WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC #126

Life begins through Separation

May 12, 2002

 

Wednesday night we took our thoughts from paragraph 143 of WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC 65-0221E  143 where brother Branham said, "Now, notice again. There was only three races of people. You've heard me say I was a segregationist. I am. All Christians are segregationists, not segregation of color, but segregation of spirit. A man's color of his skin has nothing to do with him. He's a child of God by birth. But a Christian, God said, 'Separate Me; come out from among them, and so forth.' He is a segregationist of filth, between right and wrong. But notice, they had a segregation then, a racial segregation, which was the Samaritans. And there's only three races of people on the earth if we believe the Bible; that is Ham, Shem, and Japheth's people. That's the three sons of Noah. We all sprung from there. That's right. That makes us all back from Adam, which makes us all brothers. The Bible said, "Of one blood God created all nations." We're all brothers through the blood stream. A colored man can give a white man a blood transfusion or vice versa. The white man can give the--the Japanese, yellow man, or the Indian, the red man, or what more, or Japhanite [?--Ed.] or whatever. He could give him a blood transfusion, 'cause we're all the same blood. The color of our skin, where we lived, had nothing to do with it. But when we're segregated is when we come out of the world, like He brought Israel up out of Egypt. That's when we're segregated from the things of the world".

 

We spoke from the Scriptures showing this attribute of God that He manifested right from the very first time He spoke His Word back in the book of Genesis. Here we found that the first time God spoke He separated Light from Darkness, and the second time He spoke He separated the waters from above from the waters below. The third time He spoke he said, "every Seed shall bring forth after its Kind". This is the law of Life.  And in studying this Law of Life we find out that in all seeds, when they are Germanized something happens. We usually speak of it in terms of a multiplying of cells, when in reality the multiplication of cells comes from a dividing of cells. The One cell divides itself into two. The Two cells divide themselves into four, etc.  

Brother Branham said from the message, WHO IS THIS  59-1004M  E-39 Every time the Holy Spirit comes, It brings a division amongst the people. It brings a time that men must stand and make a decision. It's come to you; it's come to me. We've got to make our decision. It come in the days of Noah. It also come in the time of Moses, when God anointed His servant with the Holy Spirit, sent him down into Egypt.

 

Even Jesus, waiting obediently on the Holy Spirit of God for everything He did and said, said His role here was to bring division. LUKE 12:51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: So we are looking at division or separation as an attribute of Life. And this is very apparent when we look at Life itself. Every child that is born, every animal that is born, every bird that is born, every insect that is born, in fact every living thing that is born, no matter what it is, when it is born, it must first come through a process of separation. The egg leaves the hen, the new life is separated from the old. The baby drops from the mother, the new Life coming forth from the old. Life begins with a separation, and it ends with separation. When the person dies, the life is separated from the body, and enters another body in another form.  Therefore, without the separation process, we cannot enter life.

In 2 Peter 1 we read of the Power of God coming alive in the Believer and bringing with It, the very divine Nature of God, bringing that Life and Nature into our very being.

 

II PETER 1:2 Grace and peace be 0multiplied unto you  (That means increased, and notice how this multiplying comes.) through the knowledge of God, (this word knowledge is from the Greek word epignosis pronounced, ep-ig'-no-sis and means "the precise and correct knowledge", and notice what this knowledge is of. It is of God,) and of Jesus our Lord, (Therefore it is knowing the Father and Knowing the Son.)

 

Then Peter goes on to say, 3 According as His divine power hath given unto us all things that [pertain] unto life and Godliness, (Notice that it pertains to Life and Godlikeness. And we know that the Power of God is the Word of God, or the Gospel which is The  Good News of God, according to ROMANS 1:16  For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it (What? The Gospel of Christ) is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth…) (and notice further that Peter tells us that not only does the word of God give us all things which pertain unto Life and God-likeness, but it comes also)  through the knowledge of him (that's speaking of God again, for He's the One) that hath called us to glory and virtue: 4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these (By what? By these promises, and we know that a promise is a Word that is given. And that by this Word given,) ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped (having separated yourself from) the corruption that is in the world through lust.

 

Therefore we see once again how the Word of God comes in, and when the Word is piled on top of Word it is creating a Word Body in the very image of the Divine One, God Himself.

 

The RAPTURE 65-1204  91 It's a genuine adding Word to Word. When a germ comes into the womb of the female, it don't take on... You didn't become a human germ from your father, and then the next thing you become a germ from a dog, and the next thing from a cat, and the next thing from a chicken; it was all human germ. And the Body of Jesus Christ. The Bride, will be part of His Body which will... He was the Word, and the Bride will have to be the Word, Word added to Word added to Word. Luther's justification, Wesley's sanctification, Pentecostal's baptism with the Holy Spirit, restoration of the gifts, and all the rest of it goes with it. It's got to be Word on top of Word, germ on top of germ, life on top of life, to bring out the full statue of the Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

You know, I caught a very important grammatical error in the V.O.G. manuscript of this quote this morning. I was reviewing my notes and noticed that they quoted Brother Branham saying. "It's a genuine adding word to Word", and they did not capitalize the first word but did so on the second. I then double checked it and then felt to check Dr.  Mamalis's books and the same grammatical error was there. Now, you might say, so what's the difference? And the difference is this, that to not capitalize the first word but only the second tells us that the body will come forth by adding any word to God's word.

 

Then it can be read as this, "It's a genuine adding word (small w meaning it cold be any ones word added) to Word"(Capital W meaning God's Word) But the proper spelling should be "adding Word to Word" with both spelling of Word being capitalized to show it is God's Word added to God's Word, and this is so important. Remember, One Word off is satan's kingdom.

Now, what I want for us to understand is that it must be the same Word. Not One word from over here and then another word from over there. But "In the beginning was The Word", and The Word was With God because The Word was God". God is The Word, and it will take that same Word in you to bring forth that other body. Another word added will not do. That would be death in the pot.

 

Now look, we are speaking of separation as an attribute of Life. We know that God is the Word, and yet we know that Jesus was the Logos that went out of God. Now, Logos is Word. Jesus was Word because God, His Father is Word.

 

ATTITUDE AND WHO IS GOD?  50-0815   E-16    So He first was God, Jehovah. And out of Him... Let's just picture now as a little drama so you can get it. Let's see coming out of space where there's nothing, let's make it a little white Light, like a mystic Light, like a Halo. And that was the Logos that went out of God in the beginning. That was the Son of God that came out of the bosom of the Father. That was what was in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us. In the beginning was God. And then out of God came the Logos, a part of God that went out of God.

 

Now, if you did not come out of God then you could never have the same Life, nor the same nature. Jesus came forth in the Image of God because He was a part of God to begin with. You have attributes that might look like you father or mother because that was a part of them to begin with. Don't you get it? You say, "Oh that child has his father's ears and nose, and literally they do have their father's nose and ears. Now, that does not mean that the father no longer has his nose and ears, and has taken them off and given them to that child. And that is no different than Jesus having the very Life of God and saying that that Life is no Longer in God. But the Life came forth from the Father And into the son, and sons. And that means that the very makeup of the Father in nature and essence is also in the Son. But, without Separation you could never bring forth an expression as another separate being, and yet with the same life. Because when you were in your father you were a part of your father. But when you came forth from Him you can now express Him in another being.

 

And that is what separation is all about as an attribute of Life. It is the Law of reproduction that one cell divides itself and becomes two cells and those two cells divide and become four cells and those 4 cells divide and become 8 and those 8 become 16 and so forth until the entire body is brought forth from the same original cell. And the Spoken Word was the original Seed. Do you get it?

 

The Apostle John said, I JOHN 1:1 ¶ That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;(Now, notice, he is speaking of being able to see and handle the Word of Life. Then what we handle and saw, was the expression of that Life.) 2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen [it], and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, (and what was with the father in the beginning? The Word!) and was manifested unto us;) 3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship [is] with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.  

 

Notice, he is speaking of the same Life that was in the Father came forth into the Son as an expression of that Life, and we have the same promise of it bringing forth expression in you and I. Even Jesus said in JOHN 5:26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; and in JOHN 14:19 (Jesus said), because I live, ye shall live also. (And again in) JOHN 14:20 (He said,) At that day ye shall know that I [am] in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

 

The visible body you have is not you. You are your soul, and your soul is spirit. Now, your body is a representation of your soul, but even at best these bodies have been born in a corruptible state, and are not the perfect reflection or expression of the soul. But the body is meant to be an expression of the inner being that resides in it.

 

We also have another promise in Colossians 3:4 (that tells us the Life of the Father has been passed down through the Royal Seed into other seeds…) When Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. (and the Apostle Paul told us in) ROMANS 8:10  And if Christ [be] in you, the body [is] dead because of sin; but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness.(And what is righteousness? It is being right, or having a right Word.) 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

 

So the quickening comes if The Spirit is there to quicken. Therefore, if you were not a part of God to begin with, you never will be an expression of Him, nor could you ever come into His image. But, if that part of God is in you and is quickened or sparked off, then it will begin the process of Life, and nothing can stand against it. It will be, Word on top of Word, and the Original Seed will begin dividing in you and as each member of your body is being formed, it is right in line with the original Seed that came forth from God Himself.  Now, we have had a vindicated Prophet who told us how we are to become One with God even as Jesus was One with him.

 

From the message, WHY IT HAD TO BE SHEPHERDS  64-1221  123 brother Branham said,  Jesus said, "How can two walk together 'less they be agreed?" How you going to take Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholic, and throw it all together and be one? You might be one under a man's head, but Jesus said, "That they might be One even as I and You are One." Now, He wants us all to be one in Him, which is the Word. Amen. There it is, "One with the Father." And the Father is the Son, is the same. And it's the same Word, the Word manifested, displaying Itself in this day as It did in any other day, that you might be one.

 

Now, if He is the Word, and He is in us, then it is His Word that is in us. Remember, His word is the seed that the sower went forth sowing. And if that Seed Word is in you then when it becomes a reality to you, you will begin to see that same Life that was in the Original Word Seed will begin to manifest Itself in you. That is when the Word of God becomes a living reality to you, because It is abiding in You. JOHN 14:21  He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

 

 

 

 

UNVEILING OF GOD  64-0614M  257   Jesus once said, "When you see Me, you see the Father." See? God and His Word is One. Now you understand? When the Word is manifested, what is It? Right. See? 260 Jesus said, "Search the Scriptures, you think you have... You believe in God, believe also in Me. If I do not the works of My Father, then don't believe Me. But if I do, do the works, I and My Father are One. When you see Me, you have seen the Father. "And when you see the Word made manifest, you see the Father God, because the Word is the Father; the Word is God. And the Word made manifest is God Himself taking His Own Word and manifesting It among believers.

 

And if God and His Word is One, and that same Word came forth in an expression in the Son of God, then it will also have to express Itself in you. and it will begin Living and abiding in you.

 

 WHY IT HAD TO BE SHEPHERDS 64-1221  125    Notice, He said, "As the Father sent Me, so send I you." The Father that sent Him, went in Him to confirm the Word. And the same Jesus that sends His people, goes in the people that He sends; that's saying, "The works that I do, shall you do also." Sure, He prayed that we might be one: one with Him, not one with an organization, not one with a system, but one with God. For God and His Word is One, and Jesus and God was One, and you and I and the Word must be one.

 

So you see, we must come forth from that original Word Seed, or the division will be all wrong. The Apostle John said, I JOHN 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin;(That's unbelief) for his seed (God's own seed) remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, (he can not disbelieve) because he is born of God.  

 

In the church Age Book we read the same thing. 152-1 SMYRNAEAN CHURCH AGE  -  CHURCH AGE BOOK CPT 4 As the eternal Logos (God) was manifest in the Son, and in Jesus dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and that Eternal One was the Father manifest in flesh, and thereby gained the title of Son, even so we, eternal in His thoughts in our turn became the many membered Spoken Word Seed, manifest in flesh, and those eternal thoughts now manifest in flesh are the sons of God, even as we are so called. WE DID NOT BECOME SEED BY THE REBIRTH, WE WERE SEED AND THEREFORE WERE REBORN FOR ONLY THE ELECT CAN BE REBORN. Because we WERE SEED is the reason we could be quickened. In NON-SEED there is nothing to quicken.

 

Oh, how important that is to know. We did not become seed, but because we were seed we could be born again.

 

ROMANS 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17    And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be also glorified together. 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time [are] not worthy [to be compared] with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

 

So you see, we were sons to begin with. Word out from the Original Word, and cell out from the original cell. The Spoken Word, God's Own Word , is the Original Seed. And the Word original tells us there are more to come. Hallelujah!

 

CURTAIN OF TIME 55-0302 E-18 " Which was a part of God. God seen what the end would be, from the beginning, and the Logos come to the earth, which was Christ the Word, spoken Word of God, part of God, and was made flesh and dwelled among us. And then, we come out of Christ, which makes the same life that was in God, in Christ, in you. And just as sure as God raised this up, we've got to come with the same thing, if the same Spirit's in us. Because it's the Spirit of God making us sons and daughters of God.

 

I JOHN 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

THINGS THAT ARE TO BE 65-1205 83  You must grow into It. Ask God to pile Word on top of Word like that until you become the full statue of a son of God or a daughter of God. Taking the things of the world... I John says, "If you love the world or the things of the world, it's because the love of God's not even in you." You've been deceived. You got the love of the world there, and it's deceived you, the devil has, by piling things onto there and showing...

 

Let's bow our heads in prayer.