Preparation #34 (The Hidden Manna)

Sunday, August1 22,  1999

Brian Kocourek

 

 

PREPARATION  53-1111    033   Now, God in His preparation. Back when God was going to destroy the world. Before He destroyed the world, He sent forth a preparation for the saving of the people that desired to be saved. He always does it. He shows mercy before judgment. And if men spurn mercy, there's only one thing left and that is judgment. And God don't judge you; you judge yourself. That's true. As long as you're under this spray of blood that's around the world, you have a right for mercy. God's... The Blood of Christ keeps God from killing you, or He'd kill you just as soon as you sinned. But that's still... holding God from you, from your death. You're a free moral agent now. But when you die and your spirit goes beyond that, then your already judged. You don't have to wait for judgment; you're judged already. God done said, "The day you eat thereof, the day you die." And that settles it. Then when God sent forth Noah to preach... Wasn't it strange, never had rain? No water, was only but beneath the earth. And an old man come out there, an old holy-roller, with a beard hanging down like this, and got him a hammer and begin to build an ark--a boat.

          034   Could you imagine the people down in the city talking about it? Why, they'd say, "Hey, what do you think about that rain story that old guy is telling up there?" But he had the will of God. And he knowed where he was. And no matter what the world, how ridiculous it seemed to the world, God had a man He could put His hand on. And he built the ark. The people laughed at him. That didn't stop him. He just built right ahead.  And any man that really knows the Divine will of God, is borned again, they could call you a holy-roller, fanatic, whatever they want to, you'll build right ahead on the ark. It doesn't make a bit of difference. That's right. You get ready for it.

    035   Now, I can see the time Noah said there's going to come a storm, the rains are... "Oh, how is He going to do it?" I don't know. Why, it never did do it. And they were much better scientists than we have today. Go down in Egypt and look at the pyramids setting in the middle of the earth. No matter where the sun is, there's never... Geographically, it's in the center of the earth. There's never a shadow around it, no matter where the sun is. How'd they do that? And these boulders, at least two city blocks high, that weigh a billion tons, how'd they get them up there? Produce something now that'll lift them up there. They can't do it. They can't make mummies today, as they did in them days with the body. They can't embalm like they did. None of those things. They were smarter, really than they are today. And you know they laughed at that man that stood up there, building the ark and saying it was going to rain, but it rained anyhow.

   036   I can just imagine... Let's look at this just a moment. God was preparing, Noah's preaching. And the first thing you know, why one day there come a thunder. I hear someone say, "Oh, a blast went off somewhere." But a cloud begin to rise. Now, I can see the great big Polly Parrot setting out there, looking over to the mother Polly Parrot and say, "Mother, that's what Noah said." I can see the little monkey drop the cone there and say, "Come on, Mammy, we're headed for the ark." The old camel eat and say, "Come on, let's go." Two by two they went into the ark led by the Holy Spirit. It goes to show that man hasn't got the gumption of a wild animal sometimes. That's right. Those wild animals heard the sound and took the warning of God by the Holy Spirit, and went to safety. And today man hears the sound of the coming of the Son of God and rejects and refuses to hear it. Amen. You know that's the truth. But God preparing... Seems ridiculous.  I can hear someone say, "Well, if it does rain, I'll get on me a big poplar log and ride." But the big poplar log sunk. And so will every poplar log sink when Jesus Christ returns. Everything that's not in the Body of Christ will be left here. "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man."

   037   Jesus never asked this, "Will I find righteousness? Will I find people that's living good?" Goodness and righteousness is what-what... Jesus said, "Will I find faith when I return? Will I find..." Somebody, oh they say, "I got faith." Well, faith without works is dead. "Will I find somebody who'll stand at My Word and say, 'Every Word's right.' I'm not scared whether this one says so, or that says so, or nothing. I believe in God, and I'm accepting It, and standing right there on It." That's the thing. God is preparing a Church today to be saved just as He did in the days of Noah and that ark. And the Body of Christ today is that ark.

Why, you say, "We all believe that."

    038   If I asked you how'd I get across the Ohio River here? You'd say, "By the bridge." That's right. Everybody says, "By faith are you saved; Christ is the way." That's right, Christ is the way. But how do you get to Christ? Now, there's His body; the Bible said, "Not by one letter, not by one's confession, not by one profession, but by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body," into the body of Christ which is already been judged. And we're free from judgment. We're just as sure, as God raised His body from the grave, the Church will go up just as He did, all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

 

 

     039   All right. Listen, God making a preparation. How ridiculous it seems sometimes. Take, for instance, Moses. God had a time that He was going to fulfill His Word. He promised Abraham that his seed would sojourn in a strange land for a long time, four hundred years, but He'd bring them out. When the time of the promise drew nigh, God raised up a boy named Moses. He disobeyed God, and they had to suffer for forty years. But one day back there on the backside of the desert, God said, "I heard the groans of My people, seen their cries, and I've come down to deliver them." I like that, don't you? Amen. Oh, I want you to notice this in here, it just tickles me all over. Watch. Here's old Moses, eighty years old, our brother Moses, eighty years old, standing back on the backside of the desert, and he seen a bush on fire one day a burning.   (Seems like God would have used Moses when he was young and full of energy but He didn't.)

 

  040   Strange God appears in fire. They say this is wild fire. Well, I admit we got some wild fire, but I'd rather have a little wild fire than no fire at all, wouldn't you? The trouble of it is with you teachers, you're trying to set back and say, "Back there on the day of Pentecost this happened, and back there they had this."  You're trying to let the people that's cold get warm by a painted fire. You can't warm by a picture. What they had's fine, but what you got now. That's it. You can't warm by a painted fire. Talking the theology, what they did back there... What He was there, He is now just the same.

     041   Now, Moses, herding Jethro's sheep, and he said, "I'll turn aside to see what this strange thing is." Now, he never said, "I'm going to pick some of the leaves off the trees and take it down to the laboratory, examine it, and see if it's mental telepathy, or what's in the leaves, or whatever it is." He just turned aside to find out.  And when he did, God spoke to him and said, "Take off your shoes, Moses; you're on holy ground." And He talked to Moses. And Moses was a murderer: come up out of Egypt from killing an Egyptian. But God said, "I'm going down to deliver them. I'm going to send you."  Could you imagine an old man, as old as he was? Moses said, "I can't go; I--I--I stammer; I--I--I got an impediment of speech; I can't go." He said, "Moses, what's that in your hand?" He said, "A stick." "That's all you need."

   042   All right, he took that stick and performed miracles. And he took that crooked dry stick off the desert there, and sent Moses down to Egypt to invade the biggest and most powerful, mechanized army in the world. How ridiculous, An old man at eighty years old. Could you imagine the next morning, Moses set Zipporah astraddle of an old mule, put a young'un on each hip, had a big long beard like this, a crooked stick in his hand, pulling a mule. "Where you going, Moses?" "Going down to Egypt to take over." "My, ridiculous. Why," the man said, "you're crazy. They've got millions of men standing in armor." "Don't make any difference; God said I was going to take over. I believe it." Hallelujah. Say, "It's ridiculous." But God said so. No matter how ridiculous it seems, if God said so let me get into it. Amen. I believe Him. Could you imagine that old man, "Come on, donkey, come on; we're going down to take over." And he did. Amen. How's he going to do it? I don't know. God told him to go down and do it, and he did it.

   043   That's the way it is today. That's the reason I joined up with the holy-rollers, you, my dear Baptist friend, and Methodist. Going to take over some of these days. How? I don't know. How could God deal with a bunch of people like that? I can't tell you, but He does it. Go, take over. Amen. God said so. "In the last days I'll pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, upon my handsmaids and maidservants will I pour out of My Spirit. I'll show signs in the Heaven above and in the earth below, Pillars of Fire and vapors of smoke. Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions." Is that right?  How's He going to do it? I don't know, but we're going to take over. There'll be a millennium set in after while. Hallelujah. Jesus is coming. He's coming after a despised and a rejected Church by the world. But the one who's not been... "If you ashamed of Me before men, I'll be ashamed of you before the Father and the holy Angels." Going to take over. Ridiculous, that old man pulling the mule with his wife and his kids, a one man invasion, but he did it. And he didn't have any gun; he didn't have any sling shot; he didn't have any sword nor spear. He couldn't use them if he had them. But what he had he used. Hallelujah.

      044   You may not be eloquent; you may not be a preacher; you may not be a singer, but what you've got, use it. Hallelujah. You can testify, you can do something. Take over. Hallelujah.

Listen, don't let that scare you. "Hallelujah" means "praise our God."

     045   Listen, I was going into a football stadium here not long ago, where I was preaching. And I looked at a little sign that's always attracted me. It was hanging up over the stadium. It says, "It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog." That's right. You may be little in number; you may be few; you may be all this, that, and the other; but it's the size of the fight that's in the dog that does it. That's right.

  046   Here not long ago, I was in the west, heard of an Indian got converted. Said, "How you feeling, chief?" After a few days, he said, "Well, pretty good and pretty bad." Said, "What do you mean pretty good?" Said, "Well, since I got saved," said, "there's two dogs in me." Said, "One's black and one's white; and they just fight all the time." Said, "The black dogs wants me to do bad. And the good dogs wants me to do good, or the white dogs wants me to do good." Said, "Which one wins, chief?" Said, "Huh! Depends on which one chief feeds the most." That's it. The thing that's in your heart now telling you that is God's truth. That the baptism of the Holy Ghost is the way and God's preparation today is the Holy Spirit, the Blood washed church, regenerated, filled with the Holy Ghost, signs and wonders a vindicating It, proving that He's with it, that thing that's telling you that, feed that a few minutes and you'll be numbered with them. That's right. Amen.

  047   Moses, going to take over. How ridiculous, but he did it. Why? God said so. That was the difference. God said so. Now, what's that in your hand tonight? "Well," you say, "Brother Branham, I hardly got enough faith to get out here." One time there was a little boy came to Jesus. The whole five thousand people there was hungry. The little boy had five biscuits and two or three fishes. Wasn't very much in his hands. But when it once got into Jesus' hands, it fed thousands. See? While it was in his hands, it was just a few biscuits, could hardly feed himself. But in the hands of Christ it fed thousands. That little faith that you've got tonight, just enough to get you out to the church, turn it loose. Put it in His hands and say, "Lord, I don't care if they call me back--holy-roller, or backwash, whatever they want to, I'm accepting the baptism of the Holy Ghost right now. God kindle a fire in my heart; let me come forth." Watch what it'll be by in an hour from now. You'll be going down the street singing, "I got the Old Time Religion." Brother, I'm telling you, the whole country around here know something happened in the school auditorium tonight.

You don't have to wait for the Holy Ghost to come. It's been here two thousand years. "While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on them that believed." The waiting was just for the day of Pentecost to come. Oh, my. I wish I was twice my size, maybe I could feel twice as good. Look, but I'm sure feeling good at my size.

      048   Notice how ridiculous God's ways is sometimes to man, how He does things. Now, we're going to take for instance, there was a fellow by the name of Samson. God was dealing with him. Now, a lot of people tries to think... I seen the psychologist paint the picture of Samson, with--with--with shoulders look like barn doors. Why, it wouldn't be no mystery to me to see that man kill a lion, with shoulders as wide as from here over to that organ there. Why, certainly he'd kill a lion. How he could pick up the city gates and walk away, why sure, that's easy.

    049   But there's a mystery about Samson. If you want to know my estimation of him, he was a little bitty, curly headed shrimp, five--seven little locks hanging down around his face, little mommy's boy coming down the street, a little sissy. When they seen a man like that kill a lion, that's what scared them. But when they seen this fellow coming down there, and the... Why, he was just as helpless as he could be until the Spirit of the Lord come on him. And when the Spirit of the Lord come on him, my, them little shoulders straightened out, and he grabbed the lion and slew it, when the Spirit of the Lord come on him.

      050   One day he was God's provided way to deliver Sam--deliver Israel out of the hands of the Philistines. And right while he was cornered one day with a--a great host of Philistines; a thousand Philistines was upon him, and he didn't have nothing. What did he have? If he had a spear, he couldn't fight with it. So he looked around, and there was a jawbone of a mule. And the first thing you know, the Spirit of God come upon him, and he grabbed that jawbone of a mule and slew a thousand Philistines. Hallelujah.

      051   There's more than a jawbone of a mule laying next to you tonight. That's right. Let's get up and do something about it. Let's forsake these old cots, and stretchers, and wheelchairs, and crutches, and say, "It belongs to the devil. I have no more to do with it." That's right. I claim Jesus Christ's Word's right. Live or die, I'm with it." That's right. Toe the line with Him. Claim your God given privileges, and the devil hasn't got any privilege. He hasn't got one legal power over any believer. He was stripped and robbed at Calvary. Jesus Christ robbed him of everything he had, and give every believer a checkbook with His Name signed on the bottom. "Whatever you ask in My Name, that I'll do." Your personal property. Dare you to sign your name to any check there or fill it out. "Lord, I need healing in the Name of Jesus Christ." And use that Name of Jesus and stand back. Hallelujah. The whole bank of heaven will declare it righteousness. That's right. Sure.  "Oh, but Brother Branham, we've got such great hospitals." What have they done for you? The hospitals are all right; doctor's all right, but what about you? God gave you, as a believer, the checkbook; sign it.

 

 

   052   Now, there was a--during the time of the judges, a little old fellow named Shamgar. He wasn't even a judge, just a little old... Very much said about him, a little bitty spot in the Bible, about a couple of verses, Shamgar. Maybe you may never read of him. He was just a little old Israelite. And during the days, every man done his own way he felt by doing it. He had no cooperation, one was a Methodist, another one a Baptist, another one a Presbyterian, the other one a Oneness, the other was a Twoness, the other one a Threeness and... Oh, my, no cooperation, they couldn't get together. So every man done what he thought was good in his own sight. That's the reason the Philistines come in and got them. Now, if you borned again Christians will forget your differences and come together as Christians ought to, we can do something. Our King will come to us, Jesus Christ.

      053   But there, the little old Shamgar, there was no king. Who was he? He was just a lay member. Well, he... They'd build up the crop and work hard, Israel would. And the first thing you know, about time the crops got ripe, they got all their wheat harvested and everything, round come the Philistines, take everything they had, go back. That's the way the devil does it. Just about time you get your church fixed to a place, and you say, "Well now, I'm just getting along fine. We're having--we're having a real old time revival." The devil will slip in some old crazy idea, "You know, them people just about crazy." All that stuff, "There's no such a thing to it, 'cause doctor So-and-so said there was no such a thing as that."

       054   A man right here in this same neighborhood said, "Well now, we believe in Divine healing, of course, if the man's a coming. But after the meeting's over, let me see somebody that was healed. There won't be one." That guy was a lying. He don't believe in Divine healing. No, sir, can't believe in divine healing. Brother, it's so whether you say it or not. God said so. If I prayed for ten thousand people tonight, and ten thousand of them died in the morning, tomorrow night with the same faith, I'd be preaching Divine healing. If I preach to a thousand people tonight, and they all died; fifty years from now the resurrection, come to me saying, "Brother Branham, don't believe in Him. You're dying now, but you--you do something else. There's no such a thing as Christ; there's no such a thing as that," I'd still take my choice with Christ and let me die believing Him. That's right. No matter what people says, it's what God has said. That's right. God has said so. I believe God.

       055   This little old Shamgar, he got his place filled up, and he got his food all laid up, his wheat. And oh, those year before the Philistines took it away from him.

I can see him, his poor little old wife out there, and the sleeves all out of her dress, and his little children standing there real peaked, their faces all drawed down, about like some of these little churches now that's been kicked and beat around by some of these theological cemetery, embalmers. That's right.

       056   You know, that puts me in mind of a morgue. They take a dead man in that's already dead and shoot a lot of fluid into him to be sure he stays dead. That's the way they do; just keep him dead.

"Don't believe that stuff. Don't go around one of them meetings. It's nothing but a bunch of fanatics." Oh, mercy, how can you believe?

   057   Then I can see this great big bin of wheat. He say, "Well, now honey," I hear Shamgar saying, "Now, sweetheart, maybe we, the children... Now, we got the harvest in and maybe we can feed them a little bit." We're going to have a revival pretty soon and--and maybe some of these people have a little, you know how the pastor gets his church set up to the place...

And the first thing you know, Shamgar was standing there talking to his wife, and she looked so pale. And I could see the tears on his cheeks, poor little thing, she's starved to death. See his little children, how hungry they look, and no clothes on... Philistines, big old fat potato bug come right in and take it right out just as fast as he could make it. And there... That's the way the devil will do it: chop it right away from you, take everything you can get, come right around and rob you of every bit of experience you've got, take everything away from you, telling you there's no such a thing, pointing to some old crow bait laying on the bank. You know that's the truth. I hope you're reading between lines. If you don't, I'll tell you right off on the lines. Notice, all right, but that's--that's truth.

   058   Now, and there he was, there with his wheat and everything. And about that time he heard something coming [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.]. Here come the Philistines, coming up the road, six hundred of them. Oh, my. "Well, there we go; here it is again; labored all year, here comes the Philistines to take everything I got." His old wife begin to cry, and the little children holding one another. Shamgar pulled back the window and looked out. There they was, six hundred of them, all armed, trained, theological--Philistines anyhow. There they's a coming up the road, armors a gleaming, you know, and the spears in their hands, walking right on. They knowed how to do it, brother. I'm telling you, they were warriors. Little old Shamgar stood there and thought, "Well, I ain't no soldier; I don't know how to fight. I don't know nothing about it, but..."

      059   To you holy people, his righteous indignation got up. I hope yours does too tonight. Get up against evil, get up against that old wheelchair, get up against them crutches. What the devil stuck them on, don't have to have them. No, sir. They don't belong to you. Christ said, "Should not this daughter be loosed on the Sabbath day been bound with the devil all these years?" But it's going to be up to you.

      060   Shamgar stood there, and he looked around. He wasn't a warrior; he didn't have time to go away and train now, how to duel and to fight these men with the swords and things. He didn't have time to do it. You don't have time to go study out all these things and take a--a...

    061   That's the trouble of it is, when a preacher begins to learn how to... begins to have a calling to the ministry, they'll take him away to seminary, and keep him there about twenty years, and take all out of him God ever put in him. That's right. Then bring him back, and he just knows so much that, my, that nobody can tell it. That's--that's the way it goes. And when he comes back out, he's worse than when he went in. If God calls you by grace and by power, stay with it. That's right.

     062   Puts me in mind of a little woman here not long ago. She was belonged to a church, and she washed over a board and everything. She wanted her boy to go away to be a preacher. He had a little calling in his heart, so she sent him away to one of these big classical schools. And the first thing you know, while he's away three or four years, his little Mammy got sick. They sent him word, thought she was going to die, he had to come home.

     063   Well, during that time, there was a little woman lived down in a mission of a Full Gospel. So she went up and told to this woman, she said, "Do you believe in Divine healing?" She said, "Well, I don't know. Is it in the Bible?" Said, "Yes, it's in the Bible." Said, "Our pastor prays for the sick." Said, "Well, can I have him come up and pray for you?" Said, "Why, yes, if it's in the Bible." So the pastor come up, said, "Howdy do, lady?" Said, "Now, I just like... I don't want to take you from the church; I just want to read you what God said." So he said, "Here's the departing words of Jesus Christ, 'Go into all the world, preach the Gospel; he that believes and is baptized could be saved; these signs shall follow them that believe: In My Name they'll cast out devils, speak with new tongues, take up serpents, drink deadly things; if they lay hands on the sick, they shall recover.'" She said, "Why, it's in the Bible." Said, "Yes." Said, "Well then, you anoint me and pray for me." They did. The Lord healed her.

       064   Well, it went on. After while the boy come home, and he was rejoicing, said, "Oh, Mother." Said, say, by the way, you wrote and told me was telling me I was going to have to come home all at once, that you was so sick with that pneumonia." But said, "All at once you quit--you quit writing." Said, "What happened?" She said, "Oh, honey," said, "the--that Full Gospel Mission down here, them holy-rollers," said, "their pastor come up and anointed me with oil and read out of the Bible in Mark the 16th chapter that we should pray for the sick. And he prayed for me, and the Lord healed me." Said, "Praise the Lord, honey. What do you think about that?" He said, "Mother," said, "the very idea. You with them people? Why," he said, "mother, down in the seminary..." said, "Them men are--are illiterate; they don't understand." He said, "We know down the seminary that Mark 16 from the 9th chapter on is not even inspired." She said, "Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah." He said, "Mother, ridiculous." Said, "What do you mean?" She said, "Honey, you mean Mark 16 what he read to me from Mark 16, the 9th chapter on is not inspired?" Said, "No." Said, "Glory." Said, "If God could heal me with uninspired Word, what would He do with that's really inspired." Amen.

     065   That's right. What are you going to do with Mark 11:24 and all of that? "What things you ask in My Name I'll do." Yes, sir. "If He could heal me with uninspired Word, what would He do with that's really inspired then?" He could really do things that way. That's right.

       066   I can see Shamgar now. (We'll hurry; it's getting close to the prayer line time.) I can see Shamgar standing there; he looks out. Oh, my. His righteous indignation begin to come upon him; he got a little fight in him. That's what you got to get, is little fight, a little backbone. Take that wishbone out and put a backbone in. That's right.

      067   I think old Buddy Robinson, his testimony, said, "Lord, give me that backbone like a saw log, give me plenty of knowledge in the gable end of my soul, and let me bite the devil as long as I got a tooth in my mouth, and then gum him till I die." That's right. That's the way to do it, brother. Get some spunk about you. Stand up and claim your God given privileges. God promised you healing; it's yours. If you're too weak and jellyfish to take it, you'll die. You want to stand and say, "It's right," then stand. Hallelujah.

    068   If God saved my soul, I took it by faith and believed that He did, and God give me the baptism of the Holy Ghost in confirmation of it. If I stand and take Him as My Healer when Mayo Brothers told me I had a few hours to live, I took Him as my Healer; and I got the confirmation of it tonight. Hallelujah. Yes, sir. Take Him at His Word and believe it.

   069   Little old Shamgar got his righteous indignation up. He looked around; he couldn't find nothing. He wasn't a warrior. But what was in his hand? He couldn't find nothing but a ox-goad.

You know what a ox-goad is? It's a old stick that's got a big grass hump on it, they push the dirt off the plow, and sometime and punch the cattle through the gate with it.

That's all he had. But, brother, he was sick and tired of the Philistines coming, taking what he had.

     070   Oh, my, aren't you tired, mother? Aren't you, sister? Sick and tired of the devil telling me, that, "I can't walk, I can't do this, I can't do that." God, bless your heart, "All things are possible to them that believe." That's it.

  071   Shamgar said, "I'm sick and tired of it. I'm not a warrior, the odds is against me." No matter how much odds is against you, God's for you if you take His Word. He said, "There's one thing I know: I am circumcised. I am a Philistine... I--I mean, I am a Israelite. That is a uncircumcised Philistine. I know that I'm right."  "I'm a child of God tonight. And I know diseases come from the devil and I know God promised me victory." Whew. Brother, I wish you felt like I did right now. Yes, sir, I feel awfully good. Look. It's my God given privilege. Yes, sir. I'm still tonight in America where I can preach it, enjoy it. Thank the Lord for it.

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  E-72   072   His righteous indignation rose; he grabbed that ox-goad, and jumped through the window and challenged six hundred Philistines, and stood there and beat their heads in. Right. Why? Not a warrior, not at all, but he was a Israelite; he was circumcised.

And if tonight you're circumcised with the Holy Ghost you don't have to wait till you're trained to be a warrior. God bless your heart, claim your God given privilege, and beat their heads in. Amen. That's right. Say, "Get out of the way, Satan." Kick him out of the way. "I'm the guy that's taking over now. I come in Jesus' Name." Watch him scatter. Brother, when you use that faith on him, he will back up.

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  E-73   073   A guy told me not long ago, he had a dream, said, "He'd seen a devil, a little bitty old devil stand before him." Said, "It scared him." And said, "The devil jumped at him, and he jumped back. And every time he'd jump, the devil, he'd get littler and the devil would get bigger." Said, "He knowed he'd have to fight him after while somehow." So he looked around and tried to find something, he found the Bible. And he drawed it up and whacked him, he took him. And every time he would hit him, the devil would get littler and littler, and then he just beat him to death."

That's right. Every time he jumps on, just say, "Days of miracles is past."

You say, "It is?"

"No such a thing as divine healing?"

"Is it?"

Oh, he will kill you. God bless your heart, take your stand out there. Say, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever promised me this thing, and I got it." Brother, you'll see him shrink right on away. That's right.

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  E-74   074   He beat them Philistines. And look, an untrained farmer peasant with a ox-goad in his hand beat down six hundred armed men. Whew. Oh, that's the Lord. I tell you I feel like I was just about to have a heart spell to run a little bit.

You know what, when I think of that? You ain't got quite room up here; I have to have a lot of room to preach, brother. I got--I got to move out a little bit. Oh, my.

A farmer with a ox-goad slew six hundred Philistines with the power of the same God that's on us tonight. He didn't have no promise of that in the Bible either. He didn't have a promise of it. We got a promise. Amen. Oh, let that old sickness drop.

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  E-75   075   One more little expression right quick, please. I'm thinking, there's something come into my mind just now of a time that Israel had backslid and got away, like the churches are away from God tonight. And the first thing you know they'll gra... The devil always, when he knows he's got the edge on you, he gives you a bluff. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

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  E-76   076   By the name of Goliath. He stood up there, a great big burley fellow about four times the size of an ordinary man, said, "I'll make a deal with you. I'll tell you what I'll do; let's not fight all these men, kill all these men. You just chose one man out of your group and send him over here, and if I kill him you all serve us." Sure. The big smart brag, because he had the odds. He said, "And if he kills me, then we'll serve you." Said, "Some of you come over here and fight. Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho."

Puts me in mind of these guys today, "Let me see in that revival if one person is healed that I could put my hands on and see before and after, and five years from now they'll still be, I'll believe it. Ho, ho. Of course I believe in Divine healing." Oh, that's a lie. You know it is. But as long as he thinks he's got the odds, that's it.

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  E-77   077   I remember when I first started, there was no campaigns in the country, nowhere. I preached on that little subject right there. That big boaster of modern day science stands up with their big wheels a turning and say, "Days of miracles is past." Brother, that's a...?... corner now. That's right.

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  E-78   078   One day, you know what happened? There happened to be a little old sheepherder out there God was preparing, a little old fellow out there just about a, oh, about four foot and a half high, little old right with a little sheepskin coat on. His daddy, Jesse, happened to say, "David, take some wine and some raisins, and go up there to the battle front and see your brothers. They're at camp. There's none of them going to fight. There ain't enough fight in them. All their courage is gone."

About like it is in the Church today. "Well, I'll tell you, Brother Branham, I seen so many failures. I don't know." Oh, my. That makes me believe that much more. That's right.

"Now, I don't know what to do."

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  E-79   079   So he got the wine and the stuff, and he goes up there to his brothers and met his brothers out on the field. And this big giant run out and roared.

He happened to roar before the wrong man one time. Little David turned around and said, "What's this? What's going on over there? Who is that big scarecrow standing up there? You mean to tell me that you guys will stand around and let that uncircumcised Philistine defy the armies of the living God?"

That's what I think today. You let some of these big theological seminaries teachers with all these D.D.D.'s behind them stand up and say, "There's no such a thing as the power of God and the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And them days are gone." Not as long as I live. No, sir. Not as long as God can put His hand on a man to prepare him somewhere, He will not. No, sir.

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  E-80   080   David said, "I will go fight him."

And there the pastor, big seven foot Saul, cowed down in his tent, my.

But David said, "Let me go."

Well, they took him up before Saul. Saul said, "Now, my son, I admire your courage. But I will tell you, that man is a warrior from his youth, and you're nothing but a youth. That man knows how to use a sword. Why, his spear is twenty foot long maybe. Why, he'd just pick you up and... like that."

He said, "My Lord," he said, "your servant... God let him take a--kill a bear with his sling shot, and I took a kid out of a lion's mouth. How much more would He deliver that uncircumcised Philistine into my hands."

He knowed what he was talking about; he had God behind him. He knowed the anointing oil was poured on him. Samuel had done done it. He knowed he was anointed. So nothing wasn't going to bother him."

What's the matter with you anointed people? God's done poured the Holy Ghost oil on you. You're anointed. You've got the privilege.

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  E-81   081   Quickly, and look. "Why," he said, "you can't fight him." Said, "Well, if you're going to, put on my armor." Huh.

And the first thing you know, they got this great big jacket of mail, you know, and put on little David. And I can imagine seeing that little bitty fellow standing there with this great big jacket on, standing like... He couldn't hold it up. Huh. He come to find out that that ecclesiastical jacket didn't fit a man of God. It doesn't yet.

When you have to go away and get four years of embalming fluid pumped into you, when God says go, get going. That's right. God says you can do it, you can do it. "Whosoever will, let him come."

That great big ecclesiastical jacket on, you know, theological seminary experience, didn't fit David. David said, "I haven't proved that thing yet. I don't know nothing about it, but I do know what this is."

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  E-82   082   Brother, I don't know about all about your teaching, and all your doctrines, and all your Doxologies, and so forth, but I do know what the Holy Ghost is. The very thing that saved me back there will heal me. Hallelujah. God promised it and I believe it.

Brethren, he reached down there and got a hold of five little rocks as he crossed. And that old fellow just laughed at him, said, "I'll feed you to the birds."

He said, "You meet me as a Philistine, in the name of a Philistine, with an armor and a spear. But I meet you in the Name of the Lord God of Israel." He knowed where he was standing. He reached down and picked up five little stones, put one in the sling shot.

Why, old Goliath was covered all over with steel, all up-and-down like that, just one little spot. And here he comes across to meet him. A little bitty fellow about like this, and Goliath about like that standing there with his spear ready to pick him up and hang him up on a tree somewhere... Here come little David just a bouncing in the Spirit, "Ha, ha, ha." Oh, what a holy-roller. Victory already... Hallelujah. Why, he placed the Name of The Lord God of Israel before him. All devils in hell couldn't wade across that. Little David just a dancing in the spirit... Oh glory. Hallelujah.

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  E-83   083   You say, "David dancing?" Oh, yeah, he was a dancer. One day the ark come in, and his wife was setting up there looking at him. He was a cute little fellow, and she was standing. And here comes the ark across. And David run down there and begin to run and dance and carry on. And his wife said, "You embarrass me."

"Oh," he said, "you don't like that, huh? Watch this." And around and around and around and around and around the ark, dancing. Hallelujah. That's right. Yes, sir. Said, "Watch this."

And then... God looked down out of heaven and said, "David, you're a man after My own heart." Ha, ha. O glory. "You're the very man after My own heart." Little old David was a dancer.

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  E-84   084   And here he went up there just a dancing in the Spirit as hard as he could. Why? By faith he saw the victory. Amen. He saw the victory.

He took his little old sling in there, one of these stones, and he give a dance and here he comes, coming around. Oh, I see Goliath saying, "Ho, ho, ho, ho."

What was it? He had five stones: F-a-i-t-h in five fingers wrapped, this string around J-e-s-u-s. Here he comes. Oh, brother. Look out, Goliath. You got to fall.

And when he set that loose, the Holy Ghost got a hold of that little old stone and picked up a speed about a thousand miles per second, struck that giant between the face and he fell forward. Hallelujah. Oh, my.

Like a little Jim Crow, danced up there, jumped up on him, pulled his sword out, chopped his head off like that. Said, "How do you like that, boy?" Reached down and got him by the hair of his head. Said, "Come on, boys, let's preach Divine healing." Way they went. Hallelujah.

And you know what they done? The rest of them seen it could be done, and they cut Philistines plumb to the wall. Glory. Down there the old critics has got their mouths shut now.

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  E-85   085   Florence Nightingale, Congressman Upshaw, Queen of England, great men, when the Divine healing power was proved that night yonder at Portland, Oregon, that maniac run to the platform, and God threw the demon right on the ground. Tommy Osborn, Oral Roberts, Jaggers, the rest of them took turns. We've cut them devils plumb to the walls. We've got the victory. Hallelujah.

There goes David marching in, pulling old Goliath's head behind him. Victory, God prepared him a man to take care of it.

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  E-86   086   And, brother, about several hundred years after that, the Church of God had become tied down. But I can hear one thing, saying, "Behold, I send a promise of the Father upon you. I want this Gospel preached in all the world. I want signs to follow the believers. I want to heal the sick till I come again. I'm going away, but I give you the keys of the Kingdom. Whatever you ask in My Name, that I'll do. But before you do this, I got to prepare you." Amen.

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  E-87   087   They climbed up the hillsides, up yonder to the temple, stayed in the upper room until all of a sudden they got to a place one said, "I don't care if I am a Methodist."

Another one said, "I don't care if I am a Baptist, or Sadducee," till all the differences got out of them. And when they did, they started blessing God. And about that time the preparation come from heaven.

Now, the Catholic church said, "Lick out your tongue, take the holy eucharist, that does it." Holy eucharist, a little wafer... The Protestant church, just as bad; shake hands with the preacher, right hand of fellowship, sprinkle a few little drops of water on top of him, take him in to a...?..."...?...

How far and they're both wrong. But here's what the Bible says the preparation was.

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  E-88   088   Now, another thing, "Well, now my boy, I believe you're to become a minister. We will see the doctor and elder and all of them, and we'll give you the right hand of fellowship. We'll send you off to a seminary, and we'll teach you all about this thing."

Never that, no, sir, that wasn't God's preparation. He said, "Wait in the city of Jerusalem until you're endued with the power from on high. And when the day of Pentecost is fully come..."

Here come a priest up the road with a box and said, "Here's the holy..." No. Here come the Protestant preacher, said, "I'll give you the right hand of fellowship." No. Here comes the elders saying, "We'll send you to the mission field. First we have to take this student..." Nope.

"But suddenly there came a sound from heaven like a rushing, mighty wind. It filled all the house where they were setting." Hallelujah. Cloven tongues set upon them like fire. They were filled with the Holy Ghost. Out into the streets and across the nation, signs, wonders... They laid in the shadows of the men and were healed. The critics made fun of them.

That was God's preparation. God hasn't changed His plan. That was to be until Jesus come back again. It sounds ridiculous to an ordinary man. "Why, the very idea, you mean I have to go down and act like a maniac? Huh." You'll either do that or stay out, either one you want to. That's what you to do.

Somebody said, like old Naaman, he said, "I--I--I... You mean I have to dip in them old muddy water?" Either do it or keep your leprosy, either one you want to do.

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  E-89   089   There I was sometime ago, I was preaching. A certain minister come to me, he said, "Brother Branham, I couldn't even enjoy your sermon," said, "those people hollering 'amen,' screaming and hollering and crying." Said, "How could you keep your subject?"

I said, "I wasn't trying to."

Said, "When do you ever run out?"

I said, "When a kink gets in hose." Yes, when I get a kink in the hose somewhere, God has to set straighten it out, and let the blessings pour again."

Said, "I'll tell you, them people just made chills run over my back."

I said, "They did?" I said, "That's strange. If you'd ever get to heaven, you'd freeze to death; 'cause, brother, they're really making some noise up there: Screaming and a shouting, and a praising God day and night, overcoming by the Blood of the Lamb and their testimony." Hallelujah.

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  E-90   090   It's God's preparation time. God's preparing a people. And if you can't have faith to heal this sick body, how you going to have faith to raise it up in the last days? Glory to God. It's His preparation time. Oh, you're going to call me a holy-roller, so that's all right, I am.

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  E-91   091   Well, let me tell you something now, brother: I'm glad that I seen this vision of Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, of the power of the resurrected Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, heals the sickness. I'm glad tonight that He's here. I'm glad that I have Eternal Life.

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  E-92   092   I'm telling you now; when you walk to the altar one day and said, "I accept Jesus Christ as my Saviour," raise up your hand and started praising, thanking Him for your salvation. You couldn't show any physical results, but you went ahead and you believed it. You stayed with it; you confessed it; you believed it. And now, you... Everybody knows you got it. Do the same thing by healing. Accept Him on the same basis. "I accept Him as my Healer."

Don't get that little old cowed down saying "Well, I don't believe I can move this foot." Why not? You might not be able to walk perfect for a month. But kick that crutch away and walk away anyhow. It's your God given privilege. Amen.

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  E-93   093   Brother, I feel good. I just got to quit. I was just getting warm now, so I believe I could preach a little while right now, just getting straightened out now. I'd like to get you over in Revelations, the Lamb coming. But I'll--but I'll do that some other time. God bless you. The time gets away so quick.

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  E-94   094   All you got faith--have got faith, raise your hands. Say, "I've got faith, Brother Branham. I believe."

You believe it's the preparation time? Don't notice--don't notice your age. Don't notice the circumstances. Faith knows no age limit or circumstance. Faith knows one thing: "God said so, and that settles it." You believe it?

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  E-95   095   Where's our sister that plays the piano? Let us bow our heads a minute. "The Great Physician," sister. Something come on my heart then.

Our heavenly Father, I thank Thee tonight because that we're living in the hour of preparation. We're living when You're preparing the people to believe all things. We believe that's the message of the day, the preparation time: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. And You're calling a people, have give them the Holy Ghost, and now, You're trying to call out of that group of sons to adopt them.

We realize that the old law was that a son was born into the home, he was a son, but the tutor raised him. And then when he was of age, if he'd been the right kind of a son, he was taken out, put a purple robe on in a ceremony and adopted. And that's what You're trying to do to these Full Gospel people now: To get them out to themselves somewhere, alone with You in faith, to adopt them into the Kingdom, and give them the right to go forth, and to do the things that You did.

I pray, God, that You'll take these few examples and here the great St. Paul said after writing Hebrews 11, said, "Seeing that we're compassed about with such a great crowd of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight."

Now, Father, many are weighted down; they'd like to run but they're sick. And, Father, I pray tonight as I have brought them the plain simple truth of how that You heal the sick, You raise the dead. You commissioned Your disciples to go preach the Gospel, said, "These signs would follow them that believe."

Back in the Old Testament from Genesis on to Revelation You constantly was a miracle working God when people were ready to step out and believe You. When Moses prayed and then stepped toward the Red Sea, it opened. When the priests stepped into the water of Jordan, it peeled back from one side to the other. We've got to make a step. We've got to try. We've got to put forth our effort to show You that we're sincere. For it's written in the Bible that faith without works is dead, just as the body without the spirit. And I pray, Father, in Jesus Name, that You'll give faith here tonight to these sick people. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I ask it.

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  E-96   096   With your heads bowed. God put something on my heart just now. He said, "You preached like an evangelist, bring the people up and ask them to accept Christ as Saviour, why don't you bring them up and let them accept Christ as Healer?"

How many in here is sick and wants to accept Christ as their Healer now? I'm giving the invitation to walk right up here the side of this platform. God bless you, young lady. God bless you, sir. That's right. All right, everyone now:

 The great Physician now is here,

 The sympathizing Jesus,

 He speaks the drooping hearts to cheer,

 Oh, hear the voice of Jesus.

 Sweetest...

 ... on mortal tongue,

 O sweetest carol ever sung,

 Jesus, blessed Jesus.

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  E-97   097   Now, just reverent as you're singing this folks. Christians, I will have to answer at the day of the judgment if I told you wrong. God Almighty will hold me responsible for what I say. You know that.

You don't know how I'd like to take each one of you in my arms, set down here, set there and talk with you a few minutes, see just what your trouble was, and see if I could--if God would tell me what was wrong; or maybe something in your life that you've done that wasn't just right, would hinder your healing.

Now, you confess all your wrongs. Tell God that you'll make it right. Tell Him that you'll do it and confess your wrong.

Now, you're standing here right now to accept Jesus as your Healer just as you accepted Him as your Saviour.

I seen two little girls moving just now. There were healed. I seen It move over them when they come up. See? Now, I just had to go, bless them because that He told me to. See?

Now, I want you to come on these basis to accept Him.

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  E-98   098   Now look, Christians, you love me; I love you. If God, Who knows... If I... If that's wrong, I don't know my heart. See? But I believe that I know truly that I love you. And I--I wouldn't stand here as a deceiver, and you know I wouldn't do that. And you know God would never bless a deceiver.

How is this message just goes the whole world over now, when literally millions of healings... Even the jungles of Africa, after they was converted, I said, "Don't wait till you get an education; go right on out; lay hands on the sick."

Why, up in the jungles they got the healing campaigns going on amongst the natives, men who don't even know which is right and left hand hardly. But they know Jesus Christ. They seen Him do it, and they believe it, and they pray for their native friends, and they're healed. Preaching Gospel, accepting Christ, breaking up their idols, forming big churches and groups, praying all night, fasting for weeks at a time, no education or nothing... They just believe God. Now, you do the same.

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  E-99   099   Now, look, I don't think you could find fault with what I preached. I don't get it out in the right way, maybe. But I--I give it the best way that I know how, and I know it's the truth. I haven't got the scholarship and education to present it, like a man that could do that. But I just have to reach up, and grab it, and spit it out, and reach and grab it, is the only way I can get it, just as it comes to me.

But look, brother, I know it's the truth. I've tested it in death; I've tested it against demons. I've... All across the world. This is my third trip around now, and this... I've seen witch-doctors, and devils, and hypnotizers, and demons and everything, and--and critics, and everything come up and say, "It's mental telepathy. It's somebody out in the audience is--is looking up here, and I'm reading their mind; mental telepathy." And all such things has been tried in every fiery furnace. And every time God slays the adversary, drops them right to their feet.

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  E-100   100   There's a man setting tonight, paralyzed in this world, because he tried to hypnotize me in New York City. Went to one of these Army guys that goes and makes people bark like dogs and things with hypnotism.

And I said, "Why'd the devil put it in your heart to do that?" And that settled it, they packed him out paralyzed. He's that way yet tonight.

Many other things I could say, hundreds, but I've told you the truth. God has confirmed it to be the truth.

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  E-101   101   Now, listen to this truth. Each one of you standing here are sincere in heart. I believe that. I don't believe you have come; I believe you're needy.

And I want that elderly lady lying there too, and brother here from New Albany. Aren't you from New Albany? You're the man that surveyed... You two brothers surveyed my land up there. Is that right? As I... I see your mother setting there. See? Now, I know what's the matter with here. I didn't call her last night. I seen her setting there, but I knowed what was her matter; and you know that I know these things. I want her to be well. She was good to me. And you know if anything in the world I could do for that mother, God knows I'd come do it if I'd have to wade through the river to do it. But the only thing I can say, mother, have faith. Believe God, accept it, and you'll get well. And you over, mother, laying bound up in this stretcher too.

I see some crutches laying along there on the floor. Don't pay no attention to those things; just believe.

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  E-102   102   Now, you're standing there right now accepting Jesus Christ like you did when you come to be a Christian. Is that right? Now, don't look for any physical thing, any thing--any results, just claim it.

Now, look, Hebrews 3:1 the Bible said, that He is the High Priest of our confession. Is that right? Now, it's "profess" and "confess" is the same word there. Now, He can't do one thing for us till we accept it, and say that we have accepted it, and believe it, and testify of it. Is that right? We... He can't do nothing, no matter what. You've got to accept it first by faith, and believe it, and confess that it's right. And He before God makes it right, in your stead as a High Priest. A High Priest is to make intercessions. Is that right? He's touched by the feeling of our infirmities. Now, that's as far as I know to be the truth, and God knows that.

And if you here tonight, every one of you, would accept Jesus right now as your Healer, and say, "Lord, this settles it right here. I don't care if I ache twice as bad, if I'm three times as sick, five times as lame; I'm going to... If I can't do no more than wiggle my finger, I'm going to wiggle my finger and give You praise, claiming You healed me."

And as far as I know the Scriptures to be true, God's under obligation if your heart's pure and clean, to make you well.

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  E-103   103   I've seen Him cure sarcomas cancer. If anybody'd like to have statements of that, I got medical statements. That's right. Cancer...

Look at Congressman Upshaw. Sixty-six years an invalid in a wheelchair, rolled him into a big place there in California. The Holy Spirit moved and showed him just what was wrong with him, told him, "Rise from his feet." And he hadn't been on his feet like that, there his crutches and braces and beds, and things like that for sixty-six years; walked to the platform, touched his feet, turn a hand spring, went everywhere, a congressman of the United States.

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  E-104   104   Everywhere, have faith. Now, bow your heads everywhere. Now, just like you was coming for salvation, you come for healing.

Now, everybody in here, you out in the audience that's well tonight, you should be happy that God has let you be well. Look at these old mothers and dads, and little mothers with their babies in their arms, poor little children leaning against the altar, crying. Gray headed mothers and fathers standing around here, poor old things just slaved a long time in life, good, sweet, kind; what if that was your mother? What if that was your dad? You'd want somebody be awful sincere, wouldn't you, when they prayed? Well, they do the same.

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  E-105   105   Now, everybody sincere, everybody believe. Now, I'm going to ask God to heal every one of you.

Now, while I'm in prayer and you feel that God has healed you, I want you to raise your hand and say with a loud voice, "I accept my healing." Or give God praise. And I want you to come now with sincerity. If you're deaf, put your fingers in your ears. If you're sick in your stomach, lay your hand on the stomach. If you're... Wherever you're sick, place your hand. And then... or on your child, or on your parents, and let's pray.

Now, heavenly Father, I--I am so happy to know that You're here. And many of us, years ago, little old bashful boys and girls have now received something that gives us boldness, great courage, courageous as a lion, because the Lion of the tribe of Judah has rose in our hearts giving us grace and power.

In this building tonight there's some, maybe two thousand or better people seated here, and they're under expectations. And I have tried to speak to them upon Your preparation: the preparation for healing, the preparation for salvation, the preparation for victory.

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  E-106   106   And now, You have give them in their heart faith enough to come to this altar, and I called them here, and they're here believing that You're going to make them well. They realize that they can't live very long unless You do it. And You're the only One Who can do it. And as far as their healing, You've already done it. You did it at Calvary. And You're trying to open their understanding right now, that they might understand that You have did it.

And now, in this massive group, as we're standing here gathered, pulled out, confessing our faith, coming to the altar believing that You have come to heal us, Lord, I pray now. And knowing this, that the only thing that's keeping any person in here from being healed if their heart is right with You, is that shadow of the devil of doubt hanging over them: doubt, unbelief. If they only had one speck of faith more, they could be healed; and Satan is shadowing that little thing for them.

Now, Lord God, hear my prayer. Not knowing what hour I have to come and meet You, or none of us does, and knowing that we have to answer for our ministries before You, I pray Thee, Father, to give me favor just now before You, that if I have found grace in Your sight that You'll answer my prayer.

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  E-107   107   And here's these dear people that's set here night after night. They're trying to press into the prayer line to search out their souls and so forth. God, may that take place just now, and may their souls be searched out.

And now, they're standing here wanting to be healed, and Your Spirit is hovering over here, the very Spirit that can make a little old timid person stand in the power of the resurrection. And now the devil's hanging over them, trying to keep them from--just trying to keep them from believing or accepting their healing. And I ask You, Lord, if I've got grace in Your sight to give me power to make him leave from before these people, and cast away that devil long enough that they can get a glimpse yonder of Calvary to see that old wet coat of Blood going up there, dripping, smack, smack, smack, against the back that was striped for our healing. O God, grant it.

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  E-108   108   Now, you devil of doubt that's hanging over the people, come out of them in the Name of Jesus Christ. I rebuke you, that you leave these people. Come out of them and let them each one be healed.

Lord God, I pray that You'll cast away Satan and make the power of God so real to them, that they'll look through that shadow yonder and see the Son of God standing yonder with His striped back, saying, "By My stripes, you were healed already." And may they accept it now, Lord, in the Name of Jesus Christ.

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  E-109   109   Throw up your hands every one of you. All that believe now, that believe you're healed, raise your hands. Amen. Amen. Give God praise and glory. Looky here, audience. Every one of them's healed. The power of God. Let's stand to our feet everywhere and give God praise and glory. Hallelujah. Looky here, audience, this whole group of people is healed.

What about them others down there on them stretcher cases; stand to your feet. Get up. And have... Get up, God heal you. God will do it if you'll raise and believe it.

What do you think, brother, the heart trouble gone now? Going to be well?

What do you think, sister? Female trouble gone? You going to be well?

What you think, brother, with your ear? Going to be all right now? God bless you.

A little girl who had the cross-eyes, they're uncrossed. They're all right now. You're well. You can go home.

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  E-110   110   Everyone of you is happy. Let's stand and sing the praises to Him, "I Will Praise Him." Everyone now, altogether, lift up your voices and give God praise.

These people, if they are not healed, they are not saved. They've come on the same basis. How many out there believes they're healed? Raise your hand and say, "Praise the Lord." You're healed.

Now, let this audience, here at the altar, turn towards them out there in the audience as you accept your healing just like you did your Saviour. Well, turn around this way and face the audience with your hands up to let them know that you believe Jesus Christ has now healed you and made you well.

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  E-111   111   All right, "I Will Praise Him. I will praise Him."...?... It's all right...?...

 I will praise Him,

 Praise the Lamb for sinners slain, (everybody)

 Give Him glory, all ye people,

 For His blood can was away each stain.

(Let this audience lift that up and sing it loud now, come on.)

 I will praise Him, I will praise Him,

 Praise the Lamb for sinners slain,

 Give Him glory all ye people,

 For His blood can wash away each stain.

 

REVELATION 5:1     And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.    2    And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?   3    And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.    4    And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.   5    And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.   6       And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.  7  And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.   8    And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four [and] twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.   9    And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;   10    And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.   11    And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;   12    Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.  13    And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, [be] unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.   14    And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four [and] twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.

 

REVELATION 10:1    And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow [was] upon his head, and his face [was] as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:   2    And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and [his] left [foot] on the earth,   3    And cried with a loud voice, as [when] a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.   4    And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.   5    And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,   6    And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:   7    But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.   8       And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go [and] take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.   9    And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take [it], and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.  10    And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.   11    And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.

 

THE FIRST SEAL 63-0318  157-1  {271}   121   Notice. Now, the Holy Spirit and the revelation and Christ is... The Holy Spirit is Christ in another form. That's right. Notice, it is a Lamb that opened the Book, and the Lamb is Christ; and Christ is not seen anymore from then, but He is seen in the Book of Revelations the 19th chapter, coming on a white horse. If you'd like to read it, let's turn to Revelations 19:11 to 6.

 

REVELATION CH FOUR PT 1 551-584  60-1231   56   028   So John, we wouldn't have had a--a Book of Revelations if it hadn't have been for John, and John hadn't went out on the Isle. That was God's way of giving us the Book of Revelation. He was out there, I think, about three years, and on the Book, wrote the Book of Revelations. Now, then we leave him at the last of the invitation in the 22nd verse of the 3rd chapter, "He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches."   58   029   Now, begin the 4th chapter. After this I looked, and, behold, a door was open in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was--was as it were... a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter. We're going to take It verse by verse. And I've got a lot of Scriptures wrote down here, a--a book of them, and I don't know how far we get into It. May the Lord lead us. Now, watch, the Word is: After these things... (after the church age)...And all this from hereafter now, will be pertaining, will take place on earth after the rapture of the church. See, after the rapture. This is going back now to pick up Israel. After the church age, after the ages of the church, and they... The church never appears again until Revelation the 19th chapter when she returns with Her Bridegroom. Praise God for the wedding.   030   Let's just read that. Would you like to read these Scriptures as we go through? All right. Let's turn to Revelations 19. All right, sir, Revelations 19. Let's begin at the 7th verse, Revelations 19. This is when the church appears again, never appears again till over in the 19th chapter. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready. Oh, I--I could preach on that till midnight and not half tell it. Look, "His wife has made Herself ready."

 

SIXFOLD PURPOSE GABRIEL VISIT DAN  61-0730E   133   080   Now, after this the Bride appears. After the seventy weeks, the Bride appears in Revelations the 19th chapter, the 1st and the 16th verse. She arrives with her Bridegroom, the mighty King. Oh, my. I don't know whether we're going to get it all or not. Just got it so... Let's just read part of this anyhow. Here's where the Bride will come, after this. See? After the millennium sets in, then Christ comes back with the Bride. Right. One to sixteen in the 19th chapter...

And after these things... (After this tribulation, after the Woes, after the Seals, after the Plagues, after the casting out of Satan, after the setting up of the Millennium. Watch.) ... after these things I heard a... voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory,... honour,... power, unto the Lord our God: For true and righteous are thy judgments: for he had judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. And again he--they--and again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever... (That's the old prostitute church.)... her smoke rose up... And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that set upon the throne, saying, Amen; Hallelujah. And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God--Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great. And I heard as it was the voice of a great multitude,... (Listen. Here you are, church. After She went up in the 3rd chapter, here She comes. See?)... And I... (The 6th verse.)... And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a mighty thundering, saying, Hallelujah: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. (Hallelujah. Watch. The marriage of the Lamb comes now. Here She comes.) Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready. (Here She comes, both Bride and Bridegroom.) And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is... righteousness of saints. And he said unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the wedding supper of the Lamb. And he said unto me. These are... true sayings of God. And I fell down at the feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou doeth it not: I am of thy fellowservant,... thy brethren and have the--thy brethren and have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Christ--of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. And I saw heaven opened, and... a white horse;... (Oh, my.)... and he that set thereon... was called Faithful and True, and... righteousness does he judge and make war. And his eyes was as flames of fire, and... his head was many crowns;... (He was crowned what? King of kings.)... and he had a name written, that no man knowed, but... himself. And he was clothed with white vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God... ("In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God; and the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us." Who was It? Jesus.)... and His Name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. (Glory. Here He comes.) And out of his mouth will go a sharp sword, that--and that... it... should smite the nations: and... shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God. And he had on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KING, AND LORD OF LORDS.   134   081   What was it? His people had just crowned Him King of king and Lord of Lord, coming back to His holy Temple, anointed with the Presence of God to live and to reign through the millennium with His Church. Amen. The appearing with the mighty King to take Her place at His side, the new royal anointed Temple...

 

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS  COD  62-0527  720-164   065   Now, someone wrote me here not long ago, and asked me, said, "If you do not believe that the church goes through the tribulation period, how about Revelations 13, how they overcome by the Blood of the Lamb and their testimony?" The person asked that question. I wonder. Do you realize that the first three chapters of Revelation deals with the church in the church age? That's the tribulation period, not the church age; the church raptures and goes up at the 4th chapter of Revelation, never comes again till the 19th chapter when it comes with Jesus. That's right. That's in the tribulation period, not nothing to do with the church at all.

 

WHY AGAINST ORGANIZED RELIGION 62-1111E   220   119   Notice, the 19th chapter is the next, "After these things..." Did you notice here in the 19th chapter, "After these things..."? Watch what? After what? After the message of come out of her. After these things (Watch.) is the shout of the Bride saints with the Bridegroom, going to the marriage of the Lamb. How close are we then, brother? What's the last call? Come out of Babylon. Now, my brethren, that's the reason I'm against it; it's unscriptural. It's unorthodox. It's been proven to be false. God is not in it; He never was; He never will be. Now, I ain't saying there's not people in these organizations, that's where the church was made up of. But as long as you stay into that system, you're a part of it.

 

THYATIREAN CHURCH AGE 60-1208   35   016   And now, we find out that He also got hidden manna. Now, hidden manna is typed to the shewbread. The shewbread was for priests alone. That is right. Shewbread was just for the priest. And they... It was a special thing made for the priest, that is, the leaders; and this man overcome. The whole congregation got manna, but he got a hidden special manna, or special revelation, oh, of Who Jesus was, and what about Him, all about Him. See, he got that revelation if he had overcome. To the angel, "Hold fast, for he that..." He had overcome... Addressed to the angel of the church... See?

 

Patmos vision hidden manna is not given to the whole church

 

Rising of the SON  65-0418  31-5   080   Oh, when He raised up Christ from the grave, dwelling in you, is quickened your mortal bodies unto His Presence. You recognize It; you are no longer a scavenger; you're a eagle. You don't want the things of the world. You're a son and daughter of God. You're feasting at a fountain that the world knows nothing about; you're drinking at--somebody knows--the world knows nothing about. You're eating hidden Manna that the world never even knowed nothing of It, for you're an eagle; you're quickened up where you can get to It. You can't get to It down here; you got to get up here. You got to be quickened, lifted up there, so It will quicken.

 

 FORSAKING ALL 62-0123

  E-124   124   Heavenly Father, now I have said what Your Word said, forsaking all to follow You. Those who forsook all got to see You. And no matter what You would do, those who will not forsake sin and follow will never be able to understand. Those who do forsake sin, unbelief... We know that sin is unbelief. No matter how holy we live, what all we do, if we still disbelieve, we are sinners. The Bible says, "He that believeth not is condemned already." So we know that we must believe every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. That should be our daily bread.

 

 

92-3 EPHESIAN.CHURCH.AGE  -  CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.3

Now to get the real meaning of what we are about to go into, I must caution you to ever keep in mind that religion (spiritual matters if you like), is composed of two parts that intertwine but are as opposite as black and white. Religion and the spiritual world are made of those two trees which had their roots in Eden. Both the Tree Of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil stood in the midst of the garden and no doubt their very branches intertwined each other. Thus in the Ephesian Church is that same paradox. The church is made up of good and bad. Two vines make the church. They are like the wheat and tares, growing up side by side. But one is the TRUE. The other is the FALSE. Now God will speak TO each one and He will talk ABOUT each one. He will call them the church. And only the elect will really know which is the true Spirit. Only the elect will not be deceived. Matthew 24:24, "For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." So way back there in the early church (a very short period after Pentecost) the false vine got to intertwine itself around the True Vine and we find these deeds of the Nicolaitanes. And that spirit is going to be found fighting the True Vine until it is destroyed by God. Now have you got it?

 

175-4 PERGANEAN CHURCH AGE  - CH  5   But what do we have in this our day? Multitudes are working signs until we have a generation of sign seekers that know little or nothing about the Word, or a true move of the Spirit of God. If they see blood, oil and fire they are happy; it matters not what is in the Word. They will support any sign, even unscriptural ones. But God has warned us about that. He said in Matthew 24 that in the last days the two spirits would be so close together that only the very elect could tell them apart, for they alone would not be deceived.

 

'A DECEIVED CHURCH' "But as Israel was bound by their Kings that they could not follow the real King; and the real King, when He came, they didn't recognize Him. So is it today, oh, Lord. The King of Glory has appeared in the form of the Holy Ghost and Lord, They don't know it. They don't recognize it. They're so organized so tight, that they do not understand it, because It's not in their organization. Lord this is a work of the devil that's done this to the people. May the Samson of God, may the True in heart, Those who are longing and crying and pleading and holding on, may they stay with It, Lord, until this new crop grows out. Until there comes forth a joy in Zion, and there comes forth a group that can recognize and understand. That can see the Messiah and the hidden power that's hid from the world, that they will not understand now. Grant, Lord, that they'll see this, for we ask It in Jesus name, a-man."

MY REDEEMER LIVETH  55-0410S  161   043   Don't you love Him? We sing that little song because we believe that the Holy Ghost Gospel is still dripping with blood. It's a way of persecution. It's a way of misunderstanding. That's right. The world don't know it. The world never knew it. The world will hate you. "But be of a good cheer, I've overcome the world." They don't understand it. "The preaching of the cross is foolishness to them that perish." But there's something down in the believer's heart, says, "I know my Redeemer liveth. I know it, beyond a doubt."

 

WHO IS THIS  59-1004M  Then, if that is true, a supernatural God cannot change His nature to fit people's nature. People has to change their nature to fit God's supernatural plan. And that's why people cry, "Who is this?" It's God in the midst of His people. They don't understand it. God will never come to your level; you'll have to come to His. God will not come to your requirement; you have to come to God's. And then when that requirement is met upon a promise that God made to redeem the people. If that requirement has met, your entire being changes; your thinking changes. Your habits change. Everything about you changes. Your desires change. Your living changes. Your habits change. You change. Everything about you changes, 'cause there's a new life in you.

 

ISAIAH 54:13 And all thy children [shall be] taught of the LORD; and great [shall be] the peace of thy children.

 

Ephesians 1: 17 The Spirit of Wisdom & Revelations in the knowledge of him

 

1 Cor 13: 9-13  we no longer think as children, but we are to grow up and think right We will know as we are known.

 

2 Thess 1: 10   the mind of the Father in us.

 

1 Peter 1: 13  Speaks of the revealing of Christ and having our minds ready to receive it.

 

Matthew 13: 10-17 This speaks of God withholding from everyone except the elect.

 

1 Cor 1: 4-10  Speaks of the Spirit of God coming to anoint an understanding

 

PROVERBS 9:6    Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.  7    He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked [man getteth] himself a blot.  8    Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.  9    Give [instruction] to a wise [man], and he will be yet wiser: teach a just [man], and he will increase in learning.  10 The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy [is] understanding.

 

PSALMS 32:7        Thou [art] my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.  8    I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

 

PSALMS 25:12   What man [is] he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way [that] he shall choose.

 

ISAIAH 2:3     And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

 

2 Cor 2: 1-14 

 

JEREMIAH 31:34   And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

 

My ways are not your ways, and my thoughts are not your thoughts.

 

 

EZEKIEL 44:23    And they shall teach my people [the difference] between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. 24 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; [and] they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

 

 

Secret things belong to us

 

I SAMUEL 12:23     Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:  24    Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great [things] he hath done for you.

 

DEUTERONOMY 4:5   Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.

 

EXODUS 18:19     Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God.  20    And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

 

DEUTERONOMY 6:6    And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:  7    And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.  8    And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes 9    And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

 

DEUTERONOMY 11:18      Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.  19    And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.  20    And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:

 

JOHN 6:45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.

 

PSALMS 27:11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.

 

PSALMS 86:11 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

 

PSALMS 119:33      HE. Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it [unto] the end. 34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with [my] whole heart.

 

JOB 6:24  Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

 

ISAIAH 28:9     Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? [them that are] weaned from the milk, [and] drawn from the breasts.   10    For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little:   11    For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.   12    To whom he said, This [is] the rest [wherewith] ye may cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the refreshing: yet they would not hear. 13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

 

PHILIPPIANS 3:15 ¶  Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

 

I TIMOTHY 6:3    If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, [even] the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;    4    He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,  5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

 

II JOHN 1:9    Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.    10       If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into [your] house, neither bid him God speed:  11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

 

ISAIAH 29:9     Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.  10    For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.  11    And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which [men] deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it [is] sealed:  12    And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.  13    Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near [me] with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: 14    Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, [even] a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent [men] shall be hid. 15    Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? 16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

 

ISAIAH 50:4      The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to [him that is] weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.  5    The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. 6     I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.  7    For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.  8    [He is] near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who [is] mine adversary? let him come near to me.  9    Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who [is] he [that] shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.  10       Who [is] among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh [in] darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God. 11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass [yourselves] about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks [that] ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.

 

ROMANS 16:17       Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.  18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

 

EPHESIANS 4:8    Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.    9    (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?  10    He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)  11    And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;   12    For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:   13    Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:   14    That we [henceforth] be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, [and] cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;   15    But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, [even] Christ:   16    From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.   17       This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,    18    Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:    19    Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.    20    But ye have not so learned Christ;  21  If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:  22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; 23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

 

HEBREWS 5:8    Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;   9    And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;    10       Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.    11    Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.  12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which [be] the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. 13     For every one that useth milk [is] unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.   14    But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

 

ISAIAH 26:9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments [are] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

 

MATTHEW 11:27  All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and [he] to whomsoever the Son will reveal [him].28  Come unto me, all [ye] that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

 

DEUTERONOMY 4:10 [Specially] the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and [that] they may teach their children.

 

DEUTERONOMY 5:1 ¶  And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.

 

PSALMS 119:73 ¶  JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.

 

ISAIAH 30:1 ¶  Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

 

JEREMIAH 10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

 

I JOHN 2:27    But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

 

HEBREWS 8:10     For this [is] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:   11    And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

LAW OR GRACE  54-1006   026   Now, if you're believing right... If you just confess it with your lips, it don't do much good. But from your heart, if you believe that Jesus is the Son of God, you can't live the same life you once lived. You can't, if you ever get a true view of Calvary. Now, if you're just taking just a haphazard way, you're just--you're just fooling yourself. But when you really get a view of what Jesus was... Oh, my, how I like to preach the Deity, the supreme Deity of Jesus Christ. If you could ever realize Who He was, and what He did for you men and women, your hearts would rend within you, and you'd be willing to throw away the trash of the world to live for Him. Oh, how marvelous, and what a Person He was. If you realize the condescending of God Himself, unfolding Himself, coming down till He could get into your heart...   67   027   When God the Father, in a form of a big Cloud, hung over the children of Israel, and when He settled on the mountain that morning to write the law, why, even if an animal touched the mountain, he must be thrust through with a dart. Only through sanctification did He bring Moses up. Set Aaron way down at the bottom of the hill to watch and to keep guard that nothing... And when that Pillar of Fire settled on that mountain, the lightning bursted forth, and the thunders roared, the blackness settled. When Jehovah God, the Creator of all eternity settled on top of a mountain that He created Himself, the thickness of the clouds a bursting forth of the lightning, the shaking of the earth, till, them Israelites standing out yonder in camp, with a bleeding sacrifice around them, said, "Let Moses speak, and not God, 'less we die."... Think of that.

 

COLOSSIANS 4:2      Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;  3    Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:  4    That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.   5       Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.  6    Let your speech [be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.