Who
is This Melchisedeck # 8
Bro. Lee Vayle
August
28, 1988
Shall we pray? Heavenly Father we’re very happy to be
allowed and privileged to be in Your Presence Lord
in this hour and especially to recognize it, because
we know the whole world is really in Your Presence now and by
Your omniscience and omnipotence but Father we realize there is a greater
Presence which is You Yourself, the person of the Holy Ghost in the Pillar of
Fire to lead Your people into the Millennium and You’ve been here Lord,
descended in the Shout by voice of the prophet and
we’re grateful for that Lord. We only pray now that what You’ve told us
through the voice of Your prophet, these messages, we’ll apprehend, O Lord,
absolutely make them ours by reason of the mechanical power that lies within us
through the instrumentality of our minds and the Spirit. But then by the Holy Ghost Lord to make it
live, we pray that we might be living Word Father because that’s what it’s all
about.
We ask You to help us
Lord to understand therefore that it might be right, that You might O God as
You could not inhabit the temple until it was made according to the pattern
absolutely given, You would not come down, be in the ark of covenant either Lord, no way would You come. And so Lord we know this Word’s got to be
right within us or there’s no way that You’ll
bless It, It’ll come alive in us. Help
us Father to not take one word, add one word, but just
leave it the way it is and understand our portion for this hour, Father. That’s what we desire and we’ll give You the
praise. In Jesus’ name. Amen. You may be seated.
Now we’re continuing,
it’s number eight in, “Who Is This Melchisedec?” Preached by Bro. Branham and in this message
Bro. Branham showed us that the principle utilized by God wherein He Himself
came down as man amongst men is the same way in which we came down, and come
down, though the order is not perfect chronologically. We’ll look at that in a little minute or
two. The order is not chronologically
perfect with the order that God Himself came which you’ll notice the bypassing
of the Word body, the Spirit body, the theophany, which ever you want to call it.
Now to give us insight,
he started with God first taking the human form of a priest. It wasn’t a true man as far as we know, not
flesh and blood as we know it, couldn’t have been. It was a theophany but it
was the form of a man of the human form of a priest and then forming Himself intoflesh--the
Lord Jesus Christ. He said,
[68] "He didn’t appear as Melchisedec
anymore, He came as Jesus Christ."
So, we’re going to go to
the drawing board to see this and see what we can do with what we have in mind
here. I’ll get some proper pencils. Now, we go back to the very beginning where
the Lord was just all by Himself, God was all by Himself. We’ll put that green
up here. [1] And then Bro. Branham mentions that, “"God
begin to manifest Himself, to come forth,” to a degree." And we’ll just put this over here. [2]
Now this shouldn’t be blue but all we’ve got here... I can’t draw amber,
and so we’ll put this in over here as the Logos,
manifestation coming from God.
Now, I want to read to you
from Questions and Answers in Genesis what Bro. Branham brought and what you do
when you hear this, you just simply believe it because we’re into a very, very
difficult doctrine here of the Godhead.
The simplistic doctrine is that there is one God, He is Spirit and He
had a Son. But all that was said about
God manifesting and having a Son is where the problem comes, the
differentiation. I’m not going to try to
do it as this point. Now,
[22] Now, hHe
was, in other words, Adam,
the first man in the lower creations of God. He’s talking about man here. So we’ll're
reading.
[21] Now, if God
created man in His own image and His Oown
likeness. What kind of a man did He
create? And the answer is, Aa
spirit man. See? Now if you’ll notice, after He had
made all creation, and He created a
spirit man, and reading close of this now( to
the one that asked the questionn),
we find this, that God gave dominion of the cattle and the fishes and
everything to the man. But,
in His making up there, He made man in His
own image to lead the cattle, lead the beasts of the field, just like the Holy
Spirit leads the believer today.
See?
[22] He was in other words, Adam
the first man in the lower creations of God.
The first creation was God Himself.
Now I don’t think
he doesn't means by
that, that God was created but he’s
putting the order of the cosmos of God, and the creation of God and God began
of course to create Himself into human form, into a form which He did
first. He could have the double meaning
here that God was first, there was nothing beside Him, and then He began to
create Himself. Bring forth something
which would be, as Bro. Branham said, “Tthe
veil,” which according to him, “hid and yet revealed. And
that’s exactly what the Bible teaches.
There is nothing that has been hidden except that it might be revealed.”
In other words, God’s principle holds true. Bro. Branham didn’t know one thing about that
verse of Scripture in a more modern English form but he sure hit it on the
head.
[22] The first creation was God Himself;,
then out of God came the Logos which was the Son of God. So we have up here, [2] notice he said, the Logos
was the Son of God.
So when you talk about the Son of
God, you’ve got to go all the way back here [2] whether you like it or not.
Now, there’s no mention in the Old Testament, except in one place about
God having a Son and that’s in the book of Proverbs. “Can you name His Son?” To my knowledge there’s no place. It does say though, “Thou art forever a priest
after the order of Melchisedec.” So you
have an understanding of the prophecies concerning what we understand to be way
down here, [5] four thousand years
later at least, down here [5] in
Jesus, the Christ. And that simply means the Messiah, the anointed
One. Okay,
[22] Okay, Tthe
first creation was God Himself; then
out of God came the Logos. There you are right there [1]
and there you are right there. [2] wWhich
was the Son of God.
Okay? We’ll put it down, Son of God because that’s
what It is. Now remember when you deal
with Spirit of God, Son of God, let’s just stop right here and go to the book
of Romans which Bro. Branham went to when he talked about Jesus Christ coming
back as the Holy Spirit. Now remember
that is exactly what the Bible says. In
Eph [4:9-10],
he said, “The One that came down [5]
and went into Hades is the One that went up, is the One that came down.” Understand what I’m saying? Don’t try to figure it, just say, “Sure, I
see that because that’s what the Bible says.”
In other words, when He came back as the Holy Ghost it’s the same One
that went down into the ground. Now you
say, “Well that’s true.” Now don’t
figure it, there’s many things you and I, we may figure but we may not figure
too. But that’s the Bible. That’s Ephesians the 4th chapter. Now in Romans here, the 1st chapter, it says
here, the 3rd verse.
(3) Concerning Jesus Christ our Lord,
(That’s His Son, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, our Lord. Now notice what it says there.) His son, Jesus Christ our Lord,.
Now He wasn’t the Lord
of the people really until He came down in this form [5] and associated Himself with the people because now you’ve got
literally, since God is an object of worship, there is nobody who cannot
worship Jesus Christ. So that puts hHim
in the category of God but it doesn’t put hHim
here. [2] Bro. Branham said, “"The
difference between Jesus Christ and God was one had a beginning.” " So there again, don’t try to figure it. Just say, “Amen. That’s the way it is.” You know, it’s the same as punching a light
switch on the wall. Just punch it and
see what happens. NowIn
other words, just
believe this and let it go.
(4) Declared to be the Son of God with
power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:. (Not previously but from the dead.)
So now God has given us
His Son in the form of the Holy Ghost.
Right? Prophet said so. Now don’t try to figure it. Don’t try to figure it, just believe it. Up here [1]
then, to here. [2] Logos, the Son of
God. And remember Bro. Branham tells us,
which every student will tell you, Jesus [5]
did not identify Himself as the Son of God. [2] He admitted that He was
but He identified Himself as the Son of man. [5] See? So all right, we got
that far. Okay,
Okay, [22] ...Tthe
first creation was God Himself then out of God came the Logos, which was the
Son of God, then out of the Logos, which was the Word... came
forth the man.
Okay, we won’t make him
such pretty colours, put a little black down
here. Out of here [6] comes forth man. Just
think it over. Don’t try to figure it,
say, “That’s the way it is.” Now I’m not
your teacher, the Holy Ghost is through Bro. Branham. I’m just trying to help you a little bit
here. When you go and sit under a
scientist who has been noted for his ability to prove his case and thereby
knows what he is saying, you listen attentively, respectfully and credulously,
you believe that person. All right? Notice, here,
[1]
to here, [2] downow
here.[6] That’s what he saidys,
right?
[23] Oh,
now watch. I’ve got a beautiful picture in my mind now if you can take a little
trip with me. I believe I’ve talked on
it before, but to get to this place where
you’ll be sure to see it., Hhe’s
going to say it again. Now, let’s
take a little trip and go back a little while.
Now don’t think about how hot it is, let’s get our minds right on what
we’re going to talk about and think now.
So don’t think if you’re cold how cold it is and above all don’t
think how hard this is. See? What if it is tough? You’ve got good teeth, just grab a hold of
it, chew it. Okay?
[24] Now, let’s go back about a hundred million years before there ever was
a star, moon, or anything in the world.
That’s a fair piece to go back.
He could say trillions and be on the dot too. Now
there was a time when there wasn’t anything here, [1] it was just all forever [1f] and Eeternity.
[1e]
So, all around here, [1] because of in here, there’s forever—[1f] we better put eternity [1e] first. I think he put forever and eternity first because we’re used to forever which is a designated number of ages, or an undesignated number of ages, until God calls a halt. It has a start and a beginning but eternity always was. So you understand what we’re saying here. Let’s cut it from eternity [1e] and forever.[1f]
Now why do we say, “And
forever?” Because within eternity,
within God, [1] is Zoe [1z] which is how God begins doing all
this. [2] This is a form of Zoe whether you want to believe
it or not, although Zoe is really out here.
Okay? Now we’ve talked on this
plenty.
[24] ...Now there was a time when
there wasn’t anything here, just forever and eternity and all of ever and
eternity was God. He was there in the
beginning.
So therefore, all though
I’ve got this on the outside,[1e – 1f on the outside of the God circle] it’s really on
the inside but He can put it outside.
Well just like you’ve got words on your inside and you speak words
out. See? Okay, let’s...he was in the beginning.
[25] Now, let’s go stand on the edge of this banister and look over and see
these things happen.
[26] Now, “Nno
man has seen the Father at any time.” No
man can see God in bodily form because God is not in a body form. God is a Spirit.
Now that’s speaking of
the essentiality of God Himself. Just
God period. Never mind talking about
this [1] now, where God did
something about what was within Himin
so that you, if you would’vehad
of been there and fortunately of the composition that allowed you to see
something, you would see it. We are not
of the composition to see this [2]
but we can see this [6] and we can
see this. [5] YIf
you’re not of the composition.
You could have a vision, God allowed it, and there’d be something in
there, strike you where you could apprehend some thought maybe; but no, you
can’t see God period.
He’s a spirit. All
right. “No man has seen the Father, but
the only begotten of the Fatherr,
Tthatere’s
Jesus Christ the Lord.,
hath thoroughly declared Him.”
Which means, shown by hHis
action and by hHis
words, hHis
living and all, the whole composite. You
see God as much as you need to see God, or as far as God is going to let you
see. That right there [5] is the visible God whether you admit
it or not. But it was Jesus Christ [5] that did it on the grounds not of the
flesh but what lay within the flesh and demonstrated through the flesh. Ever seen a beautiful woman? Oh boy, you think you’ve got the world by the
tail. Get it if you want a
beautiful woman, turns to be a bag of sour beans. I don’t think there’s anything
is much worse than sour beans.
Do you? Yeesh! See what was inside starts coming out. So you see, you don’t worry about that
figure. They couldn’t see Him. God was veiled in His temple [5] but everything God wanted to show He
could manifest through the temple. And
as every temple block had to be perfectly right, and to be perfectly resonantrelevant
to manifest God, this One here [5] was perfectly God in flesh period. Marvellous, and we’re going to get there too
in our own little sphere.
[27] Now, but notice now, there’s nothing there up there [1] at that time. There’s just space. There’s no light, there’s no dark, there’s no
anything. No nothing he says, that’s good.
It just seems nothing. But in there is a great spiritual Bbeing, --Jehovah
God.
Known
originally a ...?...is ‘el’, ‘ela’, or ‘el ela’,
the Eternal One, the Strong One, bound by an oath. In other words, God and His Word, God and His
thoughts--look out because that’s all that’s needed. That strong One speaks of Omnipotence and the,
bound by an oath speaks of His Word.
That’s why Bro. Branham always used the Rhema and the Logos
interchangeable and so does the Bible, and don’t you get mislead by these birds
running around that think they know something.
If you don’t know who I mean by now you’ve been under four feet of dirt
for the last four years and don’t even know it.
I doubt that.
[27] ...There
was nothing there [1] but Jehovah God, Wwho
covered all space, of all places at all times. He was from everlasting unto
everlasting,. He’s the beginning of creation.
[1b] Aand
He’s the beginner of creation. That’s
God. Can’t see nothing and can’t hear
nothing. Not move of an Atom in the air,
nothing, no air, not anything, and
yet God was there. And He could be
right here in the form of the Pillar of Fire and nobody could see Him.
He’s somewhere--you bet, He hasn’t left the church. That was God. (Now
let’s watch a few minutes...) No man has seen Tthat,
now, Tthat’s
the Father. That’s God,
the Father.
[28] Now notice., Tthat
after a little while I begin to see a
little sacred Llight
begin to form like a little halo or something and you could see it only by
spiritual eyes.
Because that’s a
theophany. It can appear and
disappear. You wouldn’t know it
anyway...what do you mean appear and disappear if?
w We
can’t see it in the first place?. But it can make Itself visible. Like you know, when Jesus came back after the
resurrection, He could appear and disappear.
He didn’t do that before. You
say, “Well He did too. They tried to get
a hold of Him.” Oh no. He just blinded their eyes and just snuck
around. Wasn’t Him disappearing. No, He wasn’t in that form right here. [5] This form here [2] is different from this form here. [5] That form [2] can’t
bleed, this form [5] does
bleed. This form [3] doesn’t have real flesh
and bones although it can sure look like it.
This one [5] does have
because they grown in a womb. See?
Okay, “Ssee
with your spiritual eyes..., Llittle
sacred halo.” Now, what we could do
here is sort of show this something like this here, you know, little dots
around here. [2h] I should have some
artist up here making an aura. All right.
[29] But look now, while we’re looking, the whole church now.
Ww, we’re standing on a great big
banister, watching what God’s doing. And we’ll get
right down here to this question here and you’ll see how he brings it in. “Let’s make man in our image”,
and so on.
[30] Now, no one has seen
God. And now, the
next thing we begin to see, by eyes of supernatural looking, we
see a little white Llight
forming out there. What is that? That’s what's
what was called by bible readers, “Logos,” or “the anointed,” or
“the anointing.” That’s right. Or
as I was going to say, the part of God began to develop into something so human
beings could have some type of an idea of what it was.
So a part of God, now, we
listen carefully to Bro. Branham’s language.
He says, a part of God. In other words, the question has always come;,
was Heaven [1] emptied when God took
on the form of Jesus Christ? [5] Bro. Branham always seemed to indicate in his
preaching that God Himself, period, everything that was here, [1] came in there. [5] I can’t honestly tell you
that that was one hundred percent what he had in his mind though I think it
was.
Now I’ve quoted you
before without the exact words and I was very remiss because I was so sick at
the time I didn’t take them down from a friend of mine, where Bro. Branham says
concerning the same thing. There is a
part of God that never ever changes or ever moves in the sense of what we speak
of, this anointing that came out of here, [2] veiled in a Pillar of Fire, manifested in
here, [5] came down here [2p] at Pentecost and divided
Himself. I’ve always spoken of that as
the sperm, [2s] giving life to the female counterpart which would be you and
me. Don’t ever believe that the Holy
Ghost is female--It’s male. There’s
teaching going around about that--hogwash.
Bro. Branham said, “It’s male.”
You don’t have to chew your cabbage twice--, you
know--, to
prove you’re a sheep.
Okay. It’s then like Father, here [1f] the great cloud,
Father. Here’s the entire cloud let’s
say, or, He’s even part. I don’t care,
pure Holy Ghost at Pentecost coming down here. [2s] See? You call germatizing, quickening, and the
quickening is, well, I’ll just say what it is really, I
might’n use it later on again. The
quickening power really is the energizing to you as an individual who has no
memory of this, [1a] no memory of this, you’re brought down here [2p] and then you’re quickened by the
Holy Ghost to the complete mentality, wisdom, and understanding of God, the
Word, in your order down here [2p]
because you always were a part of what’s up here. [1a] But you see, you didn’t
have the chance to go into this area here [4]
which would give you the memory and all those things necessary. Okay.
[30] ...Okay. The part of God began to develop into something so human beings could
have some type of idea what it was. A little Llight
moving. [2] That was the Word of God.
See? What was it then? The Word had to be literally what lay in here
[1] coming into manifestation. So that [2]
has to be God. That’s why if you try to
make Jesus [5] the Logos [2]
you get into three gods. Now I maybe
shouldn’t have said that but Bro. Branham said it and that’s the tough part
right there. That’s one of the tough
ones because right now you’ve got like a cloning. You think maybe for...it
was an accident, the twentieth century has a
revelation by the use of languages that no
other generation had. Did God clone? Good question,.
Should just
let it sit. I’m asking questions here, I
don’t have all the answers but we study this together, that’s the beauty of it.
[31] Now, God gave Himself birth
to this Son.
Is he saying, God gave
Himself in birth to this Son, or is he saying, God Himself gave birth to this
Son? Now I’ve no punctuation, no way to
know. So I would say this, God Himself
did it because there’s nobody else there. [1] And at the same time God was giving Himself
birth in a limited sense because birth isf
a perpetuation of species. Right?
So you’ve got a limited sense in the one and a more dynamic confirming
sense in the first one--it was God Himself who did it, which was before there
was even an atom. So this person here [2] is not made of atoms. Got to be solid God. Well you say, “Lights not necessarily made of
atoms. It’s made of energy.” I won’t argue anything. I’m just saying that’s what’s said. I’m not a scientist and I don’t pretend to
mix science with it. I wouldn’t be smart
enough anyway see?
[31] ...There’s
no air, there’s no atom. Now watch,
Bro. Branham quoting
from
John. And Jesus said in the New Testament, this One here [5] said, “Glorify me, Father, with
the glory that we had, (Or I had with You, which is we had.)
before the foundation of the world.”
That’s up here. [2] Now heI
said, “I came from God I go to God.” This [5] did not come from God per seay,
though it did come from God because this [2]
came from God, before there’s atoms or anything
else. This is supernatural. A hundred percent something which nobody can
figure, but there it is. No atoms.
After this will come the atoms.
Down here [5] will come the
atoms. And we will get changed in our
atoms. And when we leave our atoms we go
back to our own theophany [4] which
we’ll put up here later on.
We’ll never get to it
this morning I can see that. What’s the
difference? Long as you enjoy yourselvesf
and you get some light. Just see, it’ll trickle
in and God will...every word has power especially for our hour that the prophet
taught us.
Whether we understand
perfectly is not the thing. It will come
together because we believe it. And it
will work in us because that’s the secret of this whole ministry of Bro.
Branham’s is to bring us into a place of immortality under the Seventh
Seal. The Bride has everything she needs
to put her in a Rrapture
so therefore she has everything to make her immortal. Some of you kids sitting here are going to be
immortal. I’m happy for you. I think I’m going to turn into a pile of
compost the way I’m going, which...it’s all right. Glorified compost by the grace of God. See?
[31] ...Now,
He said, “Glorify me,” [2] before there was ever an atom.
[32] Now in
(1) In the beginning was the Wword,[2] and the Wword
was God..., Tthe
Wword
was made flesh and dwelt among us.”
Now he’s combining
1:14 with those. God unfolding Himself, down
to a human being. [5]
Now that’s what God was doing
when He did this. [2] When God sprang out of His own unique, I
can’t use the word separateness because there’s nothing to separate. So when God sprang out of His own,
[1] owness, began moving, right
here, [2] coming down to here, [6] so that He could come here, [5] and bring redemption. See?
Now God unfolding Himself. How
did God unfold Himself? He unfolded Himself
with the understanding in His own mind, it would be with His own children. That’s what you’re looking at. And the parent must always identify the child
the child cannot identify the parent.
Well you say, “I don’t know about that.
You take the penguins and little babies know right away their mothers.” Well mother has some kind of a smell or
something so she’s a source of identification before the chick comes
along.
So you see what we’re
looking at here? We’re looking at the
fact then, God begins to identify Himself and
He will only identify Himself with what He makes to be identified. It’s got to be His offspring. You see it in nature. Baby calf runs to his mother. You know really, except for a
few oddities like dogs and cats andor
something like that, and you know, some aren’t too high up, most babies will be
nudged away by the mother. Say, “Get out
of here brat. You belong to somebody
else.” That’s why God being El Shaddai,
the Bbreasted
Oone, , do
you think God’s going to let the devil’s crowd feed on Him? Come on, they can no more get this Word than
a hog can go ahead and you know, stand up and play a fiddle. Fact I’d bet on the hog if you want to know
the truth. I had to put that in there
because it’s the truth. You know let’s
face it, the other is completely impossible my brother/sister. No way. Now,
[31] ...Now,
God unfolding Himself. See? God
unfolding is God revealing Himself.. Now watch how He did it.
[33] Now, back
there, [2h] when that little halo
comes., Ffirst
came., Nnow
we can’t see anything yet, but just
with eyes supernatural we see a halo standing there. [2] Now,
that’s the Son of God, the Logos. Now that’s what he said. See?
Let’s keep reading. Now I can see Him playing around like a
little child before the Father’s door with all E eternities.
[See 2lc in diagram drawings #6] See?
And now, then in ththis imaginary makeup He begins to think of what
things would be, and I can hear Him say, “Let there
be light.”
Now you say, “Well Bro.
Branham’s just imagining this so there’s really no Scripture and truth to
this.” [2] There isn’t?
You kidding yourself? "Then
why is he using Scripture and calling it imaginary. He’s not a prophet of God, he’s a hoax." He’s just telling you that you sit back and
imagine you were there but what’s going on is not imaginary. But you’ve got to imagine it all because you
ain’t there and if you weren't, it
wouldn’t do you doing any
good.
Now the word imagine is
a very strong word. In the original
Greek it means ‘reasons’. Casting down
imaginations, reasoning. So he’s saying,
“Let’s reason this out and we’re going to have to go a little beyond the
processes of true reasons. We’ve got to
enter into a place ofso
let’s pretend we were there and let us be seeing what we would see if we were
there but we’re not there but this is as close as you’re going to get.” See? All
right, now that’s my understanding. You
do what you want. See? I’m just up here talking to myself. You listen in if you want. Now,
[33] ...Now, Nnow
in this imaginary make up He began to think of the things that would be,.
a And I
can hear Him say, “Let there be light.”
Now, out of
this here [1] now you come a word
and He said, “Let there be light.” [2]
You’re getting into the picture how God created all things by Christ
Jesus. Not the flesh here, [5]
not even that halo of light [2h]
- it’s what was in it. That’s my
understanding. See?
[31] ...”Let there be light.” [2]
[34] And when He did,
an atom burst and the sun came into existence.
She whirledere for
hundreds of millions of years,
forming clinkers, and burning, and forming
like it is today;, still
burning, still breaking atoms. If the
atomic bomb would ever let loose the atomic chain would take this earth like
the sun yonder just bursting and blowing it apart. If you would stand yonder on
another planet and look off at this, it would look like another sun where the
atoms were a burning, this earth, i. If the chain were ever to get
loose, it would just start whirling and turning, burning. Millions and millions of miles reach those
big flames of billions of Fahrenheit of the heat that goes off the sun.
Now watch this now,
beautiful. [35] Now watch this now. Beautiful! Now, He
made the sun. Aand
then, the first thing you know a big
clinker fell off...,
just staggered on, spewed down below somewhere. Now then this Logos here, [2] now
the Son of God, now watch it he never changes the name. Now
this Logos here, the Son of God is watching it,. He let’s it fall a hundred million years then
He stops it. Then another flies off, He
let’s it, flies off, falls a million years then He stops it. Now we’re watching what’s coming into
existence. See? Something now has got to be there which
wasn’t there before and how it’s changed from one form to another.
[36] Now, He’s got something in
His mind. What’s He doing? He’s writing His first Bible. The first Bible that man ever looked for
was to the stars. He looked
to the Bible in the stars, the Zodiac.
It’s perfect, it dovetailed with this Bible heree.,
Tthe one
right here on the desk. It starts off, with
first the sign, the first sign of the
Zodiac is a virgin. Is that right? The last sign of the Zodiac is Leo the
Lion. That’s the first coming of Jesus who
came through a virgin; t. The second, He comes as a Lion,
the tribe of Juda. See? Now he’s
talking about the flesh here [5] because He first came up here. [2]
But he’s talking now of creation and what was done. Okay. He comes from the virgin, the next is the
lion. Now He puts all the things in the
sky placed out the way He wants it. All meteors, pieces of earth, sun etc. hanging there.
[37] Now,
when science goes to looking for those missiles that fall, that doesn’t
disprove God, t. That just proves it to me.
Ssee,
te? That
just makes it more real. Now notice, all
these missiles hanging out there away from the hot sun, and
going through the air because they’ve collected. And the first thing you know,
it began as an iceberg. What he’s
saying there I image he’s talking about comets and things.
[38] Now, that was this earth coming into
existence, just a big old piece of cinder flew off yonder. Down beneath it now, is
nothing but a turning, burning volcano completely, they erupt and some of them
are volcanic. The science claims that
this world, the crust of it, we live on it, like the peeling of an apple. Now it’s about 25,000 miles around, 8,000
miles across. And think of it, in there
is this great big burning volcano in the middle.
[39] And two thirds of the earth,
better than two thirds, is in water;.
o One
third of it’s land, about one third. Aand
just look at this crust we’re living on.
It’s full of dangerous explosives.
“Now
look at the crust itself,” he said,
there’s a volcano inside and on the crust there’s gas, gasoline, oil, there’s
sulfur, there’s everything in there that can just blow you higher than a
kite. You get enough sulfur and water
joining, you could rip, that’s where they say could rip the whole coast of
[39] ...What’s the formula of water? Wwhich
is two thirds of the earth.? Two parts hydrogen and one of oxygen. They’re explosives--that’s right. Oxygen, man, that’s burn, that’ll really burn
you.
[40] There’s enough electricity in every room to separate the heat from the
cold, and it’ll make enough electricity to
burst the room. You can put enough atoms
in a golf ball to blow and
then man, sitting on a pot of hell,
hits himself ion the
chest, defies God’s Word, and says, “There’s no such place as hell.” You’re sitting on a big pot of it every day.
Aand
while you’re here you’re sitting on it, and
hell is just beneath you. The Bible said,
“Hell is the move beneath you.”
That’s what the Bible teaches you.
[41] And now notice, but now, that
was the first thing found, when Jesus...,
Nnow whatch
the little halo yonder. N, now I
see Iit move
out to this earth and get over the top of it and begin to move it over here
close to the sun. It’s nothing but a big
ball of ice and when it begins to get melting, then
great big glaciers begin to cut through up in the northlands and come
down. And tthen
it did, it cut t,
andhat went to the and
the first thing you know, the whole thing wais
covered with water.
Now, what you’re talking
about here then is Bro. Branham is saying;,
"bBefore
God did anything He had to move into a place Himself of some type of something
that approximated material."
So the light came out, which was already in there, [1] and from that [2]
comes all of the other creations.
So God created all things by Christ Jesus,
because without Him coming here [2] He could not have done the rest, He would not
have done . So you see what he’s
telling you how He’s going to get down here [6] to us.
[42] Now, we get to Genesis 1one,
w. We
get the Bible now, and out of our picture, the Bible.
Genesis 1. “The world was
without form, and void;, and wdarknessater was upon
the face of the deep. Well
darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of
the waters. Just
a little bit of misquote there. Then he
said. “The Spirit of God
moved upon the water.”
Just a little bit of
misquoting there. Then he said.
(2) The Spirit of God moved upon the water.
Now, He separated the water, brought up the hills,
the lands and so forth; dried it off. Vegetation and everything else, He made
it. And He made the moon. Set the boundaries of the seas so it couldn’t
pass.
[43] He
got all these things together and made...everything. Made
all other things on it, animal life, bird life, bees, monkeys, what ever. Put it on here on earth. Then he asked the question like a
question asked. “Let us,”
(Who? Father, Son.) “Make man in our own image.”
“Let us”; plural. Why not?
Because you know what? He had evidently
run out of the first phase of exactly what He wanted. Which is as Bro. Branham said, Hey, God before He ever made a fish with a
fin, had the water to swim already. So God would have everything ready
before there could ever be something said about, “Let us make man in our
image.”
So, we could see phase
number one through Christ Jesus--all things created. Then does God stop and say, “Now, there’s
been a good job done in this [2]
manner so now I’m going to go ahead and I’ll just block you out,” take you back
here maybe, [1a] so to speak.
Whatever He wanted to do, that’s His business, “and I’ll go on my
own.” No. Now, “Let us make man in our own image.” Before it was, “Let us do all this here.”[5]
Now it’s, “Let us make man in our own image.” Right?
That’s how it’s going. Okay.
[44] Now,
if a man was made something like that little sacred Light yonder, or something
like that, it could not be seen because that’s a spiritual being. He manifested or unfolded Himself a little
more to make a trinity...
Really a triunity, it’s
not the word trinity, it’s not the right word.
Although it’s a good enough...it’s a right word but if you want to get
down to the definitive expression, my understanding is and Bro. Branham I know would
agree, it’s tri-unity. Like we are a
tri-unity yet we’re a trinity. In other
words, we’ve got like a composite. We’re
one person. Call it a trinity and notice
it’s going to offices, not people, of Himself.
By Father, by Son, and by Holy Ghost constituting offices.
[44] ...And
here was God, unfolded Himself now down into, “Let us make man,” which was His
Son, an offspring from Himself, “man in our own image.” He was a supernatural being. “Let him have dominion over the cattle of the
field,” and so forth. That’s how
you’re supernatural.
[45] Now
the man led the cattle and everything, just like the Holy Ghost Spirit leads
the real, true believer today. The voice
of man could speak and say, “Call the cattle this way, call the sheep to this pasture,
call the fishes to this water.” See, he
had dominion, everything obeyed him.
[46] But
then there was no man to till the soil until Genesis two.
Now, if you want to know
the exact truth then, man though himself created still in the sixth day, his original
creation was in the meat and heart of the true original. Making a body is
literally a step down--literally a step down.
You say, “Sure it is because that’s where all the problems came in.” See?
Now,
[44] ...”Let him have dominion.”
[45] ...
Now, everything obeyed him.
[46] There’s
no man to till the soil until Genesis two. “And then God formed man out
of the dust of the earth.”
God made the flesh of
man from the chemicals and everything else that He needed to put the man
in. Now science goes crazy. Science when they find protein they think
that protein will bring the life. That’s nuts!
God could have pure protein 680 trillion light years of space--it’d just
be protein. That’s all. Again it’s a picture of before there’s a fish
with a fin, there’s got to be water. So
before there’s a man with a body, there’s got to be protein and the rest of the
stuff, minerals and all the other stuff.
So God had it here and He did it.
He formed man [6] out of the dust of the earth and put
therein this supernatural spirit. What
He made here [2] now up at this time
just subject to the flesh, He now wraps it in here [6] under the sixth day.
[47] Now,
He was lying there. I can
have many pictures of what He was doing.
Lying there, this, that and the other thing. Now he said, Let’s take it this way, see Him standing like a tree. God had made him. He was dead as could be; his toes like the
roots sticking in the ground. And God said, “Let there be,” or breathed in the breath of life into him, and he jumped,
he came to himself. Breathed the breath
of life into him, and he became a living soul.
Now, he begins to move and move on.
Now what’s he talking
about? You think when he was up in this
other form [2] in the Spirit of God
he was a spirit man that he couldn’t move?
Certainly he could move. What’s
he into now? He’s into Zoe. He’s into the Zoe part. And Bro. Branham said, “A baby that’s about to be born is jerking muscles and nerves, but it’s
not alive until the baby comes down and that spirit standing there, allowed of
God but not of God, comes into the child.” And he seemed to indicate that was like one of
those better angels. Don’t ask me. The indication’s there but I’m not going to
say much about it. But it’s allowed of
God.
Now the angels were not
the Spirit of God, they were formulated.
They’re made spirits. That life
then coming in, that’s why he said, “Every
mother no matter what she’s like, at that moment has a sweet nature” I wonder how far you can go with that? Could there be in this hour that, that isn’t
as true as it was in Bro. Branham’s day?
Because you see woman today they drop their babies off in restrooms and
God knows what. Yet you can’t say that
maybe at that hour they didn’t feel something in their hearts. I don’t know?
I don’t know? I’m just looking at
this thing and wondering at the end time that maybe there’s...it’s got so
perverted the sweet spirits diminished by this hour. You could maybe say that, I don’t know. I’m just looking at things and wondering
myself because things are moving in such a terrible way.
[47] He now becomes, begins to move. That’s the physical.
[48] Then
God took from his side a piece of him, a rib, and made the woman. Now
where did he get the spirit woman?
Well it tells in Genesis l:26. “Let us make man in our image, Spirit
likeness. our own likeness, created he him, male and female. He
made the burly, burly spirit for the man;
He made the tender, little, delicate, feminine spirit for the woman.
Then he talks about that, but I don’t see any particular use in going on
with it.
So, what we’re looking
at here then is what we saw this up at the very beginning. We saw how that Bro. Branham told how that
God [1] begin to move Himself into a
form [2] until He could come down here
[5] into a form that He Himself
could come into and literally abide in.
In other words, this [5]
would be the temple and the throne room which God Himself could inhabit and
whether you’re going to make it all God or a part of God, I prefer to go all God
to be honest with you because I don’t know that Bro. Branham--actually, said
anything different but to make us look at the thought that we were all
definitely...at the fact that God was in Him--all of God.
Now up here, [1a] we look at the fact that we were in
God. All these dots up here. [*1a] Now, really one dot is no
different from the other dot except as a matter of God wanting something from
the one that He wouldn’t want from the other when He got them into manifestation
in Zoe. So therefore, if you were called
of God to be a pastor, you’re already a pastor up there. 1a] Not that you’re different from the congregation. It’s God choosing what He wants out of the
vessel. There’s only one Spirit, there’s
only one God, there’s one lump of clay.
All depends on what God wants. So
therefore it’s already predestinated in the mind of God. Everything is there to bring to pass what’s
up there. [1a] So, we see the little
fellows up here[*1a] and all of
these [1a] are called various
things. I wrote it down here so we
might as well write it down
here. Now there’s sons of God, I wrote
that before. [End of side one]
They [7s]
are sons of Abraham, they’re
sons of faith, which they are, and they’re sons of His Spirit,
which they are, and they’re brethren, which they are, and what else are
they? They’re thoughts, they
become Logo’s that get manifested in their own degree. They’re attributes, and they’re seed,
and they’re called soul, and I guess there’s other things too, but
you’ve got a fair number right there without adding more of them. Now, he mentions attributes...let me just
read something here it’s kind of nice, I thought pretty, pretty well spoken of. This is on “God’s is His Own
Interpreter”. And he said,
[9] Now
all we are today is the display of His attributes.
Okay. So up in here [1a] then, all of these things here...now you say, “What’s a son
of God?” Attribute. [7s] “What’s a son of God? Son of Abraham. What’s a son of faith? What’s a son of God? Son of spirit. What’s a son of God?” Brethren.
“What’s a son of God?” A soul. “What’s a son of God?” Seed.
It’s back and forth. They’re
synonymous. You’re not nine, ten people
there--you’re one person and each appellation lets you know the measure of the
grace of God in that particular area.
Now, what does he say
here? We are all today, “ all we are today”--that’s all we are,
this is it. Don’t think any
different. Don’t make it higher, don’t
make it lower. All we are. What are we?
“The display of His attributes.”
All of these all in here [7s]
now, came down here. [1gt] We are the display of His thoughts, the
attributes, His seed, the soul, the sons of God, Abraham’s royal seed. That’s a good one. There you are, display of the attributes.
Now we’re going to cover
attributes later on and we’ll find the attributes are a part of the whole,
predicated by the source and never the mode.
In other words, intrinsically a noun.
We’ll look at that but not today.
I haven’t got time. Okay, I’ve got to keep reading here.
[9] And
all we are today is the display of His attributes. First He was not even God, we would just call
Him “the Eternal One.” He wasn’t God
because the word in English, God, means “object of worship” and there was
nothing to worship Him. So He was the great, He was the Eternal One, the main fountain of all intelligence.
The head--the Head’s
here today, Spirit form. Not some goofy
preacher, some big mouth. There are no
big ones amongst us. “I’ve got a big church,
see the big salary, big this.” Yes,
you’ve got it, you’ve got also a Porsche maybe, you’ve got a Mercedes
Benz. Well I’ve got a Nissan, a lousy
Japanese. Well that’s okay. That doesn’t make me bigger than you because
my car costs $15,000 your costs $5,000, $7,000.
And the guy that’s got a Mercedes, $65,000, he doesn’t cut any ice with
me. I only paid about $5,000 more than
I should have paid for my car, that’s all, it’s not my fault, it’s the
government’s fault. If I was a mechanic
I would have got me a second hand one.
See? What’s a car anyway? Now he says,
[9] ...He’s the fountain of
all intelligence.
Here it is up here. [1]
Then they elect some pope and some bishop.
Phbbb...you talk about a stinking mess.
You know, I can understand why God wants to vomit because even I can
vomit and I’m not even involved. But you
know how it is? If you look at
something...my sister-in-law could not eat, you might not eat another egg again
either. But she one day, she saw, an egg
was broken, a little chicklet was going to hatch in it and she saw what the
yolk was, the yellow part, the yolk, and that was the stomach of the
chicken. And she, “yah,” she went. Now you might not eat another egg. Now she got upset with those eggs but I said,
“Heh, kid I’m going to tell you something Carol. I’m not eating that egg that you saw. See, I don’t give a rip.” That’s the way you’ve got to get your minds
to this subject, same way. God’s the head of the whole thing here. [Bro. Vayle makes a pointing gesture to his right]
[9] ...The
object of worship. Fountain of all
intelligence.
See? Whoa that’s marvelous,
because everything that man ever found out was only because God had made it
that way. There’s all intelligence out
here. Shhh, man. You know
people write whole books on the wing of a butterfly? And somebody comes by and writes another book
and we’ve come to the place now with computers, I understand now that knowledge
is doubled every year by now or soon will be--couple that with Aids, ha, ha,
ha, you’ve got a lot of smart people going to hell in a hurry. You know I can’t help but laugh at it but
honest--see, “man by wisdom knew not God.”
As old Dr. Buckman says, “You get colder by degrees.”
Please don’t call me
doctor. I never earned that. Bro.
Branham I think facetiously gave it or something. A lot of people called Doc, his brother’s
called Doc too. They called me Doc
originally because I used to, tell people what their troubles were--I could
tell them even doctor terms at one time.
It wasn’t my ministry, so God didn’t let me keep it which I’m very
happy.
[9] ...Now
in this fountain of all intelligence there was not an atom, molecule, or
anything, light nowhere, star, moon, nothing else. God, what we know as God, the great Spirit
that was Eternal (never began, never will end), He was there. [1]
Wonderful, that’s all. And in Him attributes: His attributes to be God, then His attributes
to be Father, to be Son, to be a Saviour, So He’s got to manifest. [5] to be a Healer. All these attributes are in Him and now these
things that have unfolded, or these truths you see about these things
unfolded, since then are just His
attributes being made manifest. So
all the things then like, healer, saviour, all these things, that’s just
unfolding of God manifesting what is in Him, the attributes .[7s]
[10] What
I mean, attributes [1gt] were His “thoughts.”
Now here you’re getting
a little close to what could be sticky if you just don’t watch because you
know, you’ve got to have a thinker before there are thoughts. And you’ve got to have an attributer before
there’s attributes. The attributes are
never the whole. Enough attributes will
comprise the whole. In other words,
every single child that God had in Him, [1a]
don’t you ever believe didn’t come out--that’s all He had. Now let’s keep reading.
[10] What
I mean, attributes were His “thoughts.” And a word is a “thought expressed.”
Now that’s what he’s
talking about. That’s why he uses the
word attributes and thoughts interchangeably
because an attribute has to manifest, otherwise what use is it. You mean to tell me that a cat would go,
“whee” and a dog would go, “whoof, whoof, whoof.” Well now if he’s a dog out of
south Africa he can’t go, “Whoof, Whoof, Whoof.” but he’ll go whoo, whoo, whoo,
he’ll whine or something. He’s a
dog. You mean to tell me you won’t drink
water, and you won’t eat food, and you won’t sleep? Now some people can’t sleep, there’s
something wrong with them. You can’t
feel? You can’t help it, that’s what you
are. See? So we get the understanding here; what God
is, He can’t help either. Well, could
He? There’s no way God can help it. All He can do is manifest. So it’s already lined up. See?
Now, so your thoughts and your attributes, in the case of God, can be
synonymous. Perfectly, perfectly
legitimate. Let’s keep reading.
[10] My main thoughts were attributes. A
thought is a word expressed. An
attribute is also an expression. Then what was in His thinking when He said, “Let
there be light”, and there was, “Let
there be,” that was it. So he’s
showing you how they’re the attributes.
[11] Now
remember you Christians were thoughts before there was a world. That’s perfectly true. And you
are the manifestation [1gt] of His thinking.
Now, because you were His thoughts you were attributes [1a] but the reprobate out there wasn’t. He was also in the thinking. See? So when you get thoughts and attributes you are working very close in a pattern the human mind cannot take unless it goes to a realm of reasoning that is spiritual and reasoning realm of the spiritual is faith because you can’t figure it but you can see it by faith. Now a smart guy will come along an argue with you. Don’t argue--it ain’t worth it. Say, “Well you’re not a thought of God I can tell you right now, so you’re not an attribute so you weren’t in His thinking.” “I was in His thinking. I’m an attribute. Here I am Lord.” You know? You’re not smart about it, you’re just taking your stand. Bless God, why shouldn’t you?
[11] Now remember you Christians were His thoughts [1gt] before there was a world. That’s what he’s talking about now because they’re attributes, [7a] the same thing. And you are the manifestation of His thinking. That’s exactly true. Before there was even a world, [1] you were in Christ, [2] (amen) in God in the beginning. That makes you, then, you see, His subjects. [7s] And the whole thing is God, Himself, materializing [5] Himself tangible, so He could be handled, and seen, and so forth. And that’s what God is, is the whole thing. You like that? I like that.
Now, Bro. Branham does
not make God universal mind but he shows what was in God as pertaining to His
mind--knowledge and wisdom--had to manifest and the thoughts were living
thoughts. And so therefore a source and
therefore God had to manifest those thoughts the same as His attributes. But God’s not universal mind. Now you see you were His thoughts, synonym,
put the synonym there, not in contradistinction to, but the same
attributes. Now God’s got to manifest
that. There’s no way He can’t. See?
So therefore we are the attributes [7s]
and the thoughts of God manifested. Now
I know the human mind does not want to accept that on the grounds of the factor
of sin within the human body but now you’ve got to listen to Bro. Branham take
that subject up. Now that was the
thought there, I saw that in attributes.
Now, let me see
something in here. All right. What we have talked about here and read from
Bro. Branham...how’s my time? Did I miss
it? Doesn’t matter, okay we got it
anyway, we’ve got two tapes. Okay, what
we’ve got here from Bro. Branham is actually John seventeen that I just
quoted--partially. What I did I
mentioned in John.
(21) That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Now personally, I don’t
understand that last part about...[problem with
microphone] let me get
this back...that last part personally about the fact of him saying here, “That
the world may believe that thou hast sent me.”
That may be somewhere way down the road, it may be something right here
at this moment. I don’t know.
But I know the fact that
he said, and therefore cannot be wrong, pertains to us now, “That they all may
be one as thou Father art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in
us:” Now they were at one time and it’s
a matter of getting back there and the getting back has been accomplished
through the shed blood which allows the Holy Ghost to fall upon us and reunite
us to God in the form that we are in with the promise of immortality. Going back to the same righteousness and the
righteous sphere that is in God. So if
you can understand the righteous sphere that is in God, and you can understand
it through Jesus Christ, and you really understand what’s being said, then you
can see that you and I are going back, not just potentially--which we have
now--being the righteousness of God but entirely the righteousness of God in the whole Cosmos of God.
Now man, just think of
that! You can’t think of it. All you can do is say, “Thank God.” And the more that you let your thinking go
and try to realize this and do realize this, the more you will position
yourself with beautiful
Well we’ve just got to
go on. Let’s look at this again.
(22) And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; (See? We bypassed that, [4] we weren’t in Him for that, that purpose.) that they may be one, even as we are one:
(23) I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in us; that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Now there’s a promise you
know, in the church ages where He said, “I’ll make them know whom I have
loved.” Perhaps this could be White
Throne, brother/sister. But it’s going
to be. You bet, because the whole
world’s going to be there. There won’t
be one person that’s going to miss it.
And we’re going to know, there’s going to be a Bride there.
You know, if we could
only let this sink in, how Godly we would live.
If any generation needed its mind renewed, the mind circumcised, this is
that generation because this generation needs to repent, repent, repent. Don’t get little feelings about it. That’s why I said, If you ever get up in this
church and start saying, “Well now,” Mel may say, “Well you know I want to
testify I got mad at Dave today because we work close together and Dave didn’t
have his machine right and I got mad and ready to poke him in the nose.” Listen, shut up and tell Dave that. You tell that here Mel, we’d throw you out
the door. You’d have to throw yourself
out because you’re a deacon. Say, “Mel,
throw yourself out the door and Dave help him.”
We don’t go for that nonsense.
No, no, no. That kind of stuff is
ridiculous.
Confess--you got faults
confess them to each other. Don’t by
your stupid feelings and things, go by the Word of God. Say what God has said. Here’s Jesus saying right here. We need that.
Amen. I need it. I’m not talking down at you, I’m
illustrating. You know how it is? Maybe Steve get mad at Norm, who knows? I’m just using a little illustration
here. Ann get mad--ever get mad at your
big sister? Ha, ha, ha. I can understand why, that girl is so
capable. Everybody says, “That Emma,
man, she’s a capable lovely girl.” The
rest of you are too, but, that Emma, she’s really something. We’ve got lovely people here. I really appreciate the lovely people here,
the good spirit, the grace of God, so don’t you go blowing off at me now or
I’ll come after you with a four by four.
Make me a liar, I can’t stand that.
I’m bad enough by myself without...anyway.
So all right. Now, from what we have discussed here, this
will likely close us off. From this what
we see, the roles--we see roles of dominant and sub-dominant, in the program of
God as pertaining to sons--is what it’s really all about and what a gracious
Father would do for sons, and by sons, and so on. So we see the dominant role is this one up
here. [2] Jesus the Logos coming
down to here. [5] The sub-dominant are all here [1gt] and that goes for men like
Moses. Men like Paul, Isaiah, Abel,
Noah, Elijah, William Branham, great men.
See? So there’s a dominant
sub-dominant role.
We as sub-dominants
accept with joy the grace given to us, but we must never lose sight of the fact
that we were and are sons. The
sub-dominant role never allows you to forget that you’re sons. If you forget you always were, and are a son,
and will ever be a son, then you are not even in the sub-dominant. You’re lying to God. You’re
saying, “Lord, you vindicated the prophet William Branham but he’s just
full of baloney “ Then you’re just a big
old buzz fly floating around the baloney.
How do you like that? He’s giving
us Tree of life and as anxious sons of God as Adam, who knew who he was,
anxious to get back, scramble for the Tree of Life, that’s been exposed for the
first time in six thousand years to give us immortality. Listen brother, that’s something.
We are not dogs, or
goats, or chickens. Jesus never came for
dogs, and goats, and chickens, and chimpanzees--though they be the missing link
so to speak. He never came to redeem the
serpent. He came to ransom His brothers,
God’s own sons.
Let’s think of something
else. With this all, there is a great
mystery. This question as to how we were
in Christ [2] and yet got down here
[6] by some natural election,
predestination. I would suggest we set
the mystery of it aside and believe the truth.
We were all in God and we’re still in God, though somehow we went
astray, we are now all back as the redeemed of God. So what’s the difference. You ever lose anything then find it? Oh boy, the old heart constricted. You feel so bad and you know, you feel all
bad inside especially, you know, if you’re a little kid and you lost something
of your parents. And then you found
it. “Ah!
Heaven done come down to earth.
Thank you Lord.” Well that’s what
we’re talking about here. What if you
were lost? And you were lost. That doesn’t make you a chicken. I’m going to tell you something, chickens
moult. They are the most horrible
looking sights. Eagles moult too.
There’s
a clean eagle in the east and there’s a
dirty eagle. He’s a vulture over
here. They use two terms eagle for
everything--clean and dirty they call them.
The clean eagle is in
Somehow what we lack in
understanding, and cannot be explained, is truth and it can be believed because
it’s vindicated. Now that’s what we’re
looking at here. We’re looking at this
message and what Bro. Branham said, applying other quotes to it and showing you
what is the truth and you don’t have to understand it, and I don’t have to understand it. We just believe it. But I’ve got news, we’ll understand more as
time goes on. And we don’t try to push
it and try to figure it. We just know
that this, in this message Bro. Branham preached, he wanted to get that across
to us.
Now, what time? Any time?
Huh? Twenty minutes. Well I’ll read what we read last week then
we’ll start over again. This is great I
retrogressed. Bro. Branham’s sermons are
marvellous. I go home and I say, “Well I
missed this point, I better go over it.”
Forget it. It’s just like the
Bible. It says here,
[69] ...You
can’t be the Word unless you’re a thought.
In other words, you cannot be what we’re talking about here and in this
sermon, you’re not a part, you’re not in it, unless you were back there. [1a]
See? You had to be in His thinking first.
You were. You know why?
Because look it, ain’t nothing but God, [1] nothing but God. So
what’s He going to do? He’s going to
work with God so everything in here, [1]
thinking, attributes, everything, God, and He’s simply going to do something about
bringing out God. You say, “My Lord, you
mean to tell me us poor eagles down here, [1gt]
sort of clipped wings, too many toe nails or something. You mean to tell me that that’s come out of
there?” [1a] You bet I’m telling you right now.
Now there’s where
repentance comes in--renewing your mind.
Not some silly feeling but I did somebody dirt, or somebody did me dirt
and I got mad and he got mad. Fap. That’s just little child play, that’s
junk. Get this lined up, we won’t have
this junk down here. Get the
truth--listen, the truth will take care of the vessel. That’s the trouble, the vessels try to take
care of the truth. Forget it! Shut up and sit down. Stitch your mouth up and listen and put joy
instead of fear in the heart. I’m not
telling you, I’m telling all of us.
That’s the attitude, that’s the spirit.
This [1a] is what’s
truth--it’s all of God.
Say, “Well that
man.” Forget the outward
manifestation. This is nothing but a
bypass, a little day that you won’t even remember. When God, God manifested New Jerusalem and
every child. Oh man, I tell you
what. Back in the old days of Pentecost
you’d be cutting a rug and screaming and climbing a wall by now. Can’t even get hardly a smile out of
people. I’ve taught you not to. I’m not blaming you now for what I’ve taught
you. I’m glad you just listen because
when your emotions creep in unwarranted, there’s problems. We don’t want unwarranted feelings and things. We want genuine spiritual uplift where the
mind becomes suffused, every channel of
the heart, until God’s Word so enlivened by the grace that’s extended today
will take these vessels and transform them what I’m talking about. Then stand there as a son of God in his
glory.
Brother/sister listen, this is what the Bible
is about and it’s right upon us today.
It’s right here today in our midst.
That’s the thing that drives me buggy but I’m going to tell you, God’s
in charge and I just say with Bro. Branham quietly, “If we’re not Bride, there’s a Bride out there somewhere and by the
grace of God help us so we won’t stand in her way but will applaud her on to
the end.” See?
[69] ...You
had to be in His thinking. [1] But you see, in order to be tempted, to
take the trials of temptation, you had to
bypass the theophany; [4] the
form [2] Jesus had. You couldn’t
have it. You had to come down here in flesh...[6]
That was your En morphe. You and I have never yet been the true person that we really are. There’s not one here that’s born again the child of God regrets every bad word, every bad thought, anything ever done or might be done--you even hate yourself. Like being a carcass. You haven’t had a chance yet brother/sister. “Eye hasn’t seen, ear heard.” You’ve got to have faith for this.
[69] ...In
flesh to be to tempted by sin. And
then if you sin... what?
We have an advocate with
the Father. Every single one that falls
into sin, and you can’t help it, you were tricked, you were born in it, you
were sold into sin. Every one of those
bunch down there, [6 ] I don’t care
who they are, the biggest hoodlum can be saved, I don’t care what he is, God is
going to raise up every single child of His through Jesus Christ the Lord. See?
But listen, he said.
[69] ...First
you had to come right down the line, regular line, from attribute.. [1a] .the
thought to the flesh, [6] see?
[70] And then he said, Before the foundation of the world Jesus had His name put on the book of Life. It’s called the Lamb’s book of
Life. [7] He’s the owner of it
through God. Then He became the Word, [2]
the theophany, could disappear and
appear; [3] and then come back again. Then He came down into flesh, [5] human flesh, and He died and He rose
again, in the glorified condition He
came back. But you had to bypass the theophany [4] and
you became a flesh-man [6] tempted by sin. But listen, there’s a Word for you. When
you get out of here it’s waiting for you.
Now, for the first time
you can see yourselves as you are. The ninety-one year old lady up there hugged
Bro. Branham, “My beloved brother.”
The man said, “You don’t
recognize her do you?”
“No, who is she?”
“She was ninety-one
years old when she got saved in your meeting.”
Every woman a
masterpiece of sheer beauty. Every man a
masterpiece of sheer beauty in the glory of God and just in a figure that can
appear and disappear. My, just wait
until you get in the figure that God wanted you--glorified flesh combined with
that up there. He said, “There wasn’t a ripple of any sensation when
they hugged him.” You try that
now. There’s pure respect and love. I believe there’s such a thing as touching
with a way that is congenial but it’s
dangerous.
Women today? How hard for women, they have a hard
role. Men criticize and they’re rough on
them because of the fall. They’ve got a
nature that they don’t even understand.
The way they dress many times. I
saw a girl the other day walking down town, she looked like she had
beautiful...she was a nice looking girl, nice clothes and everything else. But then as she walked by I notice that her
skirt was just about up to the middle of her backbone. Now, there’s such a thing as a kick
pleat. There’s such a thing as necessary
pleats and women need splits in their skirts.
I saw a girl with a black man one day--nothing against a black man. I felt sorry for him that he picked up such a
cheap hunk of white trash and she had her split right up almost to her
umbilicus in the front. She’s showing
you she was a prostitute.
Why would woman do
that? Watch what Bro. Branham said about
that nature. Why? We’re going to read it here. Why would a woman do it? She doesn’t understand. That’s where Godly husbands are so
necessary. I’ve talked to my wife every
now and then. She can bug me and she’s a
very modest person, a very fine person.
I notice every now and then there’s heels get a little bit too
high. What is it? You woman don’t want that any more than God wants
it. What is this thing? See?
We don’t really understand what lies behind it all. And the baptism of the Holy Ghost, the
revealed Word of God can do these wonderful things for us to get us out of
here. But you see, we’re trapped into
this sin but one day we’re going to get out.
Now he said...then he said here.
[70] ...But
look, when this body receives the Spirit of God, the Immortal Life inside of
you,
Now just a minute. It
gets the Spirit of God to bring immortal Life but I’ve already got the Spirit
of God, I’ve got an Eternal Life. It’s
this flesh with its senses and everything else that messes us up. But now the Holy Ghost coming in will let
me...these bodies down here, [6]
once it touches these atoms I’m a candidate, can’t help it. It’s got to respond to the resurrection. See?
[70] ...Immortal
Life inside of you, and this will throw the body into subjection.
In other words, it’s the
one hope we’ve got that these bodies will respond to the nature of God as they
should. Will defy the things out here that aren’t nice. Will take the proper view of how the body
should go. We won’t find the chore, He
Himself said, “Take my yoke upon you, learn of Me. My yoke is easy, My burden is light, it will
give peace to your souls.” There is a
place brother/sister even right here on this earth at this time where we can
have a life which is dedicated and though thoroughly, not thoroughly
manifesting God, will to a degree manifest the Lord and be pleasing unto our
Father.
We’re going to read
more. I stopped at this place here, now
we can start on that on Saturday night when we come into the foot washing and
communion service of next weekend. So
the Lord Bless you. I hope we’re getting
this under wraps until next time we look at it some more and we’ll try to go
from there. So all right, shall we just
rise at this time?
Gracious Heavenly
Father, we want to just thank You again for Your kindness to us. You gave us a good time here studying Your
Word Lord and I pray that You’ll help us in our lives, in our endeavours O God,
to be as we should be in all humility and kindness, and goodness, and grace
Lord because of the Holy Spirit within us teaching us and leading us. Lord God in Heaven. If we think as Bro. Branham said so
truthfully, and we know it’s true, that man in that spirit form was given
dominion over the beasts of the field, the cattle, all of these things he had
dominion over, the fish of the sea, birds of the air, he could say, “Come here,
go there, fish in the water, birds in the air, animals here and animals there”,
even tell a tree to move. I suppose that
was there too because it would be again.
Everything in the perfect symmetry of God. And Lord, if a man could do that by the Holy
Spirit, we know that there is more than hope for us, that we can be lead of
Your Spirit to walk uprightly as we ought to in all things. And Lord where we’re failing, I know that
You’ve given us power to overcome. I
realize that.
Now Father, I’m
confessing that is Your truth because it is Your truth. But Lord, I must also confess as it’s only
too well known by everybody in this building, and above all You Yourself, that
I do not stay in that happy position of obedience to the Holy Spirit at all
times what so ever because many times, Lord, I put my word which is my will
against Your Word which is Your will and Lord in Heaven I don’t want that. I would like Lord like everybody else in the
building wants to get a real victory to the place where we saw Bro. Branham
come. I know Lord I will not go to that
place but come to where he came, but Father I know in the place where You have
put me I can come to the full measure of what You want out of me. That much I do know. Help me and help each one in this building
Lord to realize that and by the grace of God to come to it that each one of us
Lord, recognize and know that we are sons
of God.
Unfortunately, and yet
not unfortunately because of Your great integrity, and we trusted it, we
bypassed where Jesus bypassed down here to suffer and be tempted. But then He came down and bore a whole lot
more than we did. So help us Lord to
line with Him and take up our crosses daily and allow You to nourish us up with
the strength we have need of to walk in the Light, to have fellowship one with
another, the blood of Jesus Christ cleansing us, and in no way Lord to be
censorious or judgmental but in every Lord to be helpful, and loving, and kind,
yet firm in the faith which is delivered unto us in the name of Jesus Christ I
pray Lord, and I mean it. Help us O
God! Amen.
‘Take the name of Jesus
with you.’