The
Doctrine of Christ no 16
“The
Doctrine of Christ or the Doctrine of Balaam”
September 13, 2011
This evening I would like to take one more message the
doctrine of Christ because there are only two doctrines being touted in the
Message today, and the preachers are either preaching The Doctrine of Christ or
they are preaching the doctrine of Balaam.
Who
Is This Melchisedec 65-0221E 163 Dear God, I believe
the Scriptures, that You have said You was the same yesterday, today, and
forever. And as sincerely in my heart, Lord, I know that something's fixing to
take place. I cannot strictly identify it; I'm afraid to say anything, Lord.
Thou knowest the heart of Your servants. And how many times down through the
age when You sent things, people failed
to get it. Man is constantly praising God for what He did, and saying what
great things He's going to do, but ignoring what's He's doing. So has it been
through the age. Why did the Roman church fail to see Saint Patrick as God's
prophet? Why did they kill Joan of
Notice he speaks of Jesus rebuke to the
religious people of his day, specifically the Pharisees who were the most
advanced and dedicated Jews of His time. And He said, you guys are always
talking about what God did in the past and what God is going to do, and yet
when God comes and does it you are the first to reject it. Let’s just turn to
the scriptures for a moment, and let’s read for ourselves what he is referring
to here in this statement.
In MATTHEW 23:29 we find the scene is Jesus talking
to the Scribes and Pharisees. These were the best of the best when it came to
knowing the Old Testament Scriptures. These were the crème de le crème. The
scholars and most devoted men, and yet look at the rebuke Jesus gives them.
Notice He says,
“Woe
unto you, scribes and Pharisees,(now this word woe is an exclamation
of grief, it is a worde that is used to express sorrow or dismay, in other
words, He’s saying “what a pity, or “of what a pitiful bunch you guys are” then
he calls them…)
hypocrites! (because a hypocrite is someone who knows better but
will not do because of some personal gain that can be made by not doing, or
acknowledging the Truth.. The dictionary defines hypocrisy as The
practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or
possess; falseness.) And then Jesus tells them why they are Hypocrites.
He says, because ye build the tombs of the prophets,
and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, 30 And say, (Now this is the key to why he is calling them
hypocrites, He says it is what you say…There is nothing wrong with building the
tombs of the prophets, but to do so and say…) If we had been in the days of our fathers, we
would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. 31
Wherefore ye be witnesses unto
yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. 32
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
33 [Ye] serpents, [ye] generation of vipers,
(and notice, not just you lineage of serpents, but you lineage of
vipers. That’s deadly serpents whose venom kills.) how can ye escape the damnation of hell?(How
can you? You can’t, because it was made for this kind of people, religious, yet
dead wrong, and with words will kill the influence of the Truth.)
34 ¶ Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets,(Notice I send you, this is in the future, I will send
to you Prophets… A prophet is a revealer of the Word.) and wise
men,(These are teachers, and not just someone who claims to be a
teacher, but there is a special trait about these men, they are thoughtful, and sagacious which means they show a
keen sense of discernment and
possess sound judgment, farsightedness and are
discreet (implying a cautious character.)
and scribes: (Men, with a gift to write) and [some] of them ye shall kill and crucify;
and [some] of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute [them]
from city to city: 35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon
the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of
Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. 36 Verily I say unto
you, All these things shall come upon this generation. 37 O Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, [thou] that killest the
prophets, and stonest them which are
sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even
as a hen gathereth her chickens under [her] wings, and ye would not! 38 Behold,
your house is left unto you desolate.
39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say,
Blessed [is] he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Now the killing does not only mean in a
physical way. I have a letter from brother Branham at home that was written to
my father in law, and in it brother Branham said there are more ways to kill a
man than with a gun or a knife. He said you can kill a man’s influence and you
might as well have shot him with a bullet.
Testimony of a True Witness brother
Branham said, You
can kill a man more ways than just sticking him with a knife; speak against his
character, many ways you can do it.
Hebrews Chapter 7part 2 pp 55, 57-0922 And you people with these
saw-blade tempers, that's always spouting off in the mouth at somebody, can't
put up, and things like that. Be careful. You're guilty if you speak a word
against your brother that's not right, not just. Go around and tear down... You
don't have to stick a knife in a man's back to kill him; you can break his
character and kill him, kill his influence. Speak against your pastor here, say
something bad about him, you just might as well have shot him; told something
that wasn't right about him, well, it'll kill his influence with the people and
things like that, and you're guilty of it.
You see, God promised to send us men, Prophets, Teachers, Scribes and
they would crucify the Word afresh by killing their influence, maligning their
character, and all sorts of things like that.
MATTHEW 5:11 Blessed are ye, when [men] shall revile
you, and persecute [you], and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely,
for my sake. 12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great [is] your reward in
heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
HARVEST TIME 64-1212 320 You
know, Jesus said, "It'll come to pass that they'll even kill you, thinking
they're doing God a service." Wait till this new book of mine comes out.
They shot at some people the other night, for saying that it was wrong to unite
the Roman Catholic church with the Protestant. Three shots went through a
building of a friend of mine, just barely missed them. Wait till this book gets
in circulation. Don't think they are sinning; they think they're doing the
right thing. They think they're doing that for a cause for God, not knowing it.
The Jews killed Jesus, thinking they
were doing the right thing, because their church doctrine said He was wrong.
Oh, said for them He... They crucified the very Bread that they were supposed
to live by.
You see it’s always the DOCTRINE that declares
the difference and separates between the two.
LUKE 11:47 Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres
of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. 48 Truly ye bear witness that ye
allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build
their sepulchres. 49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them
prophets and apostles, and [some] of them they shall slay and persecute: 50
That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the
world, may be required of this generation; 51 From the blood of Abel unto the
blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I
say unto you, It shall be required of this generation. 52 Woe unto you,
lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in
yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. 53 And as he said these
things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge [him] vehemently,
and to provoke him to speak of many things: 54 Laying wait for him, and seeking
to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
SOULS IN PRISON NOW
63-1110M 39-3 He predicted He would send them prophets
with the Word of the Lord, and what would they do? The same thing their fathers
did because that's what you are. See? Spirits don't die. Men that's
possessed of them die, but spirits don't die. He said, "You're the
children; you're the ones." Just notice how these things are. 39-4How that
Oh, how I love what he just said,
notice…he said you claim that if you had live in the days of Paul you would
have sided with him, then he said, you’re hypocrites, because if you would have
sided with him back then you would be siding with him on his doctrine now. And
so there we have it. If you have not the right doctrine, it shows that you have
not the right spirit.
Now, I know that men will quote brother
Branham from his message GODHEAD EXPLAINED 61-0425B
15-1 and they
will say, brother Branham said, I would rather have the right spirit and the
wrong doctrine than have the right doctrine and have a wrong spirit,
but that is not what he said. Brother Branham did not say you could have a
wrong spirit and have the right doctrine. He was talking about the condition of
your heart. He said, I would rather be wrong in my doctrine and right in my
heart, than to be right in my doctrine and wrong in my heart." See? I
said, "After all, it's your heart's
condition."
Therefore, if the heart is right it will
not turn down the right doctrine. How can your heart be right and fight the
doctrine of Christ? And the Apostle John said in 2 John 1:9 if you do not have the right doctrine of
Christ you don’t even have God. So how can you have a right spirit
which is God’s Spirit, and have the wrong doctrine. Jesus said in Matthew 7 a good tree cannot
bring forth evil fruit and a Vindicated Prophet of God said that the fruit is the teaching of the season. So how can you have the right spirit and have the
wrong doctrine? You can’t. But brother Branham was not speaking of the spirit,
he was speaking of the heart. He was talking about a hardened heart, versus a
soft and supple heart. If you have a right heart with God you will receive the
doctrine of God. That is what Malachi 4 is all about, returning the heart back
to the Doctrine of the Apostles.
SIR WE WOULD SEE JESUS
63-1112 220
Now, we know that He is the same. Now, if we come tonight, we find out
if... Jesus cannot fail, because He was God. He is the Word. The Word and
Christ is the same. Then if the Word promises (the Word) that this is to happen
in the last days, the Spirit of Elijah is even to return in the last day
(That's right.) upon the peoples, and He's
to turn the hearts of the children back to the fathers, the doctrine, the
principles of the Bible.
It’s always been the doctrine. That’s what
the message is, it is the doctrine, the teaching. The word doctrine means
teaching, and that is what they reject, and that is the reason they crucify the
Word. It’s not the part of the Word that
says, bless and curse not. It’s not the part of the Word which deals with
relationships. It’s not the Thou Shalt’s
or Thou Shalt nots. It’s not the
part of the Word that speaks of forgiveness and love, and the sermon on the
mount and those things. It’s the
Doctrine they kill and try to destroy.
RECOGNIZING YOUR DAY 64-0726M
140 Down in your heart you feel the Holy Spirit dropping tears.
"Jerusalem, oh, Jerusalem, how oft would I have hovered you. But what did
you do? You killed the prophets that I sent to you. You murdered them."
And the Messages has been sent to the
church today has been murdered by their
denominational dogmas. The Scripture has been murdered by their dogmas..
WAY OF A True Prophet 62-0513M 29-4 another one with him, stood at a certain place
not long ago, said, "Brother
Branham is a prophet; he can discern things and things like"; but said,
"now, don't listen to his
doctrine, 'cause he's not right."
Now, how much sense does that make when the word of the Lord comes
to the Prophet. Yes they call him a prophet but deny what he taught. And they
are still doing that right in this message. Claiming to be following the
prophet and denying his teaching.
REV CHAP 4 PT 3 THRONE MERCY
61-0108 245 Stephen stood there, said, "I know
what I'm talking about." Said, "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in
heart and ears; you always resist--resist the Holy Ghost. Like your fathers
did, so do you." Said, "Which
one of your fathers hasn't killed the prophets and then build their tombs to
them?" You denominations, which one
of you hasn't done the same thing? See? Build big white-walled castles, and
morgues, and things around here, and then talk about God. You're the very one
that put Him in the morgue; you're the very one put Him in the tomb. That's the
very thing that put Him in the tomb back there, was a big white-castled church,
the denominations, Pharisees and Sadducees that put Him in there, and then try
to build a memorial to it.
ACTS 7:51 ¶ Ye
stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers [did], so [do]
ye.
And how do they resist the Holy Ghost? The
Holy Ghost is Christ, and the word Christ means Anointer, Anointed, or
Anointing. So the Doctrine of Christ is the doctrine of the Anointer with the
anointing. And how do they resist Him? They come against the Doctrine of
Christ! Which is the Doctrine of the Anointer, Anointing His Anointed.
52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they
have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye
have been now the betrayers and murderers: 53 Who have received the law by the
disposition of angels, and have not kept [it]. 54 ¶ When they heard these things, they were cut
to the heart, and they gnashed on him with [their] teeth. 55 But he, being full
of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God,
and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, 56 And said, Behold, I see the
heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. 57 Then
they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with
one accord, 58 And cast [him] out of
the city, and stoned [him]:
And because Stephen told it like it really
is, they killed him too.
MATTHEW 7:15 ¶ Beware of false prophets, which come to
you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 Ye shall
know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree
bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit,
neither [can] a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that
bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know
them.
And from brother Branham’s sermon, Anointed Ones at the end-Tine pp 42 Notice. But it's
what they produce that tells you the difference. "By their fruit,"
Jesus said, "you shall know them." Man does not gather grapes off of
a thistle even though the thistle be right in the grapevine. That could be
possible, but the fruit will tell it. What
is the fruit? The Word fruit for the season; that's what it is, their teaching. The teaching of what?
The teaching of the season, what time it is--man's doctrine, denominational
doctrine, but--or God's Word for the season.
ACTS 13:40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you,
which is spoken of in the prophets;
41 Behold, ye despisers, and
wonder, and perish: for I work a work in
your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it
unto you. (God said He would come
and do a work in our day, but He said the people won’t believe it, although He
will send a man to declare it to them.) 42 ¶ And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the
Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.
43 Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious
proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to
continue in the grace of God. 44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole
city together to hear the word of God. 45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake
against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
Notice that envy and jealousy was their
motive. They sazw Paul’s ministry and the effect it was having on the people
and they were jealous. Oh, if we don’t have that very same thing today. 46 Then Paul and
Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should
first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge
yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. 47 For so
hath the Lord commanded us, [saying], I have set thee to be a light of the
Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. 48
And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the
Lord: and as many as were ordained to
eternal life believed. 49 And the
word of the Lord was published throughout all the region. 50 But the Jews
stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and
raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their
coasts.
Just the same as today. They see the
effect God’s complete Word is having upon the ministry throughout the world and
they attack it with a vengeance.
EVENING MESSENGER 63-0116
155 All
these things we see happening then, and the nation... Science says it's--four
or five years ago, "It's three minutes till midnight."
And how do they crucify the Word afresh?
They make excuses to reject it. IS YOUR LIFE WORTHY 63-0630E 38 They made excuses in the days of Moses.
They made excuses in the days of Elijah. They made excuses in the days of
Christ, and they make excuses today. Now, Him speaking directly
to Israel, the ones that was called to the feast, that I would also apply today
to men, the church, who has been bidden
to come to the feast and won't do it, the spiritual feast of the Lord... And
they won't do it; they don't want to do it. They've got other things to do.
They find excuses. Now,
if
41Now, the excuses they made in each day... We find in the days of Jesus
that He didn't affiliate with any of
them. They said, "When did this man get this learning? What school is
he from? Is not this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother called Mary? Isn't
his brothers Jonas and James, so forth? And isn't his sisters with us? Then where did this man get this authority
to do this?" See? In other
words, He didn't affiliate with them. So they said, "He's Beelzebub;
he's a Samaritan. He's got a devil, and he's mad. He's a man that's got a evil spirit on the line of
religion and has drove him crazy. And that's what, he's out there like a wild
man. Don't pay any attention to him."
And we know what happened to
42 Jesus
was trying to tell them that their excuses was what killed the prophets and
what killed the righteous that come. They
accepted their creeds that man had given them instead of taking the Word of
God, and by doing so, had made the Word of God of no effect. Now, you've
either got to say in this, that this is God's will and God's desire, or either
something else that you can crop up that's better than what this is. Now, you
have to take one or the other. You can't serve God and mammon. And you've got
to say, "This is the Truth," or, "That's part of the
Truth," or, "It isn't all the Truth," or, "It isn't put
together right," or "It isn't interpreted right," And the Bible
said that the Word of God is no private interpretation. No one else is supposed
to put an interpretation to It; It's written just the way God wants It
interpreted. Just what It says, that--that's what It's supposed to be. Just
take It the way it's said, way It's wrote down here. Now, they accept their
creeds. They make God's promises of no effect to them. They bypass that, just
skip away from it.
Now, those are powerful words because
Brother Branham is telling us that what killed Jesus is all the excuses they
made in order to keep their own doctrine and reject His. And I tell you, they
are crucifying the Word afresh still by rejecting the doctrine of the Message, which
is the Doctrine of Christ, and keeping their old Oneness doctrine.
SOULS IN PRISON NOW
63-1110M 38-3
Now, watch here. Matthew 23 and begin at the 27th verse: Woe
unto you, scribes... (Now, remember this is holy men He's talking to.)... Woe
unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited
sepulchres... (that's dead people, see?)... whited sepulchres, which indeed
appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all
uncleanness. (Hypocrisies and envies and strife on the inside of them; outside,
"I'm Dr. so and so." See?) Even
so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men,... (Look at the Ecumenical
Council and the Pentecostals setting there.)... but within you're full of
hypocrisy and iniquity. (What is iniquity? Something you actually know is right
and you won't do it. Jesus... Now, watch what generation He puts this on then.) Woe
unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the
prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous. (See? All of the
prophets...) And say, If we had been in
them days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the
blood of the prophets. ("We
would've believed the Word of the Lord if we'd lived back there."
Watch.) Wherefore ye be witnesses
unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill
ye up then the measure of your fathers. (That's
just what's taking place. Now, watch what He says here.) Ye
serpents, and... generation of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of
hell? (How can you do it?) Now, he's talking to ministers (See? That's right),
holy men. How can you stand and know the Bible predicts and tells them people
not to do that, and you can stand and compromise for a few lousy stinking
dollars? Or some popularity and somebody pat you on the back and call you a
"Doctor." How can you say you love those people? I'm preaching on
tapes too...?... See? How can you--how can you say you love those people and
let a thing like that take place? You Pharisees, you blind, you serpents, you generation
of vipers, how are you going to escape the damnation of hell when you...? How
can a man today that knows that these things are wrong, and stand there to hold
his congregation, to make his denomination grow and fail to tell women and men?
How are you going to escape the wrath of hell when it was made for you? How are
you going to do it? See? Listen, listen here. What is it going to be?
Therefore,... (34th verse)... behold, I will send unto you prophets,...
("I will" in the future. There's your Pharisees coming back again.
See?)... wise men,... scribes: and some of them you shall kill and crucify; and
some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city
to city:
PERGAMEAN CHURCH AGE 60-1207 230 That's the same thing that taken
place here, the Nicene Council; Nicolaitanes, formal Christianity. And the Holy Spirit comes back and said,
"You've got the doctrine of Balaam
among you. (See?) And you... I hate them deeds of the Nicolaitanes, them doctrines that they got, because it's the doctrine of Balaam who
taught the children of
You know that is a good question. How did
his doctrine affect the people? It got them to all come together, that’s
BALAAMISM! They got believers to gather together with unbelievers, that’s
BALAAMISM! He got Believers to mix with
make-believers, that’s BALAAMISM. And God hated that sin. God hates BALAAMISM!
And what happened? The young men of
II PETER 2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to
be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and
shall utterly perish in their own corruption; 13 And shall receive the reward of
unrighteousness, [as] they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time.
Spots [they are] and blemishes, sporting
themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 14 Having
eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls:
The word beguiling here is a Greek word
which means to lure with bait. Put something out there to attract unstable
souls. That’s your big churches full of unstable souls. Lure in by preaching
psychology, and focusing on the family instead of the Word for the Hour. He
said the people are being baited. And why do they do that? Peter gives us the
answer when he says they are covetous. Money, money , money…
an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed
children: 15 Which have forsaken the
right way, and are gone astray,
following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of un-right-wise-ness; 16 But was rebuked for
his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the
prophet. 17 These are wells without
water, clouds that are carried with a tempest;(as Jude
says, Clouds without water, Clouds without rain, No doctrine.) to
whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. 18 For when they speak great
swelling [words] of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh,
[through much] wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in
error. 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of
corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge
of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and
overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For it had
been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after
they have known [it], to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22
But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog [is] turned
to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the
mire.
JUDE 1:10 But these speak evil of those things which
they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things
they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of
Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in
the gainsaying of Core. 12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they
feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without
water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit,
twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 13Raging waves of the sea, foaming out
their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness
for ever.
REVELATION 2:12 ¶
And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he
which hath the sharp sword with two edges; 13 I know thy works, and where thou
dwellest, [even] where Satan's seat [is]: and thou holdest fast my name, and
hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas [was] my faithful
martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth. 14 But I have a few
things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of
Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of
Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. 15 So
hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.
THYATIREAN CHURCH AGE
60-1208 50 Nicolaitanism and paganism
wedded together and formed and gave birth to the first church, organized
church. And God said that the deeds
of the Nicolaitanes (which was in the Ephesians), over in the little
And today the doctrine of Balaam opposes
the doctrine of Christ because the doctrine of Christ establishes a true
relationship between God and His Seed, but the doctrine of Balaam opens it’s
doors to every seed so long as they pay their tithing and contribute to their
programs. Notice once again, we see it is the doctrine, always the doctrine. The Doctrine of Christ which hates
organization, or the doctrine of Balaam which loves organization. And they
hate God’s Doctrine, and God hates theirs. Which one will you
stand with this morning? That is the real Question we must ask ourselves. Let’s
just bow our heads and our hearts in prayer as we Go to the Author and finisher
of our Faith and answer that question.