COMMENTS 38

11/8/92-1/10/93

2min 40sec… Remember again at all times as Brother Branham said you
take this Message for your healing and as our minds are healed our
bodies will be healed.

5min 25sec…Lets go back to the Message. The Message is what? The
vindicated Message coming to the mind will begin healing in our bodies
because we’re going to get out of here with a 100% transformed
glorified bodies… and what’s it going to come from… the
transformation of the mind. That’s the 12th chapter of Romans, never
forget it and I can take you to other places and I’ve done it in the
scriptures. We stand on this and we fight everything that is ungodly and
comes against the purity of the sovereignty of our God and Savior and
that sovereignty lies in one place and that’s the Word.

35min 53sec…Then as we pass through the waters, remember the last
water…and we’ll talk about waters later on again sometime…there
are two waters at the end time. One is the waters of Noah which brought
death and destruction to the earth. Eight souls were saved. But at the
end time there’s the waters that flow from the eastern gates that are
going to carry us over yonder.

37min 20sec Wednesday night is the Bible study. Brother Branham always
called it ‘prayer meeting’ but I never was once in his church where
they did any more praying than we’re doing…it was the Word. And
I’ve learned this one thing, that since prayer is not twisting God’s
arm, but letting Him twist your arm. It’s far better that you come to
church and learn the Word so you know what God’s going to twist on you
and how He’s going to twist. So that you might not come out shaped
like a pretzel but you might be more thoroughly in His image.

So the Word is far more important than prayer. And in the last time,
I've told you many times in the book of Malachi God was listening to how
people were talking to each other. He wasn’t interested in how they
were talking to Him and the record was made in what they were saying
back and forth. And if that hasn’t got to do with this Word Brother
Branham said. And remember he said, “No message but this Message will
come to life”, so we look at it. 

So alright Wednesday night’s good and Friday night 7:30 to 9:30 you
come together and therein you discuss together the things you see in the
Word and maybe sometimes you receive correction by it. Maybe sometimes
you become an inspiration to others. Remember if it is the Word of God
which indeed it is, it’s full of life. And that Word on your lips is
no different from the lips of the prophet or any of the five-fold
ministry or deacon, an elder, or surprisingly some of the most brainy
people in the world or perhaps some of you might call the most ignorant.


It has nothing to do with the personality per-se as coming from you
which you may even see this as Bother Branham…we’ll talk about in
this message. But what it is, it is God’s Word on your lips. That’s
right, and every time you speak it, it becomes part of your own hearing,
a part your sensibilities, a part of your inner person, and there’s
something inside of here that happens. It expands it gets greater.

I cannot conceive myself of any church in this whole world who
understands vindication better than we do. Who preaches it more often.
Who was more sympathetic and empathetic to it. And by the grace of
Almighty God has a firmer hold within the heart mind and his soul and
the entire man because this is where we stand with the prophet where 80%
of his entire Message was positively God vindicating Himself to the
prophet the prophet vindicated the people the vindicated Word bringing a
perfect faith.

Now I just can’t say what other churches are doing but I just can’t
believe for one minute out of an hour and a half, and I take an hour and
a half usually every single time; sometimes more. Time after time and
time after time, my message is just about 70% or 60% the way Brother
Branham’s was 80%. And if he as the prophet of God felt incumbent upon
him and positively he must do that thing; and I have no choice but to
follow in his footsteps and I say I’m happy to follow in those
footsteps. And if that is what is allotted to me as a ministry, and this
is what I’m accountable to God; I hope, I not only hope but I believe
I can say I have fought a good fight and stood the test of time to stand
here time after time and tell you those things that he told you based
upon an absolute vindicated revelation, right before the White Throne.

How can a man then stand in fear? No he can stand in reverence and in
love and in respect and in union knowing that he is one with that Word
and he’s one with God even as the scripture distinctly promised in
that day you’ll know that I am in you and you in me and we’re both
in that Father. That’s where we stand and I trust now you understand
that and little things begin to happen in your soul now where you’re
more open, you are more amplified, let us say. You are more expansive
because you’re determined to hold and honor and esteem your brothers
and sisters and will do to them as you would want someone to do to you.
If they sorrow, you sorrow. If they rejoice, you rejoice. If their
successful, you’re happy for them. You just want to be open. And as
you’re open to the things of God, believe me, He will never send you
away empty, His Word has said He will fill you and so that‘s your
little sermonette this morning; the announcements and we’ll get back
to the other part of the message later. 

48min44sec...So it may sound like a lonely walk at times, but it is a
great walk. I look back on what little things I've gone through, and I
wonder what I beefed about when I went through them. I look back on
some…what are tough times. But without those times I wouldn’t know
what to do today. What we do, we exercise ourselves spiritually by
allowing the Word of God to have full course and to be glorified in us.
So we trust that 1993, if we’re here and who knows…we  may all have
to go through it. There’s one thing about it, the shadows may be
lengthening but not for us. It’s just like, you know, December 21st
was the shortest day of the year. Now the day’s lengthening and time
and eternity for you and me is blended. We ought to think of that and
lift up our heads and rejoice.

See the world just knows a little scripture that says when all these
things come to pass and it talks about all these rough and tough things,
earthquakes. What is it 133 tremors last year in L.A., anybody read that
report? 133 I think or was it someplace else. That might be just a
start. You see all these things coming upon the earth and you know
they’re worried. There’s not even a real depression in the land
according to statistics that ended. What is it? in March of 1991. 

Everybody’s all fussed up. But we should be in a state of relaxation
rejoicing that all these things are come to pass because our redemption
draweth nigh. How nigh is it when He came down Himself and opened the
Book of Redemption, and let you know whose names were in there? Not
individually per se, but whose names were in there on the grounds of the
common faith of foreknowledge, election, predestination so that you can
know that you know. Everybody out there says, "We know that we know."
They don’t. But there’s somebody has to know. I trust we’re that
group this morning. Lord bless you. 

51min49sec…It’s over in John where John says the elder unto the
elect lady and her children whom I love in the truth and not I only but
all so all they that have known the truth, for the truth’s sake which
dwelleth in us and shall be with us forever. And then he says beloved I
wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health even as
thy soul prospereth. For I rejoice greatly when the brethren came and
testified of the truth that is in thee even as thou walketh in the
truth. I have no joy greater than to hear that my children walk in the
truth. Beloved thou doeth faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the
brethren and to strangers which have born witness of thy love before the
church whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort
thou shalt do well because that for his name sake they went forth taking
nothing of the gentiles. Therefore we ought to receive such that we
might be fellow helpers to the truth.

Now you’ll notice in there that John wished, his earnest prayer and
desire was that above all things that they may prosper and be in health
even as thy soul prospers. So you’ll notice there are 3 things in
there. And one is a major, major and one is a minor major and one is
strictly a minor. Now the major, major is that your soul prospers.
That’s the thing that counts the most. And everything should hinge and
rest upon it. There should be no supplication to God, there should be no
desire toward God and from God that is equal to in any way shape or form
the request that the soul prosper. And you'll notice the prosperous soul
has to do with the Truth. Which is the revealed Word of God in the inner
man, in the soul which is fed and thereby prospers. That’s the major,
major.  

The major, minor is the healing of your body and that is the minor of
the major because healing lies in the atonement. Now this is 100%
scriptural. And if you notice over in James, he talks about healing in
the 5th chapter and he said, "is any among you afflicted let him pray,
is any merry let him sing." Now, affliction doesn’t mean sickness. It
means when you’re being persecuted. And he says, Is any sick among you
let him call for the elders of the church and let them pray over him
anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord and the prayer of faith
shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise him up and if he hath
committed sins they shall be forgiven him."

You’ll notice in there that forgiveness of sin goes along with your
healing. So we see here there that healing is in the atonement. And
it’s a matter of pure and wonderful grace to be healed. That’s why
so many people are never healed even though their born again believers.
They simply can’t believe that it is a part of the atonement and
simply an article of faith, in other words strictly by grace. 

56min44sec…And the 3rd one which is strictly a minor is the one where
in you may prosper which is a financial blessing that is available to
us. But you’ll notice that that one is not a matter of grace except in
the sense that God has given it to us in His Word. But that’s
something you work for. Now of course I know you work to feed your soul.
You work to be fervent in faith toward God, that is true. But this is
something different. This is where the pinch comes, where this is in the
realm of not the abstract any longer. But it’s downright in the
physical. So he says here in 2nd Corinthians "But I say this he that
soweth sparingly shall also reap sparingly. And he that soweth
bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he
purposed in his heart so let him give not grudgingly or of necessity for
God loveth a cheerful giver.

Now it may take a while to get happy about giving. That’s right.
Because it’s those that go forth bearing precious seed, weeping, that
come again rejoicing. In other words if a man gives simply of his bounty
and he doesn’t know what it is to really give. In other words where it
hurts, where it cost him something, you’re never going to get off the
ground with this one. Now just be honest. There’s many, many scripture
I could take if God would give me perfect recollection which I’m not
even asking for so I’d have to get my concordance out. I could keep
you here for the next 6 hours at least. Listen, I preached a whole
series on giving and what it’s all about. You take hour and a half
sermons that go on and on. Only take 4 one and a half hour sermons to
get 6 hours, don’t take long at all. Alright and you wouldn’t get
the subject finished. But this is where we give, so we learn to give
cheerfully. In other words the understanding that this is an infallible
harvest.

You know years ago they said the farmer, he was a man he exemplified
faith, hope, and charity. In the spring he had faith he put the crop in.
All summer he waited, that’s hope.  And by fall he was on charity.
(Bro Vayle laughs) Now that’s what they look at. That’s back in the
dust bowl days, you folk wouldn’t know too much about that. But there
is a requirement here of where we give. Now notice what it says. God
loves that cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound
towards you that you always having all sufficiency in all things may
abound to every good work.

Now that doesn’t mean that you’ll be able to stand on the street
corner like Ross Perot and shell out 60 to 90 million dollars at
election time. He’s a triple billionaire. Of course you want to talk
about Sam Walton he was worth about 22 billion and I don’t know what
he’s worth now if anything, or what he will be worth in the future.
But it says here that there won’t be one thing that you cannot lift
your hand to and help in some way if you ever learn this principle. Now
John wants this as the minor. You got a major, major…you got a minor
major…a major it’s a minor coming next then you got this 3rd one.
And this is not a matter of strictly grace except it’s in the Word of
Promise and God will do it. But this is where if you want to do
something, you can do this and it works. See as it’s written, "You can
abound to every good work" (that is written). He that disperses abroad
he hath given to the poor, his righteousness remaineth for ever. Now he
that ministered seed to the sower both minister bread for your food and
multiplied your seed sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness.
Now you notice in here with this minor done in the spirit of God swings
into a spiritual, which now makes it a major minor or minor major
whichever you’re going to look at. In other words it’s not simply an
A it’s an A+, see. It’s not simply a B, it’s a B+. It’s not
simply a 3, you can square it and you can bring it to a 9 or you can
cube it and bring it to a 27. You can take it up further than that, 81
whichever way you want to go.

There lies within here this richness where what is done now because
it’s a righteous ministration. With the right spirit, the right
understanding, the right doing it, begins to enhance your own life as
well as the lives of others and lays up treasure in heaven. Once a
person learns this, he is free from the binding cares of materialism,
which are going to pass with the use thereof. 

As I pray, I mention to God almost every single time, I thank Him for
the material things He gave me which are going to perish with the use
thereof. And I must always keep that in mind. My security and yours does
not lie in a dollar bill. Does not lie where the Mormons and the Seventh
Day Adventist and the cults and the ????? people are trying to store
away dried beans and dried peas; and things you know later on when the
big press is on and they think. Hey, if anybody knew that you had two
bushels of beans hid and it would save their bodies from dying and
starving, they knew you had it, they’d conk you on the head so fast
you’d be dead before morning. 

What I’m trying to show you, this is not a secure premise to secure
you in a place where you now become sufficient to yourself. This even
allows you to see your sufficiency is of God, you’re sustenance your
very life because you have devoted yourself to a principle that you can
enter in to. And believe me it is a spiritual principle. Never once have
you heard me raise my voice and tell you like the Pentecostals, give a
dollar and God will give you back ten. I’ve seen Him do it. You give a
hundred dollars, God will give you back hundreds, I’ve seen Him do it.
I don’t teach that though, I just teach, hey listen, devote yourself
this year to the three principles laid out here. Let my soul prosper
before God at all cost. And that can only be by the Word and the Life
released in the Word.

As Brother Branham talked to the Indian chief he said, "There’s two
dogs inside of me fighting, one’s black, one’s white." He said,
"Chief, which dog wins?" He said, "Depending which dog I feed."
There’s your two natures like Brother Branham said, "Two souls, one of
them’s got to go." May the white dog win. May the white dove bring
forth the olive branch within us and soothe our hearts our lives towards
God, toward each other and then may healing which is indicative of the
spiritual conflicts are gone. The conflicts within our body are gone
too. And the 3rd one the financial conflicts are gone.

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