Christ Revealed in His Word #6

Life: Its Characteristics and Manifestations

June 22, 1986

	 Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, again we want to consider You at this
moment Lord, and trying to give You preeminence, trying to give You
honor Lord, knowing that You will get honor and glory unto Yourself, for
You said there’s coming a time when every knee shall bow and every
tongue shall confess that Thou art Christ, to the glory of God the
Father. There’ll come a day, Lord, when people understand that You
were not just a man. You were God in human flesh, and we appreciate that
so much, Lord. 

	May we have an understanding today that leaves us deeper with Yourself
and with each other, Lord, that we might all be one with You and one
with each other, and that great love, the Holy Spirit Himself in our
hearts, shedding abroad Himself and His ways, not our ways, but His
ways. Lord, grant our fellowship may be in You this morning as we try to
walk in the Light with the blood of Jesus Christ cleansing us. Give us
understanding, Lord. We know that all of us do not have the same
understanding, Father, but we know there is a place where we can have
that which casts out all other thoughts but Your thoughts, Lord, and
then one day we’ll come to that complete understanding and perfection.
In the meantime, Lord, help us with what we have that we may utilize it
fully and live thereby. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen. 

	You may be seated.

1.	Now this, I think, is the sixth message we’re taking in the series
of the sermon Bro. Branham preached on “Christ Revealed in His Own
Word”, and by now we have seen that this message is like many others
in that it does not altogether consistently reveal Christ in the
Scripture, or bring Him out of the Scripture, by carefully pointing out
the various places in the Word where that would be most appropriate. But
extensively, this message Bro. Branham preached deals with how He is to
be revealed, and once we know God’s way of showing Him sitting in the
Scriptures, we can then see Him. So, that’s what this Scripture, this
sermon, is mainly about; not that it does not cover doctrine in certain
areas, but it does show you how that Christ is revealed in the Word,
that this Bible is completely and a complete revelation of Jesus Christ,
so that everything in it is either concerning Him as to a direct
revelation from God about Himself, or it has to do with people reacting,
and the course that history has taken so that you understand, then, it
is really a complete revelation of Him. 

2.	So far in this message the highlight of the doctrine is found in
paragraphs 52 and 53 and 74. And unless one fails to see this, you
cannot actually have a true revelation of Jesus Christ. Now, I’m going
to quote what Bro. Branham says. Unless one sees this, the revelation of
Jesus Christ fails. 

	[Christ Is Revealed In His Own Word, 08/22/65M]

[52]	The Bible is a revelation of Jesus Christ… God Himself revealed
from Word to flesh. 

	In other words, God Himself actually coming into manifestation, wherein
God was previously a Spirit (and He still is, of course), but not able
to be seen, man could not then have any concept of what God truly was
like, and what God truly did, His motivations and those things also
which are with Him. So, it says here that “Jesus Christ is God
revealed from Word to flesh.” In other words, the Word became flesh.
Brother Branham says:

3.	[52]	God is Word, or God is the Word, and Jesus is the flesh. It is a
revelation, of how God, the Word, was manifested in human flesh and
revealed to us. That’s why He becomes a Son of God.

	Now, right there, of course, it sounds a little ambiguous as to whether
you’re deciding whether God is becoming His Own Son, or God in the
office of Sonship, or whether this one he’s speaking of, it’s the
flesh body, becomes the Son of God. Well, actually he’s talking about
the one in flesh. 

[53]	He is…a part of God. The body is a part of God, so much that
it’s a Son. 

	Now, we showed you that the other day. I don’t know if I put it on
the board or not, (It’s not really necessary.) how that, if you were
to take the life that lies in the sperm and the egg, you could put it
under a microscope and you’d never see that life. You could see the
egg, and you could see the sperm, and you could no doubt tell whether
that egg was able to be fertilized, because it was not a rotten egg; it
wasn’t, you know…well, that’s what it really comes to. It would
just not be able to take the life. And you could also see by the
movement of the sperm that there was a life there. But you could never
get a microscope that would ever show the life itself. There is no way
to visualize it, or to ever apprehend it by the senses, because life
itself is invisible. 

	However, you must understand this, that when you come to the formation
of those cells and those two cells going to form a child, that those
cells have to be a part of that actual life because that actual life is
in there, and you’re seeing a chemistry or a manifestation; you’re
seeing the chemicals, which will manifest. So therefore, the body is
literally a part of that life. And you cannot get away from it because,
if the life weren’t there, there would not be a body. So, it’s a
part of it.

4.	So, when you’re dealing with God, Bro. Branham could categorically
say that, “That body is so much God that it’s a part of God. It is
so much God that it is a Son.” Now, you could use the word
‘child’. Dealing with human beings, they could be male or female.
You know, there’s no problem there. But of course, in this particular
instance, it is the Son: it is designated in the male gender. I know
there’s a vast woman’s lib movement on now to feminize God, take
away all the masculinity out of the Bible. Well, that’s all right. You
can emasculate God here in your thinking, but you wait till judgment
day. That’s all right. I mean its fine by me; women can do what they
want, and men can do what they want. And God’s going to do what He
wants. Let’s find out. I’m going to throw my lot on God’s lot. You
do what you want. Go anyway you want to go. It’s no problem of mine.
I’ve got my problems. 

	One by one there’s a confrontation. Doesn’t say we’re going to
come en masse; mass judgment is always down here in the world. God
judges en masse. But up there at the White Throne, it’s one, one, one.
Sheep come in, one by one. Do what you like. I mean I’m not hard and
not tough up here. The thing is, look; I cannot control your lives.
I’m not expected to control your lives. I preach a Word. And if
you’ve got something in your heart to listen, to take that, we’re on
the same level then. We’ve got a rapport with each other, and by the
grace of God, a rapport with God. 

	But you can see where the body is so much a part of God it is a Son.
And your children are so much a part of you that they are children. See,
they are a part of you. What else are they if they’re not a part of
you? You tell me. See, the origin is there. That’s a part. So it is
with Almighty God in the production of this Son.

5.	He also says in paragraph 74:

[74]	To misinterpret Jesus…

	That’s the man Christ Jesus now, we’re talking not about the… You
know, the Father and Son have the same Name. 

	So, you say, “Well, I’m going to talk about Jesus.” 

	I say, “Which Jesus? Father or Son?” 

	What are you going to tell me? See? You know how it is that almost
everybody likes the name… Well, I suppose it was a tradition. I
don’t say we have that same tradition where the fathers always wanted
to have the son named just like he was; then, you bring it down to John
1, John 2, John 3, John 4, and John 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; there’s a long,
long list of Johns going way, way back. That’s fine. …or Georges or
Jims or anything like that. Now they kind of hide it in the second name,
you know. They’re a little bit different. But we say, “Which one?
Which Jesus?” Well, the man Christ Jesus. 

6.	Now he said:

[74]	To misinterpret Jesus, in the form of God in a man, would make Him
(Jesus) one god out of three. 

	And that’s really true there, if you were to misinterpret Him and
say, “All right now, this One here is God, and there’s two more just
like Him. But this one here is called Son, and he’s manifest in human
flesh, and now these two over here were not.” 

	Now, I can understand where you might get two gods out of Scripture,
but to have three is insanity. It’s literally insanity because Jesus
said God was his Father, and he said the Holy Ghost was his Father. The
Scripture tells us that. Which One is his Father? Now, there’s
certainly the truth that a man could have, you know… In nature here,
how in the world could a woman have two men as the father of one child?
Now, she can have two children by two men, and she can be carrying them
at the same time, and they could actually come out as they did in
Sweden; in America the same way, one black and one white, which proves
that we have… The genes are marvelous, and the chromosomes, but
they’re not that marvelous. They came from two separate inseminations;
let’s face it. She had one in the morning and one in the afternoon,
and that’s a literal fact. 

	And if anybody thinks, “Well, hey, you’re quoting from a foreign
land.” Well, I can’t quote as to black and white, but I can tell you
the truth, there is a lady living right down in Beaumont, Texas, and we
could find her name out. And her pregnancies occurred actually six weeks
apart by her husband. And the twins, in being born, almost died, and she
almost died because the one had, you know, the gestation, the period was
through, the period of gestation, so the one was about to be born. It
was about six weeks in my understanding. My memory isn’t that fast on
it anymore, because that’s about twenty some years ago. 

	So, you can understand these things. But you come down to this point
here: you talk about Christ Jesus our Lord having two Father’s,
that’s ridiculous. He had one Father by two appellations: (That’s
what it was.) one called the Holy Spirit, and just one, the cognomen of
God. 

7.	Now, the next thing he says here is:

[74]	To misinterpret Jesus…in being the Word, you’d make Him one God
out of three.

	And that’s true again. Once more you have to realize John said, “In
the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God and the Word was
God.” 

	Now, “in the beginning with God” is what throws everybody. But It
tells you frankly, “The Word was God.” 

	They say, “Well, there it is; proves there’s two of them.” 

	No way. No way. Because he said, “I and my Father are one.”

	Now, let’s remember this: we get it back to the human aspect:
Adam’s body didn’t make him any more Adam than he was in the spirit.
He was Adam. And if he’d never had a body, he would have still been
Adam. Now, remember; the law of multiplication was given to Adam and Eve
when they were one person in spirit form. But it was only in physical
form there could be manifestation. So therefore; what we’re looking at
is this: you do not see life; there’s no way you can produce it by
test tube or discover it by a microscope, only insofar that you could
understand it could be there. But you cannot see it. And so therefore,
whether it’s manifestation or not, it doesn’t make any difference.
You can’t deny it. It is still life.

8.	All right. We have, then, God… We have in our human lives here,
manifestation comes by giving a body to it. And that body comes
according to the attributes and the characteristics, which lie in that
life. It doesn’t lie in the elements. No way, shape and form, although
the elements do have a certain amount to do with it. That’s true, we
understand that. But the life itself is back there in a spirit form. 

	Well, you look at the same thing with what we see in our time, looking
back to the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ. What did God do? God reduced
Himself, (That’s Holy Spirit.) compacted it with all of the
attributes, what you call them, minuscule form, whatever you want to put
it, just down to the very minutest, where you could never even figure
it, because when you look and understand in the human egg and the human
sperm, there’s the twenty-three chromosomes, twelve hundred and fifty
genes of chromosomes come together what? So many trillion times, seventy
trillion times, I think it is, the way you can come together, and then
you get to put them altogether, the chromosomes and genes, that’s one
with nine thousand and thirty-one zeroes behind it, that’s the way
they can come together. And that’s all compacted, although you don’t
get all of it in one child; it shows how they can blend in there and
what lies there. 

9.	Then what does lie in God? When God decided to reduce Himself and put
His life in the form of an egg and a sperm? Just simple as A-B-C. What
came forth? A body, a part of God. And the life of God was there. Not
your life and my life. That’s a different thing entirely. This was not
a created life that God made, when He said, “I’m going to create
animal life and floral life and this kind of life, the botany life and,
you know, the animal life.” And these… That’s a different thing
entirely. God reduced it. And I can see by looking at what’s in nature
and in man, you can take it right back to God, and it’s not such a
terribly hard picture to see…not so terribly hard to solve. 

	And so now we see God in manifested form, because that body was a part
of Him and what does He do? He comes into that body, because that’s
His Own home-made body as it were. Mary didn’t supply anything but the
chemical facility. That’s all. In other words, you want to put it
down: she was an incubator or sort of a factory—makes no difference. 

	We’re seeing the same thing right today. What you have, what do you
call? A fertilization, in vitro. And you can have where they take the
sperm and the egg and put it in the test tube, and they say, “Hey,
this is taking; this is fine,” then put it in the womb. And then you
can have a borrowed womb, like Christ did; he had a borrowed womb and a
borrowed tomb. Some women cannot carry children so they pay a woman ten
thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars to go through that for them.
And it boggles my mind, and I think it’s ridiculous, and I think
it’s kind of crude. But science once more proves God. God doesn’t
make scientific statements per se; He makes the spiritual. But if a
scientific statement is there, you better believe it’s right. Like you
know, like the four corners of the earth: nobody thought that was right.
The astronauts got up there and proved it right.

10.	All right. Now, last Wednesday, we were impressed by Bro.
Branham’s message as to the sovereignty of God. This is the same
message now, “Christ Revealed in His Own Word”, as the sovereignty
of God, in that, number one: it was exclusively God’s Book, not
man’s. We saw that. Number two: it was exclusively determined by God
how it was written. Number three: it was exclusively determined who
should receive this revelation, which is Jesus Christ. Number four: it
was exclusively determined how that revelation was to be given. 

	So, we see, not a lot of doctrine, but we see this One, God, wishing to
communicate Himself to mankind. And the communication would have to lie
in something physical, because we are in the physical, if you want a
real communication. Now, way back in the old days of the prophets, God
could appear in a Pillar of Fire, which He has in this age. And He could
appear in various ways, like in a cloud, you know, things like that. He
speaks out of a whirlwind and does amazing things, and lives in a
prophet, temporarily—very temporarily.

	You know, you can find that in people who are in spiritism. You go to
the islands, especially Haiti, one of your toughest spots for spiritism,
and I guess it’s recognized as the world’s toughest spot, and you
know the people love to be inhabited by those spooks, and they think
it’s a great thing. They’re spirits. And they think it’s a great
thing, you know, to be inhabited by them. And somebody may wander into
your house, and he’s got a glazed look in his eyes; now, he’s not on
drugs, because drugs didn’t obtain down there till just recently. This
is a book I read many years ago, and it’s written by Seabrook many,
many years ago, when he traveled the world. He’s a very brilliant
author and a great traveler. And he mentions how they, living down
there, they sacrificed butter roosters and they went through all their
voodoo and magic, and how the Catholic Church was deeply involved in it,
which it always has been. It takes this way and that way, what it wants
to do, because it’s always in a state of flux; no stability you see,
like the bottomless pit—no foundation. All churches are the same way;
all churches. Just Word has that foundation. See? It’s got to.

	And so anyway, these people then, because this spirit’s upon
them—and they’re not under drugs. It’s not necessarily
self-induced, though many times it is self-induced, not a hypnotic
trance, but it’s like a spirit trance. And they come in your home,
they touch the food or something, that food is especially blessed. And
they’re into a spiritism. See, it’s a… 

11.	Now, we’re looking at this here, God having brought Himself to a
place of manifestation, some way that He can be revealed. And in this
Book here we find the mechanical story or the mechanical draft of what
comes into a living reality: in other words the blueprint to the
building, the plan to the production of that plan. And so in here we
see, then, that this God that was very vague to man, God has made it so
that God is not vague to man any longer. All he’s got to do is follow
this blueprint here, if it is properly understood, and in the
understanding to reveal Jesus the Christ; to reveal God Himself, Who
took on that human form. You’ll notice It was exclusively God’s Own
Book, not man’s. It was exclusively determined by God how It was
written—exclusively determined who should receive Its revelation,
which we found here is about Jesus Christ. And it was exclusively
determined how that revelation was to be given. In other words, man did
not have one thing to do with it.

12.	So, we examine these four thoughts under two headings particularly:
‘Exclusively God’s Book’, and ‘Exclusively Determined Who Wrote
It’. Now, that is right. Now, God Himself could have done it. The
Scripture tells us how that Jesus wrote in the sand. Scripture tells us
how God wrote on tables of stone and gave them to Moses, which Moses
came down and in anger destroyed. It tells us how a hand appeared and
wrote in the temple way back there, in the days of Babylon, in the time
of Belshazzar. 

	It isn’t that God couldn’t write. And it’s not that God doesn’t
speak, because God did speak. And Israel was so terrified, they said,
“Don’t talk to us anymore. We don’t want to hear Your Voice and
see the manifestation. We would sooner have a go-between. We would
sooner have Moses do it.” 

	And so God said, “Very, very fine. This is exactly how it is all
going to be done. I’m going to have a prophet I will deal with.” 

	Now, there’s various kinds of prophets, but God only gives His Word
to prophets. And people say, “Well, I heard the voice of the Lord.”
You didn’t hear the Voice of God, even though your auditory nerve was
touched, and somebody in the room would not hear it. That wasn’t God.
That was your auditory nerve being touched. God only speaks audibly to a
prophet. That’s mouth to ear. I know many people are pulled aside on
this, and they say, “Well, I ought to know.” 

	Well, listen, please, be my guest. You know what you know, and do what
you want to do. This is my apple box. This is the one I paid for. See? 

13.	It is no way. There’s no way. Search the Scripture. You say,
“Well look; the thing is this: I don’t use that Scripture.” Fine,
then why do you talk about God? Why do you mention Jesus Christ? You
want to talk about God and pantheism, that there’s a universal spirit
there, that’s fine by me. You may even go with Mrs. Baker Eddy and
say, “God is universal mind.” That is still fine by me. No problem.
No problem. But when she said there’s no more efficacy in the blood of
Jesus Christ than the blood of a rooster, there’s something wrong with
her. She was not…and I do not pan her epilepsy, but epilepsy is also a
spirit in many, many cases. Sometimes it’s by injury. But in many
cases people are simply with that spirit; spirit gets cast out, that
person is perfectly fine from that time on. But she was a very sordid
individual; tried to commit murder, everything else. How much she heard
from God, I wouldn’t give her a nickel’s worth of my time. There’s
no way.

	They can believe what they want to believe out there, that’s fine by
me. But the Bible here, which we go by, declares distinctly this is the
Word of Almighty God, and the prophets absolutely were the only ones to
whom God communicated His Word, and we’ll see more about that as time
goes on. In other words, this is God’s Word exclusively; It does not
contain the word of man, which we’ll see that later on also. God
determined who would write it. And it is not a man coming and saying,
“Now look, Lord, I’m here as your amanuensis, or your secretary,
your private stenographer, or secretary. I’m not here as one to copy
down, so you talk to me.” It’s not that at all. God picks that man.
We’ll see that too, also, as we go along.

14.	Number two: the exclusivity determined, exclusively determined, who
and how the revelation, to whom and how the revelation was to be given.
Now, there again we see the sovereignty of God. He picked the prophet to
give it, and only certain people can receive it. And we’ll see more of
that as we go along.

	So here we see this is like an exclusive club. And you know something?
That is exactly what Paul calls it: the initiated. He said, “This Word
cannot be given to anybody but to the perfect.” And that is a word
that is actually “cultish”. That’s to the exclusive. And what it
is, you’re perfect in the mysteries. In other words, you have an
understanding which is spiritually given. But it does not make you a
Gnostic and belong to the Gnosis. The Gnosis read in between the lines,
and they say, “Look, we heard something from God, and it’s different
from this here. It gives us more of a revelation.” 

	No, that’s not it. They had those in the first Church Age. They’ve
got them today. They’re all over the place. See? 

	But it is really an exclusive club. That’s why the Bible said only
the very Elect are not deceived. Not just Elect now, very Elect. And the
very Elect only appear at this end time as they appeared at the
beginning. Now, we’re not preaching an exclusive club membership. Far
be it. We don’t talk of membership here, as though this church could
do one thing for you. Not on your life; not at all. We don’t say that.
We’re talking of God’s exclusive club, the Bride, (See?) which were
foreknown before the foundation of the world. And if your name wasn’t
on the membership of that Book, the Lamb’s Book of Life, no matter how
you would like to come to the exclusive club, you cannot get in it. Not
one of us today has gotten this exclusive club because we got into it.
We’re already a part of Him before the foundation of the world. That
spirit life form, you see, that had to have a manifestation. You already
were.

15.	If you tell me you weren’t, you’re ridiculous. Where did you
come from? Your grandfather? Your great-grandfather? You’re
great-great? Your great-great-great? I’ll put it back to what, a
hundred zeroes? I don’t know. I don’t know how far six thousand
years go back. And then you’ll see. You were there. Then, where were
you before then? See, where were you? And you had to have representation
back there, or you don’t have one now. Oh, it’s just a very
exclusive club. Ah, yes. Yet it had a Foundation Stone and a Headstone.
And it’s all of one—all of one Source. Absolutely. Don’t make any
mistake about it. Very exclusive club. See? 

	So, God has determined exclusively by Himself how the revelation was to
be given, to whom it was to be given, and then passed on, and who would
receive it. And as many as were ordained to eternal life believed. As
many as were ordained believed; those who were not ordained could not
believe. And Paul says, “As many as are perfect…” 

16.	I wonder if I can find it over here. Just not too good a memory, you
know, so you know you can’t trust me too good when it comes to my
memory. Now, in verse 6 of chapter 2: [1 Corinthians 2]

(6)	Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the
wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to
nothing:

(7)	But we speak the wisdom of God (to the perfect) in a mystery, even
the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

(8)	Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it,
they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

	Now, you tell me this, at the end time they’re supposed to crucify to
themselves the Son of God afresh. Now, if it wasn’t an exclusive club,
so to speak… (And pardon me for using the terminology. It’s a bad
terminology.) …if it weren’t an exclusive Bride with an exclusive
revelation, do you believe they would crucify to themselves the Son of
God afresh? No way, shape and form! Any more than they did it back there
two thousand years ago. 

	Now, that makes us nobody. I know people think that. Farthest thing in
our minds. You talk to a Christian, he thinks he’s the lowest form of
humanity in the world. He thinks he’s the most degraded, worthless,
no-good piece of junk except Almighty God looked down and said,
“Hey.” But the Bible said He takes the beggars off the dung heap and
makes them princes. So, if you weren’t on a dung heap, then you never
can be a prince. This is something like the old fable, you know, kissing
the frog, turns into a prince. Uh-huh. God kissed the frogs. You’d bet
He did. And He got a bunch of princes out of the deal. Oh I don’t
care; we can use a fable if you want. They used fables back there in the
time of Peter; they thought the Phoenix bird was a legitimate story. It
wasn’t, but it did illustrate the Resurrection. See? 

17.	Now, this exclusive club is the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, we’re
going to start reading back here on page 27, on the bottom paragraph
there. 

[111]	The prophets did not always understand what they were writing or
what they were saying.

	Now, you see, he’s telling about the prophets, and we’ll get a
little more into this as time goes on. But now just take the word
‘prophets’. That’s all you need to do. It’s a seer: a one that
can look down the road. All right.

[111]	Prophets (and they wrote the Bible) did not always understand what
they were writing or what they were saying,…they would in no wise have
said it, if they could have understood It. See? 

	Well, you say, “How would that be?” 

	It shows you that this is God’s writing, not man’s; that they were
merely automatons or robots, secretaries, forced to do what God told
them to do, and it had nothing to do with them. In other words, the
secretary doesn’t own the corporation! And she doesn’t tell the boss
what to do and what to say. And she better get down exactly what the
boss said, or she’s fired! So, so the prophet. Of course, the prophet
has something built in which the secretary doesn’t have. Even though
she might have a stenotype machine and all little things, she can work
it out so fast, and even have… Ah, she could have a dictaphone, that
would be wonderful. And secretaries do have dictaphones, so they can
know exactly what the boss said. I’m going to tell you something:
those prophets were like those dictaphones. We’ll tell you why as time
goes on. 

18.	Now, listen; Bro. Branham said:

[111]	“…they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” Moved! When the Holy
Ghost moves you, you move. 

	Now, there’s something about a prophet most people don’t know. They
think, “Well, maybe that prophet, he’s a prophet, but you know, he
sort of sits around in a half a daydream, and when he gets to a certain
stage then, and in a sort of a little daydreamy way, he gets himself
sort of comatosed, in a little bit of a hypnotic trance or something,
works himself into it, then God speaks.” 

	That’s a lot of hogwash. That’s not how God does it. 

19.	Let’s find what Amos says over here. It says in Amos 3:6:

(6)	Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid?
shall there be evil in (the) city, and the LORD hath not done it? 

	In other words, It says, and the Lord shall not do something about it,
if there’s evil in the city. In other words, doesn’t God have His
hand on it, His eye on it, know about it?

(7)	Surely the Lord…will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto
his servants the prophets. (Now, It tells you right there… Now, watch
the prophet.)

(8)	The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord…hath spoken, who
can but prophesy? 

	Now, there he tells you, categorically. A prophet is at the complete
will and dictates of his Owner, which is Almighty God. Now, you know,
the secretary can fail and get mad and quit, but not a prophet. And
I’ll prove it. Jonah got mad and he quit, but he couldn’t. See? He
can’t do it. See, Bible lines up. He couldn’t get away. 

	Oh, you say, “Well, I think that’s just a fable.” 

	Well, that’s fine by me, fable’s fable, that’s okay. I don’t
believe it’s a fable. I believe it’s true because we’ve seen
vindicated that something is true about this Book. No other book has
what this Book has into manifestation; in other words, as evidence
presented in a categorical manner, showing that it lines with this. Not
something obtuse and way out there in the foreign fields, my
brother/sister. Not just pertinent and relative, but It! It. Not
pertinent and relative to it, but It! A lot of people can say a lot of
things pertinent to and relative to. But It is a different thing. See.
Certainly. 

20.	Now, listen.

[111]	When the Holy Ghost moves you, you move. (Just like Jonah.)
“God, in sundry times and divers manners spake to the prophets that
were moved by the Holy Ghost.” (Now, that’s an actual quote there.)
Now, that’s why, in all ages, the people who were spiritual consulted
the prophets about the times that were to happen. And the prophet-writer
must be in constant fellowship with the Author. 

	Now, let’s just take a little look over here past Amos, and I had a
little note marked down on Numbers, so we’ll go to Numbers 23, and
this is about old Balaam back there. And I want to see what he said
about a prophet because this king came to give him money to prophesy bad
against Israel, and he took the money and went down to prophesy bad and
ended up prophesying good. And he did it two times in a row. And, of
course, king Balak got very angry. Well, no doubt, you could understand
he would get very angry. You know. 

	Here’s what he said in verse 12:

(12)	And (Balaam) answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that
which the LORD hath put in my mouth? 

	Now, he didn’t say put in his mind, because he went down there with
his mind and his heart full of poison to destroy Israel, to curse them.
And he couldn’t do it. Now, watch verse 26:

(26)	But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying,
All that the LORD speaketh, that must I do?

	Why? Why? He’s his own free boss. “I come down here, Lord, and
I’ll tell You one thing. You want me to bless this bunch of birds;
I’ve been paid to curse them. Now, evidently You will not let me curse
them, so I ain’t going to say nothing. I’m walking off the scene.”
He couldn’t walk off the scene. 

	Now, come on. Read It the way It is. Don’t just gloss over It. Read
It the way it is. He said, “I can’t do a thing about it. I’ve got
to do what He said.” 

	And you say, “Well, was the Bible written by that kind of an
influence?” Absolutely true. See? No problem there. 

21.	Now, I read in Jeremiah, the whole chapter. I’m not going to read
It this time, but let’s go to Jeremiah anyway, and that’s Jer 1:9:

(9)	Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. (Didn’t
touch his heart; didn’t touch his mind.) And the LORD said… Behold,
I have put my words in thy mouth. 

	“I have made your tongue my pen. I have made your tongue, my
tongue.” See? “Your mouth is my mouth.”

	Now, let’s go to 5:14 of the same book.

(14)	…thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word,
behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood,
and it shall devour them.

	Now, what does that mean? It tells you that when that man has to get up
and pronounce a curse of God upon the nation, that nation’s gone. Now,
what about America? 

	They say, “Well, I don’t choose to have Bro. Branham as a prophet
and said the things that he said, and so therefore, I just turn it
aside, and I just say God’s a good God.” 

	That’s what Eve said too, but she died. 

22.	Now, either you got to come to the place where knowing you’re
living in expectancy that this nation has the atomic bomb with its name
on it, and Russia’s going to hit it. It’s going to hit the Vatican
also. You got to realize absolutely that what follows this Message,
whatever date comes (which I don’t know and you don’t know), It
simply says this type of people shall not pass away. And so the doctors
can try all they want—and the psychologists and the sexologists, and
try all they want—you’re going to have your homos with their AIDS
and their filth and their rot till Christ burns them all up. So, put it
down, and put it down and leave it down. 

	You say, “I don’t believe that.” 

	You don’t have to believe anything. You don’t have to believe
anything. But you’re going to be forced to one of these days, to find
out, whether you believed or not, because every generation does
eventually. 

	I know they say, “Well, this was way back in those days.” 

	Sure it was, right back in Sodom. Do you realize how filthy
homosexuality got? They were stricken blind! 

	You say, “Well, I believe they had their eyes opened.” 

	How come they couldn’t see a door? Let’s just say their eyes were
really closed, and they were so wrought up in their lustful sins, they
tried to find the door to beat the door down. In other words they were
completely oblivious to what God had hit them with already to get their
lusts satisfied. 

	That’s… Read Rock Hudson’s story. They took the wraps off. I read
the first issue. That’s enough for me. I don’t need anymore. He
couldn’t be satisfied. Talk to these perverts. Now, some I don’t
condemn; they were born that way. God have pity on them. I’m sorry for
them. When they were born that way, there’s hope for them because Paul
says, “Such were some of you.” But when they deliberately go into
it, as these people have, and try to destroy the rest with their filth
and their corruption, saying, “You will find the third sex will
predominate,” I’m not interested. I will predominate, because I’m
getting out of here and coming back with the One Who’s going to wreak
the judgment, Who said the words are going to be fire. 

	Well, you say, “I don’t think I like the sound of that.” 

	Well, nobody likes the sound of those things, but you’d better listen
to them, because it’s the truth.

23.	Now, he said: 

[111]	The prophet-writer must be in constant fellowship with the Author.


	Let’s just take a look at that constant fellowship with the Author.
What kind of man is he, this prophet? Now, Balaam was not a true
prophet. He had a gift of prophecy, and he was a prophet out there in
the world. And he was under an influence, the same as those prophets
under Ahab were. An evil spirit got a hold of them. Now, this was not an
evil spirit with Balaam. Don’t think for one minute that was. It’s
not so. But you’ve got a different story. 

	Now, let’s go back to see John here; let’s see what John said here.
Brother Branham spoke of fellowship. 1 John 1:7:

(7)	…if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have
fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son
cleanseth us from all sin (walking in the presence of God).

	Now, that’s yours and mine here in verse 7. John was passing it on.
But when you talk about the presence of Almighty God and a prophet, you
are talking about the literal presence of God and not the baptism with
the Holy Ghost. You are not talking merely about some little wave, some
little emotion, something in the spiritual realm, but this is God
Himself. He’s talking about being in the presence of God.

[111]	He must live in presence of the Author to know what the Book is
going to be. 

	In other words, he must be in the living contact with Almighty God,
that that is his life, that the prophet does not have a gift of
prophecy, but the prophet has a complete ministry, a complete life.
He’s born a certain way. God said to Jeremiah, “I knew thee before
thou wast formed in the womb.” They are made a certain way. Their
conscious mind and subconscious mind are so close together, they can
blip out one into the other. They can go into a trance and a vision.
It’s been going on in the writing of this Book. 

24.	Remember; the apostle Paul had a visitation from God and received by
revelation the epistles he wrote, and identical to what Peter, James and
John, and the other apostles had received by way of mouth from the Lord
Jesus Christ here on earth. It was no different. Fourteen years he went
back and checked up; it was word by word and point by point. In fact,
where they had laid down some of their understanding, he had not laid
down any of his and rebuked them and made them ashamed. See? Then what
kind of Presence did he have? He called the Pillar of Fire, Jesus, which
He was; He’d gone back to the form of the Pillar of Fire. See?
That’s why the body, the man Christ Jesus, if you make that God, you
have done despite to the Word of God. You’ve got two gods right there.
Forget it. The body is a part of, it had the life of, the attributes of,
but the body was a man. The federal Headship of Christ in
contradistinction to the federal headship of Adam, see? That federal
headship is really kind of a silly word, because the federal headship of
Adam went down the drain a long time ago when the serpent moved in. See?


25.	[111]	Now… See? The prophet-writer, had the pen and was ready at
any time, and in constant fellowship with the Author, which was God, to
put down whatever He said put down. See? Showed what kind of a life he
must have... a separated life from all the brethren.

	And that’s exactly true. That’s why we talk here of the sovereignty
of God in choosing the men that He wants. And they have a special
capacity; they’re born a certain way, for a certain hour, for a
certain Word, for a certain everything in the sovereignty of Almighty
God. And all of those men over sixteen hundred years dovetailed in
exactly what they said, so He could bring a prophet on the scene today
and show it all come together. And people didn’t want it! And we’ll
see more of that as we go along. 

[112]	Now, that’s why the prophet had his mind set constantly on what
God said, not on what man thought… 

	Now, that’s his own thinking! See? A prophet’s mind has to be
amenable to change. You say, “Just a minute.” 

	No, don’t just a minute. 

26.	Let’s take Moses. Moses sees a fire burning in a bush. He said,
“Hey,” he said. “What is that? The reflection of the sun?” He
said, “What’s going on?” He said, “That’s funny, I’ve never
known anything like this down in Egypt, and I had a pretty good
education.” But he said, “There’s a fire in that bush, that thing
is not burning.” 

	Now, that was in Moses’ mind. There was no thought of God in that
thing at all. He came over and a Voice from the bush said, He said,
“Take your shoes off, because you’re on holy ground.” 

	He said, “What in the world’s going on here?” 

	He had his own thoughts about taking over Egypt. When God said,
“Moses, I’m going to send you down there, and Pharaoh will not let
you go with a high hand, no way, no sir, and you’re going to have all
these signs and wonders, and he’s going to get madder and madder,
angrier and angrier, and he’s going to get tougher and tougher, and
he’s going to get rougher and rougher.” 

	And Moses went down there and turned the water into blood, and the
shepherd’s crook turned into a serpent. I don’t think it really
turned into a serpent so much, as they thought it was that way; not that
it couldn’t turn into one. Perhaps it would be possible. Aaron’s rod
budded. But I think Bro. Branham one place did mention that that was an
influence that God had set there. But there was one thing about it for
sure, that absolutely the waters flowed blood and different things like
that took place. 

	Now, what happened? Now, when Moses showed the sign, of particularly
that time, of the hand and the crook on the ground, Pharaoh hardened his
heart, got real angry, and sent him away, and he said, “Look,” he
said, “you guys are going to make brick without straw because you’re
a bunch of lazy people. I’ve just been too good to you.” 

	And you know what Moses did? Now, there’s no more on Moses’ mind,
that Word, than nothing at that time! Because Moses and the elders went
back saying, “Well, God, You didn’t only not deliver people, but
they’re in worse shape than ever!” 

	And God had to say, “Didn’t I tell you that?” 

	So, the Word of God has nothing to do with the human mind! And the
human mind in gear can misappropriate and misinterpret the Word of God,
which it certainly does. Or how do you get three gods out of one God?
How do you get three gods out of the Old Testament? You can’t do it.
You talk about the Elohim of God, then you might as well have a whole
plethora. Then next thing, we’re all God. Ha! And then God’s in the
church. Hogwash. God’s in God. And this is the blueprint right here.
Then you’ll see God, Logos, manifested, when He goes into action. Now
we get somewhere. 

27.	Now, he said:

[111]	…separated life from all his brethren. (Certainly, like Joseph.
Very peculiar to his own people.)

[112]	Now, that’s why the prophet had his mind set constantly on what
God said; not what man thought, what the age thought, what the church
thought, what the kingdom thoughtm but what God thought! See?

	Now, when there came a time for a decision or a judgment, he couldn’t
say, “Well, let me look this case over, and I’ll see what I come up
with.”

	Now, Moses had been given the Word of the Lord about “Don’t you
work on the Sabbath day.” And a man went out and gathered some sticks
on the Sabbath day to cook his food, and they brought him in and said,
“Now Moses, we got a little, touchy question here. The man shouldn’t
be gathering sticks as far as we know, certainly not to be cooking his
food, because the food should have been cooked the day before, so he got
complete rest. What are you going to do?” 

	Now, Moses had been given the Word of God, but being in a human mind,
it was pretty tough to go through that Word because the Word was given;
so therefore, the Word of God had departed, in that particular sense.
So, he said, “All right.” He said, “Put the man into custody, into
isolation,” and he said, “then we’ll go ahead and find out from
God tomorrow.” 	

	So, Moses went before the Lord on the next day, and the Lord said,
“Moses,” He said, “according to the Word which you have written
down there, the man must be destroyed. He’s got to be stoned.” 

	Now, that was the punishment. You say, “Well, I don’t think
that’s very nice of God.” Well, what we think of God isn’t the
point; it’s what God said. [End of side one of the audio tape.] 

28.	[112]	He only expressed God’s thoughts to Word… 

	In other words what it was, God had thoughts and the prophet put them
in words to the people. Not that God didn’t give His Own Word. He
said, “I’ll put My Word in your mouth.” But it was through the
prophet that people got the knowledge; no other way. See?

[112]	…because a word is a thought that is expressed. You got it now?
The Word is a thought expressed, so the prophet was waiting for God’s
thoughts. See? 

	Now, when you talk of thinking, you always think in terms of say, not
trying to get something original that you may expound upon it, but
really when you talk about thinking, what you’re doing is accumulating
the data which you may have available, and then making a judgment! See?
Well, that’s why man can’t enter the picture at all, because the
Word plainly lets you know what the data is. Some people call it data,
or the facts. Call it facts. Then God makes a decision. It’s all laid
out before us. Now, that’s what we understand.

29.	[112]	The Word is the thought expressed, and the prophet waiting for
God’s thoughts. And then when God revealed His thoughts to him, he
expressed it in Word, “THUS SAITH THE LORD.” …not “Thus saith I,
the prophet,” “THUS SAITH THE LORD!” 

	And that’s exactly true, and that’s what you find in Deuteronomy,
when the prophet comes in the name of the Lord, he’ll say, “In the
name of the Lord this such and such a thing must take place. And when it
takes place… Now, remember; God’s a God of integrity.” 

	Someone says, “Well, just a minute, God might let something slip in
there.” 	

	Oh, come on now. If I had to deal with a slippery God and a slippery
devil and a slippery bunch of people, I’ve done slipped out of control
already, forget it. I don’t have any time for God, and He didn’t
have any time for me because He lied to me. How can you impugn the
integrity of God? If a man came and said, ‘THUS SAITH THE LORD’ and
the thing came to pass, when you yourself would not allow anybody to
speak in your name? And how high up are we on the scale? Above the ants,
well, or orangutan or something, I don’t even know if we got that far.
They’re at least innocent, because they can’t be immoral. See,
we’re in the low scale.

30.	[113]	Now, that’s why they defied kingdoms and churches, which to
do so in their days was a death penalty. Who would walk up into a
king’s face and say, “THUS SAITH THE LORD, such-and-such is going to
happen,” 

	Like Elijah, when he said, “‘THUS SAITH THE LORD’” to old Ahab,
“the dogs are going to lick up Jezebel’s blood and going to lick up
your blood, too. Dogs will eat Jezebel and lick up your blood;”
that’s what he said. Jezebel got so mad, she chased Elijah all around
the country. But you know what? They threw her down. The dogs ate her
up. That’s the record. And the record of her demise was there before
her demise. Oh yeah, sure. …such and such.

[113]	You’d have your head chopped offm if you did a thing like that.
The church would put you to death right now for doing it. But these
prophets were bold. 

	You say the church wouldn’t? Ha! I can tell you one thing: If the
Protestant groups had not gotten to the state they were in and to the
places they’re at, don’t tell me the Roman Catholic Church would not
have beheaded pretty well all of them by now, because that was in their
blood and never got out of it. And now the Protestants are right back
with the Catholics, and you watch what will happen when the Great
Tribulation takes place. Because the pressures on now already. The
church right today can control any place it wants to in the world.
It’s got that power. See? Especially where you got your democracies,
because your democracies have vested in authority that’s going down
the drain, all and all along.

31.	[113]	…you’d have your head chopped off…and so on…. Why? Why
were these prophets so bold? They were moved by the Holy Ghost; that’s
why they became bold. They wrote the infallible Word of God. See?

	Now, notice; these prophets wrote the infallible Word of God based on
the predestinated office and ministry, otherwise they couldn’t have
done it—couldn’t have done it. They’re a special people for a
special work. Now, keep remembering here the title is “Christ Revealed
in His Own Word”. And here we see Christ in the prophets. In other
words, Christ was willing to give his life and stand with that Word.
Paul was a prophet, gave his life for that Word. Peter gave his life for
the Word. There wasn’t one prophet but died for the Word if he died.
And then John was not able to be destroyed by the people, and he died,
not for the Word; he lived for the Word, and he died with the Word, the
same as the others did: called off the scene by God.

	[113]	…they wrote the infallible Word of God. 

	Why infallible? Because ‘THUS SAITH THE LORD’ showed that they were
able to be the mouthpiece of God. God’s credibility lies at stake.

32.	[114]	There are many who tried to impersonate these prophets, such
as priests, and so forth. (That’s right, back in the days of Korah,
Dathan and Abiram.) What did they do? Just messed up, that’s all. They
couldn’t do it, (That is, they could not be prophets.) because God had
selected the man for the age, and selected the Message, and even the
nature of the man…what would go over in that age--what He could put
over, and how He could do it (Now, that’s something right there that
shows you predestination.) with the nature of that certain man. (Now,
watch.) He could blind the eyes of others. The words that that man would
say, the way he acted, would blind others, and open other people’s
eyes. 

	Now, that’s true. If William Branham was a prophet, and I certainly
believe that he was, how come my eyes are open to him and other
people’s eyes are blind, and your eyes are open and other people’s
eyes are blinded? 

	Well, you say, “I don’t believe your eyes are open.” 

	Well, I believe they are. And we’ll just have to wait and see. The
evidence I’ve seen lines up with the Bible. I don’t know what else I
could believe. 

33.	Now, they think I’m stupid to believe and say, “This is my last
resort, and my resources are completely gone now, because this is that
prophet. I have what he said, therefore I abide by it. This is my faith.
My faith comes from this. This is, therefore, my life.” 

	And they said, “Why don’t you just stand back now? Because you see,
something else could come along.” 

	Then I say, “If it does, I don’t want it. I’m not interested.” 

	Well, they say, “That’s kind of foolish.” 

	Well, that’s fine. The apostles were just as stupid. Jesus said,
“Why don’t you boys go someplace else?” 

	They said, “Oh-ho, ho-ho-ho-ho, no way! We believe that you have the
Words of eternal life.” 

	You say, “Well, that was Jesus.” 

	Well, do you think he’s dead? The same One proved His resurrection, a
man named William Branham who said, “I stand here tonight and I
challenge you. Bring me twenty-four of your worst cases, I guarantee
healing for every single one.” 

	When did Christ even do that in his own flesh? But the same Christ
through another man’s flesh, a prophet, did that thing. When they
wouldn’t take up his offer, he went down to the Mexican border and
found a little Spanish girl, all crippled; the best report I can get of
her, she looked like a dish of cold, cooked spaghetti, limbs, everything
all twisted in. He said, “Bring me your worst case.” 

	They brought her: a little, twelve-year-old kid, nothing but skin and
bones and a mass, a mess at that. He held her on his knee, I think. How
long, I don’t remember, maybe close to two hours, said, “Just keep
singing, praying.” Suddenly, she screamed; jumped off his lap, flesh
on her body. Many, many people saw it. That’s not something I’m
dreaming up, brother/sister. That was seen and understood! See? The dead
were raised, doctor’s certificate proving it. 

	You say, “Well, I never heard of it!” 

	Well, you better hear of it now. And I’ll tell you why you didn’t
hear it, because your preachers wouldn’t tell. They were afraid of
their pensions, and little scrawny things, like the prophets of Baal,
too fat a living. They’ll get rid of their fat one of these days. You
won’t need to worry about a diet, brother/sister, too long. You’ll
find out. You’ll find out. You can tow the line. You’ll get mighty
thin. The fat ones will tow the line. You know, America’s inundated by
the black birds, and I think we got the same thing right today in the
spiritual world.

34.	[114]	See? He dressed the man in the type of dress that he was; the
nature, the ambition, …everything just the way he had to be, just
perfectly selected for that certain people that He’d call for that
certain age.

	Yeah. People would get stumbled over Bro. Branham’s language. I sort
of dress it up as I go by, and I don’t dress it up too much…not that
smart anyway. I make the verbs agree with the nouns, a few things like
that—tenses and so on. Doesn’t make any difference, really. 

	They say, “Well, if he was God’s prophet, why didn’t he speak the
King’s English?” 

	Well, I don’t necessarily know God speaks English. I thought more
like Hebrew. He’s not confined to the English language. It’s
ridiculous. Try to put it down to education. What about old Amos, the
herdsman? You don’t have to have a prophet that speaks perfect
English—no way, shape and form—as long as he tells you what’s
right and proves it. Personally, I would put it this way: as long as he
proves what he’s going to tell you is right, who cares how he tells
it? That’s the big thing. If he ever proves, he’s the one to do it.

35.	You know, like I tell you about our neighbor, who I mentioned him in
this series already, our friend John Timinov, next door to us. He never
had much education. Oh, the big shots would come down from the factory,
you know, and well, the big boys that had all the big degrees—which is
fine, you know. That’s good to have those degrees, if you can really
make them work. They had the degrees. They’d come down, and they
couldn’t make the factory go. They call old Johnny, who’d go over
and look at it, tinker a bit, tinker a little here and there, and the
thing would go. How come the big shots couldn’t do it? 

	Now, John wasn’t educated. So, we asked him about our Bendix. He
said, “Mrs. Vayle,” he said, “I’ve never tried a Bendix,” he
said, “but I think if any man can make it, I can fix it.” 

	And he fixed it! The experts couldn’t fix it! Oh, best machine we
ever had, those old front loaders. Man, I tell you, you can’t beat
them. I don’t care what anybody says. Old Westinghouse, the slant
front, you know, they lasted and lasted and did the most fantastic
washes. You get these top… Oh, they can’t even dry the clothes, spin
anymore; that’s the kind of guys you got inventing things. 

36.	Then you think education’s going to do something for God and with
the people of God? Forget it. This man had to be a Kentucky hillbilly in
the vernacular to show up the world. Get away from that stuff that
you’re putting your faith and your trust in. That’s the thing right
there. This Laodicean age, so rich, so erudite. Oh my, so wonderful in
their own eyes. “We’ve got the education, our seminaries.” 

	They mean cemeteries, what they really mean—spiritually dead and
corrupt. See, Laodicea, rich, increased in goods; naked, wretched, and
blind and don’t even know it. This man come on the scene like that,
vast knowledge, uneducated, seventh grade education, but as he said, he
sure knew what was in the books. “Don’t try to sell me short.” But
the elect could not be deceived. They couldn’t do it. Something
greater than just healing revivals was in the air. People didn’t
understand it. 

37.	[114]	…they said, “Well… I can’t see.” They were blinded.
(That’s why. That’s Revelation 3.)

[115]	Jesus came the same way, …immortal God dressed in human flesh. 

	Now, Jesus is that body we’re talking about. And God came that way,
as He had a body to work in as a prophet to give the Word, so He now has
a body to die in to give Blood. I know people don’t like the thought
of blood. That’s all right. They say it’s heathen, it’s this,
it’s that. It can be anything you think it is; it’s fine by me. I
believe in the Blood. And I exalt the Blood. And I get happy that the
blood of Jesus Christ was shed. I’m happy not in the sense that I was
glad to see somebody die—not that at all, but I’m very happy in the
sense that I’m prospered by what he did; in other words, it’s been
committed unto me, or passed over to me. I’ve become an heir through
that.

38.	[115]	Now…immortal God dressed in human flesh, and because he was
born in a manger, in a stable full of manure, not a place to lay his
head; born, people thought he had an illegitimate name tacked to him.
(They tacked an illegitimate name to him.) All these things that he
was… 

	See, they said he was the son of a Roman soldier, and Mary, they said,
it was just a lie.

[115]	All these things that he was, and how he come up a carpenter’s
son, how he had no schooling, more or less, in the world, or the wisdom
of this world, he didn’t have anything to do with it--none of this
world’s civilization, education, or anything. He had not one thing to
do with it, for He’s God. It would clash. If he tried to go to a
seminary somewhere and learn something that these churches were doing...
Why, it wouldn’t even... correspond at all with his thinking, for He
was God. (All right.)

So, education, schooling, seminaries, and such things are absolutely
contrary to the will of God.

	Now, that’s spiritually speaking, not physically speaking. You need
an education. How did Christ pick up the scrolls and read? Do you think
just because God was in him, that he read those scrolls? No. God came
later at the River Jordan and filled him. But he was the Son of God. And
he had to learn. He learned obedience by the things he suffered. He grew
in stature; in wisdom and stature and favor with God and man. It was a
growth like every other human being. He went from diapers to what you
call the knee pads; the knee pads to the long pants; it was robes, of
course. From a tiny baby to teenhood, to teenager, to adult—right down
the line. That was a man. That man at the River Jordan, till God came in
the form of a dove and spoke and the Dove came and indwelt him,
disappeared within him, because the Dove was just merely a form. It
wasn’t a real dove, like a bird flying. It was in the form of a dove.
Shape. You said, “Who saw it?” Well, at least John the Baptist saw
it. Okay.

39.	[115]	The whole educational system is contrary to God. See?

	What’s he talking about? The world systems of education are not
dedicated to God and the things of God. Even the seminaries aren’t any
more because they’re teaching a lie. The majority of seminaries are
teaching three gods instead of one God. And they try to make it three
gods formed in one. And they take a pitcher of water, and they say,
“Now here’s three glasses. And look; it’s the same water, and so
we pour in glass one, two, two glass, and the third glass, now the
waters all gone, what about the pitcher?” Well, that disappeared. Then
you’ve got God amorphous. I can’t see a God that’s amorphous. I
can’t see pantheism. Mm-mm. No, you’re not going to kid me on that
one, brother/sister—no way, shape and form. I don’t wave my arms and
God’s there; breathe in, that’s God. Forget it, forget it, forget
it, forget it, forget it. Mm-mm. No sir, He’s Person. Now, I’ve got
three persons, three glasses? When am I going to pour Him back now? What
if we decide to pour Him back, what happens? Nothing to pour it into?
Uh-uh. No, no, no, no, no. Somebody’s wrong. Somebody’s wrong.
It’s not adding up. The educational system takes you right away from
God. Why? Because it’s a revelation. See? That’s why some people… 

40.	Why do you think Luther left the Catholic Church? Because the
Catholic Church—he caught something in there that the Catholic Church
had that was good to build on? Hogwash. He saw them doing penance, and
he said, “That’s not it, the just shall live by faith;” the
revelation hit him and he tore the world upside down and inside out,
tore it to pieces. It was a revelation; the Spirit of God did it. Great
man, Luther. I know people don’t like Luther like I do. We’d be
buddies. Maybe fuddy duddies, but we’d be buddies. I’ll tell you
what: He’s my kind of a guy. Not that I pretend I’m like Luther; no,
don’t ever get that. I don’t have his zeal. I don’t have his
knowledge. I have admiration—admiration by the ton. Fantastic person.
Revelation hit him. And out of that revelation, some of the greatest
books ever written, right down the line, pure, beautiful consummate
teacher of the Word of God…as far as he could go. As far as he could
go. That mechanics was just right. If that had been God’s day for the
Rapture, he’d have gone. He’ll go anyway now, (See?) because he’s
in that place, that land where…oh my…

	And look at that spirit being I talked about. Here’s Adam in a spirit
form. We’ve got these men over there in a spirit form, with what you
call a spirit body. They’re not eating and not drinking, but they’re
perfectly sensate to the things that they can be sensate to. Are they
diminished because they haven’t got a body? Oh, they’re the same
beautiful people; going to come back for another body. Well, praise the
Lord. Get to see these things. You understand God all the better this
way. See? They’re in harmony; the whole things in harmony.

41.	[115]	Everything teaching away from God, all the time. When I hear a
man say that he is Droctor, Ph.D….

	Ph.D. You know what is? Kind of embarrased to tell you. But you know
what Paul said? Paul said, “All of my thinking, my education was
manure,” he said. It was dung. So that’s a manure head. Piled higher
and deeper, you want to know the truth. Wasn’t so bad was it? It’s
my x-rated sermons are going down again. And he says:

[115]	…L.L.Q… 

	Do you know what that is? I think that’s the low-living quack, if you
ask me, that preach, if you want to know the truth. Never heard of that
one before, but it’s about the best I can figure that one out. Because
any man that goes preaching for the Word of God against the revelation,
he’s a quack, and he’s a low liver, I can tell you that. He’s not
living in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. It’s not a man that’s got
the quantum theory or anything else in there…you know, some lively
individual with a quantum theorem. Not that. 

42.	Now, listen:

[115]	He’s…educated himself that much further from what he really
was called to do. That’s right. 

	Now, I’m going to tell you something. Never forget this. God educated
Adam. God educated His people in the beginning. Now, remember; Adam
named the beasts. I want to ask you a question. Where did Adam drum up
the knowledge of those beasts’ names? Come on. There’s no man smart
as all get out, and I don’t care how smart, he can drum up any name;
he can take the Greek and the Latin, and something else; he can meddle
around, and mix around, and say, “Well, I can see by this, that animal
has such and such, and therefore, I’ll call him this.” And that’s
a pretty good description. But Adam out of the blue sky, by the Holy
Ghost giving him the information, said, “That’s a horse, and
that’s a cow, and that’s a deer, little tiny thing, ah-hah, that
looks like a deer; that’s another kind of deer.” Yeah that could be
the argali or the gazelle, and all these different ones. And there
weren’t any unicorns either. Nah, …one-headed. I’m sure there
wouldn’t any of those things. That’s a name of an animal, but I
don’t think he had just that one little horn. I don’t believe that
anyway. I never heard any… Man can put a lot of things, you know, in
there. That’s supposed to be a certain type of an ox, according to a
literal translation. And if there was a unicorn, that’s fine.
There’s lots of things that are extinct now, too. The passenger pigeon
is gone, man destroyed him. 

	He educated himself right away, but God’s got an education, because
He educated Adam, and that education is revelation. And you get educated
in the things of God. 

43.	Now, remember; we got this in the Book of Psalms. The Bible says
that Israel saw the works of God, but Moses knew His ways. Moses was
truly educated; Israel turned down the education! Israel could see the
wonderful works of God, but Moses said, “I’m going to tell you
what’s behind those works.” And they wouldn’t stand still very
long to listen! And when they’d listen, God would bless them and take
them along the road, give them everything they wanted. And then they’d
get away from God, the education would go, turn toward the world and
what man had to say, and they lost out again. 

	And I’m going to tell you, when William Branham came on the scene
manifesting the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of man ministry proving
absolutely God in our midst once more, God in a prophet, God doing those
things, the world said, “Well, that’s great, wonderful. We love the
revival; we love the healing; love all these things, but we can’t
believe what you say is behind it.” 

	That’s the whole truth, brother/sister. I’ve quoted you Moses.
We’re in the Exodus. What more? What more? We’ve got it all nailed
down here, absolutely. 

44.	[116]	Now, notice how they were now moved by the Holy Spirit. Now,
that doesn’t mean that educated men can’t come in or don’t come
in. Look at Paul. I guess there wasn’t a smarter fellow in his day
than Paul, who was Saul of Tarsus. …educated under Gamaliel, one of
the greatest teachers of the day; great, strict Hebrew; a Pharisee of
denomination.

	…and a wise man, now, not some callow individual here that got his
stuffed shirt because he had a lot of knowledge. He wasn’t like old
Hillel. That’s why they came to Jesus and said, “Can a man divorce
his wife for any cause?”

	Hillel had said, “Put her away any time you feel like, and anything
goes.” 

	Is that a fact? Then why didn’t Adam divorce his wife? Why did he
love her and stick with her? I just can’t… Well, you know. You know
my feelings on that. I came out of Canada, back when they were rigid
conservatives up there. Man, you got shot if you pulled something…if
they could find you. You talk about your old jokes down here in your
South and all, but we had them in Canada. Brother, they were strict. I
came out of strict, strict, strict. They got a lot of sin up there now;
not that we didn’t have sin, too. Don’t misunderstand me. But our
education was strict, brother/sister— very strict. 

45.	So, they had this great man, not like Hillel. This was Gamaliel,
very great man of God.

[116]	…Paul was brought up under him. He knew all the Jewish religion;
but when he came to the church, Paul said, “I never came to you with
the education of men, and so forth. 

	He said, “I count it but dung.” And forgetting those things that
are behind… And he warned them, “Don’t get the veil of Moses over
your face.” 

	What was Moses? Moses wasn’t any veil; it was what Moses taught was a
veil, then that was not the real truth either; the real truth is was
what they taught about what Moses taught! And that’s where you can go
haywire preaching William Branham. That’s why I like to take it word
by word and bring everything to your attention, so we’re not getting
off one Word, by the grace of Almighty God.”

46.	[116]	…he said, “I never came to you in the education of man,
and so forth, because, if I had, then you trusted in that. But I came to
you in the power and manifestation of the Holy Ghost, that your faith
might be in God.” 

	What’s he trying to tell you? A vindicated Word. Paul the apostle was
vindicated before he gave a word. So therefore, the Word he gave was
vindicated. Vindicate the man is to vindicate the Word. Vindicate the
Word is to manifest God. To manifest God in this hour is the Son of man
in full view. Why? Because the words of a man don’t do that. 

	How could Bro. Branham sit with me at table that day having lunch up
there in…not Vero Beach but Jupiter, I think it was, yeah. Florida.
That’s on the Highway Number One on the West Coast up there; East
Coast, beg your pardon. And he said, “Did you notice something there,
Bro. Vayle?” 

	I said, “No, I didn’t notice a thing, Bro. Branham.” 

	Well, he said, “I just had a vision of your wife.” 

	Now, he said, “When you get home,” he said, “you’ll notice,”
he said, “you’ll drive up to the motel.” He said, “The lady that
runs the motel will be hanging clothes, your wife out there will be
talking to her.” Then he said, “She’ll start to walk away, and
she’ll come back. And George [last name unclear] will roll down the
window, and we’ll start talking. And there’s something on her mind,
and I’ll tell her about it.” 

	Did it happen? Absolutely. So, how did he know? Same thing he knows
what he said right about the Rapture and all these things. The
vindicated man has a vindicated Word because God is manifested and ready
to be revealed. And already the revelation in manifestation was the Lord
Jesus Christ, and now to give His Word, which is the great thing. 

	Then people say, “Well, just talk about Jesus.” 

	How can you talk about Him without the Word? How can you talk about Him
unless your Word is right? Because Paul said, “There’s another Jesus
they’ll preach.” 

	Jesus said, “Another will come in my Name.” 

	And the Jews say to us, who were formerly Trinitarians; they say to us
at that time, “Which one of them gods is your God?” Little better
English, “Which one of those gods happens to be your God?” 

47.	All right. Now:

[116]	There you are. That’s right. Many tried to impersonate these
people, (That’s the prophets and the revealers.) but they get things
all messed up just like they do today.

[117]	There was one raised up before the time of Jesus and led four
hundred people off. (Now, you remember that’s in the Bible. Gamaliel
brings that out.) And you know how the Scriptures reads about these
things, trying to do it before the time had come. 

	Now, we had a man named Dowie rose up with a great ministry. And a man
one day went to Dowie out of Zion City, you know, up there outside of
Chicago…Zion City, Illinois, and said to Dowie, “You know, Bro.
Dowie, I’m sure that you are Elijah which was to come.” 

	And he said, “I grew very angry. I sent the man away,” he said.
“But,” he said, “the more I thought of it, the more I began to
realize that was correct.” Dowie was not Elijah which was to come.

	Now, if William Branham comes in that scenario, and he says, “I am
that one,” which he declared that he was specifically in New York, in
“One More Time, Lord”… That was in November ‘64, somewhere in
there I think it was…but declared who he was. 

	People say, “Well, there you are; we’ve had these Elijahs
before.” 

	And they discredit the fact that Elijah must come.

48.	Now, the question is this: what are the earmarks? What are you
looking for? And you talk with people, they don’t know what they’re
looking for. They just know that this couldn’t be it, “because, you
see, it hasn’t occurred to me. And after all, if I’m not Elijah,
well, who would be? But you see, I’m nothing.” You know. You know.
Oh, brother.

	They’re like… I haven’t got a hunchback, but look behind their
back and see how hunched it is. You know, cover-up, just cover-up
hypocrites. Cover-up hypocrites, that’s all it is. The whole church is
full of hypocrisy. Get with it this morning, brother/sister. Get with
and understand it. The church is full of hypocrisy. Pride!

	You say, “It can’t be.” 

	Then you’re a liar, because you’re making God a liar! Because
Laodicea says, “Rich, increased in goods, and don’t lack a thing.”


	He said, “Wretched, miserable, blind, naked;” then, they’re
liars. Don’t want to believe it. Sure. 

	Dowie came, but he wasn’t it. Jehovah Witness’ preach the Presence,
which is the Appearing. Now that it’s come, “Well, we must be wrong,
because we believe it.” 

	I’m going to tell you something: then everything anybody believes
today is wrong, because it’s already been preached. 

	Then why talk about God? Because here’s what they base it on; even
the Roman Catholics are stuck, because for the first time they can all
have Bibles! Mr. Pentecost got the Bibles in there. Not so long ago the
Roman Catholic Church said, “We don’t have a Bible; we are the
Bible. We are the church; we are this, and we make it up as we go
along.” 

	Well, why doesn’t the Pope do something for a change, except stupid,
little politics? He couldn’t even save that poor little priest up
there in Poland, or didn’t want to—one of the two. I don’t know
what happened, but something went haywire. Why don’t they just do
something? Some little sign even. Throw a ball in the air and watch it
hang there. A good spiritist will pull that off. 

	Let them go to this Word. They ain’t going to do it. Jesus said,
“Search the Scripture, for in them you think you have eternal life.”
He said, “You got it figured out that you’re the ones that got
it.” And He said, “You’re going to find It testifies of me.” And
He stood there, and He’s appeared to the Gentiles in the last age in
the form of the Holy Spirit and done the same things. They’re not
going to understand it, there’s no way.

49.	[117]	…some of them tried to impersonate Him, (That’s Jesus
Christ.) and they were all this, or that, or the other one. And Jesus
said, “In the last days, how they would raise up false Christs in the
last days, (That’s right.) and false prophets, and show signs and
wonders.” And we have…that. 

	Now, what’s a false prophet? A man that is false to the Word, but
he’s got all kinds of signs and wonders, just like old Balaam back
there. 

	You say, “Do you mean to tell me that a man could actually have the
Spirit of God anoint him and tell those things and him be false?” 

	Absolutely true. What about Judas? Bible said he was the devil, and he
went out and healed the sick and raised the dead. 

	Now, don’t tell me he didn’t, because the Bible says he did. And
you say you believe the Bible, then you got to believe that. 

	You say, “Well, I think that just got slipped in there.” 

	Then what else got slipped in there? We’re right back to a slippery
God. A slippery Word and a slippery… Who needs it? I’ve got to have
rock bottom. 

50.	I’m getting out of here one of these days. I’d like to get here
quicker than I’m getting out of here, but that’s just not how it
works. I’ve got full assurance that the other side is just fine. I’m
ready for it, and it’s not ready for me. Evidently, something’s
holding up the plan. I have my reservation in, but I don’t know what
happened. I know nobody’s checked out. I know the room is there;
I’ve got no problem with that. Just the date hasn’t arrived for the
convention. That’s right. Because you’ll see people up there you
know in that new dimension we’re coming into. Sure. 

51.	Prophets, false, false to the Word. See, no doubt about it. Lying
spirits get a hold of them, too. They can do everything but stick with
the Word, brother/sister. Let’s understand that flat.

	Now, we’ve already… Before there’s one counterfeit there must be
an original or the counterfeit is the original. You’ve got to hit it
right on the head where it belongs. All right. We’ve had it in our
day, and Jesus said there’d be a true; the evening light would come,
and then the false would come right after it. All right? 

52.	Now, we are well aware of false prophets, but do we realize the
whole body can be false? We can have false teachers, we can have false
pastors, we can have false evangelists, we can have false apostles, and
we’ve got them. 

	You say, “Why do you believe there are people around this Message
that could be in that category?” 

	I don’t think I’ve got much doubt of it to tell you the truth, some
of the stuff I run across. I can tell you people are still back in
Pentecost, teaching Pentecostal stuff. They can’t move away from it.
They’re still legal. They don’t understand the grace of Almighty
God. Evangelists? I don’t know where they are. No doubt they’re
around there somewhere. Where are they? There’s true ones, then
there’s wrong ones. 

54.	[118]	Now, then we realize then that God sent His prophets. (We
realize that it was God that sent His prophets.) That was the way He had
of bringing His Word to the people, through the lips of His prophets.
And notice, you know, Moses said, if you want to read it in Ex 4:10-12
verses. Moses said when God spoke to him. God talked to a man lip to
ear, and Moses said, “I’m slow of speech, Lord… I’m not
sufficient. I can’t go.”

	Now, I want you to notice something here, all the way through, Bro.
Branham points to his own ministry. It dovetails with the prophetic
ministry of every age.

[119]	God said, “Who made man to talk, or Who made him dumb? (That’s
what the Scripture says.) Who made him to see; …Who made him to hear?
Didn’t I, the Lord?” God said, “I’ll be with your mouth.” 

	Now, that’s right. It didn’t say, “I’ll be with your brain.”
It didn’t say, “I’ll be with your hand.” It said, “I’ll be
with your mouth.” 

	So therefore, when God was with the prophet’s brain, that was just
fine, but that wasn’t it. And when God was with his hand, the signs
and miracles now, that was fine, but that wasn’t it. It was God giving
His Own Word without man having a clue to It and understanding of It,
any part whatsoever, with It. I believe God even gave him the divine
energy. I believe He did. See? In other words, they heard themselves
talk.

54.	[120]	Jeremiah said, if you want to read Jeremiah 1:6. …“God put
words in my mouth.” See? He talked, lip to ear with one prophet, spoke
through other prophets, who had not control at all, so God spoke through
his lips.

	In other words, he’s telling you the prophet does not have control.
Now, let’s face it, brother/sister, that may sound very radical, but
be honest with me. Isn’t that only way that God could actually get His
Own Word over, unless He wrote it out on a rock or something? 

	You say, “Well, why didn’t God do that?” 

	Because it was His sovereign purpose to do it this way, and you and I
don’t have a clue or a chance when it comes to sovereignty! 

55.	Some preachers came by, aided and abetted by a guy two years ago,
and I really blew my cool, and they tried to tell me to ride herd on
preachers. I’m supposed to set up myself as some authority and ride
herd on preachers? Let me tell you something, I don’t even ride herd
on you people. I’m just glad you’re here listening to me preach so I
can share these things with you, and you love me and I love you and we
love people enough to get the Message out and help people. But I don’t
have any authority over anybody. And if I tried, I’d have to bring you
the Word, because that’s where the authority lies! Then, if I didn’t
do it because I loved you, and you needed it, then I’d be a hypocrite!


	So, they came and tried to make me ride herd over people. I don’t
ride herd over anybody. But God rides herd over His Word! Because
God’s in a different category! Like He said in the Book there… Where
is that? In the Proverbs, He said, “Don’t give the sacrifice of
fools,” he said, “because you’re in earth and God’s in heaven.
Therefore, let thy words be few.” In other words, you shoot your
mouths off, you pay a price. But if you use the Word of God, the
confession of Christ, which is that Word here, then you’re on good
ground. And if you combine faith with It, you’re on a better ground!
Then, if you let love operate It, you’re on the holy ground. You
become a real temple unto Almighty God. 

56.	See, all these things work out, brother/sister. That’s the only
way God could do it, is take somebody in complete control. Oh, I could
tell you experiences I’ve had, and I’m no prophet. And I can
understand perfectly, absolutely, God would do it this way. What other
way could He do it? No other way. Unless as I said, He was going to
write It on a big rock or something. 

	And the next thing come along, who is going to tell us the hour we’re
living in and the Scripture for this hour? Like nobody knew when Jesus
came here to fulfill the Word of God of Isaiah 53 that that was It!
Nobody knew! John the Baptist said, “Behold the Lamb of God.” 

	Oh, they said, “Come on, what are you talking about? Nobody dies for
anybody. Lamb’s a lamb. Hasn’t the Word of God told us, “Don’t
make your children pass through the fire and don’t sacrifice unto me a
human life”? Then you come along and try to tell us we’re going to
have this man as a sacrifice of blood? Get out of here. You’re
crazy.” 

	Why they’d blow the guy plumb out of camp without a revelation. And
do you think we wouldn’t do the same thing today? And the churches
have done the same thing today! That’s why we should really pity them
and have sorrow for them. I get pretty crusty up here, but when I’m
alone in my thoughts and I simmer down, I’ve got no problem with
anybody out there; I’m sorry for them. God doesn’t reveal it, how
are they going to get it? See? 

	“Oh Jerusalem, I would have gathered you with my prophets.” He
said, “I brought the Word but you wouldn’t listen! I’d have
brought you like a hen takes her chickens in a time of storm and needs a
shelter.” Yeah, bunch of chickens. But the eagles are going to get out
of here on the wings. Oh, yeah.

57.	I’m going to quit now because time’s up, time’s way gone.
I’d talk the next four hours and just run out and you’d run out on
me. Love you deeply, appreciate you very much and we’ll start again
maybe Wednesday, if I’m around here, and I’ll put a little word
here. What is it, the 22nd today? Okay, June 22nd. We’ll end right
here, talking about Jeremiah. 

58.	And we’re ending with the thought here, how that… What other way
could God do it, you know, if He’s going to use some person, something
outside of a strictly inanimate, and then if, He used the inanimate and
did it, then how is He going to get it out someplace else? Well, come
on. Brother/sister, see the wisdom of God? Why, you got to admit
there’s no other way it really would work. 

	Just like Bro. Branham said, that beautiful time, what is it? Mt 5:48.
He said, “Be ye perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.” 

	And you know what he said about it? so perfectly, no theologian ever
put it that way. He said, “God demanded perfection. And if God
demanded, then God’s got to make a way for it!” And he said, “And
the blood of Jesus Christ scatters sin until there be no evidence, then
how can you make a man a sinner? Perfect before God.” See? 

	How could He do it except by prophets? How could He have a prophet
except there be some manifestation? How could we receive, except someone
was sent to us and how could the man that’s sent be any value unless
there was someone to be sent to? The whole thing starts up in there and
comes down here, and one day its going up to come back to perfection. I
mean the physical, the whole thing. 

59.	Do you love the Lord this morning? See how beautiful it all works
out? Simplicity…simplicity galore. Just like picking grapes off of a
vine. Even my collie dog could do that. Wonder where the grapes were
going. …caught the dog taking the grapes. I don’t call anybody a dog
here. I’m just saying, hey, look here brother/sister, when it’s laid
out before you, and it’s out here in nature, then what’s the matter
with us not taking the good things of God, the fruit of the vine of God,
the love of God, the Word of God and placing It in our hearts by the
Holy Ghost, and going one day back to Him. 

	Let’s rise and be dismissed.

	Gracious, eternal Father, loving Lord, we appreciate You so much this
morning, Your lovely Spirit amongst us, Lord, with no bitterness, no
guile, no sorrow, no threatenings, no recriminations, none of these
things, Lord, but a Spirit of love and a Spirit of life and the grace of
Almighty God pouring through us, Lord, we believe wave upon wave taking
us higher, heavenly Father. Let us not lose this moment, Lord. Seal it
to us by Your blessed Holy Ghost. Help us to lock It deep within our
hearts and our minds, Lord, and just be thoroughly satisfied, how
beautiful, how simple, how much God It is, just like we know that that
One that was born here and died for us, shedding the Blood, a part of
God, so much so it’s a Son. And Lord so much so this Word is our life,
inundating us, illuminating us, bringing us all down to a place of the
grace and glory of God as never before. 

	Father, bless each one amongst us. If they’re sick amongst us, Lord,
heal them; we all need healing. We haven’t Lord spoken so much of that
in these messages over years, Lord, and we don’t want to denigrate it;
we don’t want to lose it. We realize that we don’t want to major on
a minor, Lord, but we certainly don’t want to lose the minor, for You
said not one jot and one tittle of Your Word would pass away; therefore,
how could healing pass away? Couldn’t do it, Lord, and we’re just
confessing our faults this morning and our lack of indulging ourselves
in Your perfect grace, O God. Forgive us, we pray, Lord, and help us to
set our hearts and our minds once more for this grace of healing, Lord,
that we might be all healed. And Father, we know there’s something
even greater than that healing, and that is how the healing takes place,
and that’s from the soul outward, to the spirit and to the body. 

	As John said, “That you may prosper and be in health as your soul
prospers,” O God. And truly, Lord in heaven, we would desire that.
There never was a time when the church was so prosperous with that Light
that’s come in, because now is that end time; Headship has returned,
and the same Light in the beginning has now settled upon us at the end.
And Lord, here we are, and it’s settling upon us, Lord, to mature us,
not to go out like a lion and convert the world, but to mature, dry out
a Bride, and make her solid wheat before You, Lord, in Your very image.
Father, we love that, and so, Father, how can we not then look at that
and believe that we have all these things in there, Lord, healing in the
atonement, all the grace and all the divine wonder. 

	O God, this morning spur us as never before, to lay hold of our claim,
to be solid, Lord; I know Your Spirit’s moving this morning, Lord to
that end. And I pray, O God, we shall not miss it, Father, as the
prophet so often said, people out there are missing the visitation, and
they could be healed, Lord. And some did miss, and so many did, Lord,
but this morning Father, we don’t want to miss the beauty of Your Word
maturing us. We don’t want to miss the understanding of Your Word
putting us in a place of this love and this faith, O God, to get the
best out of life, and that best out of life is Your moving in our lives
and doing for us. 

	O God, as we see Your sovereignty, we place ourselves under Your
sovereignty by faith this morning in love, and believe You, hopefully as
never before, and if our mouths are not true with this, O God, fill our
hearts with something so it will be true, that this is a never before
trust, Lord; it is a never before in some respects, Lord, that is true,
because we have the revelation, but now we want to go all the way,
because we know the prophet never gave up on the healing of the sick. He
said, “My ministry is to go out there,” and he prayed for the sick. 

	So, Father, that’s true. We believe that that ministry has never
failed and it’s not going to get away now. There is help for every
single one, Lord. There’s physical help, but on top of the spiritual,
we know the spiritual is so wonderful. And there’s even financial
help, Lord, for there, too. So, Father, this morning we pray, not to get
our eyes on the obtuse or the minor, but realizing it’s all there, may
we walk in the Light as You’re in the Light, having fellowship with
the Word being fulfilled in a people. These mercies we ask, these graces
we want, in the name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen. 

	The Lord bless you. We’re just going to sing, “Take the Name of
Jesus with You”.