Who
is this Melchisedec #135
“Doctrine” The Voice of the Sign…
Last week we spoke
from paragraph 158 where we found brother Branham identifying Oral Roberts and
Billy Graham as those two messengers to
WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC 65-0221E 160 Now,
look at them down there in
This morning I would
like to focus our thoughts on this statement that brother Branham said
concerning the last sign. Notice he
said, “the church has got it's last sign before the whole
world's going to be destroyed.” And he also said, “But then where's
that Royal Seed of Abraham? Where is their sign,” and he went on…”the last sign before the Gentile world was destroyed by
fire?”
Now, in order to understand what this is all about that he is speaking to us, we must first ask ourselves, what is a sign. And so we find our answer in Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary.
SIGN: from Latin signum meaning a: mark, a token, a sign, an image, a seal; something
by which a thought or command can be expressed.
Therefore, it is not the thing itself, but the expression of a thought or message behind the sign that we are to look for. That expression of the sign is called “the voice of the sign.”
Brother Branham spoke about the importance of the voice
behind the sign, and even preached a message less than a year after preaching
the Seals called the VOICE OF THE SIGN,
GO TELL 60-0417M 112 we
can see signs and wonders, but we watch what voice the sign has.
GO TELL 60-0417M 113
Oh, hallelujah, the voice of the sign... God told Moses, "If they
won't hear the voice, the voice of the first sign, then they'll hear the voice
of the second sign." Not so much the sign, but the voice went with it.
EXODUS 4:1 ¶ And
Moses answered and said, But, behold,
they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The
LORD hath not appeared unto thee. 2
And the LORD said unto him, What [is] that in thine hand? And he said, A
rod. 3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it
became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. 4 And the LORD said unto
Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his
hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand: 5 That they may believe
that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee. 6 And the LORD said furthermore unto
him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and
when he took it out, behold, his hand [was] leprous as snow. 7 And he said, Put
thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and
plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his [other]
flesh. 8 And it shall come to pass, if
they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign,
that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
QUEEN OF SHEBA
60-0710 E-32 Many people are following signs. It isn't the sign; it's
the voice that goes with the sign. Moses, when he was given two signs, God told
him, "If they won't hear the voice of the first sign, then they will hear
the voice of the second sign." Each sign is just a sign. Man has gifts and
things, but watch what's behind it. Satan can impersonate any thing almost; he
is a impersonator, and he can impersonate. But watch the kind of a voice that it is. What does it do? The voice of the sign.
VOICE OF THE SIGN 64-0214
45 Now, we find out
here the burning bush was a sign. It was
given to attract the attention of Moses. Now, that's what God gives a sign for, is to attract the attention of the
people. That's what a sign is for: to attract attention. And when we go
down through the Scripture here, as we teach it now for a few minutes, and find
out if that isn't so, that He gives
these signs to attract attention. And then, when He gets the attention of the people, then the voice of the sign
begins to speak. Jesus healed the sick to attract attention. See? Then,
when He begin to preach... See,
always it attracts attention. 47 The burning bush
was given to Moses to attract the runaway prophet's attention, and he
turned aside to see what it was. Then
the sign gave a voice. The sign
itself gave a voice. Now, these voices and signs are to alert the people of
God's Word is just about ready to be vindicated. Always the sign is to attract the attention of people.
Then what about the Epiphanaea that took place at the
What good does the Parousia of Christ do for those who do not know it. So God gives us a sign to attract the attention of the people. That’s His epiphany, or Epiphanaea. It means a shining forth. An illumination and the purpose of the illumination the Light, the Pillar of Fire coming down was to get the attention of the people. Why, Because the sign has a Voice.
Look, every sign has a voice behind it, because the purpose of a sign is two fold.
#1) It is to get the attention of the people.
#2) Once the attention is held, then there is a voice, a Message that the sign declares. That’s the whole purpose of the sign.
Look at a stop sign, it is shaped a certain way so that it will stand out as different from other signs. Look at it’s coloring. It is Red with a white outside stripe around it’s perimeter, so when you see it you are attracted to it. And notice it has a Voice, a message and that message is for you to STOP.
We have many signs on the road. Signs to yield, sign to watch for train crossings, or deer crossings, or signs to be cautious, or road signs telling you how far to a certain place, or speed signs or exit signs. I have listed many signs we see every day on our highways, and if you will notice each one has a message, or a voice declaring a certain thought that is wanted to be expressed. So we should be able to recognize that every sign has a voice, and the purpose of the sign is to get you to listen to that voice.
Now, brother Branham
preached the message VOICE OF THE SIGN quite a few times. And in
particular from the one he preached on 64-0214 and
paragraph 55
he is talking about Moses being attracted to the sign of the burning bush. And
he said, “There,
watch real close now. He is going to speak, so He has to attract the attention by a sign. And the sign's voice is what He's going to say. His Word... His
promised Word's going to be vindicated now. See? "I made a promise that I
would take them out by a strong hand, I'd show My power in that land" and
whatever He's going to do. Now, He made the promise to Abraham. Here He is
ready to do it, so He gives a sign, a
Pillar of Fire laying back in a burning bush. And He tells Moses,
"Now, you're going to be My mouthpiece. Go on down there and I'll be with
you." And when he got down there, then the promised Word that He
had promised was vindicated. That was
the voice of the sign. You get it now? Notice, "I have heard their
groans. I remember My promise."
57 God
never changes. He always does it in the same way. The coming of a prophet is a sign that God is ready to speak. Now,
search the Scriptures. See? The Bible says, God said Himself He did nothing
until He revealed it to His prophets. That's right. He does it through them,
because it comes to them; that's His servants, you know. All right. The coming
of a prophet is a sign that's overlooked by the people every time. They
overlook it. They never get it somehow,
'less it's those who got their eyes open to see it. Those who are elected to
see it, does see it. But the coming of a
prophet was the sign that God is ready to speak, 'cause if God ain't
going to speak, the prophet wouldn't be on earth. Now, remember that. He
wouldn't be on earth, unless God was ready to speak. And that's the way He
speaks is through those channels. The unchanging God never did do it any other
way.
I remember the 1982
convention Brother Vayle held in
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Notice. This is always God's way
of making His voice known to His people. He sends His prophet and gives a
sign, and then takes His voice that's been spoken before on His Word, and
vindicates it by this man; and they know that it's His voice, because it's a
promised Word of the day. Oh, if people
could only see that. If they could only stop just a moment and realize that...
You see, there's no way to make them believe it. There's not a way a man... God
himself can't do it, make the people believe it. They've got to believe it. And
if there's nothing there to believe with, how can they believe? See? No matter
what you do... The Bible said, "Though He had done so many miracles, yet
they could not believe," because Isaiah foresaw it, and said, "They
got ears and they can't hear, eyes and can't see." And yet He was
perfectly the Messiah, done exactly what the Messiah said. And they said,
"This man just breaks up churches, and he... We don't know from whence he
comes." See? Isn't that strange, that they would do that? But the Bible
said they would do it.
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And the Bible also said in this day they'd do the same thing:
"Heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than of God, false accusers,
incontinent, despisers of those that are good; having a form of godliness, but
would deny the vindicated Word, the power thereof, the baptism of the Holy
Ghost, and so forth. From such turn away. For this is the kind that organizes
women's societies, and goes house-to-house, and leads silly women, lade away
with divers lusts, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."
See? Now, that's prophesied. And that's got to come to pass because it's THUS
SAITH THE LORD. Notice. "But their folly would be showed up as Jambres and Jannes in the last
days."
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Now, always making known His voice to His people by His prophet sign...
Now, I'm talking about Moses. That's where I'm banking back, and then see where
we're at. God's Word is manifested by the voice of the sign. Now, the sign that
is promised for the day is done before the people. And then the written
Scripture comes forth is the voice of that sign. If it doesn't give a Scriptural voice, then stay away from it. See?
It's not God, 'cause God can't promise this for today, and say, "Well,
this is it." See? God cannot do that. God cannot promise something for one
day and say, "No, no. It won't do that. That was for another day."
What He promises, He must stay with it. And the real Scriptural sign is the
Scriptural voice.
I received a letter
before I went to
VOICE OF THE SIGN 64-0214
89 Notice, the Pillar of Fire sign, and then the voice of the sign spoke. See?
The Pillar... Sign of the voice was there, ready to speak. The sign only showed that the voice was ready to speak. Get the
idea?
The sign shows God's voice is ready to
speak.
Now, notice this is
the case every time the Pillar of Fire came. First it was scene in a bush by
Moses, and then when Moses was attracted to it, he heard the Voice of the sign
and it was the voice of God, who is the Word.
The same with Paul. He saw the Pillar of Fire and then he heard the
Voice of the Sign speak unto him. The same in this day when the Pillar of Fire
came down on the
VOICE OF THE SIGN 64-0214
154 Now, notice, Jesus' first
ministry... Oh, they all--everybody wanted Him in their church. Oh, my. He's a
great Fellow. Sure, He went in all the synagogues, read the scrolls, and set
down. Everybody, "Young rabbi..."But
one day He begin to talk to them in another way. The voice of the sign begin to
speak. And when the voice of the sign begin to speak, nobody wanted Him.
One of them said, "This man's crazy. He's a cannibal, trying to make
cannibal out of all of us." See? He never explained it. Let them go.
Notice here that
Brother Branham is telling us something else about this Voice of the Sign. He
is telling us that not everyone can receive it. It is not for everyone. And so
it must be rejected by those who do not want the voice of the sign.
VOICE OF THE SIGN 64-0321E E-33 Notice, sign. What does a sign do? The sign is to attract the attention, and
get the elected ready and out of the way before judgment strikes. That's
what Noah did, got the elected ready. The rest of them... And what does it do?
The sign and the voice of the sign
condemns the unbeliever and gets him ready for judgment. It gets the elected ready for the escape.
That's what sign is. That's what signs are given for, for the coming
judgment. E-34 To the elected, they see
it, like the little woman with a pure heart in a defiled body, and the Pharisee
with a pure body and a defiled heart. It condemned one and saved the other one.
And the very judgment that saved Moses, condemned the world, his preaching. It
gets the elected ready. What's the elected ready for? When they see a God sent
sign, they look back in the Scripture and see if that's supposed to be there.
"Yeah, here it is. What is it? Pending judgment." Then the elected listens to the voice. But the unelected ignores and says,
"Nonsense. Go on. We'll take the same old school." That's the way
they did in the days of Luther. That's the way they did in the days of Wesley.
That's the way they do now, way they've always done. But it is a sign, and it has a voice that follows the sign. And the voice
is identified as a Scriptural voice. Now, don't forget that. I keep
that going in, because I may never see you again. I wished I had a way that I
could come down here somewhere, and get all my brethren when they had no
revivals going on, put a tent up, and just set day after day, and teach it till
it really soaked in. But He wouldn't permit that, I don't think. See, we're too
close to the end.
Now, this is
important that we see here what brother Branham is saying. He tells us that all
will see the sign, but only the elected will be open to the voice of that sign.
And because they believe the Voice of the Sign it is salvation to them, but
those who turn it down, judgment is all that is left for them. Therefore, the
Voice of the Sign is for our benefit to rescue us and get us ready for
deliverance. That’s what it was for in Moses day, and that’s what it was for in
Paul’s day. Then if God does not change, why do we think it would be any
different in our day when the same Pillar of Fire has come with the same sign
as He did with Moses and Paul.
GOD WHO IS RICH IN MERCY 65-0119 191 Moses
was given two signs, and each sign had a voice. That's right. I preached on it here sometime ago,
somewhere, on "The Voice Of The Sign." It must have a Voice of the
sign. It's a changing. Always it's that way. If it isn't, then it didn't come from God. If a man comes out with an odd peculiar
ministry, that's found in the Bible to be the Truth, and that man stays right
in that same old denominational doctrine, forget it. Nothing to it. God don't
do a thing like that. That thing, that's rotten manna that's got termites in it,
or wiggletails, or whatever you want to call it, from
forty, fifty years ago, still trying to eat that old manna that fell way back
years ago. And the children of
Then why do men keep
preaching the same old denominational doctrines and claim to believe the sign.
They see the prophet, so they see the sign, but why do they keep preaching the
same old watered down doctrine that they held back in Pentecost?
THE TOKEN 64-0308 77 He displayed His sign as Messiah, and so
forth. And they, many of them, said, "Yes, I could go for that."
Well, now, if that was a sign, there's
got to be a voice of that sign. What was the voice behind it? When He begin to
teach His doctrine and call them a bunch of snakes in the grass, He wasn't
popular from then on (See?) when the voice came with the sign. The sign went
first.
Notice what Brother
Branham just said here. The voice behind
the sign is the doctrine. But they do not want the doctrine, therefore,
they do not accept the Voice of the sign. They
claim they want the Word of God but they do not want the doctrine. A big
shot so called in this message was talking to a young man I know and he said,
why don’t you Lee Vayle guys believe in doing mission
work, and the young man replied, well, brother Brian Kocourek does, and we
support what he is doing, what about that? And that So called big shot said, “Oh he
doesn’t preach the Message, he only goes to teach Doctrine.”. And the
Young man told me, he said, “I thought to myself, What is the message if it
isn’t the doctrine? But you can’t argue with these guys because they do not
believe the voice of the sign.
LEAN NOT UNTO THY OWN UNDERSTANDING
65-0120 190 Lean not to your own understanding. And after
the sign went forth, and the Voice
following, and the churches begin to turn me down and close their doors upon
doctrine, that any of them is daresn't to stand
before me to say it's right or wrong. I challenge any of them. Uh-huh. Not to
be smart, but I know where I'm at. See? That's right. What did they do? What
did they do? They shut every door. "Now, what are you going to do?"
Notice again that
brother Branham tells us that the church turned down the voice which is the
doctrine.
MEANEST MAN I KNOW 62-0127 E-21 Oh, I would've loved to have been there to
listen to that. No doubt, I believe that every person here would've longed to
be there, to hear what He had to say, listen
to His doctrine, what His doctrine was, how He expressed Himself, and what
type of a voice He had; and look upon His face and to see Him performing His
works, and discerning the thoughts of the people, and telling them of different
things and diseases they had, and pronouncing them healed. I would've loved to
have been there. Oh, my. I would like to have seen that.
You know, these
churches claim to believe the Word of God, yet they turn down the doctrine
which is the voice of the Sign. Did you know what the definition of the word
Logos is? It is the word that is used in John 1:1 in the Beginning was the WORD, the Logos, and the Word, the
Logos was with God and the Word, the Logos was God. 3056 Now, the word logos means -- Word or speech, a
word uttered by a living voice, which embodies a conception or idea It
also means 1b) a decree,
a mandate an order -- what is declared, a thought, declaration, aphorism, a
weighty saying, a dictum, a maxim, and
it also means 1c) discourse – instruction, DOCTRINE, and teaching.
Therfore, we can say of
John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Doctrine and the Doctrine was with God and
the Doctrine was God.”
And this same John
wrote also in 1
John 1:1 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 Doctrine of 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 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.
That is why God said, DEUTERONOMY 32:1 ¶ Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 2My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: Because the rain gives life to the herbs of the field.
PROVERBS 16:15 In the light of the
king's countenance [is] life; and his favour [is] as
a cloud of the latter rain.
377-2 RESUME OF THE AGES -
CHURCH AGE BOOK CPT.10 “the latter rain can come only after the former rain which is
the spring or TEACHING rain. The latter rain, then, is the HARVEST rain.” Therefore you had to have the
Prophet of God come with teaching, and then another rain would follow, with is
the Harvest rain. And since the Teaching rain and Harvest rain are both rain, and
God said His Doctrine is as the Rain, then both must be the Doctrine going
forth. One to teach and the other for harvest purposes. When that last elect Seed is in
AND child-trained, the we will go.
HEBREWS 6:1 ¶
Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on
unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works,
and of faith toward God, 2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of
hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 3 And this will we do, if God permit. 4 For [it is] impossible for those who were
once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers
of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of
the world to come, 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance;
seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put [him] to an
open shame. 7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: 8 But that which beareth thorns and briers [is] rejected, and [is] nigh unto
cursing; whose end [is] to be burned.
ABRAHAM'S GRACE COVENANT 61-0317
E-11 You're either a believer or not a believer. Now, listen to
Scripture. The man or woman that comes to a fact of the Bible, comes up
against the Scriptural doctrine...
Ministers, whoever you are, I say this with Godly love, and you see it, and know it is the truth, and turn away from it,
"there
remaineth no more sacrifice for sin, but a fearful
looking for the judgment, the fiery indignation which shall devour the
adversaries.
JUDE 1:12These are spots in your feasts of charity, when
they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without water (No rain, no doctrine), carried about of
winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit (and
remember the fruit is the teaching of the season, therefore these are they
without a teaching of the season, because they have no rain, no doctrine), twice dead, plucked
up by the roots; 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame;
wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
ISAIAH 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit [and]
filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean]. 9 ¶ Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall
he make to understand doctrine?
Notice the
Isaiah 28:8 NIV All the tables are covered with
vomit and there is not a spot without filth. 9 "Who is it he is trying to teach? To whom is he
explaining his message?
LAMSA: Isaiah 28:
89 For all tables are
full of vomit and filthiness, so
that there is no place clean. To whom shall he teach knowledge, and whom shall
he make to understand the report.
Those who are weaned from the
milk and drawn from the breasts. For
filth is upon filth, filth
upon filth, vomit upon vomit,
vomit upon vomit; a little here, a little there; For with difficult
speech and with an alien tongue
will he speak to this people.
For I have said to them, This is the place
of my rest wherewith I may cause
the weary to rest, and this is the
place of tranquility; but they
would not listen. So their Word of the Lord
was to them filth upon filth, filth upon filth vomit upon vomit vomit
upon vomit a little
here little there that they might return
and fall backwards an be broken
and snared and taken.
And that is exactly what happens to those who turn down the Voice of the Sign. They go backwards as hard as they can back into Pentecost where they came out from. And notice what they do. They look for more signs because they did not listen to the Voice of the Sign.
MATTHEW 7:28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended
these sayings, the people were
astonished at his doctrine: 29 For he taught them as [one] having
authority, and not as the scribes.
Now the word astonished here does not mean to be amazed as though you
heard this wonderful thing. It comes from the Greek word, 1605 ekplesso {ek-place'-so} and
means to be so amazed and astonished that you to strike out ,or try to expel by a blow,or drive out or away; to cast off by a blow, to
drive out; to strike with panic, shock, astonish; to be struck with amazement,
astonished, amazed. So you see this suggests rejection, not acceptance.
MARK 11:18 And the scribes and chief priests heard [it],
and sought how they might destroy him:
But whose Doctrine was it? Because if you know whose doctrine it is
then you will know whose Voice it is.
JOHN 7:16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is
not mine, but his that sent me. 17 If any man will do his will, he shall know
of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or [whether] I speak of myself. 18 He
that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but
he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is
true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
II JOHN 1: 9 Whosoever transgresseth,(the word here for transgresseth means to go beyond the limits) and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. (Now, this is very important because if we do not have the doctrine of Christ we do not even have God, so we must ask ourselves what is the Doctrine of Christ, and John gives us our answer.) He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. (Therefore if you have a doctrine of Christ and it does not have BOTH the Father and Son in it, you have not God.)10 ¶ If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into [your] house, neither bid him God speed: That’s pretty strong John, but there is a good reason why he said this, because a little leaven will leaven the whole lump. And leaven is the doctrine of the Pharisees which rejected the Son of God.
I JOHN
You’ve got to have doctrine, especially the Doctrine fo Christ or you don’t evcen have
a ministry.
REV CHAP 5 PART 2 61-0618
66 Any man that has not
a doctrine has not a ministry.
In fact without out
a doctrine, you don’t even have a church. You might have a lodge, but according
to brother Branham you can’t have a church.
PALMERWORM
LOCUST CATERPILLAR 59-0823 19But, yet, a church
without a doctrine is just like a jellyfish; it has no backbone. So, we've
got to have backbone in it.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 59-0628E 363-12 But as a church and
as a peoples, a congregation, we have to
have a doctrine that we stand for in order to be a church. And this doctrine
that we stand for, is the best of our knowledge to the Word of God, the Truth
of God.
But the fact is that every church has a doctrine whether they want to
admit it or not. And they thought Jesus had a wrong spirit because of the way
he hit theirs.
INVESTMENTS
62-1124B E-43 These orthodox people who were casting down
Jesus, casting down the policy and saying it was no good, it could not be
trusted... He was a man making Himself God; He was a Beelzebub; He was
a wild man; He had no background; He was illegitimately born; He didn't go to
their schools; He wasn't educated in their seminaries; He was against their doctrine; He was tearing up their churches;
and His doctrine was hindering the
people: that's what He was claimed
to do. Called Him Beelzebub, said He
deceived the people by His doctrine.
TAKING SIDES WITH JESUS 62-0601 787-213 Now,
they wasn't Spirit-filled, but they were loyal and held to the modern creed of
their leaders. See? All right. His
ministry was showing up their doctrine.
TAKING SIDES WITH JESUS 62-0601 787- 214 But when Jesus come on, His ministry showed up their doctrine, 'cause God was proving by
the ministry of Jesus Christ that He was with Him.
GODHEAD EXPLAINED 61-0425B
34-3 Here not long ago
a man got up here at the Chatauqua and said,
"Brother Branham is a prophet." I don't claim to be no prophet. See?
But he said, "Brother Branham is a prophet when he is under the Spirit of
discernment," but said, "Oh, his
doctrine is poison; be careful with it." I thought of an educated man
would say a thing like that. What does a "prophet" mean? "A
Divine interpreter of the Word." The Word of the Lord came to the prophet.
You see?
But the Word of God said they would epart
from ther Faith which there is only One faith and
that is The Revelation of Christ which is trhe
Doctrine of Christ.
REVELATION CHAPTER ONE 60-1204M 28 But I want to just say this before starting.
To see the beginning of the church age, and to see how the apostles, the
doctrines, and things that they taught, and the principles of the Bible, and
then to see that church, about the second round of apostles, how it begin to
fade away: the real, true teaching.
The third round, getting way away; by the fourth round it had faded out into
a--a lukewarm. The church brought forth a lukewarm church.
FLASHING RED LIGHT 63-0623E 137 But
today they don't want to hear a message like that. The people don't want to
hear that. They want to be tickled in their ears. Exactly what the Holy Spirit
told me the day I laid that cornerstone there, said to, "Preach the Word;
be instant in season, out of season, for
the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after
their own lusts shall heap for themselves together teachers, having itching
ears, and shall be turned from the truth to fables." Said, "When the
vision leaves you read II Timothy 4." Said, "Don't forget II Timothy
4." And when the vision left me, standing right there on 7th Street, a
nineteen year old boy standing there, the voice of God spoke out in the room,
and He said, "II Timothy 4." That's exactly what it's turned to
be. 138 The
time will come when they'll not endure sound doctrine. People want something...
The Pentecostals want something that can pat them on the back and let them live
the way they want to, and they can play the piano at forty beats per
second, and jump up-and-down and dance about it, and women do the way they want
to and men the same way.
ASHAMED OF HIM 65-0711 225 As Paul told Timothy, let's be instant in
season, out of season; reproving and rebuking, with all long-suffering and
doctrine. For the time will come when
they'll not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall heap for
themselves together teachers, having itching ears, and will be turned from the
truth to fables. God, we're living in that day. You've let me live long enough
to see that happen.
SPIRITUAL FOOD IN DUE SEASON 65-0718E 140 But
the Lord gave me what I should do in my Message. But then He said, "Do the work of an evangelist; make full
proof of your ministry, for the hour will arrive when they will not endure
sound doctrine." If that hasn't come now! Every church denomination has turned me down, they wouldn't endure
sound doctrine. "But after their own lusts they'll bring their own
teachers in, and they'll be turned into fables. And they will do great things
of exploits like Jambres and Jannes
that withstood Moses, but their folly will be made manifest." See, see?
All right, impersonations.
VOICE OF THE SIGN 64-0313
E-44 Now that sign of
Look what the True
Doctrine will produce. ACTS
ROMANS 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves
servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto
death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 17But God be thanked, that ye were
the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. 18 Being then made
free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
ROMANS
I TIMOTHY 4:6 ¶ If
thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good
minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast
attained.
I TIMOTHY
I TIMOTHY
I TIMOTHY
II TIMOTHY
II TIMOTHY 4:1
¶ I charge [thee] therefore before God, and
the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing
and his kingdom; 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season;
reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not
endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves
teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away [their] ears from
the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 5 But watch thou in all things,
endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy
ministry. 6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is
at hand. 7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished [my] course, I have kept
the faith: 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which
the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only,
but unto all them also that love his appearing.
TITUS 2:1 ¶ But
speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: