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
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
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
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
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,
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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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."
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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?
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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
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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.