Who
is this Melchisedec #140
“Crucifying the Word
Afresh 03” The Doctrine
This Morning I would like to take one more message from
paragraph 163 of Brother Branham sermon on Who is this Melchisedec, because there
is a point he makes that I feel is very note worthy and should be expounded
upon.
Who Is This Melchisedec 65-0221E 163
Dear God, I
believe the Scriptures, that You have said You was the
same yesterday, today, and forever. And as sincerely in my heart, Lord, I know
that something's fixing to take place. I cannot strictly identify it; I'm
afraid to say anything, Lord. Thou knowest the heart of Your
servants. And how many times down through the age when You
sent things, people failed to get it.
Man is constantly praising God for what He did, and saying what great things
He's going to do, but ignoring what's He's doing. So has it been through the
age. Why did the Roman church fail to see Saint Patrick as God's prophet? Why
did they kill Joan of
Notice
he speaks of Jesus rebuke to the religious people of his day, specifically the
Pharisees who were the most advanced and dedicated Jews of His time. And He said,
you guys are always talking about what God did in the past and what God is
going to do, and yet when God comes and does it you are the first to reject it.
Let’s just turn to the scriptures for a moment, and let’s read for ourselves
what he is referring to here in this statement.
In
MATTHEW
34 ¶ Wherefore,
behold, I send unto you prophets,(Notice I send you, this is in the
future, I will send to you Prophets… A prophet is a revealer of the Word.) and wise men,(These are
teachers, and not just someone who claims to be a teacher, but there is a
special trait about these men, they are thoughtful,
and sagacious which means they show
a keen sense of discernment and possess sound judgment,
farsightedness and are discreet (implying a cautious character.)
and scribes: (Men, with a gift
to write) and
[some] of them ye shall kill and crucify; and [some] of them shall ye scourge
in your synagogues, and persecute [them] from city to city: 35 That upon you
may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of
righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. 37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [thou] that killest
the prophets, and stonest them which
are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together,
even as a hen gathereth her chickens under [her]
wings, and ye would not! 38 Behold, your house
is left unto you desolate. 39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me
henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed [is] he that cometh in the name of the
Lord.
Now the killing does not only mean in a physical way. I have a letter from brother Branham at home that was written to my father in law, and in it brother Branham said there are more ways to kill a man than with a gun or a knife. He said you can kill a man’s influence and you might as well have shot him with a bullet.
From
Testimony of a
True Witness brother Branham said, You can kill a man more
ways than just sticking him with a knife; speak against his character, many
ways you can do it.
Hebrews Chapter
7part 2 pp 55, 57-0922
And you people with
these saw-blade tempers, that's always spouting off in the mouth at somebody,
can't put up, and things like that. Be careful. You're guilty if you speak a
word against your brother that's not right, not just. Go around and tear
down... You don't have to stick a knife in a man's back to kill him; you can
break his character and kill him, kill his influence. Speak against your pastor
here, say something bad about him, you just might as well have shot him; told
something that wasn't right about him, well, it'll kill his influence with the
people and things like that, and you're guilty of it.
You see, God promised to send us men, Prophets, Teachers, Scribes and they would crucify the Word afresh by killing their influence, maligning their character, and all sorts of things like that.
MATTHEW 5:11 Blessed are ye, when
[men] shall revile you, and persecute [you], and shall say all manner of evil
against you falsely, for my sake. 12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great
[is] your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were
before you.
HARVEST TIME 64-1212 320 You know, Jesus
said, "It'll come to pass that they'll even kill you, thinking they're
doing God a service." Wait till this new book of mine comes out. They shot
at some people the other night, for saying that it was wrong to unite the Roman
Catholic church with the Protestant. Three shots went
through a building of a friend of mine, just barely missed them. Wait till this
book gets in circulation. Don't think they are sinning; they think they're
doing the right thing. They think they're doing that for a cause for God, not
knowing it. The Jews killed Jesus,
thinking they were doing the right thing, because their church doctrine said He
was wrong. Oh, said for them He... They crucified the very Bread that they
were supposed to live by.
You se it’s always the DOCTRINE that declares the difference and separates between the two.
LUKE 11:47 Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the
prophets, and your fathers killed them. 48 Truly ye bear witness that ye allow
the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres. 49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I
will send them prophets and apostles, and [some] of them they shall slay and
persecute: 50 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the
foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; 51 From the blood
of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished
between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required
of this generation. 52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye
have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them
that were entering in ye hindered. 53 And as he said these things unto them,
the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge [him] vehemently, and to provoke
him to speak of many things: 54 Laying wait for him,
and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
SOULS IN PRISON NOW 63-1110M 39-3 He predicted He would send them prophets
with the Word of the Lord, and what would they do? The same thing their fathers
did because that's what you are. See? Spirits don't die. Men
that's possessed of them die, but spirits don't die. He said,
"You're the children; you're the ones." Just notice how these things
are. 39-4How that
Oh, how I love what he just said, notice…he said you claim that if you had live in the days of Paul you would have sided with him, then he said, ou are hypocrites, because if you would have sided with him back then you would be siding with him on his doctrine now. And so there we have it. If you have not the right doctrine, it shows that you have not the right spirit.
Now, I know that men will quote brother Branham from his message GODHEAD EXPLAINED 61-0425B 15-1 and they will say, brother Branham said, I would rather have the right spirit and the wrong doctrine than have the right doctrine and have a wrong spirit, but that is not what he said. Brother Branham did not say you could have a wrong spirit and have the right doctrine. He was talking about the condition of your heart. He said, I would rather be wrong in my doctrine and right in my heart, than to be right in my doctrine and wrong in my heart." See? I said, "After all, it's your heart's condition."
Therefore,
if the heart is right it will not turn down the right doctrine. How can your
heart be right and fight the doctrine of Christ? And the Apostle John said in 2 John 1:9 if you do not have
the right doctrine of Christ you don’t even have God. So how can you
have a right spirit which is God’s Spirit, and have the wrong doctrine. Jesus
said in Matthew
7 a
good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit and a Vindicated Prophet of
God said that the fruit is the teaching of the season. So how can you have the right spirit and have the
wrong doctrine? You can’t. But brother Branham was not speaking of the spirit, he was speaking of the heart. He was talking about a
hardened heart, versus a soft and supple heart. If you have a right heart with
God you will receive the doctrine of God. That is what Malachi 4 is all about,
returning the heart back to the Doctrine of the Apostles.
SIR WE WOULD SEE JESUS 63-1112 220 Now, we know that He is the same. Now, if
we come tonight, we find out if... Jesus cannot fail, because He was God. He is
the Word. The Word and Christ is the same. Then if the Word promises (the Word)
that this is to happen in the last days, the Spirit of Elijah is even to return
in the last day (That's right.) upon the peoples, and He's to turn the hearts of the children back to the fathers, the
doctrine, the principles of the Bible.
It’s always been the doctrine. That’s what the message is, it is the doctrine, the teaching. The word doctrine means teaching, and that is what they reject, and that is the reason they crucify the Word.
It’s
not the part of the Word that says, bless and curse not. It’s not the part of
the Word which deals with relationships. It not the Thou Shalt’s
or Thou Shalt nots. It’s not the part of the Word
that speaks of forgiveness and love, and the sermon on the
mount and those things. It’s the
Doctrine they kill and try to destroy.
RECOGNIZING YOUR DAY 64-0726M 140 Down in your heart
you feel the Holy Spirit dropping tears. "Jerusalem, oh, Jerusalem, how
oft would I have hovered you. But what did you do? You killed the prophets that
I sent to you. You murdered them." And the Messages has been sent to the church today has been murdered by
their denominational dogmas. The Scripture has been murdered by their
dogmas..
WAY OF A True
Prophet 62-0513M 29-4 another one with him,
stood at a certain place not long ago, said, "Brother Branham is a prophet; he can discern things and things
like"; but said, "now, don't
listen to his doctrine, 'cause he's not right."
Now, how much
sense does that make when the word of the Lord comes to the Prophet.
Yes they call him a prophet but deny what he taught. And they are still doing
that right in this message. Claiming to be following the prophet and denying
his teaching.
REV CHAP 4 PT 3
THRONE MERCY 61-0108 245
Stephen stood there, said, "I know what I'm talking about."
Said, "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears; you always
resist--resist the Holy Ghost. Like your fathers did, so do
you." Said, "Which one
of your fathers hasn't killed the prophets and then build
their tombs to them?" You denominations, which one of you hasn't
done the same thing? See? Build big white-walled castles, and morgues, and
things around here, and then talk about God. You're the very one that put Him
in the morgue; you're the very one put Him in the tomb. That's the very thing
that put Him in the tomb back there, was a big white-castled church, the
denominations, Pharisees and Sadducees that put Him in there, and then try to
build a memorial to it.
ACTS
And what was He saying? He said, I see there is one God and He has a Son and that Son is
standing at the right hand of the One True God, and because Stephen told it
like it really is, they killed him too.
MATTHEW
ACTS 13:40 Beware therefore,
lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; 41
Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe,
though a man declare it unto you. (God said He would come and do
a work in our day, but He said the people won’t believe it, although He will
send a man to declare it to them.) 42 ¶ And when the Jews were gone
out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached
to them the next sabbath. 43 Now when the
congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed
Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the
grace of God. 44 And the next sabbath
day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God. 45 But when the Jews saw
the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things
which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. (Notice that envy and jealousy was their
motive. They sazw Paul’s ministry and the effect it
was having on the people and they were jealous. Oh, if we
don’t have that very same thing today.) 46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and
said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to
you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of
everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. 47 For
so hath the Lord commanded us, [saying], I have set thee to be a light of the
Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto
the ends of the earth. 48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and
glorified the word of the Lord: and as
many as were ordained to eternal life believed. 49 And the word of the Lord was published
throughout all the region. 50 But the Jews stirred up
the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of
the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them
out of their coasts.
Just the same as today. They see the effect God’s complete Word is having upon the ministry throughout the world and they attack it with a vengeance.
EVENING MESSENGER
63-0116 155 All these things we see happening then, and
the nation... Science says it's--four or five years ago, "It's three
minutes till
158
Look at the Roman Catholic church, garnished
the tomb of Saint Patrick, garnishing the tomb of Joan of Arc. They killed that
woman, and burnt her as a witch, because she was spiritual, because she seen
visions. They burnt her at the stake, as a witch. Two hundred years later they
dug up the priests' body and threw them in the river to do penance, knowing
that she was a servant of Christ. But in the day they didn't know who she was,
while the church was passing through. And It'll go
right over the top of people and they'll never recognize It. Jesus, they didn't
know He was the Son of God till He was dead and buried and rose again. Didn't
Peter indict them on the day of Pentecost? "You men with wicked hands have taken the Prince of Life, and slayed Him."
And
how do they crucify the Word afresh? They make excuses to reject it. IS YOUR LIFE WORTHY
63-0630E 38 They made excuses in the days of Moses.
They made excuses in the days of Elijah. They made excuses in the days of
Christ, and they make excuses today. Now, Him speaking directly
to Israel, the ones that was called to the feast, that I would also apply today
to men, the church, who has been bidden
to come to the feast and won't do it, the spiritual feast of the Lord... And
they won't do it; they don't want to do it. They've got other things to do.
They find excuses. Now,
if
41Now, the excuses
they made in each day... We find in the days of Jesus that He didn't affiliate with any of them. They said, "When did
this man get this learning? What school is he from? Is not this the carpenter's
son? Isn't his mother called Mary? Isn't his brothers Jonas and James, so
forth? And isn't his sisters with us? Then
where did this man get this authority to do this?" See? In other words, He didn't affiliate with
them. So they said, "He's Beelzebub; he's a Samaritan. He's got a
devil, and he's mad. He's
a man that's got a evil spirit on the line of religion and has
drove him crazy. And that's what, he's out there like
a wild man. Don't pay any attention to
him." And we know what happened to
42 Jesus was trying
to tell them that their excuses was what killed the prophets and what killed
the righteous that come. They
accepted their creeds that man had given them instead of taking the Word of
God, and by doing so, had made the Word of God of no effect. Now, you've
either got to say in this, that this is God's will and God's desire, or either
something else that you can crop up that's better than what this is. Now, you
have to take one or the other. You can't serve God and mammon. And you've got
to say, "This is the Truth," or, "That's part of the
Truth," or, "It isn't all the Truth," or, "It isn't put
together right," or "It isn't interpreted right," And the Bible
said that the Word of God is no private interpretation. No one else is supposed
to put an interpretation to It; It's written just the
way God wants It interpreted. Just what It says, that--that's what It's supposed to be. Just take It
the way it's said, way It's wrote down here. Now, they accept their creeds.
They make God's promises of no effect to them. They bypass that, just skip away
from it.
Now, that is powerful words. Brother
Branham is telling us that what killed Jesus is all
the excuses they made in order to keep their own doctrine and reject His. And I
tell you, they are crucifying the Word afresh still by rejecting the doctrine
of the Message, which is the Doctrine of Christ, and keeping their old Oneness
doctrine.
SOULS IN PRISON NOW 63-1110M 38-3 Now, watch here. Matthew 23 and begin at the
27th verse: Woe unto you, scribes... (Now,
remember this is holy men He's talking to.)... Woe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres... (that's dead people, see?)... whited sepulchres, which
indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and
of all uncleanness. (Hypocrisies and envies and strife on the
inside of them; outside, "I'm Dr. so and so." See?) Even so ye also
outwardly appear righteous unto men,... (Look at the
Ecumenical Council and the Pentecostals setting there.)... but
within you're full of hypocrisy and iniquity. (What is iniquity? Something you
actually know is right and you won't do it. Jesus... Now, watch what generation
He puts this on then.) Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the
sepulchres of the righteous. (See? All of the
prophets...) And say, If we had been in them days of our
fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the
prophets. ("We would've believed
the Word of the Lord if we'd lived back there." Watch.) Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of
them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your
fathers. (That's just what's taking
place. Now, watch what He says here.) Ye serpents, and... generation
of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell? (How can you do it?) Now,
he's talking to ministers (See? That's right), holy men. How can you stand and
know the Bible predicts and tells them people not to do that, and you can stand
and compromise for a few lousy stinking dollars? Or some popularity and
somebody pat you on the back and call you a "Doctor." How can you say
you love those people? I'm preaching on tapes too...?... See? How can you--how
can you say you love those people and let a thing like that take place? You
Pharisees, you blind, you serpents, you generation of
vipers, how are you going to escape the damnation of hell when you...? How can
a man today that knows that these things are wrong, and stand there to hold his
congregation, to make his denomination grow and fail to tell women and men? How
are you going to escape the wrath of hell when it was made for you? How are you
going to do it? See? Listen, listen here. What is it going to be? Therefore,... (34th verse)... behold, I will send unto you prophets,... ("I will" in the future.
There's your Pharisees coming back again. See?)... wise men,... scribes: and some of them you shall kill and
crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute
them from city to city:
You
know that is a good question. How did his doctrine affect the people? It got
them to all come together, that’s BALAAMISM! They got believers to gather
together with unbelievers, that’s BALAAMISM!
He got Believers to mix with make-believers, that’s
BALAAMISM. And God hated that sin. God hates BALAAMISM! And what happened? The
young men of
II PETER 2:12 But these, as
natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things
that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
13 And shall receive the reward of
unrighteousness, [as] they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time.
Spots [they are] and blemishes, sporting
themselves with their own deceivings while they feast
with you; 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: (The
word beguiling here is a Greek word which means to lure with bait. Put
something out there to attract unstable souls. That’s your big churches full of
unstable souls. Lure in by preaching psychology, and focusing on the family
instead of the Word for the Hour. He said the people are being baited. And why
do they do that? Peter gives us the answer when he says they are covetous.
Money, money , money…) an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed
children: 15 Which have forsaken the
right way, and are gone astray,
following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of un-right-wise-ness;
16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice
forbad the madness of the prophet. 17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest;(as
Jude says, Clouds without water, Clouds without rain, No doctrine.) to whom the mist of
darkness is reserved for ever. 18 For when they speak great swelling [words] of
vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness,
those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 19 While they
promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of
whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 20 For if after
they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the
latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For
it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than,
after they have known [it], to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto
them. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the
true proverb, The dog [is] turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was
washed to her wallowing in the mire.
JUDE 1:10 But these speak evil of
those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute
beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily
after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding
themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of
winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by
the roots; 13Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering
stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
REVELATION 2:12 ¶ And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp
sword with two edges; 13 I know thy works, and where thou dwellest,
[even] where Satan's seat [is]: and thou holdest fast
my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas [was]
my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth. 14 But I
have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the
doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things
sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. 15 So hast thou also them
that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which
thing I hate.
THYATIREAN CHURCH AGE 60-1208 50 Nicolaitanism and paganism
wedded together and formed and gave birth to the first church, organized
church. And God said that the deeds of the Nicolaitanes
(which was in the Ephesians), over in the little
And today that doctrine of Balaam opposes the doctrine of Christ because the doctrine of Christ establishes a true relationship between God and His Seed, but the doctrine of Balaam opens it’s doors to every seed so long as they pay their tithing. Notice once again, we see it is the doctrine, always the doctrine. The Doctrine of Christ which hates organization, or the doctrine of Balaam which loves organization. And they hate God’s Doctrine, and God hates theirs. Which one will you stand with this morning? That is the real Question we must ask ourselves. Let’s just bow our heads and our hearts in prayer as we Go to the Author and finisher of our Faith and answer that question.