Adoption #2   

Bro. Lee Vayle   -     Feb. 06, 1972   -   Tucson, Az.

[Note opening prayer starts at paragraph 4]

1.	Thank you, you may be seated.  Lord bless you.  Such a beautiful
song, you just want to sing all the verses over and over again.  It’s
Amazing Grace.  I guess, when we review our lives, in the light of the
perfection, that’s indicated in the Word.  The high standards that’s
set before us, we realize that Jesus paid it all.  We, somehow grasp a
little more clearly the amazing grace that God has extended toward us. 
And then, we must remember, that was before the foundation of the world.
 So, the Lord knew all these things, as Bro. Branham said, “The Bride
never did it. She was trapped.” 

	"Blessed is the man to whom the Lord, will not impute iniquity." [Rom
4:8] Doesn’t say, “Blessed is the man, who doesn’t commit
iniquity.”  Although that goes without saying, that's true.  It’s
wonderful, not to find ourselves in a position of rebuke, but we must
remember that the Bride will never come into the judgement.  The Bible
teaches us that.  Never will. That’s the Word of God.  To believe on
Him, you’ll not be in that judgement.  And also, the Bible says,
“Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect?  It is God
that justifieth.” [Rom 8:33]

2.	That word means, ‘to declare righteous’. It’s a declaration of
a spiritual fact.  And these things sometimes are hard to understand,
and but then again, you can always take the type from this earth here. 
There’s so many things that we don’t understand, but we sure do
enjoy.  It’s the strangest thing, that people don’t understand air
conditioning, but they sure do enjoy it.  And then they sure know it
when it’s not there.  And that’s the way it could be too, with us. 

	We don’t have to understand all these things, as long as we recognize
them, by faith receive them.  And understand them insofar that God said,
“That was it.” And accept it.  Wouldn’t it be a tragic thing to
miss it.  Like…it would be worse than that air conditioner being
turned off.  But we can just take a little thought from that.  That all
these things that God has given us, we should just thank Him for.  I
found this, that you know Pentecost was great years ago for thanking the
Lord.  And  that’s one reason that they were such a fruitful people. 
Because they had a spirit of thankfulness.  

3.	The Bible teaches us also that Israel fell as carcasses because, they
weren’t thankful, nor glorified God.  See now, had the Word had been
mixed with them in faith that heard real faith, they would’ve been
thankful.  Because you know, faith, is not the substance of things hoped
for, faith is the ability to thank God, and to believe God, for those
things which are not yet in evidence.  Just like Abraham.  And the more
we’re thankful, the better off we’re going to be.  The last little
while at home, I had so much letter writing to do, I thought…well
always I start my letters, “Greetings in the Name of the Lord Jesus
Christ.  Hope you’re fine, blah, blah, blah.”  

	I thought, “Well, I’m just going to stop that.”  I’m going to
start writing some heart-felt thoughts, from the Scripture.  And you
know the more I typed those letters, the more that I brought out from my
own understanding, the beauty and the glory of the Lord and the Word. 
You know, my day was much better, for it and, there was greater victory.
 And so, the Bible says, "Think upon these things." [Phil 4:8] I think
we’re to think upon them, write upon them, talk about them, and the
Lord will bless us mightily.  Now, I don’t want to keep you too late
tonight.  And  just sort of want to continue from this morning, if I
can, on the adoption of sons, and we’ll just talk about it the best we
can from what we covered, and what we haven’t covered at this moment. 
So, before we do shall we bow our heads, in a word of prayer. 

 

	Again, Gracious Heavenly Father, we come to You knowing, Lord, Your
people are assembled here together in the house of correction.  And,we
know at the end time, Lord, the greatest correction is correcting the
Word, correcting the errors.  You never mentioned, Lord, correcting
peoples’ ways, because all through the ages we have known that devout
life, was accessible unto You, that men were meant to walk righteous and
upright.  That their behavior was to be such that men could not look at
them with scorn, but rather, lives to be so transparent, that men would
glorify God.  

	But, Lord, all through that time You are winking at ignorance.  But
now, at this end-time, You’ve brought us into the corrected Word.  The
revealed Word of Almighty God.  So, You can say at this time, “If any
man adds to It, or takes away, then it adds the plagues, or take away
their part out of the Book of Life.”  And so, Father, what a
tremendous thing it is, to know that we have the Word revealed to us, at
this end-time.  Now, because this is so, and therefore, Lord, the
ministry of that Word is so great, as to be almost grievous, lest there
be something said wrong. 

	Protect us tonight, Lord, where we ought to not have a thought.  O God,
just make the mind blank.  Just take us right away from it.  Even though
it might be even embarrassing.  That’s perfectly all right.  Better to
be embarrassed than judged.  So help us, Lord, at this time to say
exactly the right thing, not be double minded in any way, but just right
with that Word.  And may It be heard in the same way.  We dedicate
ourselves therefore, Lord, into Your Word, that we might have perfect
faith in Jesus’ Name we pray.  Amen.  

4.	You know, many people quote Bro. Branham that he said, “We don’t
have faith hardly, to get a healing. Let alone to have faith for the
Rapture.”  And you know that is true, but I believe that a statement
like that could be run with in a wrong direction…you know really, you
study the Scripture, the Bible speaks about reprobate faith.  And a
reprobate faith, is a faith that you have in something, that simply
cannot come to pass, because it’s not the Word of God.  Israel had the
Word of God, but they did not have the revelation.  And their
understanding of that Word was such that they crucified the Lord Jesus
Christ.  

	At the end-time, the people crucify to themselves the Son of God. This
shows the reprobate faith, because they never had the revelation of the
Word.  So, at this time, if we are going to walk with God as Enoch, and
have a faith that is greater than healing, it will be that faith due to
the revealed Word.  And this will put us in perfect oneness with
Almighty God.  Because you see, Jesus was the manifested Word, and if
this Bride  is going to be that, she’ll be that manifested Word.  So,
we have to have the revelation, of this Word at the end-time.  And as
Bro. Branham said, categorically stated, “The Bride has all she needs
to put her in a Rapture.”  (See?)  Now, that’s like saying that if
you have enough money to build a house, “Categorically, I have
everything I need to build the house.”  

 	Why?  Because, the money is mine, and the materials are available. 
Translate that now, in terms of the Spiritual, the Word has within it,
the full power of transformation.  And if I have the Word, I have the
transformation.  (See?)  Just the same idea, it may not have been put to
work, a hundred percent effectively, but the effect will be there. 
(See?)  That’s where we stand.  

5.	Now, we’ll just go to one verse of Scripture in the Book of  Romans
8:15.

		(15)	For (you) have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear;
but 						(you) have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry,
Abba, 						Father.	

	Now, in the first message in this subject, we showed from the
prophet’s Message, that there would be a Word identified Bride, who
would be able to manifest the very life of Christ, in the end-time. 
Quoting Bro. Branham, “There’ll be a power come into the Church, and
now is coming in, that the Holy Spirit will so anoint the people
(plural) til they’ll (plural) speak the Word.  And It, (that Word)
will create Itself like that.”  In other words, he said that there is
a power now that is coming in, it’s a power in the Church through the
anointing of the Holy Spirit, that the Bride (in the plural number) will
speak the Word of God.  And whatever they speak, will be created.  Same
as when God said, “Let there be light.”  And He didn’t have to
say, “O, I missed it, that became an elephant.”  

6.	You’ve got that just now right today in people. They attempt to
come in to a final reality of faith in that Word, for It to produce
Itself.  It just won’t.  But there’s coming a day, when that Word
spoken, will actually produce itself.  Let there be light.  And there
was light. Let there be rain.  There comes rain. In other words, there
is no hit and miss.  It’s Mark 11: brought right into open view.  Now
notice, the language of the prophet. “Now It’s coming in.” You
notice, that can only mean one thing, and that is, the potential is
already in the Bride of this hour.  And it will produce the
manifestation in her, of creation by spoken Word. That’s right. God is
going to refill the Bride, with the Holy Spirit, then  see what happens.
 

	Quoting Bro. Branham, “We’ve got a ministry coming, that’s just
exactly like the life of Christ.”  Now, that’s what he told us.  And
that’s what we believe.  Now, my good friend Dr. Hoyer, that I
consider the greatest authority in the Hebrew and the Greek, took me
aside one time after preaching in Chicago, and he said, “Bro.
Vayle,” he said, “I don’t want you to think me to be a fanatic.”


	 He was so apologetic, and I thought, “My, what in the world does
this man want to tell me.”

	And he said, “I believe before the Bride is taken away, the creative
Word of God will be in her.”   He knew by the pure study of the Greek,
with the help of the Holy Spirit, what a prophet of God told us, was
absolutely in store, at this particular time.    

7.	Now, this great capstone ministry of the Bride, is called ‘the
manifestation of the sons of God.’  That is, to me it is, now you can
call it the third pull to differentiate. That’s all right.  Because
we’ve been calling it ‘the third pull.’ To me, it is the
manifestation, because this is a phase of it.  (See?)  It’s a phase
and a part of it.  Also, the adoption, because that’s the very same
word.  Manifestation, placing of sons, is all the same thing.  And when
Bro. Branham switched to the terminology ‘third pull’, to me this is
part of that manifestation that is spoken of in the Word of God.  

	Now, let’s just think on the prime cause of this great manifestation,
or the cause or what it is about.  It is already in the Bride.  Paul the
apostle said, that we already have the spirit of adoption.  But we’re
waiting for the manifestation, or the fullness of the manifestation of
that very spirit that’s in us.  In other words, the evidence of the
adoption has been subdued, because the time for it is not yet.  (See?) 
Just like he said about…the Lutherans had the potential of the Holy
Spirit.  Now he wasn’t saying they potentially had the baptism with
the Holy Ghost, individually.  He wasn’t saying that.  He was speaking
of the time element, when there would be this manifestation. 

8.	So, the time is not yet.  But it’s in this area we’re in right
now, for this to appear. (See?)  Now, our text in Romans 8:15 tells us
as I’ve already mentioned, that we have the spirit of adoption. 
We’ve got that spirit, that’s going to bring it about.  But you see,
it wasn’t time for it.  (See?)  It’s just like, let’s face it.  In
the fullness of time, God brought forth His Son, born of a woman.  You
mean to tell me that wasn’t already there?  It always was there.  But
it wasn’t time for it to come forth in this particular way. Spirit of
adoption has always been here, for the two thousand years.  But to bring
it to manifestation, what this Scripture deals with, it wasn’t time
yet.  Notice what we read this morning.  We’ll read It again,
beginning at verse 19.  

		(19)	For the earnest expectation of the (creation) waiteth for the
manifestation 					of the sons of God.

		(20)	For the (creation) was(not) made subject to vanity, …
willingly, but by 					reason of  him who hath subjected the same in
hope,

		(21)	Because the (creation) itself also shall be delivered from the
bondage of 

                        corruption into the … liberty of the (glory of
the) children of God.

		(22)	For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in
pain 					together until now.

		(23)	And not only (creation), but ourselves also, (even though we’ve
got the) 					first fruits of the Spirit, (See?  Even though we’ve got
that spirit of 						adoption,) even we ourselves groan within
ourselves, (what are we 						doing? Waiting, you’re waiting, see?)…

	It’s just like on the day of Pentecost, the Holy Ghost was already
there to be given, but it wasn’t time. They had to wait for it. So, we
are in the process of waiting, but now we’ve come to the very age in
which it’s got to come into fulfillment, and we’re still waiting.
(See?)  But, oh my, we’re close.  (See?)  It’s nearer than when we
first believed.  See, we’ve come right up to it, at this moment. 
(See?)  So, this tells us why the Bride, has not yet been placed as
sons, and It tells when she will be.  It’s in this period of the
end-time, right around resurrection period.  Now remember, we said this
morning, where resurrection period was. It’s over here in Romans
11:15.   

		(15)	For if the casting away of (Israel, neither) … reconciling of
the world, 					what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the
dead?

9.	I told you this morning, that life from the dead is resurrection. 
Because Israel is not dead.  Israel is blinded.  She’s not dead. 
Every elected Israelite is under that altar right now, and they are
waiting under the Fifth Seal, for the 144,000 to come in.  Then, it’s
over. (See?)  All Israel is in, all Gentiles’ in.  Now, the whole
family in heaven and earth. (See?)  Now of course, the souls under the
altar, have got to wait for the White Throne Judgement.  But all the
election is over.  Now then, is Israel being received of God?  She’s
back in the homeland.  It’s resurrection season.  Then therefore, it
is adoption season. (See?)  It’s manifestation season.  We’re right
in it. (See?)  Just waiting now for the last little bit.  (See?)  

	Now, that’s where we stand right today.  Now, thus we have a very
clear picture before us.  And that is, it is the body of Christ coming
up through the ages, from the feet to the head. Now, we’re taking the
historical view, and I find as I said this morning, so many people just
don’t grasp Bro. Branham’s teaching.  Which is, he takes the view of
the Bride, coming up.  He doesn’t take a personal viewpoint.  Why? 
Because Bro. Branham did the work of an evangelist.  He was not an
evangelist.  (See?)  He did the work of a pastor.  He was not a local
pastor.  He was pastor to the Bride.  (See?)  What was he?  

10.	The prophet messenger, restoring the Word to the Bride.  (See?) 
There’s a big difference there.  Now, we’ll talk about that too. 
So, we see here, it’s the Church, or the body of Christ.  That’s the
best term, coming up through the ages, from the feet to the very head. 
(See?)  But notice, not one age, (see?) is on earth, while the other age
remains.  Age one goes, age two comes on.  Age two goes, age three goes
on.  So, not at one time do you have the whole body of Christ, on earth
in their mortal bodies.  They’re never on earth at the same time. 
Paul’s age went off the scene, gone.  Irenaeus’ age is gone.  (See?)
 They’re not on earth at the same time.  The messengers are not on
earth at the same time.  

	They’re not here in their mortal body.  (See?)  Making a whole body. 
That’s what I’m trying to show you.  So, the whole body is never
made up at one time.  It comes from the feet to the head.  (See?) it’s
got to grow up to where it came from, which is the head.  (See?)  Now,
that’s the picture you’ve got to see.  It’s the pyramid.  (See?) 
Why?  It’s the wide bottom of the pyramid.  Growing up, up, up until
it comes to the very peak.  Now, just keep that in your mind, that’s
what we’re talking about.  We’re talking about, the Bride, the body
of Christ, being raised through the ages. (See?)  Now. you'll notice in
here, as John saw, seven branches, seven golden branches of one lamp. 
And each branch was a Church Age.  

 	And each age had a messenger.  (See?)  A revelation which became a
message from the messenger.  And then the hearers who took the message. 
Now, we can take a look at that, as I mentioned this morning, over here
in Ephesians.  (See?)  You get the picture, there’s going to be an
adoption, but you see, you’re not going to adopt a portion. It’s
like the first age, you’ve got to wait to the end, for the very last
ministry.  

11. Now in Ephesians 4: he said…Paul speaking here in verses 15 and
16.

		(15)	But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all
things, 						which is the head, even Christ:

		(16)     From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted
by 					that which every joint supplieth, … (See?)  

	Notice he said, “Every joint is supplying.”  Like seven layers in a
pyramid.  Seven branches to a candlestick.  Seven joints in a body. 
(See?)  Seven divisions, each one is supplying. 

		(16)	…according to the effectual working in the measure of every 

                        part,…

	Doesn’t even say that every measure is the same. It’s just that
it’s effective to the measure in every part.  The first age was not
like the second age.  The third not like the second.  You got to the
fourth, the bleakest of all, had the least of all. ( See?)  Almost
entirely condemned. Under a Jezebel prophetess.  (See?)  What a terrible
condition.  But every age is supplying.  Notice, it is making increase
of the body.  (See?)  The Word in every age by the messenger, is
bringing in the sheep.  The sheep hearing the voice.  Age one, a message
goes forth, brings in the sheep. And in every age there’s a
generation, so God doesn’t lose one seed.  

12.	That’s why at the end-time, it’s this generation that sees these
things, it’s all finished.  There’s no more generations, there’s
nobody else to come in.  (See?)  So it’s all over.  So here’s what
we see.  We see, this Bride, this Church, the body of Christ, coming
from the feet up.  And it’s coming up to the very headship.  (See?) 
Now, every single one of the first six ages, had the potential or the
spirit of adoption.  Everyone did.  None, was without the baptism of the
Holy Ghost. Why?  Because by one Spirit are you baptized into the body
of the Lord Jesus Christ.  And that baptizing Holy Ghost, is the spirit
of adoption.  (See?)  Like we said this morning, God recognizing you as
a son, giving you the Holy Ghost.  Everybody had that in each age.
(See?)

  	There’s no doubt about it.  They had the potential.  But it’s not
until age number seven, that they had the potential, and, not only had
potential, but, they manifested.  That’s why the Lutherans’
potentially had the Holy Ghost, under what?  The adoption. That’s why
the Wesleyans had it.  You see, every age potentially had it.  But in
this age it is not only potential, it’s the absolute fulfillment. 
Why?  Because God has turned back to Israel, and it’s resurrection
season.  And in resurrection season Bro. Branham said, “It’s the
dispensation, of the fullness or the manifestation of the sons of
God.”  (See?)  We’re in that age right now.  There will not be
another generation, that’s on this earth. There won’t be. You
don’t have to look for it, because, it won’t be here.  

13.	It’s all over.  So, it’s in this age there has to be an absolute
setting forth of the sonship, or the sons of Almighty God.  Now, this is
what I say Bro. Branham was teaching, was when he mentions that all of
these ages had a potential.  That’s why I said this morning, that so
many people ran around, nobody’s got the Holy Ghost.  He wasn’t
saying Luther didn’t have the Holy Ghost.  He wasn’t saying Wesley
didn’t have the Holy Ghost.  Because by one spirit you’re baptized
into It.  But they didn’t have, what we have got to have today, which
is a refilling.  (See?)  Now, no age had immortality.  Every age had the
potential.  But where does their immortality come from?  Their
immortality comes from the fact that they’ll be taken out of the
grave, having died, to die no more.  But you’ve got a group that
isn’t going to die.  (See?)  	They’ll put it on.  And then they’ll
come in to the fullness of Almighty God.  Now, this is the age where God
restores. You just can’t have an age of adoption, but this is the age
of adoption.  This is the age of the manifestation of the sons of God. 
This is the age of restoration also. (See?)  You have many facets or
many phrases, which bring out the truth, and bring them together, then
you can tell what’s going on. ( See?)  Now, Bro. Branham says, “This
is restoration.”  He said, “Luther had reformation.  Then Wesley
went right along, up to restoration.  They brought in justification,
sanctification, restoration of gifts.  But now, it’s the full
revelation.  And what do you call it?  The baptism with the Holy
Ghost.”  But he also called it restoration.  

14.	But he also said there was manifestation.  (See?)  Now, let’s just
think about that.  This is the age where God restores.  He turns the
hearts of the children back to the fathers.  And he brings about a
uniting with the Word of God.  Because that’s what he taught; a
uniting.  What’s he say?  God is getting her ready. Yes sir, uniting. 
What is she uniting with?  With the Word, for heaven and earth shall
pass away, but, not My Word.  Then how is she going to die, if, she’s
got that Word?  She’s uniting herself with ‘Thus Saith the Lord’. 
Now, who had that?  William Branham.  What did he bring us?  The Word of
God.  Then what are you uniting yourself with?  Can you be sold out to
this Word, and still have a girlfriend on the side?  

	"Well, Bro. Branham taught so and so…but."  Okay, you philanderer. 
You’ve got your eyes on filthy creeds and dogma. You’re whoring out
there with the harlot’s daughters.  Don’t tell me you believe this
Message, because you don’t.  Have you got ‘Thus Saith the Lord’? 
Has the crowd that you want to talk to, got ‘Thus Saith the Lord’? 
What are you uniting yourself with?  Here’s your Word test right here.
 You’ve got to start right there, and, you’ve got to stop right
there.  (See?)  You’ve got to be sold out to It.  (See?)  That’s
what marriage is, you make a vow.  Oh, I know sometimes in a marriage
vow you feel a little cheated.  But you’re a good fellow, and, you
stick with her.  She’s a good egg, and she sticks with you.  

15.	Now, this word of Bro. Branham’s, may make you feel a little
cheated at times. (Yeah) A lot of people do.  Stick with it.  Don’t
worry about it.  Stick with it.  Marriage isn’t all apple pie and
roses.  Well, it might be roses with the little briars on them.  But you
knew that Christ also has this problem.  (See?)  So, just stay with that
Word.  (See?)  Now, she’s uniting herself with ‘Thus Saith the
Lord', regardless what any denomination or anybody (and you and I
aren’t anybody) else says.  (See?)  She’s uniting herself, she’s
getting ready.  Why?  She is the Bride, that’s right.  And she’s
united herself with the Bridegroom, and, the Bridegroom is the Word. 
And the church, and the Bride, and the Word is becoming sooooo one,
until the very Word Itself, is working out the works of the Bridegroom. 
She’s moving up.  

	Listen, she was buried in the Fourth Age.  She started coming back to
life under reformation, until we come right now to restoration.  Which
is the Word of God, which puts Eve back into Eden.  You can’t get away
from that.  Yet he said, “We’re in the age of manifestation.” 
We’re in the age of restoration, we’re in the age of manifestation,
we’re in the age of uniting.  (See?)  We’re coming right to the top.
 Now the Bride’s made herself ready.  Now, what’s he saying?  Watch
this;

[Spoken Word is the Original Seed  62-03-18]

[414]  	…These last days, true …Bride comes to the Headstone, will
be the 

       	super Church, a super Race, as they…(near) the great
Headstone…

	See, they’re coming.  When do they start coming?  They started coming
back under reformation.  Because, before it was down, down, down, down,
now it’s up, up, up, up.  Three steps down, one, two, three, grave. 
One, two, three, up.  (See?)  All right.  Now, 

 		…They will be so much like… Him,… they will (even )be in His
very 

        	image, in … order to (be) united with Him… 

16.	Now, uniting is going on, but you still have got to be united.
What's One? One’s spiritual, one’s physical.  In other words,
we’re heading for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, but we’ve got to
be in union with Him now, by the Word, or you will not have the wedding
garment, in order to make the wedding.  

		…They will be One.  They will be the very manifestation of the 

         	Word of the living God.  Denominations can never produce This.


	 They will love Him and, have His potentials.  For He is their head,
and, they are His subjects.  Subject to the head.  Headship of Christ
was His.  

[420]	…Nothing can harm Her, not even death.  For if the Seed be
planted,                                    		 the water will raise It
up again.  

	Was the seed planted?  Sure was. Is the water raising it up?  Sure is. 


		…Here is the secret.  The Word is in the Bride, and the mind of
Christ, 					to know what He wants done with the Word.  And she does it
in His Name.  				She has THUS SAITH THE LORD.

	This is 1962.  After the Seals, he called the same thing ‘the Third
Pull.’ 

		…Then It is germitized, so the Holy Spirit waters It, until It is
grown and 

       	serves Its purpose.  (See?)  

	Now, you take that back to the Book of Matthew and the sowing of the
seed.  And, you’ll find that the seed sown in good ground, brought
forth fruit.  And what is that fruit?  The original that went into the
ground, in a multiplied form.  That’s what fruit is.  

[421]	They do only His will. …

		You know doing God a service apart from His will.  So how do you do
His will?  You’re one hundred percent with that Word.  

		…No one can persuade them different.  They have THUS SAITH THE 

     		LORD or they keep still.  (Then) They will do the works of God,
for It 					is Himself in them continuing His Word to fulfill…as He
did not complete 					all when He was here, for it was not time yet.  

17.	Now, Bro. Branham mentioned that on another occasion where he said,
“Christ did not fulfill His whole commission here in on earth, in His
flesh. And therefore, it’s up to the Bride.”  (I’m just sort of
paraphrasing that statement.)  Now, you can see from this, that it’s
in the Seventh Church Age, that the Bride manifests the very fullness of
the head which is Christ.  She does. 

	 Ephesians 1:22-23. 

		(22)	And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the
head 						over all things to the church,

		(23)	Which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all (things
with all 					things)

	In other words, as Bro. Branham said, “The complete pre-eminence of
the Word of God, when flesh is becoming Word, and Word is becoming
flesh, and, Word is becoming Word.”   Now, when does that happen? 
It’s never happened before.  Why?  Because it’s not authority time. 
(See?)  Creation is going to groan and keep on groaning, until we come
to this very end.  Now, you can either put this in the manifestation,
the third pull, or whatever you want to call it.  But it’s right here
in this age, it’s going to happen and it’s going to continue right
on.  Because, …Bro. Branham said, “You don’t throw away one thing
or lose one thing that God ever gave.”   

 	What that manna was for the old days, was sufficient, you don’t
throw it away.  But it’s not applicable today.  (See?)  We just keep
on moving on.  Why?  Because we’re moving straight up.  Okay.  

18:	Now, with this, we go back to Ephesians1:3-5. 

		(3)	Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, …
(blessing) 					us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places…

		(4)       According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation
of the 					world, that we should be holy and without blame before him
in love:

		(5)	 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus
Christ 					to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

	Now notice, this is the final thing.  After we have gone through all of
these…all of these years, the Bride is looking for the adoption or the
manifestation of the sons of God.  They are looking for that.  Now of
course, we know that those who are dead are looking forward to the
Resurrection.  (See?)  Because they’re going to come up with
immortality.  But remember, there’s a Bride that doesn’t die. 
(See?)  There’s a difference there all the time.  Now, going a little
further.  Down to verse 8. It says:

		(8)	Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;

		(9)	Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to 		
			his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

	    (10)	That in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might
gather 						together in one all things in Christ, both which are in
heaven, and 						which are on earth; even in him:

           (11)       In whom also we have obtained an inheritance,
being predestinated 					according (now notice) to the purpose of him
who worketh all things 					after the counsel of his own will:

           (12)      That we should be to the praise of his glory, who
first trusted in (Him).  

19.	Paul mentions the Ephesian Church Age, is the first Gentile age that
trusted. The second age will trust.  The third age will trust.  The
fourth, the fifth, the sixth, but, the seventh will bring it into
manifestation.  (See?)  Immortality comes.  We’re right in that
period.  And brother/sister, that means we better unite with this Word. 
That third chapter, verses 9 and 10.   

		(9)	And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery,
which 					from the beginning of the world (or before the times eternal)
hath been 					hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

	    (10)       To the intent that now unto the principalities and
powers in heavenly 					places might be known by the church the manifold
wisdom of God,

	What was the manifold wisdom of God?  In all wisdom and prudence, He
predestinated us unto the adoption of sons.  And it’s going to be the
Church that displays it.  (See?) There has to be a display.  God is
going to show who they are.  Verse 19 and 20.  

		(19)	And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that
(you) 					might be filled with all the fullness of God. (See?)  

	Verse 18.

		(18)	May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth,
and 						length, and depth, and height;

20.	Now, when you get that far, what have you got?  You’ve got four
dimensions.  Breadth, length, depth, and height.  In other words,
looking up through the ages, you did your best to fathom what God had in
mind by His mysteries.  But in the end-time, from the height God looking
down.  A prophet coming on the scene. No longer guessing, but, knowing
from the very throne of God, what the mysteries are.  And the complete
revelation of Jesus Christ.  Now then, what is it …to know the love of
God, which passes knowledge. What? That you might be filled, with all
the fullness of God.  Now, where does the love of God take place?  In
the stature of a perfect man, there are not seven steps, there are eight
steps.  

	You go from faith…all the way to love.  But in age number seven, it
is brotherly kindness, which is step number seven.  Now, what is it that
Bro. Branham said about us, as a Bride today?  He said, “The best you
can produce is brotherly kindness.”  He said, “You jaw each other. 
You fight each other.  Like,” he said, “Us, Branhams’.”  He
said, “In the back yard we fight. In the front yard we don’t.” 
Now that’s the way the Bride is, right today.  And he said, “The
best thing you can do, right today is when somebody gets in trouble,”
he said, “Oh my, right away you rush and help that fella.”  And
that’s the way we are.  We can be ornery enough to chaw each other
behind our backs.  We can fuss at each other and fume.  But you let
someone get in trouble, and, then we forget about it.  

21.	“Well, I guess I better help that guy.”  You feel pretty bad
inside, even, said something.  I guess we all go through that.  I might
go through that more than anybody here.  But that’s it.  They get
fussing during the day, and cry at night.  You haven’t got it.  Why? 
Because this is the age.  Someone said, “I’ve got it.”  Hogwash! 
Now, let every man be a liar, let God be true.  The prophet of God came,
and he said that stature of a perfect man, was definitely the Church
coming up into maturity.  Then what is this love we’re talking about? 
That love is God.  And when the refilling comes, God Himself, the
fullness of God comes in the Bride, every inlet to that soul is plugged
up.  

	Now, she’s got ‘Thus Saith the Lord.’  Now, she’s one with that
Word.  Now, she only does His will.  (See?)  This is the age.  And
it’s coming in a living Bride, as sure as I stand here.  Because as
sure as I understand by faith what Bro. Branham said, as I stand here. 
Okay.  

22:  Let’s go to Revelation 10:  Let’s see something else here.  We
all know these Scriptures, we just quote It by heart.  And in verse 7,
It says;

		(7)	But in the days of the voice of the seventh (church age messenger,
						that's that seventh angel, see?) when he shall begin to sound,
(that’s 					the gospel trumpet) the mystery of God should be
finished, as (God) 					hath declared to his servants the prophets.

 	Now, what’s one of the mysteries?  It’s adoption. That’s why
it’s adoption time. We’re coming into it. (See?) Make no mistake
about it. That’s why there should be such a consecration, and a
holiness, concerning this Word. That’s why we should be more serious
about this Word, then anything else. And that’s why I keep on
hammering, and hammering, and hammering.  Because too many people are
yammering, and yammering, and yammering. You don’t believe what the
prophet said.  You’ve got your own ideas about it. Now, cut it out.  I
don’t care how good it looks.  I don’t care what anybody else can
produce. If I was going to look at production, then I would rip every
page out of my Bible, and excoriate almost every great man.  Because
every great man flunked. (See?)

	Even Joseph, tried to stop his daddy, full of the Holy Ghost, a
prophet, from crossing his hands.  Then where would the cross have been?
Through the cross the blessing of God went from the Israelites to the
Gentiles. (See?)  You say, “Joseph was very perfect.”  But listen
brother/ sister, when you stop that cross, then your perfection lies in
the dust as a withered rose.  And where did Joseph stand?  Nowhere. 
Where does anybody stand?  Nowhere.  Thank God, we stand in Christ. 
There’s where we have it. ( See?)  Now at the end-time, this great
prophet coming on the scene.  …It says here, “The mystery of God
should be finished.” [Rev.10:7] Now, Christ is the mystery of God. 

23.	In other words, if Christ the mystery of God is finished, the Bride
is going to be finished under this Message.  The Word is going to be
finished.  Why?  Because this joint supplying the Word, is going to
bring this Bride up to the capstone.  Now, how are you going to fit my
head on my body without my neck?  About how many times bigger are my
shoulders than my neck? About maybe three times? My shoulders, yeah,
about that.   In other words, there has got to be a narrowing.  (See?) 
It’s coming…this brings us to the pyramid.  We’re coming right up
to identity.  (See?)  Headship.  Do you think for one minute, that the
head is going to take some body that is out of line with the head?  You
can’t do it.  (See?)

  	You’re in this end-time.  In the days of the Seventh Church Age
messenger, the seventh joint, the seventh candlestick.  We are right
here, and it’s in the days of his voice.  In other words, his voice
has everything to do with it.  Bro. Branham said, “The Bride has
everything she needs to put her in a Rapture.”  And, if she has
everything to put her in a Rapture, and, they without us cannot be made
perfect, then we have the very thing now that is going to bring the dead
out of the grave at the right moment.  (See?)  That’s why he says,
“Lying in the Presence of the Son, is one of the hardest things to
do.”  He said, “Go out and find that woman that’s got the
character to listen to the Message.” 

24.	“Find that woman that will stand still, until you wash her in the
waters of regeneration by the Word.”   Stand still, until you can
dress her in the robes of the Word of God.  (See?)  Pretty hard to find
the “stand still.”  They’ve got too many ideas.  (See?)  Now
remember, God’s of one mind.  If He has a prophet to stand in His
stead, standing there with the Pillar of Fire, then we as Bro. Branham
said, “Submit ourselves to ‘Thus Saith the Lord.’”  Now, as I
say, the days of the voice of the Seventh messenger, when he should
begin to sound, his message is coming forth.  The mysteries of God is
going to be finished.  As God, has declared It.  What?  The good news of
the Gospel.  

	The word 'declare' in there, actually, 'a full sense to declare the
good news of the Gospel'.  See?  That’s what is finished.  And, when
the Gospel is finished, what is it?  The days of the Gentiles is over. 
(See?)  Everything that God has in store.  See, now,  watch that Word. 
It says here. “The mysteries of God should be finished.”  That Word,
is perfected and concluded.  Perfect and concluded, the complete
revelation.  The complete pouring in.  It’s all done now.  It’s all
over.  (See?)   Then, what kind of a Bride will it be, for the Head to
come down?  (See?)  You're at the finishing stage.  That’s a marvelous
thing.  Now, herein we can see the Christ did not pour Himself, as I
said this morning, into the Church. He did not pour Himself into the
Church.  Rather, He has been continually pouring Himself in, until the
last stage.  And then it has to be the fullness. (See?)

25.	My, what a tremendous thing that will be.  That the very fullness
will be, in the Church.  That’s jubilee.  It’s over.  (See?)  And
when the fullness is poured in, then you’re talking about a life, and
you’re talking about a life which is a ministry. Then, what will it be
like?  As Bro. Branham said, “If the Presence of the Lord was
glorious, which Presence according to Acts 3:19   is what you can see in
His dynamic miracle, vindicated ministry.  What will it be when the
fullness comes in? (He said) My God, I don’t know, but, it’s going
to be glorious.”  That’s why he said, “You don’t know about the
‘Third Pull’, but, it’ll be there.”  Don’t speculate, just
begin to get an idea of what’s coming.  (See?)  Now, the reason I’m
preaching this way, I’ve got to brainwash you from your old thinking. 
That’s like saying, “Bro Vayle, why talk about what you don’t
know?”  I know plenty.  But I don’t know those acts and things that
are coming.  You see?  

	You’ve got to be brainwashed from the old idea, ‘Well, all it is,
hallelujah, I’ve been born again.’  The Bible said, Malachi 4: 5-6, 
if Elijah doesn’t come, your ‘hallelujah I’ve been born again’,
doesn’t mean that.   He said, “I’ll wipe the whole thing out.” 
Got to send Elijah, or just wipe you out. ( See?)  What will the end be?
 You’re coming right back where he said, “It’s got to fit so
close, right down the line.”  Now, Christ completely poured into the
seventh branch.  Completely poured in.  (See?)  Remember, you’re
working up to the Head.  Now, let’s look at it.  How much do the feet
look like the Head?  (See?)  

26.	How much do the limbs… the trunk look like it?  How much the
chest?  Now, we’re getting up.  See, when you get up here, you’re
getting closer and closer.  That’s why that ministry, must be more and
more identified.  Now, otherwise there couldn’t be a wedding.  Now,
there will be a complete manifestation of Himself in the Bride. 
That’s what we said here this morning over here in the Book of
Ephesians 1:17.

  

		(17)	That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may
give 					unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge
of him:

	Now you see, right off the bat, most people they talk about this, they
talk about power, they want this, they want that.  But Paul said,
“I’m going to pray for the revelation.”

		(18)	The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; …

	Why?  Because they’re not enlightened at this minute.  The church is
blind, but says it can see.  (See?)  He said, “I counsel thee to buy
(get)…eye salve, that thou (might) see.”  [Rev. 3:18] Anoint, your
eyes.  Now, of course eye salve is a poultice.  That’s what the word
in the Greek is.  And it’s made out of cracker crumbs.  How’d you
like to rub some cracker crumbs in your eye? You say, “it hurts.” So
does the revelation hurt. We’re so stinking proud of ourselves, we
think we know a few things.  Even if we did know a few things, we
don’t know as we ought to know.  

	If you… “Bro. Branham, look, you’ve got the trance and the
vision, and the ability to get to God, (he said) you’ve asked Him
about this thing, so how much do you know?”  

	He said, “I don’t know as much as I’d like to know.” (See?)   

27.	But this age says, “Oh we’ve got it all made up.”  John said,
“You’re wretched,  miserable,  naked and blind.” [Rev. 3:17] Just
like this this fellow over here says, “That you may know the hope of
His calling” [Eph. 1:18] (See?)  That you may know it.  Enter into a
full revelation of the end-time.  Uniting time with the Word.  Getting
together to be with Christ.  (See?)  The third pull.  Manifestation
coming on the scene.  Now, and then at the end, you might know; 

		(19)	… the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who
believe…	

	What was that exceeding greatness of power?  The power of the
resurrection itself.  But they’re still in the grave.  There’s
coming a day, right today that, when the Holy Spirit and the Word
becoming one, and that Bride will put it right into a resurrection
without even dying.  Now notice, as Bro. Branham said He was obligated
to do this, for He never did appear amongst the Gentiles.  Christ
manifested amongst the Gentiles.  He never did it before.  Now, how do
we know He’s obligated?  Because It says this, in the days of Noah,
and the days of Sodom, and both of those are Gentiles.  That’s right. 
Noah wasn’t any Hebrew.  Not by any stretch the  imagination.  (See?) 
Neither was Lot.  Sodomites weren’t.  But they are going to repeat.  

28.	 And it’s in that time that the days are back on earth.  So
therefore, there has to be a manifestation amongst the Gentiles, which
there has been, and there will continue to be.  (See?)  Only the utter
blindness of Laodicea, could produce the conditions that we have in the
world today.  But we saw the ministry of Christ return to the earth by
the prophet.  Is that right? We did.  Why did that man have the ministry
of Christ?  To convince the world they needed God?  To the people he
went to, already believed in God.  To convince them that they needed
divine healing?  The people he went to already had divine healing.  To
convince them that Jesus was coming soon?  They already believed it.  

	Now, what did He come for?  To restore the Word.  All right, then
listen,  we saw the ministry of Christ returned to the earth, by the
prophet.  What will it be in the Bride?  It will be an absolute
confirmation of the Word that he brought.  Because, that’s what the
Holy Spirit gave him to write in 'Spoken Word is Original Seed'.
[62-03-18] he picked up his pen and he wrote furiously, hardly knowing
what he wrote.  And then as he wrote by the inspiration of the Holy
Ghost, that is a prophetic message for this day of ‘Thus Saith the
Lord’ that has got to come to pass.  The Word and the Bride being
absolute one with ‘Thus Saith the Lord.’  

 	And that’s the creative Word of God within her, that he spoke would
happen under manifestation.  Read it anyway you want.  Two and two make
four, three and one make four.  One and three make four, four and
nothing make four.  Still makes four.  In other words, if I see a
perfect net result every time, I know there's got to be the same
combination of factors bringing that end out there somewhere.  It’s
holding true all right down through the line.  I’m not too much of a
mathematician, but at least I think I know that much.  

29.  Now, let’s go back to our test again.  He speaks over here in
chapter 8, of the Book of Romans, …still following this same subject,
a manifestation, the great work of God at the end time.  He said;

		(15)	For (you) have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear;
but (you) 					have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry,
Abba, Father.

	Now, these born ones of the Spirit, are not only taught by Paul what
they do have, but he also uses a negative way of teaching, by telling
them what they do not have.  And he said; 

		(15)	(And you)  have not received (again) the spirit of (slavery,)
which is 					the spirit of  bondage…

	Now, he said, “You don’t have that.”  What is the spirit of
adoption, then?  This spirit of adoption Paul said, is not the same
spirit you once had.  It’s not the spirit of slavery. In other words,
you’re out of the slave market. Once and for all, you’re away from
God.  Now, let’s just begin to look at slavery.  In order to …as Bro
Branham said, “You can’t tell there’s a good woman, unless
there’s a wicked women there.” He said, “You don’t know light
unless there’s darkness.”  But, that’s what Paul is doing here. 
He’s trying to show them the light of the life of which they now
have…(pardon the expression) in the light of the darkness.  In other
words, using a negative and a positive.  Okay.  Let’s look at this
thought;

		(15)	(You) have not received the spirit of (slavery) again to fear…

30.	Now, let’s go to Hebrews chapter 2, and verse 15, and take a look
at what he’s got to say about a spirit of fear.  Paul said; 

		(14)	(Jesus took upon Himself, the form of flesh in order to bring to
nothing, 					the works of the devil.) 

		(15)	And deliver them who through fear of death were all their
lifetime subject 					to (slavery). 

 	They had a fear of death, that spirit was upon them.  They were afraid
to die.  Now, of course we know, that every single believer that is
truly born of Almighty God, does not have a fear of dying.  He rejoices
to go to be with the Lord.  Now, he may have some doubts about how
he’ll be met by God.  In other words, he’d have a little bit of a
misunderstanding of Scripture, and feel maybe that his life wasn’t up
to par and all, and he feels sorry that his life wasn’t perhaps the
right kind of life every moment of the day.  But if you’re born again,
you don’t have the fear of death upon you.  (See)?  Because, you know
that as Paul said, to leave here is going to present you in the kingdom,
wherein there is no more fear.  (See?)  

	There’s no fear of death.  But now notice, as he said in 2
Corinthians 5: he said, “We’re groaning in this body.”  See,
we’re groaning.  Notice the idea.  And we’re groaning not to be
unclothed, but to be clothed upon by our body which is from heaven.  Not
some disembodied spirit, but to be there in the paradise of God.  No
fear of death.  (See?)  Because, we have that spirit, which does not
bind us to fear.  We don’t need to worry anymore about death.  Because
we know where we’re going to go.  What about this last time age?  That
same spirit of liberty, (not only now) is in position whereby we’re
not afraid to die.  But thank God we’re not only not afraid to die,
but we have no fear that we’re going to die.   

31. Why?  Because, we’re not going to die.  (See?)  It's been working
through Seven Church Ages.  Every age goes in.  Who’s afraid?  Like
old Daddy Bosworth, along with that Sixth Church Age, sitting up in bed,
shaking hands with all the ones that have gone on before. Saw him before
he died, a couple of weeks before he died.  Praising God. 

	 I said, “O Bro. Bosworth, you’re not so old you have to die.” 

	He said, “O Bro. Vayle, God doesn’t work a willing horse to death. 
I’ve been willing to serve God, now, I’m going.” 

	You couldn’t have held him back with a team of horses.  He wasn’t
about to stay here.  This was his crowning day.  Lying in bed there, his
two daughters there, visiting from up north.  His son is there singing
and playing.  I thought it was a ‘hallelujah jamboree’ not a funeral
session.  That’s the way he looked at it too. (See?)  Like Luke Rader
dying, he said, “What’s going on here?  This is my procession.” 
He said, “You think it’s a funeral.  Pull up them blinds, and let
some sunlight in.  This is my coronation day.”  Men have not been
afraid to die, that loved the Lord, they went as martyrs.  But in this
day brother/sister, we’re not going to die.  The spirit of adoption no
longer saying,  “Don’t be afraid of death.”   

   	Bless God we're afraid we won’t die, maybe…ha, ha, …It’s the
fullness of the adoption.  (See?)  No, you don’t worry.  God removed
it.  But now, thank God, the sting of death itself, which is of sin, is
removed.  You’re coming into such vital union, and wonders just as
Jesus Christ, it's just like Eve back there in the Garden.  (See?)  What
a wonderful day in which we live.  We don’t have that old spirit of
fear.  (See?)  The world’s scared to die, many of them fearful.  The
child of God happy to die.  But now brother/sister, there’s a march in
the camp.  There’s a …the move is on for the Bride. (See?)  Now,
that’s the day in which you live. (Okay)

32.  We go a little further here.  Let’s check out another Scripture
concerning this business of fear.  Back here, just to give us an idea. 
The Book of Romans  chapter 8, again, verse 21. It says, 

		(21)	Because …(creation) itself (should) be delivered from the
bondage 					(that’s the slavery) of corruption into the glorious
liberty of the 						children of God. (See?)  

	Now, notice this here, this same spirit destroys all fear of death. 
Bringing a change in us, except, for the better.  (See, sure) What’s
going on in the world?  Death.  And what’s happening?  Every age with
death, getting worse, worse, worse, worse, worse. (See?)  But, not so
with us.  Let every age get worse.  Let the earth decay.  Let troubles
ascend upon it.  It says, when this generation sees all these things
come to pass, rejoice.  Why?  In the midst of the binding of the tares. 
In the midst of the complete pollution, through sin and degradation,
there is a Bride that knows as far as she’s concerned, is getting
better, and better, and better.  Because, we’re nearing the Headstone.

33.	Like that old song says, “I’m nearing the shore.”  Sure,
they’re nearing the shore in America, full of pollution and garbage. 
How many read the story when the raw went across from …from the east
to over here in South America?  What did they say they found?  They
found, every place in the ocean, samples of garbage.  Every step we
take, we find more and more precious stones, because, we are nearing
that shore. ( See?)  We don’t have that spirit on.  (See?) Things are
terrible, there’s a mixed multitude.  Oh, horrors, horrors, horrors. 
Aw…phooey… goodie, goodie, goodie.  Bro. Branham said, “Except for
the mixed multitude, he would have known he had the wrong ministry.”  

	You just get worried about one thing.  Stick to that Word. ( See?) 
What do you care about a mixed multitude?  Let them mix, glory to God,
we’re the un-mixers. Sure.  (See?)  Now, notice also, the redeemed
going on. (See?)  It says in here, all creation groaning.  Sure, it is. 
Well, they’re all waiting for our day. (See?)  Sure, they’ll be
waiting for this day, and it’s right here at hand.  My how the world
is so full of all kinds of ideas. You know that trans migration of
souls, and all these doctrines of reincarnation and all, brother/sister.
 What does it say here?  It says, "Creation is waiting for the glory and
the liberty of the glory of the children of God."  We’re going right
back in midst of all the ‘isms’, and all the cults, and all the
diabolical things of this earth.  We’re going right back to the glory
of being a son of Almighty God, as shown in the world.  

34.	That’s the spirit we’ve got.  See, we're so scared, “Well,
this might happen. That might happen.”  Forget it, you don’t have
that spirit anymore, little children.  You don’t, that’s what
we’re …Paul as Bro. Branham taught, Paul's doing the same thing. 
Showing you the dark side, and comparing it.  This is what we’ve got. 
This is what you had.  Sure, if you weren’t in this Message.  Sure, if
you didn’t have the Spirit of Christ and revelation.  Sure, you can
well afford to groan and growl within and say, “Things are getting
worse.”  And this and that and the other thing.  But now, your
redemption draweth nigh.  Why, He said he came down with that Book of
Redemption, to claim His purchased possession.  To bring us into our
inheritance, that Adam lost.  Praise God. Amen.  Hallelujah!

	I don’t know what I’m saying, but it sure sounds good.  Because, a
prophet said it.  I tell you, when it rings a bell, I just let her fly. 
I’ll never forget the time he preached that day he said, “The
evidence of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, was receiving the revealed
Word of the hour.”   Hallelujah, that’s all it is.  Amen!  Because,
I don’t shout out much.  I felt so good.  After a week down the road,
Suddenly said, “What Scripture did you give?”  He didn’t give any.
 So I thought, “Boy, that’s right.  But, where is it?”  Just then
like a voice said, (you know how Bro. Branham used his vernacular, the
Holy Ghost uses vernacular), he doesn’t have to read so beautifully
'pulpit' instead or 'pull-put' you know. Well, I'd sooner have a
'pull-put' if I got the glory of God, then a 'pulpit' without it. 
Because the 'pulpit' may well go to the pit.  But the 'pull-put' might
putt and get it right in with God.  Sure.  

35.	So, the Holy Spirit just like said unto me, “What are you talking
about?”  Just like…you act like a nut.  Sarcastic, the Bible is full
of it.  So, I read John 14: and it was full of it.  And I read 16: it
was full of it.  Then I read 1 Corinthians 2: it was full of it.  Sure,
just believe It.  If it just strikes your soul, bless God, that’s it. 
Sure.  You don’t have to understand it all.  You understand a whole
lot of it.  You should understand most of it.  (See?)  Now listen,
creation's groaning, and it’s going down.  And they’re screaming,
saying, “O my, my, the population gets thicker, we’ll stand on each
other’s shoulders.” Pretty soon we’ll meet them out in the air,
with all these schemes.  But bless God, the spirit we’ve got, it’s
not looking that way, it’s looking for incorruptibility.  

	We’re going to put on a robe bless God, and immortality.  We don’t
care what we’re breathing, we’ll be breathing the heavenly air. 
Sure.  

36.  Let’s go a little further.  Let’s go to Galatians chapter 4,
and see where we’re at today.  Hope you’re getting this picture
here, now from the negative, because I felt I should present it that
way.  Because Paul did.  I feel that I’m on good ground if I’ve got
a couple of boys like Paul and Bro. Branham around me.  Man, I’m in
very good company.  Of course, I`ve always had the best company.  Ha
ha…haven’t been too good company myself, but I’ve always had the
best.  I sure like that, bless God.  All right, chapter 4:19.

		(19)	My little children, of whom I travail in (pain) again until
Christ be 						formed in you,

		(20)	I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for
I 						stand in doubt of you.

	Now, why does he stand in doubt?  Let’s find out.  

		(21)	Tell me, (you) that desire to be under the law, do (you) not hear
the 					law?

		(22)	 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a
bondmaid, 					the other by a freewoman.

		(23)     But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh;
(and) 						he of the freewoman was (born) by promise.  

 	Now, listen here, right by Abraham there is two kinds of people.  One
by the spirit, and one by flesh.  And they both claim the promise.  Oh
yes they do.  Now, let’s find out.  

		(24)	Which things are an allegory…

	In other words, we’re going to get a spiritual picture from a
physical thing.  And since it has to do with the church, it’s got to
do with the Bride, to help her understand the things of God.  Now;

		(24)	…(which) are … two covenants…

	Yes sir, God’s got two covenants, right there…They’re both
looking to the Word of God.  I’ll take your to Word.  Make a covenant.
Now;

		(24)	…one from…mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is 	
				Agar.

	Now, that word ‘bondage;’ slavery.  Now here we are right back to
soul spirit. He says, "You don't have that same spirit.  You’re away
from Hagar.  You’re away from bondage, you’re away from Mount
Sinai."  

		(25) 	For this (Hagar) is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to
Jerusalem 					which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

37.	Now, what’s she in bondage to?  The church is in bondage to the
corrupted Word of Almighty God, and trying to live by dead manna.  Now,
where’s your Lutherans?  Now, where’s your Wesleyans?  Now,
where’s your Pentecost?  And now, where are you, my beloved children
of the Lord Jesus Christ, my brothers/sisters?  Where do you stand
tonight?  What are you hanging on to?  (See?)  What are you hanging on
to? 

		(26)	But Jerusalem which is above is free… 

	She doesn’t have those creeds and dogmas, that bondage to an
organization.  The old creeds, bless God, we say, or lose your papers. 
Well, let’s build a bonfire right now, hallelujah. (See?)

		

		(26)	… which is the mother of us all.

	Cross that out of your Bibles.  That’s one of the worse translations
I’ve seen in my life.  It is not ‘which is the mother of us all’,
Paul says, “New Jerusalem is our mother”.   Not ‘of us all.’ 
We’re not all going to heaven, just because we talk about Jesus. 
Don’t think for one minute, we are.  You’re only going to heaven, if
you’ve been born of the Spirit of Almighty God.  Now listen;

		(27)	For it is written, Rejoice, … barren that bearest not; break
forth and 					cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many
more children 					than she which hath an husband. 

38.	Who had the husband? Sarah.  Who was desolate?  Hagar.  Who had the
kids?  Hagar. (See?)  Who had the bunch of them?  The world church
system.  The Bride has always been tiny. Why?  Because remember, she
gets her Word from heaven, which is Christ.  And the Bible says, “Yet
one time more I speak from heaven.”  And not only earth is going to
shudder, but even heaven.  They are all going to shudder.  And
everything which can be removed, will be removed.  There’s only one
thing that can’t move, and that’s the Word of God.  And if you’re
a part of that Word of God, you won’t move.  

	Now, what covenant are you under tonight?  Are you under the covenant
of a vindicated prophet of God, with ‘Thus Saith the Lord’?  Or do
you still have got some of your own ideas?  You want to prove yourselves
right.  (See?)  We’ve got to hack at this thing, and hack it out,
because Bro. Branham said, “This was the whole thing.” And it’s
going to come so simple, it’s going to go right over their heads. 
Look for this, look for that.  Now, I’m not knowing what I’m looking
for.  Down the road, there’s something great coming.  I haven’t got
the least idea how God is going to produce that Word, but I know one
thing.  The simple thing, the Word of the hour, is what we live by right
now.

39.  Yes, siree.  And you don’t get it all mixed up with carnality
either. (See?)  Now, It says here, 

		(28)	Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

	What is the promise?  "Behold, I send you Elijah, the prophet in the
last day, to restore."  Who are you a child of?  Creeds and dogmas or
the Word of Almighty God?  (See?)  What are you born of?  Born of
corruptible seed, or incorruptible?  You know, I like that in Peter.  He
sure brought that out strong.  He said, “Being born again not of that
corruptible sperm.” [1 Pet1:23] (See?)  That word 'germ', or word
'corruptible sperm', you can’t be born of that.  But by the Word of
God, which cannot be corrupted. (See?)  You can to be born again, either
way.  Sure, you can be born of a creed and dogma.  And you can seem to
produce absolutely everything that the other fellow produces, is real.  

	You give Isaac a test, and you give Ishmael a test.  Now, I’ll
guarantee one thing, they’ll prove out identical.  Except, one was
born of promise, the other wasn’t.  (See?)  Now what’s the
Bible…Paul said here, “You don’t belong to that old thing, you
were under that.” [Jn 15:19] You once were Lutherans, Baptists,
Presbyterians, Oneness, Twoness, Threeness and so on, but you aren’t
anymore.  Because why?  You’ve identified yourself with the promise of
the hour.  That’s exactly true.  Because Isaac was the promised child
of the hour.  Only it’s the exact hour for that boy can be conceived,
and the exact hour that boy could be brought forth.  But this other kid
could come forth anytime his mother had her proper period, and Abraham
was able to have intercourse with her.  

40.	And you can bring forth any number, they’ll come forth like rats
in a multitude.  Don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, but listen
brother/sister, that’s what the Bible teaches.  There are multitudes. 
There are a whole lot fewer that are in the Bride, then those that are
out there.  Who do you want to identify with?  I said on more than one
occasion, if Bro. Branham had turned the world upside down for God, and
had a falling, I'd say, “Good bye Bro. Bill, it was nice knowing you. 
Good-bye.”  Why?  Because the crowd was against the Word of God. 
Crowd’s against the Word of God.  You say, “My, a sure bunch
left.”  Yeah, but he said, “I shook them off.”  So did Moses. 
Two, out of two million over twenty, got in.  The rest died as
carcasses.  

	Not trying to hurt anybody’s feelings.  But, just bringing out the
truth here.  That’s what it says here, this was an allegory, this is a
spiritual understanding of a physical picture, of two boys that were
born to one person.  And one was a promise, one had the right parents,
the other was hybridized.  (See?)  See, you can’t hold on to anything
of the past.  What about Leo’s dream, that Bro. Branham told you?  In
that sermon 'Knoweth it Not', [65-08-15] what was it? It was a white
stallion and a black mare.  And the black mare was so nervous it could
not breed…the white stallion could not breed to the black mare.  Why? 
Showing you that this Message, cannot possibly mix with anything else.  

41.	If you’re a ‘come outer’ you’re a ‘joiner.’  (See?) 
When you are a Rebekah, you’ll not only leave your father and mother,
you’ll marry Isaac. Amen!  That was a good one. Yes sir. You don’t
fool around with somebody else.  (See?)  Paul said, “I espouse you to
Jesus Christ, as a chaste virgin.” [2 Cor 11:2] On the grounds that
you don’t have anybody else, but the one I’ve espoused you to,
Christ the Word.  Oh, you say, “But hallelujah, this Christ is the
Word.”  Oh no, Paul said, “That is not Christ the Word, this is
Christ the Word.”  He said, “You’re going to preach another Jesus,
and you’ll take Him.”  And what did they say? Paul said, “He’s
Jehovah God, the Word become flesh just like John did.”  And they
said, “No, hallelujah, He’s the second person of the Godhead,”
Now, you say, “That’s wonderful, hallelujah.” 

	Oh no, it ain’t ‘wonderful hallelujah, hallelujah.’  It’s
death.  Because you took another one.  (See?)  Now, where do we stand? 
We don’t have that spirit, bless God. The creeds and dogmas going back
to death.  We don’t care of anything that counteracts, what the
apostle Paul said.  Anything that counteracts this last day Message, we
say, “Out with it”.  Forget it.  (See?)  Sure, stand the way that
you believe.  You say, “Well what if I don’t believe just the way
the other fellow?”  Well, stand with what you believe anyway.  But
don’t mix it with anything.  Don’t try to interpret by your
background.  (See?)  Bro. Branham spoke in a vernacular that bless God,
was so foreign to the Fundamentalists, they used their own ideas and
then went into bondage for it.  (See?)

42.	Now, let’s also take a look at 2 Corinthians chapter 6, here, and
see what we’re into. (See?)  See, brother/sister, what we’re talking
about.  We’re manifested as sons of God, and we’ve got that Spirit,
we’re not going to have any of that worldly spirit on us that goes to
creeds and dogmas.  And joins organization, and thinks this is fine, and
that’s fine.  It won’t work. ( See?)  You don’t have that kind of
spirit. And so, if you’ve got something that’s leaning that way, you
better examine yourself.  And say, ‘Well, Bro. Vayle, I don’t have
the Holy Ghost.”  I think that’s a very good sign.  (See?)  Not
trying to hurt anybody.  But look, you’ve got to face evidence as
evidence.  See, if the evidence of the Holy Ghost is taking the Word for
the hour, and we want to mess this thing up.  Then there’s something
wrong somewhere.  What is it?  Time to repent.  (See?)  

	Time to get baptized in water, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. 
Have hands laid on us.  (See?)  Absolutely, this is not trying to be
funny tonight.  There’s no place for humor in the pulpit, when
there’s a serious subject as this.  

43.	2 Corinthians 6: 14-15.

		(14)	Be  not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what
fellowship 					hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what
communion hath 					light with darkness?

		(15) 	And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he
that 					believeth with an infidel? (See?)  

	Now look:  (Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers."  (See?)
Now, what is that yoking?  That yoking is a sign of bondage which is a
sign of slavery. (See?)  Don’t get teamed up with anything, just
saying the same thing over again. Don’t get teamed up with anything
that’s outside of this Word.  Why?  Because brother/sister listen, I
read to you what the prophet of God said.  Listen, a prophet of God to
this age said, “It’s uniting time, where the Bride is uniting with
the Word.  Then don’t try to unite with anything else.”  Don’t do
it.  Stay with that Word. (See?) Now, he says, “It’s bondage to do
so.”  (See?)  You get under slavery.  Now, this Spirit…this Spirit
will cut you away from it.  Will lead you away from it.  Will lead you
out alone in the desert with God, in order to get you ready to go in.
(See?)  

	That’s that Spirit.  We can talk about all the great things coming
down the road, but this is part of that same Spirit.  (See?)  You
couldn’t get Paul back amongst the Judeizers.  You couldn’t do it. 
Now, let’s go to Galatians 5: 

		(1)	…entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

	See, just what I said. Don’t you put on that slavery again. In other
words, don’t you get hooked up with slavery.  (See?)  Now, that’s
it.  How many people went back, in this Message  when Bro. Branham died,
they went back?  My how they loved the manifestations and the things of
God.  Then when he said, “I believe in one God.” They said,
“Good-bye.” Then you know, when he began to preach ‘eternal
security’, and sovereignty, the Oneness said, “Good-bye.”  And
pretty soon he felt so bad, God gave him a vision.  In this vision, he
saw this great big multitude, looked like the very same thing he saw in
Mexico.  And there, a storm came up.  And there he saw the preacher
dismiss the crowd. They said, “Okay Bro. Branham, we passed the
plate.”  Since when, did passing the plate become more important than
holding an altar call?  

44.		He said, “The people are dismissed.” He said, “That’s okay,
Bro. Branham.”

	He said, “Who told them to go?” Oh, they told him to go. And when
he got broken down, the angel of God appeared and said, “What are you
crying about?  If our Lord is only left with twelve and they left Him,
what are you crying about?”  Now, who got rid of the people?  The
preachers got rid of the people.  (See?)  Now, he said;

		(1)	Stand fast …in liberty (again) wherewith Christ hath made us
free, 						and be not entangled again with (that) yoke of bondage.	

	Don’t be brought back into slavery, but stay with this Word.  Because
that’s what Paul said was going to take the Bride to her death.  Now
listen, I know we read the Book of Revelation, “Thou hast lost thy
first love.”  And over here, “Thou hast done so and so.”  And over
here, we get to thinking, “Oh my, my, my, my, is this really the
people, to believe this Word?”  This is what Paul said.  Then, stick
with it.  That’s what William Branham said.  That’s what’s being
restored.  Everything else we’ve had, but not a restoration.  (See?) 
Now, Paul said, “Don’t go back.”  Listen: 

		(2)	Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if  (you)be circumcised, Christ
shall 					profit you nothing.    

45.	What is the circumcision?  That’s the cutting off.  Circumcise the
heart.  Circumcise the lips.  Circumcise the mind.  Cut it off.  Cut it
off.  That’s great.   It’s great to be cut off.  Said, “Now
listen, if you get circumcised.”  In other words, if you are going
back, (you know) going on back to where you fell.  You say, “Well, I
was justified here, I was sanctified here, but didn’t go on to the
Holy Ghost.”  You say, “I’ve talked in tongues, and turned down
that Message, you're just talking about taste of circumcision.  That’s
all.” ( See?) You’re going right back to it.  You say, “Well,
glory to God, I don`t want to.”  Don’t tell me, oh bless God, I
wasn’t saved.  Because I want to tell you, I was a terrible drunkard,
and you know I was a terrible man, and you know what?  God changed me.  

	Why I can show you a lot of terrible men that got changed without God. 
Now, where’s your testimony there?  (See?)  He said, “Don’t go
back to that.” Now, he said;

		(2)	… Christ… (profits) you nothing. (See?)

  	Do you follow the point?  You say, “Bro. Vayle, I know I had an
experience.  I know I love the Lord.  I know positively that God filled
me.”  And then claim there’s two Gods?  And turn down an end-time
prophet vindicated?  Christ profits you nothing. He didn’t profit you
anything.  You can’t…listen brother/sister, we’re at the deadline
tonight.  We’re at a deadline. This is what Bro. Branham tried to
teach us.  Christ will not be joined to a harlot.  Won’t do it.  And
remember, it’s in the mind where you fornicate. (See?) Sure, I know,
you say, "It’s Christian Science." No, it’s the Word of the living
God.  It’s the living Word, of the living God.  

46.	"For I testify, that every man that is circumcised." He said, "It's
i better to do the whole law."  (See?)  Now listen, "Christ is become of
no effect unto you, whosoever you are, that are justified by the law,
you are fallen from grace."  Why?  Because now we have the spirit of
liberty which does what?  Which brings us the Word of Almighty God.  And
go on back to anything that held bondage over us at that time, that
says, “Christ is of no effect.”  You go on back to your Lutherans. 
Go in back to your Presbyterians.  Try to mix it up.  It isn’t going
to work. Now listen, we through the spirit wait for the hope of
righteousness by faith.  Now, notice right here, the Bible says, we’re
already righteous through the Lord Jesus Christ.  

	And yet, it says we’re waiting for it.  In other words, the full
manifestation is not there.  And so, the same thing in our day.  We’ve
already got the Holy Ghost.  We’ve got the spirit of adoption.  And
now brother/sister, we’re going on, on, on.  Until one day that thing
absolutely manifests that we are the very thing we stood for, by the
vindicated Word of the prophet of God.  That’s right.  It’s coming. 
Because he said, “Lie in the Presence of the Son.” (See?) You put
your faith in this Word, brother/sister.  There’s nothing greater than
the Word.  Because we know it’s the real Word of God, just like Paul
had.  

47.	Now, he said here, “Don’t be snared.” The word ‘entangled’
means snared.   Did you ever snare a gopher?  Ever snare a fish?  You
just wait until he’s stupid enough to stick his head in.  That’s
what a snare is.  Or, he goes down a certain path, and you can just
figure his path out.   You got him.  Or, something covered up.  (See?) 
Don’t be snared.  

	In other words, no matter how subtle it is, you stick with this Word. 
(See?) No matter how hard to understand, how hard to kick your heart,
stick with that Word.  (See?)  Remember, circumcision was once, I said,
circumcision once, was the true sign of the covenant. It was the
evidence, but now it is death. Luther was right once, it’s death. 
Wesley was right once, it’s death.  Pentecost was right once, it’s
death. There’s only one place there’s life.  Do you believe Bro.
Branham was that prophet?  All right then, get ready.  He said,
“Nothing outside of this Message, shall come to life.”  Do you
believe that?  Do you really believe it?  I hope you do,  because it
scares the living daylights out of me.  That means, if I’m not part of
this Message, and one with it, I don’t have any life.  And Paul said,
“If you go back to circumcision, you go on back to what has become a
snare.” I asked you a question, has Lutheranism become a snare?  Has
Catholicism become a snare?  Has Wesley become a snare?  Has
Pentecostalism?  Oh, you know it is.  Because right today, you’ve got
people speaking in tongues, and denominations that have no more idea of
the Word of Almighty God, than I would know anything about that. (See?) 


48. Now, he says here, “Through the Spirit,” he said, “we’re
waiting, we’ve already got it in embryo.”  (See?)  “But one day,
it’s going to show forth.”  What is that day?  We’re in the day,
right now.  (See?)  But listen, Paul warned them.  Sure, he did.  But
what happened?  They did not heed, and in 2 Corinthians 11:2-4 they went
to their death.  

	What does it say in Revelation chapter 2?  Let’s take a look at It.

		(3)	And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast 			
		laboured, and hast not fainted.

		(4)       Nevertheless I have … against thee, because thou hast left
thy 						first love.

	She was a fallen woman.  She’s committing adultery.  Now, how do you
commit adultery?  In the mind.  She already turned aside from the Word
of God.  Oh, people say, “Bro. Vayle, she left her first love, she
doesn’t have love, so, she doesn’t have it.”  (See?)  You got
fooled right there.  You got fooled right there.  Paul said, “It was
leaving the Word.” She left the Word.  She no longer loved that Word,
then how could she love Christ?  It’s the love of that Word brother/
sister.  And many times, because you love that Word like Christ,
you’ll be misunderstood.  What do you think if Jesus, taking those
thongs and beating those people up?   Because, they were doing the job
that the Book of Deuteronomy, the Moses law that God gave, told them to
do.  

49.	And now, suddenly says, “No longer do it.”  And I’ll beat you
out of the Temple, because you are doing it. There’s your dead manna. 
There’s your old circumcision.  There’s where once your evidence. 
There's are the ones that once kept the Word of the hour,
brother/sister, what we’re living for.  Do you follow it?  Absolutely,
this is what the prophet taught.  The Word of the hour, and the church
growing right up into it.  Until she stands absolutely four-square with
the reality. And then Christ can come down and say, “This is My
Bride.”  (See?)  My we’re waiting for that day.  They fell to their
death. The First Church Age went down to death, and it started death in
the whole church.  And that death spread to the Seven Church branches. 

	Every branch got it.  From here, the poison spreads rapidly, until the
Church fell like a seed to the ground and died, just like Christ.  The
Dark Ages almost wiped her out.  But God said, “I will restore.” 
(See?)  Poison back to leaving the Word.  Now, we’re coming back. 
What’s He going to restore the Word for?  He is going to restore the
Word to the Bride, that she might be a full Word Bride.  And Christ is
that full Word.  (See?)  

50.  Now notice, we’re back to where we belong.  Just outside the gate
(as it were), of the Millennium.  Just outside the absolute fullness of
the very end.  Now listen, let’s look at the spirit of bondage.  Paul
wanted that spirit cast out.  Now watch.  

	Let’s ask ourselves a question.  Did Israel enter into Canaan land
which in itself is a minor type of Millennium?  Because we’re dealing
with it in this sense.  (See?)  Christ the Word of God said they
couldn’t enter in because of unbelief.  Now, we’re going to use it
in that sense.  That the people are going to miss the Millennium today,
because, they will not take the Word of God in faith, that the
vindicated prophet brought.  Now, here’s the question I want to pose
to you.  Did Israel leave Egypt as slaves, or, as free people?  They
left as free people.  They were given because of the ability of Moses,
what he brought to them, they were given as it were, a carte blanche to
enter into the Millennium.  

	Now, I ask you a question:  Can you, that are looking for the
Millennium, enter in while you are joined to any slave system?  How can
you enter in, if you have any fear of what used to hang over you, as
pertaining to be, or asserting to be, the Word of God?  (See?)  How can
you enter in?   God doesn’t have slaves come into His kingdom. 
You’ve got to be absolutely free of it.  And that’s the thing
we’re talking about tonight.  This Spirit of God in the believer, that
doesn’t have one bit of bondage in it.  But it’s coming right into
the liberty of the glory of the saints, to the very Presence of God,
where mortal men dying and decaying, will walk right into the Tree of
Life and partake, and walk right into eternal life.  (See?) And it
can’t come, as long as there are spirits.  Just before Bro. Branham
died, as I mentioned to you folk here before.  He called me in, Bro.
Billy called and said, “Bro. Vayle, Bro. Branham wants to see you.” 


	I said, “Billy, I don’t need to see him, I’ve seen him all this
week. Maybe somebody else needs the time.”

	Well he said, “No, daddy wants to see you.” 

51.	I said, “If he wants to see me, that’s better than me wanting to
see him, I’ll come and take all day.”

	  

	Said, “I like that”. 

	 We got there, we’re talking, we discussed a few things.  And I
waited for him to tell me, which  I knew something had happened.  I
could tell by his face, as I knew he had received that revelation in
November when …the vision of his wife came, and he saw himself as
young people again.  You know the story.  When he turned the storm back
and received the revelation of his justified position with Christ.  No
guilt complex in his life anymore.  

	So, he said, “You know Bro. Vayle,” says, “The first time since I
was a child,” he said, “I don’t have any fear in my life.”  

	Perfect love casting out fear.  (See?)  There…in the Bride, is what
we’re looking for, you see.  The Spirit of God, is going to bring in
this revelation, of her position in Christ.   And brother/ sister, Bro.
Branham said, “When the Bride knows her position, she’s gone.” 
(See?) This is what we’re looking for, and this is part of that very
thing that brother/sister, we have right now.  (See?)  The potential of
it.  But  it won’t be a potential any longer, it's this generation.
(See?)  We’ve got to identify with It.  I am it, through the grace of
the Lord Jesus Christ.  Why?  Because slaves can’t enter in.  

52.	Israel never left there as a slave nation.  They went out with a
high hand.  God having made His arm bare.  Show me an age where the arm
of God was made more bare than this age.  In other words, Christ
revealed.  (See?)  Coming right into that day of leading.  Now notice
further, what is this doing now?  It is pulling the people out of
slavery of organization, creed, and dogma.  It’s restoring her right
back, “Come out of her my people, that you be not partakers of her
sins.” [Rev 18:4]   (See?)  God going to …make her sins double. 
What is that?  Take away the Word, take away the name out of the Book of
Life.  Add Word, going to get the plagues.  Come out of her.  (See?) 
This Message is pulling out the people of God.  

	Pulling her out, positioning her, as God told Joshua, to position the
people. Isn’t it funny, how that when Bro. Branham came on the scene,
you know, a good football team has got more brains than the so-called
theologians.  These miserable preachers.  That’s right.  Bro. Branham
said, “All you’ve got to do to get in trouble, is to get surrounded
by a bunch of preachers.”  I guess that’s very true, I’m not going
to buck it, just because not going to beat you up. I’m not going to
say one thing that he meant me, he could have well, meant me.  Just get
surrounded.  But you know, a good ball team has got more brains.  What
happened when a good ball player gets a ball?  Everybody runs
interference for the guy carrying the ball, to get the guy across the
line.  

53.	What happened when Bro. Branham came?  They grabbed the ball and
started to run.  They never listened to the quarterback calling the
plays, or anything else.  They didn’t listen to the captain, they
didn’t listen to the coach.  They didn’t care anything.  They said,
“Hallelujah, Bible days are here again.” Not, realizing to say,
‘Bible days are here again’ means, that the very ministry of Jesus
Christ, was now on earth.  They cut their own throats, by their own
word.  And they said, “He’s just a man.  Oh, he’s fine when he’s
in a trance, and can tell you if you’ve got a tummy or a toothache. 
But oh what a fool, when he handles that Word.”   Hogwash.  

	You know something?  I thought Bro. Branham’s ministry was real nice.
 I enjoyed it.  But nothing like that Word.  I guess we’re just a
bunch of duds, according to those guys.  (See?)  Position, (see?)
Joshua, Moses said, positioned those people.   Now, that Bro.
Branham’s gone, what’s going to happen? The Holy Ghost is now taking
that very Word, and positioning the people.  For the first time in
church order, they’re finding out who had it and who didn’t.  Now,
maybe some of them are going to be content to realize that Romans the
12th chapter, is just as much the gospel as 1 Corinthians 12:  Where
other gifts are mentioned beside tongues, interpretations and so on,
where It says, one of the gifts in the church is showing mercy with
cheerfulness.  Oh, that’s nice.  I’m showing mercy… …?...  

54.	How about being cheerful?  Another ministry, is giving.  But of
course, not letting know who you’re giving it to. (See?)  Ministry.
God positioning the people, in order to receive the inheritance.  As
Bro. Branham said, “Here was dad growing beautiful wheat.”  Now, he
said, “Benjamin doesn’t come along and say, “The way you grow
wheat’s good, I’ll grow some too.  Because, Joshua said, “You
better grow oats.” (See?) Isn’t that true, little Amy came along and
all of them wanted to be Amy’s.  (See?)  Allan came along and they all
wanted to be Allan's.  I don’t think it would be very wise for anyone
to try to be William Branham.  

	But, a lot of them sure want to take his place.  Brother/sister,
that’s not God.  Because nobody took the place of Moses.  They
couldn’t do it, because Moses is Moses.  How are you going to take the
place of William Branham?  He’s William Branham, and there’s a
resurrection coming by the way.  So, you see if I’ve got a foot, to
take the place of a foot, the one with the foot’s out.  (Right?) 
Then, don’t try to be somebody you’re not. (See?)  We’re away from
all that foolishness, let the Holy Spirit give a man a ministry.  You
know one of the saddest things I learned in all my life?  I'm going to
tell you,  the saddest experience in this world, is when I put other men
forward, should have let God put them forward.  

55.	I can name you cases right now.  One man I did a lot for, like some
of the people around here, they’re not in this area, further down, or
rather, up north from here.  Helped that man all I could.  And I never
had a man come back so flat, so rotten, so vile, so vulgar, so nothing. 
For all the goodness done him.  The Bible says, “A man’s gifts shall
make him room for him.” [Prov 18:16]  Any of you preachers around here
have got preacher’s itch.  I'll just say one thing you better have a
gift to preach.  It’ll make room for you.  And if your gift’s not
making room, then just shut up, and sit down.  I should apologize for
that, that’s kind of rough.  I don’t mean to be rough, and hurt
anybody’s feelings.  I’ll apologize for the way I said it.  Let me
put it another way.  You better examine your heart again, to see if you
have got a gift.  Because the Bible says, “A man’s gift will make
room for him.” [Prov 18:16]    And that’s the Word of Almighty God.

	  And every time I ever tried to make gift room for anybody else, it
backfired, and I’ll be responsible to God for it.  There’s no
preacher can make you, there’s no money can make you, nothing can make
you.  Don’t try to be what you’re not. (See?) And that goes for a
lot of women too.  A lot of women, want to be what they are not.  As
Bro. Branham said, “Forget about trying to be pretty.”  As I said,
“Many times you wouldn’t win a beauty contest anyway” Let’s face
it,  you gals all won beauty contests, we’d all divorce you anyway,
because you’d all end up in adultery.  Because a pretty girl is as
flighty as ...what would you call it?  A butterfly sitting on a hot pin.
 

56.	Sure, the good woman has got the kind sweet eyes like that old
mellow calf down there.  Have you ever seen those cows with the wild
eyes?  They’ll do it every time.  They’ll bolt, and drag you across
the country lickity spring.  Sure, don’t try to be what you’re not. 
In this Message, people will not try to be what they’re not. (See?) 
But it will only manifest at the end time anyway, brother/sister. (Sure)
Yes, sir.  You can just...they’ll be there when the camouflage comes
off.  There’s just be, as Bro. Branham told us, “If you’re a
Benjamin growing wheat there, don’t try to grow oats.”  (See?) Now,
this is exactly the Word of God coming to us.  That’s what the prophet
taught us.  

	He said, “Ephesians parallels Joshua.”  And Ephesians is plumb full
of manifested sons.  We’re coming right up to the fullness.  We’ve
got to go the way the Lord put us.  Be that good person.  Don’t try to
be what you’re not.  And don’t try to interfere, don’t try to take
the other fellow’s place.  Work right along, real sweet.  Now, also
notice now, leaving outside for the promised land, what got us out of
slavery? It was the Deliverer.  What took us out of the marketplace?  It
was the price that God paid.  What was it?  It was a Kinsman. 
Brother/sister listen, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and
forever, and we’ve got to have this Redeemer get us out of this mess,
and into the promised land.  

57.	What came from Revelation 10:1?  The Pillar of Fire, the same
Redeemer. (See?) Now, if that Pillar of Fire came down, and that
Redeemer is going to get us out of this bondage, and remember,
redemption is for the body also, as we showed this morning in Hebrew
11:35.  Then listen, the Pillar of Fire has already indicated,
scientifically shown, God fully identified, that this is He, the same
yesterday, today and forever, ready to lead us right in.  What are we
looking for?  

What are you looking for?  You know, I just couldn’t stand…on edge,
looking for what isn’t coming.  He came.  He appeared in a mystery. 
Yes sir.  What’s He doing?  He’s restoring us back.  Once more…but
listen…once more, the Spirit of adoption, is moving in the Church.  

	Just like Bro. Branham talked about that Word being restored back. 
See?  Once more, that same Spirit, is in the Church, and it is moving
right into the end-time, where God’s people will be one with that
Word.  The Spirit of God did not bring Luther in apart from the
revelation of the Word.  The Spirit of God outside of Luther brought
into the Word, the Spirit inside revealed the Word.  What about Wesley? 
The Spirit of God brought him to the Word, the Spirit of God in Wesley
revealed the Word.  What about us?  The Spirit of God brings us to the
Word, now the Spirit of God in us, reveals the Word.  So, what’s the
end-time revelation?  Manifesting.  (See?)  Third pull in the Bride. 
The Bride becoming Word.  Now listen, none of these things brother/
sister, can go without a manifestation.  Because, Bro. Branham said,
“God’s revelation comes to pass in a manifestation.”  See? 
What’s it going to be?  He said, “Wait for it, and find out.”

58.	Here comes John the Baptist.  Who are you?  I’ll tell you who I
am.  He says, “I’m, Isaiah 40:  I’m Malachi 3:1, I’m also a part
of Malachi 4:5-6.”  Especially, that part of Malachi (4:5-) 6 there. 
He turned the heart of the children…the fathers to children. (See?)
That’s what he was.  See?  Now, we’re coming to that very age.  The
Word of God, in that Bride.  Now, then the Spirit at this point
remember, coming up is bringing us back to the full revealed Word of
God.  The life has been coming up in the plant.  See?  Potentially, all
this time, you’ve been growing up into it.  Now see?  There you were,
a little stalk.  That was the Holy Ghost, that was the life.  But,
that’s what is was for that day.  

	Now there comes the stalk.  That’s fine, that’s still wheat. 
That’s still the Holy Ghost.  That’s what it was for the day. 
Justification, sanctification, now it’s into that shuck period.  See? 
Way up there.  Comes out now to restored gifts.  That’s the Holy Ghost
of that day.  But, what’s it today?  Wheat. There you are.  What’s
He going to do?  He’s going to bring the Church right back to what it
was. Bring Eve right back to Eden.  The sting of death is going to go. 
We’re in it.  See?  Don’t look for something down the road. 
That’s what’s wrong with people.  You’ve got it.  How could a
prophet administer grace, and then the thing fall flat?   Grace is a
gift, of free unmerited favor.  You say, “Well, I’m giving you a
gift for your wedding.”  The gift never came, then you didn’t get a
gift.  

59.	Peter said, “Prophets administered the grace, which would be
revealed in the saints.” (1 Peter 1:10-12 paraphrased) What did Bro.
Branham come to do?  He came to bring us the restored Word.  What would
the restored Word do?  It would take us right back to Eden.  See? 
United with that Word, right behind it.  See?  Now then, let that Word
in the Bride begin to produce.  What’ll it produce? You don’t know,
and I don’t.  But, it’ll produce all right.  See?  Now, this is the
first fruits season.  There must be many more like Him.  The first
fruits mean the second…one, two three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, ten.  You name it.  Thirty, forty, sixty, a hundred.    Coming up
to the end-time.  First fruit means ‘much.’  More just like it.  All
right, there’s more just like it, what about it?  

	You’ve got a Bride with the Word in her, and she will only say what
God said because, she’s got the Word and knows what to do with It. 
(See?) Now listen, it’s going to be absolute wheat.  So, at the
end-time God is pouring Himself.  Now look it, if we’ve got to have
this as Bro. Branham said to bring up the dead.  Then, God is pouring
out the resurrection dynamism, it is going to bring forth this Word in
the Bride.  And bring forth the dead out of the graves.  Can’t do it
without the Spirit of the Resurrection.  What’s the Spirit of the
Resurrection?  The Holy Ghost.  What’s God doing?  Pouring the Spirit
on the wheat.  

60.	How’s He doing it?  Line upon line, here a little, there a little.
 Let’s rise.  Now I know, I’ve got to have a great big, all at one
time.  Brother/sister, you don’t get a ‘great big all at one
time.’  You plant the seed, and it grows, and it grows, and it grows. 
And you don’t know how it grows, because the Bible says so.  And then
one day, it brings forth wheat.  (See?)  You say. “Does that wheat
plant know that it’s growing?”  It only knows what stage it is in,
and that’s all.  That’s all.  But, one day, that wheat is going to
be manifested.  Yes sir.  Exactly like Him.  

	Now, here is where we’re at right now.  This as Bro. Branham said, is
the dispensation of adoption.  This is the time it’s got to come. 
This is the age, when the move is on for the Bride.  Right now, we’re
struggling in that seventh step that we talked about.  Right now, the
whole church is.  We saw an example of Reality.  And that Reality is
come in a Bride.  You say, “Shall we be Bro. Branham’s?”  No,
we’re not going to be that.  No, no, no.  No, you won’t be Bro.
Branham. 

	  He never came to give each one of us ministry like that.  He never
came to be a prophet, chose to be a prophet.  He came, to bring us the
Word.  (See?)  To bring us into the fullness of the last age, when
Christ is finally poured into that Church.  The last member in, and she
will be so close to Him, that that Headstone can come on down.  And no
other age was that possible.  We are there.  But brother/sister, we’re
waiting in the Son, for the dynamics to fall on the mechanics.  What’s
the mechanics?  The Word of God.  What’s the dynamics?  The Holy
Spirit.  Every inlet of the soul is going to be plugged up.  There
won’t be one of us, this time then when this hits, that’ll be
walking by reasoning.  Not one of us.  

61.	We’ll be just like Abraham, who considered not his own body now
dead, neither the deadness of Sarah’s womb. You won’t be saying,
“Oh, I have nothing, and she  got nothing.”  Ain’t nobody got
nothing.  You’ll be sitting and saying, “Hallelujah, I’m looking
to Jesus.”  They’ll say, “Well, what have you got?”  Hallelujah,
look at Jesus, who said I had anything?  Whatever I’ve got, He gave
me.  What did He give you?  He gave me the Word.  What are you waiting
for?  Waiting for the Spirit of God to mature, to bring it all up. 
(See?)  Five senses to the soul.  Five inlets. 

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