS LIKENESS WITH EVER INCREASING GLORY,  WHICH COMES FROM THE LORD, WHO IS THE SPIRIT.

 

JOHN 3: 1 -7

 

If you sow to the flesh you shall reap from the flesh. If you sow to the Spirit you shall reap from the Spirit.

 

We  move  from the second stage of Life into the third  which  is IDENTIFICATION.

 

I COR 13: 12 -13

 

Moving more and more into the face, Love himself.

That  transformation brings us into an identification.  We  shall know as we are known.

 

COL 3: 4

I PET 1:3

 

LET THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST BE EULOGIZED, WHO IMPELLED BY HIS ABUNDANT MERCY CAUSED US TO BE BORN AGAIN SO THAT WE HAVE A HOPE WHICH IS ALIVE, THIS LIVING HOPE HAVING BEEN  MADE ACTUAL THROUGH THE INTERMEDIATE INSTRUMENTALITY OF THE  RESURREC­TION OF JESUS CHRIST OUT FROM AMONG THOSE WHO ARE DEAD, RESULTING IN AN INHERITANCE, IMPERISHABLE AND UNDEFILED, AND THAT DOES  NOT FADE AWAY...

 

I PETER 1: 22 -23

HAVING  PURIFIED  YOUR SOULS BY MEANS OF YOUR  OBEDIENCE  TO THE TRUTH,  RESULTING IN NOT AN ASSUMED BUT A GENUINE  AFFECTION AND FONDNESS FOR THE BRETHREN, AN AFFECTION AND FONDNESS THAT SPRINGS FROM YOUR HEARTS BY REASON OF THE PLEASURE YOU TAKE IN THEM; FROM THE  HEART LOVE EACH OTHER WITH AN INTENSE RECIPROCAL  LOVE  THAT SPRINGS FORTH FROM YOUR HEARTS BECAUSE OF YOUR ESTIMATION OF  THE PRECIOUSNESS OF THE BRETHREN, AND WHICH IS DIVINELY SELF SACRIFI­CIAL IN ITS ESSENCE, HAVING BEEN BEGOTTEN AGAIN NOT OF PERISHABLE SEED BUT OF IMPERISHABLE, THROUGH THE WORD OF GOD WHICH LIVES AND ABIDES.

 

ROMANS 8: 18 - 25  The whole creation trvaileth and even you are.

LOOK pp. 107 - 112 STAY WITH IT.

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