How Does God Operate?  

Bro. Lee Vayle   -     June 06,1982

	Shall we pray.  Heavenly Father, we thank you this morning for grace
and mercy, extended toward us through Jesus Christ, our living risen
Lord.  Now, seated upon the Throne, proclaiming and showing Himself, 
Melchisedec, waiting for the Holy Spirit to put all the enemies, and all
things under His feet.  And we, with Him, all things under our feet. 
And we’re grateful for that this morning, Lord.  We are in a position,
we can hardly wait, Lord, for the manifestation, of those things which
we know are already here.  But, are obscured in a way, because of
humanity, Lord, not yet advanced to that place.  But, by the Holy Spirit
we see them, and we see them not afar off, we see them so close that we
have become literally impatient within ourselves, Lord.  For this final
affirmation of God toward us, changing our mortal members, as He brings
the dead out of the ground, Lord.    

	We’re grateful for that this morning.  We cannot fake it, we would
not want to shake it, if there’s anything we want, it’s not only a
continuation, but a deepening of it, Lord.  And we’re grateful for
that this morning.  We’re, absolutely beside ourselves, because we
know that this is outside of ourselves.  This is the doings of the Lord,
and it is wonderful in our eyes.  Eyes of revelation, beholding Him in
His glory.  So, Father, we commend ourselves to You this morning knowing
what this wonderful thing You have done, and are doing, and will
continue until it is all caught up into eternity, which lies within You.

	Thanking You, that You are not a God that is afar off.  But even now,
coming to that place soon the thousand years being over, and the Bride,
Mount Zion and the Lamb on the Throne over Mount Zion, with God the
Spirit veiled in a Pillar of Fire.  All one, before they call, He
answers.  What a unity we have, and we’re grateful, Lord, that
already…. we have not only been exposed to It, but are partakers of
this last hour that swings into eternality.  Now, bless us this morning
in our study, Lord, of the Word.  May it be simple, forth right, may it
be really right and true, as we look to You to help us.  In Jesus name
we pray.  Amen.  You may be seated.  

1.	Now, last week we were dealing with the same subject that we had
covered in different ways previously, concerning the Omega Reflection. 
Pertaining to the literal working out of immortality, within the human
vessel that has been ordained of God.  And in there, I was stressing to
a degree, the fact of how God used men, with this ministry.  And brought
to your attention, that how it was that the Roman Catholics in their
perversion, have more truth which has become a perversion, so it is no
longer truth, and they adhere to it.  And the Protestants are scared,
and they run from it.  And I brought to your attention, how that the
Roman Catholic church, uses a wafer which is consecrated. 

	And they call that the actual body of the Lord Jesus Christ.  It’s
called transubstantiation.  You know, where you take one thing and it
turns into another.  We’re looking for a transformation, a
transfiguration, a transformation.  Now, of course the Roman Catholics
are wrong, but I was bringing out a point there, how that the
Protestants run from that, and yet the Scripture really is quite clear,
that man literally ministers in a certain way, even the Spirit of God. 
And so, I thought this morning, I would go back over that again, and
take an actual message on it; lest there be someone who was not
understanding what I was saying.  And I don’t think that’s in this
church.  

2.	A thing which is true, these tapes are now going pretty well all over
the world.  And have been bringing tremendous benefit until churches
have been changed to a place of the solid ways of God as has never been
before.  Just got a phone call yesterday from a brother, who said,
“You’ll never know, what’s happened in our church.”  The week
before I got a phone call.  “You’ll never know, what’s happened in
our church. It’s absolutely not the same.” Well, since these tapes
go to those brethren, I want to make this thought very, very clear, so
that we’re not being accused of fanaticism.  Though, that’s what
we’ll be accused of, anyway.  You know.  

	And I don’t mind that.  What I mind is, that there might be something
said to the brethren who are one with us in this Message, that might be
a little harmful, or hurtful, or in anyway, the throwback on them, from
somebody.  

3:	Now, so the message this morning is, ‘The Operation of God’, or
‘How God actually Operates.’  And this message is intended to give
an insight into the subject of how the Holy Spirit operates, as
pertaining to His dealing with God’s people, especially, in this hour.
(See?)  Now, so the message then deals in the way that God takes and
brings to pass His purposed plan for us.  And even our total redemption.
 

 	Now, we have to deal with the subject, ‘The operation of God’
relative to redemption.  Because, man fell, and because he fell, God
would have to deal with that person in that condition.  He can’t deal
with him, in any other condition.  So, we’re dealing with the
operation of God, we’ve got to be very pragmatic about it… And
fundamentally sound, so that we’re not dealing in a way that would not
be true, concerning man in his condition. (See?)  Man needs to be
redeemed back.  And for God’s purpose to be fulfilled in Him. Now,
before man fell, God and man walked together, and they communed. They
literally, did. 

	 They had fellowship, and man was totally free from all effects, either
from within, or without himself.  Now, that’s what you want to notice
here. At one time, man was totally free from all effects of what was
within him, and what was without him.  Without side of him.  He was a
paradise man, in a paradise.  But. the fall came, and man became subject
to fallen resources within him.  And all other resources fallen outside
of him.  Now, that’s…you can see, that he would then be a different
person, intrinsically.  And everything around him would also be
different, from what it was.  

 	So, that when God would deal, He would have to deal not in the realm
of what man once was, but what man is.  Now, he is reduced, that is, man
is reduced from tranquility, to a formidable battle.  As the song writer
says, “Fear is within, and fear is without.”  Now, at the time of
the fall, he is thrown physically on his own.  Now, watch carefully what
I am saying. He is thrown physically, entirely on his own.  Now,
that’s why so many people have a job with healing.  

4.	Now, I’m just going to sort of wander.  You, forgive me, and you
just go along with me.  Because I’m not going to try to be anything,
but be just as careful as I can.  Now, many people look at divine
healing, and I’m one of them.  And we’re prone because it’s in the
atonement, God having made a way, that we sort of feel we can muster
faith like pressing a button.  Now, I don’t agree with that.  I
believe that much healing is in line with, depended upon, cohesive with,
a part of, and cannot be separated from what I’m going to read.  So,
we’re going to go to …

	Genesis  3:16-[19] now;

		(16)	Unto the woman he said, (I'll) greatly multiply thy sorrow and
thy 						conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy
desire 					shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

		(17)     And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the
voice 					of thy wife, and … eaten of the tree, of which I commanded
thee, saying, 					Thou shalt not eat  of it: cursed is the ground for
thy sake; in sorrow 					shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

		(18) 	Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou
shalt eat 					the herb of the field;

		(19)     In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou
return unto the 					ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust
thou art, and unto dust 					shalt thou return.

5.	So, physically, man was thrown onto his own, in the realms of nature.
 And I believe, as he has to wrest…his living, from the soil by
toiling.  I believe that a lot of us absolutely have to work on health
principles, that lie within nature, if we’re going to get better.  And
you just simply can’t run to God with everything, and say, “Now,
it’s in the atonement, I’m going to get healed of this.” 
There’s nothing ever has worked that way, and nothing ever will. 
Every great revival of healing the world’s ever seen, petered out, in
a very short time.  After Jesus’ great ministry, He never had another
one.  

	

	Now, Bro. Branham never had another one.  Dr. Price never had another
one.  Smith Wigglesworth never had another one.  And of course, one of
the great flukes of all ages, Amy Semple McPherson petered out too.  So,
there’s no way that you can, take from what I have said this morning
here, that man was thrown unto his own resources.  And thrown unto his
own, physically.  But Spiritually, he was not thrown on his own.  But
became a hundred percent dependent upon God.  Now remember, the physical
is not Spiritual.  The physical goes downhill, because of the Spiritual,
or comes up, because of the Spiritual.   There’s an affinity. A
relationship.  But, you cannot treat them the same.  

6.	In the one place, you’re thrown on your own.  And the other,
you’re thrown right back on God.  Do you follow what I’m saying? 
These are broad lines.  All right.  We go to Genesis 3:14-15, to
understand what I’m saying.  

		(14)	… the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done 		
			this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the 
					field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all
the 						days of thy life:

		(15)     And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between
thy 					seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt
bruise his heel.

	Now you notice, we’re getting into Spiritual involvement here.  Now,
with this, we go to verse 21.

		(21)	Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of
skins, 					and clothed them. (Blood was shed.)  

	You notice in here, a promise is given, that is dependent entirely upon
God, doing something, working it out in His own way.  Over here, He
clothed them.  The blood of an animal is shed, in order that they might
be clothed.  

	Okay.  We go to Genesis 4:1-7

		(1)	And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and 
				said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

		(2)       And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper
of (the) 					sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

		(3)       And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of
the fruit 					of the ground an offering unto the LORD.

		(4) 	And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of
the fat 					thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his
offering:

		(5)       But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And
Cain was 					very wroth, and his countenance fell.

		(6)       And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is
thy 					countenance fallen?

		(7)	If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest
not 					well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire,
and thou 					shalt rule over him.

7.	Now, the reason that we say that Spiritually they are entirely
dependent on God, is because, there is no hope for restoration, outside
a revelation from God, as to what God is doing for them, to restore
them.  And they by revelation, become a part of the plan.  Now, we can
clearly see, this precept in the Scriptures that we read, (and I’ll
explain why we clearly see it) plus, the fact of Hebrews which gives us
the key.  

	Hebrews 11:  Now remember, the New Testament unlocks the Old. All right
Hebrews 11:4.

		(4)	By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than
Cain, 					by which (sacrifice) he obtained witness that he was
righteous, God 					testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet
speaketh. 

	Now, let’s go back and see what happened to Cain.  And you know I use
the Septuagint on this, because that’s the Bible in Greek, and they
had…the scholars were able perhaps to at that time, to come up with a
better translation, than we would over all these years outside of the
tremendous help of the Holy Spirit.  

	[Genesis 4:7]

		(7)	If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?  If thou doest not
well, 					sin liest at the door.

 	 And here is what It says in the Septuagint, the Greek at that time,
“Hast thou not sinned, if thou has brought it rightly, but, not
rightly divided it?” 

8.	Now, the reason I say what I said, that this Scripture here proves
the necessity of a Spiritual revelation.  And they becoming a part of
that revelation is because, in Hebrews It says; "By faith Abel offered
unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. [Heb 4:11]   

	Now, if Abel’s offering was more excellent, then Cain’s was
excellent. (See?) Notice now, what the Bible said, “Hast thou not
sinned, if thou has brought it rightly…” In other words, Cain
offered a first-fruit sacrifice unto God.  And he did a perfect job of
it.  Everything he did was perfectly correct.  But he didn’t divide
rightly because, the blood offering goes before the first-fruit
offering.  

9.	Now, what does It say in 2 Timothy 2:15?  

		(15)	Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth 	
				not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

 	What if you don’t divide that Word of truth, rightly?  The word
‘ashamed’ means; blame-worthy.  Now, here was a man bringing an
offering designated by God. You can’t deny it, because it was
designated by God.  And the man brought it, in the form designated by
God.  But his revelation was wrong.  His revelation was that he didn’t
need the blood.  As Bro. Branham said, “His mother ate apples.” 
Bringing fruit and things.  In other words, entirely off the
understanding of the Word of God.  There was no revelation.  Now, faith
is a revelation.  Abel had that revelation.  But Cain did not have the
revelation.  

	So, therefore without a revelation, he was not able to worship God, in
the manner that was acceptable unto God. (See?) All right.  Salvation in
its purpose, is not only of the Lord, but the realization or
implementation of it, is also only of the Lord.  In other words, God had
the thing set forth here for redemption starting right back in the
Garden.  But outside of a revelation, there was no way for its
implementation.  There was no way that a person could be a partaker of
it.  Actually, all of the things of God, produced by God, and redemption
is one of them, not one is known and obtained, unless God quickens that
person to what is there.  Now, I’ll repeat it again.  All the things
of God, produced by God, and redemption is one of them, not one is known
and obtained, unless God quickens the person to what is there.  

10.	We go to 1 Corinthians 2: which we’ll go into even more.  And you
will see that in verses 9-12.  

		(9)	But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, (well, if your eye
hasn’t seen 						it)…(or ) ear heard, neither have entered into the
heart of man, 						the things which God hath prepared for them that
love him. 

	How are you going to get to know it?  Well, God’s got to make you
privy to it, by a revelation.  You’ve got to find out.  Notice; 

		(10)     But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the
Spirit 						searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

	Now, he tells you, what I said, God sat there in the form of a Spirit. 
And for trillions of years, He plumbed His own depths, as to what He
would come up with, in His divine wisdom.  Before His omnipotence, put
it into action.  Now;

		(11)     For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of
man 						(that's within) him? even so the things of God knoweth no man,
but 					(only) the Spirit of God.

		(12)     Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the
spirit which 					is of God; that we might know the things that are
freely given to us of 					God.

11.	All right.  That’s enough for this point.  Verse 14.  

		(14)	But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of
God: for 					they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them,
because 						they are spiritually discerned.

	In other words, he’s got the Spirit of God, that properly judges
between.  You see, Cain did not have that, he could not judge between
the two.  Here sat the blood offering.  Here sat the first-fruit
offering.  And he might have said, “Well, old Abel, he done gave the
blood offering,  so I’ll just go ahead now, with the first-fruit
offering.”   That’s your pappy and mammy being saved, and you think
you’re going to get in because of them.  Ain’t no way.  (See? ) Not
only must God do this great thing for us.  What great thing?  Which I
just said, here.  All the things of God, have to be made known to us. 
And then quickened to us.  (See?)

	

	All, only in this way, is that believer, or that person, a part of the
things of God. (See?)  You’ll never be a part of the things of God,
unless it's revealed to you, and quickened to you.  Now, not only must
God do this thing for us, but He must make us aware of It, and motivate
us into It.  Now, that’s why everything in the Spirit depends upon
God.  If you are not…now look it…you could be quickened to It, on
the grounds, that you are perceptive, in your knowledge to pick a
certain thing up.  And you could quote that thing right back to me, or
to the apostle Paul, or anybody in a ministry.  Quote It right back. 

	Now, unless God motivates you into It. (See?) The sheep hearing the
Voice.  God choosing.  Man, doesn’t get it.  So, therefore it is not
simply God setting forth, that which He feels that He desires to make
obtainable to us.  It must be, also that the individual who will come
into it, must be motivated by Almighty God, to come into it. (See?) You
must come into the revelation, on a Spiritual basis.  

12.	Now then, we here in this meeting today, are fully aware of this,
what we’re talking about.  And we are devoted to the doctrines of the
sovereignty of God, and the grace of Almighty God.  They are a part of
us, and we are one with them.  We understand these truths quite fully.

	So, we go on to discuss how the Holy Spirit of God, brings to pass HIs
so great salvation unto fallen man.  What is His modus operandi, how
does He do it?  Well, we get our basis and illustration first right back
in the Old Testament, as we go back to Genesis 1:26-27.  Now, I’m
bringing you to the thought here, of how God is operating, amongst the
fallen.  Okay, 26-27.

		(26)	And God said, Let us make man in our image, (notice, Let us make 
				man in our image) after our likeness: and let them have dominion 			
		over the fish of the sea, (who had that dominion to begin with? God 		
		did.) and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all
the 					earth, and over every creeping thing that (creeps) upon the 
earth. 

 	Do you think for one minute, the Creator, didn’t have absolute
domain over everything He made? Absolutely, and now he puts man in His
image.  Now, watch carefully what we’re saying here, and man now takes
over.

		(27)	 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created
					he him; male and female created he them.

13.	Now, with this we go to Genesis  5:1.

		(1)	This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God 	
				created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

	Now notice, He created him in the likeness, the Spirit form.  And in
the physical form, He fitted over the Spirit form, which would be
uniquely acceptable to the Spirit form.  Because  it would have to
conform to it, or you’d have a monstrosity.  And what form would God
ever take, it He took form?  Man.  (See?)  Otherwise, it’d be a
monstrosity.  Can’t have a cow. (See?) Can’t have a horse. 
Four-footed creatures, crawling creatures and so on. See, understand? 
Okay. 

	 Genesis 2:7 (which we already all but quoted)

		(7)	And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed 					into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul.

14.	All right.  God is seen here, to have induced Himself, into the
human race.  Do you understand what I am saying now?  There’s no way
you can get away from it.  God has induced Himself into the human race. 
And my message is, ‘how does God operate?’  Well His operation right
here is, His own induction into the human race.  Okay. God does not have
a history of true God worthiness, outside of humanity.  He is not
related to any other creature, on a kindred basis.  No way.  First of
all, He makes him in His image.  Then, He fits over the image, a
physical knowing that if God ever wanted to reproduce Himself truly
physical from a Spiritual, it would be a man.  (See?)  

	Furthermore, He breathed into him the breath of life.  Holy Spirit.  So
now, we have God, thoroughly inducing Himself, into the human race. 
Transfusing it, to that degree.  The Bible is the story of God and man. 
Even more correctly, it is the story of His relationship to His sons. 
And because we can see sonship from what we read, and from the Book of
Luke, 3:23.

		(23)	And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being
(as 						was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, 

		(38)	Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was 	
				the son of Adam, which was the son of God.

 	Now, Jesus was the Son of God.  So therefore, everybody between Adam
who was a son of God, and Jesus who was a son of God, are sons of God. 
You can do what you want about it, but that’s what it is.  As Bro.
Branham said, “You don’t take a cat cell, and put a dog cell on
it.”  You don’t take a human cell and put  some other cell on it. 
It’s got to go all the way down. (See?)  

15.  Now remember, Adam was a spoken Word son on the grounds of “Let
us make man in our image.” [Gen 1:26] Then God began to form around
that Word.  Which as we know, everything forms around the Word, because,
the Word is that life.  Okay.  

	Now, this first son of Adam, was warned in Genesis 2:16-17 of the
possibility of death. “If you eat of that tree, dying thou shalt
surely die.”   Now, Adam never lived out the one thousand years. 
Because, that was the day allotted, one thousand years.  Let’s find
out when Adam died.  He was…what was he?  I think, 930 years of age,
or something like that. Okay.  [Genesis 5:5]  

		(5)	And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty
years: 					and he died. 

16.	Now, he never lived out the thousand years.  But sons of God were
supposed to live that long, and then pass on to immortality, and
eternality.  So, that period must be restored to them, which it will be
in the Millennium.  And once that is over, there is nothing but
eternity.  Now, we saw that Adam fell and consequently, every son of
Adam was born in sin, and born to die.  But notice, that God had a
remedy for the fall, even way back in Eden.  And that remedy was 3:15.  

		(15)	And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy
					seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise
his heel.

	Now, God is now determined to work out redemption through the human
race, or mankind.  Now watch what I’m saying here.  God is determined,
to work out redemption, through the human race.  Now, God insinuates
Himself, and puts Himself into the human race. (See?)  Modus operandi,
how is God doing?  Now, you can look out in creation, but I warn you not
to.  You can look out in space, but I warn you not to.  I warn you to
look how God is operating, the way God determines to operate, which is
in the human race.  There is nothing in this earth, that is not
influenced by the spheres beyond us.  

17.	As Job said, “(Can’t stop by) the sweet influences of the
Pleiades.”  [Job 38:31] It’s know that everything out there has an
influence.  But remember, the cradle is for man.  And man, is for God. 
You see?  So, don’t go disassociating the principle that I’m dealing
with this morning.  If you do, you’re going to find yourself plumb
away from this Message.  Now you notice, that I have a very, very strong
inclination to satisfy the hearts and minds of people on the
infallibility of a prophet.  And the necessity of a prophet.  That which
comes forth from it.  And this message, is in that particular direction.
 (See?)  

	Now, God determined to work out redemption through the human race or
mankind, “I will put enmity between you, and because of the enemy, I
will put it there.”  (See?) Now, what’s He doing?  He’s taking up
for mankind.  And whatever comes in to mankind, in the purposed plan of
God, is especially for mankind, induced by God.  Now, we’re a hundred
percent dependent upon God, in this realm.  That’s what we’re
getting at.  You are dependent out there, to make your way.  You might
have to claw and scratch along with your faith, to get somewhere.  It
doesn’t mean you do evil things.  It means, you’re going to be
bucked.  But in this place you are not bucked.  

18.	Out there it is not propitious, in the Spiritual, it is propitious. 
Because God is for us.  Now, we took you to the very cradle, God
inducing Himself, into the human race.  Now, God’s induced into the
human race.  You are not going to separate God from the human race under
any condition, whatsoever, or whatever God wishes to accomplish.  It’s
already involved in humankind.  So, God is determined to work out
redemption through the human race, or mankind.  “I’ll put enmity
between you, and the serpent.  And because of the enmity I put there,
the work of the beast, will be negated.”  You see from this, God
involved man in man’s redemption, though only God could work it out.  

	Now, He’s involved with man.  Now, we see that explained in 1
Corinthians 15: 20-23, so let’s take a look at It, so you don’t fall
apart at the seams now, and think I’m departing this whole thing based
upon God, because the whole thing based upon God is for man, and within
man.  

19.	All right. 1 Corinthians15:20-23

    

		(20)	 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the
first-fruits of 					them that slept.

		(21)	 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection
of  					the dead.

 	Now remember, God interposes Himself through a man.  “I will do so
and so, through a man  in the human race, and Satan has done so and so
through a man.”  (See? ) Where one man brought death and destruction,
another man, is going to bring life, and immortality.  

		(22) 	For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ (in identical manner,
that 						word ‘even so’ means, in identical manner) shall all be
made alive 						(in Christ)

		(23) 	But every man in his own order…

20.	Now, we go to Galatians 3:13-16

		(13)	Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a 	
				curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every (man) that hangeth 
					on a tree:

	Now, that’s not just redeemed from the curse of the law, which has to
do with the ten commandments, and those things.  But, that is true
according to Colossians.  But he has redeemed us from every law.  In
other words, our redemption, which as I’ve said, man had to deal now
with fallen resources within and fallen resources without, God…brings
us to a place where no resource within has fallen.  And no resource
without is fallen. (See?)  Man goes right back to Eden.  And that’s
why we’re in trouble today.  I keep preaching, but Bro. Branham set
forth three things in 'The Mystery of God Revealed' [63-07-28] Number
one; God reveals Himself.  Number two; He wants the pre-eminence. 
Number three; He puts us back in Eden.  

 	And how can we ever get back to Eden, unless we begin to appreciate
Him, and make Him pre-eminent.  They still say, “Step aside boy, who
is this one knocking at the door?  I am the Lord of glory, the Great I
Am, step aside boy.”  Oh, I could get real tough right now.  Not with
you people.  But, I could be so tough over what’s going on, it just
burns me up.  And why shouldn’t it?  

		(13)	… Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

		(14)	That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through 	
				Jesus Christ;…

	A man, “Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given”[Isa 9:6]
“Through the man Adam all died, through the man Christ Jesus, all are
made alive.”[1 Cor 15:22] And I want you to know something, I wish you
would take your Bible and every place where you see that word
‘Christ’ you mark it out, and put ‘Messiah.’  Because
‘Christos’ is “Messiah’.  It’s the same word in the Greek
that’s in the Hebrew, but as soon as you mention ‘Christ’ you go
to  …?...,  until even to a preacher can walk out on the sidewalk and
say “Bro. Vayle’s wrong.  Christ is God.”  God, cannot be born! 
This …?... that God hath made both Lord and Christ.  Messiah.  Messiah
is Logos.  

21.	The Logos stepped out, and came back as the Holy Spirit.  And that
One seated there is a man.  One Mediator between man and God, the man
Christ Jesus. The God of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the Father of glory. 
Get rid of that stupid Trinitarian, and Oneness doctrine, they’re both
wrong.  Just the same as no one, no believer in eternal security, or
falling away can ever see grace.  You’ve got to leave both of them,
because they’re both wrong.  Don’t tell me you can stick with the
perversion, and make it.  Oh, thank God for freedom. I don’t know how
you feel.  I’m not bawling you out this morning, get that flat. I’m
not talking to you as though anybody here was to blame.  I’m just
talking about things that I know went on and go on out there.  

	My job is to teach.  And I’m going to teach.  And I’ll stand before
God, for what I preach.  That’s why I’m preaching this morning, so
that you know, I was not making a mistake last Sunday.  But, a thing can
be carried too far. (See?)  But not understanding, or carried the wrong
way entirely.  Now, promise of God. 

		(14)	…that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

		(15)	 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a
man's 					covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man (can disannul, or
add to it). 					(Now notice, it’s a covenant concerning men.) 

	

		(16)      Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith
not, 					And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed,
which is Christ.

 	I’ve got news for you. You go back to the Hebrew, and where God made
promise, the seed of the woman, it’s in the plural ‘seeds’.  Which
means this seed singular, we were in Him.  And we’re going to bruise
Satan’s head.  And I can’t wait for it.  I can’t even wait to get
a few arthritic devils under control, let alone the king of the pit. 
We’ll be there. We’ll be there. By the grace of God, I take
myself… take my place at the White Throne, but sitting in it. (Yeah) 
You say, “Hey Vayle, you’re boasting.”  (I say,) “I don't boast
nothing.”  I’ve got faith.  Should I be less?  If I should be less
than I should be a betrayer.  (See?)  Okay.  

22.	We see 1 Corinthians 15: 20-23, and Galatians 3: how He became a
curse for us.  Also, in

2  Corinthians5:14-19. 

		(14)	For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge,
that if 					one died for all, then were all dead:

	“Well, I only need to get partly saved,” says somebody.  “Well
you know, really it’s this way. I’ve always been a pretty good egg,
I’ve never ever used bad language, that I know of.  Never done this
and done that.”  

	I knew a fellow back in Canada, he was that way too, but he knew he was
a sinner, because he got trapped into sex.  Oh, he wasn’t trapped. 
Oh, that’s a lot of hogwash.  He found an outlet.  When you find
outlets, you’re not trapped.  Ooh, that was a naughty thing to
say…just expose people like the Bible does.  Well, that’s what the
law did.  Okay.  I’m reading here.   

		(14)	…all dead:

		(15) 	And that he died for all, that they which live should not
henceforth live 

                        unto themselves, but unto him which died for
them, and rose again.

23.	In other words, the identity is no longer with Adam, it’s with
Christ.  Into the new race.  I’ll tell you something. Us standing here
and changed, we will not have these same bodies.  No way.  The atoms and
cells will be changed, the RNA and the DNA.  Except I don’t know if
they will or not.  Because let’s face it, that’s in the blood,
isn’t it?  It’s also through the whole body. No blood.  The atoms
themselves, are going to be changed.  

	

		(17)	 (Now,) if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature (a new
creation): 					old things are passed away; behold, all things are
become new.

		(18)	 And all things are of God, (listen, all things are of God,) who
hath 						reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, (who was a man) and
hath 					given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

 

		(19) 	To wit, that God was in Christ, (It doesn’t say that God was
Christ,                   				It says that God was in Christ. Now watch)
reconciling the world 						unto himself, not imputing their trespasses
unto them; and hath 						committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 

	All right.  Now listen It says,

		(16)	Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though 
				we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we 			
	him no more.

	In other words, you don’t even go back to Jesus, the man.  You’ve
got to go right to the Spirit.  Your identification, because of what He
did, is now, with God.  You’ve been loosed, you’ve been made free. 
You don’t identify with Adam any more.  You don’t identify with your
fallen resources here, and the fallen resources out there.  For by
faith, you see a City which is New Jerusalem, entirely dominated by God,
and the things of God.  And you, being one of those things.  Do you
believe that this morning?  I believe it.  I can’t help it.  It’s
become like a destiny.  I like destiny.  I never thought I ever would,
but, you get to be a part of It, and you sure like it.  

24.	 It’s like the guy you know, down in Texas, he had a neighbor of
his, you know that had an oil well, right in his yard.  And every day
the thing would go…ka-chug, ka-chug, ka-chug…and he said it was the
most horrible, lousy noise he ever heard.  Until one day he digged the
well, and pretty soon the oil began coming in.  The machine
go...chuggity-chug, chuggity-chug…he said,  "The most wonderful noise
he ever heard." [laughter]  Listen, when God quickens this to your
heart, your inhibitions are gone, it’s all over.  Forget it, you’re
out of the picture.  All you see is one great divine picture, in Christ
Jesus our Lord.  Yeah, Hebrews 5:  I didn’t even get that far…yes,
here it is.  All right, 1-10. 

		(1)	For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men 			
		in things pertaining to God…

	That’s the premise I started with.  God is insinuating Himself into
the human race. God not working apart from mankind.  God demanding the
share of man into it.  Godhead, and God worthiness, fully being exposed
only through the creation man, because man goes beyond a creation,
it’s sonship, it’s kinship.  (See?)  Spirit relationship.  Who can
have compassion on the ignorant, on them that are out of the way?  For
He Himself, is also encompassed with infirmity.  And by reason …?...
for the people, so also offer Himself to offer for sin.  And no man
takes this honor on himself, for he that is called of God.  Notice, God
staying right with the human race.  God calling the shots.  God
perpetrating His own plan, right in the human race.  

25.	God’s not standing back and laying down a certain law, saying,
“Let’s just see how this is going to work out.”  But God’s in
it, working it out.  Christ in you, willing and doing of His own good
pleasure, never leaving nor forsaking He that hath done the good work,
and will perform it until the day of the Lord Jesus Christ.  And
that’s exactly true.  Salvation ends in this hour.  For He is here
now.  (See?)  Okay.  [Hebrews 5: 5-10]

		(5)      	So also, Christ glorified not himself to be made an high
priest; but he 					that said unto him, Thou art my Son, today have I
begotten thee. 						(Notice, God once more coming right into the human
race.)

		(6)      As he (says) also in another place, Thou art a priest for
ever after the 					order of Melchisedec.

		(7)      Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers
and 						supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was
able to 					save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

		(8)       Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things
which 					he suffered;

		(9)       And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal
salvation unto 					all them that obey him;

		(10)     (Saluted) of God a high priest after the order of
Melchisedec.

	And you’ll notice, it says “In the days of his flesh.”  It should
say ‘flesh and blood’. In the days of His human animal body that He
had here.  Because we’re part of It.  He took on Himself, a form of
flesh.  That’s gone, it’s glorified.  Changed in the atoms.  The
great High Priest standing there.  And in other words, he said here,
“Ah…because of Him that indwelt me, I have got my change.”  And
now, I’m standing here to see that you get your change, on the ground
of Him that indwells you. ( See? ) You can’t separate God and man, in
any service whatsoever.  (See?) This is why I preach this because,
there’s anarchy in the last Church Age.  Anarchy.  Laodicea means
anarchy, people’s rights.  The church rising up against the Headship
which God placed in it.  And we’re rampant with it in this so-called
Message.  

26.	Let me get you something, to help you to understand, you people are
a little weak this morning.  The crow can eat dove food.  The dove
cannot eat crow food.  So, when every church comes together, and there
is a Message of this caliber, the crows are going to be there in a super
abundance over the doves.  And you’re going to see every manner of
evil perpetrated.  Preachers that advocate beating kids, and breaking up
homes.  And every…and adultery, which will be polygamists.  And every
rotten thing under high heaven, is in this area of this Message, because
the crows have come into the doves.  But there never was a black/white
crow, or a black/white dove.  Crows are crows, and doves are doves.  

	Let me tell you flat, that crows can eat on this Message.  I hope you
understand what I’m saying, I had to throw that in, in case you get
mislead.  (See?)  You better not be mislead, it’s too late in the
hour.  All right.  He became a man.  Now, if you have followed me so
far, you can see that I am bringing out the way that God operates, in
behalf of men unto redemption.  It is by using men, as ministers of His
divine plan.  The plan is all of God.  The means are all of God, yet man
has a part in the operation of it.  Now, that’s the thing we’re
looking at.  See, what God put in mans’ hands.  He gives men
ministries whereby redemption is ministered, and brought into effect.

27.	And let it be known that without these ministries, redemption would
not be culminated or perfected.  Why?  Because, that’s God’s
purpose.  (See?)  Anarchy, Laodicea says, “Hey, who needs preachers? 
Who needs the church?  Who needs this?”  It’s right in Pentecost, it
came out of Pentecost.  “I’ve got the Holy Ghost, so bless God, I
can be taught of God, Hallelujah.”  As Bro. Branham said, “God’s
not a fool.”  If you can get taught by yourself, why would He put
teachers in there?  Because they don’t call me that.  They call me,
‘the doctor’, and ‘the theologian’ and everything else.  I’ll
meet them one day.  I’ll meet those same voices one day.  Because 
they’re running around trying to take authority.  I don’t even take
authority in this church.  

	I preach hard, and I walk out.  I’m going to tell you something,
there’s an authority vested in a person with the Word, that he can
take authority and things begin to move, and change right around.  You
say, “Bro. Vayle, I don’t know.”  Well I do.  I’m not here for
you to teach me, I’m here to teach you.  And that may be pretty rough.
 If you don’t like it, I can always find someplace that does.
Hopefully.  I don’t know.  I’m to the place where Bro. Branham was. 
I’ve had so many parallels with that dear prophet of God,  I’ve
taken hope in the Resurrection of the judge.  He woke his wife up to
preach to her.  And I’ve gotten around to preaching to my wife these
days.  Poor kid.  All right. I abuse her every which way.  But, she’s
a good kid.  All right.

28.	He gives men ministries whereby redemption is ministered, or brought
into effect.  And let it be known that without these ministries,
redemption would not be culminated, or perfected.  Why?  Because it is
God’s purpose.  As Bro. Branham said so beautifully, “He could have
called the sun the moon, He could have called the wind, but, He
didn’t.”  Now, listen carefully to these words.  I’ll read them.  


	[Quoted from ?]

 		" God did not so choose this way, in spite of His wisdom, and power
so that he is 

       	 merely condescending, or making a concession as some men would
judge."  

 	In other words, this decision of God was not when He was put on the
spot.  He was thought of trillions of years as He sat in His solitude,
and plumbed His own depths.  I say again, 

 		"God did not so choose this way, in spite of His wisdom, and power so
that he was 

		merely condescending or making a concession as some men would judge. 
But he 

            does this because of His wisdom and power." 

 	Everybody's got the Trinitarian idea, God sat there and He said, “
I’ll make all creation, I’ll make man (and He said) I’ll make the
devil too.” And the devil got out of hand.  God wrung his hands and He
said, “Who’s going to fix up this mess? Someone’s got to die for
it.”  And the Son said, “Father, I’ll clean the mess up, I’ll
die.”  So, the Son comes down and dies.  And the Holy Spirit says,
“I’ll tell you what, I’ll put it into effect.  I’ll be the agent
of it.”  That’s as sensible to me as the man, the curator of the
museum, has boa constrictor and he has it in a pen there. And he puts
his little pussy cat in, and the next morning you know the little pussy
cat is gone.  “Oh no, little puddy tat, I didn’t know that old a boa
constrictor was going to get you.”  You’ve got to be a jack ass, if
you didn’t.   

29.	People literally impugn the dignity, and the righteousness and the
wisdom and the honor of God, by making Him some kind of a fool.  He
said, “I don’t think like a man, I don’t do like a man.”  It was
all thought out in omniscience and omnipotence, put it into effect.  And
this is what God decreed, in order that His attributes may come forth,
and His glory may be manifested.  Until that glory took us right into
His image.  What more could a person want?  (See?)  People miss it, they
don’t know what the prophet said.  They ought to smarten up, too late
these days.  Now listen, I say again.

[?  ?]	 God did not so choose this way, in spite of His wisdom and power
so that 

        	 he is merely condescending, or making a concession as some men
would judge.  

          	But he does this because of His wisdom and power.  

	

	This is the wisdom and power of God manifested.  Did it go over your
heads?  Are you listening?  I said, this is it.  It’s in the
manifestation.  What and how He is doing it all, is His wisdom, and
power, and who can stay His hand?  Now, so that you can see how this
message lines with the teaching of Bro. Branham.  I want to show you
certain men identified with God in a most awesome way.  

30.	Let’s go back to John 10: now, we saw Adam identified.  We know
that Jesus absolutely was, God manifesting human flesh.  The embodiment,
the fullness of the Godhead.  We know that.  Now, here is what Jesus
Himself said in John 10:34-36,  which the prophet used so many, many
times;   

		(34)	Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye
are 						gods?

		(35)     If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and
the 						scripture cannot be broken;

 	“Oh, I’m going to break the Scripture.  Hallelujah, this stuff of
making William Branham God… hee,  hee, hee…”  I’m going to meet
you at the White Throne mocker sneerer, you’re not here this morning. 
I’ll meet you there at the White Throne, I’ll be sitting on and
judging.  And I’ll bear witness against you, because, you broke
Scripture. To whom does the Word of God come?  Prophets.  And the
Scripture cannot be broken.  And John the Baptist the prophet came to
the Word, and the Word came to the prophet. They met in the river. They
were united, they were joined.  One, identified the other.   

		(36)     Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into
the world, 					Thou blasphemest; because … I am the Son of God? 

	He was that prophet.  Declared to be all the prophetic utterance of
God, concerning salvation embodied, and produced in a man. (See?)  All
right.  With the discourse Hebrews.  And the Scripture cannot be broken.
 Oh no.  They’ll say, “Bro. Vayle,  I never broke the Scripture.” 
What did you do with It?   “Well that’s not for our day.”  You
just threw It away.  And what about he that taketh the Word?  

31.	[Hebrews 1:1-2]

		(1)	God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past 
				unto the fathers (in) the prophets,

	Who was in the prophets?  God, was in the prophets.  What entered
Moses?  That which was within the Pillar of Fire, entered into Moses. 
And the fire glowed round about him, so that he was within the veil. 
And what was within the veil was what's in Moses. The same people who
will deny that this can happen today, but they'll say they’re full of
the Holy Ghost.  Which Holy Ghost are they full of?  Doesn’t answer to
the Word.  Not to the One that wrote this Book.  

		(2)	Hath in these last days spoken unto us (in) Son, whom he hath
appointed 					heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; (and
so on)

	All right, with It: John 5:46

		(46)	For had (you) believed Moses, (you) would have believed me; for
he 					wrote of me.

			

32.	All right.  Who did he write of?  Over here in Deuteronomy 18:15. 
Now, watch It, 

		(15)	The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst
					of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him (you) shall
hearken;

	A man, raised up by God.  God identified.  God working with. God
dealing with.  

		(16)	According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb
in 					the day of  the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the
voice of the 					LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any
more, that I die not.

 	Now listen:  Let’s get this straight.  You people are going to tell
me, that they don’t hear His voice?  And they don’t see Him, when
they see this man?  Then tell me, what are they looking at?  That’s
it, see, people don’t understand.  Do you understand what I'm saying
this morning?  The God in Lord Jesus Christ, was shed forth, and is in
each one of us this morning, that’s full of the Holy Ghost.  Is it any
different?  It is no different, it is just in size. It is just in depth.
It is just in quantity.  The fullness per se, does not dwell in any one
of us.  But minutely, every attribute lies there, because Holy Spirit is
Holy Spirit.  

33. It’s like the man said, “Go down to the ocean.  Billions of tons
of water.  Take out one drop with an eye dropper, and it’ll analyze
just like the billions of tons.”  Now, I want to ask you a question. 
They say, We don’t want to hear His voice, we don’t want to see.” 
But they did.  Every time they saw a prophet, they saw God, they heard
God.  Do you understand what I’m saying?  If you don’t
brother/sister, then you don’t know what a prophet is, and you don’t
know what the voice of God is, you don't know what the Word of God is.
We're getting this where Bro. Branham is not deity, but when you saw
him, you saw God. When you saw Moses, you saw God, veiled.  When you saw
the works, you saw God.  (See?)

 	I can be accused of being deity.  I am not deity cult, anymore than
nothing.  Because I’m going to tell you flat: when Moses delivered the
Word, he was Moses again.  When the Word was veiled in him, he was no
longer Moses per se, he was God to the people.  But, people still want
him… oh, that is old Moses.  And Miriam said, “I diapered him.  I
was the one who got him in the river there.  I’m the one who got his
mother to him.  I was the one who did all these things.  What is this
stuff about him being somebody over us ?  Why should I look to him? 
Why,” she said, “Just give me enough inspiration with my
tambourines, and my chinky, chinky toys and I’ll go up and down the
river there, or on the seashore, and I will prophesy.”  And bless God,
she did it, to show them she could do it.    

	And Korah, Dathan and Abiram said the same thing.  They said, “Bring
out the censors, bless God, we’ll show if we’ve got gifts or not.”
 And the earth swallowed them up in a fire.  Oh, oh, you’ll get
rewarded honey, this morning if you want to put your ballet slippers on,
and your tambourine, and think you’re somebody.  Stay away from that
Pillar of Fire.  And if you hadn’t been behind It, don’t try to use
the Word.  I didn’t say that, the prophet did.  But, I’m
trying…showing you by the Scripture, that he had the right to say it. 
And people are so finicky, they run around the world, they’re finicky,
Bro. Pete, you know who I’m talking about.  

34.	Canada, is one of the greatest offenders.  Yankees, are winding
down.  (Phff!) Time they did.  I’m a former Canadian, made a Yankee. 
Do you see me run?  Why do the tickets get sent back?  I don’t need to
run.  I put away my ballet slippers, and my tinky, tinky, tambourine. 
“That which we knew in part, was once here, but now that which is
perfect, has come.” [1 Cor 13:10] And he didn’t run around with his
ballet slippers and his running shoes, and his tambourine.  When did the
prophet run like a ‘whirling dervish’?  I’m not trying to build
myself up, I’m just showing you one thing.  I want to stay with this
Word, and by the grace of God, I do stay. And you’re not going to get
it in the ordinary channels that you look for all your life.  Fruit,
character, power, nearness, obedience.  You get it by identity. 
You’re in behind the riven veil, children.  You’re not out there in
denominations.  Let’s prove it.  Well, He walks with me, and He talks
with me.  That much I admit.	

		(17)	And the LORD said unto me, they have well spoken, that which 				
	they have spoken.

		(18)     I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren,
(and instead 					of a Pillar of Fire, it is going to be a man), and (I)
will put my words in 					his mouth…

 	And I’ll fool them, because they couldn’t stand Me, they won’t
stand him.  It’s two months since God begin bearing down on my soul. 
“Oh, he’s only a man.” Yeah, he’s one of us. Phew, are you in
Laodicea this morning, or in the Ephesian church?  I’m cutting a bit
for the people here, not to hurt anybody.  I’ve got no reason to hurt
you.  It's not my purpose.  But I’ve got a purpose in preaching what I
am preaching.  Because I want you to see, the way God does things.  

		(19)	… come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words
which 					he shall speak in my name, I will require it of (that person
who doesn’t 					listen.)

35.	Now look, Pillar of Fire, on the mountain, earthquake, thunder,
lightning.  They said, “Moses is up there somewhere.”  Oh God, you
see the parallel of a certain man in Tucson saw the Pillar of Fire out
in the canyon.  He said, “Bro. Branham’s up there somewhere.” 
But, made him God.  William Branham was not God, but he was God to the
people, under certain conditions.  And every word of a prophet is
required.  “Ha, who’s William Branham?”  If he was that man,
somebody’s in trouble.  Lindsay, wrote a book called  ‘A Man Sent
from God’, he cut his throat and all Pentecost.  Because he spoke the
truth, in a lie.  For he did not believe, what his own book said. 
Because the Scripture said, "He that (receiveth) whomsoever I send
receiveth me;                    and whosoever receives me, receives the
one that sent me." [Jn 13:20]

 	Why is a prophet sent with the Word?  Then, if I receive the prophet
and his word, I have received Jesus the Christ, I have received Almighty
God.  Proving I’m full of the Holy Ghost, and God, and the Son, and
the Bride, and the Word, is all one.  What do you want this morning? You
say, “Bro. Vayle, I’m looking down the road.”  That’s your
trouble.  “Well Bro. Vayle, I’m  looking back”  That’s your
trouble, look now, brother/sister we are one. You say, “Well I don’t
know about the evidence.”  Well, I do, take my word for it.  I just
gave it to you.  You didn’t have to believe me.  Believe God.  

36:	Let’s go to Lamentations 3:37-39  (that comes right after
Jeremiah)  you know, that little tiny Book in there...Okay.

		(37)	Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord
commandeth 					it not?

		(38)	 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

	All right.  What’s that all about?  That’s about;  Deuteronomy 18:
20-22

		(20)	 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name,
					which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the
					name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

		(21)      And if (you) say in (your) heart, How shall we know the word
which the 					LORD hath not spoken? (how do you know if he has?)

		(22)      (When the) prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, (and)
the thing 					follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the
LORD hath not 					spoken, but the prophet (was presumptuous): (don’t)
be afraid of him.	

 	In other words, if he says, ‘Thus Saith the Lord,” and what he
says does not come to pass, the Word of God will not be in his mouth. 
There’s your test.  Now, without further elaboration on prophets,
because we are agreed with what the prophet taught us about the
prophets.  Without further elaboration, then on the prophets as a group,
we go to the apostle Paul.  To whom the Word of the Lord came, Paul was
both apostle and prophet to the Gentiles.  

37.	Notice what he says over in here in 1 Corinthians 14:36-37.  Now,
Paul had his detractors, and he was constantly in a fight to assert
exactly his authority in the Church of God.  Because he was fought. 

 

		(36)	What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you
only?

	Now he said, "Listen, let’s get this flat: did you produce the Word
of God, or did I produce it for you?"  Now, he said:

		(37) 	If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him
acknowledge 				that  the things that I write unto you are the
commandments of the Lord.	

	Over here in Galatians 1: and you’re familiar with It, verses 11-12,

		(11)	But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached
of me 					is not after  man.

		(12)     For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it,
but by the 						revelation of  (the Lord) Jesus Christ. (God, unveiling
Himself to 						him.) 

38.	Acts 26:15-18,  is where we’re going next.  

		(15)	And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom (you
					persecute).

		(16)     But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto
thee for this 					purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both
of these things which 					thou hast seen, and of those things in the
which I will appear unto thee;

		(17)     Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto
whom now 					I send thee,

		(18)     To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light,
and from the 					power of Satan unto God…  

 	How in the world is he going to that? That’s the job of God. And the
job of God is done by human beings.  Now listen, he’s already said
here, the natural man cannot receive it.  There isn’t one thing you
can know from God, except by the Holy Ghost.  And now he turns around
and says, “I’m going to do it.”  It was God that said to him,
“You’re going to do it.”  So, how’s he going to do it?   Going
to do it because God gives him power through the gospel

		(18)	…that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance
among them (that) 				are sanctified by faith that is in me.

	Now notice, Jesus placed His Own providential redemption abilities, in
the hands of a man.  And He didn’t say, “Well Paul, you know little
boy, there’s a great chance that this will be muffed.  So, if you
should ever go down the drain, I have a unicorn standing by, who’ll
come on the scene, or I’ll drop down Myself and do it.”  Well, did
He?  You know, we’re free thinkers.  You know what a free thinker is? 
Shacks up with a woman without marriage.  Too many people aren’t
united to God, they think they can shack with Him, and do anything they
want with the Scripture.  Forget it, get back to the Word
brother/sister.  Bride, is with the Word.  They are not free thinkers,
shackers.  They are dwellers in a city, which hath foundation. I’m a
tough preacher.  See?  That’s the way God made me.  

39.	Acts 13:46-47,  don’t worry, I’m tough on myself.  

		(46)	Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary
that the 					word of God should first have been spoken to you: but
seeing ye put it 					from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of
everlasting life, lo, we turn 					to the Gentiles.

	Now listen, I’ve put My Word in their mouths. Then, It’s still the
Word of God.  And God’s obligated to His Word.  

		(47)     For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to
be a light 					of the Gentiles, that thou (should) be for salvation
unto the ends of the 					earth.

	Do you mean I’m for salvation?  You mean without me, the Gentiles
wouldn’t get it?  “Oh Paul, don’t be silly.”  Paul wasn’t
silly.  Bible’s not silly. (See?) I took you to the premise, the
operations of God identified with man, and man thoroughly involved in
Gods’ plan of redemption.  You’re beginning to see perhaps, why Bro.
Branham could say, “I’m identified with America.  All her glory, and
all her shame (He said)  I was there when George Washington crossed the
Delaware”, he said, “ I was there as Iwo Jima.”  And he said,
“So I am in Christ, identified with all of God’s glory, I was there
when He hung upon Calvary.  I was there with Noah and the ark.  I was
there with Moses upon Mount Sinai… Horeb.”  He said, “I was there,
I’m identified, and if you were there, you’re still there.” (See?)
 

 	Now, we’re getting this down flat where you see there's a prophet
and you understand what a  prophet, and what’s going on.  What’s
going on in this hour. (See?) When the Gentiles heard it, they were
glad.  That’s the Elect.  And they glorified the Word of the Lord. 
What Word of the Lord?  “Behold the Word of the Lord, this day have I
commanded you to be a light to the Gentiles.” [Acts 13:47]  And when
they received those men, they received Eternal Life which is God.  If
those men hadn’t been there, God would’ve had to send somebody.  

40.	Okay.  Isaiah 42: 5-7 where this quote is taken from.  Let’s watch
the identification very, very thoroughly.  It doesn’t get sticky. It
gets illuminating.   

		(5)	Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and
stretched 					them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which
cometh out of it; 					he that giveth breath unto the people upon it,
and spirit to them that walk 					therein:

		(6)       I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold
thine hand, 					and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the
people, for a light 					of the Gentiles;

	Paul absolutely identifies himself with the ministry of Jesus Christ,
as being inseparable from the works that God does through Jesus. 
Absolutely identified.  Do you see what we are trying to understand
today?  We’re getting away from eternal security, we’re getting away
from falling away, we’re getting into identification.  Getting into
the image.  Paul stood there, and absolutely fearlessly, by the
authority of Almighty God through a prophet, identified himself as that
source which God was operating in, in order to bring the resources of
God for man’s salvation. (See?)  Now listen, that narrows it down.
That put true authority where it belongs.  Not this Nicolaitan junk, and
this Laodicean anarchy. Now, Paul was identified with God, by God,
Himself.  

41.	Now, let’s go back to 1 Corinthians 2: where we begin to
understand a little more thoroughly.  This is a tremendous chapter of
course.  [1 Cor. 2:1-9,15-16]

		(1)	And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of 	
				speech or of  wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

		(2)       … I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus
Christ, 					and him crucified. (You see, that’s the basic.)  

		(3)	And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much
trembling.

		(4)	And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of
man's 					wisdom,  but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

	Now listen, he jumps from Calvary to power, why?  Because the Spirit
proves the efficacy of the cross. 

		(5)       That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but
in

                        the power of God.

	Now notice: "That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but
in the power of God." 

	Now listen, the power of God was loosed by Paul preaching.  Listen,
“Let there be light.” There was light!  “Let sinners repent, and
be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall receive the
Holy Ghost.”  And five thousand went down and were baptized, and
received the Holy Ghost.  What did it?  What did it?  The Word of God. 
The flaming Sword of God, of liberation, in the hands of an ordained
person.  (See?)  Okay. 

		(6)	Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the 	
			wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to 
				(nothing.)

		(7) 	…we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden
wisdom, 					which God ordained before the world unto our glory: 

	

		(8)       Which none of the princes of this world knew: (but) had they
known it, 					they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

42.	That’s why they couldn’t do a thing with Bro. Branham’s
ministry. They didn’t understand it, couldn’t figure it.  The
princes…oh, brother, the princes were in the church.  They called the
cardinals in and different ones; princes.  Oh man, listen, let’s
understand this brother/sister.  The Catholics have far more truth in
perversion, as I see it in this hour, than the Protestants ever had.  Or
ever have at this hour.  Whichever way you want to put it.  My heavens,
one just got a big blob of perversion, and the other just walked off
from everything.  Of course, they’ve got a perversion too.   All
right. 

		(9)	But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard…

	And so on.  And those verses we read, and then we read at the tail end.
 

	    (15)        But he that is spiritual (judges) all things, yet he
himself is judged of no 					man.

	It’s a private revelation to you.  Now, you don’t get a private
revelation from anybody else, as though everybody in this church had a
private revelation.  For the revelation comes to the prophet are those
given by God, and the revelation to you though is your own private
revelation of that which was given.  As Jesus said, “Who do men say
that I the Son of man, am?”  They said, this that and the other thing.
 

	And He said to Peter, “Who do you say that I am?”

	He said, “Thou art the Christ, the son of the living God.”  He
said, “That is my personal revelation, I got from God.”

	Jesus said, “Amen. Bull's eye, you hit it. You’re on target.” 

		(16)	For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct
him? 					But we have the mind of Christ.

 	Paul puts us right with Christ, we’re there.  Paul puts himself with
the wisdom of the ages.  Puts himself with the power of God.  (See?)  He
doesn’t back away.  

43.	All right.  We see the prophet is God to the people.  It is God's
law of operation.  So, we must accept it.  It is God’s way.  God must
have a man.  Paul categorically identified himself with the Holy Spirit
given, and the Holy Spirit revealed Word.  Now listen, Paul
categorically identified himself with the Holy Spirit given, and Holy
Spirit revealed Word.  In other words, the Word which the Holy Spirit
gave, and the Word which was revealed to him when the Spirit gave It.  

	What would be the use of a Word coming, if it wasn’t revealed? 
Wouldn’t do any good at all.  You say, “I want a map to take me down
there, the back road to Sydney.  And somebody gives you a thing that’s
so jumbled up, it didn’t do you any good.  What would be the use if
you couldn’t interpret it?  So, the Word given, the Word interpreted. 


44.	Now, that’s 1 Corinthians 2: 11-13.

		(11)	For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man 
					(that's) in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the 
					Spirit of God.

		(12)	Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit
						which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely
given 					to us of God.

 	Now, that’s the knowledge of God. (You see?)  Now they’ve got it. 
Now, over here in  chapter 14, Paul is revealing, or teaching upon what
that Word really is.  Oh, they said, “Look, anybody can say,
‘we’re going to have a believers meeting. And we’ll all talk in
tongues, we’ll all prophesy, we’ll all do this, we’ll all do
that.’”  Latter rain, Pentecost.  Paul said, “Hold it.  Hold
it.” He said, “Did the Word of God come to you, or, did it come out
of you?” [1Cor 14:36] Now he says, “If anybody is a prophet,
you’ll admit it, and if anybody is full of the Holy Ghost, you’ll
admit it.  That the Word that I bring you, the original Word, and the
revelation of the Word, is mine to give. I got It from God, and nobody
else has got it.” 

	Oh, people don’t like that.  They say, “You make too much of
yourself.”  Moses, you're a leader, you make too much of yourself.”
Isaiah, “We’ve got to bump you off. You make too much of
yourself.”  Jeremiah, “Surely, we’ll get rid of you in the prison.
You make too much of yourself.”  John the Baptist, “Your head’s
got to come off, you make too much of yourself.”  Jesus, “You’ve
got to go! Because, you’ve made too much of yourself.”  And Paul,
“You’re out, you make too much of yourself.”  John, who they
boiled in oil, “You make too much of yourself.”  William Branham,
“Oh, praise God, that false prophet got smeared across the road.  And
he’s dead, because you see what it is, he let the people get to him,
and make him think he was something.” 

45.	It's not nice to mention names, so I won’t even talk about it.  Oh
yeah, I feel like doing it all right.  Now also, Paul identified God and
showed Jesus or Jehovah Savior, was the same One that Moses saw. 
Notice, the prophet identified Him.  It's the same Pillar of Fire.  He
identified God from the Old Testament, placed Him, revealed to the
people.  What do you think a prophet does?  He reveals God, reveals the
Word.  He places It.  Ho…listen, do you understand what I’m saying? 
All right, understand a little more evenly.  [1 Cor 11:2-3]

		(2)	Now I praise you, brethren, that (you) remember me in all things, 
					and keep the ordinances, ...

		(3)        But I would have you know, that the head of every man is
Christ; and					 the head of  the woman is the man; and the head of
Christ is God.  

	Places God, places the people.  Places the Word.  Brings the revelation
of God to the people.  Fully exposes Him, gives the Word.  You know, one
day the devil came to Eve in the form of a serpent, and he said, “Now,
listen now tut, tut, tut…I’m going to tell you something…(he said)
God held something back from you.  Because if you get this knowledge,
you’ll be like God.”  He sold her a rotten bill of goods.  She got
the wrong knowledge. You get this knowledge, you are like God.  The Word
get over your heads?  That was by pure inspiration, I never saw that one
before.  Did it go over your heads?  I hope not. He said, “If you eat
this tree, this knowledge, you’ll be like God.”  

 	Get this one. You’re going back to the image.  Do you like that?  I
like it.  Bro. Branham said, “You hungry?  You go home and you’ll
eat real good.”  Oh, I got no hunger pangs.  Except in the pit of my
stomach and God ain’t there.  He identified God.  Placed and revealed
Him to the people.  

46.	Notice also, 2 Corinthians 5: 18-19. 

		(18)	And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by 	
				Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry (the putting into 		
			effect) of (this) reconciliation;

		(19)     To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto
himself, 						not imputing  their trespasses unto them; and hath
committed unto 						us the word of reconciliation.

		(20)	Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though (in God's stead
					we stood there and) God did beseech you… 

	And they say he wasn’t God to the people?  Who was pleading?  (See?) 
Prophets alone identify God to the people for God alone, deals with, or
identifies with the prophets.  Notice, Paul ministered his revelation in
5:18; 

		(18)	…hath given us the ministry of (revelation).  

47.	No man, no ministry, no revelation, no plan, no redemption. 
Remember Elijah did the same thing, he identified God, proved God
brought God to the people.  Brought people back.  This ministering of
the revelation of God, is also seen in  2 Corinthians 4:1.    

		(1)	Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, as we have received
mercy, 					we faint not;

	Now, where does 2 Corinthians 4: 1 come from?  It comes from 2 Cor.
3:7-8. 

		(7)	But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones,
was 					glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly
behold the 					face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which
glory was to be 					done away:

		(8)	 …shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

	Even more he’s comparing Moses now with the Holy Spirit.  Okay, verse
9.

		(9)	For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth 	
				the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

	In other words, one brought death, the other one brings Eternal Life
and righteousness.  It’s the righteousness of God.  Now, he’s
telling you what it does.  Okay.  The working of Spirit is even greater
and much greater.  Now, verse 17.

		(17)	Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there 					is liberty. (Tells you, that’s Jehovah.  He’s right
here.)  

		(18)	But we all, with open face (unveiled face) beholding as in a
glass the 					glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from
glory to glory, 					even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

	[2 Corinthian 4:1]

		(1)	Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, …

48.	Where did Paul place it? He placed it right within himself.  Not, as
the vendor or the purveyor, but as an administrator.   He had nothing to
sell.  Of himself, he had nothing to give, but he was a channel.  You
see, that’s all the prophet is.  Remember how Bro. Branham put it. 
(I’d like to preach on this, the first night we have the meeting over
there.  I don’t know if I will or not. Depends how anointed I can get
for it.) He said, “You might have thought I was trying to say this
about myself, because I was packing this Message.  I’ve got no more to
do with it than nothing, no more than just a voice.”  But what if his
voice hadn’t been there?  “Well, I’d have got it by myself.” 

	Well then, God’s changed.  And if you’ve got a changed God,
you’re in trouble.  Because, if He’s changed His ways, you don’t
know if you’re going to make it tomorrow by what He said.  Or, the day
after, or any other day.  And neither does any man know that’s up
there waiting for his body if he’s going to get it, because God might
have changed His mind.  But you know, they’re just stamping their
feet, going through a hallelujah procession right now, just waiting to
come down here and get their bodies.   Because it’s time. That’s why
I’m excited, because it’s our time.  I couldn’t be excited
otherwise.  Oh, I might get some ideas in my head, and act a little
foolish.  But, that’s not it.  (See?)  

49.	All right.  Now watch. 2 Corinthians 3:6

		(6)	Who also hath made us able ministers of the new (covenant); not of
the 					letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the
spirit (gives) life.

 	Paul literally ministering by the commission of God.  The ministry God
gave him, making effectual the life of the Word.  And there isn’t any
other way.  

	2 Corinthians 4:1 again,

		(1)	Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, as we have received
mercy, 					we faint not;  (No way.  Now, there’s Paul’s
association.) 

 	Now, let’s go to Galatians 3:2-5,  what I was talking about.

 

		(2)	This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the
works 					of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

		(3)       Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now
made perfect 					by the flesh?

		(4)       (If he) suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in
vain.

		(5)       He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh
miracles 					among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the
hearing of faith?

 	All right.  The Fundamentalists, made Galatians 3:5 to be God, and God
only.  They say, “All right, God alone, can minister the Spirit.  God
alone can heal.”  That is exactly true.  But let me tell you flat, God
commissioned the disciples to go out and heal the sick and perform
miracles.  They did it.  All right.  God pouring Himself into vessels,
is what they say this is.     

50.	All right, let’s go to Galatians 2:7-8 just check a little
further.

		(7)	But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the
uncircumcision 					was committed unto me, as the gospel of the
circumcision was unto Peter;

		(8) 	(For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of
the 						circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:) 

 	What’s going on?  God, in a person, in a ministry, and that person
being the giver of that Word.  And that Word being God’s Word,
absolutely puts into effect the life of that Word, toward that person. 
And that person receiving It, will receive the life of that Word,
because that’s the way God ordained it.  You can see it any way you
want to, but, you’re going to see it wrong it you don’t understand
that.  

	All right.  Listen, let’s go prove it by Scripture.  We go now to
Acts 19:6.

		(6)	And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came 		
		on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.

	Very good.  Now, let’s go to the real tough one.  Let’s go to Act
8: 17-20.

		(17)	Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy
Ghost.

		(18) 	And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands
						the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,

		(19) 	Saying, Give me also this power, that on (whom) I lay hands, he
may 					receive the Holy Ghost.

		(20) 	(And) Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because
thou 					hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

	A literal gift of laying on of hands, the people received the Holy
Ghost. [end of side two] See, those men were there, they had to be
there, the ordained ones.  They had to call for certain men.  All right.
 

	Now, we go a little further.  Let’s be realists, only God can bring
about a rebirth.  But God can only do it by His own Word.  Which…
(that’s the Word) set Himself and His plan forth.  And only and ever,
does He give that to the prophets, which Word in turn is life to a dying
world.  And this same Word, when it’s the same Word that the prophets
brought, will through other ministries, bring forth that very same life,
to the very end. 

 

	Now, let’s go to Scripture and see it, so we’ll understand.  The
Word of the Lord came to the prophet.  Now, here’s what It says about
ministry.  Ephesians 4:7-10.

		(7)	But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure
of 					the gift of Christ.

		(8)       Wherefore he (said), When he ascended up on high, he led
captivity 					captive, and gave gifts unto men.

		(9)       (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended
first into 					the lower parts of the earth?

		(10)     He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above
all heavens, 					that he might fill all things.)

51.	Now notice, what He’s doing.  The Holy Spirit is coming back upon
men, giving them ministries and watch what happens.  Now look, this is
contingent to Him dying and rising, and coming back.  Now, if you want
to blow it here, you blow it.  Now, I’m just being serious with you,
because I can’t take you and hit you over the head with a club.  I
read you the Scripture. It said, "He ascended up on high, he led
captivity captive." 

	 And the One that came back is the Holy Ghost, was the One that died,
went up to heaven, and descended as the Holy Spirit which is what it’s
all about.  Now listen, He gave gifts unto men.  These gifts are; 

		(11)	 … apostles; … prophets; (teachers); evangelists; … pastors


	They’re ministries.  Now, what will this ministry do?  Let’s
listen. 

		(12)       …For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the
ministry, for 					the edifying of  the body of Christ:

		(13)       Till we all come in the unity of the faith, (even) the
knowledge of 						the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure
of the stature 					of the fullness of Christ:

		(14)       That we … be no more children, tossed to and fro, and
carried about 

                          with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of
men, and cunning 						craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

            (15)       But (holding) the truth in love, may grow up into
him in all things, 					which is the head, even Christ:

52.	In other words, there is man under this ministry of the Holy Ghost,
which endows and endues men, will miss nothing of the things of God that
have been revealed.  But absolutely will perpetrate a completion and a
perfection.  Now, you’ve got to have faith.  The Roman Catholics have
that faith, and it’s a perversion.  The Protestants threw it out. 
Now, let’s understand this. Now;   

		(16)      From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted
by 					that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual
working 					in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body
unto the 						edifying of itself in love.

	From the day of Paul, it has never changed.  That’s why you saw a man
stand, if you saw William Branham, and he categorically said on that
tape, and I remember, I was there when he said it.  He said, “The same
Pillar of Fire that brought the Bible, and revealed it to Paul, is the
same Pillar of Fire that’s interpreting it.” Giving the revelation. 
(See?)  

53.  All right.  Let’s go to Revelation 22:  Now, watch what we’re
saying here, brother/sister.  I’m putting this on a God ordained man. 
I know people don’t want to do it. That’s fine. They don’t know
God’s way, we’re here to learn it.  Okay, verse 10.

		(10)	And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of
this 						book: for the time is at hand.

 	It’s going to take a prophet to reveal It.  Now listen, when It’s
revealed, those Seals were opened, because that’s what’s been sealed
up in Revelation.  

		(11)	He that is unjust, (is) unjust still: and he which is filthy,
(is) filthy 

                        still: and he that is righteous, (is) righteous
still: and he that is holy, 					(is) holy still.

	"This is the time of My coming.  The giving of rewards. I'm the Omega,
who was the 		Alpha, I’m ending it all."  

		

		(14)     Blessed are they that (wash their robes not,) do his
commandments… 

   	Where they got that from, only God knows.  The devil snuck that in
there. Be a bunch of legalists.  Catholics say, “Well, I do His
commandments.”  What’s that?  Say, “Hail Mary,” and eat some
bread, or something?  Protestants say, “I do His commandments, we
visit the widows and the sick.”  That’s just part of it.  

		(14)	Blessed are they that (wash their robes,) that they may have
right to 					the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into
the city.

		(15)	(And) without are dogs, (male prostitutes) and sorcerers,
(that’s poisoners, 				get the word ‘druggist’ from
that)…whoremongers, murderers, idolaters, and 

                        whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

		(16)	(And) I Jesus have sent (my messenger) …

 	Who opens the Book? The messenger that God sent, the one that Jesus
sent.  The head of the Church, because He is our head, effectively
genuinely.  Now, in the Father’s will, Elijah must truly come,
absolutely.  

54.  Now, we can go back to 2 Corinthians 9:to 1 Corinthians 2:9-13.
Lamentations won’t do it.  I’m going to turn instead to Amos 3:7-8. 


		(7)	Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret
unto 					his servants the prophets.

	In other words, God unseals something.  Doesn’t He?  

		(8)	The lion (has) roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath
spoken, 					who can but prophesy?

	And remember, the thunder was God speaking.  Got to come forth in
prophecy, by a prophet.  

55.  Okay, now over here to Malachi 4:5-6.

		(5)	Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of
the 					great and  dreadful day of the LORD:

		(6)       And he shall turn the hearts of the (children back to the
fathers) 						…lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

	Now, I’m using all of this to show you again my brother, my sister,
what is over here in,

2 Corinthians 3:17-18.

		(17)	Now the Lord is that Spirit:  where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there 						is liberty.

		(18)	But we all, with (unveiled faces) beholding as in a glass the
glory of 					the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to
glory, even 					as by the Spirit of the Lord.

56.  [2 Corinthians 4:]

		(1)	Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, … we faint not;

 	In other words, Paul said there’s something absolutely so powerful,
so of God.  He said the thing is not something that I’m handling, but
it’s handling me.  Absolutely within the divine channel.  You see?  
Now, and Paul puts it all back on the Word, which he received, and
preached.  Now listen, 

		(2)	But (we) have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, (this is
the 					2nd verse, 4th chapter) not walking in craftiness, nor handling
the 						word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth
commending 					ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

		(3)       But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

	Now notice, where he puts it.  Gospel, preaching of the Word.  You
understand what I am saying, “Let there be light.” (Yikes)  Let
there be a people immortalized, go to the Tree of Life and eat, and live
forever.  It’s done.  Do you follow what I am saying?  It’s the same
principle.  You’ve got too far my brother, my sister, from principle. 
That’s why you flounder, a little bit.  And you wonder, and you go
boggle this way, now, you don’t have to boggle anymore.  Get with it,
it’s the Word of Almighty God.  This is exactly how it is done, this
is exactly what is being done, this is how it is done.  

		(3)	But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

		(4)	In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which
					believe not, lest the light (listen) of the glorious gospel of
Christ, who 					is the image of God, should shine unto (us).

		

	How does it shine?  How does that light strike?  By the Word.  Now
listen, 

		(5)	For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; …

	You don't preach, He is not being preached, crucified.  Now let’s get
this flat, Lord.  See? 

		(6)       For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness,
hath 						shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of
the glory 					of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

		(7)	But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, the excellency (and)
						power may be of God, …

57.	And Paul said right here, “You’re looking at me a man, and I’m
telling you, what God is doing through me.”  And you look at me a man,
and say, “Hogwash.”  And Bro. Branham stood there, and he told us
exactly what was happening.  And the people said, “Hogwash, he’s
just a man,  who needs William Branham? ” Well, who needs you this
morning?  Oh, different story.  Right, bringing it down to the nitty
gritty, and all of a sudden William Branham just might be important to
you, hallelujah.  I’m not exactly Mortimer Snerd [ventriloquist dummy]
you know, I’m somebody.  (Fap)  Not one of you win a movie contest, or
a beauty contest, of brains or anything else.  Because there are a
million guys out there, that are a million times smarter.  And there’s
a devil a million times bigger.  But there’s a God, with the Word. 
(See?)  

58.  All right.  Everything God has done, and is doing is efficacious
only as revealed to mankind by chosen men.  I tell you, I never felt
such sorrow in my heart, and yet it almost like anger rise up, as I saw
a dear old brother out there in California, Bear Mountain.  And we’d
talk about Bro. Branham, he’d met Bro. Branham, and he was very nice,
and then he said, “But you know Bro Vayle, I’ve had some experiences
myself.”  Whew…I almost said, “Listen boy, just spew them off. 
Because I’ll match yours one by one, and make you look sick, along
side of mine.” And I ain’t got nothing.  Oh, brother/sister, 
“Well I’m full of the Holy Ghost…they did this.” If there was
something there, I’d know it. Proved he ain’t got the Holy Ghost. 
How did Adam recognize God to begin with?  Had the same thing.  Oh
listen, this just gets richer and deeper, as far as I’m concerned.  

59.  Now listen, let’s go see again, 2 Corinthians 4:3-6.

		(3)	But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

		(4)       In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them
which 					believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ,
who is the 					image of God, should shine unto them.

	This Word preached, literally produces an image.  Brings us back to the
image of God.  And when that image is brought back, that’s exactly
what God clothed.  And that image is brought back, God will bring about
a resurrection.  You’re not going to get it, looking at yourself.  No
way.  You get it by looking at this Word, and believing It.  Everything
that is in here for the Bride.  God warned me, I told you time after
time, I’m making the fatal mistake of my lifetime, by not listening to
Him.  I’m trying to.  I’m not trying hard enough.  Get your eyes off
of everything.  "Even off the world church."  That was a quote, and
didn’t even know it. Quoted the prophet.  Get your eyes only on the
Word, that belongs to the Bride.  

60.	What Word belongs to the Bride?  This, which I am preaching.  We all
with unveiled faces, no more creeds, no more dogmas.  The glorious Light
of the Gospel, is streaming in. Imprints an image.  (See?)  You’ve got
an image, “I want to have more character.”  You’re off, you flew
it.  You’ve already had that.  “Well, I want to have more fruit.” 
What have you had before?  What have you had before?  Didn't you have
that before?  That didn’t do it.  “Well, in Charismatic, I spoke
with tongues.”  (Fap)  I preached a sermon at a certain place in
Canada, a lady went out of that church and she said, “I didn’t know
Bro. Vayle could preach German.”  I didn’t know I could either.  She
heard the whole sermon in German.  That doesn’t mean a thing.  Had
nothing to do with me.  I preached in English.  Very poor.  

	God wanted her to hear it in German, that’s her business.  Why, I
still think that’s her business.  I’m not interested.  Something
happens, so what do I know about it?  As a kid, I used to go measure
myself, against the door.  You know, you’re not allowed up here,
because you have nice doorposts, and things.  You can’t allow that. 
Back home, I used to…pfft…you know, mark it.  Throw corn cobs, we
had a ball. My God, it’s a pitiful thing to have nice homes.  Not that
your kids should be brats and devils.  But the thing is, it’s a pity
that we have to have the stupid restraints.  We’ve got stupid
restraints, and wrongful outlets.  Anyway, I was telling you,  I
couldn’t feel myself grow, another half inch or something.  I just
woke up to it.  (See?)  By the way it is.  So, lots of things we don’t
realize, what is really going on.  But there is something going on. 

61.   Now, he said, here, this image.

		(5)       For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and
ourselves 					your servants for Jesus' sake.

		(6)       For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness,
hath shined 					in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of
the glory of God in the 					face of Jesus …

		

	He said, “What came to me, I'm giving to you, and will produce it.”
 Not that you had produced fruit.  It doesn’t give you this.  (Do you
follow me?)  Therefore, it is not character, it is not fruit.  It is not
nearness of God.  It is not power with God.  It is not obedience. It is
the Word loosed from creeds and dogmas, the Holy Ghost, in breathing and
infusing you with it.  And you coming to the very image of Christ.  And
when that image comes by the Word, God will clothe you.  But He will
clothe the dead first.  Before you find your change, you’ll find that
sweet Spirit come into the Church.  And I believe that’s the spirits
to those people that come back here, those theophanies, they haven’t
got their clothes yet.  But they’re here.

  	And you said, “Baby time.”  They are going to be born out of the
earth, because Jesus the first begotten from amongst the dead, born out
of that earth.  Now, it’s first-fruit time.  Oh brother/sister, you
see what’s bringing on the Resurrection.  Why the Bride brings on the
Resurrection?  Well because, this is what has got to happen.  “They
without us, cannot be made perfect”. [Heb 11:40] 

62.  All right, listen.  [2 Corinthians 2:] verse 4.  

		(4)	In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which
					believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who
is the 					image of God, should shine unto them.

	Now listen, that’s what we’re looking at this hour.  The gospel
now, is the image.  It’s not Christ having died upon Calvary.  It is
Christ taking the Seals off the Book, and climbing upon His Father’s
Throne.  Melchisedec, it is the Spirit of God now, ready to transform
each one of us.  Christ is Lord.  God's made Him that.  See, coming more
and more into manifestation.  We getting ready now.  And listen, I
believe that sweet Spirit is just around the corner.  I don’t know
about you, I believe it.  I told you, I could be dead before It comes. 
But, It’s going to come.  You do what you want with It.  I’m doing
what I want with It.  And believe me, I believe It.  Bless God, I
believe It.  And I believe this Message so strong and so hard, that you
can’t sit here this morning, and something not happen to you.

63.  That you go one way or the other.  You’ll go out of here with
your faith lifted in Christ.  You’ll go out of here, not looking at
yourself, but looking at Him.  You’ll go out of here knowing in
yourself there dwelleth not one good thing, but in Him, there is all of
everything. That does something for you.  I know…listen, I know it
does.  Don’t argue with me.  Do you want…listen, no gospel, no
image.  If you want that image, then it’s got to be the Word.  In 6
and 7 It says; 

		(6)	For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath 		
			shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory
					of God in the face of Jesus… 

	That absolute glory that God manifested is here right now, and it comes
by the Gospel, and It’s going to change men.  It’s going to bring
about immortality.  Oh, the Seals have been opened… Hallelujah!  I
don’t care if people say, “Well Bro. Vayle, the Seventh Seal
hasn’t opened.”  As far as they know it hasn’t been.   The guy
said, “Don’t tell me anybody's got the former and latter rain.” 
Certainly, he hasn’t but I have.  I’m going to tell you, because
you’ve got a little wart  on your toe, doesn’t mean that I have a
wart on my toe.  Because you ain’t eating good, doesn’t mean I'm not
eating good.  Because you’re in debt, doesn’t mean I’m in debt. 
And because I’ve got arthritis, doesn’t mean you’ve got to have
it.  

64.	Man says, “He ain’t got it.”  I believe him.  I do.  I do,
I'll be honest with you, because that Word’s been quickened.  Oh, you
say, “Bro. Vayle, I’m looking for a change.”  You see, all the
time keep looking for a wrong change.  And I keep all the time telling
you,  It is not proof, we already had it and it didn’t do it.  Not
character.  How much character have you got anyway?  Even what Jesus
gave you. (Phfft!)  How far have you been tempted?  Have you sweat blood
yet, over it? Jesus did.  If you haven’t sweat blood, you haven’t
been really tempted.  You say, “Oh bless God, I don’t have that kind
of temptation.”  (Phfft!)You don’t?  Stick around baby.  

	“You’re born, but you’re no dead.”  The old Scotsman, used to
tell me.  What about your character?  What about your fruit?  Your
fruit… (Phfft!)…oh brother.  What about your nearness to God?  How
much power have you got?  Not enough to pick a cigarette paper off the
floor, eh?  Don’t worry, I’m not talking about you only.  I’m
talking about myself, and I care less.  You say, “Bro. Vayle, you
should care.”  (No.  Nope.)  I’m not interested. I was past
interest.  That’s just a modicum.  The Seals have been opened.  Oh
brother/sister, every mystery is in process.  In progress.  And he tells
you this, that that light, that knowledge, that ability, that you speak
that God performs, is dwelling in you.

65. Prophet came along, and he said, “Little Bride, you didn’t do it
at all.”  God said, “Amen.  That’s true.”  Pretty soon we found,
hey where’s the guilt gone? Where's the guilt? Don't have any guilt.
(See?)  Talked about fear.  Where’s the fear gone?  It’s gone. 
…?... What about sin?  It’s been scattered by the Blood.  He said,
“Ho, thus it has been spoken, thus it will be.” And he spoke of the
Rapture.  And He said, three things. “Shout, Voice, Trumpet.”  And
he said, “The Shout was the Message that gathered them.” And he
said, “The Voice brought them out of the ground.”  and he said,
“The Trumpet to the Wedding Supper, It has been spoken.  Thus It shall
be.” Do you follow what I’m saying?  Took a man to say It.  Threw a
rock in the air, it takes something to start something.  God used His
Word!  

	But it wasn’t Word anymore, it became Reality.  ‘Oh, we’ll walk
in the Light, as He is in the Light. And we have fellowship.’  “He
that receives him, receives me, and he that receives me, receives the
Father that sent me.” [Jn 8:29] Prophet, Word, Bride, Jesus, God,
one.”  We’re in the Logos, we came from God, we come back to God. 
Word becoming flesh, flesh becoming Word, Word becoming Word.  Don’t
let it go over your heads.  Just believe It.  Just believe It.  It’s
no big mystery.  These are not catch phrases.  Look, we had catch
phrases, years ago.  There are no catch phrases.  There's no parables.
They’re just bearables.  Okay.

66.	The light of knowledge of God brings forth Christ is that Word, and
the Word was in Paul who was that earthen vessel.   He brought It. 
Without Paul, there would have been no Word.  He was a chosen vessel you
see.  No light, no image.  That’s the reason for Malachi 4:5-6.  And
that’s the reason for Zechariah 4: 6, “It shall be light at even
time.”  That’s the reason, that we see Revelation 3:14, “In utter
darkness, but behold I stand at the door and knock.”  Now, when the
Seals were to be broken, down came Revelation 10:1, executing 2
Thessalonians 1:7, “When he shall be revealed with His might
messengers in flames of fire from heaven.” 

	And in 2 Thessalonians 2:1, “Our gathering together unto Him.”  At
that particular moment, that is the time of 1 Thessalonians 4:13-16,
where It mentions, that the living and the dead will come together, and
it will be through the descent of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the form of
the Holy Spirit.  The final glories It brings, the final glory is
Resurrection and immortality.  Now listen, the glory of the Lutheran's
day was won.  It was great.  Think how great it was to break through
from the Roman Catholic death.  Nothing, compared to this hour.  It went
back.  Think of when Wesley came and broke them loose from their
tradition and bonds of antinomianism, where they bypassed Jesus the
Christ, and said, "Well everybody's saved because their names were
either's there or not there, and you’ll find out when you die." 

 	What a glorious thing that people could know that you could know now
that you’re born again.  Then Pentecost came and proved, the witness
to the resurrection showed a God, that had power.  Those were glories my
brother/sister, but they all faded.  This glory will not fade.  This
glory glows to the Resurrection, and immortality.  Today, life is in the
midst of death.  That’s right.  Before this hour, death was in the
midst of death.   

67.  Let’s take a look and prove it.  Romans 8: 9-11.

		(9)	But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the
Spirit 						of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of
Christ, 						he is none of his.

		(10)     And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin;…

	Notice, life in the midst of death. "If Christ be in you, the body is
still dead because of sin". But that Spirit is going to get you out of
the grave. But that’s not true at this hour brother/sister.  No way. 
Today is John 1; John 11:26 “He that believeth in me, shall never
die.”  It’s not the promise, “He that believeth in me, though he
were dead, yet shall he live.”  That’s for those that are dead.  We
are not going to die.  Our promise is: “Whosoever liveth and believeth
in me, he shall never perish. Do you believe this.”  Yes, I’ve been
convinced.  I’m convinced, I don’t know about you.  You do what you
want.  I’ve got a hard time with my wife, she’s not…she doesn’t
want to go, she doesn’t want to leave this world.  I’d get out of
here tomorrow morning and die.  She doesn’t know if she wants to die
or not.  She’s too healthy, that’s all.  Have to take her liver out,
and beat her to death, I guess.  [laughter] Something like that, I
don’t know.  If she dies, I won’t die with her, I suppose. I’m
happy to go.  I feel good this morning in my body.  But, I’m all the
happier to go.  I say, “ Oh boy, if you feel this good now, what about
over on the other side?”  And I say, "Oh, let’s get out of here,
let’s get out of here fast."  But, …my reservation hasn’t been
accepted.  It’s just up there, waiting for clearance.  It’ll be
clear, don’t worry.  

68.  All right, listen.  [1 Corinthians 14:]

		(49)	And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear
the 					image of the heavenly.

	So, the earthy is, if you came out of dust, out of dust you go.  But
this is the Lord of heaven.  Knowing, 

		(50)	Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom 					of God; (or) corruption inherit incorruption.

		(51)	Behold, I shew you a mystery; (We'll) not all sleep, but we shall
all 					be changed,

	That is what 2 Corinthians 3:18 is about.  It is about God veiled in a
prophet.  The Word in a prophet, that’s what it was. And that Word,
released into the Bride.  Preached into her.  Brings forth immortality. 


   	Now, you see what I said last Sunday.  I don’t go the Fundamental
way.  I’m a better Catholic, than the Catholics.  The Protestants
can’t protest anymore.  You know, Bro. Branham told the Catholics,
“I’m a better Catholic than you I guess, because, I baptize in the
Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.” The old boy had done left it.  Now
listen, I tried to show you, and I believe in the Scripture had shown
you, that this ministry that Bro. Branham had, this Word, the opening of
the Seals, everything is there to put you into the Rapture.  

 69.  I was talking to Jack Bell the other day, and he said, “You
know, I just can’t go with those guys that say the Seventh Seal is not
open.” 

	 I said, “Certainly not, because it is open.”  I said, "That’s
what was under it, the Thunders."  Those other things, but, that’s all
right, whatever they were, if the prophet said it, that’s fine by me
too. But what came forth was those Thunders.  

	And they said, “Bro. Branham, what about those Thunders?”

	  And he said, “Well, that’s what those Seven Seals were all
about.”   I just believe what the prophet said.  

	I said, “Look Jack, let’s face it, there’s got to be dividends
under that Seventh Seal.” 

	 He said, “Let me write that down.”   He said, “You know Lee,
you’re right, there’s got to be dividends.”  And he said what I
haven't said, and I’m passing it on to you.  Jack caught it.  He said,
“Lee,” he said, “Bro. Branham, told us categorically under those
Thunders, the saints would be given everything to put her in a Rapture. 
To the going away in the Rapture.”  And he said, “How could anybody,
any Bride member, ever leave this earth with feelings of guilt and
fear?”  Right on. Right on.  I’m going to tell you something, I
cannot stand up here and say, "Lee Vayle understands this Message and
has got It exactly right."  Now, of course I believe that.  

70.	Now, you can do what you want about it.  But, I cannot come out and
say, “Hey, you’ve got to listen to me.” (See?)  I’ve got my
convictions.  Another preacher’s got his.  That’s true.  That’s
why when I preach I can’t help what is said, and God helps me that no
matter what anybody else says, He brings me right around here, and I get
to it anyway, and you don’t even know.  I’m going to tell you right
to your faces.  You don’t even know what happens.  Because I don’t
even know until one day I hear a voice, and suddenly make me know. 
"This is what you wanted to preach over here, and you got stopped." 
I’m going to tell you something: there’s no person, one person, or
all you together, can stop me.  Unless, you say, “Lee, leave this
church.”  

	

	So, don’t try it.  Now, I want to warn you and be good to your
friends.  You know I love you.  And I’m man enough to spill my guts. 
Which you’d better learn to do.  Because Christians better be
transparent, with one another.  And there’s no way, I can stop
preaching, unless you say, “Get out of here.”  Now, that won’t
hurt my feelings and break my heart.  Because I wouldn’t mind going
out west, where the climate’s drier.   Because I like it out there. 
But I want you to know this one thing.  I am not an authority.  But
within myself, I am.  And I believe what I have preached, so absolutely
completely, this morning, and what I’ve been preaching, perhaps going
on two years now. 

71.	 I see a prophet with a definitive ministry, of such magnitude, that
without that ministry, it's exactly as God said, “Except I send
Elijah…[makes a whistle sound]…it’s all over.”  I just brought
it out.  And God said to Moses, “Stand aside.”  And Moses said,
“No, You take them, You take me.”  And the precedent was set.  And
Jesus said, “Take me, and I’ll stand for them.”  Elijah came in
our day against his better judgement.  He wasn’t any dumb bird.  He
said, “ Hey, I’m not stupid, I can see a nice place to be, would be 
to be out there in the wilderness like a trapper.  Get away from it
all.”  [Audio ends]	

                        

		

		

 

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