Christian's Attitude

 

Bro. Lee Vayle - February 5, 1978

 Gruenthal Church

Saskatchewan, Canada

 

	Bro. Gunther it's nice to be here…shall we bow our heads in prayer. 
Kind Heavenly Father we just praise and thank you for your goodness and
mercy to us Lord.  You've allowed us to come together again.  We pray
Lord that it shall not be for the sake of expressing ourselves, but Lord
rather for expressing Your Word.  Not only in the preaching but also in
the living thereof.  We ask you Lord God now to guide us and to (?) and
may there be such a good spirit amongst us Lord as to really absorb the
Word of the Living God (…?…) Lord.  And now Lord we just commend
ourselves into Your hands Lord (…?…) and you will see us through.

 

1.	It’s very nice to be with you.  Got off the plane yesterday
------some good friends there and I saw Bro. Gunther there
(………?…………)	And I just wondered if I got all my marbles or
not.  Well that’s not really true.  I don’t mind the weather. The
fact is that we’re getting weather like we use to get when I was a
kid.  That’s the only difference…we got soft over the years and when
we (…?…) of warm weather.  We had weather like this all the time in
southern Alberta.  Wet and cold weather…so weather doesn’t mean
anything.  It’s whether you’re in Christ…that’s a different kind
of weather.  (…?…)  I wish I were …I’m not going to lie to you
this morning (…?…) I got to take that back I’m(…?…) I’m just
going to say it kind of flat…I’m not here for meetings past this one
meeting, so therefore I won’t be able to get around to some of the
other Brethren I’d like to visit.  Course Brother (..?..) is away at
this time so I would have to wait till he came back anyway.  But I
won’t be getting across to (..?..)  I would really like to be in more
meetings but actually I broke (..?..) in the south to come up here, so
you understand.  I made some promises…commitments I’m going to try
to fulfill as quickly as I can.  So you just pardon me at this time for
not being in other services.  But we will work something out later
on…the Lord willing.

 

2.	I’m not sure I’ll be back this summer…although I did  (?)
invitation (…?…)  I have a feeling I’ll be in Europe, so I want
you to pray for me, that the Lord will work that out.  I kind of feel
that it will be good to go over there and just visit with the people
that’s the main thing.  Not to preach…you understand I’m not happy
to be in certain types of meetings there…in various parts of the world
in this message because so many cross spirits come in…and I appreciate
that but we’re going to try to keep out of them. And people have a
right to their thoughts but when the thoughts become too hard then I
don’t like it. 

	  Now I know people don’t` believe that but it is true.  You keep
looking at a thing and pursuing it…now you say, “What’s your
authority?”  None other than the Prophet William Marion Branham,
because I asked him privately. Where do these spirits come from?  And is
it possible for a person to get a spirit under certain conditions?  And
he said, “Yes---it’s the same as smoking and drinking”.  You
don’t get a spirit of nicotine or alcohol on you because you take a
few drinks.  It’s when you keep going and pursuing is when the thing
literally drops into a spirit.  And many people don’t realize is you
pursue a certain form of a thought pattern---approach to a certain
thing…that thing becomes a spirit. 

 

3.		I doubt very much if the deity spirit got that way by just suddenly
jumping on somebody.  I think somebody began looking, and looking, and
looking, and looking and pretty soon…they were looked over…you
know…taken over. And I trust, as I say, Bro. Branham on that because I
had reservations about these spirits just sort of jumping on me. 
Actually I think it would be better to have a spirit jump on you, and
you can knock him off, a whole lot easier, than one of these spirits
that you and I develop until it becomes a personality change.  Now I
don’t know whether you understand the thing or not.  You don’t have
to…no problem.  Just start thinking about it; maybe it will begin to
make light later on…sense.

4.	Now I’m going to sort of change my method of preaching this
morning.  And being it is Sunday morning…it’s usually the time when
you look to the Pastor for devotional message.  And I don’t know how
much devotion is going to be in it but that is if it’s called a
devotional message.   You know…in other words your little Christian
thinking.  What we’re supposed to be…right.  And that’s what the
subject is this morning is, “The Christian and His Attitudes”.  And
of course this would actually be a series and it has been a series over
centuries.  You can pick up hundreds of books on Christian meditation
and you’ll find so much time and effort is given to Christian
Attitudes, and behavior of course because behavior comes out of
attitudes.  Because what you have in the Christian feeling…an attitude
will become eventually a behavior.

5.	Now we are going to look at a Scripture this morning to begin with. 
The one over here in Matthew 5: 25-26.  And I am using this subject
matter particularly because I think it is good for people like us who
follow a certain type of message to learn a little bit about this…what
we are going to deal with, to keep us more pliable/flexible and away
from this spirit I was talking about…25-26.

 

Matthew 5:25-26

(25)	Agree with thine adversary quickly while thou art in the way with
him lest at anytime the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the
judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

(26)	Verily I say to you, you shall by no means come out of there, till
you have paid the uttermost farthing.

 

Now he says here, “Agree with your adversary, quickly, while your in
the way with him”, in other words…strike while the iron is hot and
get a certain thing done with to set the tenor of a life pattern or a
judicious pattern in these affairs, because if you don’t…you will
come out with direr consequences.

 

6.	Now…looking at “Agree with thine adversary quickly while thou art
in the way with him lest anytime the adversary deliver you to the judge,
the judge, the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into
prison.  And you will not come out till you paid the uttermost
farthing”.  Now this is a real puzzler, because it sounds something
like American/Canada.  It sounds like a corrupt law court in a rotten
society.  That’s what it sounds like.  Because here…the victim is
jailed, instead of the criminal.  And that is what usually happens in
America…both United States and Canada.  The victim is the one that
always gets the dirt and the criminal gets away.   And that’s
right…that’s what it sounds like here.  But of course the Scripture
is not saying that…it couldn’t be saying that…and it isn’t.  So
we want to examine it carefully so we will know what the Scripture
really is saying.  

 

7.	Now…first of all we look at the word,  “Agree”  “Agree with
thine adversary.”   That is a command.  Now this comes from the Greek
word, which literally means:  To be well minded or well disposed.  To be
well minded or well disposed.  Now it comes from two words…root words,
and the first word basic is…MIND, MIND and the other word is WELL.  So
that is well minded as apposed to being sick minded.  Yeah…sick
minded, or strange.  Not what you should be…see?  In other words he is
giving you a thought here that says…quickly get a right attitude. 
Yeah…get a right spirit.  The first thing about any problem is
to…right away…get a right attitude.  That’s the first thing…you
say,  “Well I’m going to look…so and so.”  No, No, No, No…get
a right attitude.  

 

8.	The second is…look at the word,  “Adversary” Now the adversary
is where someone’s against you, but no it’s not true…the original
Greek again brings out the right meaning, which is:  An opponent in a
law court.  An opponent in a law court.  Now let’s look at a little
Scripture on that, just a couple.  We go to Luke first of all 18 to 3 to
understand about this opponent in a law court…18 and 3 of the Book of
Luke.  And it is going to take some doing to get this now.  Let’s just
understand that. Now 18 and 3.

 

Luke 18:3

(3)	There was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, (That’s the
Judge) and said , avenge me of mine adversary.  (See?) 

 

Notice where it puts it:  An opponent in a law court.  The Widow came to
court and a man came to court and he was her opponent in the court of
law.  So…we go also to I Peter 5.  Just hold that thought there and we
will get back to this fellow and we will tell you what lies in this in
just a second.  I Peter 5:8 and it says again…here.

 

I Peter 5:8

(5)	Be sober, be vigilant: because your adversary the devil, the devil,(
is trying to bring a case against you…going to harm you).

9.	Now, remember that the devil appeared before God…God holding
court…and the devil is our adversary, and he is there to accuse us. 
Now what I’m trying to bring out is this…that when we talk of an
adversary in this Scripture of Matthew, we are talking of a person who
is in court.  Now what I want you to get is this…you cannot actually
appear in court against anybody unless you have something to base your
claim on.  You just can’t go to court and say;

“Well now this fellow gave me a mean look.”

The Judge says,  “What’s the matter with you?  Are you sick or
crazy? ”

You can’t come to court because somebody gave you a dirty look.  You
can only come to court if there is a legal reason for regress.  What I
am trying to show you is that many cases never come to court because the
judges meets the lawyers in the back room.

  And they say, “Judge…can you proceed with this?”  And the judge
says, “NO…you don’t have a case.  I’m advising yo…don’t
proceed.”

And one fellow said, “Well I’m going to proceed”.

So he said, “Go ahead and proceed.”

And the judge throws it out of court.  So what we’re trying to show
you here is---that this Scripture is really saying that someone has done
something which is offensive---which is legally wrong---which should not
be done.  And the person is wanting a legal regress.  See?  There has
been a violation.  Now when this woman came to the unjust judge---and
remember he was an unjust judge.  She never had legal regress… she
didn’t own the property…it was out of her hands.  But she went to
the judge and she said ,  “Judge---I want that property.”  And she
said, “I’m going to come and plague you night and day and rap on
your door and cause havoc in your court until you do something.”  He
said, “Man, I got to take care of this woman---she doesn’t have a
leg to stand on---but he said, I’ll take care of her”.  And he gives
her a regress without legal propriety.  Now---you don’t do that before
God, because God is not going to listen to some nonsense---See?  So what
we are trying to show you here is that this is not mumbo jumbo
Scripture.  But something has been done which is wrong.  Somebody has
done it.  Now the offended person comes toward the offender, the
offender is warned…”you be very careful you have an exactly right
spirit.”  Because you are in a bad place.  And of course I’m going
to depart from the real technical part of this Scripture before it is
over. And I want to bring in many facets to show that there has got to
be a proper spirit in the church and in the people or there is going to
be real trouble.  The most important thing for you and me to have in our
lives is an absolutely right spirit.  So we are going to look at it. Now
there has been a violation, according to what I read over here in
Matthew 5:22.

 

Matthew 5:22

(22)	But I say to you, that whosoever is angry with his brother without
a cause shall be in danger of the judgment and whosoever shall say to
his brother Raca shall be in danger of the council.  But whosoever shall
say, You fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

 

10.	Now he is showing you a process here.  That you had better be on
solid legal ground if you ever make a charge against anybody.  Don’t
be foolish, because you start making charges…you will end up a mess. 
And the man who does something wrong must stand ready for correction in
the right spirit whenever it is brought to him.  So we are not dealing
here with something imaginary.  Many people get imaginary ideas…see? 
We are not dealing with something to be picky.  Many Christians are
picky…see?   One cannot surmise or draw conclusions apart from the
hard facts of the Word like the judgments of law.  If it is not in the
Word…leave it.  That’s why when Bro. Branham brought up the
statements that women came and said, “Well Bro. Branham can I wear a
little bit of a rat or something that woman put in their hair?” “I
don’t know a thing against it”, he said.  But many people laughed at
a Prophet of God standing in that pulpit and dealing with little things
that bothered woman and especially men would get very picky.  Should a
woman dye her hair?  Well let’s find your answer on that.  If you say
she can’t…your just plum picky.  I may startle you but let’s get
down to the nitty gritty.  There is too much nonsense in this message. 
Too much that doesn’t deal with the hard facts of the Word…see?  Now
as the prophet said, “Sure she can”.  But if she is a
blonde…don’t become a brunette.  But if she is a Brunette…don’t
become a blonde.  And that is the best a prophet could do. Because he
had to go back to nature to get his type…and the Bible allows it.

 

11.	What we are trying to show you here is that, when we are dealing
with problems in the church…it cannot be something imaginary.  It
cannot be something just picky.  But it has to be contingent with the
Word of Almighty God.  So we see an individual here in Mathew 5 has made
an opponent.  In other words he has got himself in trouble.  Because
something is defined in Scripture as to be wrong.  Now it doesn’t mean
that the individual got involved on purpose.  Doesn’t mean he done it
on purpose.  Many of us don’t do things on purpose. It might not have
been a premeditated thing.  Many of us don’t do premeditate…we do
things without meditation.  It might not be a spiteful thing.  And it
certainly should not be a spiteful thing.  It might not be an intended
thing. It might be carelessness.  Like a guy hitting another persons
car.  Course I’m not talking about the church…I’m illustrating
now.  How many people intended to bump somebody’s car?  Unintentional.
 It could be unintentional. 

 

12.	But we find we have a problem.  Now the problem is legitimate.  Two
or more people are involved…one is accused by the other.  So we must
be very careful to know something about the case.  And that is here
first of all the offender was not pushing the case…that’s great.   A
man does something wrong…he doesn’t push it.  But he should…he
should be going to the person offended and clearing up what he did but
he doesn’t do it.  He should be but he is not.  Something should be
done about it…he has not made amends…he has not made regress.  
Maybe he’s even tried to wiggle out of it…or he’s hoping it will
die and go away.  A lot of churches do that with problems…they hope
they die and go away.  Well if the people die and go away…your
problems solved.  But as long as you got people…I’m sorry you’re
doing the wrong thing.  You have got to face problems.  This is one
thing that many people want to do.  I’ve got to do it all the time
because I’m a hard mouth and a hard liner and I say…well I said it I
got to face it one of these days and I will too.  I’m not afraid to. 
I know what I say.  A lot of times I don’t do maybe just…quite as
nice as I aught to do.  But I know that I have got to stand with what I
have said…and I’m going to back it.  Not if it kills me…that’s
being an ass.  No…don’t be a fool.  Don’t stick your neck out and
have your head chopped off.  I’m not talking about that.  I’m
talking about the fact there isn’t a one of us can hope that the thing
would just go away because it doesn’t and God said it won’t go away.
 He said you’d pay a price if you don’t learn to face the issues of
life with a right spirit.  Now that’s what he says we got to (?).

 

13.	Now…you notice it’s the offended one who wants the thing taken
care of…that’s what the Scripture states here.  But it’s not
necessarily for revenge or personal vindication…it’s not for that
and must not…actually it must not be that.  But it must be because a
wrong is righted…or must be righted.  Now I’m going to even go
further.  I can see here the possibility of somebody pursuing a problem
within the church and demanding the thing be settled lest it set a
precedent.  Now for you to allow a thing that’s wrong in a church…to
set a precedent…then anybody can do the thing.  What are you going to
do? What you going to do?  You’re going to have to go back and say,
“Look…we were wrong in the first place”.  So the people that are
aware of life as it is amongst us, and this would go for any church,
must be constantly on the alert to see that the church abides by the
Word of Almighty God.  And when the church and the individual does not
abide by the Word of God, it is incumbent that those that see the error
do something about it.  See?  Something must be done.  

 

14.	Now…this person, I’d say might even be an onlooker.  And he
says; “Now I see certain things are out of line here”.  What must be
done?  The church must be set in order according to the Word of Almighty
God and according to the revealed truth.  But you got to go about it in
a right way. Now we can go even further.

	  This claimant…you see…this claimant…is wanting to keep the
church from confusion.  Many people feel if you don’t set things right
in the church or sort of let them slide…everybody just stays happy. 
And they say, “Well…you see…when you deal with problems you bring
confusion.”  I challenge that statement.  If you don’t deal with
problems you bring confusion.  And I’m not talking now about being
picky…and not an imaginary.  But when a thing is wrong…it is wrong
and it must dealt with but it must be dealt with in a very certain way
or everything will just get worse than ever…see? 

 

15.	Now…this problem could arise because a sincere person has watched
a Brother in the church in the business world, that are wrong.  How
about that?  Or in this church here…I don’t know who it can be and I
care less. But I got reasons for thinking, because, you see, I know as I
go around the country, and I happen to run across certain problems, and
I find one man, I might find more than one man who is…not honest in
his business dealings.  Now he’s not exactly crocked…but he’s not
exactly straight.  Now…what are you going to do?  What about a man who
does not attend to business and therefore his family suffers, when he
could do very well by his family?  What do you do about the fact that
people don’t work as hard as they should and they don’t pay their
rent?  Now I’m talking about specific cases…not here.  But if they
are here…you better listen and straighten up.  Cause…YOUR…wrong. 
Now…what are we going to do about it?  That’s not very good. But you
can’t let it slide.  Now I could be just the third person watching you
saying, “Now look here…now I love you as a brother, but YOU’RE
wrong…you just don’t do that.”  I know men that are so sold on
their independence…they wouldn’t take a job punching a clock.  But
they are not able to run their own business…and I seen their families
suffer…now that’s wrong.  That’s some of the very thing the
prophet of God warned against and Paul…and I will show you before this
is over how that Paul even brought up the same thing as he pointed to
the end time.  There would be drifters in the Laodacian Age.  Who would
not pay their bills…no sir…who would not take care of their
families…and who literally putting the ends against the middle, that
would make some sinners embarrassed.  Now…that’s a problem…and…
somebody’s got to handle it. Now you say,  “The church shouldn’t
stick its nose in there”.  OK (I don’t think that’s going to
happen..?)  Someday someone’s going to come by with a four by four and
hit you over the back of the neck for not sticking your nose in it. 
Then you will have a mess.  Now this might not sit good…I know some
young people are even worse than old people but I’ve found this. 
I’ve found that some middle age people aren’t very good examples
either.  See?  The Bible tells us a few things about this, see? 

 

16.	Now what about some family life?  You know what?  I’ve seen some
men don’t treat their wives right.  How would you like to hear about a
person that you highly esteemed, and found he slapped his wife?  Now if
you get so mad you want to burn a pair of her shoes or her or a
dress…that’s bad enough…but you slap her…what kind of person are
you?  Now that’s got to be dealt with…I’m sorry.  That’s got to
be dealt with…somebody has got to do something.  That’s a
problem…see?  In other words, we have a lot of human differences,
there are a lot of human problems, they have got to be settled, they got
to be taken care of.  We have to learn how to conduct ourselves in our
human involvements because we cannot be uninvolved…there is no such
thing as a church that is uninvolved with each other…because we are a
part of each other.  So what are we going to do?
Problems…problems…problems…as the Scripture said where there is no
oxen…the crib is clean.  If there are no animals…you don’t have to
clean the barn.  Ah…nobody comes to church…no problems.  But people
come to church…problems.  So what is to be done?  Agree…that’s the
first thing to do and to keep on doing until the problem is solved and a
whole life is changed into proper spirit and attitude.  Now it has got
to be that way.  Not because Lee Vayle says so…I’m not the author of
this Book.  So what does “Agree” mean?  It means…as we said to
become well disposed in your mind toward the one who is dealing with
you. 

 

17.	The first thing to learn in any dealing…frictions are bound to
come.  You ever seen a marriage that didn’t have any friction?  I
remember the story told by a…of a certain old Bishop…Anglican…in
years when they where…you know…Godly people.  They still are
maybe…but I mean really born again.  And he went to visit one of the
Vicars and his wife and the Vicar said to the Bishop, he said, “Would
you believe, he said, my wife and I have been married fifty years and
had never had a fight.”  And the man looked at him and he said, “My
God…how ghastly or what a liar you are”.  You know I’m not saying
a person couldn’t have fifty years of complete wedded bliss and not
one harsh word.  But I just kind of doubt it myself.  I kind of
doubt…what do you do?  You’re married…till death do you part…for
better or for worse…you accept it.  If you are right…begin a course
of self-improvement.  OH you always want the other person to
improve…so do I…hah.  Anybody can see I’m perfect…yeh…perfect
nonsense…perfect mess.  We always want the other person…see?  But
marriage is a union of self-improvement and therefore a community
improvement…and so is the Church.  You’re involved with each other. 
You cannot help but have problems.  But as a marriage is based upon a
spirit…so is the Church.  Old Doctor Philpart told us that many years
ago.  You know…Philpart was a comedian by the way from Eastern Canada.
 The man that was one of the worlds greatest Evangelist…(built..?)
Moody Bible Institute…Pastored for many years…”Church of the Open
Door in Hollywood”.  One of the truly great men I saw him in the
fifties…what was he…seventy-one years of age when I saw him the
first time…my…he looked about fifty.  You talk about a tremendous
powerhouse for God…old Doctor Philpart.  And he told the story of how
that a young couple came to him one day and said, 

 “Doctor…we want to get married”. 

 He said, “I don’t even know you”. 

 “We know that…but we heard you and…heard of you and we want you
to marry us.”

“How did you hear of me?”

“Well”, he said, “Because a couple of your Church members talked
to us…they came to you and got married and you told them what made
there lives straighten out”.

He said, “Oh…what was that?”

“Well…the story about the two bears, I don’t know what it was all
about but they told us to talk to you and ask about the two bears.”

“Oh”, he said, “I remember that couple”.

They had come to him…you know…and they hadn’t belonged to his
Church yet…they weren’t right with God yet.  So he said, 

“Look”, he said, “I will marry you, but I got to council you.  Now
I’m going to tell you about the two bears.”

  And he said, “What’s the two bears?”

 “Well”, he said, “The two bears are bear and forebear. One must
bear while the other forebears.”

 

18.	  And so they got married and they came back and got converted.  And
the story about them was this…that…they were getting along
beautifully, because…you know…love has a way of getting on
beautifully the first week or so.  Might not even last that long.  And
he got up one morning after…had breakfast and the argument came
on…and it got hotter and hotter and I suppose about
relatives…in-laws…that’s usually the choice one…but anyway the
fight got so bad that they were ready to split and suddenly she or he, I
forget which, looked the other and said, “Just a minute…remember
that preacher saying that marriage was to bear and to forebear…let’s
get down and pray.”  And he said, “That saved their marriage and
gave them a beautiful marriage…bearing and forbearing.”  

	So you see, the spirit is what has got to be developed in a
marriage…in a private life, and in a Church.  And you get a right
spirit…you can meet anything.  If you don’t have a right spirit you
can’t meet anything.  Now I know people will try to put that on faith
and well with faith I can meet anything.  That isn’t true…basically.
 Because you can be a strong person in faith and cause as much havoc as
a bull in a China shop.  You’ve got to have a spirit because that’s
what this is talking about.  Now…we must get a right mind to become
well disposed in our minds toward people we’re dealing with.  We must
get a right frame of mind and stay that way all our lives.  We have to
learn to do it.  We must learn to become dispassionate in our attitudes
to become objective and to keep our spirits down.  We must remember that
though we are in opposition…because that’s what problems are all
about…that that person is our brother the same as in a marriage…that
person is the husband or the wife…see? 

 

19.	We must start thinking and saying as Bro. Branham said, all the good
things about that person.  That’s the first thing to have a good
mind…a good attitude.  Look at him without the problem.  If the
problem weren’t there…if your wife hadn’t said so and so…she was
still sweet and lovely…and if you men hadn’t said something you
would be…oh gorgeous too.  You got to go back and forget the problem. 
Now this is hard…but it has got to be done.  See?  Remember it’s the
will of God.  You’ve got to get away from the problem and look at the
person and just say all the good things you can.  As Bro. Branham said,
“Saying good things cast out devils.”  Well if saying good things
cast out devils…saying good things should keep the devil away in the
first place.  If you don’t want the devil to get a toehold…then do
the thing that [static in tape]…before you have to do it…or get rid
of it.  So say good things…in other words…look at the person all the
good points…don’t look at the bad points.  Look at those good
points.  See? And keep working on them.

 

20.	Secondly…don’t ever say, “He had no reason…I did nothing
wrong…I am blameless”.  That’s the second thing. Said, “Well you
know…he’s really a sweet person but I don’t know how he could ever
say that…you see…because I been so right and so nice.”   Have you
been really?  You know…that’s about the first thing that comes up. 
Well you know…I really didn’t do anything wrong.  No but you were
standing there.  Get the picture? 

 

21.	You’ve got to begin some give and some take.  Was there something
in me…even inadvertently…that would cause a problem…see? 
But…see I run across people and oh boy I wish I didn’t.  Even in
this message…my…they will take one part of the message.  Like
ah…oh…Bro. Branham.said now the reason you put prayer request up
here is because…if you don’t, it can go to seed.  And first thing,
everybody wants to put a prayer request in and sister so and so will
tell about uncle so and so and cousin so and so and before it’s over
you got a fourteen page family history, twenty minutes on a prayer
request, ‘ he’s got a bad eye’.  So what do you do…you put it on
a piece of paper…uncle so and so has got a bad eye. Or what if your
Church is so small and nobody even bothers to talk except say,
“Hey…pray for so and so?”  And somebody says, “ Well what you
got to do…you got to put the prayer request up here or you aren’t in
Church Order…I’m getting out of here…I’m going to change you and
everybody else.”  Now I don’t say you shouldn’t put up prayer
request…so you should…that’s the best way to keep anything from
happening, don’t let Sister Edna get up and run and get Brother Bill
on the platform, put all the notes up here.  Just go ahead and let the
Sister put the note up here.  The Brother put the note up here…that
takes care of it.  But I’ve seen Churches ready to split wide open. 
Now I know it’s not a nice thing.  But right away the person then
becomes very blameless.  Know something?  You’re a troublemaker.  You
are a troublemaker.  If you’re not prepared to come in the right
spirit, with the corrective Word of God…you’re a mess.  What about a
forty-five minute sermon?  That’s caused literally splits in Canada
and the States.  Forty-five minutes, when the prophet said,
forty-five…two hours…all-night…and qualified it.  And then the
person stand back and say, “ Well, I’m wonderful…I’m stopping at
forty-five minutes”.  I’m going to tell you something…I could
preach a forty-five minute sermon…I can preach like a machine
gun…and pour out as much in forty-five minutes as most guys will pour
out in two hours.  I’m not going to bother doing it though.  Cause
I’m not a forty-five minute preacher, same as Bro. Branham wasn’t. 
I teach and when I come, you better be prepared to sit because I’m
going to take my time and try to exhaust the subject every way, shape
and form I can, so you will understand and I’ll understand with you. 
But I seen them get that Holier than thou attitude and then you’ll go
around behind the preachers back…oh yeah…maybe some of you right
here are doing same thing.  Knocking on doors…and going behind the
Pastors back.  And saying, “I have a great revelation”.  You want to
take his fruit.  I’ve seen men run to Europe and split peoples
congregations.  If you call that the Spirit of Jesus Christ, count Lee
Vayle out…I’m sorry.  I’m sorry…I have never met him and I
don’t want to meet him.  Cause he denies his own word, if that’s the
Spirit of Jesus Christ.  I don’t care what you believe or what you and
I are doing, we had better get a proper spirit in doing it.  There
simply has got to be a proper spirit.  And that spirit is…I am not
blameless…he is not blameless…we are human beings…we are
brothers…we must come together…we must solve the problem…we must
work it.  What do they do?  They run out of the Church, and Bro. Branham
said you haven’t got nothing in the first place if you are going to
run out.  You and I are obligated to see things through. 

 

22.	I had to take a hard stand for the Word one time…I’m going to
tell you flat…I’m and the fellow that started to work in
Ohio…where I am today.  I went to that town and said God if you
don’t do something, nothing is going to be done.  But I’m not a
Pastor.  But I’m the one that started it.  That’s right…if I would
have wanted to astute myself like Bro. Branham I could have said, “I
am acting as a Pastor, though not a Pastor, and I am here for life, and
nobody can do one thing.”  But I took my hands right off.  But before
I did a man came by at my invitation, of course I was wrong in inviting
him…I should have investigated the whole thing and prayed about it. 
The man got in the pulpit and preached the awfullest stuff you ever
heard.  So I took a hard stand with that Word, and boy did people get
mad.  They got mad and I am the one that God used.  But I kept my stand
with the Word of God…I don’t care where the chips fall…I got to
preach the way the Scripture is…the way the prophet taught.  The day
came when they walked out.  I said, “ Put,”now listen…I am the
founder…like Bro. Branham…when they said, “Bro. Branham, you’re
wrong…get out of the Church.”  He left the Church till God said,
“You go back and tell them to get out.”  Did you know that happened?
 Well it did.  So I stood to one side and I said, “We will vote and I
will come here for the next year at least…one solid year…I will back
the people…tithes, offerings, everything.  Ooo…that would have
killed me, cause you know my nature.  I was ready to stand right there
and die.  They walked out.  Now you better get your spirits under
control Bro./Sister.  Cause you ain’t…down the road yet.  I don’t
care what you believe and how you believe it.  It will stink if it
doesn’t have the right spirit.  We’ve got to get down…don’t say
I’ve done nothing wrong.  

 

23.	Thirdly…put yourself in the other fellows shoes…see?  Remember
we’re a democracy.  Did you know were a democracy…Bro. Branham said
so?  You vote pastors in or out, unless he founds the work…if he found
it, you can’t vote him in or out.  Of course if you loose entire
confidence because the guy is a mess, then you would walk out…you
would have to talk to the man and then walk out.  But that would have to
be on a morals charge and denying the Word of God.  You have to stay
close…now listen we’re a democracy.

 

24.	  What would happen today if you had a little problem in our Church
like I’m thinking about a certain Church?  And one man is an
Apostle…but somebody said he wasn’t an Apostle.  Yeah…now…I’m
suppose to be a teacher…true or false…I’m not going to talk about
that…it’s not nice… in public.  I could be true or false…right? 
No problem, I’m not going to stand up here and lie…and say, “Bro.
Vayle, bless God, he’s true teacher, yes siree…  OH Bro. Vayle could
be a wrong teacher…oh yes, bless God he sure could be.”  Now what
have we got an issue going.  Somebody said, “Now I want to tell you
flat…Bro. Vayle is a real teacher, I tell you.”  “Well he may be
to you, but he ain’t to me.”  Then the fats in the fire? 
No…it’s a democracy.  Until you can sit down and say, “Bro. Vayle
to me is a teacher…and they say, “Bro. Vayle to me is not a
teacher.”  Halleluiah, shake hands lets go on for Jesus.  Now you’re
getting somewhere…until then you got nowhere.  Your’ a prime target
for a fuss and a fight until you realize this is a democracy.  I have a
right to talk…you have a right to talk… then let’s just talk and
not get mad.  You saying I’m a true teacher don’t make me one and
you saying I’m a false teacher don’t make me one.  I’m either one
according to God.  How you going to prove any different?  Look…I’m
not here vindicated.  I’m not at all vindicated to prove anything. 
And I’ve seen the boys that call themselves vindicated fall flat on
their flipper.  They get shot down every time…I’m not lying to you. 
I’ve been watching this for years and I don’t intend to get shot
down…I’m already down, I hope…if I go up may God shoot me
down…and I don’t have to even…that’s silly to pray that…He
will shoot me down.  But we’re a democracy.  Now how many of you
can…with a good feeling and maintain it…get into that little set
(?)…  Huh…well you got to.  Oh you got to…you don’t take sides
and issues over personalities…that’s hogwash.  First time I said it
today…just keep count somebody.  Yeah…see? 

 

25.	Now…so it doesn’t really matter then who is the offended one and
who is the offender.  There has got to come a time of getting the right
spirit.  Now…this is one reason why a pastor has one of the most
valuable assets that people overlook…and that’s the ability to get
between two people and take both hands and not get involved in the
fight…yeah.  If a pastor gets involved personally…he is going to get
a scab on his nose like he couldn’t believe possible.  Bro. Branham
said the pastor must be a kind who can sit between both…take both
hands and bring them to the Word…right?  Well…you know a lot of
people want a pastor to be a fire brand…my he’s got to be a perfect
teacher…that’s nice if he is…flaming Evangelist…that’s nice if
he is…great ministry.  I got news for you…the greatest ministry any
pastor can have is to keep your spirits right.  Yes sir…to take you by
the hand and just take you to the Word and keep your spirits just nice
and sweet so the day will come when you both simmer right down and the
little finger is not getting in the way of the big thumb etc. but
everything is just nice…see?  Now that’s true whether you like it or
not…now see?  I Corinthians 6:1-5

 

I Corinthians 6:1-5

(1)	Dare any of you having a matter against another, go to law before
the unjust, and not before the saints.  (Now it tells you right here if
anything comes up in the Church, your suppose to deal with it right in
the Church.)

(2)	Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world?  And if the
world shall be judged by you are you unworthy to judge the smallest
matters?  (Now this let’s the Church know…look…I have got to come
to the place where I can handle situations.  Can this Church handle
situations?  I hope it can…I don’t know I’m just throwing the
thing out for you…I don’t know what goes on here…care less…I
don’t need it.)

(3)	Know you not your going to judge angels?  How much more things that
pertain to this life? 

 	He hurt my feelings…he said so and so…she did this…Oh
boy…preachers wives…they are dillies.  I know couple of preachers
wives do their hair certain way and every woman in the congregation does
it and the preachers wives get mad cause they pay a lot of money to get
that hair dou…ho ho ho good joke.  Oh God…then you wonder why
we’re not in the Rapture…Hah…I’m not kidding you…I’m telling
you the truth.  What kind of hokaman nonsence get a big ten pound
bag…cut eye holes and put it over your head.  Shheee Huh?  

(4)	If you then have judgements of things pertaining to this life, set
them to judge, who are least esteemed in the Church.  

(5)	I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not a wise man among
you?  No not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?  

 

26.	Where is the pastor?  You mean the fight got so bad it got out of
the pastors hands?  HOOUUU that’s a bad situation.  First thing you
look for your pastor brethren…you’re here I know as a shepard to
help the sheep and Bro. Branham says it’s a sick sheep that pulls the
wool off of another sheep…right?  So…pastors got his most important
job cut out…is to keep the spirit right in the Churches but so many
people don’t like it cause they want to make the pastor a fire brand. 
This is it…this is it…this is it…this is it…this is the
message…this is it…this is it…Rah, Rah, Rah.  You’ll pay a price
before it’s over.  You will get a spirit on you Bro./Sis. And before
it’s over you’ll change your doctrine ten times before it’s over. 
You say,  “Lee Vayle what are you talking about?”  I’m talking
about something you know, or your too stupid to be even talked to…I
take that back and the way it sounded…but I want a…spiritually there
is something wrong somewhere.  If you don’t know by now after twelve
years the prophet’s dead.  That there hasn’t been change, and
change, and change, and change, and change.  If he didn’t come back
this Easter…he’ll come back next Easter…didn’t come back
then…another one.  How do you know…maybe Christmas morning come out
of the ground.  You can’t build doctrine and a life on those
things…get your spirits down.  See?  Now if I hurt feelings I’m
sorry but I got to get my spirit down.  I know where the trouble
lies…Satan had his trouble there too…pride and arrogance.  The
end-time has the same problem.  Get those spirits down…get them down. 
Get them down.  That’s what a good pastor will do…just keep things
down…sweet with Jesus…within the congregation…. and just
say…watch.  Oh he will be teaching doctrine…don’t worry…he knows
where he stands.  But he knows one thing…that no matter how right he
is…there’s rightness, and rightness, and a superior rightness.  And
if you want the real rightness…it is getting that good attitude…that
good mind…really humble before the Lord. 

 

27.	Now never at any time during a confrontation for correction…are we
to come back and say to anybody, “Who do you think you are correcting
me.”   Oooohhh that’s happened…I know…friend of mine back
home…he went to a buddy and he wasn’t treating his wife right.  He
said, “ look”, he said, “that girl can’t even open her
mouth…she’s not the girl that you married, she was laughing and
happy, she doesn’t even laugh anymore.”  He said, “Well…you
don’t need to talk…I don’t think your so hot and don’t think Lee
Vayle is so hot either.”  I wasn’t even in on it.  Well…I’m not
so hot…but I’m going to tell you something…if you can’t suddenly
just say, “Hey…am I off somewhere?”  If you can’t take
correction…Bible says…a bastard child.

 

28.	  How often have people said, “Well…look at that guy…you
know…this is a big temptation.  Every now and then I’ll think,
“Well…hah…I’m not quite as bad as so and so.  Then I say, 
“Hold it…where do you get comparing yourself.”  There is one plumb
line…that is Christ the Revealed Word.  But I want to tell you…this
spirit I have seen too often…just as soon as something is said…they
want to throw off on somebody else.  That’s not it my
Bro./Sis…it’s facing…I am wrong.  Getting a right attitude toward
the person who has to do that thing…to come and see you. Don’t get
all up tight…and rebellious.  If the man is there and he’s a
mess…God will show him up…don’t you worry about that.  But if that
man is there…you take it as from the Lord.  Say, “Now…I got to get
my spirit right.”  That’s right…see?  We must never get negative
or condemning thoughts…but keep a good spirit. 

 

29.	Let’s go take a couple of Scriptures here.  Take
Proverbs…that’s a good Book.  They’re all good Books but that’s
one we take note of many times…and it’s the 16th chapter is what I
am looking for…and it’s the 32nd verse if I can just find it now.

Proverbs 16:32

(32)	He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty:  and he that
ruleth his spirit than he that takes a city.

	You want to be a big shot…get down low.  Many people think big
shots…great ministries…great fellows…no sir…the great fellow is
the fellow that keeps his spirit.  Let’s go to Mathew 5, the 5th
verse…

Mathew 5:5

(5)                Blessed are the meek, for they shall
inheret the earth.

Do you realize that’s the Millennium?  Not one person but a meek
person gets in the Millennium.  If you and I are not
meek…remember…this cuts across everything…conduct…doctrine,
everything.  Remember William Branham, the Sherman Tank, acted like a
butterfly.  Moses, that could call down fire, or anything else he wanted
to call up…cause it, came out of the ground.  All he did was stand by
and say, “God, you handle it.”  The meek shall inherit the earth. 
If I’m a part of the Millennium…I’m going to have to demonstrate
it by my spirit.

 

30.	Galatians the 5th chapter…and I don’t think I’m giving a lot
of nonsense here to just to try to prove a point…I don’t believe
that…cause God showed me that a long time ago…at least I believe it
was God…hopefully…at least it won’t hurt me, I’ll tell you that
much.  Galatians 5:22-23, see I’m cautious, cause I haven’t heard
from God…I don’t know the answers.  A prophet heard from God and he
knew the answers and I’m doing the best to follow along, what he said,
when he said, “You watch your spirit”.  

Galatians 5:22-23

(22)	The friut of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith.

(23)            Meekness, temperance: against such there is
not law.

Do you want to keep out of trouble with the law?  Have a little bit of
fruit this morning for breakfast.  Get a fruity life.  Nobody can cause
you any problem, and you’ll never cause anybody any problem…that
will amount to a hill of beans.  Oh there is always someone going to run
you down.  If there is nobody running you down…forget it…you
aren’t even saved.   You got to get somebody mad…do them something
nice…they’ll get mad…people just can’t stand nice things…shows
them up.  

 

31.	Now remember…this is required of us.  OOUU I don’t like that any
more than you do.  This is required of us…he didn’t say, “Now I
want to tell you folks something…if you want to listen, you can…be
to your vantage…but if you don’t want to listen…I’ll work it out
anyway…it’ll be alright.”  Is that what he said?  He give you a
command…agree with thine adversary…it’s required of us…we need
it to solve our problems…it cannot be settled in any other way or they
will fester and recur. How can I settle a thing.  Deal with it in such a
way that it is dealt with.  What way?  God’s way…see?  Hebrews
12:14-15

Hebrews 12:14-15

(14)	Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall
see the Lord.

(15)	Looking diligently lest any fail of the grace of God; lest any root
of bitterness spinging up trouble you and thereby many be defiled.

It says…get enough grace in your life to do it, or rest assured on one
thing…it’ll get bigger and bigger and bigger until many are defiled.
 Huh.  You want to kill a thing?  The way Bro. Branham said (…?…)
kicked the devil out of his wife…go down town and buy the biggest
bouquet of roses…the biggest box of  good chocolates…when she opens
the door…sweep her in your arms…kiss her, give the chocolate
candy…that will knock the devil out of her.  That’s right. That’s
right. It works…and all you got to do is say, “Hold it…got to do
this right.”  Right to just hold it…got to do this right. See…the
right thing in the wrong way doesn’t work either.  Now…that’s the
truth.

 

32.	You know that an old…great old man of God…”Baily”… South
Africa…he was telling this person in a meeting…great old
Presbyterian, (rolled his mission, born a leader  ?)  and he just nailed
things down…a brilliant scholar, fine Christian, just rolled it right
out.  Three o’clock in the morning…a hand tapped his shoulder…woke
up, and a voice said, 

“Baily…I’ve got somewhat against you.” 

 He knew it was God.  He said, “What is it Lord?” 

 He said, “It’s that letter you wrote your mission board.” 

But he said, “Lord it’s right.”  He said, “It wasn’t what you
wrote…it’s how you wrote it…get up and rewrite it.” 

 He got up and rewrote it. Sent a new letter over.  He went on an
extended itinerary, because he was the head of the missionaries for the
board over there…through Africa.  Visited many compounds…or whatever
you call them…came back…that night it hand touched his shoulder at
three in the morning and said, 

“Baily…I’ve got somewhat against you”.

He said, “What is it this time Lord?”

He said, “It’s how you talked to those missionaries under you.”

 

[End of first side of tape]

 

But he said,  “Lord, I only told them the truth.”

He said,  “It wasn’t what you said…it’s how you said it…go
back now and apologize to everyone of them.”

And he had to go all through the jungles again…six more weeks and take
each person…and talk it all over again.  He learned a lesson.  What
the prophet said.  Thirty years later…forty years later…Baily
learned way back there…not that the prophet didn’t know it
before…but just got home to him.  See…we listen to the prophet…not
to Baily.  Not what you do many times…how you do it…that’s the
spirit.  

 

33.	So…let us see something else about having the right spirit.  It is
that under no conditions are we ever to split.  Ah…but if you don’t
believe like me…your going to miss the Rapture.  And I’m going to
tell you something…if you believe like me…you got a good chance of
missing the Raptures.  And I’m not just being humble.  I might
be…I’m not even sarcastic…though that is my nature.  I’m trying
to get a point across to you.  We are fragmented when the Holy Spirit
said, “Don’t fragment.”  When Paul said it, when William Branham
said it…but we justify ourselves…well I believe this way…I’m
over here therefore.  Yes you are over there.  But not over Jordan…at
least yet.  What is your spirit like in your doctrine?  Now we’re
obligated not to split.  The prophet said, if we do…it shows what we
are.  How many people in this message…ah hah…good thought isn’t
it?  I haven’t even thought…yeah I thought of them (?).   I’m not
squeamish about them but I’m going to try to put [Blank Spot on tape]

	…A lot of problems…so with the pew.  Remember the Deity Cult never
came out of the pulpit…it came out of the pew…hah.  Never get
high-minded Bro/Sis. when you look at Bro. Gunther and you look at Bro.
Vayle, some of us birds that aren’t too hot to look at in the first
place…if you think we’re causing trouble you get right down to your
little old own pew cause it’s pewier than ours.  You…in the pew in
Canada started deity cult. And that is horrible.  But many people look
at a preacher…you know…and they say he doesn’t believe a certain
way so I’m just going to go off.   They look at problems and they
say…I’m going to leave and I’m thinking of that where I know some
particularly…perhaps one more than another, or several more than
others.  Say…well…I’ve seen those preachers…they’ve been lied
to…before it’s over I’ll show you that lying is one of the end
time signs of this age…so keep your spirits down.  Cause if you rile
up over liars and start running off you are just a doup…sorry about
that…your nice people…but your pretty foggy up hear yet.  I’ll
prove it by Scripture…I’m not kidding you…just keep coming back. 
I’ll show you it’s an end-time sign…liars…who lie to people. 
I’ve had preachers lie to me about their congregation until you
can’t believe it.  Liars’…preachers.  Then somebody says…ain’t
none of those birds…I’m going to stay home and play a tape…I’ll
have my own Church.  Hah hah…two wrongs make a right?  Bo???…In
algebra yes…but not the Word of God.  Now you’re really going to get
a mess cause everybody’s going to run to you who is an anarchist.  And
remember…Nicolaitanism is not the only spirit in this age…it is
Laodacianism…which is rebellion against authority…hah hah.  So now
we have a beautiful thing.  But OH they’ll get together and love each
other….Huh?   Is that nice?  It’s wrong.  Wrong spirit entirely. 
See I’m bringing up many, many years of pastoring…plus being on the
road when I talk this way.  

 

34.	Under no condition are we to split because I’m obligated to be a
part of him and he with me, so we are obligated to work out our problems
as in marriage. Now you say, Well Bro. Branham did say they couldn’t
get together so they might as well live apart.  Now you really don’t
believe that statement as a blank statement without any embellishments
do you?  Because that means…and I can say, “Well I couldn’t get
along.”  It was…I wouldn’t get along…and she wouldn’t get
along…so therefore we split.  That’s why you couldn’t…cause you
wouldn’t. 

 

35.	Now we can…we are obligated to get along.  You know this morning
I’m obligated to love each one of you…and have communion with you
and to wash your feet and you with me?  I am obligated…now why do
people split?  Why is it here…why is it there…why is it everywhere? 
Why do you think I go around screaming to people don’t split?  Only
once, have I ever advised anybody to split…and that is when I got them
back together from a split…and saw they hadn’t listened to one thing
I had said.  And said, “You might as well go back and split.”  And
you know what they did?  They didn’t. Could be they will be in worse
shape ever though…cause nothing has been resolved.  The same serpent
is down in there…Bro./Sis. The serpents got to be killed.  I tried to
get their eyes off of personality…show them the democracy.  Couldn’t
get to first base…couldn’t get (the preacher even working…?) not
my job of course…but I tried.  But listen…we are obligated.  You
know what happened to that work of ours back?  With in a few
months…they said, “Bro. Vayle…the kids are getting so
nervous…we’re doing  nothing but fighting…the kids go in the car
and cry…and we are fighting.”  I said, I’ll come and help
you…and I did.  And settled them down, I haven’t been back…I
haven’t been asked back.  I will do anybody…I would do it for
anybody…cause down inside there is something that says…I’m
obligated…see…I am obligated.  It’s not requested of me…it’s
commanded of me…to have a proper spirit. 

 

36.	Now you say, “What about Mathew 18:15-17?  Let’s go take a look
at Mathew 18:15-17, because that looks like a split.  All right….

Mathew 18:15-17

(15)	Moreover if your brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell
him his fault between you and him alone: if he shall hear you, you have
gained your brother.

(16)	But if he will not hear you, then take with you one or two more,
that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be
established. 

 

37.	Now then of course…this goes on and says if he neglect to hear
it…tell it to the Church…and then of course…it tells you what to
do there.  But here is what we’re looking at…we’re looking at the
fact…I better read 21and 22.

(21)	Then came Peter to Him, and said, Lord, how often shall my brother
sin against me,and I forgive him?  Till seven times?  

(22)	Jesus says to him, I say not to you until seven times: but, Until
seventy times seven.

 

38.	Now here we’re looking at a picture…that…there can be no
separation between the two people or the peoples unless it comes to the
Church and one hardens his heart and he refuses…then he must be put
out.  But you and I must keep a spirit of forgiveness and love seventy
times seven.  Now…let us read Mathew 5:25-26 again.

Mathew 5:25-26

(25)	Agree with your adversary quickly.  While you are in the way with
him; sest at any time the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the
judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

(26)	Verily I say to you shall by no means come out of there, till you
have paid the uttermost farthing.

Now it says right here that if the person…now I know he’s dealing
with the offender…but let’s look at it this way…because it’s
true.  I don’t care whether it’s the offended one or the
offender…the wrong spirit will eventually put the individual in a
prison and destroy him and he will not come out till he pays the
uttermost farthing.  I’m going to tell you something…I went through
this bitter experience years ago as a young preacher.  I am a kind of an
anarchist in my heart more than I am a Nicolaitan, I can tell you that
flat. I don’t believe in being an authority or having any authority
over you…I’m just plumb sorry…I’m a rebel, in that respect. 
Independent, as they say, as a hog on ice…that’s my nature.  And so
therefore when this big shot, years ago decided to cut my throat, I got
bitter.  I’m going to tell you something…he wasn’t hurt one bit,
but I paid nine years of debt.  Now I’m going to tell you this morning
folk…you can sit here and this if just a little sermon…a kind of
a…not even a nice one…because I’m not even preaching worth a plug
nickel.  But let me get this to you…I’m going to tell you flat, you
are kidding yourself if you think you will not pay a price for a wrong
spirit.  You will.  And you will not come out of your purgatory until
you’ve paid the utter most farthing.  I was actually dying with TB of
the pituitary gland, before I gave up.  I took a beating for nine years
of hell on earth.  And you can do the same thing whether you think so or
not.  Don’t kid yourself Bro./Sis the Word of God true and everybody
else’s word is a lie.  So it is either get the right spirit or pay,
pay, pay, pay.  And maybe even die for it.  Mathew 6:14-15…

Mathew 6:14-15

(14)	For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will
also forgive you.

(15)	But if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your
Father forgive your trespasses.

 

39.	He said right here if your not willing to come to
reconciliation…there will come a day when you can’t do it either. 
See?  God demands reconciliation or the penalty will be exact.  Let’s
go to Mark chapter 9:43-50.

Mark 9:43-50

(43)	And if your hand offend you, cut it off: it is better for you to
enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the
fire that never shall be quenched.

(44)            Where their worm dies not, and the fire is
not quenched.

(45)            And if your foot offend you, cut it off: it
is better for you to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be
cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched. (The same
with the eye…if the eye offend thee etc…( what’s he telling you
right here…he’s telling you here verse 49.)

 

(49)	For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall
be salted with salt.

(50)	Salt is good: but if the salt have lost it’s saltness,  wherewith
will you season it?  Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with
another. 

 

40.	He tells you right here…look…it is going to cost you something
in your pride and in your effort…to live in this kingdom of Almighty
God.  It’ll cost you a foot, it will cost you a hand, it will cost you
an eye, it will cost you something…do it.  There is a price to
pay…but do it.  And Jesus says do it quickly and the reason he said
quickly cause the longer you think about it the further you are going to
get from doing it.  It’s just like when your going to jump in the
water the first time…you know boys go out there in the spring and see
who can jump in the cold water.  What do they do…they just jump.  If
you put your toe in…forget it.  Jump…see…be precipitous.  Here is
one place to be precipitous…do it.  Just (?) to God…I won’t think
those thoughts.  I won’t listen to myself…I refuse.  Bro. Branham
said you cannot defeat your complexes…you walk away from them.  Here
is where enticing spirits get a hold of us…you read the sermon again,
“Enticing Spirits”, here and your going to find out it lines with
this message…see?  Now…Hebrew 12:3-12…purgatory.

Hebrews 12:3-12

(3)	For consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners against
himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds.

(4)                You have not yet resisted to blood,
striving against sin. 

 

 41.	There’s none of us sweat blood like Jesus did fighting himself. 
I know some of you say, well that’s striving against blood…in other
words give your life…I don’t believe that for one minute…has to do
with that.  It was in Gethsemany he fought himself till the blood burst
in the temple veins…he fought himself…I’m going to fight the other
guy…hogwash.  People talk about fighting the devil…forget it…you
pussycat…it’s fighting yourself that counts.  Your never fighting
the devil or anything else until you and I fight ourselves…see?  I
keep telling this guy that phone me and it’s his tape…says, “Get
out of my way.”  That’s his sermon… “I’m running a race, Get
out of my way”.  Paul said, “I’m running a race”, but he said,
“Everybody so run, everybody wins and I’ll tell you how to win”,
he said, “I get under my body”.  Not something…get out of my way
Brother Gunther, get out of the way Brother Vayle, get out of my way. 
Oh this big shots coming…stand aside…like old Shepard said
concerning him down in Jeff.  He said, “You tell that brother up
there…that I’m the man he met on the road going up and I’ll be
standing here when he comes down”.  Did you here what I said?  You
want to fight the devil, you better fight yourself…Lee Vayle better
fight himself.  Some preacher in this message…”get out of my way”.
  Oh…come on…I said if that’s the spirit of God Bro./Sis. I
wouldn’t even want it.  Man…I’ve had that all my life…good night
shirt…I’ve had that all my life…sheee.   Ah …if you don’t like
me…I kick them out of the way too at times.  Oh Yah…what you got
hard nose boots for.  Oh come on…be honest with me…you a bunch of
sweet angels…I hope you are…but I kind of doubt it.  Don’t fight
your wife and fight your neighbor…fight the deacon, fight the
preacher…fight yourself.  The Greatest Battle Ever Fought is in your
mind.  To bring it under and that’s the battle of this age…bringing
the mind under…the constant repenting…see?   Now he said here…you
fight yourself.

(5)                And you have forgotten the exhortation
which speaks to you as the children,My son, despise not you the
chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of him. For whom
the Lord loveth he chasen and scourges. 

 

42.	Now listen…how is he going to do it?  He is doing it as I
mentioned this morning.  When things arise amoungst us, we have got to
take the things in our hands and with the right spirit do it.  That’s
God in us doing it…and helping us.  Then if we don’t do it…he will
lower the ax on us.  Now don’t think he won’t cause I’ve told you
he will.  I can prove it to you.  Don’t go through that nonsense.  You
can read the rest yourself…I’m not going to…but anyway it says
here…

(11)	Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous:
nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness
to them which are exercised thereby.

(12)            Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down,
and make striaght paths the feeble knees.

 

43.	It tells you this is one of the roughest things in the Church to
learn.  So we are obligated as a people to help each other to understand
this and encourage each other…to go through with it.  I’m going to
tell you something, this age is the greatest age ever and yet it is the
lousiest.  You could go back to Whesleys age and get more what I’m
preaching this morning from Whesleys sermons and what he did and we’ve
had all the time Bro. Branham was here…why?  Because we shouldn’t
need to cover this.  It has been covered.   Whesley covered it…and
they held the little special cells and little meetings where they
confessed their faults and talked to each other and say…”What are
your thoughts this morning my brother”.  Are you walking in the pure
light?  Have you had your spirit rise up on a certain occasion?  They
weren’t digging each other…they were helping each other.  Somebody
come to your house and mine and say can I help you…you say, “Mind
your own business”.   We had a lady…I don’t know if she’s living
in our town or not anymore but I was telling the folk…telling her and
her husband was a fine Presbyterian man and their son was a real fine
Presbyterian boy and he got Charismatic sort of…so I was at their
house one night and talking and I said, “You know sister, I’m
concerned about people…I said I used to pastor for years…I don’t
any more but I know homes that never had family worship with the
kids…didn’t have a thing…I said, you know what I would do if I was
pasturing?  I would try to raise me up elders and instruct the
elders…look…knock on the peoples doors and say, look…or talk after
Church and say,

 “Do you have family worship?” 

 “No”.

  “Well could I come by…maybe early in the morning and help you have
family worship?

  She said, “He wouldn’t get in my door”. 

 I knew it…because Jesus wasn’t there anyway.  Do you realize that
that is a part of our lives?  Is to be conscientiously trying to help
people and keep a right spirit?  That’s true…I’m not giving you a
bunch of nonsense up here that’s good for Doctor Peals Church or some
positive thinking…I’m telling you the truth.  That’s what we’re
supposed to do.  Make straight paths…don’t let the lame be turned
out What’s a straight path?  Agree now…do it.  The first Church I
came into when I was a kid eighteen years old, something like that…got
saved…sheeuuoh…what a mess.  I was ready to walk out the way I
walked in.  You call it the church of the revolving door.  You might as
well…cause you walk in the same way you walk out, the same way you
walk in.  You got people all messed up…see?   Here is how to keep them
from getting all messed up.  

 

44.	Now…I want to add something here concerning our spirits.  Let us
say an adversary illegally condemns us…in other words there is
persecution not prosecution.  We must do exactly the same	there is no
difference…not at all.  Let’s look at…here the same chapter…

(13)            Follow peace with all men, and holiness,
without which no man shall see the Lord.

(14)            Looking diligently lest any man fail of the
grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and
thereby many be defiled.

OK look over here in II Corinthians now, the 4th chapter and 8-10
verses:

II corinthians 4:8-10

(8)	We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed, we are perplexed,
but not in despair.

(9)                Persecuted, but not forsaken cast
down, but not destroyed:  

 

45.	Paul said, “I can take it.  What if I’m illegally accused…what
if things really are sour?  Take it anyway…see?  Go on with God. 
So…here we must learn a lesson…in every time of problem…be very
earnset…we must get a right spirit and understanding about it…as
Jesus said, Agree with thine adversary.  We must also do as the same
Lord said in the same chapter…which is chapter Mathew 5:44 to 46.

Mathew 5:44-46

(44)	But I say unto you, love your enimies, bless them that curse you.
Do good to them that hate you.  Pray for them that dispitfully use you
and persecute you, that you may be the children of your Father which is
in Heaven 

(46)            For he makes the sun to rise on the good and
the evil and send rain upon the just and on the unjust.

(47)            If you love them that love you, what reward
do you have?  Do not the publicans the same.

(48)            Be you therefore perfect even as your Father
which is in heaven is perfect.  (and so on)

Now in here, what we are trying to show you, is this, that we are to
pray and we are to do the good things that we ought to do, for the help
of our brethren.  Now in the Book of Luke also the 9th chapter 62 verse
rather…yah way down at the end.

Luke 9:62

               (62)   And Jesus said to him, No man having put his hands
to the plow, and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God.

 

46.	So…first of all…get the right spirit…pray earnestly, and keep
up what your doing…which is keep up the right spirit and keep on
praying.  Then treat the person like a brother in an attittude of
forgiveness commiting it to God.  That’s exactly what we’re going to
do.  Now…and the reason for that…and I’m going to skip the
Scripture cause you read them already…you got the ones in Matthew
18:50 and 18:21-22, but we’re go on now II Corinthians 2:10-11.

II Corinthians 2:10-11

(10)            To whom you forgive any thing, I forgive also
for if I forgave any thing to whom I gorgave it, for your sakes forgave
I it in the person of Christ. 

(11)            Lest Satan should get an advantage of us, for
we are not ignorant of his devices.

 

47.	Now it says right here…that the way Satan gets into a Church is to
get an unforgiving spirit amongst the people.  In other words get a
wrong spirit.  Bro. Branham told you…didn’t he?…told us.  He said,
“Look…you people walk in love and don’t you dare let anything come
in amongst you”.  Why he said, “That devil will send somebody in
amongst you and he will be so sweet and nice and then he will point a
poison dart in him and he said if your not careful and just sit there
and pray and be sweet and nice, he said he will poison the whole
congregation.  Now this is the same thing that Paul said…we are not
ignorant what Satan does.  He will do everything he can to get wrong
spirits amongst us.  Now you say, “How am I going to do it?”  Do
what Bro. Branham said he did…do what Paul said, what did he do…he
said, “Look…I cannot forgive and you cannot forgive, but it is the
Christ within us that forgives.  Paul did not say, “I forgive as
though I did it…Paul said…in the Person of Christ I forgive.” 
See?  Paul does not say you and I are to do it…although we do…do it.
 But it is Christ in us that is doing it.  In other words recognize and
realize that you of yourself, being human, you must have and do have a
supernatural one within you who can do the things that you cannot do. 
So therefore…I can do all things by Christ Who gives me inward
strength.  And the secret of forgiveness is through Jesus Christ and not
ourselves.  In Ephesians 4:32 it says:

Ephesians 4:32

(32)	And be you kind one to another. Tenderhearted, forgiving one
another.  Even as God for Christ’s sake has forgiven you.

	Remember it was even God Who for Christ’s sake forgave us and we’re
in the same position.  The forgiveness is not ours on ourselves.  It is
because of someone else.

	

48.	  Now…just think for a minute or two…and I will try to close as
quick as I can.  What does it mean to forgive?  Because we got to have
that there.  It means to bestow a favor unconditionally…to completely
cancel the debt…excludes all idea of judgment or punishment.  Deals
with the guilty as though innocent…even though the correction must
come.  The correction must be there…but it must have this
understanding…that this man…no matter what happened…these people
are already forgiven.  It is just that correction must be there.  People
want to hold something over somebody else’s head.  Brother/Sister we
have come to far for that nonsense and why is that amongst us?  See? 
Talk all the doctrine you want this morning and ten years from
now…that you got it all figured how it is going to be.  I challenge
you…how is your spirit this morning?  That’s what counts.  You can
have everything going for you…what you think could be a million miles
off cause the prophet said, “Once you think you figured it…that’s
the time you missed it”. Say, “ Bro. Vayle…I’m going to crowed
myself in…close in until I got no thought but this thought…and your
going to kill yourself…because I don’t care who you are…every time
you think something about this message…some other thought is going to
rise up and say, “But watch this…no…I won’t watch that cause
I’m going to watch all these quotes halleluiah.  You better get all
the quotes.  I’ve been called a middle of the roader…a sitting on
the fence guy…a pessimist…God knows what I’ve been called, but I
thank God I’m going to stay just what I am…right in the middle of
road…watching, watching, watching.  Refusing nothing and taking
nothing…just watching, watching, watching.  Now let my spirit come
down where it belongs.  It is…it’s coming down…not as good as it
should be…not as good as it should…it’s coming down.  Oh sometimes
I seem a little more sarcastic than I should be but that’s…that’s
Lee Vayle.  Remember Jesus requires it…his own sermon demanded it. 
Colossians 3:12-17…and continues it.

Colossians 3:12-17

(12)            Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy
and beloved, bowels of mercies. Kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness,
long-suffering.

(13)            Forbearing one another and forgiving one
another,(See…there is the bears in there…) if any man have a quarrel
against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do you. 

Now it says quarrels can come…differences will come…now a quarrel
doesn’t mean a fight…a Donnie Brook…some kind of a silly thing. 
Quarrel could mean…differences without getting too grave…see?

(14)            And above all these things put on charity,
which is the bond of perfectness.

(15)            And let the peace ;of God rule in your
hearts, to the which also you are called in one body and be you
thankful.  

 You say, “How in the world could I do that, having these differences?
 Well we got to have them having these differences.  Look at that fellow
that came to Bro. Branham…that Church of Christ fellow.  Said, “If I
ever saw a devil…your one.”  Then looked at Bro. Branham and said,
“If any man has got the Holy Ghost…you sure have.”  Bro. Branham
could say, “If I had a girl that I loved with all my heart, promised
to marry me and she decided she wanted somebody else…I’d give her up
to that fellow…cause I love her.”  The Sherman Tank was a butterfly
but all the butterlfies are Sherman Tanks.  I can’t understand it.  Oh
yes I can…God doesn’t change Bother/Sister…butterflies are
butterflies…what we saw in Bro. Branham was a real butterfly
transformed through the power of Almighty God.  I never heard a
butterfly clank his wings yet.  Now it says here:

(16)            Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in
all wisdom; 

The Word of Christ dwelling richly in wisdom…doesn’t say the Word of
Christ dwelling…it says richly in wisdom.  There is a big difference
the Word of God dwelling in you and me…whether it is in wisdom or
not…or whether it’s the richness of Christ in it.

(16)	Teaching and admonishing one another (In How?) in spalms and hymns
and spiritual songs.

 

49.	Have you ever been to an opra?  I never have either I (?)..I’d
like to hear one in the orignal Italian or French brought out I would
get the most out of Italian, and can you hear a guy singing in a
beautiful baratone “I’ll kill you my bum if you touch my wife
again….HuH?  Why you would fall over laughing  dead.”  They don’t
sing.  Mothers sing songs.  Why?  Cause there’s resonance…the song
of the resonance goes to the bones and makes you feel with emotions,
kind and all these things…you know some babies might get talked to
sleep by there mothers but no…they are usually sung to sleep…at
least I wished mothers would still do it.  Mothers gave up a lot when
they got this stupid modern psychology…my God what a pity…what a
pity…no wonder the kids are a mess…if they are not touched, they are
not foundled, they are not loved, they are not sung to…but you say,
“How could you get mad if someone is singing to them.  (You could
sing, “Bro. Gunther, I hate you…I’ll destroy you.  You would laugh
your fool head off…and I would be in the ground here with
you…rolling.   You’d say,  “Look Gunther…I’m after you.” 
Well that’s what it says here…do you follow what I’m talking about
here…I’m not making jokes here…I’m telling you something here. 

You admonish in songs and hymns and Spiritual song.  Like an orchestra
with a symphony dealing with people that love and kindness…not, “
I’ll get you, if it’s the last thing I do.”  Sing, “Isn’t He
sweet hallelujah …isn’t He wonderful, bless God.”  I’m trying to
get it across to you, to show you something here, this is not a hogwash
and foolishness.  There is a reason why he says these things…every
Word of God has a power to it.  When he speaks of singing there is
something coming in here which departs from ordinary language.  It is a
Spiritual of uplifting, emotion and beauty and quietness and Holiness
see?  Maybe we ought to sing more than 3 times…I don’t know…with
grace in your hearts…whatever you do in deed…do all in the name of
the Lord Jesus.  Now look if your going to do in word and deed and it is
His Word, do it in His Name, by His Spirit.  Notice…”as it is fit in
the Lord” [Luke 9:62].  What is ‘fit’?  AGREE…get your spirit
down, be sweet, be kind, be humble, we must learn from getting involved
with personalities except Jesus, or human trays, only the Word. 
See…we get evolved with personalities except Christ, and we start
getting angry at people because what they do instead of just saying,
this is the Word…then we get problems.  But if we say, this is the
Word…look it has nothing to do with you and me…this is out of our
hands…this is God’s Word.  This is where your pastors so
valuable…and others are so valuable in the Church…who can come to
this position and say Brother/Sister listen…it has nothing to do with
you and me…look…we didn’t write the Book…it’s to do with Him
and His Book.  Now we are getting somewhere…see?  Now…all the way
down the line…then we can see.  Then we can see the fruit of the
spirit come into us, as the Scripture tells us.  

 

50.	Now…I don’t want to leave the subject until we take a closer
look at a brother who’s laying the charge.  And I just say this about
that Brother who lays the charge or someone of us must come and talk to
you, remember his spirit… has to be above all…a tremendous spirit of
grace and beauty…because look…he is in a dangerous position…and
I’ll just take Galatians 6: 1 because I want to close off here
now…cause the times run out anyway…look it:

Galatans 6:1

         (1)	Brethren if a man be overtaken  in a fault, you which are
spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering
yourself, lest you also be tempted. 

If anybody dares to go to somebody, else, I don’t care who he is in
the Church and say, “I want to tell you this…your wrong.”  I’m
going to tell you…he is wrong…he is wrong…and he will pay a price.
 Cause he will get caught as sure as your life.  I want to tell you
Brother/Sister…let’s not kid ourselves…I’m up here to tell you
the truth and when I’m in a pulpit…I try to level…I am not that
professional and that carried away with hypocrisy that I’ll try to
lie…cause I want to tell you something…years ago a man came to my
house…now I had been a positive preacher many years and preached faith
and seen faith.  I prayed my patches on my patches…food on the
table…and I’ve done a lot of things that you people don’t have any
idea about…seeing them by the hand of God as you stand there and just
wait for God to do it cause nobody else can do it and your learning your
lessons, getting your bumps.  And he came in my house and he began to
talk and when he left I told my wife…I said, “Honey, I want to tell
you something…when the chips are down…that man is going to fall flat
on his face…and he did.  You know why?  Cause he was trying to tell me
something…you don’t tell anybody anything…cause you got the spirit
of tell on you…man…you are going to get kicked right in the
teeth…that told it.  Cause the Scripture says…you are going to get
tested on those same grounds and you watch what happens when you are
tested.  When you go and talk to somebody cause you have been through it
is a different story entirely.  Then with tears you can talk and with
the conviction of an experience of Christ, you can do something…but
before that …it is just a bunch of words and you’ll pay a price. 
Keep yourself down in a spirit of meekness, or as sure as your alive,
you’re going to get caught. 

 

51	You know…years ago…a woman said to me…and I don’t think I
told you this…I think I did…yah.  It happened in Ohio…her husband
had cheated on her you know, which is pretty common thing these days. 
She said, “Well Bro. Vayle…what would you do if your wife cheated on
you?  I said, “I don’t know what I would do”.  Cause I know the
kind of guy I am, but I said, “By the grace of God…I hope I would do
what is right”.  It was the perfect answer, cause I didn’t know.  If
I was you…I would do so and so.  I wouldn’t say my wife would commit
adultery…don’t go that far, cause something pretty rough could have
happened to prove that Lee Vayle…was just a big mouth.  You have got
to have that right spirit…but you see…it’s not saying now look
folk…you can have it…and you must be on the alert for it.  If
something comes out…I’m telling you know and telling me…we have
got to have it and better see we start getting it.  Now…that’s
enough on that.

 

52	Try to conclude…I think we can see how important it is to believe
what the prophet said when he said, “I’d sooner have the right
spirit and wrong doctrine than vice versa.  So therefore is it possible
that we can be right with the wrong spirit and be and be worse off in
the eyes of God…than being wrong and have a right spirit?  You say,
“How can that be?”  I’m going to tell you why…there is lot’s
of people that you and I know that have just as nice a spirit as there
is…but you know they seem to bumble a lot…they make boo boo’s. 
I’m thinking of one fellow that…he has one of the nicest spirits of
anybody I know…unless he’s hiding something…he’s got a perfect
spirit and yet that fellow…if he is not careful…he is going to be a
black eye to the word of God because he is just too careless in
business.  But you know something…I want to tell you flat I’d sooner
have him around me than try to pick up the pieces even paying some of
his bills which I’ve done than to have some people around me…OH
their circumspect…but yuk…they’ve got a spirit like barbed wire. 
OH they’ll do it…yes sir…they remind me over here in the Book of
Romans where it says a man showing mercy with cheerfulness…one guy
comes by and he says…won’t do it this time…no…won’t help
you…boy you better look out.  I’d sooner have a guy say, “Look
fellow…HuH and I know you’re in a bind and I can’t help you but
I’ll pray.  And that bird come by and try to do something with a
rolling pin.  The Word challenges our motives far more than our deeds. 
The Word challenges our motives far more than our deeds.  Let me show
you…James 3: 1-2

James 3: 1-2

(1)    My brethren, be not many teachers (Or don’t have many
teachers… or have many teachers amongst you…get one thing
straight…all teach the same thing…you know…especially in conduct)
That you receive not the greater condemnation.  (have a great problem
getting things worked out)

(2)    For in many things we offend all, If any man offend not in
word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.


53.	Now people say if you keep your tongue under control that’s
it…that’s not what the Greek says.  The actual word in the Greek
here is…keep your thoughts under control…keep your mind under
control…keep your spirit under control…see?  That’s why…and I am
going to prove it to you. The Angel of God said to Bro.
Branham…”Your thoughts in heaven speak louder than your words on
earth.”  So therefore it is the spirit behind what is going on that
really counts.  So…we are challenged this morning as the prophet
challenged us all the time…watch your motives…if your motive is
wrong…your deed is wrong.  If your motive is right and you do a wrong
deed…there is ample room for correction, because a man with the right
motive will right away want to do what’s right and get the thing out
of the way…see?  Remember…we are in the hours of Hebrews 4:12-16.

Hebrews 4:12-16

(12)	For the Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any
two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and
spirit, and of the joints and morrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts
and intents of the heart.

(13)	Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight:
but all things are naked and opened to the eyes of Him with whom we have
to do.  

Notice in here it says the Word of God is quick and powerful…what it
does…but in verse 13 it says…the eyes of Him…so therefore the Word
and God are the same.  So today we are under the scrutiny of the
prophet…the Word of the prophet…the revealed vindicated Word, that
kept challenging us…watch that spirit…see?  Bro. Branham his self
said don’t ever unchristianize anybody…but it is the easiest thing
in the world to kick everybody out of this message but ourselves. 

 

54.	Where is our spirit?  Where is our spirit…look we’ve got to take
a stand for what we believe…but if my stand arbitrarily puts somebody
else out because of his stand there is something wrong with my spirit or
his spirit or both of us.  I don’t care how right we are…we are
wrong.  That’s just the same as getting a spare part for your Cadillac
and you stole it.  Sure it’s the right part…sure it will fit…sure
it will make the car go…but who wants a car with a stolen part in it? 
Who wants the Word of God wrongly motivated?  Hah?  Who wants a marriage
that’s got a letter and hasn’t got a spirit?  Who wants a Church
without a right spirit?  Bro. Branham himself told us flat, he said,
“Look, you can be…show all kinds of things out here that the devil
can make a counterfeit on.  That’s true…but we’re not in the
counterfeit business…we are in reality.  We want…that reality of
this hour is the proper spirit…see? 

 

55.	Now…no matter what comes to you and me…if we don’t react in
the spirit of Christ we will pay the uttermost farthing.  We will not
get by with wrong attitudes…it is impossible because God said so.  Now
either He lied or He told the truth.  How often I have said, “Our sour
old men are nothing but sour young men that got old.”  Dirty old men
are nothing but dirty young men that got old.  Wicked old men are
nothing but wicked young men that got old…see?  In other words people
wonder why creeping paralyses sometimes sets in, in the body, completely
ridged is because it was a creeping paralyses.  Now the thing to do is
get rid of the spirits that are amongst us.  I mean it…look I don’t
see any point in talking about Rapture.  You say, “Bro. Vayle…what
if we don’t do these things?”  I’ll tell you what I
believe…I’ll tell you flat…as Bro. Branham talked about
Sarah…she never made her change until the rebuke came.  I’ll tell
you one thing…we’ll flow together when the squeeze comes down…you
won’t worry whether it is this idea or that idea…I can only say, “
God if it takes a four by four club twenty feet long, we’ll go
down…let the squeeze come down.”  Let the spirits really
manifest…let’s see if we can be that fine wheat ground into fine
flour and become one loaf.  Remember God is going to make a loaf out of
us…there will be a grinding and a burning before it is over…I
believe it’s going to come that way…I hope it doesn’t.  I don’t
believe it needs to come that way…shake ourselves out of our
lethargy…see?  Train ourselves in the way of God, for then, alone, can
we bear His yoke and find it easy and the burden light.  As a meek child
of God inheriting the kingdom which is bursting upon us now at this end
time as reality is becoming more and more real.

 

56.	Now…my final Scripture is in the Book of Revelation and this is
final.  Just about in the (?)  The 3rd chapter…and I think it is about
verse 20…if I can just get these pages apart.

Revelation 3:20

(20)	Behold I stand at the door and knock and if any man hear my voice
and open the door, I’ll come to him and sup with him and he with me.

Now what is it?  We have a great trend in the end time…to put Christ
the Word out from amongst us…and His rejection thereby brings in a
wrong spirit…which it does…spirit of antichrist.  Then
Brother/Sister if we want Christ that Word back amongst us…let’s
face it…it’s got to start with a spirit.  Because Bro. Branham said
in Ezekiel, he said, “That spirit is not the Holy Spirit, who’s
spirit I’ll give you…he said that is a spirit God gives you, in
order to bring in the Holy Spirit.” That’s what he said…I didn’t
say it…he did

 

57.	Now he said we are standing in the same place this morning…see? 
No one is challenging any of you concerning the Baptism of the Holy
Ghost.  No one is challenging you concerning your faith in His Word. 
Nobody is challenging you concerning your lives…what I am challenging
is this…is that spirit amongst us…I mean that spirit that God wants
of the sweetness and the humanity he always spoke of.  Well it better
be…it had better be…and the check is always…someone has got to
give it a check…is it amongst us?  How we going to have it…that’s
what this message is all about this morning and I trust you caught a
glimpse of it.  If it is time to pray…that’s fine…I don’t mind
organizing prayer meetings to pray Bro. Branham back…that’s
fine…he is going to come back…but what’s he going to come back to?
 A bunch of people who want vindication or fussing and fighting?  Let me
tell you flat, when he does come back, it’s going to be too late
anyway…it’ll be finishing touches on a Bride…cause once that
resurrection sets in…it cannot set in Brother/Sister until the last
elected one is brought in and child trained.  Do you want to see the end
develop?  Do you want to see Christ in His Glory?  Then Brother/Sister
let me tell you…this is my understanding of Scripture…you have
whatever you want…but I been free to preach…Bro. Gunther said so and
maybe when I get through you will wonder why he ever gave the freedom. 
But my freedom is this…this morning…it’s about time that we got
right down and are spirits right now.  Just right down…just open our
hearts and love toward each other…I don’t mean a sudo love but the
love I’m talking about this morning in the Word of God…this is a
democratic society.  He has got every right the same as I’ve got
rights…he can say his piece…I can say mine…we’re Brothers and
Sisters in Jesus Christ and we are obligated not requested…obligated
to stand in that breach together and if we don’t…one or both of us
or all of us is going to pay the utter most farthing…until we say Oh
God…what a fool I was.  

 

58.	Now Brother/Sister it’s as simple as ABC…you can be like the
little boy when his mother said, “Son…don’t put your finger in
that electric light socket or you’re going to get knocked off that
chair.”  Said, “Mama…I’m going to try it.”  Boom…you’ll
get knocked off your chair.  Now I hate to believe the Word of God down
to that simple and that crass and that crude.  But you want to put your
finger in the light socket…go ahead.  You want to put your hand in the
meat grinder…go ahead…it’s your hand.  Huh?  You want to inherit
the Kingdom of God…make the Rapture…then get very meek…get very
meek…get very meek…don’t rise up.  Just sit down…cause when you
get down…that’s when God can lift you up and remember…the Rapture
is a lifting up.  The Lord Bless you…shall we rise.

 

	Dear Lord Jesus…You know I’m not much one to stand here and talk
this way, because I got a rough atmosphere about and a rough way of
doing things…but I pray Lord Jesus Christ that…I know one thing
anyway Lord…that I’ve done my best to say it the way it really is as
far as I know.  And I know this is your husbandry…this is your good
ground, so if there is seed out there Lord that is going to spring
up…Lord peoples lives can be changed Oh God…I’m looking for
that…I’m looking for my own life Lord.  I’ve not pointed my finger
at anybody but I’ve been standing here knowing I feel like a fool and
a hypocrite to even talk about there things…when I know if anybody has
got to apply it…I’m the one that’s got to apply it.  And Heavenly
Father I know in myself I cannot do it…it’s got to be…as Paul
himself said the Person of Christ…I forgive and forget…in the Person
of Christ I reach out and do this and I do that, it is Christ in me or
perish.  Lord I know that.  

	I know Lord we talked so much about the Word and we do love it.  It
gives us a great thrill to just know these things…these secrets and
things and they are really beautiful and Father I appreciate them…but
I know what also the prophet said,  “I want that right spirit.” 
Lord, this morning, help me to be really right in my spirit…not just
talking about it.  Because I can talk about it Lord the same way and
then point my finger at somebody else and get my digs in that way.  Lord
if I am doing that, I am nothing but a hypocrite…save me OH God from
being a hypocrite…from being a wrong person.  Let it be Lord that the
right spirit in my life is here and I foster it in order that the Holy
Spirit, Christ the Living Liquid Word can come forth in human vessel. 
That’s what we ask for everybody here this morning. 

	 God bless the pastor Lord.  He’s been doing a good
job…faithful…and I pray Lord you would continue to keep him
spiritually meek and mild as he is and a comfort to the people…keeping
Lord Jesus always away from personality…always with the Word.  Keep
the people always to the understanding…this is my pastor…this is the
one Lord…and the men you send amongst us…to do the same thing…not
evolved with us as persons…no sir…it’s the person of Christ…it
is the Word of God and not the being.  So standing here Lord…Father
I’d love that…what it would do for me Lord…I would be the happiest
person, I believe, in the earth and I believe the people here could say
the same thing and Lord we know it’s not afar off…it’s will we do
it…by the grace of God…by the Living Christ…through the shed blood
and power in the Holy Spirit and the commandment of our God…Lord we
are determined to have that right spirit amongst us.  Now until the
Rapture…and now unto the King Eternal…Immortal…Invisible…the
only Wise God…be all power and glory through Jesus Christ. Amen The
Lord bless you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



  

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