Who Is This Melchisedec? #
19
Bro. Lee Vayle
October 19, 1988
Shall we
bow our heads in prayer? Gracious Heavenly Father, we thank You for Your
loving, gracious Presence, Lord, thanking You that You’re here in a way that
You have not been here in two thousand years--yes we could take it right back
several thousand years, Lord; the time of Moses and at the time also of Your
resurrection when You lead captivity captive and You had an exodus then too,
and Lord we’re on the verge of one. And we know Lord, there’s a great Message
at the end time, just before the Resurrection, and the Rapture. We know, Lord,
that the Spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of Yourself comes
into the church, showing us the deep mysteries of God--the time we’re living
in. So may it be our portion tonight to know these things, Lord. We know that
in Your wisdom, You set it forth, it should be so and we want to be very
amenable to it, we want to take our place, Lord, in Your great government. So
feed our souls Lord with food convenient for us tonight--give us the truth. In
Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen. You may be seated.
Now, this
I believe is Melchisedec number nineteen, and we still haven’t gone very far
but I believe we’ll be able to work quite rapidly after we cover certain basic
factors of which I think we’ve covered perhaps the most. Now, in this message,
Bro. Branham has been teaching us very clearly: That every son of God, save
Jesus Christ Himself, bypassed, what
he called, a theophonic form, a body, a Word body, a spirit body, and we have
been made to take on flesh, which is subject to sin. And you’ll notice that condition is spoken of over here in Romans
the 5th chapter, 12 to 14.
(12) Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
(13) For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
(14) Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
So we see
here that the Bible said, “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of
God.” We don’t sin the way Adam sinned but we are in the flesh, tempted in
these bodies and we do sin, and of course we know we sin and it’s reckoned to
us as sin except in the case of justification to the Elect. Now, however, after
the baptism with the Holy Ghost we are in a position, being born again, to be
enabled by the Spirit to walk in the Spirit as well as live in
the Spirit. For it says in Rom 8:1, a few verses there.
(1) There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, (who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.)
(2) For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Now you
notice where the Spirit of life is--it’s in Christ Jesus. And then from then on
it comes into us. That’s the same as saying, “God was in Christ reconciling the
world unto Himself.” So you see what Life and what Spirit it is that we become
heir too.
(3) For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, (Now that’s the flesh we had to come into--bypassing the theophonic form.) God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Took upon
himself the form of man, not the nature of angels, but came as the seed of
Abraham, like a human being, and it said, “The likeness,” didn’t say, “He was
sinful flesh,” because he was not. He was not.
“In the likeness,” in order to shed blood, “condemned sin in the flesh.”
He judged it.
(4) That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
(5) For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
(6) For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
(7) Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
(8) So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
(9) But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit,
Now
that’s a statement right there that we’re all prone to put aside because of
experience and wrong theology. It’s the same as I said Sunday morning, that
this business of this great ethereal magnification of, “I in you and you in Me
and all in the Father,” we just go floating around on the beautiful breezes of
stupid Pentecostal latter rain goofyism. Look, by the baptism with the Holy
Ghost, by God indwelling Jesus, “That One was in Him, in the Father and the
Father in Him,” and we have the same experience by the baptism with the Holy
Ghost.
So don’t
try to make it some great big thing, “I’m going to be so and so and so and so.”
You’re going to explode like a toad full of buckshot and I don’t want to be
around when you splatter. That’s right. It’s not just ignorance, it’s pride,
spiritual pride. Can’t you take just the little simple thing? No it’s too
simple. Even look through a hole in a donut but when God writes something on
the wall in flaming fire it’s just, “Too much.” Now I’m a little sarcastic but
I’ve got to get my point across and I don’t know any better way than to just
take and beat the liver to death, you know, if it’s going to be too active. So
now the same thing is here.
(9) But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if you are baptized with the Holy Ghost.
Now
that’s too much to take because we want to put all kinds of strings on it, all
magnified, and do this and do that. And this is where we fail because we make
God a liar. We are just as obnoxious with our stinking pride as the devil is.
See how important it is to just take the Word of God the way it is and don’t
add a word to it and don’t take a word from it. But just say, “I understand
this. Hey, ‘I am in the Father, the Father in me, in that day you’ll know I am
in the Father and you in Me and I in you.’”
Now that
was at Pentecost and Bro. Branham putting certain emphasis upon the Scripture
as to give it an extended and more glorious meaning, said that happened at
Pentecost. It happens today and will occur at the White Throne again. But every single person that is born
again is following the distinct pattern of Jesus Christ and Bro. Branham said,
we parallel our...as sons of God, and exactly like Jesus Christ except for one
thing, where He had a theophonic form and set it down, and took upon a human
form, we never had ours in the first place but when we die we go and pick it up
and come back and get our glorified bodies and go right like Jesus. Now that’s
what the teaching is and anything else, brother/sister, is ignorance,
spiritually induced ignorance and pridefully kept degeneracy.
Now it’s
all on tape just the way I said it and I’m not going to take it back, and I
don’t think I can repeat it. I got it right the first time. I know what I’m
saying. I have no business being up here if I wasn’t. Now,
(9) ...If so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. (Now remember, the false anointed never get that far. Now watch.) If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Proving predestination. If you are a son of God you will be born again. Then you’ll be just what
it says here. And you could say, “Well praise God, I didn’t ask to bypass that
theophonic form, I didn’t want to bypass it, I know nothing about it. I was put
down here to be tempted. I’m running my course. “But I know in whom I have
believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I’ve committed
unto Him against that day.” I’m going to go to that place where there isn’t any
sin. I’m going to get my claim and my desserts and I’m going to stand on this
earth, like Jesus Christ, and though all hell come against me I will not be
tempted.” Now you can be tempted right now. There’s coming a day when there’ll
be nothing to tempt you. Just walk right along in the faith of God because
you’re a part of it. Now it says...
(9) If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
(10) And if
Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin;
And it tells you flat, you’re going to die. I don’t care how baptized you are
with the Holy Ghost, and I don’t care if you’re so spirit lead you get up in
the morning, “Now tie the left shoelace.”--We don’t have shoelace anymore
hardly--”Put on the left oxford, or pump, or sneaker, put on the right. Look to
the left, look to the right, look up, look down.” You can be, Ohhhhhhh, so lead
of the Spirit and you’re still going to die. Deader than a doornail as though
you’re hit by a
So you
see what we’re talking about? Don’t let your mind go beyond the Word as to what
truly obtains. When we get this straightened out we will now be able to climb
the stairs of a sanctified beautiful life; but the beautiful lives do not come
until we understand this because you can see, the whole thing must be a
motivation of the Spirit that lies in the Word. Absolutely, you can’t get away
from it. Now listen, he said...
(10) But if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin (You’re going to die, I don’t care who you are because you’ve got the sentence of death in it.) but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Now he’s
talking about a Person, and he’s pointing now to the Resurrection.
(11) But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead (And who raised up Jesus? God raised up Jesus. And if the Spirit of God is in you, the same God that raised Jesus from the dead, has absolutely got to raise these bodies from the dead. See? The dwelling in you. Now we notice that, there’s no problem. Now,)
(12) Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
(13) For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: But if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body,
Does that
mean, “Well if I live a godly life like John--John’s out here living in the
flesh somewhere, and Paul’s out here living in the flesh somewhere?” Hogwash,
they’ve gone back to gases. He’s just telling you here that, “A
person who is truly born again has heard,” as Bro. Branham said, “From his theophany,” and he knows that
though body cannot be tempted, he is now in a position by the grace of God to
override all temptations--to really live in a place of victory. We have all the
propensity to back- slide a thousand times a day but we don’t have to. No,
(14) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the sons of God. (the Spirit will lead us in paths of righteousness for His Name’s sake.)
It is
very evident, after we’re full of the Holy Ghost, baptized with the Holy
Spirit, that the Holy Ghost compensates us for having bypassed our theophany;
that theophany which cannot be tempted and which would have given us a power
through a knowledge. An experiential knowledge, would have given us a power,
through experiential knowledge being fully aware of the eternal glory so that
we could not sin. Now, Jesus was that way, we aren’t that way. See? We live
here in the flesh and so we’ve got to cope with the flesh.
Now,
we’re going to start reading a part that we read before and I’ll read it
rapidly, from page 15, [Paragraph] 73.
[73] And
then when you become subject to that Spirit, it throws your whole being,
Body soul and spirit. subject to that
Spirit. Which is the Holy Ghost. And
that Spirit is nothing in the world but this Seed Word made manifest, or
quickened, made alive.
In other
words, he’s telling us what I’ve already mentioned here concerning our
theophany: when you are born again you literally understand that there is a
life that is above sin and there is a glory that we will enter into. Now it’s
going to be awhile to get there. Now,
[73] ...It’s
been made alive, it’s quickened. And
when the Bible said, “Don’t do this,” that body quickly turns to it; Now
notice, he’s talking about the body that receives, that was formed under sin
shaped in iniquity, is tempted by sin, he said, the body because of the Holy Ghost, quickly turns to what the Bible
says and there’s no question. Now Bro. Branham talks about the greatest
battle ever fought, see? So remember
that point, we’ll get to it later on again. What
is it? It’s the earnest of the
resurrection.
In other
words, when we come back in the Resurrection we’ll have our theophonic form
with it. And as I said right there, we’ll be absolutely invulnerable. You say,
“Well I don’t need to be because there’s nothing there to bother me.” That’s
entirely besides the point. I don’t understand it but that’s what the Word
teaches us--we’re going to need it for some particular reason, we’re going to
have it.
[73] ...Now,
this body will be raised again, because
it’s already started to rise.
How does
he mean it’s started to rise? Because it’s in obedience to the Word of Almighty
God; it’s in obedience to the Spirit that lies in the Word and so therefore
it’s already obedient potentially when the call of God comes it has to rise.
See?
[73] It
was once subject to sin, and mire, and corruption, but now it’s got the
earnest; The earnest is the down payment. it’s turned, It’s consequently turned heavenly. Now, that’s the earnest that you’re going in the rapture.
It’s the earnest.
So, the
baptism with the Holy Ghost positively lets us know we’re going to be in the
Resurrection and positively lets us know we’re going to go to the Word-body,
which is there waiting for us.
Now, he
said, “It’s the earnest.” It’s the
down payment. In other words, it’s not just the baptism, but living with the
power of the Word within us to live that life that is available to us. Now,
[73] ...It’s
the earnest, now that’s the earnest, you’re going in the rapture.
And of course there’s two understandings of
going in the Rapture there because we have the earnest. Number one: we’re born
again so we know we’re going and number two: the Pillar of Fire, the earnest
Himself, God Himself has appeared on the scene, which was absolutely a
pre-requisite to the Resurrection. So we understand that.
All
right, now, our bodies are all getting ready to change because the inner man
has listened to the voice of God and it’s in the process of going into what
would be called a Resurrection, actually without death at this particular
moment. Seventy-four, now Bro. Branham is going to illustrate, illustrate the
Resurrection by a healing.
[74] A
sick person laying dying, nothing left but death, that’s all can happen. I’ve
seen the shadows of people done eat up with cancer and tuberculous, and see
them persons a little while after that perfectly normal and strong.
Now
that’s what he’s talking about. You can leave here a complete emaciated wreck,
whatever it is, pass into the theophonic body and if somebody could see you,
which other people of like stature can see you up there, like Bro. Branham was
allowed to see them, visions beyond the curtain of time--you’d see a perfectly
young wonderful human being. There wouldn’t be one thing wrong. And Bro.
Branham said...now that’s not just a healing that’s a miracle Bro. Branham’s
talking about, it’s a miracle of healing. And he said, “I’ve seen them,” and I’ve
seen them myself in Bro. Branham’s ministry, stand right up within a perfect
form and absolutely normal.
Now he
said:
(74) ...If
there’s no Divine healing then there’s no resurrection, because Divine healing
is the earnest of the resurrection. Amen!
In other
words, a healing...God heals people proving definitely there is a place where
your body is one day going to be perfect because healing in itself is not an
end in itself. The Resurrection is an end in itself. In other words--that’s it,
you’ve arrived. But you could be healed many times, you’re still going to die.
The same as I said awhile ago, “The body is dead because of sin but the Spirit
is life because of righteousness.” You have a righteous spirit that guarantees
you eternal life that when you leave here you’ll go right to your theophonic
form and then come right back here and pick up your glorified body.
Now, so...and
remember Bro. Branham also said, “There’s
no such thing as a true healing revival unless there’s a new message.” So we had God Himself descend with a Shout and
the Message is the message of the Resurrection--the Presence of God. He said, “My ministry is to declare that He is here.”
And I ask the question: “What is He
here for?” Well number one: Bro. Branham said, “He’s here to put the church in order.” Number two: “He’s to raise the dead.”
And He’s already put the church in order, and putting the church in
order by the living Word of Almighty God, and we’ve learned something in this
Melchisedec of a church order we never learned before. We’re beginning to see
it all lined up before us by the Word that the prophet brought us.
[75] You
know what the earnest money is don’t you?
It’s the down payment! “He was wounded for our transgressions; with His
stripes we’re healed.”
Now
that’s Bro. Branham referring to the fact here, as he said in Romans, he said,
“But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Christ and [from] the dead, dwell in
you, He that raised up Christ and the dead shall also quicken your mortal
bodies and your Spirit within you.” And just before that he said, “The body is
dead because of sin but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.” See? He
said, “Don’t worry,” he said, “the sentence of death says, ‘You’re going to
die,’ and go ahead and die, I’m going to die too. It doesn’t make one bit of
difference because I am going to go to my theophonic form and come back and
pick up my resurrected form and we take off for eternity.” See? There’s no
problem and so therefore we see the baptism with the Holy Ghost is the
earnest. It’s actually, not just an
earnest in the sense of a token, but it’s a literal manifestation of the
guarantee, “Hey, this is it,” because a token is a guarantee.
See,
there’s another thing wrong with us. We are such a bunch of lousy, crummy liars
and we are so evasive when we talk, and we’re so suave when we talk, and we
have so much duplicity within our hearts as we talk that we don’t know the Word
of God is real and God means what He says and says what He means. Like years
ago, an oath of confirmation ended the whole thing.
Say, “Do
you mean to tell me this is true?”
“Shake
hands brother, you’ve got it all.”
You try
that today they’ll skin you left and right. You wouldn’t dare try that, to
believe anybody. And that goes against us because we can’t believe this Word.
Now you see, if you really believe what I’m preaching tonight we would just be
so relaxed tonight we would have to have somebody come and pick us up. We could
hardly get our joints together, like jellyfish; you would be just plumb relaxed. Because see, “God swore by Himself,”
He didn’t ask you and me to say one thing. “God was in Christ reconciling the world
unto Himself.” God became His own mediator. God became His own bond, His own
guarantee. And He said, “I give to a part of Myself another part of Myself.”
You’re
fifty percent God, only fifty percent person. Actually if you want to go by
your spirit and the truth of the matter is; if you never mind the body, that’s
just a case, that’s just a conduit, if you want to go by the truth you’re two
thirds God and one third not. Then if you want to throw the body in, you’re
fifty percent God. Sure, because your soul is the seed of God, that’s God, and
the Holy Ghost is God, so if you’ve got two spoonfuls of God against two
spoonfuls of a spirit that God allows and another spoonful of dust, you’ve got
two spoon full of God and one spoonful of dust, and one spoonful of another
nature, another thing--fifty percent God. And if fifty percent of our
being--God, cannot overcome fifty percent that isn’t God, there’s something
wrong with God. That’s just mathematics, not even good mathematics except it’s
very, very true what I’m telling you. See?
[75] Now
he said here, the earnest money was, “He was wounded for our transgressions;
with His stripes we’re healed.”
Now
that’s what He did upon
[76] How wonderful, we love Him. Now, this body is subject to the Spirit.
Now he said, “This
body is subject to the spirit.” Okay, that’s quite a statement. It would refer, first of all, to the
predestinated. Now, if he says, “The body
is subject to the spirit...” I’m
going to just use those words and start looking a few things up because I’m not
convinced that Bro. Branham only spoke one language. He spoke many languages by
which I mean there are many meanings to what he said and you can take all of
those meanings as long as you go to the Bible. So let’s go back to 1 Cor 15:35,
and let’s begin to look at the Resurrection which is an end for the human
body--and I ask the question then, if that’s the end what about the start?
Because there is no such thing as an end without a start. Alpha is Omega,
you’ve got to have an Alpha if you’ve got an Omega. See? So if you’ve got an
Alpha there’s got to be an Omega, there’s an Omega there’s got to be an Alpha.
All right.
(35) But some will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
(36) Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
(37) And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
(38) But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Now
that’s what I’m looking at. Now this body is subject to the spirit. This body
then, and every body is subject to whatever life is there to determine the
body. Right? All right, we go back then to God Himself who is Spirit. And God
is the great wheat seed. Now remember Bro. Branham said, “Let’s take a little orange seed, now every single orange that will
ever be is already in that seed.” Every
true child of God that would come by flesh, predestinated would come by Adam
and was already in Adam. And the
potential in there, which is full potential of production, was given a means
whereby generation after generation after generation, until the last
generation, the seed plays out, and God takes them all home.
Now
that’s the same with the original first grain of wheat. It’s the same with the
first horse, the first cow, the first sheep, first dog, first anything. The
full lay in there, and the life determined the body. Right? Then if we actually
though infinitesimally--now don’t use that word ‘infinitesimal’ like you use
the word ‘infinitesimal’--use it with the understanding, though microscopic and
in that particular sense infinitesimal; it is so explosive, that if a cup of water
can blow New York off the map--this one little seed from God with a glorified
body could rip universes apart or put them all together. So just don’t get
carried away with stupidity and stupidity means a false humility of downgrading
God. Now, it’s okay to downgrade the beast. It’s okay to downgrade anything,
but it is not okay to downgrade a son of God. No way.
So, God
being full of seed. Right. Spora, not sperma, in this particular case it’s more
like a flower. The word ‘spora’ can...like grass and so on. God being full of
seed--then within each seed lies the body. Yes, absolutely. And it will form
the delineation and configurations within it from the material that is
available for it. Understand? And what if there isn’t any material available
for it except what itself is of? In other words: when God gave birth Himself...
and we read over here in Hebrews, which I read many times to you, we read it
again.
(3) Who being the brightness, the out-raying, of his glory, the very expression of his substance,
Before
there was ever a speck of stardust, that seed had within it the ability to
produce a body and therefore would produce a theophonic body or a theophany
because that’s all it had to work with. Now I tell you, I’m sticking my neck
right out because of Bro. Branham and I’m ready for the White Throne. In fact,
I’m a bit of a fighter and I don’t want to be nasty with anybody, especially
with God and His servant; but Bro. Branham laid down the law, he said, “The word ‘eternal’ means, never had a
beginning, never had an ending. And he lets us know positively, That before there was a speck of stardust,
one atom, one movement of air, there was anything, a light began to form.” And I want to ask you a question: there’s
nothing to form it from, what was doing the forming? God. And that’s what it
says right here that, “Jesus was the outraying of God and He was the
essentiality of God.” I don’t care what anybody says.
Now, we
bypassed that form, that would have automatically, because of its intrinsic
essentiality, produced a theophany. In other words, it would have produced a
God form because the seed is God and it’s as simple as a dog is a dog, as a pig
is a pig, as a horse is a horse. Now you say, “Bro. Vayle the human...” Shut-up
and listen. The dog wasn’t in Christ, the pig wasn’t in Christ, the horse
wasn’t in Christ. Those were all creations, we are not creations we are spin
offs. We are a spin off of God or I don’t know what Bro. Branham was teaching
and personally I wouldn’t care, because he’d be too mixed up for me to follow.
And I
tell you, I never did appreciate Bro. Branham said, “You study nature, you’ll get all your answers back to God.” And I never did believe it, I could never
figure it but the last two years I’ve been using nothing but nature. So I know
I’m where the prophet is--now he’s way up here and I’m way down here
somewhere--no I’m not, he told Bro. Hicks, he said, “Bro. Hicks, said, right now
I’m up here and you’re here. When I’m off the scene you’ll be up there and I’ll
be gone.”
So we
know what the prophet was teaching us--sons of God. Jesus said, “I came forth
out of God, I was born of God, I issued forth from God,” and we do the same
thing but we miss what the spirit would have formed. So, God speaking, Bro.
Branham said, “The Son and the Father
speaking said, ‘Let us make man in our image.’ ” And we were not the
out-raying. See? Now we were the out-raying intrinsically but not in the form.
So we took upon another form. Jesus had to lay aside that form and come and
take our form. Then we lay aside this form and take that form, then we come
back and pick up a glorified form. That’s wonderful. But you see the picture of
seed and the understanding of this.
Now I’ll
tell you what this is going to do for us, this is going to make us conscious of
the God race and the priesthood order of Melchisedec which is not a latter rain
bunch of clap trap and balderdash. What I’m talking about will make you start
praying for Mary Allison and getting a grip on yourselves looking for places
that Brian and Mary can come down and move to. You’re not doing it. I don’t
have...I’m not so strong but I’ll be looking.
We’ve got
Roger and Carol Sue want to come, they’re getting desperate. Now we’re not
trying to get people to move into here, especially as I’m getting old enough I
can’t take care of them, but they’ve got faith in you people. Do you hear what
I’m saying? It’s not just me, they’ve got faith in you people. I’m looking you
in the eye so some of you better get right down to be worthy of the faith they’re
putting in you. I’m not being hard, just telling you because some of you have
been kind of snotty and I don’t like it. You know I’m rough up here but you
just...I can’t understand you. You tell a sinner down the street about a house,
but will you tell your brother? Now I’m
not being too critical, I just know it isn’t being done.
Now Danny
Henry wants to move down here. I’m not saying he should come down here. I don’t
want any body moving down here as far as I’m concerned, but if we can help them
we’re obligated to help them. That’s a real priesthood, not some high-faluting
stupid idea where you pontificate and talk about how great you are. But you put
your money where you mouth is, you put your energy. Now some of you are doing
it, you’re doing a great job, but you see, I’ve got to give blanket coverage.
Everybody needs to be working for each other. Now don’t over do it to make
yourself a nuisance. That’s possible, very possible.
Now we’ve
got Rob trying to move down here with Laura, and they already are moving to a
degree. We’re not trying to build a church this way, but look, these people
want help and if we can help them we’re going to help them.
I don’t
know how Brian’s doing tonight, but it’s about time the boy had a line in up
there, if he can’t get down here, his wife’s pregnant the way she is and we
don’t know what the baby’s going to do, we’re praying and believing God with
all of our hearts and trying to help, if he can be home tonight, have the
phone. There’s no cost, I don’t care if it’s got sixteen eight
hundred...hundred and fifty dollars a month, that doesn’t mean one thing--get
the message up to him. And we’ve got the lines. Pete would do it in fifteen
seconds, all he’s got to say is, “Pete, get on the line.” And Bro. Pete went
ahead, trusting God, he’s the man that paid a lot of money to put these lines
and things in, we didn’t do it, Bro. Pete did, I appreciate that. I don’t want
to bring up everybody, what he does, but Roger the other day bought all the
plates. I paid my own upper plate so he paid for the rest of them.
I’m just
trying to relax you, I come a little rough on you. I don’t want to be rough on
anybody but hey, look, these people are serious, they may be desperate for all
I know. In the meantime then it doesn’t behove anybody to pick at anybody but
believe everybody help each other and go on down that road.
Now I’ve
said my little piece, it’s all part of the Message. You’ve got to understand
these things. These people need help. I thank God that people ever helped me
but I want to tell you one thing, I went through a lot of rugged roads of no
help, no help, no help. I got to the place of being utterly bitter until I came
back after nine wasted years of saying, “I’ll trust God through hell and high
water, come what may,” and I never had to go through hell, I didn’t have too
much high water, I had a lot of icy roads and storms and everything else I
could have got killed on--kicked out of churches and everything else because I
dared to stand up for the Word of Almighty God.
I’ll tell
you, it’s worth it brother/sister. Well the little tiny bit I know about God,
it’s worth it to put your lives on the line because there’s nothing, there’s no
way you can love God and serve God outside of loving and serving the brethren
in Jesus Christ. Don’t get tangled up on personalities or some little thinking
thought here and some little thought there but press right in to serve God and
help people because that’s what it’s all about.
Now what
was I talking about? Yes, I was talking
about right here--the seed. Talking about the seed of God. God Almighty’s seed
giving a body. And you know what happened? Bro. Branham in this hour pinpointed
that body as Melchisedec, the priest serving. And we are of the royal
priesthood and one of these days brother/sister, having served each other, and
thereby served God. And you know that’s in the 25th chapter of the book of
Matthew, absolutely, they were so anxious to help people they didn’t even know
they were serving God. “When did we go to prison and help You? When did we give
a glass of water? When did we come in the hospital? When did we put some
clothing on Your back?”
Listen,
do you know who your neighbour is? Your neighbour is the person who helped you
and you are supposed to love him next to God. This is a good little question to
ask, how many people do we really know that we can love next to God? In other
words, how many people really helped us? That’s not the point, how many people
have we really helped? Then if they don’t love us next to God, we being a
neighbour because that’s who the neighbour is, the man that helps you, how many
good Samaritans we got today? Oh it’s vital brother/sister to know this.
Now this
is what we’re talking about of living in the Spirit and walking in the Spirit.
We will be so engergized as Jesus was, knowing these things and doing these
things--who cares two bits about temptation? We’re too busy for it. When you
get too busy to be tempted that’s a marvellous situation. You know the old
saying, “The devil always finds lots of work for idle hands to do,” yes, well
let’s get God’s Word going. We can, see? Understanding this is a great thing.
So, we’re
looking at this body here. God gives it a body as it hath pleased Him. Now, so
let’s keep going now. The Bible, John was speaking to Jesus, that’s John...I
beg your pardon, Nicodemus in the book of John.
He was
talking to Jesus and Jesus said, “Nicodemus you must be born again.”
“Well,”
he said, “how can a man be born again? Can he the second time enter his
mother’s womb?”
And Jesus
said, “That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”
Now, I
ask you a question: are you born of God? Next question: how many times? Now if
you’re born of God you’ve got to be spirit to begin with, because you’re seed.
Right? “That which is born of the Spirit is spirit and that which is born of
the flesh is flesh.” And that’s exactly right but you’ve got two beginnings and
so did Jesus. He bringeth the Only-Begotten, the first begotten into, not the
inhabited world but into being. Now He brings us into being, but not the way
Jesus was.
Now, we
are born therefore through natural generation but we should’ve had the bodies
that come from the supernatural generation and when you are a generating force
it means you are a living force and God is a living force and every part of God
and every seed of God--so to speak--is a living force and a living entity
thereby; so he would be productive, but God cut him off, cut him right
off. Cut you and me off, we have no
recollection, we have no memory, got nothing to do with it except it’s ours,
it’s got to be waiting for us and we came down here and we’re going to go back
there and pick it up.
So that’s
why I’ve talked about this because Bro. Branham said here, “Now this body is subject to the Spirit.” And there isn’t a body that’s not subject to
the spirit of whatever life that’s there, because it delineates or blueprints
what is going to come forth.
Now
listen, if we can get an understanding--and I don’t have it, I can preach it
and boy I can sure preach it and you know I can. I don’t really practice it.
But you know something, if we really understand what I’m saying and fill the
channels so that other channels, no other channel, and no channel can be filled
with anything but the Word of God, we’ll begin to have that Word flow out the
way it should flow out.
Now
listen, you understand what I’m saying? In your minds, God, the big circle with
all the seed; the little seeds lay in Him. Now, if they had been in the form of
Christ, which is the correct delineation, there could not have been any
channels that would have absorbed anything contrary--but we bypassed it. The
seed is now not in the true configuration but in a physical configuration so
that the channels are opened, so we don’t resist sin like we should, we’ve got
to fight in a battle until we die. Like Bro. Branham truly said, “A thousand times a day backslide and have
trouble.” See? The original could
not possibly have been tempted or any problem lie therein.
Now, it’s
up to us to so fill the channels with the Word of God that out of that will
proceed the life that we’re talking about though we have bypassed the
theophonic form. Then in that condition, we will be loving and kind, and
merciful, and uplifting, and correcting people with the Spirit of Christ--not
having confrontations. Now I’ve had some confrontations, sometimes they’re
necessary because in order to avoid confrontation it takes two people in Christ
to be motivated with the same Spirit--can’t do it by yourself, one person
standing there. [End of side one]
Now Jesus
Christ had to have confrontation but He never had it with His own. So we’re
looking at the seed here. We’re looking at the body subject to the Spirit.
That’s why Bro. Branham preached, “Dove Leading the Lamb.” Don’t tell me that a
dove’s going to light upon a wolf, or a dog, or a pig, or a balky old horse, or
a mule, or a jackass of some description. The Holy Spirit comes upon the Lamb
because the Lamb is the type of the configuration that God’s own Life had to
take being stepped down.
Now, but
as we understand we will soon be to the position of the out-raying of God and
coming back with the immortal garb of Jesus Christ Himself and the glory of God
to shine which will be the true assessment of God. I say, these are the things
that are going to change our lives. I’ve been all through the other, it doesn’t
work. You can pray, you can fast, you can take every measure you want to
impress yourself, or to bring yourself under some guidelines, it isn’t going to
work, and if it did, it wouldn’t do any good anyway because “If Abraham hath
whereof to boast according to the flesh let him do it but not before God.” And
he’s one of the finest examples that ever lived, then comes Joseph and some of
the rest of them. See? Everyone.
[76] ...Now,
this body is subject to the Spirit. Now this is predestination. I don’t
care if we did bypass the theophonic form, we’re going to get it. We are
predestinated to this. Now, this body is
subject to the Spirit. We have not
yet entered into the Word form, but we are still in the flesh form, but subject
to the Word. Death in the flesh will take us there.
Now, when
you read this the first time, you’ll go legal, just as sure as you’re alive,
you’ll go legal.
[76] ...We
have not yet entered into the Word form, we’re still in the flesh form, but
subject to the Word.
Then
right away you think, “Well I’ve got to get down and humble myself to the
Word.” Yes that’s right, you will humble
yourself to the Word. But the point is, if we’re truly children of God and born
again we are already humble to the Word. And by humble to the Word, though
that’s a poor expression, I’ve used it. Let us say we’re congruent with the
Word because we are Word, we’re living on the Word, and we love the Word.
Now, so
therefore Bro. Branham is saying here--not that you are becoming subject to the
Word as though you’re giving it a precedence. You are so made and I am so made
that come high tide--read Romans 8, separation, no separation rather, famine,
tribulation, nakedness, perilous sword, life and death, it doesn’t matter, you
will positively make the Resurrection. Now that’s the kind of faith you and I
are having in these messages and what Bro. Branham brought us. It’s no longer
something, brother/sister, that is an active faith, it is a passive faith of
revelation that becomes dynamic through God Himself within the vessel that God
has prescribed because we’re in that vessel.
[76] ...We
are still in the flesh form, but subject to the Word.
In other
words, even though we passed the Word-body, we’re subject to it. Now remember;
beyond the curtain of time changed Bro. Branham’s life--nothing else. The
visitations of God by the Pillar of Fire, I was in his house that day when that
handwriting appeared on the wall by a Pillar of Fire and he looked like a
hunted animal, scared to death--that never brought it. The great and mighty healings never brought
it. The raising of the dead boy in
Now, Jesus Christ had that--we don’t. But our knowledge of it makes us to know by vindication that this is it and by our faith in the vindicated theorem we know we’re just as good in the curtain of time as Bro. Branham is.
Now
you’ve got to understand that. And here’s where the strength begins to come, as
we understand and accept our brethren, and that’s the tough one because we all
have our own standards--not God’s--and our own ideas, and we like to project
them. We haven’t learned to sit back enough, fast enough, and long enough to
become mellow. We must learn under this Message what it is to ripen. And that’s
to simply sit under it and listen, and listen, until the channels are full, and
the more the channels are full the more you and I are going to be temperate
because the servant of God number one; is temperate in all things. We talk
about love and we talk about a lot of things but I’m going to tell you, every
single thing in this world is spoiled without temperance. Let’s remember that.
That’s your prime quality we’re thinking of tonight.
Now we’re
subject to this Word. Not, “Thou shalt do and not do, not this and not that,”
but we’re subject by the life to take the form that has been predestinated by
the delineation that lies within the life. And the delineation of God was first
of all a Spirit or a Word-form-body. He
said, “Stop it right there, number one and that’s all.” But He didn’t veto it,
He just stopped it right there. He said, “Put them here then bring them back,
then bring them back again.” You know that Jesus has got to come back into the
inhabited world again? He’s got to be born into this world again by coming back
on a white horse and we are going to be born into this world again by coming
back on a white horse with Him. There’s lots of begottens in the Bible, we’re
all part of it. Should make you love the
Lord. Bro. Branham, he just talks right about loving the Lord here.
All
right, now he’s going to illustrate about the whole thing here.
[77] Just
the same thing. The illustration. Think
of a little baby. You can take a woman, no matter how evil she is, when she is
pregnant and fixing to be mother, watch before that baby’s born, I don’t care
how cruel the woman is, she gets real kind. There’s something about her seems
godly, to see a little mother fixing to become mother by the baby. What is it?
That little body,
Body,
body. What’s he call it? Body. Now do you and I dare call it otherwise? Now you
see that’s the thing. The body is a manifested delineation. No two ways about
it. It’s your genetic pattern brought into what should be a sympathetic
environment, and empathetic, it’s not that any longer.
[77] ...That
little body...Now, it’s What? The body’s
not yet alive. See the only thing it, Body. is, is just flesh and muscle. That little jumping, that’s just muscles
jerking. But when it, The body. comes
forth from the womb, God breathes the breath of life into it, Just like in
Genesis. Then he, Not body this time. screams. See, just as sure as there is a natural body being formed,
For what?
Whatever is doing the *delineating.
She’s not going to bring forth a dog, or a pig, or a pretty rosebud, maybe like
the rest, she likes geese, bring forth a little goose, a little gosling.
No--after the kind. I’m being a little sarcastic, I’m bringing a point out
here. It’s going to be a little baby boy, little girl, whatever, human. [*Delineate – to sketch
or design]
[77] ...Now
just as there is a natural body being formed, there is a spiritual body to
receive it as soon as it gets here.
What? The
body. But it takes a seed to make a body. And what’s in the DNA, the RNA, the
genes and so on is not there in a chemical measure as though the chemistry was
all that counts; chemistry doesn’t mean anything without life. That’s why your
chemists and your science are all screwed up. They’re so messed up they think
they’re gods. Doctors the same way, lawyers, everybody’s god and the funny
thing is we who are, don’t even want to claim it. It was always sort of stupid
to me. Still is, it’s a little bit gross if you want to know the truth. It’s
ridiculous.
So, this
is why Bro. Branham could say, “The body
is jerking muscles and it’s not really alive,” and say to the Mormon who
lost a child prematurely, “You’re going
to see it in Heaven,” because the seed, which is the life, and which is the
true delineator, see, has begun to fashion through processes--a body of the
chemicals and those things which are here and God has allotted to them.
Now just
stop and think a moment how wonderful it would have been if God could have
delineated, or would have delineated for us what I’m talking about, and we saw
ourselves like Jesus, come into a theophonic form, come into our true form,
which would be an out-raying, and the out-raying principles would be the
matter, which is spirit and true spirit come forth, true spirit form come
forth, nobody could see it--where it come and go. Then come down here and
knowingly take on a human form--that would be fantastic. God didn’t want it
that way but He said, “You can have it all anyway but it’s going to be the way
I give it to you.” See? Now you’re learning to understand about God and
ourselves is what we’re doing in this message here.
Now he
said, “This is just jerking muscles,” because it’s a body we’re talking about. So
what is it? A spirit is standing there
allowed by God, permitted by God, but not of God. Our baptizing Spirit is of
God because it’s from God because It is God. But this spirit is allowed of God
and comes in when the baby drops from the womb--now the doctors and scientists
aren’t going to believe this, who cares about those idiots? Those birds are so
smart there’s no such thing as a rheumatologist pretty soon, they found out
nobody knows about rheumatism and arthritis, so the rheumatologist, he’s as
dead as the dodo. Oh he’ll want to collect money and say he still is, but he
doesn’t know. No? What do the doctors know? In six thousand years not twenty
percent of the human body.
Nobody
knows--but we know. We know the mysteries of God by divine revelation. We know
like Jesus said, “We know who we are from and where we are going.” And we’re
the only people in history who have that tremendous aspect of the gospel. Not
that the others didn’t have a part of it but they didn’t have what you and I
have because, “This is the glory,” Bro. Branham said, “That doesn’t fade.” So if
you’re worried about reaching a plateau in this church where suddenly there are
no more plateau’s and there’s no place to go, you are hindering your faith and
I’m hindering mine because this glory cannot fade.
Then if
it doesn’t fade does it just sit there? No! It’s got to grow brighter and
brighter to the perfect day. The path of the righteous shall shine more and
more until the perfect day. And this is the perfect day when the full light has
come but it gets brighter and brighter because as Bro. Branham showed, the
little prostitute at the well, she was all black but one little white spot,
when the light really hit her and did the work it was supposed to do she turned
all white. We’re going to go to the tree of Life the same way.
All
right. The spirit gives it a body. Now that which is born of the spirit is
spirit. So if you’re born again then it’s got to be the Spirit of God that
comes unto you, in your body, and comes to you, the soul the real life within.
Now you’re fifty percent spirit. Okay, paragraph 78.
[78] Then
when a man is born again from Heaven, he becomes a spirit babe in Christ.
In other
words, as a baby now has within it every full aspect and potential to be
exactly what is there, he starts on the path. Jesus Christ himself grew in
stature and favor with God and man. So you and I will do the same thing.
[78] ...And
when this robe of flesh is dropped, there is a (natural body), theophany,
Cross out
the word natural body, he didn’t mean it because there’s no such thing as a
natural body theophany except in the sense that the body, the theophonic form,
was the natural one we should have had. So in the sense it’s a natural
theophany you could say that, but I think at this particular point Bro. Branham
really didn’t mean that. It doesn’t matter if he did because each way is good.
[78] ...A
body not made with hands, neither born of a woman--that we go to. Then that body, The theophonic body or
Word-body, spirit-body. returns and picks
up the glorified body. That’s the
reason, I don’t think Bro. Branham should have used the word ‘reason’ there
so much as that’s how Jesus went to hell
when He died and preached to the souls that were in prison.
Now he
could say, that’s the reason He did it, is on the grounds that He had a
theophonic form and He had to go on down there and associate with them also to let
them know that they bypassed it and they’re going to be like Him because He was
like that to begin with and both of them have glorified bodies. You can put
different meanings here and it will come out the same thing. It doesn’t really
matter.
[78] ...Turned
back into that theophonic form. Oh, marvellous! Thank God!
[79] Then
in 2 Corinthians, he reads it, “If this earthly body be dissolved (this earthly
tabernacle), we have another one.”
You see,
you have the body that’s suited to the nature according to the conditions that
are requisite. See I had to fill that in--conditions requisite because you just
can’t say, that it’s suitable to the nature of what lies within the seed
because the nature lying within the seed is holy, holy, holy. Cheribums keeping
everything away, blood and fire, so that nothing gets near, God’s so holy.
Well, if we were in that form, why man the whole earth would burn up in front
of us. You ever hear Scripture how that God, there’s a fire that goes before
Him and blackness behind Him moving God like a flame of fire coming in there
and Bro. Branham talking of the purifying power of the Holy Ghost? It’s got to be that way, God’s not going to
live in any stench and filth. So God had to let us bypass. See? And as I said,
think of what, think...now listen, think what this revelation does to us now
that we know, although we weren’t there to experience it, we bypassed it, to
let us know what we can do with this revelation by way of living in the Spirit
of God.
Now this
is a different message I’m preaching from do this and do that, or study this
and study this and act this way and act that way, or get this or get that, I’m
just saying think upon these things which are real. And that’s where real
philosophy comes from. Not some man made tripe and man made idea.
Oh come
on, you don’t think for one minute that William Branham and these great men of
God lived their lives by just devoting themselves? “Bro. Branham, I’m going to
sanctify myself for the coming of the angels.” What if God didn’t want angels
to come? Well Bro. Branham’s bones would have been bleaching on the desert
sanctified. Fap! You’ve got to be congruent with the Word of God. And Bro.
Branham taught us there is a congruency. He said, “Come just like Jesus.” Ran
a parallel, but he said, “You bypassed
that.” Then what should the
revelation do for us? “Well, I don’t understand but you know how it is...what
are we having tomorrow for dinner?” Can’t be that way. We’re not lying in the
sun enough, that’s the honest truth.
Bro. Branham
was constantly warning us and worried we’d have just too many other things to
be able to just sit up and notice in church and keep in our hearts and minds
and read the books the same way. Oh yes brother, listen, I use this manuscript
just like I use the Bible. Oh I know that there’s certain people like one big
shot in
[79] ...”Our
earthly bodies be dissolved we’ve got another one.” See, we have bypassed that
to come straight from God, Notice, we
have bypassed that to come straight from God, the attribute, to be flesh to be
tempted and tested by sin like Adam was.
But when testing of His Word is over, then we are taken up to this body
that was prepared for us before the foundation of the world.
You know,
like our names on the Book of Life. Now, what kind of a body would come forth
for a seed of God except a body fitting for that life? Even as animal bodies
come from animal life. I took that up with you, studied it already. See? So
what would be fitting? A theophonic form. It would have to be because if you’re
sons of God you’re going to have God form. Bypass it--okay, we’ll get it later.
Once
you’ve been tested. See? Now, a true
understanding of that will make us stand like soldiers in our testing. Well
they were just being tested, not being killed, not being destroyed--no, we’re
going to come forth. Like Job said, see? Like one fellow said, “God will drag
you through as long as you can stand the drag.”
All
right:
[79] ...a
body prepared before the foundation of the world.
And I’ve
read that out of Hebrews, you know? Well now let’s just go back to Hebrews 11
just for a minute anyway. I’m not going to get much more than this paragraph
done then we can...before next Sunday. All right, 11th chapter, verse three.
(3) Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
All
right, that’s true. But they were made of something and faith lets you know there
is an invisible substance somewhere that’s the building block of the universe.
The Word of God, and that’s just simply spoken Word of God from God’s mind.
That has no theophonic form to it. This piece of paper is not a part of God, I
don’t care what you say. Well you say, “Bro. Vayle it came out of a tree.” Who cares if it came out of a tree or it came
out of the moon, I don’t care, it’s not God. I breathe air--that’s not God,
that’s creation.
Now we
know that God did it from something intrinsically from the beginning. Some
people think it’s hydrogen. I’m not
going to argue what it is, I just take the Word of God, said God the Word...the
Word of God did it, that’s all there is to it. But this is not the Word
of God, this is the substance that came by way of a voice. We are something which...and a substance here
which came by way of a life, God’s own life. And Bro. Branham said, “It came direct from God.” In other words, no bypassing. See? So we
didn’t get a previous experience, we didn’t have a previous glory that lay in
there.
All
right:
[79] It
is the Word there that we skipped and came right down here to be tempted and
tested. If we’d have come through that, Word-body. there’d have been no temptation; Well couldn’t have been,
everything would have just burned in front of us. we’d have known all things.
That’s the reason Jesus knew all things because He was Word before He
was flesh.
And
that’s true. You and I don’t come that way, we still got...no matter how much
Word we learn, we still come by the flesh and flesh and blood does not know a
revelation of God, flesh and blood cannot know the things of God but God is
given us Spirit even though we are dwelling in flesh and blood, and that can
hinder us, the Word of God is greater and the revelation still comes
through.
Now,
there tonight, no matter what I said and I’ve bawled you out a bit, I didn’t
mean to bawl anybody out, just put you on the spot, we’re all on the spot; get
you interested, get you picked up. You and I can do it. We can do it. The flesh is not mighty, the
Spirit of God is mighty to the pulling down of the strongholds of Satan and
Satan gets right there in the old mind and the body. You know this age has got
us so messed up, you know we don’t even know clean things from unclean things.
There’s a lot of clean things we call unclean, a lot of unclean things we call
clean--what a mess. We need to get some real frank understanding in our lives
and homes. That’s what we really need to do, brother/sister.
Oh my, I
tell you what, I just long for the Millennium whether I’m going to get there or
not, I can tell you flat. I believe I’m going to make it but if I don’t I’ll
tell you one thing, I’ve got a vision and a hope that bless God somebody’s
going to have it because I am so sick and tired of this mess here, I’d like to
know somebody had something. You know? And that’s getting a little bit way down
the line now when we say, “Let somebody else have it then, bless God, but make
sure somebody’s got it.” That’s a little bit like the bride’s got the
bridegroom and the bridegroom’s got the bride and the wedding guest stand back
and say, “Isn’t that nice, isn’t that nice, isn’t that nice?” Bless God, if I
could just be a wedding guest, “Isn’t that nice, isn’t that nice?” I think I’d be pretty happy. Well I wouldn’t
be as happy as, you know, the other way. But who knows?
See, if
you’d just get the upperward look and realize this is something wonderful that
God’s doing, praise Him. See, when the Seals opened the heavens just went into
riot. Down here, “Hum, hum, hum, hum.
Was that of God? What, ...?... Hum, hum, hum.” That’s a riot of praise? Shee,
that’s worse than Joe’s smoke house. Yes, that’s worse than God knows what. Now
he said here.
[80] Then
we become the Word.
See? Just
a minute I went through this paragraph up here now. It says here,
[79] ...That’s
the reason Jesus knew all things.
Yes, I
was talking about that. Jesus knew all things because He was there and in the
know of all of these great things, where we get everything by the sense
knowledge and the sense knowledge isn’t accurate. See? So if sense knowledge
isn’t accurate, my God, how we need divine revelation. And if we get that then
sense knowledge goes out the window. Thank God, say, “Thank God, I don’t care
about doctor so and so, or reverend so and so, or anybody else, anybody ever
said, Bro. Branham said, “I came direct
from God,” hallelujah, and as big a skunk as I am or
anything else here I am, I came direct from God”--you don’t believe it? I do.
You don’t like it? I do. If you don’t want me around--good-bye Charlie, I won’t
bore you. That’s right, prophet said so.
You and I
haven’t got it, you and I don’t know anything anyway. We bypassed the fountain
of knowledge. We bypassed the one body that could give it to us. So now we’re
down here in the body that cuts us off. God comes right down, the Holy Ghost,
the Token Himself in a vindicated prophet and people stand back and say, “Well
I don’t know.” Well isn’t that pitiful, what do you know? Shoot, prove
something. Fap, I’d like to see anybody prove something. Prophet proved it
thousands of times. People say, “I don’t know. Well it could be this, it could
be that.” Well fine. What if it could be
the truth and you’ve gone, Bud, and I mean you’ve done gone blasphemed the Holy
Ghost?
Yes, He’s
still here too. Don’t anybody think He’s gone somewhere because the dead
haven’t been raised yet. Don’t think He’s gone, He’s putting the Church in
order and this, and this brother/sister, we’re getting to learn about the
church order because we’re going right back to the top now. You talk about
heavenly choirs, you know they said, “The angels fold their wings while you and
I sing.” Well I’m going to tell you one thing about it, they better fold their
wings when I sing whether they like my voice or not because I’m going to drown
them out. That’s your attitude and that’s mine, that’s the way it should be.
See?
All
right, now here:
[79] ...He
was the Word before He was actually
flesh.
He was
part of the singular manifestation and glory and government of the
Now, what
Bro. Branham says here, the reason Jesus knew all things because He was Word
before His flesh, had a theophonic body, proves the pre-existence so called of
Jesus, or He was here before we were and it doesn’t make two gods, it makes God
and the Son.
Now he
says here:
[80] Later
we became the Word. Here we are formed to the Word image to be a partaker of
the Word, feed on the Word, by being predestinated since the beginning. Now
that’s a big mouthful that sentence right there. Then we become the Word, That’s right. When we pass on, we pick it
up. See? Here we are formed to the Word image to be a partaker of the Word.
All
right, at this particular time there’s a forming going on in our lives. As we
partake of the Word of God and feed on the Word of Almighty God, showing us
that actually we are fitting ourselves to the image of the original. That’s
what we’re looking at. In other words, we go from image to image, from glory to
glory, to the image of the Lord. Now look, let’s go back to Hebrews chapter 1.
(3) Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person,
Now that
was Jesus. We bypassed every hope of that in the sense of the complete
connection with God and the form from God, but in giving it up we are allowed
to pick it up at the end of the trail. See? So we’re going to have it in the
measure that God wants it for us. So that we being the brightness of His glory
in our own little position. The expression of His person, we’re going to get
there, absolutely going to get there. It’s all going to happen to us because
we’re waiting for it.
Now, this
is as Bro. Branham said, “God did this in
order to give Himself reason and purpose of being”--quoting Irenaeus. It
had to be this way, God wanted it. Now, because we go through it, which is the
period of Romans the 5th chapter of growth and character, there is no limit
that what God does for us. It says,
(1) Therefore having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
(2) By whom we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
See,
rejoice in it. Rejoice in getting that theophonic body, coming back to get the
Resurrection.
(3) And not only, we glory in tribulations: (That’s trials.) knowing that tribulation worketh patience; (It does.)
(4) And patience, experience (Character); and character, hope:
(5) And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Now it
tells you right there that this is the plan that Bro. Branham was talking
about. Letting us go through the period of being enemies of God, coming back
reconciled to God, realizing who’s sons we are, and he talks about this pretty
soon and we won’t get there tonight, about the little eagle--always was an
eagle, never was a chicken, never liked the chicken life. There’s no eagle here
tonight but what hates sin in every shape and form in yourself and everybody
else but sometimes we get to the place where we hate it in everybody else more
than in ourselves because we’ve got to justify ourselves--well forget that
nonsense. No, it doesn’t work. So, we
read this, okay.
[80] ...So we’re predestinated from the beginning.
Now, the predestination came in the beginning. God allows a time gap. After the time gap, the character, the suffering, fitting us for reigning with Him because we’re more like Him that way--we come back pick up the body, reign and rule with Him. Now you see that...now watch.
[80] ...You see, that little spark of life that you had in you from the beginning...
That you had in you, but listen, the body doesn’t have it because it gets it when it falls from the womb. Another kind of life, another spirit. What’s he talking about? He’s talking about your soul, the gene from God, the little speck of God, the little sperma, all the little spora. If you want to make God as a male it’s a sperma. If you want to make God like a flower it’s spora. I don’t care what you call it, the Bible calls it spora in 1 Peter. Good enough for me.
[80] ...You see, that little spark of life that you had in you from the beginning, Your soul came from God, the gene of God. When you started your journey...Many of you can remember it. You joined this church and joined that church,
Remember what?
Remember when that spark began to assert itself. The life said, “Hey I don’t want this.” Man I
never did want to be a corner drugstore cowboy. I was never down there uptown
cutting up the town, smoking and drinking like a lot of people do but even at
that time I hated myself because I was doing things I shouldn’t do even then.
You don’t have to be a blackened sinner, go out here and maraud and cut up and
murder and everything else, and pretend you’re the apostle Paul. You want to go
out and murder a bunch a people to have conviction that you need God.
I can
tell you one thing you get a little baby chicken, that chicken doesn’t even
know it’s a little chick and that old mother she sees a chicken hawk up there
and she begins talking to those chickens, that baby little chick just runs
right now. It doesn’t say, “Now I’m a chicken, should I run when I hear that?”
Hogwash. When the eagle hears the scream it doesn’t say, “I wonder should I, I
wonder, why, what?” It screams back. Hear one wolf howl, another wolf
howls. It doesn’t say, “I think I should
howl. Could that be a wolf?” Owwr, he howls right back, what a wolf sounds
like. That’s the same with this here, we’re talking about that. See:
[80] ...You
started your journey. You joined this church here...
Oh man,
not me, I hated joining churches. I told you about that, I couldn’t stand it.
Thank God I didn’t have to take communion. That old gas bag standing up there.
The only fun I had in his sermons was when I pulled the wings off of flies.
We’d take toothpicks and little pins, you know, and you put a bit of cork on
each one, then you put the big old blow fly on the pin and he sits there and
you put the dumbbells in his hands, he moves back and forth like this you watch
him play with the dumbbells. Never mind what the preachers saying.
Of course
if you’re sitting here with me I’ve got news for you, I wasn’t that guy I’m
another guy. I was the guy that sat there and fooled with the flies while that
nut talked about God knows what, he didn’t know himself. What was he doing up
there? What am I doing here? I know what I’m talking about. It came right from
that Pillar of Fire and I can read it right here and I find it right in my
book--got no problem there, brother/sister, not a bit.
All
right, he said:
[80] ...That’s
right! One day you recognized it.
Going to
stop right there. Recognizing that you were a seed. I mustn’t lose this piece
of paper here because I’ve got to use it. That’s right. All right, we’ll start
back and you know what we did? We got a whole page done. So anybody that
worries about twenty sermons I’ve got news for you--we’re going to take at
least thirty on this one. And when we get through with this one, grace of God
we’ll take another one and every one will just dovetail. Bro. Branham said, Every tape become clearer. We won’t be
looking through a glass darkly, looking right through the un...what would you
might say? Unveiled Word of Almighty
God.
Let’s
rise and be dismissed. Kind Heavenly Father, I want to thank You again for Your
love and Your mercy, Your grace, Your goodness, Your kindness, everything Lord.
We’re thrilled tonight with the Word, Lord. I know Lord we haven’t got the hang
of it, I know Lord it’s all up here in the top of our mouth not even the top of
our head hardly but God in Heaven, we know this and if we’re questioned we say,
“Well look, this is what we believe by vindication, this is what we know for
the Word of the hour by vindication and this is what we got and we’re not going
to let go of it by the grace of Almighty God and if this doesn’t take us
through, then something else is for you guys--go ahead. But as the prophet said, “Live or die, sink or swim, this is it.” And we thank You for it Lord.
We praise you God Father, we’re not going to argue about it. We’re not going to say, “Why did the prophet have to preach it Lord?” We’re sick and tired of that nonsense coming from us or some others. He preached it God and we believe it, we believe it’s a part of the Message. Bro. Branham wasn’t some simple little person puffed up by his own little infinitesimal ego because he had a great ministry to come and say, “Now listen to me, I’ve got something.” Lord, I don’t believe that for fifteen seconds. I believe the man had something, and I believe, Lord, to the best of my believing that the man was something from you and this is Your Word Lord and it’s going to do the job in this hour. Father, I’m resting in it, I’m trusting in it because Father I cannot trust in myself for my own word and I’m praying for me and for every person in this building Lord, to help us to let every channel into our hearts, our minds, our souls, our spirit, whatever, the whole essential being of each one of us; be absolutely full of the Word of God until there’s nothing in any channel and then it begins to reverse and flow forth to a dying world.
I know
Lord in the days of Noah he was that kind of a person and there wasn’t anybody
else getting it but seven more people. But he had to have it and Lord we’ve got
to have it too. By Your grace we will
have it and Father God in Heaven it will take us through, that same Pillar of
Fire is taking us through now with the same Word. We thank You for it Lord.
We just
ask in Jesus’ Name, remember Mary Allison again tonight Lord, we pray O Living
God that You’ll absolutely deliver her, help Brian and her to come on down
here. Think of the Henry’s Lord, that they might be served Lord, we don’t want
them just to come for any show but they’ve wanted to come Lord, and if they
want to come we want to help them Lord, if that’s...may Your will be done, O
God. We think the same with Rog, Carol Sue, we think of Brother and Sister Smith, Lord, knowing the anguish in his heart
Lord, that what he’s gone through and going through, we pray for these people
Lord because they’ve got problems the same as we had several years ago and
thank God you had hundreds of people praying for me Lord, finally came through.
We pray
for these people too Lord, may we take their burdens upon us, may we serve them
Lord, knowing we’re serving You. Help us Lord to...for Your people O God to get
together and forget everything that bugs them or bugs anybody else and just get
right down to the truth of the Melchisedec Priesthood, “I’m here not to be
served but to serve.” Father, help us to
realize that’s the true Melchisedec priesthood. Not some ethereal thing that’s
wafting off in space there Lord, but nitty-gritty down to earth people that give
the glass of water, just don’t know why they’re doing it but they’re happy to
do it. Visit in the prisons, the hospitals, give the clothing, pray for the
sick, lift up the fallen, care for the dying, right down the road being caring
loving people, O God. Not indiscriminate people, Lord, but caring, loving
people, serving You Lord, loving each other.
Now
Father I feel that love of God moving in this church. One of these days Lord I
believe that the sick are going to be wonderfully healed amongst us because of
that sweet Spirit of Jesus Christ. Go with Lois, she goes tomorrow, may she
take back with her in home, Lord--all by herself there trying to serve
You--everything she has need of for herself and anybody else that might come by
the widow’s door. God give her the widow’s might of revelation, and love, and
knowledge, as that little woman did down there when she had just a little tiny
bit of meal and oil. That’s all that was needed. To take a prophet’s message
and live right through the days ahead until one day You called her to the
theophonic body. Lord God we know that as nobody doesn’t have enough to take
them through to that day Lord, we know everybody’s got it, help us to depend
upon it and live it. Now we commit ourselves to You tonight. May the grace of
the Lord Jesus Christ be with every single one of us. In Jesus’ Name we pray.
Amen.
‘ Take
the Name of Jesus with you.’