Who Is This Melchisedec? # 30
Bro. Lee Vayle
December 7, 1988
... You, Yourself, came in order to bring the Word which is of You and in manifestation is You ; we appreciate that. And we pray now, Lord, You will help us in the dissolving of all doubts and fears or anything concerning Your Word that we might know it, O God. We just pray that we will. Teach It to us, Lord. So many things that we don’t know but we realize also there are those things we might never know. We don’t tell You, Lord, what to do. We just pray, Father, that somehow what is in our hearts is of You and because it’s something that’s looking to You-- a deep calling to Deep, then there will be an answer. So, show us the things, Lord, that are convenient for us, convenient food… what we have need of as a people here, Lord, in this last day. We’ll give You the praise in Jesus’ Name. Amen. You may be seated.
Now, I think we’re up to about number 30 on Who Is This
Melchisedec? and we’re just about on page 21 where we left off at. And of course, due to many allusions to God
and His Son Jesus Christ and to ourselves as sons of God, we've spent many
hours on the Godhead and the Life
journey of Jesus Christ and ourselves from eternity to eternity.
Now, before we become involved
in page 21 and we –we’re just about to become involved in it to read it and
look at it -- we want to remember (and I’ll read the part to you) that Bro.
Branham was dealing with Communion and he is making some pertinent comments
about it. Now, that’s where we’re
starting, on page 21 and paragraph 105…
[105] Now…Notice, after the
battle was over Melchisedec served His victorious
child Communion
(think of that!), part of Himself.
Now, of course, this is the
historical aspect because we know that after the battle was over we find that
Abraham came in contact with Melchisedec and up to this point and afterward we
don’t know of any time that he ever met Him again. So, this is the historical portion, here, and
Bro. Branham is bringing out the thought of Communion, here. Let’s just read the whole paragraph then.
[105] Notice after the battle was
over Melchisedec served His victorious
child
Communion (think of that!) part of Himself.
Now, we want to see here,
in type here is in view the
Communion. After the battle He gave
Himself,
because the Communion is part of
Christ. And after the struggle is over,
after you've done whipped yourself out, then's when that’s when you
partake of Christ, become part of His Being.
You get it?
Now, looking at
this--following Bro. Branham’s pattern of teaching, I would be absolutely
confirmed in my thinking that Bro. Branham is speaking, here, of the Baptism
with the Holy Ghost of which the battle is a type of ‘Sanctification’ where after repentance which
brings about ‘Justification’, the person now seeks to have himself presentable
to the Lord by battling against his lower self and attempting to live a life
that is worthy of Christ (perhaps never
worthy but at least honoring the Lord). Now, that’s what we’re looking at as
Sanctification here.
And we don’t look at Sanctification as ‘eradication’ as
many people do. But we just look at it as people battling in order to present
their vessels unto the Lord to be filled with the Holy Ghost. So, the thought more or less here, as I see
it, is that if a person is a child of God, a seed of God, and hears the Voice
of the Lord speaking --because the sheep hear the Voice of the Lord (Bro. Branham
called It an Eagle-scream) -- that person will want to be filled with the Holy
Spirit. Now, I think we can kind of look
at this by going to Gal 4:1-2, Heb12:3-6 and then back to Galatians 4. So, here we are in the fourth chapter --and keep your hand there
when we go to Hebrews 12…
[Galatians 4]
(1) Now I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth
nothing
from (the) servant, though he be lord of all;
(2) But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of
the
father.
Now, let’s just leave that and
swing over to the twelfth chapter of the Book of Hebrews where you see
child-training here and --although this
actually is referring to the trial of
our faith than the child-training, it’s going to be...it’s, it’s...we can put this with Galatians -- in the 3rd
verse and we read to about 6.
[Hebrews 12]
(3) For consider him that endureth such contradiction of sinners
against
himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your
minds.
(4) Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
(5) And (have you) forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto
you as
unto children.
My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord,
nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
(6) For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every
son
(that) he receiveth.
Now, take this back here to
Galatians where we read that every child though he is heir to all and is
directly a son of God, he is no different from just an ordinary person, a
servant, who is under the instruction, the care, the discipline of somebody
over him. Now, notice in verse 3. [Galatians 4]
(3) Even so we, when we were children, (we) were in bondage under
the
elements of the world:
(4) But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his
Son,
made of
a woman, made under the law,
(5) To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive
the
adoption of sons.
(6) And because (you) are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of
his Son
into your hearts, crying (our Father), Father.
(7) (Therefore, you are) no more a servant, but a son:
Now, the reason I use those
very verses -- if you look back as we were studying before in Melchisedec, that
Bro. Branham mentioned, that for having bypassed the theophanic form or the
Spirit-body, God gave something commensurate to you in order to replace the
fact that you weren’t in that Spirit-body and therefore sinless. He gave you the Holy Spirit in order to give
you and me victory.-- So, what we’re
looking at … this portion of Scripture here is:
that though we are sons of God, and we are born into a world of sin, and
the flesh is not subject to the Spirit of God, is more subject to the spirit
that was at our birth that God gave us and of Him and in this--when God begins
to call us, we realize that we are in a very poor position because of the
appetites of the flesh, the power of the mind and all of these things, and we
go through this cleansing period in order to receive the Holy Spirit. And having received the Holy Spirit – that’s
what Bro. Branham’s calling the true communion, now, “God giving a part of Himself to us”-- brings us to the place we
spoke of previously: that a person truly full of the Holy Ghost can live in a
place of victory over the world, the flesh and the Devil...the lust of the eye
and the pride of life and all those other things that are there to it.
Now, that’s why I read those
verses because you cannot get away from the fact that there is definitely the
three steps that Bro. Branham always proclaimed : Justification,
Sanctification, Baptism. And the Holy
Ghost, of course, is always symbolic -- as we’ll bring out again here very
shortly -- Bro. Branham always does it concerning the cleansing of the
world. There was...the water dropped on
it, the Blood dropped on it, then the fire drops on it, dissolves it and brings
it to the place. So therefore, the
Baptism with the Holy Ghost is God bringing us to a place in this flesh where
He wants us to be.
Now that’s concerning
sovereignty. And within sovereignty, God having gotten His way, now wants us to
continually... as Bro. Branham always followed the Puritan understanding that:
though you’re baptized it’s the same as being born (in fact baptism is a
rebirth). But as a person matures and
Paul says, “...puts away childish things”, so a person full of the Holy Ghost
will begin to put away the world, the flesh and the Devil, and begin to live in
accordance with the Word of God in the Spirit of God motivated and...?...with
always the right attitudes. So that’s
what you’re looking at here. As far as I am concerned you’re looking at the
process of Sanctification right after Justification and going on to the Baptism
with the Holy Ghost.
All right...
[105] ...after
the struggle is over, after you've … got
yourself
whipped
out, then's when you partake of Christ, and become
a part of this Being.
Now, let’s just look at that a
little bit longer.. “After the struggle
is over” … now, that’s the struggle to really believe that God does fill
people with the Holy Ghost. And now remember, there is nobody but a seed is
going to believe that. This is something
the seed alone will believe, hearing the Word of God. You’ll find all denominations will put it to
one side and they’ll say, “Well, I got the Holy Ghost when I believed. I got
the Holy Ghost when I was sanctified. I got this and I got that.” But in the hour when we find the three steps
that are the prelude to the fourth step -- which is a literal Presence and
the…a Resurrection and the Rapture...
the Lord Jesus Christ manifested in all of it-- you find that the people simply
do not want it. They just don’t come to
it. Now... So, therefore, there is a, “Whipping
out,” of the person’s thinking and
understanding, and the desire to be
filled with the Spirit of the Living God.
Now, watch, he said, “When
you partake of Christ, become (a) part of this Being”. Now, that sounds a
hundred percent contrary to the premise, the doctrine that Bro. Branham laid
down that we are a part of God. But it doesn’t say that here. It says that
the part of God now goes back to being a part of Him. In other words, the
separation and death by sin --because
that’s what death is, is separation, see? -- because while we were in that
condition of being sons that were lost, having lost the great leadership of the
Holy Spirit, now coming back and being born-again, we become a part of the Body
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, wouldn’t
you just love to have a beak of an eagle instead of your own beak? How would
you like a dog liver instead of your own liver? Pig’s eyes instead of your own
eyes? Then d’you think the Being of God
would be made up of any less than beings from God? Or does He graft in hogs and
dogs and sows and God-knows-what ? No!
You see... You see what you’re looking at? You’re looking at that we are a part of
God. Then, to make up the Body of Jesus
Christ, it must be every member Word.
How’re you going to put a Baptist, Methodist, Roman Catholic, Anglican,
Pentecostal?... Can’t do it. Those are man-made corruptions, man-made designations. How do you think
there’s going to be a true Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ unless it’s all
God? The
fact that there is a human form doesn’t mean anything. And the fact that what went with the human form, that’s the grace of
God and the Blood, see? So, look at
these words. They’re not words that...that are ridiculous words. They’re words that are very, very true.
Now, notice...
[106] Jacob wrestled all night and wouldn't turn Him
loose until He
blessed him. Now, there again... That's right! The
Now, what is he speaking of?
He’s speaking again of the Baptism with the Holy Ghost, the Rebirth. Now, we also go through a, “
There is... as Bro. Branham says, “Predestination
is in full view.” And when you look
at it, it’s God predestinating Himself...when you want to look at it. So, get the vision we’re talking about.
Now...the battle is over...”God gives you of Himself.” Now d’you...now, Lamb leading...Dove leading
Lamb. Is the Dove going to come upon a
wolf or a dog or a pig? Oh, you’ve got
to be ridiculous! And you go to the
evidence of the Holy Ghost to believe the Word for the hour, to stand with It
and know where you stand, to understand the great precepts of Christ and the
Presence of Christ--these things here.
You know whom you have believed. You’ve believed That! [Bro.
Vayle points to the picture of the Pillar of Fire over Bro. Branham] And you’re persuaded that I’ll keep you. You
believe something else, you don’t belong here.
You’re nice people. I love you.
Come and eat with us. But,
you...come-on! We’re not out here in the
world with strange doctrines. Oh, we
have a strange Doctrine, sure. I don’t
care how strange people thing It, but we’re right. We know we’re right because
we believe in a vindication--not indication,
vindication! [A] lot of things are indicated and that’s good… but when you get
‘em vindicated, that’s God -- not just beautiful and wonderful and
perfect. Now...
[106] ...God, then, gives you of Himself. That is His true Communion.
The
little bread
and wafer just represents it.
So when you take Communion
what are you celebrating? You are celebrating the Baptism with the Holy Ghost.
See? Sure, you “show forth his
death till he comes”. But He already came! He came once that
way [Points
to the picture] at
Pentecost--began breaking Himself into thousand and not millions of people...came that way as over
Bro. Branham’s head...the Apostle Paul… came again. God in three -- you can’t change it... God
doing everything in threes. Now, the communion...
[106] …and you shouldn't take
it 'less you've wrestled it out and
become part of God.
Now, look-it, right there.
Well, how do you get into God? He tells you --by the Baptism with the Holy
Ghost! 1Corinthians 12. So, therefore, the Communion is denied except
a person is baptized with the Holy Ghost. See?
But when you know you’re
born-again, “You've wrestled it out...you become a part of God.” Now, remember, this is not the same as God
being a part of us. See? And the part of us that’s God is that gene-soul. Now, “We become
part of God,” completing the circuit—“ the Father in me and I in Him”. What more do you want? “ I and my Father are
One!” Simple as A-B-C.
People don’t like that. Let ’em hate it!
I tell you, a lot of folk don’t
like sauerkraut; I love it! I’m not supposed to have it, but you throw some
spareribs in there, and couple cans of
tomatoes --and, of course, you’ve got to do it a certain way-- and put the rice
in and let the whole thing steam....Man, I can sit down and guzzle myself sick. I got no problem at all. This is the Word of God. We have no problem
eating it. If other people don’t like
it, well, they don’t have to come to our
banquet. Now, it’s Communion…
[107] Remember, at this time the
Communion had never been instituted,
not until before-- the death of
Jesus Christ, hundreds and hundreds
and hundreds of years later. Now, that’s just a fact.
[108] But Melchisedec after His child Abraham had won the victory,
Melchisedec met him and gave him
wine and bread, showing that
after this earthly battle is over,
we will meet Him in the heavens
and take the Communion again; it'll
be the Wedding Supper. " I will
...drink no more of the vine or eat
the fruit, until I eat it and drink
it with you anew in my Father's
kingdom."
Well, let’s go over to Mark 14 just for the sake of
reading it. You’ve read it and I’ve read
it many, many times but we’ll just go there anyway and see it... [verse] 22...
(22) And as they did eat Jesus took bread and blessed and broke it
and
gave it to them and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
(23) And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it
to
them: and they all drank of it
(24) And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament,
which
is shed for many (and that, of course is for the many).
(25) Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the
vine,
until that day that I drink it new in the
All right, then you notice it
says here, they had sung a hymn… they went out into the
Now, I want you to notice something here that
is very, very necessary, I believe, to note because otherwise we wouldn’t get
the history of this right. Now, we know
that Abraham was engaged in a great battle.
We know that he put his life on the line. We know that he had problems. We know he had
to get food, evidently, for the army he
had, from the kings of
Why did Melchisedec draw near
to this man? Because here was a man
after His own heart ; a man who served others.
He put everything on the line for it.
And you know something? That’s the greatest place in the world to be.
And when you stick your neck out for somebody, it’s ten to one you’ll have the
ungrateful urchin try to chop your head off, because that’s... the more you do,
the more people will turn on you. The
more God ever does, the more people turn on Him because there’s many more to
turn on Him than to turn to Him. But get
the picture here. Abraham was fighting
for the victory of his nephew,
But notice the perfection that
lies in this paragraph 108 -- God entering into a deep, deep fellowship with the man that wants to be a servant. And you know
something? The world always says, if you want someone to do something for you
and you need a favour done or there’s a group of people wants something done, always choose the man that’s
busy …because he’ll do it. The guy that
sits around like a bum, he’ll be a bum even if you pay him. Yup! You know
what? There’s an old saying that says,
“The Devil always finds something for idle hands to do.” That’s right! The
Devil will. It’s far better to give our
hands to God then, and let God use us.
Now, Melchisedec, here at the
end time...because that’s Melchisedec -- Bro. Branham said
It was Jesus Christ… and It was, really…and we stick to what he said. But if
you want to extend It to Melchisedec, you’re perfectly true in doing it--
Melchisedec, here, now, is feeding us as we defeat ourselves in faith by the
Word. In other words, the greatest thing
that we can do is defeat our own selves
by faith in the Word. Let me take a
look at it, if you don’t catch what I’m saying. Let’s go to Gal 2:20...
(20) I (have been) crucified with Christ:
nevertheless I live; yet not I,
but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in
the flesh
I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me, and
gave himself
for me.
By faith from God, the faith of God, faith in this Word, this man crucified
himself-- brought himself to a stand still.
You know you got to do that. Many
times you've got to do it -- fight yourself to a stand still. You know Bro.
Branham talks about the people like a buzz-saw--always popping off. Well,
there’s a big difference in popping off and being a buzz-saw. A buzz-saw goes
around looking for trouble. A guy that
pops off doesn’t like trouble. But you know, the guy that overcomes is the guy
that God wants. We are overcomers in Christ Jesus, our Lord.
So, all right, Melchisedec is
here feeding us as we defeat ourselves… defeat ourselves, See? Jesus said, “My
strength is made perfect in weakness.”
Paul said, “Therefore”, he said, “I’ll gladly surrender everything,
become the weakest person in the world because when I’m weak, then I’m strong.”
See? Melchisedec feeds us --in other
words, He makes up the slack (see?)
which we would have liked to have drawn from the flesh which the flesh could
never supply. Can’t do it-- flesh can’t do it; got to be something God supplies -- So, the person who will
defeat himself through faith in this Word will defeat everything else. True?
That’s what Jacob had to do.
Let me take a look over here in 2
Corinthians ; I think there’s something here I want to show you. Now, 2 Cor 1:3...
(3) Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father
of mercies and the God of all comfort; (Now, watch, he
uses this
appellation particularly because he's going to tell us
something)
(4) Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able
to
comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort
wherewith
we ourselves are comforted of God.
Do you know why it is sometimes
your nose runs into a grindstone, your hand into a hamburger machine, and
somebody takes the little rubber band off that hole in your pocket so all your
money dribbles out-- not to mention, you forget sometime and turn your back and
there’s five knives under the fifth rib?
That’s so you'll be able to help
somebody… Eh? That’s... The Bible said, “Let no man boast putting his armor on
as a man who takes his armor off.” As
Bro. Branham said to Tommy Osborne, “Go stand under the old gnarled oak over there, F.S. Bosworth, and learn something.” Eh? You
don’t get this in a seminary. Oh, you may learn all the ins and outs and how to
be disciplined, but you don’t get this until
you fight yourself to a stand still.
How do I know certain things? I stood there on the road. I took my training in a rough area where there wasn’t anybody but God could help me. And never look to a Pentecostal preacher to help you. Oh yes, the sign on his church is “Help you out? Certainly! Which way did you come in? Help you out? Yes! I’ll take the money out of your pocket because I see it’s hard for you to carry the burden”. Forget it ! I’m not bitter; I’m just smart. I can sit back and relax now because I know the God of all grace in certain areas. I don’t care what area you are in, you will learn a certain way. This is Communion. This is the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, God blessing us and God helping us -- certainly He does. Now, He always gives us the superabundant above all we can ask or think. Let’s go into Ephesians and read that. My memory’s not too good but I could read that, one time, the way it’s really written but I'll see if I can remember it. And the 3rdchapter it says...the 20th verse [ Ephesians 3]
(20) Now
unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all
that we ask or think,
according to the power that worketh in us,
(is... “Now unto him that is
able to do exceeding abundantly above
all that we ask or think
according to the working of His mighty
power that He puts to work within us.”)
In other words, when you’re
brought right down to the low ebb and
there’s nothing there, you become like the widow who said, “All right, I'll
give him a little bit of grain here because I perceive you’re a prophet”. Now,
don’t…don’t follow the A.A. Elm stuff-- Widows, give your homes to so-called
divine healers. Forget it! No, we have enough of that stuff. We don’t need that kind of hogwash. This is where people really put themselves to
the test. Not some...not some souped-up evangelist. There’s only one person could put anybody to
a test really; that’d be a prophet of God, the same as Elijah did. When she met
her test she said, “All right, Prophet, I believe in you. I'm going to put everything on the line.” And when she did she got everything back and
a whole lot more.
Now, 109, page 22.
[109] Notice again, Melchisedec
went to meet Abraham before he got
back home. Now he's coming right down to
your time and my
time What a beautiful type here we have: Melchisedec meeting
Abraham before he got back home
after the battle. We meet Jesus
in the air before we get home! That's right!
Now, the real home we’re
coming to always has to be this earth because that’s where we’re going to be.
The Resurrection is the prime desire of God for His sons-- and that means the
earth. Now, before we come back to this earth, we’re going to meet Him in the
air at the Wedding Supper, after the battle’s
over. And from that time, there
are no more battles. See? In other words, the end of the great scenario of
life...We meet Him in the air.
So, all right... We think of
the Appearing in 1933…ends at the Wedding Supper. And I think Bro. Branham was thinking of
himself at this particular point when he realized that having had battles even
before he was born-again, as God was dealing with him, he had greater battles
after 1933. And he had greater battles again thirteen years later in
1946 when God commissioned him. And he had greater battles again in 1960 when
he preached on the Church Ages-- actually starting at '58 when he hit serpent
seed and talked...put women in their place and things like that -- then '60,
this Church Ages; 1963, the Seals and so on... The great battle, knowing that
as long as he was fighting himself like the Apostle Paul,-- and you know that
Bro. Branham did, absolutely-- bringing his body under control, he was looking
for that great meeting in the air because he had already introduced us to the
Bridegroom.
Now,
[109] We meet Jesus in the air
before we get home! That's right!
1 Thessalonians 4 tells us that, for
we meet Him in the air. A
beautiful type of Rebecca meeting
Isaac in the air…
Now, what is Rebecca and
Isaac? Isaac is the son of Abraham,
typing as God and the son. O.K. Rebecca,
the lovely one, that is to go to Isaac...
[109] …in the cool of the day. We
meet Him in the air; 1st Thessalonians
tells us so : " For we which are alive and remain
shall not
prevent or hinder
those that are asleep;
Actually the deepest meaning I
can see in that is that not take precedence.
We don’t take precedence and we don’t take any eminence at all.
[109] for the trumpet of God
shall sound; and the dead in Christ
shall rise first;
we which are alive and remain shall
be caught
up with the
dead... to meet the Lord in the
air." Perfect!
All these
types. Now...
[110] Therefore the theophany, that’s that
Spirit-body if you have
died and entered
into that Spirit-body, what happens?
Now, this is a great secret Bro. Banham's
telling us : The theophany comes to the earth to pick up the redeemed body.
Now, the word ‘theophany’,
because he used ‘Spirit-body’, that’s used in the Bible. What a person could do
in modern language, taking Bro. Branham and the Bible -- we could actually, as
I have often said: dominant and subdominant.
Now, we know the Great Theophany is when God Himself has a form that
appears to the eye. But we are little gods, so we could say ‘sub-theophany’,
little theophany. And you’re perfectly
right because, remember, what was there in the beginning, forms somehow -- and
it would be of itself-- that body. And
Bro. Branham said, “It was eternal and
therefore it cannot be created.” Now, he never went back on his definitions or
he would’ve had to say, “Now folk, I'm going to tell you something. I got to change the meaning of eternal, here, to just everlasting.” He never said it. So, if I’m teaching you
something wrong, it will fall back on Bro. Branham because that’s what he said.
So, we understand these things though just the same. Remember, there’s too much in nature to prove
that this is right. Now...
[110] The
theophany comes to the earth and
picks up the redeemed body.
And if you're here in the air, you
take the body to meet the theophany...
You say, why is that so? Because God does everything in threes. And
you will never get to the Wedding Supper without it. Y’say, “Well, I’ve done got my glorified
body.” Well, done shut up and sit down! You need
your theophany. Lots of things we might not know the answer to. We know the
answer to this ; you’ve got to have it!
No way out of it. So people that don’t even understand this, what are
they looking for? Say, “I’m looking for the dead to come. I’m looking for my
theophany. I’m looking for my change.”
You’ve got three things right there-- the dead to come, the theophanic
form and you change. Certainly!
[110] There you are, and get caught up and go to meet the Lord in
the air. Now
that’s a big secret. Now, watch. Some more secrets...
[111] Who is this Melchisedec but
God?
[112] Now, we see here plainly
the complete secret of our lives...
Now, this is the big secret
number two. In this sermon that he
preached delineating upon Melchisedec going to the form of Christ, telling us
we come the same journey and all... It’s a great secret.
[112] Now, we see here plainly
the complete secret of our lives
in journey,
that's the starting point, and
death...where we
go after we die.
Also predestination is in plain view
here.
Sure it is because it’s step by step what happens to the
germ,
the son--step by step.
Now, listen as we teach this,
closely.
OK, Number one… I’m going to look at this part
here before we read on...number one: we are a part of God, an attribute, a son,
a soul. We are chosen by being in Him. The choosing is not “ I'll take this, I'll
leave that. I'll take this, I'll leave that.”
It was already according to what was there. It would have to be. Then you see
predestination-- what is it that happens to these. Now, you notice to the
Foolish Virgin, they do not go in the first resurrection. They are not changed from mortal to
immortal. They do not get a theophanic
-form to go in the air. Now, they can
get a form, for all I know, after they departed. That’s fine.
But, notice, there’s a big difference between foolish virgin right now
and the people that are in this little earth here. So the secret is out. We see this journey,
here.
Now we go to 113.
[113] The stages of the eternal
purpose He had in His secret (have)
now been revealed.
The stages--what were the stages? Well, if we had the board, we’ll show you.
[Bro. Vayle refers to his outline on the board.] We’re in Him. Then we see how that Christ
became. Then we see how we stepped down to Adam, and come on down. We see how Christ was in a theophanic-form we
call Jesus Christ--the same One. We
missed it, and so on.
Now...
[113] the secret’s been revealed.
Notice, there are still three stages
to perfection. Now, he goes right back to ‘The Future
Home’. Just
like He redeems the
world; same way He redeems His Church.
He
redeems the people in three
stages. Now look, first is Justification
like Luther preached; second,
Sanctification like Wesley preached;
third, Baptism of the Holy
Ghost. That's right! Then comes the
rapture.
Now, that’s ‘ Future Home’. And of course, in here he’s telling a great revelation. And what is the revelation we need to know in this hour above everything else? That we have come to the place of the Baptism with the Holy Ghost-- a genuine Baptism that’s apart from sensation. It is without any evidence whatsoever and it has nothing to do with speaking in tongues and gifts of the Spirit -- absolutely different. There can be a Judas perfectly anointed with the Holy Ghost -- raise the dead, heal the sick, and look like a monumental genius in the realms of Almighty God -- and be nothing but a devil. You say, well how in the world could God Almighty let His power fall upon a devil ? Well, Who do you think gave the Devil the power in the first place? All power is of God, period! Never mind the Roman Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox and the Anglican and Pentecostal sitting around thinking they can wump up some kind of power-- they'll burn!! Let’s face it. You don’t want to be in that crowd. Don’t ever have their stinking thoughts. All power is of God. And if I come down here tonight, spit in your face and cuss you in your teeth and take a knife and rip your guts out--let me tell you something-- that power is of God but used by a devil. Because you can’t even say, “Tomorrow I will go to church and do anything”...as David said, “There's one step betwixt me and death”. In other words, one breath...and our breath is in His hands. Don’t anybody ever think he’s got any power. He said to Jesus, “I've got power to turn you...” He says, “You've got no power given you unless it's given you from above.” Certainly.
God’s Word through a prophet in this end hour-- Melchisedec bringing Communion, giving a part of Himself and that part, of course, is a further Word because this part of Christ in this hour is immortality to the living. Never before given. Marvellous, what God does for us! Now, let’s read on... He says here, the world is saved like we’re saved-- three stages: water, the Blood, fire, rapture... water, Blood, Holy Ghost.
[114] Now, the world, how did He
redeem the world? The first what He did,
when it sinned, He washed it off in water
baptism. That's right.
Then He dropped His Blood upon it from the
cross and sanctified
it and called it His own. Now, that dropped upon the
ground and
we're part of the ground; we got in on it,
right?... then what does
He
do? As He tore
all the world out of you and renovated
the whole
thing by the fiery baptism of the Holy Ghost. He’ll... renovate the world..
Now, listen, the Holy Ghost is
given to teach us. Then what’s He going
to do? The first thing, He’s going to attack our minds. Oh, you say, “Bro. Vayle, the Devil attacks
our minds.” Sure he does! What do you think? D'you think he’s stupid? The greatest battle’s there. The Holy Ghost
attacks your mind with the Word of God and you just say, “ Look! Live or die,
sink or swim; I can’t figure it.” I
can’t figure all about how God come back and forth through Jesus Christ. There's one God, period!
There’s a Lamb up there,
mediator ; he’s a man. The Son of God
came back on the day of Pentecost. Bro.
Branham said, “He poured His soul upon us.”
I don’t pretend to understand.
Maybe I never will, but I know that that’s the Word of God and no
Trinitarian dogma or hogwash is going to take it from us. We may die for it, but listen, it’s not so
bad to die. I tell you -- when you want to boil this thing right down -- it’d
be better to die with a burning hot iron, molten lead, or suffering that
doesn’t last too terrible long than to go through the hell that I have gone
through mentally by getting just sick … because that lasted a long time.
Y’know, I’m of the opinion that it would be much nicer to get it over with. I
don’t know what God’s going to do. I don’t know what’s going to happen to
us. But I know one thing: that if we are
truly born- again Christians (and even if we weren’t) we have enough of
something within us to stand any test there really is, because that’s what life
is like. Life is the toughest thing in this world. There’s nothing will compare with it. So, God
will help us, don’t worry. “...tore it
all out...”
[114] Now to be...burnt over with
fire and cleanse every germ for
millions of miles
high and every thing will be cleaned up...
I love that! All the mosquitoes
and all the germs are going to go…even if they didn’t need to. Thank God! Why have them around? They always were a bunch of bums, bunch of
wild dogs! Who needs ’em? They got no part in the
[114] ...then there is a New
Heaven and a new earth... a new heaven
and a new earth, just
like you are a new creature in Christ Jesus
when the Holy Ghost
takes ahold of you. See, there you are.
We’re talking about the
mind. The Holy Ghost was given to you to
positively war in your mind, to bring your mind down.
Let’s go to Romans 12th chapter:
(1) I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,
that
ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable unto
God, which is your reasonable service.
(2) And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by
the renewing of your mind...
Mind renewed --how? Word! That’s the first thing. You’ll never get your
body renewed unless your mind’s renewed, because the call to the Seventh Church
Age is REPENT. And repent means to change the mind.
[ End of side one. Side two starts by repeating the last
paragraph… Rom 12:1-2 ]… Just as John
the Baptist came to change the peoples’ minds by the power of the Holy Ghost,
William Branham came to do the same thing.
All right.
Now, he says here … “It'll be burnt over… What’s he talking about? The New Jerusalem. Now, just like Peter he
bypasses the whole one thousand years of the millennium, which is further
Sanctification, and jumps right to the millennium. Let’s go look at it. 2 Peter and, I suppose, that’s got to be the
third chapter (or is it? Well, I’m on 1 Peter. That won’t do any good.) [2] Peter .3:10...
(10) But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in
the
which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and
the
elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and
the
works that are therein shall be burned up.
(11) (Now) Seeing then that
all these things shall be dissolved, what
manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation
(or
behaviour) and godliness,
(12) Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God,
wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and
the elements shall melt with fervent heat.
Now, you see what he
does? He throws that in the lap of the
people. And that’s where you get people
that are either premillennious, postmillennious, amillennious,
millennious--God-knows-what ! --because they don’t understand. When you get
this far you have blended from time into eternity and you are literally
bypassing the millennium in your mind. Now
you know it’s there. No one’s going to argue it. But, you see, you come to
number 4...3 : dissolution. The Holy
Ghost has come down. And what’s He come
down to do? For dissolution, and to
bring us to the place where we’re supposed to be which is what Abraham looked
for-- the New Jerusalem, the City of
Now, this is a big City with
foundations. And the story is: “I have
come and my Presence indicates you start looking and being a different person
because of the
Don’t tell me Bro. Branham
stood like I’m standing between these two pictures knowing the power of
Almighty God and not the cross behind me, knowing He is here--not in this
building perhaps, but He is here -- and then acting like some wimp the Devil
controls. Stand there and say, “I take
every spirit in this building under my control in the Name of the Lord Jesus
Christ!” That’s some stupid
wimp? Is that some bird that doesn’t
know there’s a
[114] ...The whole thing's just
as plain as...can be, said Bro. Branham
[115] Everything's in three. The
natural birth's in three. What's the
first
thing happens to the woman having a
baby? What breaks first?
Water. What breaks next? Blood. What's the next
process? Life.
Water, blood,
spirit. What happens to the plant? Rots.
What's the
first thing? Stalk.
What's the next? Tassel. What's the next? Shuck.
Then the grain comes out of
that. Just the three stages of it till
it
gets to the grain.
Now, notice just the three stages… till it gets to the
grain. And some time at the end or
during and it’s during the third
stage… the whole thing comes into being. Because, I tell you what, during the
third stage what happened? It produced
the Baptism with the Holy Ghost as the definitive true Doctrine but at the same
time it produced the chaff. And the Holy Ghost Baptism is temporary. So what happens after Eph1:13 and 14? Comes 17 ! -- the Spirit of Wisdom and
Revelation, the knowledge of Him comes down right in the midst of all the
chaff. And it’s come back to full grain
and there it is right there. You can say what you want, but there it is right
there.
[Points
to the Picture]
The same Pillar of Fire that
brought the Word is here revealing It. Hallellujah! Even the Holy Ghost has come to full
maturity. Why? Headship! He never had headship before. He had headship as the Great One to institute
but He never took headship again until He’s taking headship now to bring a
Bride, a Church into Divine Order. All
things under the feet of the Son -- Millennium.
And after the White Throne and the Great Thing we’re looking to, what
happens? It’s handed back to the Father.
One day left...goes back. “Everything”...
as Bro. Branham said, “Everything from
the beginning, perfect, but now maturity.”
OK. Let’s keep moving on...116 :
[116] God vindicates that. That’s
by nature, see? That's always been
right; God
vindicates it to be true. Shows plainly the predestinated
is the only one that's considered in
redemption. “
Shows plainly the predestinated is the
only one that’s considered in redemption.” Yah!
In other words, there had to be something there for
something to
come forth.. Did
you get it? Let me say that again. The predestinated
is the only one
that's considered in redemption. People
might be
making like, think they are, but the
real redemption is those that
are predestinated.
In other words, people think
they’re redeemed, many of them, but you see, their names never were in the
Lamb’s Book of Life or the Book of Life.
They don’t even qualify as Wise or as Foolish Virgin. See? There’s a limited atonement. You know the Blood was never shed for serpent
seed because the serpent seed never took blood.
You had to have something in you to take blood. Sure!
[116] …Because
the very word redeem means to bring back. Is that right?
Actually, it means to buy back ; it
mean to ransom. To redeem is...
To redeem anything is to bring it back to its
original place.
That’s right!
If you stole a book from the store, you got to redeem it. You got to put it back on the bookshelf where
you got it from. So,
Redemption...Redemption is known to be true when you come into Christ by the
Baptism with the Holy Ghost. You are
redeemed and the evidence is to believe the Word of the Hour …and that’s not as
a Foolish Virgin that doesn’t have the Word to carry the Oil. Bro. Branham
tells us categorically: the difference between the Wise and Foolish is the
Word. Well, you say, “ Just a minute!
They have no oil in their vessels.”
That’s right! It leaked out. Pentecost can’t carry this message. It shows the Foolish Virgins are in denominations. You say, “But, Bro. Vayle, they’re right
amongst us.” I never denied it but
they’re still in denominations. Too late
they’re going to find out they didn’t have the right Word. Now, because we have
the right Word doesn’t make us smug or condemn the...?.... The fact of the
matter is, it’s the grace of God. I’m
glad I got the right Word. Far as I’m
concerned, I wouldn’t teach you anything but the right Word. I’d tell you every time I cannot come to a
certain place. I tell you, I cut
off. Now, if you’re honest, you just
come along (see?) and I believe you are honest.
[116] So
it's only the predestinated that will
be brought back, because the
others didn't
come from there. See?
Now, when you use that word ‘
predestination’, you’ve got to understand then, ‘foreknowledge’ because he said
the rest didn't come from there. God … God literally enters into
Predestination. He tells us the
Husbandman must be first partaker of the fruit, Himself. He's telling you and me. Then what about
God? Does God stand back and say, “Well,
I make an exception of Myself?” Hogwash!
Come on! Beginning of the creation of
God is, God form...creating Himself in the form of human flesh.. God started
way, way before there was a speck of star dust, Brother. God, coming a certain way... take
foreknowledge, then sanctifying Himself to… setting Himself apart. He said, ”Sanctify me, sanctify me”. He’s a sanctifying God. See? Justifying, Sanctifying, Holy Ghost
--everything. Listen, you…you try to change one Word of God, you try to change
God.
See how we come the same way? See our history? See our journey? Oh, this prophet was a
tremendous person! You know the reason I love It? Because I can see It. Now, if I was just sitting there saying, “Hum, hum, hum...Couldn't see nothing”, I
wouldn’t like it. And if I could see you
eating watermelon (I can’t) I might say,
“Hey! Throw that away because you bother me.” I had a big steak for
supper tonight. It was good! How did you enjoy it, you folk? You weren’t eating it… well, that’s
another story. -- Pete knows all about steak.
He’s a steak man …a little bit of Divine healing thrown in too. It’s a
good one, then. I like Divine healing. Didn’t say to drink coffee all the time,
though; said to eat steak.-- All right,
“Redeem’ means to bring back….”
[117] Being eternal with Him at
the beginning... Not just with Him, in
Him,
but eternal with Him in making our journey because we're eternal
too. You can be
eternal in and eternal with....at the
beginning...
The Eternal Life
that you had, His thought of what you were, only
what He wanted you
to be... He explains it. He wanted me to stand in
the pulpit, say. He
wanted you to set in the seat tonight. Now, listen…
Then we are serving
His eternal purpose...the one that left home...came
to earth to serve
His purpose.
Now, you can speak in terms of
Jesus the Christ. You can speak in terms of God, Himself. You can speak in
terms of us. You’ve got a perfect
parallel. There’s no difference.
[117] … Is that right? All
right. Then after it's finished, it's
brought back in a
glorified state. It's matured and
brought back. And God becomes all,
and in all, which He was.
Now then, you tell me your journey is different from God’s Own journey. There ain’t no difference. Has He treated us different from Himself? Has He esteemed us less? That we should be put in the position to know the grace and the love and the mighty power of Almighty God, is not a put down. The put down is when you get some rich person with a rotten, stinking, spoiled little brat that thinks he’s somebody because he’s got his father’s money. He’s nothing but a louse. That’s...That’s no son. That’s a sycophant and a fool. That’s a leech--what he is. Nobody wants that. God wants mature people and He’s getting ’em, by the grace of Almighty God. Once more we see the priesthood is serving. Once more we see God in simplicity. Once more we see Romans, the 5th chapter, and Hebrews 12, which all the time puts us through.
Let’s go to Hebrews (I beg
your pardon...yes)...Romans first of all, Romans 5. -- I preached on this. Took
me years to get this. I knew something
was missing.-- The first 5 verses.
(1) Therefore (having been) justified by faith, we have peace
with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ.
God’s at peace with us ; He’s
not fussing. No more trouble. He sees us through the Blood. He doesn’t see us at all … hears our voices
and sees our Representative.)
(2) By whom also we have access by faith into the grace wherein
we
stand, and rejoice in hope at the glory of God
(3) And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing
that
tribulation (works) patience
(4) And patience (rightness of character. And rightness of
character
puts us in the place where we know our names are on the
cheque,
same as His. Right
back...)
(5) And (earnest expectation) maketh not ashamed; because the
love
of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost...
In other words, the love of
God multiplies through the Word process as we go through it. Yup... you say,
“Lord, I’d love you more if I
never had to get sick.”
He said, “You’re lying. You
love me more after you get healed, after you’ve been sick.”.
[ You say] “Lord, I love you
so much when you make me a millionaire.”
He said, “ Forget it. I’m
going to take you down to the lowest dregs. I’m going to pull you through knot
holes and sewer pipes and then I’m going to put you somewhere and then you’re
going to praise Me and love Me.”
[You say ] “Well, I don’t know
if I’d call that love.”
Yah, you’re like a bunch of 20th Century
apes-- little kids that go out there now and want to shoot cocaine and
everything else because that’s how they’re going to get their lift because they
can’t face life. Forget it! We are not in that category. I may be a little…[mean]?… and next thing
those guys could say, “Christianity is the opiate of the populace.” Let them say what they want. It is not an opiate we are taking ; It is
Life! We’re not trying to drown
ourselves in some metaphorical... ‘ no
reality’ city. There’s a real City
there. It’s proved...there it is, right there! [Points
to the picture]
Come on! What do you think He came down
for? Pick us up! He hasn’t left. Just
came down to get our attention, that’s all.
Next thing-- raising the dead, we go back with Him. What more do you
want? See?. “..matured and brought back...”
Oh, yah, I was reading... I
read it didn’t I? O.K. In Hebrews the twelvth... I read it already
-- If
you’re a son you’re going to be tested that you might be made mature.
(How many minutes? … Ah, I’m going to read one more paragraph and that’s it.)
Now,
[118] No wonder Paul could say
when they were building a block to
chop his head off.
… 'O, death, where is your sting? O grave,
where is your victory?
You say, “O death, where is
your... O death...it’s the same thing...O death where is your victory, because
it doesn’t have a victory. What does it
matter? What’s it matter if you’re in a
grave or not if you’re never going to come back? The thing is-- if you’re dead, your dead. They can burn you... maybe
not even get in the grave. So the thing is...
[118] ...O
death, where is your sting? O death, where
is your victory?
Haven't got any!...thanks
be unto God who gives...the victory!
He said, "
Death..."Now he said...Paul said, “ Death... tell me where
you can make me
holler, cry out. Grave, tell me, how you going to
hold me, for I am a
possessor of Eternal Life”… And I step
out here to
get a theophanic body and I
could go through one million worlds,
twenty-five thousand miles around, eight
thousand miles across...
Phttt!...faster than you can
blink an eye!
How are you going to deal with a person like
that…when your glorified body is just as good as the theophanic form ? You say,
“ Well, That doesn’t mean I have to be seen.”
That’s right. They won’t have to see you. You talk about... you know, years
ago people wanted something, they made a little fairy tale. Like the good fairy would come, you
know...the seven, what is it?...the twelve dwarves and do the shoemaker’s
shoes, you know. And there was
a...Rapunzel or somebody had long hair and they...somebody came in and made a
lot of good...made straw into gold, you know.
Everybody...they just loved those fairy tales. You know something? This is no fairy tale! No fairy tale! Wildest imagination? No, no, no! It’s God speaking to us tonight. Said, “I am a possessor of Eternal Life. Amen! He recognized it.” So did Bro. Branham, see, behind the curtain
of time. He knows what he’s talking
about, see? That’s why he stresses this and he’s so powerful in his delivery
here. He said...he said,
[118] ...Amen! He recognized it. Can we recognize
our hour, our day,
our Word and do something about it? Death,
hell, grave, nothing
could hold
him. And nothing can hurt us. We've got
Eternal Life.
He realized he was
blessed with Eternal Life.
How did he know? He was full of the Holy Ghost. He had the Word. What a tremendous thing! Listen, you know something? Paul, the Apostle, he was a real scurvy type
of person. Nice man, good man but rotten
to the core-- killing the saints of God, trying to do God a favor. But he’s elect of God, foreknown of God and
chosen. And God just comes down and just
blinds him...hits him down like that.
Paul -- instantly sealed in... from the first call...recognized-- a
sealed in believer. He no more escaped Justification and Water Baptism and the
Baptism with the Holy Ghost and a ministry than nothing...and neither can you
or I. No, Brother/Sister. Could God
escape His Own destiny? Can you and I
escape ours? Come on!
We... this thing is so tremendous! How can It become real unless God makes It
real? The words are coming tonight,
Brother/Sister. God has done something
with His Word. We see It. He’ll do the
same for us. He’s gonna do it “.he was blessed with Eternal Life,” see?
Paul, the Apostle, could not
be satisfied now, at this point,
with just being born-again. He said, “ If in this life only we have Christ, we
are of all men most miserable. Israel,
if you want Christ to come down and make you a great nation, and your
children’s children keep on dying, dying, dying and that’s what you want...let
me tell you, I don’t want it! I’ll
be satisfied with nothing less or short of the Resurrection.” How nice to have a Spirit body—it won’t
satisfy; they want to come down.. Then, if this is the great satisfaction,
then let me tell you something, folk; let me understand this tonight -- You and
I have been wanting and crying out for a false water and for a false drink …
Now, think it over. Oh, I know some of
you would like to be up here where old Lee Vayle is. You don’t belong up here. Bro. Branham said, “If God wanted you up in this pulpit and you in this seat... that's a
different story.” Well, you could
try to get it. So, all right, go ahead
and try. I can tell you now: unless I’m
dead you ain’t gonna get nowhere...unless I walk out. I’m just trying to show you something. You
can always want the wrong thing. I might want to sit down where you are. I ain’t going to get it. I’m not going to have it. I’d like to just retire, so to speak... go
out West and maybe just feel nice. I’d feel ten times worse. I’m not gonna have it.
See? We always look at things and think, that is
what’s going to do it. This is what’s
done it! [Points to the picture] And at this hour: the
understanding of the Resurrection, the conditions of the Rapture (Shout, Voice,
Trumpet), Message (Resurrection, changing for God) --What for? What for?
You can’t possibly think I like what we...?... down here, though.. Up here, there’s no way...in the Millennium,
There’s no way. The finest
sensibilities, the utmost intriguing, titillating, tantalizing extreme
sensations... in other words, Hugh Heffner with two thousand women is going to
Hell and burn with all two thousand for billions and billions of years for all
I know. Everybody preaching something
titillating... “ Have you tasted this
liquor? Have you smoked this
cigarette? Have you tried this to make
it even nicer and more wonderful?” That’s all gone! There’s your battle. We’re not here striving for something,
Brother/Sister, that’s not in the cards for us.
The Mormons are sealing wives in, as crazy as the Ayatollah’s gang that
are serpent seed. And they hit it where
it is. There’s nothing but sex, sex,
sex; there’s rot, rot, rot; corruption, corruption, corruption. Everything’s full. Let me tell you something,
Brother/Sister, I don’t care how fine a person gets in his sensitivities,
sensibilities, his sensual reactions... you were put here, especially this
hour, to have your eye on one thing-- that glorified body in a Glorified City.
So, let’s begin to wipe the
hands across the eyes. Reach here with
the spiritual strength of Almighty God and believe for a renewed mind. And I’m not preaching celibacy, for fifteen
seconds. I’m preaching truth… that the Apostle Paul said, “ I want that!” And no matter what anything else God would do
on this earth for me and to me, it doesn’t count unless I get that. You know
why? Because that is what God wants. That is the Predestination. How’re you going
to stop God from doing it? You know the
best thing to do when you can’t stop anybody?
Join ’em. Now, God can stop the
Devil; there’s no problem there. And the
Devil can’t stop God. God can stop us
and we can’t stop God. There’s only one
thing left: The wise man says, “ I'm going to join with God.” Like the voice came out, back in the Old
Testament -- the days of Joshua and Moses...
“ Who is on the Lord’s side?”
Didn't say, “Whose side is God on?”
It said, “ Who’s smart enough to come on God’s side?” Who’s smart enough? Who’s got that anointing from God to
see? Seed … and see where it’s going
? Bro. Branham said, “Don't miss what's lying ahead.”
Looking down that road, he warned us, like the Apostle Paul. And I believe, with all my heart, we ought to
consider that terribly, terribly
sincerely and soberly. This is what Life’s all about--laying up treasure.
Now, listen... What you and I
do here will not build that mansion.
Don’t worry, it’s already built.
But the truth of the matter is this: it’s 30, 60, and 100, what we do
with our lives. It’s what foundation we
built on and continue to build, lest we become wood, hay and stubble rather
than gold and precious silver and jewels.
How do you think it will be on that day? (Now, I’m using Bro. Branham’s
brother, Howard)...What’ll it be like on that day? -- And God already spoke
from the heavens through tongues and interpretations by the Pentecostals : “Because you made the right decision, which was a hard one, there is laid up a
great measure for you in heaven and a great portion of heaven.” -- What will it
be with poor Howard, who’s called to preach? (Bro. Branham said he was, so I
know he was.) He was too happy
philandering. He was too easy being an acrobat
in a circus or a clown or something.
Though he loved his brother...he did. He loved God. I know, somehow he
did. He loved people. When Howard went
through the people in the audience down below--lying on cots, their stomachs
swollen with cancer, not a hope in the world-- he said, “Come on,”
he said, “In a minute or two”, he said, “…?… certain you’ll be running a
foot-race with me,” he said, “You
watch.”. …[They]?… healed all over the place. Dying...Bro. Branham walked in
the room raised up. But what about that
Life that goes there? See? We don’t... We don'’ preach there’s no Life;
we preach that. But I’m going to tell you something, my Brother/Sister, the
thing is this: your vision is what directs you. And the heavenly vision is what
directed the Apostle Paul. And when it’s
been proven by this in our hour,
[Points
to the picture] we have the same vision and responsibility, or I’m lying in
this pulpit and I’m telling you an untruth.
Everything in nature goes
right back to God. The Pythagorean
Theorem once proved is never proven again; it’s been proven. This has been proven--the
Heavenly Father, we know
tonight, Lord God, that this could develop into a very tragic, tragic service,
Lord. That everything laid out here just as the prophet said it… not only so,
but embellished, having broken it down...that the prophet said. And yet, Lord God, not one of us pay enough
heed to it. Not one of us have enough of
a capacity-- through perhaps (and no doubt a lot of it) fighting ourselves to
enlarge that capacity. To think upon
these things, to meditate upon, we give ourselves to them just like the Apostle
did...and like Paul said to Timothy, “ Give thyself unto them.” And, Lord, here
we are … a day that matches the day of Timothy, that matches the days of the
Apostles because You are “the same yesterday, today and forever.” And Your seed
is the same. There hasn’t been a lack of
Life in the seed because of simply two thousand years having rolled on. It’s the same seed, the same Life, the same
God. And now the wonderful Word,
Lord. And here we are, Lord, in this
position that Peter talked of and Paul talked of --looking down that road, just
jumping the thousand years, as it were, because it’s one day and putting
ourselves in that Blessed Area, O God, that’s there.
Father, because of Your grace
and Your love, we will take our stand tonight--that we are part of It. Live or die; sink or swim; come the greatest
deluges upon us, fire, everything else--it doesn’t matter. It cannot change the
truth that we take our stand with you, because, Lord, we believe that You took
Your stand with us. And we come over,
Lord, to Your side of the fence. We’re
no longer looking to sit upon the fence.
We’re no longer looking to turn a corner. But, Lord, in this particular
instance, we have arrived at the definitive from whence all else goes that
pertains to a Bride. And we can do that, Lord, tonight; I know we can.
We… [ The tape cuts out here and gradually fades back in]...deep spiritual death,
O Living God, and take our stand against the world, the flesh and the Devil
(the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, the pride of life)--against all of
these things and stand here and say, Lord, Your Word is true and we’re a part
of that Word. And because You live, we
live also. And because You’re there, we’re there too.
Heal the sick amongst us,
Lord, as we take this Message more and more to our hearts, because we know
there's healing in It. We know, Lord,
there’s actually immortality in It.
We know that. So, Father, may Your people receive and by grace understand,
having first received and perceived and then go with You all the way. Unto
Thee, O Lord, we shall ascribe the honor and glory in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
‘Take the Name of Jesus with you.