December 24, 2000
LUKE 8:40 ¶ And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people [gladly] received him: for they were all waiting for him. Expectations, the people were glad to see him because they were expecting Him. Let us pray.
This morning is Christmas Eve and many a child will go home tonight and will lay awake almost the entire night, waiting to arise early on Christmas morning to see what awaits them in terms of Christmas Gifts, whether it be new toys or new clothing, it doesn't really matter. The excitement is not in what the gift is, but the awaiting to receive that gift. It is the expectation that brings the excitement. If we truly believe we are going to receive, then we can hardly wait, and the waiting builds up within us an excitement that brings with it energy. Energies that we don’t normally have.
As a child, we were to bed around 8 o'clock every night of the year except one time every year, and that was Christmas Eve. Growing up Catholic, we would attend the Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. It was the one time each year that we could stay up late, and I think perhaps my parents just wanted us to be wore out to get our minds off of what was coming the next morning. I Will never forget some of those masses as long as I live. They were the longest of the year because they were what was called a high mass and they used incense and a whole lot of extra's that they pulled out of the wood works, and I think it was a plot between the priest and the parents to keep us up during a very boring and very long winded service that none of us could understand because it was in Latin anyway, but I think the real reason for the long one on Christmas eve night was to give our parents a little rest and quiet for a couple hours at least. And so that is the way it was. I don't think the incense was really supposed to be a part of the service, because on Christmas eve night it wasn't just a little incense, it was a smoke stack, and it filled the air with so much soot that you could hardly breathe and what little oxygen was left in the air wasn't enough to keep us awake and so the kids would nod off into deep sleep for about the 2 hours it took to get through with the service. I think the incense was used to drug us little kids to quiet us down. I never remember the ride home on those cold snowy Minnesota winter nights, but I do remember dad carrying me in from the car, and in fact carrying in several of the pack like potato bags under his arms, but as soon as our little heads hit the pillows, the excitement began to brew and the anticipation began to build again, and we could hardly force ourselves to go to sleep, knowing the next morning we could open our presents.
But our belief was based upon what we knew to be true. Each year was about the same thing, Mom and Dad went out shopping, and would hide the goods in their closet. When we could manage to get them both out of the house at the same time, we would sneak little peaks to make sure there was going to be a Christmas. And so, knowing there were gifts, and even knowing what they were, it helped to ensure our little minds, that it was only a matter of waiting until the green light said go, and it was a dash to the tree and a mad house of paper flying, and the air was filled with excitement.
But you see, the excitement is because we were looking forward to that day. Now, I also remember a few very long days in my life when I had done something bad, and my mother would say, you just wait until your father gets home. She wasn't the type of mother that would ground us to the house, or to the yard. That was what my father would do. No, my mother would ground us from the yard. Don't you come home until your father gets home, and then your going to get it. Well, I can remember some very long days, hiding in the woods or out in the fields, knowing when dad got home, I was in for it. The worst times of waiting was when he was out of town on a business trip and I had to wait a few days, knowing when he got home I would get whipped. There was no joy in those waiting moments, there was no excitement about dad coming home at those times. It was shear terror, thinking about the consequences that lay before me. And So, to make a point, our joy and anticipation comes from looking forward to those things which are rewarding.
But if we do not believe we will receive anything, or if we only believe that what we will receive is no good, then we do not get excited, and we do not look forward to that time. And so was it with the First Coming of the Son of God, and so is it today at the great preview Appearing.
Now, this morning I would like
to speak on this subject of expectations, and to do so I would like to continue
with our study of Who is this Melchisedec, and we shall read from
paragraph 53. I wish to do so in a way
that will help us to have a better understanding of the Christmas Message.
In paragraph 53 of "Who is this Melchisedec" Brother Branham
said, 53 Think of it. Before Jesus was ever born,
. . . before He came on earth,
And that is the portion of
his sermon I would like to of this morning, and I would like to entitle this
Christmas Message, "EXPECTATIONS". What took place before he
came to set the Atmosphere for his Coming.
To begin our lesson this
morning, I would like to read for our text from the Book of Luke.
LUKE
1:1-18 ¶ Forasmuch as many have
taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are
most surely believed among us, 2 Even as they delivered them unto us, which
from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word; 3 It seemed
good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very
first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, 4 That thou mightest know the certainty of
those things, wherein thou hast been instructed. 5 ¶ There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain
priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife [was] of the
daughters of Aaron, and her name [was] Elisabeth. 6 And they were both
righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the
Lord blameless. 7 And they
had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were [now] well
stricken in years.
6 And they
were both righteous dikaios {dik'-ah-yos} 1c) used of him whose way of thinking, feeling, and acting is
wholly conformed to the will of God, and who therefore needs no rectification
in the heart or life; only Christ truly
1d) approved of or acceptable of God
6 And they were both righteous: before God, (or in the presence of God) walking (They
had ordered their life, or conducted their life in such a way) in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
This couple had made a
conscience effort to walk, to talk, to live a life that honored and placed
God's Word and His Commandments above everything else in their life, giving God
the preeminence. They had made God's Word and ordinances the highest goal and
aspiration or their life.
I like what Brother Branham
said about this couple.
RESURRECTION OF
LAZARUS 50-0813A E-20 Before God does anything here on
earth... I want you to catch this close. Before God does anything on earth, He
always sends a witness from heaven to declare it. Now, before Jesus was born,
why, God sent a witness of this. Signs and wonders begin to appear of His
coming, just as it's appearing today by witnesses of His second coming again.
See? Signs and wonders... This is a day that... There's never been an age
through all the church ages that's ever produced what this age is producing
right now, for it's the coming of the Lord's drawing near. Don't you believe
it? Drawing nigh, rather... And we're nearing the time of the close of this
world's history when Jesus shall come. Notice, signs begin to appear. There
was a man by the name of Zacharias and his wife Elisabeth: righteous, holy
people, keeping the commandments of God and walking in all the statutes and
ordinances of God, blameless. That's the kind of a home we need
today. Don't you believe it? In the stead of that in the church today,
we have everything else but holiness and righteousness. But they were
righteous people, godly people, walking in the commandments of the Lord,
keeping all the ordinances, blameless. Zacharias was a priest at the
temple. And his office was to burn incense while prayer was being made. And one day, while he was in the temple
burning incense, Gabriel, an Angel from God, came down and stood by the altar
of incense, and said, "Zacharias, fear not. Your prayers is heard."
Oh, I love that. They... His wife was barren. She hadn't had any children. She
was past the age of bearing. But he lived right before God and believed on
God. And all of his great, dark, long hours of worry finally the Angel come
and said, "God has heard your prayer." Now, if you want God to hear your prayer, send an Angel to
your home, live right, do right, treat everybody right, be right before God,
and God will grant that to you.
We could close right there.
Listen again to what Brother Branham, Vindicated Prophet of God said, "Now, if
you want God to hear your prayer, send an Angel to your home, live right, do
right, treat everybody right, be right before God, and God will grant that to
you."
And so Zacharias met an
angel from the Lord, His name was Gabriel, and He told Zacharias all that would
take place concerning he and His Wife and how they would have a child, and this
child would go before and prepare the way for the Son of God to come. And so
what did Zacharias do? He finished out his duties and then went home to his wife and prepared for that little one to
come.
LUKE 1:21-24 (read)
EXPECTATIONS! Could you imagine what went on in the minds of
Zacharias and his wife Elisabeth? Here they were very old and well stricken
with age is what the Scriptures tells us, and yet the first thing we hear from
God's word is that he could hardly wait to finish his job and then like a bee
to the hive he went straight home to give his wife the good news. And what news
it must have been to her. Now, I can just imagine what she must have been
thinking, here's my husband, he's been away for about 2 weeks and he comes home
with this story about having a baby. A promise from an Angel of all
things, and how do we have this baby? There's got to be a preparation made. I
know what must be on his mind. After all it must be lonely up there at the
temple, and all, but really Zacharias, you don't have to tell me an angel told
you to do this. I mean after all, I still do love you my husband, and all you
have to do is ask and I am yours. But an angel?
Now, babies don’t just come
by spontaneous combustion. Nor do they come by talking about them, nor by
wishful thinking. There is something
the husband and wife must do in order
for that child to come. And to know that God is watching your every action, it
would kind of make you uncomfortable if you know what I mean. But notice what
the scripture tells us, 23 And it came to pass,
that, as soon as the days of his ministry were accomplished, he departed
to his own house. 24 And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid
herself five months,…
Now, notice that the Lord
new the exat time of conception, LUKE 1:26-80 (read)
MATTHEW 24:42-51 (read) It's your expectations, if you expect him you conduct yourself as
though you do expect him.
EXPECTATION 54-0220
E-26 I've asked that God will
bless you all. And I want to speak just a moment, and then we'll start praying
for the sick. Now, first, we want to think tonight on this text, if I would
call it a text, just for a few moments. And I would like to use these words in
it: "Expectations." As I mentioned here the other night, you usually
get what you expect, don't you? If you come tonight to the meeting, just
expecting to see something that you could criticize the meeting about, the
devil will show you plenty of it. You'll go back with a lot of criticism just
like you expected. But if you come tonight expecting, just say, "Lord, I
come to see You. I come for the benefit of... to be healed. I come for the
benefit of my soul. Well, I expect You to give it to me, 'cause I'm here in this
place that's dedicated to Your--to Your glory." And you'll get just what
you expect. That's right. You always... And you can never go above your
expectations. You'll always have to do that. And when a man's borned of the
Spirit of God, filled with the Holy Ghost, everything he has need of in this
life's journey, is in him right then. And the only thing he has to do is just
drink from the inexhaustible Fountain of Life, which is Christ Jesus, until he
pushes out Divine healing, powers of God. He just pushes it out by his drinking
from the everlasting inexhaustible Fountain of Life, Jesus Christ. Amen.
EXPECTATIONS AND
WHAT LOVE IS 54-0228A E-57 Now, I want each one of us now in our
hearts to--to dwell on this thought of "Expectations." Whatever
you expect is usually what you get. You heard about the lady that prayed
for the mountain to be moved and got up the next morning, looked out the
window, said, "Just as I expected, still there." Well, that's the
reason,… that she expected it. That's right. Now, you want to have an
expectation all the way from heart, soul, body, and mind, that God is going to
give us a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Now, I feeled it, that it's near
us. And God is willing and ready to give it to us.
E-58 Now, if you expect, that's what you
receive. If you've come to the meeting saying, "Well, I'm going
down... I'm just going to--I'm going to find some flaws of that meeting. I'll
find some flaws of that preacher. I'll bet you I can." Don't worry, you'll
get it. The devil will show you plenty of them. Yes, sir. You'll go back, say,
"Mm, hmm. Just as I expected. That's just the way it was. Uh-huh."
Same group found fault with Jesus when He went through the pool of Bethesda and
all those cripples laying there, lame, halt, blind, and withered. Passed by
every one of them, never healed any of them, went over and healed a man laying
on a pallet, walked away. Them Jews, "Uh-huh, now if He's the healer, let
Him heal them." See?
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Just as you expect, that's what you get. But you come to the
meeting expecting to see the glory of God moving, the power of God, sinners
being saved, filled with the Holy Ghost, sickness being healed, then watch what
God shows you. Yes, sir. See, you are a creator in yourself. If you're... How
many's borned-again say, "Amen?" Do you know each one of you is a
creator? You are a part of God; you're a son of God, an offspring of God, a
daughter of God. Is that right? Then you are a creator. Now, did you
ever see people, they were nice people (I ain't saying this for any back now.),
nice people but you just couldn't hardly stand to be around them. You know
that. Nice people, it's their atmosphere they're in. Then you've seen other
people that you just long to be with them, is that right? It's that atmosphere
that's around them all the time. Now, my wife setting back here, she don't
know this, but... She's supposed to be here somewhere. And you can imagine in
our home about what takes place in a run of a day: people coming, going like
that. And I go in sometimes, and the poor little fellow in there in the kitchen
crying, not even a chance to cook the children anything to eat through the day.
And--and there it is. And the little kiddie, the little girl about two years
old, little Sarah, and Rebekah, and they're in there, and they're crying and
going on. And my wife crying, she'd look up, she'd say, "Bill, I'm just
about to go crazy. I just don't know what I'm going to do." She said,
"I..." And gray-headed at thirty-four years old. And so I said,
"Well now, that's right, honey."
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I never--don't fuss at her. See? No. "That's--that's right,
honey." See? "It's--it's very bad, but you see we're--we're serving
the Lord, so we..." See, what I'm doing all the time in my heart, I am
trying to create a different atmosphere. They're all nervous and they're
tore up. See? Now, I was thinking in my heart, "O Lord, now send
Your Presence and Your love to my poor little tore up wife." And I say,
"Yes, dear. That's right." I say, "What was this here?"
"Oh, we haven't had anything to eat and..." I say, "Well, there
probably won't be anybody else in for next couple of hours. Let's get something
to eat. And I'll help you." And I'll start getting up my sleeves. She'd
say, "Now, look, young man, you might be able to help me wash dishes but
you can't cook." I will say, "Who can't cook?" Like that, you
know, just going on. "Well, you haven't never seen me fry potatoes yet. I
was raised on them," like that--something like that. And I'll see a little
bitty smile trickle on one side, you know. And the first thing you know, I come
over, and I put my hand on her. She don't know what I'm doing yet. And I say,
"Bless your heart, honey. I--I'll tell you, I'll help you do this."
And then down in my heart I'm saying, "Lord, send my peace--Your peace
that's in me into her now. O God, quieten my family now. I'm Your servant,
Father. Send..."
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And the first thing you know, she'd say, "Bill, you know a certain
thing?" Them little old black eyes are snapping again, you know. "You
know?" "Yeah." And I look at the baby, she's in there, got her
blocks and the babies are playing together. What is it? It's creating an
atmosphere. Hallelujah. Brother, let me tell you brothers. The atmosphere is
what does it. It's exactly right. Look, it's not the hen that hatches
the egg; it's the atmosphere. Yes, sir. Is that right?
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You put that same egg under a pup, it would--it'd hatch the chicken just
the same. Put it in the incubator; it'll bring the chicken just the same. It's
the atmosphere. Hallelujah. What we need is a Holy Ghost atmosphere
(That's right.), an atmosphere where the power of God's a moving, one accord,
one place, gathered together under that atmosphere of expecting God to move
down and do signs and wonders. Amen. Let's move ourself up into that
bracket. Step up in faith. Move out of these three dimensions up into the next
one.
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Say, "Lord, I'm just believe that You're going to pour Your
blessings. I'm expecting it now. All things are moving right in. And I'm expecting
to see the exceedingly, abundantly now. I'm expecting it." And when you
go... You come down and say, "Well, I don't know about it." Well,
see, you hurt the other person. Now, you're setting by one of them, you say,
"O Lord, just tear him down now. I'm just... I'm expecting great
things." See? And that expectancy will get that unity among the people.
That's what happened on the day of Pentecost, what brought the Holy Ghost in
the first place. They went up there and stayed ten days and nights, and they
were--until they were all in one place, and with one accord, blessing God for
something that they did not have. Is that right?
E-64
They was thanking God for the Holy Ghost; the Holy Ghost had never come
yet. But they had It in the seed form. Like if I'd say, "Wonder if an
acorn tree would grow down here?" You'd say, "Well, I guess it
would." And I'd give you an acorn. I'd say, "I'll give you a acorn
tree." And you say, "All right, Brother Branham, we'd like to try,
see if an acorn would grow down here in my backyard." And I'd give you
the... You'd say, "I'm going to put it in the right kind of soil, just
like you got up in the north and I'm going to see if it'll grow." All
right. Now, if you put this acorn I give you... You say, "Well, Brother Branham,
you--you said you'd give me an acorn tree." I said, "I did."
"Well, how do... You give me an acorn." "You've got the tree
already. It's in the seed form." Is that right? You've got the tree
already; it's in the seed form.
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And that's the way we have to get: in the seed form, all in one accord,
one place. They was blessing God for the Holy Ghost which had never come yet.
But they believed that it was, because God was going to keep His promise. And
when they kept blessing God until that atmosphere got just right, then there
came a sound from heaven like a rushing mighty wind and filled all the house
where they were setting. See? The atmosphere got right. Oh, couldn't we get an
atmosphere here that every crippled, every blind, every sick person,
everything, all with one accord, believing until the sick... I seen it last
week in Wood River, where there wasn't a person left... They just piled up the
crutches, and wheelchairs, and cots. I was standing at the platform, preaching
like this, and they just begin to raise up, throw them to the corners. The
atmosphere got right.
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Oh, brother, God send us an atmosphere that'll make it of one accord,
one place. Let the power of God surge down through... That atmosphere gets
right, it opens up every--moves back every clog, everything. The law of God
will move.Here not long ago, we had a man... For instance, these electric
lights. Thomas Edison was the founder of it. But we'll pra... take first... The
world has been full of electricity since the world began, all around. Well now,
listen, I just want to ask you something. Now, there was a man God was fixing
to give electricity to the world. I believe when God's program is ready,
everything will work right to its place, don't you? Has to, foreordained to do
so.
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Now, so Benjamin Franklin went fishing with a kite. Well, lightning run
down the string and he caught it, and he begin to run holler, "I got it. I
got it. I got it. I got it." He had it, but he didn't know what he had.
Well, that's what's the matter with our Pentecostal church. You've got it, but
you don't know what you got. That's it. That's right. Yeah, you've got power
enough to open the eyes of the blind, unstop the ears of the deaf, to do all
things. But you come in with a twisted up atmosphere. Let's get it in one
accord, so the Holy Spirit can pour out the gushers down upon the people: one
place, in one accord.
Along come Thomas
Edison, he said, "Listen, it'll light up." He tried ten thousand
wires. He said... He wasn't tireless. He'd set with a cup of coffee and a
sandwich all night long. He'd try this one. If the electrolysis wouldn't--or
electric wouldn't follow that wire, he'd lay it aside and get him another one.
He'd try that, until finally, he found it. And he gave the world electricity.
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Now, for instance, if you was up here back behind some of these big dark
mountains tonight, it was so black dark down there till you couldn't see where
you were going. You might fall over a rock or step into a snake, or you didn't
know what was going to happen, or one of these big Gila monsters or something
laying up there, and you know electricity is all around you. You could scream
till you got hoarse, "Oh, electricity, electricity, light up. Show me how
to get out of here. Oh, I know you're here. I know you're here, electricity.
It's scientifically proven that you're here. I know you're here, so you light
up." You could scream till you got hoarse and it'd never light up. Why?
Electricity will light if you'll follow the law of electricity. But you've got
to follow the laws of electricity.
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If you had a fountain over on this side, a artesian well gushing up, and
a crop over on this side burning up, now, you can say, "Oh, water, go over
here and irrigate my crop." It wouldn't do it. No. But if you'll follow
the laws of gravitation, you can make it do it. Is that right? Well now, look.
God is here this afternoon. Now, we got to follow the law of God. The law of
God is one accord, love one for the other: "He that dwelleth in love
dwelleth in God. Believeth, hopeth all things, trust all things, to do with
all..." Oh, my. There you are: one accord, everybody under expectations
that God's going to pour down His power. Listen, not... You know it's here.
Scientifically, you know it's here. Looky here. How could Mrs. Waldorf be
setting here after dying with a cancer? How many across the world, of the
thousands times thousands of cases?
E-70 How could you a drunkard a few weeks ago, or a few months ago,
and a gentleman this afternoon? How could you a street harlot a few weeks ago,
and a lady this afternoon? By the transforming power of God being transmitted
by the Holy Ghost into your heart changed your nature and changed your making.
It made you another person. That's right. You might not have felt... I don't
know about that. But It's here's anyhow, whether you feeled It or not. Let's
give God thanks for It, for It's here anyhow. I can prove to you right now
there's a radio coming right through you. Radio... You don't feeled it. But you
know it's there. There's television pictures coming right through you now. But
you don't feel it, but it's there anyhow. Oh, my. Now, if our body was
magnetized to that, like that big word, say, "Yes," stretched out from
the window to this window. It's sweeping through this building, "Yes"
going right through you. Somebody saying, "Yes" on the radio. Well,
it comes right through you as it goes through them--them powers, electronics
and so forth, as it goes through your body. Now, when it hits against that
crystal in the--in the set, or the... it just catches like that and you hear,
"Yes."
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Now, if God up there said, "By His stripes ye were healed,"
the Holy Ghost entwines... brings that down by the power of God. Your heart is
set on that...?... it says, "Yes, by His stripes we are healed. God you
said in Mike... Lark... Mark 11:24, 'Whatsoever things you desire, when you
pray, believe you receive it.' Lord, we prayed for a meeting; we've been
fasting for a meeting; we've been crying for a meeting. Yes, Lord. I believe
the meeting's on the road." Then stand there like, oh, till the power of
God comes down, when It hits, It says, "Yes." Next man says,
"Yes." Look it, you got double power yes, "Yes," triple
power yes, four times power yes. First thing you know, it becomes thousands
powers of yes; then the Holy Spirit moves in and confirms the Word of God with
signs and wonders following. That's it. That's what we need: an expectation.
E-72
During the time of the birth of Jesus, it was in a day something like
this when the people had wandered away from God. There was a--not had very many
ways to send messages, radio, telegram, and so forth like they got now, and
television. The only way they had to send messages then was from lip to ear.
Quickly, listen to Him now.
Jesus was born in
Bethlehem of Judaea. We're taught in the Bible that wise man saw a star when
they was over in the East, followed it all the way to Palestine. Is that right?
Well, they had kept time by the stars them days. Every city had a little
observatory on top of it. And they kept the watchman set up there, and told
time by the stars. In the daytime, they told time by the sundial. You know,
"What--what time is it, watchman on the tower?" And they asked for
the time.
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Now, they kept time and yet that... Here it is. I want you to get it.
That star passed over every one of those cities and not one of those men saw
it. But our Bible declares that it done it. And I believe it did. "We have
saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him." Is that right? And
they moved, led by this star moving them. And this greatest star of all the
stars, the greatest of all, moved right by the scientific world and they never
saw it. Why? They wasn't expecting it. But there was some wise men, who heard
Balaam's prophecies, there'd be a star of Jacob rise. They was expecting it.
They were looking for it. They found it. They followed it. They were looking
for it. I'm looking for something, aren't you? My soul is stimulated to the
highest just before the coming of the Lord Jesus, to see something happen
that's going to shake the Gentile world before God leaves it. Yes. I'm
expecting it in Phoenix. I'm looking for it. I want you to agree with me and
expect it.
E-74 These wise men,
they said, "Someday, my father said... Here it is written in the
Bible." His father said, his father said, there'd be a star of Jacob rise.
When they saw that star when it appeared They were looking for it. They saw it.
The rest of them didn't see it. Somebody said, "Don't you think them
people who cry and shout are all emotional, worked up?" No, sir. No, sir.
They're not. "Brother Branham, don't you think it's psychology
speaking?" No, sir. I do not. They're expecting something. They're
expecting manna from heaven to feed their souls. While they're setting there
under expectations, God is under obligation to give them the manna from heaven,
'cause they're expecting it. You're expecting a meeting, God's under obligation
to give it to you.
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Now, here they come. Then we see the shepherds come out and sing on the
hills of Judaea. 'Cause they was always singing at the birth of a king. Eight
days later, we find Jesus going to the temple in His mother's arms, mother
packing Him. There was an old man up there, an old sage, or we'd call him a
preacher, long beard, and hair. And he was--had a fine reputation among the
people. He was a renowned man. And he had a fine reputation. And one day when
he was out, the Holy Ghost told him, said, "Simeon, you're not going to
die until you see the Lord's Christ." And he believed it. And he was
expecting it. He went around... He didn't care what the rest of the churches
said; he didn't care what all--his prestige. He said, "I'm believe... I ain't
going to die till I see the Lord's Christ." I can hear some of them
saying, "You know the old fellow is kind of getting old just a little bit,
you know, something wrong with him up there." They usually say that, you
know. "There's something wrong up here with them people." See?
E-76
Well, what was the matter? He was expecting God to keep His Word. Had a
good reason, didn't he? "Well, how you know you're going to see it? David
looked for it, even Adam, all the way back has looked for it. Four thousand
years has passed and there has been no sign of it yet." "I don't care
what's passed; the Holy Ghost told me I was going to see it and I believe
it." That settles it. That's a good reason, isn't it? "You mean
you're here eighty years old and one foot in the grave?" "I don't
care how old I am, but I'm going to see the Christ before I die, 'cause the
Holy Ghost said so. I'm going right around expecting it, thanking God for His
promise, because I'm going to see Him." Oh, my. There you are. He was
expecting to see the Christ.
GOD IN
SIMPLICITY 63-0317M 6-1
{30} When a minister walks into
a congregation of people praying in the anointing of the Spirit, you're bound
to hear from heaven. That's just all. There's no way to keep from it. But if
you walk into confusion, then you--you're--you're so confused, the Spirit's
grieved. And...
Song, One Of Them: They were gathered in the upper room all praying in his name,
when the fire fell at Pentecost, baptized in Jesus name,
EXPECTATIONS
53-0507 E-30 You usually get what you expect. You come
to criticize the meeting, you... The devil will show you something to
criticize. You coming to get healed, God will see that you get it. You usually
get what you expect. Yes, say, "I was expecting this, and I was expecting
that." What you expect, God will see that you get, you'll usually get it.
LEADING OF THE
SPIRIT 55-0807E E-21
Expectations: If you're
expecting it, you will receive it. You usually get what you expect to get. If
you come to the meeting tonight, expecting to find something to criticize the
meeting, the devil will show you. He will see that you get satisfied. You get
what you expect. If you come to get a blessing, God will see that you get it.
If you come to get saved, God will see you get it. If you come to get healed,
be expecting to get healed. God will see that you do it. It's what ever you
expect Him.
EXPECTATIONS
50-0405 E-13
We always get what we expect. When people expect anything, well then
they usually get what you look for. It's the mental attitude that you have.
Remember this, and never forget it. The right mental attitude towards any
promise of God will bring it to pass, the right mental attitude towards any
promise of God. It doesn't take gifts of healing to heal sick people, any
person in here has a right to meet Satan anywhere, if you're a Christian, and
defeat him on any grounds that he could stand on.
GOD REVEALING
HIMSELF TO HIS PEOPLE 50-0813E E-39
The right mental attitude towards any promise of God will bring it to pass.
Do you believe that? The Word is a Seed (Is that right?) that a Sower sowed in
the ground. And every Seed will bring forth of its kind. If you need salvation,
the Seed's here. If you need healing, here's the Seed in the Word. The Word of
God is a Seed. Put it in your heart. Don't dig it up every morning to see if
it's sprouted, put it in there and leave it there. It's God's business to bring
forth the harvest. You just leave it there; water it by faith and praise every
day thanking God for it. All right.
HOUR IS COME 51-0415E E-17
"The right mental attitude?" That's... Your right mental
attitude towards God's Divine promise will bring any promise to pass.