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19min… You preach for the ones who do come and want something. So I
talked to Bro Branham; I said Bro Branham I want to ask you a little
question here because I think I’m on the right trail. I said now, "Do
you preach because God gives you great inspiration because you’re a
prophet? Or are you preaching because you’ve been steadfast and got
yourself in a groove?" He said, "That’s it, in a groove." That’s why
he could say to me, all my thoughts are of God. 

So that leads up to the fact I’m going to talk to you a little
bit…maybe longer that I should but that’s alright; maybe can cut
down the rest when I start the message. But anyway I was just thinking
about the fact that how life comes into us. And I’m not talking of
rebirth, I’m talking about the fact that we’re human bodies here we
have a spirit we have a soul and we are living. And Bro Branham when his
wife and baby were taken away in death; he was very, very hurt. And the
devil came to him to taunt him; as though there were…he couldn’t say
there was no God because Brother Branham knew better. He couldn’t tell
that to Job. He couldn’t tell that to Jesus, there’s no God. So he
taunted him, "Where is this God when you need Him? How come He turned
you down, wouldn’t even listen? You could pray for everybody else with
great miracles but it came to yourself everything was black."  

And as he was ready to go into despair he said, "Where were they before
I had them?" And I want to ask you the same question. Where were you?
Have you settled your hearts and minds to realize like the prophet did?
And he was barely a prophet in the sense of getting into the mature and
deep things of God. He was a little Baptist preacher learner is what he
was. And yet he knew intuitively by the Holy Spirit; I was somewhere, my
wife was somewhere, my child is somewhere, they are somewhere now. 

Now you’re looking at yourself in the mature sense you’re grown from
a child, some of you married, procreated…but go back to where there
was just a life in a form of a sperm and egg. Now you can take sperm; a
high count sperm dead as a dodo because the man has perhaps been in a
plutonian plant or excessive x-rays or something has destroyed the
sperm…not the count…but the life in the sperm. But now we look at a
sperm which has life in it and we know the woman doesn’t have life per
say but she does because she can not have a rotten egg and bear a baby.
So the egg has to be living to the degree that it has been nourished. It
is not essentially a dead egg…you understand what I’m saying? Or the
woman she doesn’t have the life. But let’s understand this like this
is Fathers Day. The first mother was a male. Right, because the woman
came out of the man, he begat her through Almighty God. So alright,
we’re looking at a life there. We’re looking at life in the sense
that life is absolutely invisible because it is a spirit form

Now what I’m trying to say is this, that life that was in that sperm
and the egg suddenly began to produce something. In other words, it was
literally a creator. So you this mornings are creators. Now don’t get
carried away to thinking you’re God. But you’re creators. And
perhaps the most important thing that you can create in this world
whether you know it or not is an atmosphere. Right. What is the
atmosphere? Does it savor of the world of God or of the flesh. Does it
save you from your own inclinations; your own desires…an atmosphere.
What atmosphere led the Bakers to adultery? What atmosphere led a friend
of mine that I didn’t know would do it but he stopped off in Memphis
and went to visit a prostitute when he had his own wife with him. I know
what did it, getting back at his wife did it, same as Baker. What
atmosphere are you creating? You’re creators. 

What atmosphere do you create in coming to church? This church is built
upon an atmosphere. You know it and I know it because of my ministry and
the way I conduct myself. I anticipate and insight you and you come up
to my expectations…you come waiting to hear something like you came
this morning happy to see me back. Why! There’s an atmosphere created
of an intensity that lies within the spirit. That’s why I brook no
opposition and neither do you. You have every right as a creator and you
create an atmosphere and that’s the great thing. 

Now let me tell you about this atmosphere and I’m going to close
because I don’t take all my time…I’m going to talk in preaching
today…I hope. But in 1Thessalonians the last chapter the last few
verses but not all the last verses, it says in 16 rejoice evermore.
Rejoice, pray without ceasing. Are you there to bend God’s arm or so
God can bend your arm? You are there so God can bend your arm so you see
I need a new atmosphere. In everything give thanks for this is the will
of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. This is the will of the God in
Christ Jesus. That’s 2Corinthians the 5th chapter…God was in Christ
reconciling the world. And this is the will of that One Who was in flesh
and is now here this morning; the One that you talk about Melchisedec,
the body. The One that you love, because you do, having not seen you
love. This is the will…in everything give thanks. 

Now there’s lots of things we do and they are not nice because we reap
what we sow. Give thanks because we learn. Remember there’s a friend
of mine that poor kid today God help him. He’s married about the 4th
time. I loved him… excellent preacher. Just one of those guys you
can’t help but love. And you sorrow because of what’s happened. He
felt he had a call to St Thomas or Amalie,  St Thomas down on one of the
Virgin Islands. He went down there with little or no backing.  He
couldn’t get a place to live in except was kind of an old cave place. 

And he learned to hate heat and humidity and mildew, even worse than I. 
And down there with no friends and nothing going on but a dismal
blackness and wondering what it’s all about. Having found the joyous
testimony of the missionaries who preceded him from the same college he
went to; that they lied, lied and lied to get lots of support to live
well. The souls weren’t being saved. Devils were not being cast out
and nothing was being done. The devil had full control of everything.

And here he was stuck. With all his evangelical glory and all the great
things he was going to do for God and with God and hallelujah, it all
fell flat. And here he was with the kids getting sick and him getting
sick and everything being pestilential till they’d go down the street
corner, have a meeting and devil possessed prostitutes come by and break
up the meeting with their sneering their laughing their giggling their
jigging, their dancing, the threatening of people. And one day he read,
in everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus
concerning you; and he said, "I can’t believe it. But it’s truth,
got to be true." 

He began rejoicing for every negative thing under high heaven. He began
praising God in every way shape and form his entire 24 hours a day
incumbent upon him. And he did it as unto the Lord with all the fullness
of heart he created the atmosphere. One say he went on the street corner
and the sinners began to come in and the witch prostitute…because that
she was…came by and she raised her hand and sneered…and  he rebuked
her and she couldn’t put her hand down. She froze in terror and
fled…created an atmosphere. Yeah, I’m looking at you all of you.
I’m pointing a finger at you…notice three at least are pointing at
me I’m getting even at myself; creating an atmosphere…women creating
an atmosphere in the home. 

What about when Bro Branham they came and took his chair; what did Hope
do? Created an atmosphere. Creators…huh. Empires are going to fall.
Cities will vanish, but he that keepeth his own spirit is greater than
he that taketh a city…creating an atmosphere. Most important thing in
the world. Well that’s it. It’s up to you. It’s up to me. You can
grouch and you can grumble you can vote and lose your vote…which I’m
not referring to this election at all, really, just came up cause I was
thinking of something else. You can do this and you can do that and you
can do the other thing it’s up to you but you can create. Because you
came from God the creator and He never said go out there and turn a mud
pie into a robin like the Catholics will tell you Jesus did. Maybe he
did for all I know but I doubt it. 

He didn’t tell you this now but he said create an atmosphere, see.
What is one? Forgiving quenching not the Spirit, right down the line the
Bible teaches creating an atmosphere.  What’s happened to you,
what’s happened to me? What’s happened to all of us? We look back
and the big thing is we didn’t create an atmosphere. Why are children
getting into sex, sin, and horrible conditions? Atmosphere was created
toward it. 

Bro Branham…woman came beside his table….I may never get to my
sermon, that’s all right…telling you truthful things now. She said
Bro Branham there’s a man over there trying to pick me up. He said I
know it because you have a sex spirit on you same as he’s got. He says
sit still sister he’ll soon leave the building. The man had ordered
his dinner; the dinner was coming. And Bro Branham began to concentrate
and the man began looking around. He began to fidget. He dropped his
napkin he’d pick it up, he dropped his silverware. He got so fidgety
he couldn’t look at the woman. He suddenly fled the restaurant.
Atmosphere… atmosphere. People call it an aura. People call it e.s.p.
They call it a lot of things this morning. I just called it creating
your own atmosphere. In other words beat the devil to the draw. Beat him
to the gun. It’s by your atmosphere.

Saw an atmosphere last night, I watched video cassette for 4½ hours. It
was on AIDS. The atmosphere of death was in the whole script of what
sexual promiscuity does. The catholic priest sat there and he did not
dare plead for chastity as the congressman did. The only man that was
worth a plug nickel in my books outside a couple doctors, one insurance
man , PhD…was this politician. When the thought of continence came up
and live godly, those perverted homosexuals and those rabid free
wheelers; their atmosphere came right back.

Look we’re looking death straight in the face and we don’t care
about any of you guys we’re still going to have our sex the way we
want it. Let me tell you something. If you think we are not near the end
of the time, and the only way we can fight this is with an atmosphere
brother/sister and you know what I’m talking about now. That’s
getting right in the Spirit of Almighty God. That's what it really comes
down to. 

Remember when Sodom and Gomorrah, the angels went down to Sodom and the
angels blinded those men. They were so in their atmosphere which they
had created that when the angel pulled Lot inside the door and shut the
door, in their blindness they groped for the door to still get at those
men. And those people sat there, I saw them last night on the Coppell
show …we had our daughter … cause we don’t have a TV like you
don’t have so we had her take it off for us. And I saw them right
there like Sodom in the face of death and destruction and they had
created their atmosphere. 

Let us create an atmosphere here in Christ where the sick are healed as
Bro Branham wanted it. Where death gives way to life, where politics
gives way to the Spirit of Jesus Christ. And when man finds himself
completely surrounded by the grace of Almighty God as we strive to come
into this image of Jesus Christ our Lord, brother/sister it can be done.
And it’s going to be done by somebody if not by you and me. I say with
the prophet every day almost… well not every day… but I say many
times with the prophet of God if we’re not Bride, let's get this flat
there’s a Bride out there somewhere. Yes there is. 

Some of you created your atmosphere with drugs. Start getting a new
atmosphere. Some of you tried too hard for wealth and expanded and all.
Try another atmosphere. Some of you think you can win by fighting, try
another atmosphere. They’re  atmospheres. You know when you get into
the water, they call so many feet down atmospheres don’t they,
pressures atmospheres. Went to the doctor and I said I want H.B.O.,
hyperbaric oxygen. I found out two atmospheres. Hey, pure oxygen that
gets rid of all the buggie wuggies in you; clears your mind helps you
out…two atmospheres. You get what I’m driving at? 

How about creating several atmospheres. The more atmospheres we create
and I’m telling you the truth. That what it all comes in, the
atmospheres we create. It’s the truth, call it what you want. But
it’s the truth, it’s atmosphere’s created. We’re creators. The
more atmospheres and the more pressure, of that beautiful Christ like
pressure. Our pressures hold us down but the atmosphere that the prophet
took us to raises us up into a spiritual resurrection where the Word of
God has put a new life within us for ourselves now, which; every 7 years
they completely change. Wonder what 7 we’re going to go up in,
atmosphere. Well that’s it, the Lord bless you take good care of
yourselves. Let’s develop atmospheres because brother sister it’s so
necessary, it’s so necessary. That’s why Paul said greet each other
with a hug and a holy kiss. You don’t worry about the kissing part.
The hug’s a good thing if you know what you’re doing.  Alright thank
you.                 

   

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