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...
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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...
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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.
CLOSE IN PRAYER: