Comments #37

8/2/92-11/7/92

Bro. Lee Vayle

8min 57sec…Pray for the services.  These services should mean
something very special to us because I trust we’re all being further
sanctified by the Word and built up by the same Word. Because most
people still don’t realize that God and His Word are synonymous
actually. There’s not a difference between the Rhema and the Logos.
What the Rhema is the Logos…God Himself was entirely responsible for.
And what came from the Rhema in time of the manifestation God’s
entirely responsible for you can’t separate one from the other. A man
and his word can never be separated.

 To be in the Truth means you’re in the God of the Truth. If you’re
in the God of the Truth you will be in the Truth. What can this Word do
for us? All things were created by Word and all things are maintained by
the same Word, created and maintained… born again of incorruptible
seed…see…which is the Word of God. Whatever you are born of which is
a human life, that same life must maintain you until the body goes and
then the life goes to where God wants it to go. So what are we trying to
tell you? That’s what the Word’s all about. Word and God you cannot
separate. Anybody that tries it is acting in a manner of folly and will
destroy himself.

And we have a Message of the last day, stay with it. You are not
responsible for it, it is responsible for you. You have only one
responsibility that’s open your minds until the minds becomes
saturated with the mechanical Word which is that Rhema which in process
through the power of the Holy Ghost goes down into the heart becomes a
part of us we become a part of it.

We all are a part of Him. As Brother Branham said you were a part of
your father, your mothers a part of your father you’re all a part of
each other…part of Him therefore you are all of God which you are all
Word. The church is all Word. Never said I was all God, said I was all
Word because God is that Word. What we saw in manifestation was God. So
I just want to leave that with you. Never ever try to change anything.
If you change anything change your thinking. Bring your thoughts under
control to His thinking. As Paul said, "Everything that exalts itself
above the Word of God will be destroyed." 

But let that which exalts itself …and that’s that mind…Brother
Branham warned us about that. Eve let it get in there. Bring it under
control. Bring it under control to the Word of God. Not that you’re
going to manage the Word of God, not that you’re going to exhibit the
Word of God, not that you’re going to be some kind of power of God,
but you exalt God by receiving His Word as that Living Word…God
Himself. Then let God in that process begin to have control. It cannot
be otherwise. If it’s otherwise then you get into the false love,
false faith, false virtue all of those things become entirely false
because it all must come from God. 

18min…You know that what we’re looking at there is that God who gave
those men word by word being scribes, though not prophets because they
merely wrote out what was there. You begin to consider the value of a
witness of those that were there and we have one of the most unique
privileges in all the world…especially the last 2000 years where
brother Branham said just think the same Pillar of Fire that brought the
Word to Paul is here revealing it. And some of us are witnesses having
been with that one that saw the Pillar of Fire, picture taken right
there, heard the voice of God audibly where God spoke to him. And he
came back and he said I was different from all the rest because I could
tell it exactly as He told me, exactly as I saw it.

So we’re fortunate and we’re fortunate to know that we have these
brethren that are in Europe and different continents, and their
faithfully giving the Word as Brother Branham taught it. I believe not
putting a new patch on an old garment. That’s a very simple and easy
thing to do but the patch will come off. I know it’s very strange that
people don’t believe in putting patches on hot air balloons and they
don’t go up too high. You know there’s such a thing as patching them
alright but there going to come down. I wouldn’t want to have my Word
that I considered to be the Word of God with some kind of a patch on it;
a new patch that would come off. I want to know that I have that Word
that is so vital and so necessary.  

20min47sec… But let this be a real night of faith and service in the
Lord even God healing His own. Brother Branham never gave up on healing.
He didn’t pray as much as he used to pray in the sense of trying to
minister in the realm of the gift of healing. I think I told you folk
you’re very sweet but you’re very hard on me too. Because you sit
there pulling and I know what is to pull on Brother Branham. I could
swing him around just like a top and look at me and go back with it. Hey
what’s with that guy? Why don’t he talk to me?  Of course there’s
only five thousand out there…one thousand needing him you know. But I
was making sure as much as I could that if William Branham lived he’d
live for me. I wasn’t kidding. And I just put every ounce of faith and
effort, he’d swing around again. Pretty soon he got smart and he
wouldn’t swing around anymore. Well I never got smart, I kept on
pulling.

What I’m trying to tell you is this… look. If a guy like me could do
that to him in what I was doing. And you can do to me what you’re
doing. Why don’t you just pull tonight for healing? There’s no
difference, there’s no difference. You open your heart and pull.
God’s not going to disappoint you. And I know some of you need
healing. We’ve had some marvelous healings. But personally…Lee
Miller’s an ice cream-aholic. I’ve never heard him ever get enough.
But he needs healing tonight. He hasn’t got enough healing. I
haven’t got enough. Well God’s got lots of it. So start pulling for
the person beside you if he needs help, you don’t have to lay on
hands. The Bible says pray…you know for that one… as Brother Branham
said next to you. And God will visit healing upon your soul and upon
your body. So I trust that’s the way it is. 

28min 19sec…But you must know that you must come to a place where we
saw last night that Brother Branham said, ‘This mental faith anointed
by the Holy Ghost becomes the revealed faith.’

28min 38sec…Now last night I really should have taken  another half
hour to talk to you…but it’s all right I didn’t. I just want to
leave this with you where Paul and Brother Branham said work out your
own salvation. He said I must work out mine, Paul had to work out his
own, you and I have to work out our own. How do we do it?  Well
there’s a passive faith and there’s an active faith. There is a God
that Brother Branham said like a portion of Him Who is life and being
limited because He’s defined and is what He is. He’s not like a
cloud floating around. Neither is he like a mass of air or some gases
floating around. 

God is definitive. Everything in this world has measurements. There is
nothing that doesn’t have measurements. Therefore it is limited in the
sense it can be described, circumcised and you can know within the
limits of your know ability about every single thing that is made even
from God down. Now Tommy Flannigan gave me the quote and like I was so
sick out there I didn’t put it down. 

I went to ask him years later he forgot where it was but on the computer
you must be able to bring it up. And it tells distinctly there is God
who in His essentiality is complete and whole as to how He’s defined,
compressed or anything else, and that part of Him remains static and
permanent and in control. From Him there goes a life like the cloud of
fire that came down at Pentecost. The little drops of tongues came down
coming into each person uniting with that spark of life within (side)
that gene from God in your soul. Now…the cloud itself did not
disintegrate and become a nothingness because everything was in the
people. So therefore Brother Branham’s statement is a 100% correct;
not as though I ever challenged it. I would challenge anything he ever
said opposite to it. And I’m no body to challenge but I’m just
saying my mentality works that way. 

Ok we’re looking at this picture now. We have as Brother Branham said
'We have God above us, God in our midst, God in us.' And in this hour we
know that we’re in the Father…in Him and He in us and all. We have
come to this tremendous place of this unity. But at the same time there
is always the truth that God remains God in His own isolation even
though He has imparted His Life. Now what I’m trying to bring you to
is this. When we have these problems of the growth, these wonderful
virtues that are born into us by the baptism with the Holy Ghost. We
must work out our own salvation with fear and trembling which is to say
to bring this forth under the guidance of that proper teacher to bring
us into full manifestation as true sons of God written epistles and so
on and so forth…you know adoption and all these other things. Now here
is what we’re saying I’m going to bring you closer to it. 

God in you, in you is not Sovereign God. He is sovereign in the sense
that He wants complete control over you to teach you to help you to
guide you and you submit your life to Him. So therefore Brother Branham
made the statement “don’t you ever pray to the God within you”?
How many of us avail ourselves of praying to the Spirit within us that
He might have the ascendancy and the right and the power and the full
authority within us helping us to come forth as matured sons of God. But
when you come to those things that are outside of you, that’s the
Sovereign God who can only move.

Now if I were to pray and say now Lord I would like this certain thing
done for somebody over yonder. I can pray with the spirit within me in
the sense that I could actually say “may the spirit within me looking
unto the Lord Jesus Christ the great intercessor; you know bring my
request before the Father.” 

But you’ll notice that positively that Father who is there in His
stationary limited capacity… in the sense when I’m talking about
‘limited’…but it’s the fullness of God. He in His sovereign
ability reaches out and helps those things that you and I require and to
be done. So what we’re looking at here then…you address those things
that are not within you and required within you to Him who alone can
move.

 But when He is within you why would we overlook Him and address the
Father when already the spirit is within us to help us with healing and
all these other things, that’s our major problem. How we going to have
our salvation worked out? Just what I’m telling you. 

It’s incumbent upon me and incumbent upon you. So let’s begin to
look within at Him, that life within, to begin to say and not only say
it but to mean it and carefully listen to Him, who is the teacher,
giving us the Word. And I really believe that’s going to stop us
breaking the speed limit too. Now I know in most states you’re allowed
a certain number of miles which I don’t say is breaking the law
because they say well we allow this and that. But there’s so many
things that we do that if we were to simply dedicate ourselves to the
Holy Spirit  help us then and He will always help us according to the
Message. The fortification lies there. But if we do not look within we
will not be working out our salvation with fear and trembling. Now
remember there is also the verse that says…to back me up; for it is
God in you willing and doing of His good pleasure.

 So I just thought I had better leave that to you because … I took a
bit of Ernie’s time but it’s alright I think…you can take all the
time you want, the food going to be a while cooking. I just thought I
had better bring that to your attention because I didn’t take it last
night…I don’t want you to be under any erroneous ideas as to how I
believe and then I see in scripture how this worked out. As Brother
Branham said his greatest gift was to learn how to get out of the way.
And I think you and I are not exempt from that tremendous ability
getting out of the way and letting the God within us; that life within
us taking precedence over all things.

1hr 2min 32sec…You’ll notice that the Pentecostal people pride
themselves on the spontaneity of the movement and if you are as well
read in the history of Pentecost as I am, you will find that that is to
their great discredit…Because they never had a man ordained by God to
bring them the Word.  And you’ll find that Pentecostalism is built
specifically…although it comes from the Word now don’t misunderstand
me. It is built specifically upon a lack of leadership and a
concentration of sensation and feeling; and rather than knowing the true
Message of God for the hour.

 Now you notice brother Branham came on the scene like a…Paul born out
of ‘due season’. He was not a part of Pentecost though he was in
Pentecost the same as you and I are not a part of Laodicea and yet we
are a part of Laodicea, know what I mean. We are in this particular hour
and so Brother Branham came on the scene then later. 

1hr 6min 30sec…What has God always wanted? You say well God always
wanted a man’s heart. Well I could agree and I don’t agree. If you
are elect He already has your heart. You already were seed. What’s
your trouble? He wants to get your head. Yeah, He wants to get your head
that’s the top. Every thought into captivity to Christ, wants to get
your head. Greatest battle ever fought going on to get your head now. To
get away from all your sensations…get away from everything and this is
purely scientific whether you know it or not. You have an absolute
scientific religion, Christianity, God in everything about Him in your
relationship, lock, stock and barrel proof. Going to be proven by the
fact that the Tree of Life in our midst will one day be approached,
we’ll become immortal. I may not make it because I can go by the way
of the grave. No problem. I’ll come back.  

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