The Doctrine of Christ no 25
“I’d rather have”
Brian Kocourek, Pastor
October 26th, 2011
Good evening, friends, this evening I would like to speak
on a very simple subject concerning what it means to be a real Christian, because
with Christian living; or living a life worthy of the Gospel, there has to be
an ultimate, an ideal that we are striving for. Therefore, tonight I will just
lay out some very simple principles that brother Branham teaches us that he
would rather have, or rather see in the people, and in doing so I hope you will
see the simple reality of a True Christ centered Life.
Deut 6: 1-9 KJV 1 Now
these are the commandments, the statutes, and the
judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess
it: 2 That thou mightest
fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I
command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life;
and that thy days may be prolonged. 3 Hear therefore,
O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be
well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy
fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
4 Hear, O
The NIV puts
it very plainly, it says, “Impress them on your
children. Talk of them when you sit in your home and when you walk along the
road, when you lie down and when you get up. 7
God
keeps His Word 57-0115 29 I'd
rather have an old home with no rug on the floor, and with a little old
iron bedstead setting there, and an old dresser somewhere, or whatever, and a
little old kitchen table made out of boxes with a sign hanging on it, "God bless our home" than all the
fine homes in the world, your pin-ups and nonsense that you have today, and a Bible laying on the table instead of
all these old love story magazines and things laying around of dirt, and filth,
and lust, and everything else to breed into the children. How can you expect
anything else but a bunch of infidels and agnostics to answer out. That's true,
friends. Bring up a child in the way that it should
go, teaching him on the Word of God. Abraham Lincoln, until he
was a grown man, had two books: One of them was the Bible and the other was the
Foxe "Book of the Martyrs." Abraham Lincoln... And he studied that so
hard, he read; he--he concentrated on that. That's what developed that kind of
a character that Abraham Lincoln was.
The Amplified version
is even more basic, it says, And these words which I am commanding you this day shall be first in your mind heart; then you
shall whet and sharpen them, so to make them penetrate, and teach and impress them diligently upon the
minds and hearts of your children,
Now, this is where I
have always seen the thought brother Branham said never fail, when he said, I
do not believe in juvenile delinquency, it is parent delinquency. And that is
exactly what Moses is saying here. It’s got to be in your heart and your mind
first before you can instill it in your children’s heart. And then how do you
transfer that same enthusiasm for the Word of God into your children? He says) and you shall talk of them when you sit
in your house, and when you
walk by the way, and when you
lie down and when you rise up."
And so we see that to do so they were to place pictures and
Scriptures and constantly be talking the Word to their children and to each
other, and to whosoever and the children will pick up on that and they will do
as they have been trained to do. The children will see with their eyes, and
hear with there ears and when they see with their eyes hear with their ears, it
will have an influence in their minds and in their hearts.
Preparation
018 Don't depend on your knowledge, and don't
never try to figure anything out that God says. If you could figure it out, or
I could figure it out, or any other preacher could figure it out, we would be
equal with God. We are not supposed, and never will be able to figure it out,
because when we can figure it out, it's not faith any more. We've got to accept
it by faith. Is that right? God said so. I don't know how. I can't tell you how
He's going to do it, but He's going to do it 'cause He said so. That's the
basis. God is going to do it because He promised to do it. He's God, and He
can't break His promise, how it is. And some of God's preparations has been so
ridiculous to the people who depend on the tree of knowledge. God's preparation
has been absolutely ridiculous to the natural mind, 'cause the natural can't
conceive the things that are of God. Because they are foolishness to him, and
he just thinks it's horrible to think. "Why, God would do..."
Now, I believe
sometimes we try to press too hard and we find ourselves pressing for an answer
from God, and when we do that we do more harm, not only to ourselves, but those
around us as well. We must never do that. And as I have been saying for quite
some time, God hates forced religion and when you force quotes and Scriptures
to fit your doctrine or your creeds, you will never get anywhere with God. We
must learn to trust God. Did not He promise us, that if we really Love Him all
things would work together for our good? Then what are we worried about. We
should be the most relaxed people in the world.
Q & A COD 54-0103M 57 Now, I'll admit that people
study too much, and try to go too far ahead, and try to think too hard, and
sometimes have mental breakdowns and things on account of studying about the
Lord. You must quit that. You don't have to do that. The only thing you have to
do is fall in love with Him, and just go right on loving Him. Amen. It's not
trying to push into something or make yourself something you're not; just go
ahead and let God use you the way He wants to use you. Just yield yourself;
commit yourself and walk on, happy, singing, rejoicing. That's the way.
The Bible said, "All things work together for
good to them that love Him." So just be sure that you love Him;
that's the only thing you have to know. Amen. Just love Him and walk on. Say,
"Lord, I love You; You know I love You." "You love this?"
"No, Sir, I love You, Lord." See? Say, "Well, don't you want to
be... Wouldn't you like to be a great preacher? Wouldn't you like to be
this?" "No. Now, Lord, what... If You want me to be, I will. If You
don't... Amen. I'll be right here, just a doormat at this church."
"Well, now, I believe if you do something like this the people would think
a lot more of your church." "I don't care what the people think; I
want to know what You think, Lord. I'll just stay right with You, what You tell
me to do. I love all them, sure." "Well, now, you know Sister
So-and-so; you don't love her." "Yes, I do, Lord. Yes, I sure do. I
love her." "Why?" "'Cause You love her, and You're in me.
And I have to love her, 'cause it's You in me loving her out of me." Whew. That
will get it.
24 Now, there's many that pretend
to be in there. There's many that's warring themselves, and trying to live
right, and trying to press in; I don't know about that. But if they are in
there, it's just as easy to live a
Christian life as it is to live any life, 'cause you're in Christ, and
nothing else but just so full of the Holy Spirit leads you, and guides you and
directs you. And, why, sure you'll make mistakes and fall, but you can't stay
down, because no more than you could make a stalk of corn a sycamore tree...
You can't do it. Jesus said, "By their fruits you shall know
them." You have Everlasting Life.
25 One of the greatest curses on the church today is fear.
Everybody's scared to death; it's "What's going to happen,
who, what?" Why, Jesus said, "Even
when the fearful sights come, lift up your head and rejoice, for great... Your
redemption's drawing nigh when these things happen."
I'd like to
read 1
Corinthians chapters 1 & 2 from the
1 Corinthians 1: 9 God is ever true to His promises, and it was
by Him that you were, one and all, called into fellowship with his Son Jesus
Christ, our Lord. 10 Now I entreat you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, to cultivate a spirit of
harmony - all of you - and that there be no divisions among you, but rather a perfect union through your having one mind and one judgment. 11
For I have been distinctly informed, my brethren, about you by Chloe's people,
that there are dissensions among you.
12 What I mean is that each of you is a partisan. One man says "I belong to Paul;" another "I belong to Apollos;" a third
"I belong to Peter;" a
fourth "I belong to Christ."
The problem we have today is that people want to follow a man. They
haven’t got enough of God’s Spirit in them to follow God, so they look to a man
to follow. But brother Branham warned us if we look to a man to lead us instead
of God’s word that is the day we die spiritually. God's
only provided place of worship 65-1128M P:64
I don't care how sincere you are, take man for your leader instead of the
Holy Spirit to confirm this Word, that's
the hour you die. The genuine Seed cannot, because there's nothing left
after the seed; it's the same thing was back at the beginning. It's the Bride
that fell into the ground to bring forth the corn of wheat again.
That means if you need a man to interpret the Word of
God for you outside of a vindicated prophet, then you are yet in your sin and
unbelief. There was only one vindicated in this Hour, and it wasn’t a five fold
minister, it was a Messenger prophet vindicated by God’s pillar of Fire. And as
long as you have your eyes on any other minister you are dividing Christ.
Paul said, 13 Is Christ in fragments? Is it Paul who was crucified on
your behalf? Now, listen, Paul was a vindicated messenger prophet
and he tells us to get our eyes off himself and on Christ. Or were you baptized to be Paul's adherents? 14
I thank God that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius - 15 for fear people should say that you were
baptized to be my adherents. 16 I did, however, baptize Stephanas' household
also: but I do not think that I baptized any one else. 17 Christ did not send
me to baptize, but to proclaim the Good News; and not in merely wise words -
lest the Cross of Christ should be deprived of its power. 18 For the Message of
the Cross is foolishness to those who are on the way to perdition, but it is
the power of God to those whom He is saving. 19 For so it stands written,
"I WILL EXHIBIT THE NOTHINGNESS OF THE WISDOM OF THE WISE, AND THE
INTELLIGENCE OF THE INTELLIGENT I WILL BRING TO NOUGHT."
1 Corinthians
1:20 Where is your wise man? Where is your expounder of the Law?
Where is your investigator of the questions of this present age? Has not God
shown the world's wisdom to be utter foolishness? 21 For after the world by its
wisdom - as God in His wisdom had ordained - had failed to gain the knowledge
of God, God was pleased, by the apparent
foolishness of the Message which we preach, to save those who accepted it. 22
Seeing that Jews demand miracles, and Greeks go in search of wisdom, 23 while
we proclaim a Christ who has been crucified - to the Jews a stumbling-block, to
Gentiles foolishness, 24 but to those who have received the Call, whether Jews
or Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 Because that which
the world deems foolish in God is wiser than men's wisdom, and that which it
deems feeble in God is mightier than men's might. 26 For consider, brethren,
God's call to you. Not many who are wise
with merely human wisdom, not many of position and influence, not many of noble
birth have been called. 27 But God
has chosen the things which the world regards as foolish, in order to put its
wise men to shame; and God has chosen the things which the world regards as
destitute of influence, in order to put its powerful things to shame;28 and
the things which the world regards as base, and those which it sets utterly at
nought - things that have no existence - God has chosen in order to reduce to
nothing things that do exist; 29 to
prevent any mortal man from boasting in the presence of God. 30 But you -
and it is all God's doing - are in Christ Jesus: He has become for us a wisdom
which is from God, consisting of righteousness and sanctification and deliverance;
31 in order that it may be as Scripture says, "HE WHO BOASTS - LETHIS BOAST BE IN THE LORD."
1 Corinthians
2:1 And as for myself, brethren, when I came to you, it was not
with surpassing power of eloquence or earthly wisdom that I came, announcing to
you that which God had commanded me to bear witness to. 2 For I determined to be utterly ignorant, when
among you, of everything except of Jesus Christ, and of Him as having been
crucified. 3 And so far as I myself was concerned, I came to you in conscious feebleness and in fear and in deep anxiety.
4 And my language and the Message that I
proclaimed were not adorned with persuasive words of earthly wisdom, but
depended upon truths which the Spirit taught and mightily carried home; 5 so that
your trust might rest not on the wisdom of man but on the power of God. 6
Yet when we are among mature believers we do speak words of wisdom; a wisdom
not belonging, however, to the present age nor to the leaders of the present
age who are soon to pass away. 7 But in dealing with truths hitherto kept
secret we speak of God's wisdom - that hidden wisdom which, before the world
began, God pre-destined, so that it should result in glory to us; 8 a wisdom
which not one of the leaders of the present age possesses, for if they had
possessed it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But - to use
the words of Scripture - we speak of THINGS WHICH EYE HAS NOT SEEN NOR EAR
HEARD, and which have never entered the heart of man: ALL THAT GOD HAS IN READINESS
FOR THEM THAT LOVE HIM. 10 For us, however, God has drawn aside the veil
through the teaching of the Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything,
including the depths of the divine nature. 11 For, among human beings, who
knows a man's inner thoughts except the man's own spirit within him? In the
same way, also, only God's Spirit is acquainted with God's inner thoughts. 12
But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes
forth from God, that we may know the blessings that have been so freely given
to us by God. 13 Of these we speak - not in language which man's wisdom teaches
us, but in that which the Spirit teaches - adapting, as we do, spiritual words
to spiritual truths. 14 The unspiritual man rejects the things of the Spirit of
God, and cannot attain to the knowledge of them, because they are spiritually
judged. 15 But the spiritual man judges of everything, although he is himself
judged by no one. 16 For WHO HAS PENETRATED THE MIND OF THE LORD, AND WILL
INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ.
From his sermon Way to have
Fellowship 55-1009 18 brother
Branham said, I'd
rather have a church... Listen, just a moment. I would rather have a church that knows nothing about any spiritual
gift, and just be so in love with each other and with Christ, I'd rather have
that than every spiritual gift operating in the church. Now, that might
sound hard in a Pentecostal group, but I
would rather have it. Where there is gifts, they'll fail. Where there is
gifts, they'll bring confusion. Where there is gifts, they can be questioned. But where there is love, it is perfect.
That's right. And if you had perfect love you'd have perfect gifts. That's
right. So work first with love. That brings fellowship, and fellowship brings
gifts.
Believest thou this? 50-0716
52 I'd
rather have a man that didn't know split beans from coffee, and knowed God in
His heart to deal with my people, than I would some man with enough education
to choke a mule, and know nothing
about God. That's right. God bless your heart, brother. An old fashion
sassafras experience, what we need today. We don't want to know
"genealogy," you need a little "knee-ology." That's what
man needs today. Back to God; back to the prayer life where...?... speaking
out. Pray, hold on to God till it comes to pass. God will do it. Hallelujah!
Works that I do
bear witness of me 51-0413 22 After all, I'd rather have the love of God sealed in my heart than all the gifts
there is in the Bible. That's right. And let me tell you something, that includes a five fold ministry which
is a gift to the church.
Works that I do bear witness of me OF ME 51-0413 29
"Brother, I know the Author better than I know His Book." Amen. I'd rather have the Author anyhow anytime.
His Book's fine. That's right. But I'd
rather know the Author. Wouldn't you? And you know Him by the love...
Angel of God 51-0720
But I'd rather be poor and have favor
with God than the best home you got in
Resurrection of Lazarus 51-0729A 61 I'd rather have a man with
my boy, who didn't know the difference between split beans and coffee and know
the Holy Ghost, than to have all the education in the world and try to pump
into him. That's right.
Israel at home
AND 51 30 Moses glorified himself before the people
in the stead of glorifying God. And God
turned from him. And today the
church has begin to glorify themselves in the stead of glorifying God.
They're trying to get more members, better churches, better organs, and better
pews, and a bigger church. God don't give that much for that. You ought to be
glorifying God. I'd rather have a little
old mission somewhere, cleaned up, down on the bowery somewhere, where they
could really get free and shout, and praise God, and have a good time, than all the great cathedrals in the
world. Amen. That's right. God is
finished with the church ages.
Show us the Father it will satisfy 53-0610 I'd rather have God in me than all the
silver and gold in the world. Yes, sir.
Talk on the Word 53-0831 54 Brother,
I'd rather have a little bit and be in
the
Testimony 53-0902 32 Those
Believest thou
this? 53-0906A I'd rather have a man that didn't know his
ABC's and could preach the Bible under the power of the Holy Ghost than all the theology you could poke down
his throat in ten years. Hallelujah. Whew. What am I feeling this way
about? Look. Amen. Yes, sir. What we need today is what? Is a new cleaning up
in the church. Don't you believe that?
Life story 53-1108A I'd
rather have favor with God than to have anything that I know of in the world.
And if I got favor with God, I can serve
His people.
Preparation 53-1111 40 I'd rather have a little
wild fire than no fire at all, wouldn't you?
Q
& A COD 54-0103M "I'd
rather have a church that had such a burden on their heart for prayer that
they just stayed at this altar and would be here day and night, and everything
else; and in their house, was constantly in prayer, and humble, and trying to
get people to come to God, and making calls at the hospital, and visiting the
sick, and trying to get people to come to church and do right. I'd rather have that than all the other
put together; although the other is right, it belongs in the church."
Redemption by power 54-0329 I'd
rather have a little fanaticism than to set still and do nothing.
I sure would.
To see Jesus
54-0718E 52 Now, you know me, that I only have a
grammar school education. I know nothing of psychology. I know nothing about
medics. I know nothing about the anatomy. Only thing I know, I love the Lord
Jesus Christ with all my heart. That's all I know. I'm uneducated, illiterate,
and I have no abilities of my own, not even, a normal personality. That's right.
But I know one thing, and I'm thankful for that: I know how to submit myself that Jesus Christ can work through me.
That's the... I'd rather have that than
all your education that there is in the world. I'd rather know how to
submit myself to the Spirit of God, and say, "Lord, here I am." I'd rather have that secret in my heart,
than have the secret of every hydrogen and atomic bomb in the world, or
could be made. For it's more powerful than all the atomic bombs that could be
thought of.
Maniac of Gadara 54-0720A I'd rather have favor with God and be called a holy-roller, or
fanatic, or whatever they want to call me, and have favor with God to know that
He's standing here this afternoon, than
all the wealth Chicago's got or all the glory that the world has got. I'd
rather be standing right here now a holding this picture and telling you what
that is and know that He's standing right here within five feet of where I'm
standing right now. I'd rather have this feeling and consolation that I have
right now, than to be king over all the earth for a million years. That's
right.
Unpardonable sin
54-1024 77 028 I'd rather have that than all the
popularity of the women, men, or whoever it was on this earth. I'd rather have favor with God.
God perfecting his church 54-1204 I'd rather have an old plow boy couldn't say his ABC's, teaching my children the salvation of the
Lord Jesus Christ, than all the D.D.'s in the world that knows nothing
about God. Nothing to your theology...
Great warrior Joshua 55-0119 I'd
rather have one filled with the Holy Ghost, and full of God's power, than a
thousand times thousand church joiners. Rather have one alive with
God who'd believe.
Seven compound names of Jehovah 55-0120 I'd rather have prayers than all
the money.
Fellowship by redemption 55-0403
real Divine taste of fellowship with Christ, I'd rather have it than all the vacations and things in the world.
Enticing spirits 55-0724 I'd rather have a drunkard
with me any day than a liar.
Results of
Decision 55-1008 I'd
rather have a man preach to me with a pair of overalls on and mud on his shoes
and know God, than all the D.D.'s that you could put before me. The...
Hallelujah. Back to the old hewing line again, brother. That's where we ought
to go, somebody to preach the full Gospel, believe in Divine healing, the power
of God, the resurrection, that Jesus the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Jehovah Jireh 56-0429 I'd
rather have favor with God than anything I know of.
Love
56-0726 I asked my wife, not long ago, I said, "I want to ask
you something, honey, I..." I said, "What is real true value placed
on?" I believe I told you that though, the other night, what the true
value... Nothing but lost souls, is the
only thing that's got any value in it. Money passes away. Homes decay and
go away. Everything in the earth moves away. The only value, lasting value, I'd rather have one soul in glory, that I
won to Christ, to know and see that that Light of God circles around that
soul, through all eternity, my name to be associated with that, than to have
every penny of money in the whole earth, 'cause I'd have to lose it all. But
what you send up there, is Eternal. And that's the reason we're trying. My lost
brother and sister tonight without hope without God, that's why I'm here to
speak to you, to try to get you to love the Lord Jesus.
Spiritual
adoption 56-0923 I'd
rather have a man that didn't know his abc's to teach my child, that had the
Holy Spirit, than all the professors in the world who didn't have the Holy
Spirit, for he speaks of the Father. See? And the Holy Spirit speaks of the
Father. And then It'll teach the child not to be tossed about with every wind
of doctrine, but to accept and believe the principles that the Father has laid
down.
Jehovah Jireh
57-0326 I'd rather have the
Presence of God with me and be called a "holy-roller" than be a
archbishop in some other church that couldn't believe the powers of God. That's
right. If I had to worship in a mission or a brush harbor, I'd like to be where
the Spirit of God is. That's exactly right.
We would see Jesus 57-0516 you have the privilege
tonight to have Christ by you. And
what... I'd rather have that than
all of the money the world ever did have or ever would have. To know that I'm standing here now in the
Presence of the Lord Jesus, the Redeemer, and His loving grace has reached
out to us. Here He is, standing here tonight, doing the same things that He did
when He was here on earth, working through you and through me. Well, if He just
worked through me, and didn't through you, it would never work. It's your faith
that does that.
Thirsting for Life 57-0613 42 Listen, I want to say this
just on the side. That's the kind of songs I love. I'd rather have them, than
all your little old chopped up boogie-woogie things that you try to put in
church and take the place of the old fashion hymns. It'll never do it. No, sir.
The Holy Spirit loves those old fashion songs.
Thirsting for
Life 57-0630 I'd rather have favor with Christ then to
be the president of the world.
Thirsting for Life 57-0630 I'd rather have that real
sweet, mellow Holy Spirit moving into my life and making all the world pass
away, than to have all the noise and... Now, I believe in shouting, sure. I
shout and scream myself. That's right. I believe in every gift. I wouldn't be
here preaching healing. I believe in all those things. But brother, that isn't
it yet. That's not it. These gifts and signs, that's not it. It's Christ in the
heart. That's it. Then you'll stay. That's life.
Hebrews Chapter 6 57-0908E There's something about
those old fashion songs, the old-time hymns. I'd rather have them than all
these new worldly songs put in, in Christian churches.
Jehovah Jireh 58-0127 I'd rather have someone preaching in my
church, that didn't even know his ABC's or knowed split peas from coffee. If he
knowed Christ in the power of His resurrection, I'd rather have him, than all
the students and scholars that these incubators could hatch out in their
theological machines. I don't mean to be rude by misstating facts. We want men
and women who know God, separating themselves from unbelief.
Hear ye Him
58-0209A I'd rather have His love than every gift
He's got in His Kingdom. Give me His love. That's what the world is looking for
today, is to see a display of real love. It'll win souls when you got love.
They can tell it when you got love. We got to much make-believe love.
Will the Church go before the tribulation? 58-0309E I'd
rather have my hopes built in Christ, taking my solemn stand upon His grace and
mercy, than any educated group of people who would form an organization, say,
"This is the way." Christ said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and
the Light. And no man cometh to the Father except he comes by Me."
Why are we not a Denomination 58-0927 Why,
here's a far greater gift right here. Which would be the best, the gift of the
Holy Ghost of wisdom to put the Word of God together and to show the church
where we're standing, than just to get somebody healed? We all want to be well;
but I'd rather have my soul well, than my body well anytime. Oh, my.
God’s Provided Way 59-0415A I'd rather have my spirit
covered with the robe of His holiness, than to have the best suits that could
be bought in all the world. Sure. Rich in the
Images of
Christ 59-0525 a sweet Spirit? I'd rather have it than
anything I know in the world. I... You can take all the rest of the world and
its fancies, all your intellectuals, all your doctors, rabbis, bishops, holy
fathers; give me Jesus. That's right. Just let me have Him that old fashion
way. I feel Him way down in my heart. And watching my lives and sees my desires
is to serve Him, humble, meek, and lowly. That's what we need, friends, is a
re... That's Jesus. That's the Jesus of the Bible, not a Jesus of the
intellect, but a Jesus of the soul.
Deceived Church by the world 59-0628M I
want the real Holy Ghost like is on me now. I want to keep It. I'd rather have
It than all the things of the world.
Q & A COD 59-0628E I'd rather have a man that
really knowed God if he didn't know his a-b-c's to belong to my church (right)
as long as he's the seed of Christ.
From that Time 60-0716 I'd rather have somebody
with one of my children out here on a--in the sage brush field, somewhere down
by an old stump, that didn't even know his ABC's or know which was right or
left hand. If he knows Jesus Christ, I'd like to have him by side of my child,
before I would any professor that knows a lot of theology, and knows no more
about God than a rabbit knows about snow shoes. I want... I'll tell you,
brother, what we need today is back to the Bible and the old fashion baptizing
of the Holy Ghost back into the church, and so much of this other stuff cut
out. I'm not trying to support ignorance. I mean, if you've got the education
plus that, amen. But the educational covenant will fall one of these days, but
the covenant with God will last forever and forever and forever. It'll go on
through the eons of times into eternity
AS THE EAGLE
STIRS HER NEST 61-0122 I'd rather have a little wild fire than none
at all.
Presuming 62-0408 I'd rather have my name on the big Book up
there, than the big board down here.
Why 62-0622E I'd rather lose my job than lose my life.
"Your wife will leave you." I'd rather lose a wife than lose my
Christ. … I'd rather have my neighbor make fun of me and be right with God.
Super Sign 62-0624 I'd rather have love than all the gifts
that God has, because where there's tongues, they shall cease; where there's
prophecy, it shall fail; but when it's love, it endures forever.
Jehovah Jireh PART 2 62-0706 I'd rather some man, being
my family or my child, that didn't know the difference between split beans and
coffee, and knowed Christ. That's right. Take him out yonder somewhere by an
old stump and kneel down on his knees and pray with him till the Holy Ghost
comes into him. I'd rather have that than all the psychology you could pour
into him by a doctor's degree. Tell him the Word of God. Yes.
Falling apart
of the world 62-121 I'd rather have my consolation built upon
the Word of God, and the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the Presence of Christ,
than all the security that politics or churches could ever give you. Certainly,
'cause I know That'll stand
Turn on the Light 64-0125 I'd rather have what I've
got, than all the education in the world. I have Jesus Christ. And I see Him
live His Word right through, and that's all I need to know. And if a man is
born of the Spirit of God, he'll search the Scripture to see if It's the answer
for today. The answer of the day is Christ. Christ is the Word. When the Word
comes to life, It shows the Light that's promised of the day. In this dark
Laodicean age, just a few, "As many as I receive, I chasten, I rebuke.
Repent," Jesus said, "and return back." Turn to the Word. He is
the Word. Come to Him. Yes, sir.