Crystallization

Note: These ‘comments’ were given by Bro. Vayle 

before he preached the message “Leadership #34”.

January 15, 1995

1.	Now I was just thinking this morning, as I was looking over a little
Scripture and comparing It to my own life, that Bro. Branham, you know,
mentions here, “You can see yourself in the Bible.” Now I don’t
know how accurately you can pick your character out and assume or kind
of put your name on it, but there are lots of Scriptures you can run
across that suit you as individuals because of how you find yourself at
a particular time. And I was thinking that how my wife and I were
running from pillar to post and back and forth and were so consumed with
running here and running there—hoping to pick up an ounce or two of
energy and, you know, a little better feeling, like (You like to feel
better.) feeling good. And, of course, you like to feel super-good. And
you’d like to be kind of like Moses, that you’re just walking along
one day, and it’s all over. Like they used to say, “Sudden death,
sudden glory,” or “One step out of here beyond the River to the step
into the Kingdom.” But the verse that came to me was: “Remember now
thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days draw not nigh.
[Eccl 12:1] And thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them.”

2.	And I was thinking how wonderful it is that young people can be
brought up in the Lord and, then, be instructed in the way of the Word,
so that at the end time there isn’t propensity and a pressure on you
that in any way would ever give precedence to anything in your life over
the Word of God. Like Bro. Branham said, “My greatest fear is that the
people at the end time are going to be consumed by the cares of this
world.” And Jesus mentioned that it chokes out the fruitfulness of a
Christian.

3.	Now, of course, in my particular ministry, I deal with the Word, and
I watch the thoughts that come to me and those things that pertain to
the Word; but even then, I’m certainly not like old Daddy Bosworth,
when he lay dying. He was already there without recourse to getting up.
And, actually, the way he conducted himself when his family and friends
came in, you’d almost think that he was going to jump out of bed and
serve you. And he was so vital in the things of the Lord, so taken up
with the things of God, that there wasn’t one minute of the man was
thinking of himself in any way, shape or form, except in relationship to
the Word of Almighty God.

	And Bro. Branham tells how that Bro. Bosworth was like in a coma to the
world but very alive on the other side in the Spirit. And in there he
was smiling and shaking hands with people and hugging them; he’d known
them many, many years ago. And that’s how he died. And I said,
“Well, to die like Daddy Bosworth, you’ve got to live like him.”
There’s no way, shape and form that anybody can ever live in a place
of, not just potential, but actual victory, without laying the
foundation.

4.	So, my little pastoral thought this morning is: as much as I’ve
been in the ministry—many, many years now—and able to judge many
things by the Word, because we come to the place of discernment—not as
Bro. Branham discerned—this is: judge between right and wrong, knowing
who serves God and who doesn’t, who knows the Left Hand from the Right
Hand, which is, you know, understanding two vines and all those things,
and so many things, we come to the place of a good understanding. Now,
that’s your tremendous passive faith. But the passive faith must also
have the active faith. And the active faith must always be in balance
with the passive faith.

	And so, here is what I am looking at again this morning is that relying
on the doctrine of understanding in your relationship to God in order to
worship Him in Spirit and in Truth… But, you know, worshipping God in
Spirit and in Truth is only given to the true believer with the true
revelation. But there’s another type of faith that goes with it, which
is the active, where Bro. Branham says, “You love God by loving His
people. You serve God by serving His people.” 

5.	And so, there ought to be a tremendous community rapport, and not
just a rapport but integrated hearts amongst us by now. I don’t say
that we’re far from it; I don’t know. For years I have preached that
we’re crystallizing, and the crystallization is good and bad, the
crystallization that we always were what we were; and we’ll not change
that. As Bro. Branham said, “He got your great, great, great
grandfather, great, great, great grandmother together and brought you
down to get these certain qualities that are in you now.” Well, all
those qualities should be now in the positive because of what we are
looking at.

6.	Now the crystallization of the world has gone to the place of going
off the Word. Their love is shown in ecumenism—the coming together,
loving Jesus and disregarding His Word. Now all it’s going to do is
take one final last Word, and it’ll be entirely crystallized.
They’ll be entirely, one hundred percent off the Word. Now, that’s
your serpent seed bunch. And the ones in-between, which are foolish
virgin—they never come to the place of crystallization in this
Message, because they do now allow the Word, the true Word, to come in.

7.	Now the Bride, on the other hand, is waiting to be crystallized. And
her crystallization comes by the Word being added and added. Now the
point is: when is that hour going to come and the minute going to come
when that last Word of revelation in this Message comes in and the Bride
suddenly will change? See? Crystallization is where you take a solution
like salt or sugar, and you put it on the stove in boiling water, and
you get the thing a perking and a bubbling, (And I don’t know just how
it’s done.) but you keep adding, until you see the thing is thickening
and thickening. And then, it takes only one crystal of the sugar dropped
in, and the whole thing crystallizes. So, crystallization is a good
thing.

8.	Now, in the church here, how far are we coming to crystallization?
Now you can’t take only the passive faith—there’s no two ways
about it. There’s got to be the ‘active faith’. And one of the
great active faiths that Bro. Branham mentioned was, “It’s available
to us and must be inculcated in order for there to be the real
crystallization and the real unity where the group becomes one solid
mass by the Word.” And he said, “How can you not help but love each
other, you that love this Message?” 

9.	So, in this Message is everything; and, if you see something in
there, and you know that something is lacking in the point of
crystallization, which would be the Bride coming to the utter fullness
of the Holy Spirit, the individual coming to the utter fullness of the
Holy Spirit, the way to know that the crystallization must come to
place, and will come to place, is your utter faith in what Bro. Branham
said. And then, if there is something that pertains to what we do, which
definitely there is... The church never was left as a non-working
identity to put the church in the position of being comatose—in other
words, as soon as you come into Christ you just ‘blah’ out. That is
the most foolish and terrible thing in the world. The church is alive
with sanity and grace and power and love and a sound mind.

10.	So, therefore, as we come together at Communion and all, to get rid
of our differences, our intolerances, those things in there that are not
seemly for a Christian, because they’re judgmental… And being
judgmental is not so bad in itself; but, when the process of forgiveness
is not there, then the person, without knowing, becomes consumed and the
thing eats on that person... How much is there displaces that which is
imminent, at this time, and eminent—both imminent and eminent, in the
Word of Almighty God for us. In other words you can’t go any further
than your faith or conduct.

11.	So, that’s my little thought this morning. Here I am and my wife,
eighty years of age, and we find ourselves not outside the Word and away
from the Word. We don’t find anything else... In fact, I am in a
position of a paraplegic when it comes to the Word: ‘live, die, sink
or swim’. If I’m not lifted out of my wheelchair when the flood
approaches, I’ll drown. I mean I can’t seek higher ground by myself.
Now you come to the place where you’re totally dependent, and it
definitely is ‘live, die, sink or swim’. With that you come to the
emotionless state of saying, “Nothing to do with emotion, nothing to
do with my own thinking, nothing to do with me as an individual.” But
I am crystallizing just the same at the same time.

12.	Now, my crystallization will keep moving and moving into the circles
where they should be of my own mental and spiritual satisfaction,
knowing I am walking in the grace of Almighty God, because I am not just
living in the Spirit, I am walking in the Spirit, I am growing in the
Spirit, I am moving on.

	I find myself more and more tolerant, less judgmental, although I have
to take a very strong stand with the Word until the day I die. There’s
nothing I can to about that. The thief on the cross, (There were two
people there.) one in his last hour, turned to the Lord, and his
crystallization became complete; and he was a complete follower of
Christ, even though he wasn’t able to do one thing beyond “Remember
me when Thou comest into Thy kingdom.” And you’ll notice the other
one threw the words of Christ back in his face, and he said, “Look, if
you’re the Son of God, get off that cross and take me down with
you.”

13.	What you see here is: You cannot stop; you cannot stop life moving.
You cannot stop, and you can’t just stand there. You are going on. Now
you can be going on, like lead-footed, marking time, but that life is
going on. So, the main thing is to be thoroughly conversant, inured by
the Word of Almighty God and do your best, with the help of God (And it
can be done.) to live in that place of freedom and love where we know
that the Lord wants us, where it breaks down all those differences.

14.	Now, you see, the ecumenical world—they focused on Jesus. So, it
doesn’t matter if you’re the pope. You can be the ‘man of the
year’, and they will come in. All of the people are going to come in,
because they’re going to focus absolutely on God. You know the devil
did not focus on Jesus. Everybody wants to focus on Jesus—make him
part of the Godhead. But the devil did not focus on Jesus. He focused on
God, and he said, “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “why
don’t you fall down and worship me, and I’ll give you all of these
things here.”

15.	Now, you see, if the devil was focusing on God in order to get the
worship away from God by getting Jesus... Now you’ve got the world
doing the same thing. The devil is going to get all the worship of God
by getting all these people that are looking at Jesus here and say,
“Well, we love Jesus. We don’t have to have this Word. We don’t
have to worship in Spirit and Truth. We just focus on this here.”

	So, their crystallization is more and more away from the Word. Now we
have not rejected Jesus; we have not rejected the Father. To reject the
Son is to reject the Father. To reject the Father is to reject the Son.
So, therefore, you have no God, and you have no means of access and
identification in any way, shape and form in the human race to get to
God. See?

16.	So, you see what’s happening in the world. Now, they’re
crystallizing. How soon is it going to be before, [Bro. Vayle snaps his
finger] just like that, it’s over? How soon is it going to be that the
Bride, through the grace and mercy of God, comes to the final point of
that Word fulfillment? Now there’ll be a crystallization; but, watch
though: “Let no man take thy crown.” [Rev 3:11] “Lay not treasures
on earth where moth and rust corrupt.” [Mt 6:19] See? That which is
going on by our faith actively is not creating a destiny, but it’s
creating the climate of the destiny of the future. See?

17.	There are so many things that people are not aware of in this
Message. They are all the time confused with grace and works; they
can’t separate them. They don’t understand an active faith and the
passive faith. Here. I believe, we have an opportunity, having studied
the Word of God as we have, to have a tremendous active faith, to be led
of the Lord God. And how long this is going to be our lot, I don’t
know. I haven’t got an idea. All I know is that the constant
remembering and the constant application—not tomorrow, not asking God
to do something different for you saying, “Lord, take this out of my
heart.” That’s an old legalistic, Pentecostal bunch of hogwash. The
Bible does not tell you that. It says, “You overcome; you love your
enemies; you do good; you do this; you do it.” And you know you can do
it, because God is there to help you.

18.	Rejecting the influence of the Holy Spirit on a person’s life is
actually rejecting the Word, because the two go together. Say, “Well,
I take the Word, but I just stop here.”

	Wherever you stop, that’s where you have to go back. That’s where
your faith cut off. You have to go back. And there is a tremendous
satisfaction in knowing that you can proceed to the point of what I call
‘crystallization’—which Paul called ‘maturity’—the growing
up, the finalization, the standing there, aloof from the things of our
own spirit and our own carnality in the things of the world, and just
standing there. We’re standing there now with the Word; but my
admonition this morning is: get beyond the passive faith; go to the
active.

	I would love to say, when I pass away, I’ll be like Daddy Bosworth.
I’m going to be honest: There’s no way that I’ll be sitting up for
two hours shaking hands with people. There is no way I will be dying
like that man died. See? I haven’t lived that way. You follow what
I’m saying? You’ve got to analyze and look at yourselves. If you
want a certain thing, you must begin to put yourself into that mold.
See?

19.	So, all right. I could take hours on this, because I could hit facet
after facet from the Scripture—hundreds of Scripture, but that’s
what came to my mind and thinking. 

	“Oh, Lee Vayle...” 

	I haven’t forsaken the Word for one minute; but, except for a gift, I
can tell you I could be in hot water when it comes to preaching. In
fact, I’ll be honest with you: I think there are some people that I
have taught know better than what I have taught than I myself, because I
forget what I say many times. And I don’t even keep my notes, but
it’s on tape, of course. But we simply cannot depend on that which is
given us by grace to be a force which has captivated us and puts us into
a straight-lined jacket or a tube and pushes us. We must bend ourselves
in our active faith to walk in that Light as He is in that Light.

20.	So, all right. You know what I’m talking about. We’ll go more
and more into this as time goes on. But, you see, there’s coming a
day, if the Lord tarries... What if the Lord doesn’t come for another
twenty-five years? I’ll be gone, and there’ll be others sitting here
that will be gone, too. Others will be grandfathers by that time—be a
great-grandfather almost. Yeah. Where will you be in twenty-five years
from now? Bro. Branham said, “A hundred...fifty… twenty-five...maybe
yet tomorrow.” We’ve gone by twenty-five. What if we have
twenty-five more years to go? 

21.	So, all right. “Remember now thy Creator in the days of your
youth,” the days that you’re molding, the days that you’re coming
to, where maturity must finally take over in whatever form it takes
over—either pro or con with the Word of God, whatever depth might be
there. And you will find that that Word will not let you down. There is
no way that I could possibly ever let this Word down concerning certain
things that I know. 

	You say, “Well, Bro. Vayle, don’t boast.”

	It isn’t a matter of boasting; it’s just a real, absolute fact. The
Word of God has to come to a place where there’s nothing left but the
Word of God. You simply can’t move from that position. See? You’re
locked in. You’re locked in. We’re crystallizing. We’re coming to
the place where there’s a rigidity; we’re inflexible. We’re
unbending. Little rocks are coming like the Big Rock.

	So, remember; line your active faith with your passive, and don’t
just put everything under the Blood and say, “Well, Lord, it’s under
the Blood, which means that…” and then, go on with things that
should not be gone on with. Put it under the Blood, which means that,
“All right, God. I forgive them as well as I want You to forgive me,
and we walk in that Light together, and our ecumenism is not a matter of
simply making you a title or making you a god. We’re not interested in
that. We’re interested in a living reality—a relationship.

22.	So, all right. That’s it for the time being, and that’s a
basketful and a half—just what I said there. In fact, it’s a life.
And you will find that you begin to listen; you begin to find out that
life is more than just going through a daily regimen. A life is more
than a series of habit patterns. A life can be the habit pattern of the
Word and God moving in and through the Word. That’s what we have this
morning. 

	The Lord bless you.