Adoption  (Part 2)

Bro. Lee Vayle - January 1, 1972

				"Why people don't know anything about Bro. Branham"

a)	It's good to be back here in the house of the Lord tonight to worship
Him, and to hear the Word of the Lord. Many people ponder why it is that
if Bro. Branham had this great ministry, as we mentioned last night how
great it was, how come more people don't know about it?

	Well, let me tell you why. The world had ample opportunity to know why,
or who Bro. Branham was. Remember that the organized churches turned him
down, they literally kicked him out. Then when the Pentecostal's took
him, because he believed in a doctrine which was different from theirs
they boycotted him.

	Now, you will recall that Bro. Branham had a vision. It was a composite
vision as far as I know, but it actually was; and he had first of all a
vision of going into a place like Mexico, and he saw little poor
children carting along a little wagon, homemade. And then he saw this
vast area where people had been gathered to hear the Word of the Lord,
but they had been dismissed by the preachers. And then when he... they
said, "Well, it's alright Bro. Branham we've taken up the offering."

	He said, "Since when did the offering come above the altar call?" He
said, "We're here to win souls."

	They said, "It's all right, it's all right, don't worry, we took the
offering, everything's fine and they're dismissed." And then the Angel
of God said when Bro. Branham complained when all the people were gone,
he said, "Was not our Lord left with only twelve?"

b)	In other words, what are you beefing about? If God Himself only had
twelve, you ought to be lucky to have one. Now, this is what happened,
the preachers boycotted William Branham. That's exactly why he did not
have any notoriety of any merit in the land. 

	Now, let me prove it to you. Right today there is no church that is not
affected by the Charismatic Movement. Right? Right. Now, had they
accepted William Branham there would have been no church that was not
affected by his ministry. They turned down the true to take the false
anointing. Now, you do what you want with what I said, but this is...I
know God's truth that I'm telling you why the man is not known. Because
many people complain about it. They said, "Well, if he's such a great
man, how come our church didn't know?"

	And all I got to say is, did they know about the Charismatic Movement?
Did they know about the thousands and thousands of Pentecostal
Catholic's? Did they know about the thousands and thousands of people
that understand, or are interested in, and conforming to the so called
Charismatic Movement? And they know about it. They know from the crown
heads of their dignitaries that they have spoken concerning this, and it
has been known for years.

c)	Now, they have gone to the anointing where they're off the Word, and
they have turned aside the truth. Now this is exactly why the churches
don't know about William Branham. But they know about the rest, and
they're going to keep on knowing until they believe the lie.

 	Now, I just thought I'd bring it out to you, because I realize that
you're going to have that problem to show others why it is that their
ministers don't know about it. It's been brought to my attention... One
man said, "My dad said, if this man was such a great man, how come my
church doesn't know about it?" Well, his church was the very one that
blasphemed the Holy Ghost. That's right, his dad's church was the very
one. (See?)

	No brother/sister, I'll always remember this: that the ministries of
God are in the minority. The true move of God in a people is always a
minority. If you doubt it, then tell me why the Roman Catholic church
never came to Christ under Luther? Why didn't they repent? He said,   
"I gave her space to repent," and she wouldn't do it. And she's never
repented and never will. 

d)	Right today you can pick up articles in leading magazines where the
so called Roman Catholic theologians, (and I'm not against the people,
just against the system,) they have had the nerve to say, "You
Protestants, you make us angry, you were the ones that killed the
Catholics, we never killed the Protestants." That's right, I can prove
it to you. I had the article in my hand by a Roman Catholic Texas
theologian. Well anything can come out of Texas, I guess, so Lord have
mercy, like Bro. Branham said. Not just trying to be facetious, but
that's the point.

	The Northern Baptist have said for years that the Southern Baptist
would go Roman Catholic. How come the Southern Baptist which took their
stand for so many years has been full of grace are so ecumenical minded
it's pitiful. Nothing against the Baptist people itself, wonderful
people. What, it's their system, it's their theologians, they're been
lead down the drain. It's the organized, the ecclesiastics has done it.
The Nicolaitane system. (See?)  But then, don't get too hipped  up on
the Nicolaitane system. Remember at the end time there's also the
Laodicean system which is the people in anarchy.

e)	This is the age when the people want to hear what they want to hear.
And if they can't get the preacher to preach what they want to hear
they'll bust with them. And if it hasn't happened in Macon, it'll
happen. It's happened so forget it. Every place you are the people want
to have itchy ear. Not the preacher got the itchy ear, he's got the
itchy mouth and the itchy palm. The people got the itchy ear. He's got
an itchy palm and a itchy mouth he'll say what they want him to say in
order to get a buck. Sure, let's go to the Bible, let's stick with the
Word of God. Don't try to make some little rosy spectacle dream out of
it, face reality. (See?) 

	Now, here's what it is: there's always has been a minority, there
always will be a minority. There's one thing about it, if this Message
had gone to the majority I would have rejected It. The majority has
never been right. The majority will never be right. Now, you know that's
true, because "the children of the desolate are far more numerous, than
the children of that which has a husband." [Isa 34:1b] Hagar's group
will always outshine for numbers the Bride. (See?) 

f)	So, we know where we stand, we're a little group. We may be frowned
upon, that's alright, of course we ain't seen nothing yet. Right now we
just bear a little bit of stigma that we follow a man and worship a man.
Well, that's fine by me, people just don't understand. It's the same
people  talk about how great Paul was, that "oh, we follow Paul." And
Paul, didn't he say, "We follow Peter." We follow Apollos, and say, "We
follow Moses."

	 And when Jesus came by they said, "Well, (they said) we follow Moses."
They rejected Jesus. Then when the Holy Ghost came, (the out-pouring)
they said, "Well, we follow Jesus, what's this Holy Ghost business?" 
You know, you couldn't pay people to believe the truth, they got to have
a revelation being seen. 

	I had a good buddy of mine, he said, "I've tried to build a Sunday
School and bring a contest to a head by getting a lot of folk in." He
went out in the street and here was a couple of grimy little kids going
to the store get some groceries for their mother. And he said, "Hey,
would you like to earn a quarter?"

	And they said, "Yeah."

	He said, "Sit in Sunday School." He gave them a quarter each, he said,
"You might get a bunch of little kids in staying (you know) give a few
quarters to come in."  But it just doesn't work that way in the Bride,
they're elected. They come in by the grace of God. Well, praise the
Lord.

g)	Want to thank for the offering, the Lord bless you for it, I didn't
expect it, but that's just nice of the Lord to do things like that. And
yet often times don't expect something and here God does a nice thing
for you. Just thought of coming down for meeting with all the brethren.
I had really expected someone else would take at least one service in
between to give me a little time off. But, (you know) just have
fellowship, and that's what I'm having, and  regardless and it's always
plus. You know, the Lord always gives us the plus balance. So, we thank
you. May the Lord bless you for it.

 	Now I want to continue tonight from last night on 'Adoption', or the
placing of sons and just see what else the Scripture brings out on this
subject, so that we might know where we are, and what is about to
happen; this great thing that's coming into the church. And before we
do, so let us bow our heads in prayer.

	Heavenly Father, we ask You now, O God, to conform every spirit to the
Spirit of Jesus Christ. Lord, I know that we live in difficult days, and
some of us here are quite old, and we're getting older and some are
quite young. And we're all at different levels and places in a way
because of our education, our background and all of these things. But,
Lord, we know there's one thing that any man can do if he wants to do
it, and that's to become simple minded enough to be taught. To just
listen without argument, or any reason, just listen and to see what's
being said, to see where it goes. Not to lift any criticism within the
mind, but just see if these things could be.  

	Help each one of us tonight, Lord, to be that way. To just look at the
Word of God and see if It isn't so. Is there something there, is there
something we're missing, is there light that can be shed upon our
pathway? 

	Now, Father, we know it takes Your Spirit to do it, and we're praying
for the anointing of the Spirit to come forth amongst us and give us a
revelation of the Word. That we might know the things which are truly
ours from God. And then, Lord, may they not only be known to us, but may
they be real meat to us and ingested by the Spirit of God into our
lives, until this very Word will shine forth as we believe It can and
will in the last day.

	Now, Father, we're not asking anything beyond Your Word. We're asking,
Lord, according to Your Word tonight. And because it's according to Your
Word, we know you've got to hear us. And then we know that you're going
to give us the petition we desire. So, Lord God, we submit ourselves to
You now. And praying therefore in faith, in believing that every Word,
Lord, will have Your blessing upon It, because it is Your Word and not
ours, but coming from You. And then, Lord, it'll be delivered in the
proper spirit which is of grace and love, O God. And we'll be careful to
give You the praise in Jesus' Name. Amen.

1.	Now, reading from the Book of Romans 8: just one verse at this time,
verse 15

		(15) 	For (we) 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 on this subject which was last night, we
showed from the prophet's teaching that there would be a Word identified
Bride who would be able to manifest the very life of Christ at 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) that they'll (plural) speak the Word and It the Word, will
create Itself like that, or identical to what was spoken." 

2.	You see, when God said, "Let there be light," suddenly something
didn't say, "I think I'll have a little fun, let it be dark." No, light.
(See?) Therefore the Word which will be in the Bride will be a literal
manifestation into creation of that same Word, by the Spirit that lies
in the Word. There'll be a literal creation. Now, that's what the
prophet said. Do you agree with that he said it? All right, fine we
believe it. 

 	Now, notice the language of the prophet. He said, "Now, (n-o-w) at
this moment It's coming into the Church." That means only one thing, the
potential is already in the Bride of this hour, and It the potential
will produce the manifestation in her of creation by Spoken Word. God is
going to refill the Bride with the Spirit; exactly what we know. Then
see what happens. Bro. Branham said, "We've got a ministry…coming that
just is exactly like the life of Christ." Now, that's what he told us,
and that's what we believe.

3.	I was preaching one time in Chicago a couple of years ago, or three,
when Dr. Hoyer who in my estimation is the greatest authority in the
Hebrew and Greek living today, because he could speak it with the exact
emphasis, the exact facial expressions, and the exact demonstration by
the hand. He's a very brilliant scholar.

	At the end of the service he said, "Bro. Vayle, I trust you will not
think me to be a fanatic, but I'd like to say something." And he sounded
so apologetic I wondered what in the world he was going to say. Now, he
said, "Please, please, please (he said) do not take this bad," he said.

	I said, "What is it Bro. Hoyer?

	And he said, "Bro. Vayle, from the study of the Word of God, I believe
the Bride will have the creative Word within her, before she goes in
that Rapture." 

	I said, "Brother, that's exactly what a vindicated prophet said by
'Thus Saith the Lord'.

4.	Here is a brilliant theologian who knows exactly the hour of the day.
And if you heard him and you could meet him in talking, you would know
that this is a giant intellect anointed by the Holy Ghost, who has
studied the Word of God until that's all he knows and all he's lived.
You mention a Scripture he'll quote It to me, Hebrew or the Greek. And
then he raises his eyebrows, his face will change, an expression will
come upon him, there he'll literally preach in that language, and tell
you everything it means. 

	And he said, "Bro. Vayle, I know that It's coming."

	That same man sat in the audience one night, he came in late with his
wife, and I thought, "Oh, horrors," I'm preaching on the serpent seed, I
wonder what he's going to think? [laughter] And I couldn't change my
subject, because it was too late, I was launched into it. I couldn't
draw back, so I boldly plowed down that line. He'd look at his wife, and
she'd look at him. He'd look at his wife, and look back. And suddenly at
the end of the meeting he went out. Next day we were at supper together
and he said, "Bro. Vayle, you preached a strange sermon last night, my
wife and me we go home, we lie in bed and we talk. And I talked and she
talked. And you know what? You are right."

5.	Listen, that's coming from a mental giant. Now, I'm not here to
eulogize a man because he's got a great mental capacity. But let me tell
you one thing about this, brother/sister, neither do you find that God
lead His children by an idiot. God never put a premium upon ignorance.
God never has put a premium upon ignorance. Neither does He put a
premium upon education as though this were the anointing. But, I am so
happy when I see a man of our day, that is really a great student of the
Word of God, and is so versatile in the languages of the Scripture who
can stand up and know that William Branham was that man sent from God.
(See?) Not eulogizing any man now, don’t mistake me, not for one
minute, but thinking in that term.

	So we see according to the Word of God given to us by vindicated
prophet, that the creative Word will be in the very Bride at the end
time. Now, this great Capstone ministry of the Bride is called 'the
manifestation, of the sons of God', or the 'adoption', or 'placing' of
the sons. And to me, and I emphasize, 'to me, it is also the
manifestation of what Bro. Branham called the 'Third Pull in the Bride'.
Up until 1963 Bro. Branham talked much about this manifestation. But
after '62 and '63 he spoke of the pull of the various pulls, and he said
there'd be a Third Pull in the Bride which would come into
manifestation. Now, we have no details concerning it, but remember it
will be the creative Word within that Bride.

6.	Now, let us just think of the potential, or the prime cause of this
great manifestation. It is already in the Bride, but It is evidently
subdued,  now It's in there, but subdued. (See?) Now, I'm not a very
strong man. You know I used to exercise as a kid, and the best I could
do is build up tough muscles, but never big muscles. I'm just kind of
'puny Pete' so to speak, and not like Bro. Arnett here, because of his
great muscles, or Ned. 

	But, you know I want to say this you see, supposing I had great
strength in my arms; now this great strength could lie there, and I
might have the physical power to crush a man's jaw. But, letting that
power lie dormant, (see?) does not annul that the power is there. So it
is that the last of the manifestation does not annul the power, the
power is there, but the manifestation is not here, because it is not yet
time for it. Now, this is what you must understand. (See?) The Bride is
not without the prime cause, or the cause to bring about the effect. It
is just that God is not ready to produce the effect. (See?) Now, it is
not time to show it forth.

7.	Notice our text, [Romans 8] verse 15

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

	We already have the spirit of adoption. The First Age, the Second Age,
the Third Age, the Fourth Age, the Fifth Age, and the Sixth Age. Every
member in the body of Christ has already whether they have gone to the
dust or not, they have already received the potential, but not the
manifestation.

8.	Now, notice verses 19-23 

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

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

		(21) 	Because (creation) itself also shall be delivered from the
bondage of 					corruption into the liberty of… (the glory.)

 	We haven't come to that yet. We haven't come to that glory. Every Age
people glory in God. Every Age they were happy. But brother/sister, we
have not yet attained to the glory which shall be ours. There is coming
a glory as many people have said concerning the latter house. I don't
care how wonderful the glory, the former house was. I don't care how
sick at this moment the glory of the latter house looks, God's Word has
said the glory of the latter, shall eclipse the former. Now, you can't
fuss with God. Here, amen. You believe Him. You believe Him. Yes sir.

	Now, we're reading a little further:

		(21)	…(the) liberty of the (glory) of the children of God.

		(22) 	For we know (there's no doubt about this knowledge, you can see 
					it every hand)  the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain 
					together until now.

		(23) 	And not only they, but ourselves also, which (already)
have…the 						Spirit, (of adoption, the Spirit of the Resurrection 
that which will 						make us life unto Christ, even to the very members
in which we 						dwell. It says, "We're groaning and we have the
first-fruits," even 						we ourselves groan within ourselves, we are)
waiting for the adoption					…(even though you've got the very spirit
of it.)

	Say, "Haven't I got it all, haven't I, don't I possess it all?" 

9.  My brother, my sister, you and I may possess everything from God in
potential. But, into manifestation we do not yet possess it. (See?) I'm
so sorry for those who believe, and I've said, "Listen, I'll take this
whole Bible, and this whole Bible is mine." You are wrong. Only the part
of the Word within here is yours, it's which is your's for your day. As
Bro. Branham put it so beautifully, "Moses could not come preaching
Noah's Message." He couldn't do it. "And Christ could not come preaching
Moses' Message."  The law was until John. (See?) Now, they look forward
to grace and truth in Jesus Christ. And there is a Word for this day.
And the Word for this day is the revelation of the manifestation of the
sons of God. 

	Now, if we're not aware of the hour in which we live, then we cannot
say we've got the Holy Ghost, because He is given to teach us those
things which are given us to God. Oh, how blind the church is today that
calls itself full of the Holy Ghost.

	Oh, how I believe what Billy Graham said, that's a great man. He said,
"I believe if the Holy Ghost was taken out of the world, the church
would go on doing ninety percent of what it's doing now, and not even
know He's missing." I’m kind of quoting that sort of liberally, maybe
not verbatim, but I got the idea of it, and I agree with it.

10.	Now, we are waiting for the adoption. And this tells us when it will
take place. It takes place in resurrection season. Now, when is
resurrection season? Now, you all know that, because you all know your
Bible. It's over here in the Book of Romans 11: Paul says in verse 15

		(15) 	For if the casting away of (Israel) be the reconciling of the
world, 						what shall (be) the receiving of (Israel), but life from
the dead?

	Now, remember, Israel's not dead, she's blinded. So therefore, if we
are going to have something received from the dead, that's resurrection.
So, Israel is blinded until resurrection season. Now, when does God turn
to Israel? When she's back in the home land. Is Israel back in the home
land? Then it's resurrection season. Then if it's resurrection season,
it's adoption season. (See?) Now, the Resurrection hasn't taken place,
neither has adoption. But, they're both going to take place. Why?
Because it's the season. (See?) And now is that time as Bro. Branham
said. Thus we have a very clear picture before us. As least it's clear
to me.

	It is the body of Christ coming up through the Ages from the feet to
the head. Now, I want you to get the picture now. And don't deal with
this subject in the sense of the individual. No, leave that alone. We
are dealing with the subject in the sense of the church of the many
members. So, it's the church coming up from the feet to the very head.
But watch, not one Church Age division of this body remains on earth
while the other parts are formed. In other words, the whole body is
never on earth in their mortal members at one time.

11.	Now watch my words. The whole body of Christ is never on earth at
one time in a mortal,            (m-o-r-t-a-l) form. In the immortal
form they will be on earth at one time, but never in the mortal form.

	One portion of that body goes off the earth, the First Church Age. The
next portion comes on, and then the next comes on. This is what we
understand as the pyramid. Because remember, Christ is not only a
Cornerstone, He is a Capstone. And the capstone is to the building which
is the Bride. Now, what's the capstone?  It's got to go on a pyramid
brother/sister, no place else, because the capstone is the final block
put on to cap it. That's a pyramid.

	So, layer by layer in Seven Church Ages the church is coming up to the
Capstone itself until it fits so perfect in the last Age. The Seventh is
literally identified with Christ Himself. Now, as a Bride, (see?)
accompanying, (see?) in the Church, the true Church.

12.	Paul saw this as many member's in the Book of Ephesians 4:[15]  Paul
said, "Speaking the truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things,
which is the head, even Christ." 

	Now, what are the 'all things'? Paul said, "The Spirit of God was given
us to teach us the 'all things', the revelation." We are coming up into
the very Word Itself. Then brother/sister, can't you see if we're coming
up into the very Word Itself, then creation must lie in the Bride.
(See?) Now, let's not get foreign thoughts on the subject, we're dealing
with Reality brother/sister. That's what the Book of Revelation teaches.
Reality, I am the way the truth and the Reality, is the definition of
that which is truly real. (See?) Going back to the eternal things.

	Now, Paul says going on, (notice that Head,) "From whom the whole body
fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth,
according to the effectual working in the measure of every part." [Eph
4:16] Now, every part's got its own measure, and every part is one of
the Church Ages, because the entire Bride, (the Gentile Bride) is made
up of the Seven Church Ages. No more, or less, that's what you've got
here.

13	Now remember, Paul was the apostle to the Gentiles and his teaching
the Gentiles. God turned from Israel, (I think in Acts 15, somewhere in
there, about verse 4, I can't remember quite now what it is.) Now
notice: He said, "Speaking the truth in love." [Eph 4:15a] There is no
way to go up into Christ except by the truth. "Being born again, not of
corruptible seed, but by the Word of God which lives and abides
forever."  [1 Pet 1:23]

	Now, you notice here the Word of Peter agreeing here with Paul. He
doesn't say, "Now, that you've been born, get born again." Although
that's true, he's saying, "Now that you've been  born, being born again,
but watch how you're born again. Do not be born again of corruptible
seed, but be born again of the incorruptible." That's why there's a
church that's born of the creeds and the dogmas to imitate everything
the child of God's got, but you'll never stay with the Word. I don't
want to sound rough and mean up here brother/sister. I don't want to put
emphasis by shouting as I said last time, I'm sorry I ever got into that
rut. But may God help us to understand this, this is 'Thus Saith the
Lord', not Lee Vayle talking to you. That's the Bible's 'Thus Saith the
Lord', not Bro. Branham's or anybody else's now as a prophet, that's
Peter. He said, "Be born again, but be careful how you get that way."

14.	You say, "How can a man be born again? Oh, brother/sister it's time
you realize you can be born of anything of this world and get born
again. You can be born again into a Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist, or
a Church of Christ, the Church of God, of Pentecost, or anything else.
But to be born of the Word of the Living God. That's the only way you'll
be a part of this membership of Jesus Christ, because It's speaking the
truth in love. It's the love of God shed abroad by the elected five-fold
ministry that takes that Word out to feed the flock, that they in turn
feed the people, is taking that Word out. (See?) 

	Now, he said, "From whom the whole body, (that's from the Christ
Himself) the whole body fitly joined together and compacted, (joined and
compacted the solidarity of which there can be none lost whatsoever, it
comes from Him, but, it's coming  from the feet first,) and with every
joint supplieth, according to the effectual measure." [Eph 4:16]

	What is the effectual measure? The Word of God is the only effectual
thing in this world we've got, because all things all were made by Him,
and all things are maintained by it. Like the Bible says so, "There's
nothing made that wasn't made by the Word of God." In the Book of John
tells us, and then Paul comes along and says, "Everything is maintained
by it." Col 1:17. 

15.	Now, he said here, "It makes increase of the body unto the edifying
of itself in love." [Eph 4:16] Now listen, what is it? Speaking the
truth in love, that same Word, the same measure in every Age will bring
the Bride right to the Stone, the Headstone Christ. That it'll bring
itself effectively to that very position. Now, what's doing it? It's the
Word that's doing it! (See?) We are a Word Bride.

	Now, I say the whole body is coming up. Every single one of the first
Six Church Ages had the potential of adoption through the spirit of
adoption. But, only the Seventh Church Age has the potential plus the
manifestation. (See?) This is what I see when Bro. Branham taught us
concerning the Lutherans. Now, there again, don't misunderstand, think
I'm showing off on somebody. When the Lutherans came to Bro. Branham
back in about in 1960 (some) they said, "Bro. Branham, do we have the
Holy Ghost?"  And he said, "Potentially, you Lutherans had the Holy
Ghost."   

16.	Now, what did he mean? Did he mean for one minute that Luther didn't
have the Holy Ghost? Luther himself had the Holy Ghost. The Lutheran
people themselves had the Holy Ghost when they were born again. (See?)
As the same as the Wesleyans, but the church itself did not have the
Holy Spirit which would bring them into the manifestation. Because the
Age was not yet. (See?) The Age was not yet, as God was bringing that
Word out. (See?) Line by line, bringing the church up, because it's got
to come by the Word, you understand that. (See?) That's your pyramid.
God bringing that Word up, building His Church up, doing it by the Holy
Ghost. (See?) Bringing it all the way to the top. Now, watch carefully
here, because He's doing this not in the church which is gone down, the
life was moving on. The man goes, but the spirit stays. Christ's Spirit
doesn't leave you, until the man dies.   

	The church building up, now here's what I'm trying to show you. This is
a mortal church that we're talking about. Then this makes me understand
that the manifestation of the sons of God will come before the
Resurrection. See, we're not dealing with the church is gone on, we're
dealing with the church is coming up. And the church coming up is
mortal, because in each stage is a mortal church that has the Spirit of
God that is looking forward to the adoption. (See?)  Now, we're coming
to that Headstone. Now, this is the Age, the same Age that Bro. Branham
said where God restores. The Age of adoption is the Age of restoration. 

17.	Listen to what he said. 'The Sign of the Uniting Time' [63-08-18] 

		God getting her ready, (that's the Bride) yes sir, uniting. What's she
uniting 				with? With the Word. "For heaven and earth shall pass away,
but My Word 				shall never pass away."

	Now then, if the Bride is a Word united Bride, how can she pass away? 
You say, "But Bro. Vayle, they're all united Word." But they weren't
united Word where It says, "Behold, we shall not  all sleep, but we
shall all be changed." [1 Cor 15:51]  That Word did not apply to the
First Church Age. That Word did not apply to the Second Age, or the
Third, or the Fourth, or the Fifth, or the Sixth, it can only apply in
the Seventh.

	Now, they had the full potential for a resurrection back there in Age
number one. But, they couldn't get it. Why? Because the body was not
filled. Christ could not bring forth a deformed Bride. He could only
bring forth a perfect Bride. As I told you last night, me always trying
to win at the agricultural fair a prize on my sweet carrots, and my fig
rutabagas . They were too big, or they had something funny about them.
And I thought, boy, that ought to get a prize. That's the way the church
is. The church as got has idea. If you do something for God, not
according to His Word, you're still fine. You're wrong. Any service done
outside the Word of God will fail.

18.	My brother, my sister let me tell you out of my heart, the most
miserable failures of my life, were those failures wherein, I thought I
was pleasing God by putting men forward. I put men forward in America
here. I put them forward overseas, I did my best. And it seemed like God
was blessing me. Everyone of those men has turned on me to blaspheme the
Name of the Lord, to run down this Message, and say the most rottenest
callous things I have ever heard, and written about anybody said about
me.  Now, what did I do wrong?  A man's wish shall make room for him.
You don't put anybody forward. You let God put him forward by his gift.

	It's time we woke up and stop being children. You do not serve God one
minute ushering in this Word. You say, "I'm doing it." 

	I say, "Check your heart and see if you are." 

	You say, "Bro. Vayle at that rate then, you're going to cut down a lot
of service." 

	Well, let me tell you this brother/sister, if I work for a man for six
years, and then came and said it was like seven years, like old Jacob
said, "I want my wife." And he palmed off something else on me,
something was sure wrong. And I don't what to stand at the Judgment
having thought                    I served God, and found that I didn't.
So, I just  stopped putting men forward. 

	I used to go home at night and almost cry, saying, "Why doesn't Bro.
Branham put me forward?" Do you know why? He was a prophet, knew the
Bible and I didn't. You don't need anybody to put you forward. You
ministers, if you got something from God, your gift will make room for
you. If you're a pastor, you're ordained to be a pastor, you'll be a
success, don't worry about it. Just fill the place God gave you. If
you're an evangelist go ahead and do the ministry God age you. You
don’t worry about it if you're a teacher, prophet or whatever it is,
no ministry makes foolproof  for you. (See?) You don't need a man to put
you forward one little time, and you don't need a man to try to scare
you and try to put you back in there. Stand there, clothed with your
armor with the office that God gave you. It's your office that gives you
this brother/sister. You were born to it. (See?) Oh, what a tragedy. 

19.	Now listen, Bro. Branham said here, "She's uniting herself with the
Word, regardless of what any denomination or anybody else says." She's
uniting herself, she's getting herself ready. Why? She's the Bride! Why
certainly. You didn't think…you say, "I'm going to marry that girl." 

	What's she doing?  "Oh, I think she's slopping out there with the hogs
in the back yard."

	"Oh, isn't she getting ready? I want her to take a bath and put those
clothes on."

	How is the Bride going to get ready to meet Jesus not having been
washed in the waters of separation by the Word? Having that character to
stand still to hear the Message. She's full of creeds and dogmas.

	Now listen women, I'm going to tell you something: your own nature is
such a thing that you never leave your father and mother, but you
should. Now, the Bible says, "For this cause shall a man leave father,
mother," [Mt 19:5] but didn't the women would. She always wants to run
home. (See?) She's too much around mommy and papa. And the women in the
church is still doing it, she's running back to the old harlot. She's
running back to mama. That's her nature, that's a woman's nature. You
know it. You got a soft heart for momma. And you know how it is when mom
and papa have it tough, where do they usually go? They end up with
daughter. Poor old son in-law gets it. Now, you sons in-law, if you're
bucking shame on you, because that's a woman's nature.

20.	But remember you woman, God also said one thing that you're joined
to your husband, and you should seek to please him. And he's supposed to
please you too, that's why he left mama and papa. Now, you're got some
leaving to do too, don't let your nature mess you up. Now, Miss Church,
I'm saying the same thing tonight to you, you better leave mama, and
stop being one of her daughters.  (See?) 

	Now, she's the Bride and the Bride will get herself ready. She won't be
out there slopping with the hogs. No siree. She's got the kind of
character that will listen to the Message. She's standing there while
she's washed in the waters of separation by the Word. She'll hear that
Message, because every  single Church Age has the Word. "He that
heareth." (See?) If  you're in the Bride you've got an ear, you're going
to hear what the messenger said.

	Now, she's united herself with the Bridegroom, and the Bridegroom is
the Word. Let me ask you a question: why did Luther leave the Roman
Catholic church? Was it because the Roman Catholic church did not have
the Word? The Roman Catholic church had the Word, but they turned It
down. And they turned down the revelation of the hour. Let me ask you,
why was it the Wesleyans pulled out of the Lutheran's? Because the
Lutheran's put off that Word. Why did Pentecost pull out the Wesleyans?
Because the Wesleyan's got out of the Word. Now, there's got to be a
Bride at the end time pull out of the whole bunch, on one reason, that's
the Word. Add on no other reason whatsoever.

21.  "Yeah but, (you  say) Bro. Vayle, there's other great things. There
are no other great things, either it comes out of the Word or it's dead.
If your character, if your ministry, if your gift are not fully Word
vindicated and indicated you are wrong and I am wrong. There has to be
one ultimate. There has to be one authority, and that Authority is the
Word. (See?) 

	Now, she's uniting herself, and the church, and the Bride, and the Word
is becoming so one, until the very Word Itself is working out
[correction] the works of the Bridegroom. See, moving up. Why? It's
uniting time, it wasn't before. Not before it wasn't uniting time. No
sir, it was merely the body coming together, and coming together. Though
the First Age died, and the Second Age died, they're coming together. A
little overlap here, a little overlap there coming together, coming
together, up, up, up, up, until the day when God said, "I'm going to
restore." Now, reformation sets in, more reformation. Now the end time,
we're coming right to the very Headstone. And brother/ sister it's got
to be so absolutely perfect the end time Age, the Capstone will fit
right on It. It never fit the First Age. No sir, the First Age died,
I'll prove it to you.

	It never fit the Second Age, too broad across here, too wide here, but
coming up, up, up, the Sixth Age, narrowing, narrowing, narrowing until
now the very Headstone, Christ coming into full manifestation. Now
remember, we're talking about the body. We're not talking about with 
some-thing else. We're talking about a church. (See?) 

22.	Now, 'Spoken Word is the Original Seed'. [62-03-18]  

[172]	These last days, true Bride come to the Headstone, will be a super
church…

	Now listen, it doesn't say the resurrection church, it says, "the
last."  What's the last? Seven Church Age, come to His…

	 	…will be the super church, a super race. As they near the great
Headstone  (He 				hasn't even come yet in physical flesh) they will be
so much like Him, (they'll) 				be in His very image in order to be
united with Him. They will be One. They 				will be the very
manifestation of the Word of the living God.

	Isn't that marvelous? You know tonight that sounds kind of flat but
good. Just hold it until it comes to life. A lot of the Word of God is
very flat hopefully until the Spirit of God hits It, then watch. See,
Bro. Branham said, "The full Age covers somebody got together and they
promoted an experiment, and they made some corn. They made that corn
identical to the grain of true corn. And you could look at it, and even
a chicken maybe couldn't tell it apart, so gobble, gobble, gobble, eat
the wrong corn and the good corn.  There's only one way you can tell
which is real corn. Plant it! Throw the water on it! See where the life
is." (See?) 

23.	Now,  Let's go further:

		 They will be the very manifestation of the Word of the living God.
(See, come 				to life, the Word come to Life in the Bride)
Denominations can never produce 				this. 

	Now, either he had 'Thus Saith the Lord', you believe it or you don't.
Say, "I've got some good buddies there." Oh, that's fine, I've got no
problem with my friends, they can be anywhere they want. And because I
believe this Message, doesn't make me hate people. Doesn't make me fight
people. No, I feel sorry for them, but I'm not going to get all fussed
up around them.

	You say, "Why do you preach the way you do, Bro. Vayle?"  Because I
teach, and I want to nail it down to you in case your faith ever wavers.
You can come back to the tape, or a message and say, "I remember hearing
that thing, that was right." Just to help your faith that's all.

24.	Listen, they will love Him and have His potential, for He is their
Head, and they are His subjects, subject to the Head. ...we're not going
to die. For if the seed be planted, the water will raise it up again.
Here's the secret: the Word is in the Bride and the mind of Christ to
know what Christ wants done with the Word, and she does it in His Name.
She has 'Thus Saith the Lord', by reason of that. 

	The it is germatized, so the Holy Spirit waters it until its grown and
serves Its purpose. They only do His will, no one can persuade them
different. They have 'Thus Saith the Lord', or they keep still. That is:
they have the Word and know exactly what to do with It, or they don't do
it.

	Here I spend my time and my money to promote men to turn on the Word of
God, to live in adultery, …?... that's what one man did, bilk people
left and right. Now, where is my time and effort gone?  You just can't
simply… "Well, hallelujah, the Lord overlooks it, glory be to God,
because I was so sweet spirit, I just…"  No, no, no, God doesn't do
foolish things, we do. And we can open our mouths and make big mistakes.
And God said, "You should have shut your mouth. You should have watched
what you were doing, I'm holding you accountable."  That's right.

25.	You don't give 'God speed' to a man that's wrong. Is that Bible?
Then don't do it. You say, "How am I going to know?" Quit being so busy,
little busy bee. Amen. "They that wait upon the Lord will use their
strength," [Isa 40:31] and they that don't will dissipate it. Now,
there's only one way that you can wait upon the Lord, and that's stay
with His Word.

	"Oh, Bro. Vayle, I'm going to hide myself and pray." You just cut your
throat right there. You can't pray without the Word. Your prayer doesn't
mean that. It's only the Word that God's going to get. I know that
sounds strange, but I don't care, a lot of things sound strange that are
true. Truth is stranger than fiction, always has been. You think that's
not true? How about John the Baptist, full of the Holy Ghost from his
mother's womb. Figure that one out. Oh, go ahead and figure it. 

	"Where's that in the Bible? Where can you find in one place there'd be
a man full of the Holy Ghost from his mother's womb?"  But, it happened.
Then people fuss about a man ordained to God to have 'Thus Saith the
Lord', and they say, "Turn him down." What's the matter with you people?


	Tell me why John the Baptist …?... I challenge you. I'd even  go out
of church order and let a woman dance with me tonight on that one. I
know she can't get out of order, because she can't tell me. Challenge
any theologian living, put your finger on it, you can't do it. I can put
my finger on, tell you why. The Lord God of heaven as old heathen
Nebuchadrezzar said, "He doeth whatever He wills, in the armies, heaven
and earth, and no one could stop Him." Hallelujah, glory to God, I'm
going to get real revived in there. There's one subject I like, that's
grace and sovereignty. (See?) 

26.	Now, listen, no one could persuade him different. They have 'Thus
Saith the Lord', they keep still. Then they 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 the time was not yet.

	Now, how many could swallow that one, and not choke on it?  "Oh, Bro.
Vayle, when He died upon Calvary He said, 'It's finished'."  Huh, what
was finished? What was finished? This is not finished. That was
finished. The prophet's right, you know he's right. How many things did
Jesus come to do? He was anointed to preach the Gospel to announce His
acceptable year of the Lord.  Right? To proclaim it. "To announce the
day of the vengeance of our God, and to comfort  those that mourn." [Isa
61:2] Tell me when he did the other two things? He did only one as far
as I know. Yet He came to do three. When is He going to make the
announcement, the judgment? When is He going to comfort those that
mourn? You say, "I believe that's being done every day." I don't. Only
in a limited sense.

 	If it was done, the first was done in a pointed sense, the other two
must follow. Christ did not do all that He was supposed to do. Nor did
He do all for He left some for us to do. But He was going to do it
…?...  So, all was not done in the days of His flesh, but will be done
in the days of the Bride's flesh.

27.	Now, you can see from this, that it's the Seventh Church Age, the
Bride manifest the very fullness of the Head, which is Christ. 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 fulness of him that filleth all (and) in
all.

	Now, when He's going to fill all and in all, that's the Bride. But it
goes beyond that too, but I'm limiting it just to the Bride for the time
being.

28.	All right, now watch: If He gave Him to be all things to the Church,
and put all things under Him, and the Church is His body, there's
something's got to be fulfilled yet. There's got to be a resurrection.
There's got to be a manifestation of God's Word in a Bride. There's got
to be a resurrection power come in her. And it will come in her, because
that's the Word of the Lord.

 	Now, this fullness, let's speak about it a bit. Paul mentioning, (as I
read last night in Ephesians the 1st chapter) how that He has
predestinated us through the adoption of children by Jesus Christ
Himself, according the good pleasure of His will. And then Paul says, (I
want to catch this verse down here) [Ephesians 1:] verse 12, "That we
should be to the praise of His glory, who first…" Not second, not
third, not fourth, not fifth, not sixth, not seventh, but first. So,
there's a first, there's got to be a second, then there's got to be a
third. And there's only one place you can quit, and that's seven.
Because seven is completion.  Now Paul said, "We first trusted in Him."
[Eph, 1:2a] They were the first ones. (See?) 

29.	Now, with that we go to Ephesians 3:9-10

		(9) 	…to make all men see (all men see) what is the fellowship of
the 						mystery, which from the beginning of the world 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 (made) known by the church the manifold
wisdom 					of God,

	Now, It says right here that there's going to be a manifestation of the
wisdom of God. What's that wisdom? He tells us back in Ephesians 1,
where God in all prudent and all wisdom by predestinating a Bride who at
the end time would be manifested to the world. Now, she's going to be
manifested. Now, I'm just going over this very rapidly. [Verses] 18-19.

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

	That's never happened yet. How can it? How could it happen? Because
this was not allotted to one Age. There is no one Age that's gone by
that has ever had this. They haven't had the fullness.

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

	The church has never been filled with the fullness of God. It couldn't
be, because the Bride hasn't been made up. (See?) The fullness has not
yet come.

30.	Now, Revelation 10:7

		(7) 	…in the days of the voice of the seventh (messenger), when he 	
				shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be (filled)…

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, the Bible says 'finished'." Well sure, it's
finished as it's filled. It's filled till it's finished. There isn't any
more to the body. When the last member comes in, it's over.

	Then if Christ has been pouring Himself into the church for Seven
Church Ages, then He finishes pouring Himself in the Seventh, and then
Christ is completely poured into the Seventh. Now, what's poured into
the Seventh? That which matches the Headstone! The mind of Christ in the
Bride, to know what He wants done with the Word and does It. The very
effective creative power of Christ is in her. Amen. That brother/sister
is evidence. (See?) It's evidence. (See?) Scripture shows it. How true
it is.

	Now, herein we can see that Christ did not pour Himself into the
church, but rather He has been continuingly pouring Himself into the
Church. And in the last days it's completely full. (See?) And remember
brother/sister, at the last Age is narrowed to the very Headstone.
There's nothing but Headstone at the last Age for the Bride. Oh my God,
can we see it? It's Christ Himself identified in the Bride. The Bride
bringing forth Christ into manifestation. I know it's beyond our
thinking, but brother/sister it's going to rise. I never knew the day
would come when William Branham stand before us and say, "I challenge
you, bring me twenty-four of your worse cases, I guarantee healing." 

31.  I can't even get three million in the world to guarantee my little
piddly hangnail I want healed. "Oh Bro. Vayle, if you believe." Look
honey, I've done that for years. I've even gone further, discern and
everything else to help people's faith. But nobody can guarantee. How
could anybody guarantee one hair of your head? The Bible says so. Yet
here's a man that can stand up 'Thus Saith the Lord' Jehovah God Who was
Jesus Christ manifested, and  said, "I challenge you bring me your worse
cases in Texas here, and I'll guarantee healing." 

	And they brought a little Spanish girl who looked like a full cripple,
she looked like a bowl of cold cooked spaghetti. Right! For two hours
they sang choruses. Suddenly, like that she was off his knees perfectly
whole. Challenge you, show me somebody. "Oh, that's the devil Bro.
Vayle." (Hmm) God backing up the devil? If God backs up the devil then
you and I are out of luck, because we're just wish-washy lukewarm. We're
trying to miss the devil and get to God. Now, He backs the devil. Let's
go all home and get drunk. I'm not facetious, now I mean it, because
we've got to get rid of our minds somehow, we're in a mess. How can the
thoughts of man be so foolish? I don’t understand. Brother/sister, I
was shook from stem to stern when that man did that. I was shaken out of
my lethargy, I was condemned and convicted. I was in the Presence of
God. Not the man, but the Holy Ghost. (See?)    

 	Christ completely poured into the Church in the seventh branch of the
lamp. (See?) No more to pour in. Why? Because the Church is His
fullness. Is that right? Was Jesus Christ the fullness of God bodily?
Then there's a many membered Christ. (See?) And there will be a complete
pouring in.

32.	 Now, this is when resurrection power hits the Bride. 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:

	Notice, Word, see?

		(18) 	The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that (you) may
						know what is the hope of his calling, the riches of the glory of
his 						inheritance in the saints,

	And listen:

		(19) 	…the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who (do now)	
				believe, (not who have believed and died, but those who now believe	
			that's right see?) according to the working of his mighty power,

		(20)	Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and
					set him at his own right hand…  

		(21) 	Far above all principality, and power…(giving Him authority)

	 So it is when resurrection power hits the Church, she is manifested,
she is adopted, she is unveiled. The Third Pull is in her and the
authority of God is in her. Why? Because she is identified with the
Word. (See?) It's coming. You'll find this is somebody is going to get.
I'm not trying to put a corner on say, "bless God we've got it, nobody
else." I don't know who is going to be in it. I'm not fussing about it.
If I'm Bride and I die, I'm just as secured as anybody standing here at
this last minute. No problem brother/sister. You've got that spirit of
adoption, you're perfectly fine. Yes sir. But if you're here at that
last day, there's a special designation, (see?) at the end time, that
Cornerstone, that Capstone rather.

33.	Now notice, this will be a complete manifestation of Himself in the
Bride. He is obligated to do this, because He never did appear amongst
the Gentiles. He never did. And watch now, the days of the Son of man
are to repeat, not under the Jews, but under the Gentiles. Because Jesus
said the days of the Son of man, (in Luke 17:26-30) would repeat days of
Noah and days of Abraham. And they were not Israel, they're Gentile.
That's right.

	So therefore, the days of the Son of man, the very ministry of Jesus
Christ returns to this earth. Now remember, there is only one period of
the people's smitten blind through messengers. Sodom, now Laodicea.
Blind Laodicea. Who smite sometime, brother/sister, blind leaders of
blind both fall in the ditch. When they turned down the vindicated
prophet, there's only one way to go, back to the creeds and dogmas, and
back to the carnal dungeon of death. (See?) 

	Now, only the utter blind for Laodicea which belong to the Gentiles
could produce this Age. We saw the ministry of Christ returned to the
earth by the prophet. What will it now be in the Bride? It will be an
absolute confirmation of the Word that he brought, because remember, he
said in 'Spoken Word is the Original Seed', [62-03-18]  which I read to
you, he said this was the prophecy that God gave him, and he had to
write it. Write the Word, that's Scripture, is that right? Write the
Word, engrave It.

34.	Now, seeing this subject so far that there is a manifestation of the
very Life and works of Christ in the Bride. Let's go back to our text
and further study It. All right, Romans 8:15  

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

	Now, Paul in teaching on this subject does it through the negative
approach, or by comparison in the negative. He said, "You have not
received the spirit of bondage again to fear." Now, he said in plain
English, "You have not received a spirit of slavery, (see?) you've been
delivered from it. Now, you've got the spirit of  the liberty of the
children of God."

35.	Now, what is the spirit of slavery that they were delivered from?
Galatians. Remember, Galatians is also written to us, and Paul was the
apostle to the Gentiles. So, this is to us Gentiles. Now, chapter
4:19-28

		(19) 	My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until
Christ be 						formed in you, (evidently He hasn't been formed.)

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

		(21) 	Tell me, (you) that desire to be under the law, do (you) not
hear the 					law? (What are you hearing tonight? See?) 

	Now, he said, "Don't you hear the law?" So, I say, "What are you
hearing, creeds and dogmas? Some catechism? Some confession of faith?
What are you listening to? (See?) Now, look, everything comes out of
something. Nothing happens, just phfft! That's done happened in God's
six days of creation. "Let there be light, dry land appear, [snaps
fingers] fishes, [snaps] birds, [snaps] animals, [snap] man…so on,
done happened.

 	Everything now comes from the original Genesis. We are in an evolution
moving up, or we in our some sort of moving down. It's essential to be
descension. Go on now. I know what I'm talking about. Evil men shall wax
worse and worse. This will get worse and worse. That will get worse and
worse. But, this is going to get better and better. See, you're moving.
What do you listen to, what did you come out of? 

 	Now, you that desire to hear the law. You that want to go back to what
you came out of. What did you come out of?  "Catholicism." You didn't
brother, you're wrong, you did. I got a little thing at home by 'Time
Magazine' I think that shows every single bunch came out of the Roman
Catholics, we all came out of it. And when Bro. Branham had the vision
of God, he said, "I saw the woman that was my mother, though she wasn't
my mother. And I saw the man that was my father, yet it wasn't my
father." What was he?  A meal that belongs to chickens(??)

36.	Now:

		(22) 	…it is written, (concerning this) Abraham had two sons, one by
a 						bondmaid, other by a freewoman.

		(23) 	But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh;… 			
		(corruptible seed.) 

	Was he born? You bet he was. Now, we're talking about churches. And you
don't get born in church, you get reborn. Nobody gets born to it. "Well,
Bro. Vayle, my mother rushed me to church, and we had the baby right in
the aisle. I was born in church." Well, bully for you, you misunderstand
me. You don't get born in church, you get 'reborn'. This is an allegory,
and extended parable bringing out a lesson. Now: 

		(23) 	…the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the
freewoman 					by the promise.

	Which is what? Word! Both born.

		(24) 	Which things are an allegory: for these are the two cov…

	Show me where God ever gave Ishmael a covenant of the New Jerusalem and
I'll eat it. He gave him a worldly covenant of blessing physically,
where he'd rise up and defy the true members of Christ, and he's still
doing it. Is that right?  Oh, come on! I'm not teaching babies. You've
been in this Message too many years now not to understand what I'm
talking about. (See?) 

		(24) 	Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants;
one 						from the mount Sinai, (thunders, lightenings, judgments) which
						gendereth to bondage, which is (Hagar, which is slavery.)

37.	 Which you have come out of, and God has not given you a Hagar
spirit, and an Ishmael spirit. Little Hagar wanting the indulges of her
lord bringing forth an Ishmael. Don't belong there. 

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

		(26) 	But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the
mother…(wrong 					translation. King James, says mother of us all.
(That's wrong, New 						Jerusalem is not the mother of us all, only the
Bride.)  

		(27) 	(Therefore)  it is written, Rejoice, thou 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.

	Old Hagar's got millions, millions, millions more than the wife of the
husband.

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

		(29) 	But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that
was 					born after the Spirit, even so it is now. 

	It'll be with the Bride, when the squeeze comes down by the ecumenical
council, it'll do its best to destroy it. Oh, you say, "That little
insignificant  bunch, who wants to bother…blah. Then what about
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, the three Hebrew children. Why didn't
they just go blah, about those three, and say, "Aw, forget them." Yeah.
Why did they try to exterminate Daniel? "Oh, he's just nothing…." 
Don't you believe it. As long as there's one Bride there'll be the whole
force of hell trying to destroy that one. And bring her into captivity,
put her to shame. Mock her, disgrace her and take her from God.
Brother/sister don't you believe other than the Bible. 

		(30) 	Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman
and 					her son:…(Great tribulation.) 

	Where do you want to go? You say, "Bro. Vayle, I'm going to miss the
tribulation." How are you going to miss it, being a son of the harlot
system? 

38.	Now listen, no system is any system outside of a document called
creeds and dogmas, and church order. What is your holy Roman Catholic
church based upon? This, and this, and this and this. and this and this,
this and this, all the way down. What about Pentecostal? This and this,
and this and this, …?...  And you here will get your head chopped off,
defrocked, de-robed, kicked out. annulled and what have you. What about
Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist? This and this, and this, same thing.
Let them bring it to life.

	You say, "Bro. Vayle can you bring the life?" It already was done
brought to life by the prophet. I'm only to believe It. I don't produce
the Word, I receive It. Paul said, "What came the Word of God unto you
only, or did It come out of you?" [1 Cor 14:36] Don't tell me to produce
anything, you got it all mixed up honey. You got that same spirit of
Korah, Dathan and Abiram on you. You're going to produce is a …?... go
ahead, be my guest. I know it sounds tough on you, but I got to preach
this way, because this is the Word of God. And I'm not going to pull my
punches, because I'm not mean, I'm just laying it on the line.

39.	You say, "Bro. Vayle, then what if you tried to hold people back?" I
don't try to hold anybody back, or push anybody forward. My job is just
one thing: teach that Word and do my best to live It. To deliver out of
my heart and love what I know God did, it's up to the people. Because if
I try to persuade you, it won't do any good. Paul said, "Do I now
persuade men, God forbid." [Gal 1:10] My job is to believe what God's
messengers bring. (See?) 

 	Now, let's go further. Slaves, slaves to the dead manna of a church
system. That's right. Can the creeds and dogmas come to offense? (See?)
Can't do it. They won't bring Eternal Life. Paul said, "You don't have
that spirit on you." In other words, as much as we identify or anybody
identifies with religion and God through Jesus Christ, there is a group
that  identifies with the Word, proving who she is. (See?) The Word
test.

40.	Now, let's keep reading, let's go over here to 2 Corinthians
6:14-15, to get our picture. Speaking:

		(14) 	Be ye not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship 
					hath righteousness with unrighteousness? …

	What are under those two words there, righteous, and unrighteous? It's
how you worship God according to the Word, whether it's by revelation or
your own ideas. I know you didn’t get it, I'll come back sometime and
preach on 'Righteousness, Unrighteousness', would take me about two
hours you'll see the picture. But just believe me.

		(14)	…and what communion hath light with darkness?

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

		(16) 	And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for (you) 
					are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in
						them, and walk in them; and (they'll be my people, and I'll) be
their 					God. 

		(17) 	(Therefore) come out from them, and be (a) separate…and
(don't) 						touch the unclean thing; (don't fool with the church
system, come 						out of them. (See?) 

	Don't be yoked with them, See, don't get linked with them. Why? Because
watch this yoking. The yoking is over here I think in Galatians 5:
(we'll get the whole picture in a second.)

		(1) 	Stand fast therefore in the liberty (the baptism of the Holy
Ghost) 						wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled
again (in) 					the yoke of (slavery.)    

	Don't get back in your old church system, the old creeds and dogmas,
your old dead manna. (See?) Bondage to a wrong spirit. Don't be
entangled, snared. 

41.	Now watch:

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

	Now listen, what was circumcision? It was the sign in the Son. (S-o-n)
Now, he said, that was the evidence in those days. Don't go back to your
old dead evidence. The old word that's gone, and the life has moved on.
Don't go back to the system out of which you came out. Because every one
of us has come out of something. (See?) Don't go back, stay clear of it.
Don't go back to your old evidence, your dead manna. (See?) The
entanglement.

	Once, brother/sister, circumcision was the evidence. Once it was the
law. Once the Word was in that church. Once the Word was in the next
church. Once the Word was in the original Roman Catholic church and they
baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, but they died. You show
me one church that hasn't died. (See?) Don't go back to the old system
to what was Jerusalem. This Hagar, this body …?.... Oh, she's got her
children. Oh, she's got millions, she's a work horse.

	Brother, she'll produce like you couldn't believe she'll produce. And
you'll stare and say, "Oh my God, why aren't I producing, they're
producing." Don't get tempted. Oh listen you creatures, I know how it
is, I preached for years myself, and oh how it's easily to do some
little mechanical thing, it'll be so nice, and we'll go down and by a
new typewriter, and we suddenly feel anointed. We've got a nice new
covenant, preacher …?... and should make a better sermon. Hogwash.

42.	Now, what preacher hasn't been fooled with that jazz? Come on, be
honest you guys, you know what I'm talking about. Everyone of us,
there's that little funny idea in there,  just some little thing, some
little thing, get to the Word brother/sister. Nothing but the Word and
leave it to God. You don't know if you're winning a soul. The Bible
says, "One plants and one waters, and God gives the increase." [1Cor
3:7] (See?) 

	This business of thinking you're in competition my brother, you're only
in competition with the devil and yourself,  nobody else. (See?) Oh, the
old dead manna, the old bondage, the old system. Don't be entangled
therein.

43.	Now, let's keep reading. [Galatians 5:] 

		(3)	For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, he is a
debtor 						to do the whole law.

		(4) 	Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are 				
	justified by the law; (you're) fallen from grace.

		(5) 	For we through the Spirit (listen:) wait for the hope of
righteousness 					by faith.

	Now listen: Didn't you hear what Paul said? "We by faith, (this here)
wait for the hope of righteousness by faith." Now, they were already
righteous  with Christ by the Spirit, but they were all waiting for that
day when it's manifested. We're waiting for the thing today. And
brother/sister, this is the day when the Bride goes right back to the
Garden of Eden; where she's under that Word restored right back to
Christ. That's right this is that great day.

44.	Now listen, this covenant that God gave, put us under the Word,
that's the true covenant of God. Now, what's a covenant? It's an
agreement, that God made an agreement. He said, "Okay Hagar, okay
Abraham, fine have the son, I'll make him great in the earth. Great
prince, but no promise, no land, out." What do you want? 

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, is that a promise of God?"  

	I just read it was a covenant. 

	Say, "I didn't know that God made that kind of covenant." 

	You know it now.

	Say, "I don't like it."

	I don't either, that's why I'm away from it. If you don't like it, get
out of it. That's all. 

	Oh listen, let's be serious, I'm serious. Does It say it's two
covenants? Does it? What were those covenants?  "I'll make twelve
princes come out of him. I'll make a great name for him, but not in my
land. He'll be a thorn, he'll be a troublemaker." And the Arabs right
today are trying to kill Israel. 

	Sadat…you know, it's the first of January now 1972?  Didn't he say by
the end of December though he'd have a war going on? Well, he said
something about pretty nasty, because that's a pretty nasty situation.
God said it would be. What covenant are you under today? You'll make a
covenant if you're not careful.

45.	 Because the Bible said they're going to demand of you the mark in
the hand do the bidding, and the mark in the mind to take the doctrine.
There'll be a covenant, which way is it going to go?  (See?)  Will it be
with the Word? Here's your chance brother/sister. We have a vindicated
Message. We do not speak as erring men. We do not speak as fools. We do
not speak of those in darkness. We know we're in the Light.

	Didn't Moses say, "Stand aside, let's see whose side God's on?" We saw
a vindicated prophet. You say, "Is he in the Bible?" Deuteronomy 18. He
said, "When you see a man come in My Name, and the thing come to pass,
you hear him." 'Thus Saith the Lord'. Did it come to pass? Then,        
                  let him that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit
says." [Rev 2:29] I like that.

	Listen, we're waiting right now for the manifestation. Now, what did
Paul say in 2 Corinthians, he said, "I fear that the devil will trick
you through the m-i-n-d."  Now listen, the mind is the womb. Bro.
Branham used some very blunt language. I'm not adverse to it. When It
fits the bill, the Bible fits the bill. He called it, "the whoring womb
was the mind."  Where man commits fornication, and brings forth a
bastard within himself, a hybrid production. A Spiritual monstrosity
under the covenant. I'll bless him. "Yea to the rebellious also he gave
gifts." [Ps 68:18] 

 And listen to my brother/sister, the word in the Hebrew for rebellion
is the same word in the Greek that means 'apostate'. To the apostate who
gave gifts. Check it out, you'll find it's right. You that got your
Greek books, go ahead, you'll find I'm right.  Vincent, Vine, different
ones. Kittle(?) There's a covenant. That's right. Two spirits so close.
Two Jerusalem's, one from above. One of promise, the Word of God, one
under a physical covenant. My God help us. We won't be fooled any
longer.

46.	Now listen, they went into sin, Revelation 2:3-5. Hear what the Word
of God says:

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

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

		(5) 	Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and 	
				do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will 
					remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

	And they did not repent, He removed their candlesticks. Age number Two
came on. Sin appeared, they did not repent, death came. Age number
Three. Every single Church Age. Until once more God has one Message to
Laodicea, "repent, repent, repent, repent, repent." What's repent?
Change your mind. Get rid of your whoring mind. "Bring every thought to
captivity."       [2 Cor 10:5] Put your mind under that Word. You
haven't got 'Thus Saith the Lord', you got nothing.

	I challenge you, nobody here has got a thing to prove he's got a thing,
I challenge you. As God is my judge, the best you can do is talk about
it, and you can't produce a thing. Try to live a good life. For what? So
what? A lot of people  live good lives? Christian Science could put you
to shame. "So, God talked to me." So what? God talks to a lot of people.
"I've got manifestation." So what? The reprobate can have it too. A man
that believes in the holy father, and prays to the virgin Mary, has got
more miracles that you can shake a stick at in some places. Talks to the
dead. Where's your proof? I challenge you, you haven't got it. Shuffle
your feet in the presence of man, he can produce more than you. You
weren't meant to produce. The messenger produces. He's the first-fruit.
You come by faith. You stand in It. And if God by His grace should
produce something by you, remember, don't you boast, because you don't
have was given to you. (See?)   

47.	Don't want to hurt anybody's feelings to take away your faith, I'm
not trying to do it, just trying to show  you something. I'm not
standing on anything I've produced, I'm standing by faith in Him,
because I saw a vindicated man. And remember, it's at the end time this
comes not before. It's the Seventh messenger, where all the mysteries of
God become fulfilled. It's in that last day of the Laodicean  day when
the days of Christ Appear on earth. And those days cannot Appear except
they come by a man. God works no other way except by a man. Revelation
10:1-7, Pillar of Fire and a prophet always will be the way of God.
Death started in the whole church. Death went to the seven branches, but
God said, "I will restore." He's going to do them, now we're getting
ready for the Rapture. I ask you a question: Can you go into the
Millennium in the spirit of bondage? You can't do it. Did God send one
slave into the Promise Land? Not one. Israel was no longer a slave.

	Now listen, what is God doing now by His Spirit? He is pulling the
people out of the slavery of organization, out of the earthly Jerusalem,
spiritual Sodom, Egypt, "come out of her  My people." Revelation 17.
That's who she is that came out of, the harlot. 

48.	Revelation 18:4, "Come out of her," (which is Revelation 17:1, the
harlot,)

		(4) 	…(and) be not partakers of her sins,…(See?) 

	Now listen, if you believe Bro. Branham a prophet, (you can't prove he
wasn't) let me tell you what he said. When they said to him, (in a
certain theological seminary,) they said, 

	"I am surprised as you that you believe that the devil can heal." And
he said, "I'm 			surprised that you a theologian go against the Word of
God that said the devil 			can't heal." Then he said, "Account for this,
how can a woman that's a witch doctor 			bring on healing?" And he said,
"Because they think they're approaching God, 			and they are approaching
God through the witch doctor." And he said, "The same 			thing they're
doing now through a church system."

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, that sounds awful strong."

	Well baby, can't you take strong meat? Have your teeth been ground
down, milk teeth so long you can't understand the Word of God?  Not
being mean to you, just asking a question. Can you prove He wasn't the
prophet ? If you say he's not a prophet, you don't know what a prophet
is. He was a prophet. He is a prophet. Those ministries don't die.

49.	When Samuel came back that at the behest of Saul, he was still a
prophet. Had the robes on. (See?) Now, he said the church system
approaching unto God, and remember, rebellion is tantamount to
witchcraft. So, what's the difference between what Bro. Branham said in
the Bible there is no difference, he says the Bible. Witchcraft, because
they don't obey the Word of God. Creeds and dogmas, rather than the
Words of Jesus Christ.

	Israel could not enter as slaves, and neither will the Bride go into
the Kingdom as a slave. Notice also about the Promised Land in this day.
God called Joshua who is a type of the Holy Spirit to position or place
the various tribes to take their inheritance that came with the promise.


	What did Bro. Branham say about that? He said, "Here's dad over here
raising corn." 

	Okay, Benjamin comes by, and he said, "Dad, man that's the nicest corn,
I think I'll raise some."

	But dad said, "Hold it, you're supposed to raise wheat." 

50.	Isn't it strange how that the people today don't know what they're
called to do?  Yeah, isn't that strange? But, we'll be as our body can
manifest by the action what it is, and my hand never says to my foot,
"Oh foot, I tell you what  you do, I'm tired being a hand, you be a
hand." Now, wouldn't it be great I can't bend my poor old crocky knees
to get a spoon between my toes and feed myself, and my back can't take
it.  Now, wouldn't it be great for my foot to say be a hand, and my hand
would say you have got to be sick?  And the body of Christ is just that
miserable today, because you've got people  today trying to be what they
never were called for. You've got men with gift ministries invading the
pulpit, when a gift ministry does not constitute authority and get
behind the pulpit. It's, one, two, three, four, five, It says, "First of
all apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, " [1 Cor 12:38] and
he quits numbering after that, miracles. after the five-fold ministries,
there are no more numbers.

	See, you've got men all over the world with great big tent ministries.
I'm not fussing at them, I'm just telling you the truth. Because I don't
care what they do. Not my business what they do,            I got to
keep  my own nose clean. Let them do it, they're supposed to do it.
They're going to do it. I'm not going to try to stop them, less God
rebuke me. You show me when a gift  constituted the five-fold minister.
It doesn't. But, they talk with authority, which authority they don't
have, because they don't believe the Word.

51.	Now, Jesus said,  "If I had not done the works no other man did,
they had not sinned."            [Jn 15:24a]  You show me a man that
could touch William Branham. You show me all the evidence, one person.
You show me three million people that could say, "I guarantee healing."
When you don't even dare say, "I watch the hairs of my head." You don't
even dare say, "I'll go to town tomorrow." You don't even dare say,
"I'll do a certain thing."  You say. "If, the Lord be willing."

	And when did the prophet say, "I guarantee it?" Because God was with
him, and It was God that guaranteed it, not the prophet. Oh, I love
that, my faith is on solid rock tonight brother/sister. My faith is on
the impregnable Word of God. My faith is on the citadel, the mountain of
reality, because it was demonstrated. The Word of God, not trying to
defend the Word of God. The Word of God, not trying to explain the Word
of God. The Word of God, not trying to prove the Word of God. But the
Word of God coming to Life. Oh, that's beautiful, thrills my soul.   

52.	Listen, Joshua placing the people. Friends, listen to me: why does
everybody neglect the 12th chapter of the Book of Romans…you say,
"Because…" Well, because what? I'll tell you why, because the
restoration, the  Pentecostal gift went to seed. And everybody quotes 1
Corinthians 12, tongues, interpretation, prophecy, faith, healing,
miracles, word of knowledge, word of wisdom, and so on. Nine of them.
What does It say here in [Romans] chapter 12 about gifts? 

	It says, prophecy, that's a gift. Prophesy. Now, It says, ministry.
What's a ministry? Serving people. What way? A million ways. "He that
teaches, teach." [Rom 12:6] (See?) If you're a teacher, you don't need a
gift of healing, per se. Pray for the sick, sure. But who says you've
got to have a gift? You got your gift, you are what you are. Now, watch
down here, "easily exhorted."  [vs 8] Where do you find exhorters?  He's
not a deacon, he's not an elder, not a pastor and the rest of it. He's
an exhorter.

	Now watch: he that giveth with simplicity, (his left hand doesn't know
what his right hand is doing) "he that ruleth with diligence and he that
shows mercy." [vs 8] That's a ministry.

	And he doesn't say, "Well, I'll forgive you this time." So, don't do it
again, he's so glad to do it. I'm glad to do it. You know one of those
big, big diamond grins. Glad to. I love those folk, "that show mercy
with cheerfulness." [vs 8] I could do with a whole lot myself. 
…?...showing us, But I'm that kind of guy too, I'm…?...  Sour
apples. 

53.	It's a ministry, everybody doesn’t have it. Yet people say, "I've
got to have of those nine supernatural's. You don't got to. 

	 "Do all speak in  tongues?"  No! 

	"Do all prophesy? No! 

	"Do all have a ministry exhorting?" No!

	"Do all have a ministry of giving?"  No! 

	They don't, then don't try to make them. (Sure, thank you) It's in
there in the Word of God and not be ashamed or afraid of It. (See?) 

	They're different, my one finger from the other. Yeah, look at this,
this one thumb is here, and this one is different from this, and this
from that, and that from this, they're all different. And I don't say,
"Well now, this finger, little old finger here, I think you would be
much better if you were here." I don't even pay any attention. That's
what the Bride is going to be at the end time. She won't be all one
thing here and there, she'll be walking in the Light as He is in the
Light, and the fellowship will be sweet and wonderful. (See?) 

  	Why? Because she's come to the naturalness  she's been longing for.
As Paul said, "Though we've got it in here already in embryo, there's
coming a day when it's going to come for it, this is that day."
Hallelujah. You say, "Bro. Vayle, you got it?" Got the potential. No
boasting more than that, just got the potential.

54.	Notice, slavery, who gets us out of slavery? The Redeemer. Who is
He? He's the Kinsmen. Who's the Kinsmen?   He is Christ. Where is He?
Revelation 10:1. The mighty Messenger comes down with a Pillar of Fire.
And what is He? He's got the Rainbow over His Head, it's time for the
change, the covenant of God. The earth being destroyed not by water now,
but by fire. Feet like brass, judgment. What comes down to earth? The
Pillar of Fire. What screams out? The Voice as a Lion. Not a lion no,
Leo hasn't come, he's coming, neither has the Lamb descended. It's a
Pillar of Fire, reading the Book it's a Messenger, Christ. The …?...
the Pillar of Fire. What's He going to do? He's going to lead us out,
because Moses did not lead out Israel, the Pillar of Fire did. Moses
just walked behind the Pillar of Fire and he indicated and he dictated
by the Pillar of Fire and they who followed him went on in, too, always
…?... 

	What does the Bible say about those that died? They entered not because
of unbelief. For the word 'preach' was not mixed with faith in them that
heard it. And they died as carcasses like dung upon the sand. They were
church members. Sure they were. They had gifts. Sure they did. Miriam
danced, she prophesied, but she died, she never entered in. Aaron never
went in. Joshua and Caleb went in. Why? Because they believed the Word
of God, and they did not faint in the face of what they saw. They said,
"I believe." 

55.	Now, here's where we stand, God restoring back the church that
enveloped itself in death. Went down to her grave, like Christ did, in
the dark ages having only a trickle of the oil and wine. And God said,
"I will restore." And with the restoration came the Word, and the Word
which was the Holy Spirit, revealed Word, now brings the first greet
shoot. The life goes into the next, the shoot begins to dry, as the life
has gone on. Luther, Wesley, Pentecost right to the chaff. And now
within the chaff is forming the wheat. The same life all the way up the
stem. But listen, it's the life at the end from the living plant that
comes into the fullness of the One that died. Right? Thank God it's
right.

	Brother/sister listen, I do not reap my harvest until I have a harvest
to reap, and the harvest is right here at the top. We shall not all
sleep, there is coming into the Church according to the Word of God,
there's coming into the Church an absolute identification with Jesus
Christ so that as one member descended many members exactly like Him
shall be here. Isn't that a harvest?  I plant one grain of wheat, I get
many back just like it. This is it, what we're coming to. Life coming up
in the plant. Christ the first-fruit must have many like Him at the end
time harvest.

56.	The end time harvest is not just bringing up the dead as I have
said, but it is those living here. Now listen, so therefore, God must
pour into the end time Bride the very resurrection dynamism. That's
right, absolutely brother/sister what…listen…remember the power of
God with a little finger He cast out devils. With a high hand He lead
them out of Egypt, but the arm of God, Christ, God revealed made bare to
bring Christ out of the ground. That same arm made bare in a Bride at
the end time. That's right.  

	That's what the prophet said, I got to believe it. Christ identified
with the living, because those who are gone before cannot be made
perfect without us, and they're guaranteed a perfection is already
there. Here is where we are tonight brother/sister. This is the
dispensation of adoption, the time has come. This is the Age where the
move is on for the Bride. This is the day that Bro. Branham said, "I
call you saints no more, I call you Bride." Right now we're struggling
in the seven step of the stature of a perfect man. Not the eighth, the
seventh.

57.	Let's go to Ephesians 4:11 once more, listen to It here: 

		(11) 	And he gave some, apostles; and some prophets, (teachers,) 					
evangelists; pastors…

		(12) 	For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, 
					the edifying of the body of Christ:

		(13) 	Till we all come in the unity of the faith, of the knowledge of
the 						Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the
stature 						of the fulness of Christ:

		(14) 	That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro,
carried 						about with every wind of doctrine, (and) the sleight of
men, (a) 						cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

	Now notice,  we are to come to the perfect man. We haven't come to it
yet. (See?) …?... Now, "We are to come to the measure of the stature
of the fullness of Christ." Is that what Bro. Branham said?  Okay, where
did he say it? In  first and second  Peter. 

58.	He connected this with 2 Peter. Now, let's go to It, 2 Peter 1:4

		(4) 	Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: 
				that by these (you) might be partakers of the divine nature, having 
					escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

		(5) 	And beside this, giving diligence, add to your faith virtue;
(one, 						there's two, add) to virtue knowledge;   

		(6) 	(Three, add to your)  knowledge temperance; (there's four) to 			
		temperance patience; (that's five) to patience godliness; (that's six)

		(7) 	And to godliness brotherly kindness; …(that's seven, right,
what's 						the eight? Love.)  

	Now listen, he said this was the church in seven steps. Not in the
individual now, the church coming to Seven Church Ages. Then where is
the church? She is in Age number seven under brotherly kindness. What
did he say about it? He said the best we can do is brotherly kindness.
He said we are joined to each other. We're critical, we're fussing. But
let one of those brothers get into trouble and we'll all rush to help
him. That's as far as we got, but there's one more to go that's love. 
What is love, that's God.

59.	Now then, when the Head comes down by the Holy Spirit, and the
fullness of the Godhead is filling us, then God Himself, love comes in
and seals every inlet to the soul so we're absolutely walking by the
Word. And we are no longer in the flesh, or in the conscious of the
flesh, we are absolutely in the Spirit. Then you're going to see love.
And what is love? Not what the world wants to see brother/sister. No,
it's acting the Word of God. Compassion was Christ going down healing
one man leaving the multitude. Love was God choosing one and leaving
another. But when the love, God, fills that Bride, which He will, and
every inlet to the soul is sealed, we will be just like Abraham. 

	"Abraham considering not his own body now dead, neither yet the
deadness of Sarah's womb: he was strong in faith, giving glory to God."
[Rom 4:19-20] (See?) "Who when hope was gone, hope gone, in faith he
might become the father of many nations," [Rom 4:18] coming to full
persuasion. 

60.	Thank God, the Bride has been waking up through these Ages,
especially from Luther and Wesley and Pentecost up to now where she's
coming to full assurance of faith which is absolutely Christ in her.
Brother she'll know what she's doing and why she's doing it. You won't
change her, trying to tell her what to do. She won't make the mistakes I
made putting the wrong ones forth, this and that, trying to do God a
service apart from His will. She won't speak unless she's got 'Thus
Saith the Lord'. She won't move unless she knows just where she's going.
Having the knowledge to stand, stand, she'll do it. She'll be fully
girded, fully clothed inside. (See?) That very flesh will be turning to
Word. That Word in her, the diamond is the Holy Ghost in there. Will be
changing that flesh, the very atom. Until one day the final sweep comes
over her. She'll walk right into eternity. 

	Brother/sister  it's coming. Oh, we quote a lot of fundamental doctrine
how He's just going to come suddenly and that's it. I got news for you,
He's not coming that sudden. Not coming the way people think. They've
already missed His Appearing, we're waiting for the Coming. Now, my
Bible tells me this brother/sister in all seriousness, I got to tell you
what the Bible says. If I wasn't serious and sober to tell you, I would
be libel before God. 

61.	Listen, "Now, are we the sons of God and it doth not yet Appear what
we shall be: but we know that, when He shall Appear, we shall be like
Him; for we shall see Him as He is." [1 Jn 3:2] 

	Now, everybody thinks you're going to get caught up to see Him. The
Bible says you got to see Him first to get changed, to get caught up.
That's what It says. Have you seen Him? What kind of a God do you see?
Three gods in one? They're wrong, there's one God. 

	"I see three Bro. Vayle, I see two."  

	You don't see Him as He is then. 

	You say, "My God wouldn't reprobate one, and elect another." 

	Then you don't see Him. (See?) 

	"My God wouldn't do this in my…"  

	You don't see Him. Israel didn't see Him, there He was the very Word
fulfilled. There He was hanging upon Calvary the Lamb of God. And they
said, "We're glad He's dead, thank God He's gone, goodie, goodie."  We
did it." The very God they worshipped. Christ has already Appeared. The
Word has already descended. Now, they crucify Him afresh. Hebrews.

62.	 Now listen, not crucify  afresh to themselves they crucify Him
afresh. How? The once for all Message the end time revelation. Hebrews
6:[6] read It for yourselves. It tells you that. When they have been
once for all enlightened, they can taste the heavenly gift, the power of
the world to come, the Holy Ghost, the good Word of God, everything they
could taste It, they can delve in It, and they'll turn down that Word,
they'll never change your minds again, it's all over. That's why Bro.
Branham said, "Watch that mind."

	Brother/sister, listen to me, can you bring your mind under control
tonight? Have you got the ability by the grace of God to say, "Look, I
don't care what anybody said, or I have said, I'm going to believe
what's vindicated."

	Now listen, you're sitting here tonight, don't, don't destroy your
soul. Listen to me, Timothy was a great friend of Paul's, he was called
a son in the Gospel. And I can see Timothy blazing forth the Word of
God, and a man says, "Timothy, that was a great message, where did you
get it?"

	"I got It from Paul."

	"You got It from Paul, no other source?"

	"Sir, I want to tell you something, I only preached what Paul has said,
everything else is wrong." 

	You say, "Ha, ha, Paul look…"

	"Look Timothy,  Paul sat at the feet of Gamaliel."

	"Yes, but he turned down Gamaliel."

	You say, "Timothy son, you couldn't…you don't believe that do you?
The man that nurtured him, that taught him the Word, that brought him to
the place he was, do you mean to tell me he actually had to turn on
Gamaliel?"

	He said, "When he turned to Christ, he had to abandon everything
entirely as dung."

	Now you say, "Hallelujah, Bro. Vayle, that's great."

	Don't be a hypocrite now brother/sister, you never saw Paul, you don't
even know one thing if he said the truth. You really don't, let's be
honest. Oh, one or two things that happened, I can get healings out of a
witch doctor. I can …?...in cancer and they'll produce miracles by the
barrel.            I can take you to Alcoholic Anonymous and see an
absolute reformed creature. I can even take you to the Mason's, and they
live blameless lives under that oath. Come on, I know what I'm talking
about. I've had men tell me so called full of the Holy Ghost the most
outstanding lives they lived is when they took that Masonic oath and
lived it. So I know what I'm talking about, don't tell me I don't,
because I know what I'm talking about.

 	Paul said, "I didn't come to men's learning with you, I came with the
Word of God in demonstration of power. Brother/sister, I've seen a
prophet that'll stand up and say, "Bring me your worse case." I've seen
a man with thousands of times said, "Thus Saith the Lord, " and never
once failed. 

63.	 Do you believe that Word? Let's find out. Acts 3:19, Peter said, 

		(19) 	Repent (you) therefore, (change you minds and turn around) that 
					your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall 		
			come from the presence of the Lord.

	That word 'presence' in the Greek is, 'anything, that part of anything
presented to the eye'. It says, when that part of God is presented to
your eyes that's the time of a fresh, brings in the church.

	Now, what was presented to the eye? Jesus said, "If I had not done the
works no other man did,  they had not sinned, but now they have seen
both Me and My Father." [Jn 15:24] They never saw God when they saw
Jesus. No, they didn't, they saw a man. But, when they saw the results
of that Word, they saw God. That's right. That's what He said. Is that
right? John 15, that's what He said. And I saw God.

	Now, I'm not here to sell you a bill of goods, or try to convince  you.
Sometimes I overdo it in a way, because I'm a little nervous, a little
afraid that somebody just might walk out of the building. Not having had
a chance to hear, or to find expressed in the most dynamic or the
hardest way I tend to put it to you, to show you this brother/sister.
Don't get your eyes on any man in this Message, get your eyes back on
the Word that a vindicated man brought. Don't look  to me, I can't do a
thing for you. But listen, in your own soul it's time to take stock and
say, "Can I really prove anything?  Can I really prove it? You can't do
it.

64.		The Word of God brother/sister never meant to be proved by you,
you're meant to believe It. But you're meant to believe what was given
in the Age in which you live. And in our Age, He said, "I'm going to
send a prophet, the full mystery of God, I will send you Elijah to turns
the hearts of the children back to the fathers, lest I come, and in My
Coming I smite utterly with a curse." He's coming, and accept for Elijah
there wouldn't be a Rapture, because (He said) I'll smite."

	Now, brother/sister if Elijah's got to come before He comes, where's
your Elijah? Where is he? Too many times I've picked up that beautiful
magazine out in California, every issue is the same thing, "O God, send
us a prophet. O God, send us a prophet." The prophet went right to their
home. Ate at their table, and they still screamed, "O God, send us a
prophet." 

	You say, "Bro. Vayle, you guys are carried away, some of you folk even
believe he's Jesus Christ." At least they saw something. How blind are
you that see nothing? Who's the blindest now? Tell me? I mean it
tonight. I mean it with all my heart. What does 'Thus Saith the Lord'
really mean? What does it really mean? And God backed him up. He said,
"When the thing comes to pass under 'Thus Saith the Lord', you hear
him."  You don't hear the thing that comes to pass, you hear him because
it came to pass. Now then, if I hear him, I must be hearing God, because
the prophet has got to say what God said, or he couldn't have 'Thus
Saith the Lord'. 

65.	You say, "Bro. Vayle, what kind of a man is that?" He's a kind of a
man that you can trust. You can trust him. You say, "Bro. Vayle, can I
trust him?"  Look, honey, what was this Bible written by? The prophet,
men. You can even trust David. "But David took another man's wife, and
he had five hundred at home. I think I'll rip everything out that ever
David said."  Yesh..sure took care of that.

	"But, I like Paul." But after Paul wrote 1 Corinthians 13, he had a hat
full. He sat down one day over John Mark with Barnabas, and he said,
"Barnabas, tut-tut, John cannot come."

	And Barnabas said, "tut- tut, tut, John will come." 

	And Paul said, "tut-tut, tut, he will not come." 

	So, they had a cup of tea and they went their way. They did not, they
had a donnybrook. They had a rip snorting argument and one walked out.
"Well, there's goes Paul." Well at least I've got Peter and he had the
keys. But Peter sat with the Jews and he was excluding the Gentiles
turning back on the Word the Holy Ghost gave him. And Paul said, "Who
did sin, you or God if I build then the thing which I destroy, who is
sinning?"

	Peter is sinning, well there's goes Peter. "Well Lord, I've got to hear
from You in my own way."

	"I'm listening, Lord, I'm listening."

	You'll hear something, but it won't be God. Don't mean to be funny, but
I've got to be bring my point across. That's the only way I know how to
teach. See, by satire when you're not getting it. Not being critical.
but I've got to show you. Where's your faith tonight brother/sister?
(See?) You got to believe somebody. "By the foolishness of preaching,
it's ordained that man gets saved"              [Cor 1:21b] 

66.  If you're far away tonight brother/sister from the Lamb of God, you
can be saved. The foolish as I've preached is hard to understand
sometimes the things that I say. If you felt the tug of God in your
hearts tonight, you can be saved.

	You know, now listen, as far as Lee Vayle is concerned,  he doesn’t
mean a thing, get him out of the picture. I've got nothing to do, but
there is a Word called 'the Word of God', and It was vindicated in our
day. It was excoriated by those who didn't like what was said. But the
Stone of stumbling, the Rock of offence is the Word. Don't stumble over
It brother/sister. Put your weight on It. Don't let it put its weight on
you, you'll die. You put your weight on It. Can I trust It?
Brother/sister, everything I've got is committed to this Word.
Everything that I ever thought I knew, I put to one side. (See?) I've
changed my thinking, my mind is turned around.

	I preached in one dear brother's church and I'm ashamed to say in Macon
I preached it. And in those days I was convinced the Rapture was
post-tribulation. As wrong as wrong could be. Took every Scripture I
could find, because of the preponderance of what you look for evidence,
instead, that's the way it is. But it wasn't, there was a vindicated
prophet who said, "you're wrong." I got to eat humble-pie, but it taste
awful good. Because, "bread stolen may be sweet, but it goes to gravel."
 [Prov 20:17] I'd sooner eat humble-pie, because it tastes mighty good,
that's after I got through choking on it, the bread came down.

67.	I'm not sick of Manna, I love It. Israel turned Him down. They said,
"That's flat." Sure tastes good to me. You say, "Bro. Vayle, many
…?... said, what about your ministry? Weren't you better off back in
those days?

	I said, "No, I was in error."

	I feel like that man who said, "I would sooner be a pauper in a …?...
having books to read, then being in a king's palace and a king, than
without my books. Take the whole world, but give me the Word. That's
right, if you've got the Word, you've got It all. So, don't be afraid
tonight. Don't be afraid. "So, what just because you're not afraid?" No,
I can't prove it anyway. We go by this Word. I'm not afraid. I've got no
place else to go. If this isn't it, I'm finished.

	You say, "Is your commission to that point?"

	I'm committed to that point.

	"Are you going to make it?"

	Sure I am. Can't help it.

	"Why?" 

	Because I put my faith on the only vindicated Word there is. Nobody
else has got It. Can I be wrong? Can't be wrong. In Thee O God do I
trust. Shall we pray:

	Heavenly Father, our hearts are bowed tonight, Lord, in humility
knowing that this great thing that's coming in the Bride, is going to
come, Lord, into somebody. O God, I think of old Balaam, when Balak
called him and said, "Come on down and curse those people, they bother
me." And old Balaam went down and looked to the hinder part, and it sure
didn't look pretty. Anybody can look at us, we're not trying to win a
beauty contest spiritually, physically, any other way.

	No, Lord, we might look like the off-scouring of the earth, we might
look about the worse riff that anybody take. Let the prophets come down
and look at the hinder parts. We still have the Pillar of Fire, and the
prophet, we still have the Word of God. And we're not trusting, Lord, in
ourselves, but we’re  trusting in Thee. O God, let Your people
tonight, and anyone, Lord, that hasn't got an understanding, I plead, O
Christ, by Your Spirit, knock on the heart door and open the gate of
understanding to the point of looking and inquiring to see if these
things be. Oh, the noble …?..., oh the noble people of the Word who
ponder to see if these things be.

	And I think, Lord, of the day where You're coming to make up Your
jewels. You said there's a people who thought upon Your Name. And
there's a people who spake one to another. And evidently what they were
saying one to another pleased You, because You made a record of them
said, these are My jewels. What's the end time Bride talking, Lord, in
this end time that makes her different from the rest? I believe it's the
revelation of the prophet she's talking about. It makes her different
from the rest.

	Father, that's my hope tonight, and I trust it's the hope of the people
here resting in Your Word. O God, bless each one in divine Presence. And
don't let one person depart here tonight, I pray, Lord Jesus, that isn't
completely under the Blood. That isn't Lord God, in the center of Your
will, that isn't  one with You. That isn't uniting itself, himself, or
herself with that Word.

	Lord, let the people know that we're not zealous for man, we're zealous
for the Word. That came by a man, but It still the Word of God. 
Believing, Lord, You sent a man Jesus. You didn't frown upon a man and
said I've gotten no use for him. So, I'm going to redeem, and I'm going
to do it all by a man. And You did it. And now, Lord, tonight  You sent
a prophet, a man. And we know that he was a fine brother, but that's
what he was, a brother. But You're the Savior, and You're the Word. And
though by the Spirit You gave him, he was able through revelation to
bring You into manifestation to it, he's just still a man. But, we're
taking the manifestation, and we're taking the revelation behind the
curtain into the Holy of Holies, feasting on the show-bread, it's
illumined by the Light of God. Oh it's good, Lord, tonight, it's good
tonight, It brings us life.

	 God bless each one in divine Presence. While we're praying for a
moment, is there someone say: 

	"Bro. Vayle, I'm not near to God tonight, I'm far from God. I think
I've been  born 			of a creed or a dogma, but I've never loved respected
that Word. I'm just content to 			be a church member, and drift along.
And after tonight it's not so. I want Reality. I			 don't want to be one
of those church members under Hagar. I don't want to be under 			that
covenant, I want the Word Covenant, the promise. I know You can't save
me, 			only Jesus the One can save."

	Just raise your hand and we'll pray for. Thank, anybody else? Thank
you. Let's get under the covenant brother/sister and apply that tonight.


	Remember, your first step is that change of mind. That's all you've got
to do is to say, "Lord,        I have taken every thought from my mind
now, and from now on it's that vindicated Word. That's your step, and
get baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and God will give you
the Holy Ghost. Because when you've done the two things, He'll do the
last one. Don't be afraid, that's God's Word. Don't you worry one little
bit, He'll do it. You do the first two. 

	Heavenly Father, You've seen the hands raised tonight, Lord, are those
that opened their minds now to say, I've come under the Word of God,
vindicated Word. I've got only one hope now, and that's Your Word
revealed. Lord, open their hearts now to It, and let the Word come in.
And let them be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and
filled with the Holy Ghost that they might be accepted of Thee as part
of that Bride.

	O God, help each one now in divine Presence. Deal with us faithfully,
Lord, deal with us in such a way, Lord, let the sleep be moved from our
eyes, let the hunger depart from our lips. Let there be only one desire
and that's for Thee, O God. Our soul panting after Thee, O God, as a
deer for the water brook. This we ask tonight in the Holy Name of Jesus
Christ for His honor and glory. Amen and amen.  

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