If You Shall See The Son of Man

 Preliminary done - Needs final proofing

Bro. Lee Vayle   - November 28, 1979

	

	Kind Heavenly Father, again we look unto You in the Name of the Lord
Jesus Christ, asking You, Father, that Your blessing be here to anoint
the Word. May It be spoken, Lord, as You would have It to be given with
clarity of thought and understanding. Easy to be received in such a
manner, Lord, that It can be very useful and edifying to the believers
increasing their faith, and by revelation giving them a greater strength
in this life, Lord God, a greater assurance for the trail that lies
ahead of us. We'll be careful to give You praise in Jesus' Name. Amen.

1.	Now, for about three times in a row we've been looking at:  'What
happens when the Holy Spirit comes', especially we've been using the
principle of repetition in order to help us to understand the Scripture
all the better. But I don't know that I'll deal so much with repetition
tonight, (at this moment) but we'll launch into the reading of some
Scripture, beginning in John 14:16-20. And we'll take several other
passages.

		(16) 	And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another
Comforter, 					that he may abide with you for ever;

		(17) 	Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because
it 					seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but (you) know him; for he 	
				dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

		(18) 	I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

		(19) 	Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but (you)
see me: 					because I live, (you) shall live also.

		(20) 	At that day (you) shall know that I am in my Father, and (you)
in me, 					and I in you.

2.	Now, we go to John 6:62, and He said, 

		(62) 	What and if (you) shall see the Son of man ascend up where he
was 					before?

	Now, keep that in mind:

		(62) 	What and if (you) shall see the Son of man ascend up where he
was 					before?

	And then over in John 20:17,

		(17) 	Jesus (said,) Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my
Father: 					but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my
Father, 					and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

3.	Now, we'll turn back to the Book of Luke 24:49-51.

		(49) 	And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry
						(you) in the city of Jerusalem, until (you) be endued with power
from 					on high.

		(50) 	And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his
hands, 					and blessed them.

		(51) 	And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from
them, 					and carried up into heaven.

	And then back to the Book of Acts 1:9

		(9) 	And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was
taken 					up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

	Now, we turn to Ephesians  4:8-10

		(8) 	Wherefore he saith, 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.)

4.	Now, to begin with we'll put all these Scriptures together so we can
see exactly what Jesus meant when He said, "I will not leave you
comfortless, I will come to you." Now, you'll notice in John 6:62 that
He said, "What and if you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he
was before?" And then in John 14:16-20, He told them that He was going
to go away, but that He would send another comforter. And that He would
come and abide with them, even in them, which was the Father and Himself
coming. And then in John 20:17, and in Luke 24:49-51, and Acts 1:9, we
saw the actual departure of the Lord Jesus Christ.  

	Now, what we read in Ephesians we saw here. "Now he that ascended, what
is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the
earth?" Now, here is the exact picture of Jesus Christ first dying, and
then going to the grave and coming out of the grave, and He sees Mary
and He said, "Now don't touch me, because I'm going to your Father and
to My Father." And then in Acts 1:9, and Luke 24:49-51, we see that One
Who actually went into the lower parts of the earth, whose body was
buried, whose soul and spirit went down into Hades, ascended right into
heaven.

5.	Now, that's the same One Who said that He was there previously, and
that He had come down. And He said, "What and if you see the Son of man
ascend into heaven?" And they actually saw the Son of man ascend into
heaven where He was before.

	Now, verse 10 said, "He that descended is the same also that ascended
up far above all heavens, that He might fill all things." Now, you know
where that came from, that came over here in [Ephesians ]1:20.    

		(20) 	Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead,
and set 						him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

		(21)	Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion,
and every 					name that is named, not only in this world, but also in
that which is to come:

		(22) 	And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the
head over 						all things to the church,

		(23) 	Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all (things
with all things.) 

	So, this is the One that actually rose and took His place at the right
hand of majesty on high. And It says, that that One is the One that came
back. Now, this is exactly the Scripture that explains thoroughly John
14, where we read those verses.

		(16) 	And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another
Comforter, that 						he may abide with you for ever;

		(17) 	Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because
it seeth 						him not, neither knoweth him: but (you) know him; for he
dwelleth with 						you, and shall be in you.

	Now, notice the phraseology, "dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." 
 

		(18) 	I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

	And at that time when He comes:

		(20) 	At that day (of the coming, you will) know that I am in my
Father, and 						(you) in me, and  I in you. (Now, He's explaining
very, very carefully all 						about Himself.)

6.	Now, you can see then perfectly from the Scriptures that we've give
you, correlating with John 14, exactly what Jesus Christ was saying. And
also, we can understand John 14:20 from the Book of Acts 2:2-3. We went
into that the other night.

		(2) 	And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing 					
mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

	Now, that of course definitely is the advent of the Holy Spirit, and
the Holy Spirit was not the wind, and neither is He the fire, but
actually those are accompanying sounds that take place in the Presence
of that mighty Holy Spirit coming. And notice It said:

		(3) 	…there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and
it sat 					upon each of them.

	And it was at that time that the…as the veil of the Holy Spirit
actually sat upon each one, that the Holy Spirit would come out of that
flame of Fire and fill each one of them. And then they had a peculiar
manifestation.

	So, when Jesus said I am coming back, he literally came back veiled in
a Pillar of Fire, the same One Who was veiled in human flesh. And those
people were actually able to receive of His Spirit. 

7.	Now, we can go further, because from Acts 2:2-3 we begin to see 1
Corinthians 10:1-4.

		(1) 	Moreover, brethren, I would not that (you) should be ignorant, 		
			that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through 			
		the sea;

		(2) 	And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

		(3) 	And did all eat the same spiritual meat;

		(4) 	And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of
that 						spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

	Now, what was that cloud? That Cloud was a Pillar of Fire, that became
a shade by day, and warmth by night.

8.	Now, that was found over here in the Book of Exodus 13:21-22. 

		(21) 	And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, …

	Now, notice It said, "The Lord went before them in a pillar of cloud."
Now, He wasn't like you and I might say, "Well, we're going down the
road in an automobile." Oh, that's pretty close. The automobile is not
the person, the person's in the automobile. Well now, this God is not a
Pillar of Fire, He's in the Pillar of Fire. You see, He came back veiled
in one, and He appeared to the people as a Pillar of Fire, the same as
He appeared as a man.

		(21) 	…the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to
lead 						them (in) the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give
them light; 					to go by day and night:

		(22) 	He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar
of fire 					by night, from before the people.

9.	And then with that, we go 1 Corinthians 12:12-13

		(12) 	For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the
members 					of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is
Christ.

		(13) 	For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we
be 						Jews or Gentiles, bond or free; have been made to drink into
one 						Spirit.

	Now, the very same thing that is said in the Old Testament is said
about the New Testament. And that is that God Almighty, Elohim, El Ella,
or Yehweh, which ever term you want to use concerning Him was that One
that over them as they went through the water, and therefore as each
individual went in, each one was immersed into and became a part of the
whole through the grace of Almighty God.

	Now, what I want to show you here is that there is no difference in the
sense of the type from the prototype, the Old Testament type to the
prototype of the New. That's what Paul is bringing out here. And see in
chapter 10, he is telling you here: "They were all baptized in the cloud
and sea, all ate the same spiritual meat, all drank the same spiritual
drink. For they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them, and
that Rock was Christ." [1 Cor 10:2-4] 

10.	Now, It says, "The Rock over there in the Old Testament and the
Pillar of Fire was God." Which was the Jehovah. The term 'Christ' was
not used, which was the Anointed. The anointed of the Anointed One. He
was speaking in terms of God. But you noticed that He identified It. He
identified exactly what It was.

	So, alright we see here then that the same One in the Vertical, the One
that takes each one in Divine Personal confrontation, on the Vertical,
and on the horizontal, makes Him every single one as He did in the New
Testament He had done in the Old.

11.	Now, let's see that in Ephesians 2:18-22.

		(18) 	For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the
Father.

		(19) 	Now therefore (you) are no more strangers and foreigners, but
fellow-					citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

		(20) 	And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus 					Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

		(21) 	In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an
holy 					temple in the Lord:

		(22) 	In whom (you) also are builded together for an habitation of God
						through the Spirit.

	Now, what was he talking about? In verse 11, the same chapter:

		(11) 	Wherefore remember, that (you) being in time past Gentiles in
the 						flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called
the 						Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

		(12) 	…at that time (you) were without Christ, being aliens from the
						commonwealth of Israel, strangers from the covenants of promise, 	
				having no hope, and without God in the world:

		(13) 	But now in Christ Jesus (you) who sometimes were far off are
made 					nigh by the blood of Christ.

		(14) 	For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken
down 					the middle wall of partition…  

		(15) 	Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of
commandments 					contained in ordinances; to make in himself of twain
one new man, 					so making peace;

		(16) 	…that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the
cross, 						having slain the enmity thereby:

		(17) 	And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to 	
				them that were nigh.

		(18) 	For through him we both...(Jew and Gentile) have access by one 	
				Spirit unto the Father.

	So, what we're seeing here is the Old Testament has the same continuity
in the New. God has not actually done anything different at anytime,
it's always been God Himself doing it, the Holy Spirit bringing a people
unto Himself, and getting them ready for the ages which are to come.

12.	Now, you will see that these verses  clarify exactly Galatians 3:14,
let's take a look, and I'll get It all together for you.

		(14) 	That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through 
					Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit
through 					faith.

	Now, with that we go back to Genesis 15:1

		(1) 	After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a 				
	vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding 			
	great reward.

	And that is exactly what we saw back there in Exodus 13:21-22. And what
I'm trying to show you here is, that each one of these Scriptures is
dealing with the same God. Not two gods, and not a third of a god, and
not two-thirds of a god, but the same God. There isn't any difference,
He's the same One. Because the Rock that followed them, the Cloud they
were baptized into, the unity that we have with each other, is by the
same Spirit which is the One Spirit, which a Spirit of God. So, no one
can doubt, that Jehovah of the Old Testament is the Jesus of the New.

13.	Now, putting that together with Ephesians, which we read in chapter
4, "where He that ascended, that descended is the same One that ascended
after having died upon Calvary," shows that Jesus Christ came back as
the Holy Ghost. And so therefore, when he tells you in John 14, let's
get back and take a look at It again.

		(20) 	At that day (you) shall know that I am in my Father, and (you)
in 						me, and I in you.

	And then again He says,

		(19) 	Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but (you)
see me: 					because I live, (you) shall live also.

	And every single place in here where Jesus emphasis the fact of Himself
and the Father, it is a complete unity, because there is only one. So,
I'm showing you here that the Jesus of the New Testament, is Jehovah of
the Old, that there is one Spirit, there is one God Who is Spirit, and
that one Spirit Who veiled Himself in a Pillar of Fire, was the same One
that went between the sacrifice of Abraham, (no different) was the same
One that Appeared to Moses, let Israel out of the wilderness, lead them
through the Red Sea, completely baptizing them, having come out in order
to go in. And the same principle holds today, there is one God, Who
Appeared in the form of the Lord Jesus Christ, and His Name is the Lord
Jesus Christ, and we are baptized in His Name.

 	Now, we can further see the Oneness of Almighty God, and that the
Spirit is none other than God Himself. Not a derivative, it's not some
substance that came out of the Lord, on the grounds that God created
something, but the Spirit of God Himself is in the individual who were
baptized with the Holy Ghost in this hour.

14.	 Now, just continuing a little bit concerning this fact, not that
the Holy Spirit is God, very God, Jehovah of the Old Testament, the same
Spirit that indwelt Christ, that Spirit is here today, we'll go to
Ezekiel 34:11-16.

		(11) 	For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search
my 					sheep, and seek them out.

		(12) 	As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among
his 						sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and
will deliver 					them out of all places where they have been scattered
in the cloudy 					and dark day.

	Now, that's especially applicable to this hour, because this is the
dark and cloudy day where there's neither light not darkness, it's that
dismal day.

		(13) 	And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from
the 					countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them
upon 					the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the
inhabited places 					of the country.

		(14) 	I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains
of 						Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good
fold, and in 						a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of
Israel.

		(15) 	I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith
the 						Lord GOD.

	Now, what we're looking at here, "the flock of God, the sheep of God,"
are all those that have been baptized with the Holy Ghost. "For my sheep
know my Voice, and I give unto them Eternal Life, and they shall never
perish." [Jn 10:27-28]

15.	 In [Ezekiel 34:] verses 22 and reading on:

		(22) 	Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a
prey; 						and I will judge between cattle and cattle.

	Now, you can see right there, you've got one place, you got a flock of
sheep, next place you got cattle. Could that refer to the White Throne
Judgment, the judging between?

		(23) 	And I will set up one shepherd over them, (now notice) I will
set 						up on shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my
servant 					David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.

	Now, He said, "I'm going to set up my shepherd over them," and that's
exactly true, because even after the White Throne Judgment when the new
heavens and the earth are created, and New Jerusalem is set up, Jesus in
on the Throne over the Pyramidal City and the Pillar of Fire, the Holy
Spirit veiled is over Him, and He is that greater David.

		(25) 	And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause
the 						evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell
safely in 						the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

		(26) 	And I will make them and the places round about my hill a
blessing; 					and I will cause the shower to come down in his season;
(and) shall						 be showers of blessing.

		(27) 	And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth
shall yield 					her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and
shall know that 					I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of
their yoke, and 						delivered them out of the hand of those that
served themselves of them.

		(28) 	And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall
the beast 					of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and
none shall 					make them afraid.

		(29) 	And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall
be no 					more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame
of the 					heathen any more.

		(30) 	Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and
					that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord
GOD.

		(31) 	…ye my flock, [omit] the flock of my pasture, are men, and I
am your God, 				saith the Lord GOD.

	Now, you see there is no difference between the Old and the New.
They're simply one God [correction] Who is Spirit and Who is named to us
today as the Lord Jesus Christ, and that is the One Who gives us of His
Spirit, and therefore comes. And He said, "In that day you will know
that I am in the Father, and you in Me." And He who previously said, "I
and My Father are one," is letting us know that when that One comes we
have all the measure of God that God is able to, and desirous of giving
of Himself, and when we are baptized with the Holy Ghost.

16.	Now, [correction] we go to the Book of John chapter 10:15, and Jesus
said here, 

		(15) 	As the Father knoweth me, even so I know the Father: and I lay 	
				down my life for the sheep.

		(16) 	And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them must I	
				bring, they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and 		
			one shepherd.

	Now see, that's what Ephesians says. That's what we read over there in
Ephesians [2:] 18-22. God has made a way through Christ. So, there's
going to be actually one group of people in the Millennium who will
evidently constitute at the end time when all time is consummated, the
New Jerusalem.

17.	Now, going back to Ephesians 3:1-12

		(1) 	For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you
Gentiles,

	Notice the word 'Gentiles' now, he's gone left the thought of the Jews
in chapter 2.

		(2) 	If (you) have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which
is 					given me to you-ward:

		(3) 	How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I 	
				wrote in few words afore,

		(4) 	Whereby, when (you) read, (you) may understand my knowledge in 		
		the mystery of Christ)

		(5) 	Which in other (generations) was not made known unto the sons of 
				men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by
the 					Spirit;

	Now, that verse gives you a key, that there is a difference in the
depths of revelation, in the ages. That's exactly why Bro. Branham came
and simply gave us a greater depth of the same revelation, or the same
Message that has been all through the ages. As Bro. Branham said, "This
Message we preach is no different from Luther's, or from Wesley's, or
the Pentecostal's. What it is, Luther outshone the Catholics, and Wesley
outshone Luther, and the Pentecostal's outshone Wesley, so this Message
outshines all others."  You see, it's the depth of the revelation.

	People try to challenge us on that, but they're entirely wrong. Because
It says right here, "That which is in the Word, and already was there,
was previously known, but not know as It was in that hour. And what was
known in that hour was not known today as It's known in this hour,
because It's far greater." (You see.)

18.	 Now, people can say what they want, but I'm sorry for them, they
just don't know their Bible. And that revelation at that time, was:  

		(6)	 …the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and 
					partakers of his promise in Christ…(notice, you've got to be in
Him) 					by the gospel:

		(7) 	Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace
of 					God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.

		(8)	Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace
given, 					that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable
riches of 						Christ;

		(9) 	And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery,
which 					from (before times eternal had) been hid in God, who created
all things 					(in)  Christ:

		(10) 	To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in
heavenly 					places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of
God,

		(11) 	According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ
Jesus 					our Lord:

	In other words, the whole thing, the whole blue-print, the whole life,
everything was in Jesus Christ, and the whole manifestation comes into
the Bride, and they stand back and say, "Look at that great God that did
that thing." (See?)

		(12) 	In whom we have boldness and access with confidence…

	That word 'boldness' in the Greek is 'parrhesia', comes right up and
talks to God. That's what the Blood does for us. Legalism has so
destroyed our understanding of faith and access by the Blood and what
the Holy Ghost has done by His baptism that we are
absolutely…brother/sister, listen, I expect God to breathe on this
church of valley of dry bones before it's over; and set the church on
fire with revelation. Not anything else, but a revelation. Because if a
man ever starts burning by a revelation, he'll either burn out, or burn
clean to heaven, I don't care which every way he goes, revelation is the
key to everything. Even a bad revelation is better than no revelation.
If you got no revelation, you're dead. You got a punk revelation at
least you're on your way. I won't say where, but a revelation is
something. Thank God for people who just don't stand around and pick
their noses, but do something.

19.	All right, you can see a picture here, notice especially reading on
in verses 13-15.

 		(13) 	Wherefore I desire that (you) faint not at my tribulations for
you, 						which is your glory.

		(14) 	For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus 
					Christ,

		(15) 	Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, (See?)

	Now, each Scripture here that I've read points to the fact that God
came into this world in a human body that He prepared Himself. And that
was the same God that was in the Pillar of Fire. And that same God has
worked out a plan from all ages that has manifested in human flesh, and
there is one God, and there is no more than one God, for as Jesus
Himself said in John 4:24, that the Lord is a Spirit, that there is just
one God, (and He's a Spirit) and over here in Ephesians 4, we read,
"there's one body, one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of
your calling."

	Now, you see what I'm trying to show you, "the hope of the calling" is
identical. God as made of one people in Jesus Christ, well, a Bride,
Eternal sons for the Millennium. Which will eventually end up as the New
Jerusalem. So, here we are at a point where we can say that God, (and
there's only one God) Who is Holy Spirit, Who never changes has entered
into a union with individual members of a corporate body; making a
temple unto Himself of each member and all members together as a whole.

20.	Now, we have an advantage over the Old Testament believers, because
we have an absolute baptism with the Holy Ghost the individual they
didn't have. But as they look forward to Him, and what measure of Spirit
they had places them identical with us. There is no difference, but It's
the one God.

	So, we ask, what happened at that union when God incarnated Himself
thus? Now, you see we saw God, one Holy Spirit incarnated Himself. The
same One that dealt with Israel, dealt no different  than with us,
except in and a more exclusive measure. But It's the same God, and it
comes to the same thing. The whole family in heaven and earth is named
in Him. We are one, and there is an Old Testament Bride and a New
Testament Bride. And it is one. It is the same God. There are not two
gods, there are not three gods, It is one God. And that God in Jesus
said, "I'm going to go back to where I was. You're going to see me taken
away, but I'm going to come back again. And when I come back, I want you
know that I and My Father both are indwelling you." Why? Because God was
in that One Who spoke forth. Not two gods, one God. 

21.  So, when God came down He incarnated Himself in the individuals in
the Vertical in order to incarnated Himself in a horizontal which would
be one body which Scripture speaks of. And we ask ourselves what
happened? Well, many things happened. But the major effect of that union
the great primary necessity was to bring Eternal Life to the individual,
and through It bring into manifestation all that lies in that Life. Now,
that's exactly what It does.

	Now, you cannot view yourself in the light of that statement and say
that every single thing that is in there comes into manifestation in the
hour in which we live. The potential lies there, but the actual
manifestation could go for many, many ages down the road. Because in
Christ is the Resurrection, and there's not one of us resurrected. In
Christ is immortality, we haven't got immorality. In Christ is reigning
and ruling, we haven't got it. In Christ is sitting on the Throne, we
haven't got it. In Christ is standing as witnesses before the whole
world, we haven't got it. It's there in a potential. 

22.	  So, when I make my statement concerning the Vertical that you and
I are joined to Him, that in the horizontal manifest in flesh, all that
lies in there is going to be manifested. Now, maybe you never caught it,
but I read it to you and I tried to explain it to you. And It says right
here, "And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery,
which from before times eternal, hath been hid in God, who created all
things by Jesus Christ: To the intent that now unto the principalities
and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold
wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose," [Eph 3:9-11a] will
there be a constant unfolding of God in a Bride, I believe it never
ceases brother/sister. 

	So, don't get ahead of yourselves looking for some perfection down
here, when perfection in the flesh starts on the other side of the
Resurrection and in immortality. But my statement holds good, that that
Eternal Life that we have, which is God in human flesh was meant to
manifest even in Jesus the entire manifestation was not there. But it's
been progressing all the way through. (See?)  He couldn't be Redeemer
until He died upon Calvary. He stood there as a potential Lamb of God. 
He was there as Messiah, but He's not their Messiah yet. He's going to
come back as David, reigning upon the Throne. So, the full potential
that is in God is in the Bride in the due season to be manifested. 

23.	 Now, this does not necessarily mean when I talk about the Life of
God, when God gives His Life to individuals, this does necessarily mean
that the Bride ever becomes God. There is no place in Scripture where
the Bride ever becomes God. But all that God is has not become available
to her. That's the beautiful part of it. Let's just take a thought here
about why the Bride never becomes God. 

	All right, the Bride never becomes God, because God gives her His Life.
He does not give her Himself defused so that He is no longer an entity
knowledgeable full of wisdom, and those virtues that He has started
with. 

	Now, let's take the biological picture that's man. All right, the male
sperm takes fifteen thousand to lay across the diameter of a single
strand of hair. Fifteen thousand. The male ejaculate over one life time,
(I don't know, I can't believe these figures myself, unless this fellow
is very remarkable, he's got these figures somewhere) but it's supposed
literally go, literally millions of miles into space.

24.	Now, the female, (now Bro. Branham made a little mistake on what he
called the female sperm, it's a female ovum) he said, "they're
millions." They're aren't millions, there's about a quarter million I
think, two-hundred  and forty, fifty thousand. But the woman is not the
important one in the picture, because she merely has the bedding ground
for the life. The male has the life. 

	One male is more than able through the sperm that's in him over the six
thousand years to have had people standing on each other's shoulders,
maybe miles deep. Now, let's just say that one man fathered every single
person. Six billion people, (no there's not that many, there's four
billion people in the world) let's not talk about Adam, let's  just say
that one man stood here tonight and he was the father of every single
one of those four billion. Those four billion children would still not
be the father, just children. Neither does the Bride become God. (Uh uh)


	We can be baptized with Christ's Spirit, but we never become His head.
That's why the church can never take the place of Christ the Word. I
don't care how much she thinks she's got a God, or how much she thinks
she's got, you've got to stay with that Headship, which is Christ the
revealed Word, which is the Headship of this hour. So, no matter that
the Bride has in her all which is in God potentially as per
manifestation, she never becomes God. No siree. God doesn't delegate
Himself that way. They are His children.

25.	 Now, we want to consider exactly how this baptism with the Holy
Ghost, this union with God brings Eternal Life. Now, first of all we're
going to read over here in Romans 5: to get a pretty good picture of it.
And I want… I'm taking this very slow, I've introduced first of all to
the under-standing that the One is God, very God, not two or three. And
this very God's Life is in us, and we never become Him, and He doesn't
become us. He only became us in human flesh, that we might become Him as
He is, in that same flesh.  

	And now we talk about that union He gives us of His Spirit. God gave us
of His Spirit, of Himself. And His Own Life is in us to manifest in our
age and the ages to come exactly what lies in Him, and which is to be
exposed at that due hour.

	All right, reading now Romans 5:12

		(12) 	Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death
by 						sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have
sinned:

	Now, already…now you'll notice here, that It says the death is there
because we sinned. This is exactly why Bro. Branham could say without
fear that no baby dies unregenerate. The Blood of Jesus Christ stands
there for every baby, and not one is lost, because It says, "all have
sinned." [Rom 3:23] I don't care if you're born a sinner or not, if
you're unaccountable you won't be judged. Because you're a baby, or a
little tiny tot. Then later on where there's no Gospel and no Light, you
will not be judged according to the light that you and I know. That's
exactly why America is going to get the atomic bomb. That's why America
was excoriated by the prophet.

26.	 Let's face it, this country of ours is still the best in the world.
And I speak of the North American continent. I haven't been in as many
places as Bro. Guenther's been, but he's not been to India yet and some
of those more gross place where you see the rawer types of heathenism,
and what idolatry has done. But let me tell you flat, there isn't any
place as great as North America, especially United States.  Oh, why are
they going to be bombed? Why are they going to be destroyed?  Because
the prophet was there, the Light struck. (See?)

	Now, where's there's no Gospel they can't be judged by It. (See?) But,
they're all sinned here, and death passes upon every single one, they're
sinners. Now:

		(13) 	For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed
(where)					there is no law.

	Notice what It says: "If there's no law, sin is not imputed." How can
you impute sin, how can you tell a man he did wrong making a u-turn out
there, there's no law that says you can't make a         u-turn?  (See?)

27.	Now:

		(14) 	Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them 		
			that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, 			
		who is the figure of him that was to come.

	Now, you see the law came with Moses, when God begin to pinpoint
things, (Now reading on.)

		(15) 	But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through
the 						offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and 	
				the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded 
				unto many.

	Now,  what as I told you here what he's doing, he is examining the
mountains of sin, compare to the mountains of grace, and he said they
just don't compare. They just don't compare. There's no way you can
compare it. How can you compare a flea to an elephant?  Well, I guess
maybe you could maybe try to figure it out, if you got it down to
milligrams, and that would be a tremendous comparison. And you go
further, how are you going to compare a flea to all the universes,
where's there's no comparison? How are you going to compare sin to
grace? You can't do it. So, therefore there lies a greater grace in God
then anybody's dared to believe. 

28.	So, that's why the prophet came along and preached the White Throne
judgment over there in Matthew 25, they couldn't get it, because they
don't know the grace of God. You know what? You hit me, and I'll slap
you back, though I'll hit you twice as hard, so you won't be able to hit
me back again. That's man. But here, there's a comparison. And there's
no comparison. Because he says, "Not as it was."  Verse 16,

		(16) 	And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift:…

	You can't compare Adam to Jesus. You look around and you read the
history books and see what Adam brought upon this world, and you cannot
even begin to estimated by comparison what Jesus has brought and will
bring. "For eye hath not seen, nor hear heard, neither have entered the
heart of man, what God's prepared." [1 Cor 2:9]  And the revelation we
have is a bear smattering. It's a bear smattering by faith. I'm
convinced the Millennium tremendous and wonderful thing. All I can do is
tell you, that's what I'm convinced about. And I get it from the fact
that only the Bride is going to be in it. And then from the eternal ages
on, the rest of the redeemed are going to be outside, they'll share too.
 What lies in the Millennium and in New Jerusalem? I want to ask you, I
don't know. You know why I don't know?  There's no way to know. 

	Oh, my mind staggers, because it knows something is there. See, there's
no comparison, because the revelation is so minute. All we can do is
just say a little bit of what God said about it. There's no way to
compare. (See?)

29.	What now?   

		(16)	…(it's) for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the
free 						gift is of many offences unto justification.

	Here's a man comes along with a mountain of sin, and God doesn't
recognize any sin at all, declares the fellow righteous. Notice, but,
"the free gift is of many offences unto justification."  Listen, one
man's sin brought death to the whole world. 

	Now, one Man's gift, Christ (see?) turns around and takes all that can
turn around, (if He so desires) and take all the offences and it sweeps
not to death, but to life! That boggles your mind! You know why? Because
God is not a man. He told us, I don't think like you, I don't do like
you. (See?) 

		(17)	For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they 
					which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness 	
				shall reign in life…

	We're reigning in life. You say, "I don't understand it." Who cares if
you don't worrying anyway. See, there's lots of things you cannot simply
understand. And the harder you pick and try to analyzing the further you
get for it. Just believe it. 

		(17)	…(I'm) reigning in life by one, Christ Jesus. (So, everything
shut-up.)

	That's Abraham, "I'm the father on nations," If you don't like it, drop
dead. God said do. Mind your own business get out of my hair. Don't like
what I say, get away, don't listen to me. Shut up, beat it. Don't fool
with me.

		(18) 	Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to
						condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift
came 					upon all men unto justification of life.

	See, what the Blood of Jesus Christ can do in the baptism with the Holy
Ghost? There is no way a person can ever come into judgment, or be lost.
No way. (See?) Now, get you minds renewed.

30.	You know, I'm going to tell you why you're scared, you still got
that old bogey-man of eternal security. I was talking to some people
down there in… the Carolinas, and this woman (you know) she was the
yappy one,  he was the husband, but she had the big mouth for the two of
them. He had enough brains to keep his trap shut. So, she jumped me
about Bro. Branham, eternal security. "As a girl I'm going to tell you
something, get this straight, (I said) you talk like the rest of the
Pentecostal's, if I believe in eternal security I'd would be sinning." I
said, "Put your finger on Bunyan, put your finger on Fox, put your
finger on Spurgeon, put your finger on …?..., and on Taylor and of
Bro. Branham, (I said) not one book ever withstood the test of time
written by a legalist. Not one man, was a great outstand Christian
outside of a man that believed in eternal security."  I shut her up but
good, and I shut him up too. He had it coming.

	God made the prophet ride with that man on a bus, and Bro. Branham
wasn't in too good of health, all worn out, …?... from Toledo all the
way down to Louisville to talk to that man. And he turned down the Light
of the hour. To hide behind a critical Wesleyan, Pentecostal negative
Armenian doctrine that you can get lost.

31.	Now, let me tell you the truth: Bro. Branham said, "In the Presence
of Christ, a man will not curse. In the Presence of Christ a man will
not smoke, he will not drink, he will behave himself."  And people don't
even know the Presence of Christ is there baptized with the Holy Ghost
giving them eternal security, they think it's just an experience. God is
not an experience! I am not an experience! You are not an experience,
let's get that straight. And if we weren't a bunch of backslidden
legalist tonight, (I'll lay it right on the line) because I'm going to
read you like a book, I'm going to read myself like a book) we'd be
walking in the holy of holies where we really are, because Christ is in
us, and we are in Christ. And every thought will be brought into
captivity. Just like this as reigning by One, and we're still doing it,
because He's the One that's reigning taking us through. 

	But when you don't recognize the Presence, you'll do anything. And when
you haven't got the Presence you'll do anything. You'll lie, and commit
adultery and everything else and say you believe in the Message. I can
slap pretty hard, and I'm doing it, and I'm not going to stop doing it.
It 's about time the Bride begin to wake up, the God is not a liar, but
everyone of us here is a liar. A stinking, snoopy, rotten, sneaky,
chiseling liar in the flesh. But in the Spirit, not one difference
between God, because our righteousness is of Him, and we are His
righteousness, because we are in Christ.

32.	See, that's why I keep on pressing. Begin to confess that you are
one with Him, and one with each other. Because if you and I don't begin
to recognizing and building it up by our confession, it's going to be
the same old story year after year. Now, I don't like to quote people,
because you can quote them and they may not quote you right. Bro.
Neville told Bob Taylor, Bro. Branham told him on more than one occasion
as far as I know, that the Bride could wander for forty years if she
didn't smarten up. This is the mind age brother/sister, let's get it.
The eye is the last moving part, which was the prophet. There's only one
thing for the mind to absorb, and it's the renewing of the mind as I
said the other night, it's going to put us right into immortality. You
can believe what you want, but that is the Bible.

	You begin believing this through all these little kinky things about
this dividing us that go right by the board. You know why? I'll tell you
what's wrong, people won't see what I'm trying to preach tonight, so
they cover it up. "Well, you got to believe this about Bro. Branham, or
that about the Lord, or that about something else, or this or that, or
the other thing. You see, you're covering up." (Phfft! Fap! Uh?) Well,
we honest, come on. You want to go home now? You can if you want, if
you're man enough to go home, go ahead, I don't give a rip. It might
bother …?..., but it won't bother me any. I'm not trying to cut your
throat, I'm cutting mine as hard as I'm cutting yours.

 	But listen, brother/sister, I'm up here knowing a few more things then
you know, or I had better not up here. Because a teacher is supposed to
be able to teach others. And I get around this world, and I get along a
whole lot more for wandering, I just prefer to stay home and just sit
back and watch.  Bro. Branham didn't go on running around the world, he
thought he could get in the wilderness then come in, but God stopped him
doing that.

33.	Now listen here:

		(19) 	…by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the 	
				obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

	In other words, that day is coming when you and I will be perfect in
everything, because there is nothing there that would breed an
imperfection. Nothing in us, and nothing around us that could cause a
distortion.

		(21) 	That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign 	
				through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ...

	You say, "Why does he say might?" Because though this is written to
everybody to read,            everybody doesn't get it. But where they
get it, it reigns and the reigning is by One Christ Jesus.   In other
words there is nothing, nothing any place in Scripture that ever
suggests after you and I are full of the Holy Ghost, that our life is
anything but the Life of God. "I have been crucified with Christ,:
nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me, the life that I
now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave
Himself for me." [Gal 2:20] A complete substitution.

 	 Now, it is evident that Adam's act brought death. It is evident that
Jesus' act brought life. It is evident that Jesus' death on Calvary
opened the door to Eternal Life, even as Adam's act opened the door to
death.  Now remember, death is separation, and life is union. That's
right. Death is separation, and life is union. No union, no life. No
life, no union. (See?) Redemption is to buy back. So the Blood bought us
back, so we can be joined. (See?)

34.	Now, we go back to the beginning, we're talking now especially of
life. That's what we said, when God came in, what was the major thing
that union did? It gave us  Eternal Life. And I'm using  those terms the
way you learned them, and the way I've learned them. If I preached the
way Bro. Branham preached it, I'd have to change about everything I'm
saying, but I'm trying to adapt it with our own theology and still stay
with the Message. And I think I've got something to read to you after a
little bit here. And show you why I made that statement.

	We go to Genesis 2:15-17

		(15) 	And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of 		
			Eden to dress it and keep it.

		(16) 	And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of 			
		the garden thou mayest freely eat:

		(17) 	But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt
not eat 					of it: for the day (of the eating) thereof (dying) thou
(doest) surely 						die. (Now, that's what He said.)

35.	 Genesis 3:17-19

		(17) 	And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the
voice 					of thy wife, and hast eaten (now, the first thing was
harkenening, 						then there was eating. If you noticed in  God's Word
you can't eat						 any. This is somebody else's word, you eat
that)…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 thou wast taken: for dust thou art,
and unto dust 					shalt thou return.

	Now, let's face it, Adam was not all taken out of the ground. For the
breath that God breathed into Adam's nostrils was not from the ground,
it was from God. It was the Holy Ghost. And as the old poet said, "It
was not said concerning the soul, you return to the dust."  Because a
soul taken out of the dust, it was spoken to Adam, the physical
structured Adam that identified and manifested that which was within.

36.	 Now, Genesis 3:22-24

		(22) 	And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, 	
				to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, (not his
					soul now, but the soul and spirit, the life within the man put
forth the 					hand and the body) and take also of the tree of life, and
eat, and live 					for ever: (That's what He said, "Live forever.")

		(23) 	Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden,
to 					till the ground from whence he was taken.

	Now look it, he wasn't allowed to take of the Tree and eat of it, and
thereby live, he wouldn't have to work anymore. He wouldn't have to eat
anymore. He said, "Get out there in the garden and you weed out there by
working until you drop dead. But you can't have This." So, he couldn't
have It. Right? 

		(24) 	So he drove (drove him) out; and he placed at the east of the
garden 					of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every
way, to 					keep the way of the tree of life.

37.	Genesis 5:5

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

	Now, you will notice that Adam denied immortality for one reason only.
He was denied immortality one reason only, [Genesis 3:] verse 22.

		(22) 	…Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and
evil:…		

	He was now an admixture. He never was righteous, but he's not longer
innocent. He flunk the test of the law, the penalty comes. Now, there's
no way to get out of the penalty. He knows good and evil. He's got sin
in there. Now, that's the reason he can't go to that Tree and live
forever, because God will not let that man live in that state,  because
it's the wrong state live in. Man was not created to live in that state.
That's why we hunger and thirst after righteousness. That's why God
said, "The man that hungers and thirsts shall be filled." [Mt 5:6] Deep
calleth to the deep."   [Ps 47:2] "My heart panteth after…as the hart
panteth after the water brook." [Ps 42:1] Now, as     I said the reason
he couldn't take of the Tree was he would have lived forever in that
state. He couldn't do it. (See?) He could not be immortal there.

38.	Now notice, immortality and eternality lay right there already.
(Uh?) Yes, immortality and eternality lay there already in that state.
But if something happens to the state, then it's perfect. But if nothing
happens to the state, then the state keeps apart forever. (See?) But he
was cut off, just like It says in Romans 5. We read It. 

	He died short of a thousand years, so he didn't fill his day. That's
over in 2 Peter 3:8, "The day of the Lord is a thousand years." But, his
death was not annihilation. He merely left his body, that's what went to
the dust. 

39.	Let's find out, Luke 16:19-26

		(19) 	There was a certain rich man, clothed in purple and fine linen,
and 						fared sumptuously…  

		(20)	 …a certain beggar named Lazarus, laid at his gate, full of
sores,

		(21) 	…desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich
man's 					table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

		(22) 	And it came to pass, that the beggar died, carried…into
Abraham's 						bosom: the rich died, was buried;

		(23) 	And in hell (the rich man) lift up his eyes, being in torments,
(seeing) 					Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

		(24) 	…he said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, 
					that he may dip his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am 	
				tormented in this flame.

		(25) 	(And) Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime
(received) 					good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: now
(you're tormented 					and ) he is comforted.  (All right, that
illustrates it.) 

40.	 And if you want to just use that as a parable that's fine by me,
I'm going to take you to the Word of God where It puts it point blank, 2
Corinthians 5:1-3.

		(1) 	For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were 			
		dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with 					
hands, eternal in the heavens.

		(2) 	For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with 
					our house which is from heaven:

	In other words, nobody leaves here to float around like a wisp of a
cloud. You're an legitimate person, and a spirit form, and you go pick a
spirit body. You're not annihilated, as least at that time. You don't
cease your being, at least at that time. (See?)

41.	 All right, 1 Peter 3:18-20

		(18) 	For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust,
that he 					might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but
quickened 					by the Spirit:

		(19) 	By which also (the spirit) he went and preached unto the spirits
in 						prison;

		(20) 	Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of
God 					waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing,
wherein few, 					that is, eight souls were saved by water.

	It tells you right there they're living, those people that died during
the flood are still living. They're somewhere, not a good place, but
they're somewhere.

42.	 Now, before we go further, let us note something very important in
the study of words that are the heart and soul of this subject, and
those two words concern man, and Eternal Life.

	Now, the words in the Hebrew for 'life',  and the words in the Hebrew
'forever', (which is eternal) are the same words used to describe both
God and man. Now, just follow what I am saying. We're in the subject of
'Eternal Life'. God giving It to man.

	Now, when you look at those words in the Hebrew and the Greek, the
words of life, (l-i-f-e) forever or eternal, (e-t-e-r-n-a-l) you use the
identical word, not a different word when you talk about God as you talk
about a man. Now let's prove it.

43.	We're going to go to 2 Kings 19: 4 and 16. Are you following me what
I'm saying so far? I'll maybe break it down later and try to help you. I
jump a little back and forth, but I got to do it on purpose, the only
way I can do it. Now, in 2 Kings 19:4 and 16, watch those words:

		(4) 	It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, 
				whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living
					God; (what kind of a God? Living God) and will reprove the words 		
		which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer 					
for the remnant that are left.

	In verse 16, 

		(16) 	LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: LORD, open thine eyes, and 	
			see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to 					
reproach the living God.

	Two places, the word 'living God'. 

44.	Okay, let's go to 1 Kings 3:22. This is old Solomon with the two
harlots that had children. (Had the baby I think it is.) All right:

		(22) 	And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the
						dead is thy son. And (the other woman) said, No; the dead is thy 	
				son, and the living is my son….  

	The word 'living' concerning the little baby that's maybe a couple of
days old, is the exact word that used concerning the Eternal God. There
is no difference, it is the one and the same word.

45.	Now, let's go to Genesis 3:22

		(22) 	And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, 	
				to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take
					also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

	That's the word, is also translated 'eternal', means from the ages to
the ages. Eons to the eons.

 	All right, let's go to Psalms 102:12. (Now, I could get all kinds of
other verses, but these suit me just fine.)  [end of side one - most
likely missed verse 12  on the turn over]

		(12) 	But thou, O LORD, shall endure for ever; and thy remembrance
unto					all generations.

	Acts 17:25

		(25) 	Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any 
					thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

	Compare that to…take 1 Corinthians 15:19, and we'll swing back to
John again.

		(19) 	If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men
most 						miserable.

	Go to John 5:26

		(26) 	For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the
Son to 					have life in himself; (Zoe, no difference whatsoever. No
difference.)

	Ephesians 4:18

		(18) 	Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life
						of God…(alienated from the Life of God) through ignorance that 	
				is in them, because of the blindness of their heart(s):

	That word is 'zoe', no difference. I know Dr. Bosworth and Bro. Branham
said the same thing. Every time that word 'zoe' comes up is 'eternal
life'. That may be true, but you go to your vocabulary, what is
zoeology? Zoe, the start of your life. …?... and all the rest of them
use that root word is simply life as we know it. (Right?) Same word
describes God, describes man.

46.	Now, what I'm doing is putting Genesis 3:22-24 in its right
perspective. Let's go back and see Genesis 3:22-24.

		(22) 	And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is one of us, to know 			
		good and evil: now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the 	
				tree of life, (which would be zoe in the Greek) and eat, and live
for 					ever: (ages to ages, eons to eons, I got to stop him doing it.)

	Because in that form it was possible and should have been. Ah ha, it
wasn't the form, it was what was in the form and the conditions. (See?)

	Now listen, to us therefore as Christians full of the Holy Ghost,
Eternal Life is not the ability of an entity, or some living thing to
live without an end, but it is specifically restoration to Eden in a
physical form. That's what it is. It's actually you cannot separate
eternality and immortality, it won't work. (See?)

47.	Let's go to Revelation 22:14. Now, you know what that is, way back
there in that last chapter, and It said:

		(14) 	Blessed are they that (wash their robes,) that they may have
right to 					the tree of (zoe)…(see? Life of God), life and may enter
in through 					the gates (of) the city.

	In other words, be a part of the coming into the twelve pearly gates.

 	All right, 2 Corinthians 5:1 proves that spiritual man in Christ does
not dissolve, only the body. That's right, we saw that. "If our earthly
body were dissolved we have in heaven one waiting for us eternal." [2
Cor 5:1] 

48.	 Now, we want to realize the depths of this, so we go to 1
Corinthians 15:12-34.

		(12) 	Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say 		
			some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

		(13) 	But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not
risen:

		(14) 	And if Christ be not risen, our preaching vain, and your faith
is vain                          			also.

	Did you hear what I read? If there isn't any resurrection, and Christ
is not raised, where goes your eternal life? Went poof!  Because your
faith is vain, and you're believe unto Eternal Life.

		(15) 	Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we
testified 					of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up,
if so be that 					the dead rise not. (Notice, that's the premise.)

		(16) 	For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:

		(17) 	And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; (you) are yet
in your 						sins.

		(18) 	Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. 	
				(Forget it.)

		(19) 	If in this life only (this here) we have hope (and nothing
beyond there 					with this) we (were the) most miserable (bunch of
people under high 					heaven.)

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

49.	 Now, He is our Life, not He was our life, He is our Life. He's got
a glorified body.

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

		(22) 	For as in Adam all die, even (in identical manner) in Christ
shall all 					be made alive.

		(23) 	But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits;
afterward they 					that are Christ's at his coming. (That's His
Appearing) 

		(24) 	Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom
					to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and 	
				all authority and power.

		(25) 	For he must reign, (he) put all enemies under his feet.

		(26) 	The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

		(27) 	For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all
things 					are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, (or
left out, be 						an exception) which did put all things under him.

	In other words, Jesus, (as Bro. Branham put it) the Lamb is on the
Throne, and the Pillar of Fire is above the Throne. That's exactly
right, or the Fire would be under the Throne. The Fire is over the
Throne. (See?) You follow me? 

50.	 All right,

		(28) 	And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the
Son 						also himself be subject unto him that put all things under
him, that 						God may be all in all.

	Now see, that's a further revelation right there that's unfolding. We
haven't got that far yet, but we're going about it. What does it mean?
Well, the best I know is the Pillar of Fire is over the Throne, "and
before we call He answers." [Isa 65:24]  That's good enough for me. I
don't have to go any further. See, I'm very satisfied to look at what is
given me now. I don't have to look down the road and guess this, and
guess that, guess the other thing and try to figure this and figure
that. Hogwash!  What's the matter with these people that follow Bro.
Branham's Message? Got to try to figure, figure, figure, figure, figure,
figure. (psheew) Oh well, forget it. [volume decreases]

		(29)   	Else what shall they do (that) are baptized for the dead, if
the dead 						rise not at all? (If Christ is dead we're baptized in His
Name, forget 					it) why are (you) baptized for the dead? 

	We're baptized in the Living One, …?... in His Name, and the living
one in the flesh and the living spirit.

		(30) 	And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?

		(31) 	I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our
Lord, I 						die daily.

		(32) 	If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus,
what 					advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? 

	Oh well Paul, "The thing is you're born again, hallelujah, and you'll
be over there with a lovely time floating around having a great time,
which came on …?..." Satan said, "Shut up."

	Did you hear what I read here? Do you hear what I read? "If I don't
come back here in a resurrected body, forget it," Paul said.  

	"Oh, he, … Paul now…Paul now…now Paul don't get fanatical, bless
God." 

	"No, Paul wants it, because he can have a great time over there just
the same."  

	He didn't say so. 

51.	You know, I like this fellow. He knew the Word and he loved that
Word, he said, "Ain't nothing but the Word for me." I'll make a little
song. Make them pretty word. Make a little song about that, "Ain't
nothing but the Word for me." That's catchy. Bro. Branham had "Only
believe," I'll make my theme, "There's nothing but the Word for me." 
That's the way Paul was. He said, what good did It do? 

		(33) 	Be not deceived: (he said) evil communications corrupt good 				
	manners.

		(34) 	Awake to righteousness, sin not; for some have not the knowledge
						of God…

	You're not born again you talk that way, I speak to …?...  Well, he
said, "You just get born again and that's it." How do you ever, ever,
ever, ever, ever, separate immortality from Eternal Life?  You can't do
it. Not when it comes to you and me.  We can never disassociate Christ,
the Christ Life from immortality. We cannot disassociate immortality and
Eternal Life from manifestation which is coming in the ages, which our
Eternal Life.

52.	 Now, let's take a look at that Life again, rapidly raking
Scripture. Beginning in 1 John 5:11-12, [correction to 1 John] we're
going to get a lot of Scripture here.  [comments omitted]

		(11) 	And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life,
and this 					life is in his Son.

	And listen, what is that Son? Eternity, He's raise, right?  Who alone
has immortality. (See?) "Now, unto the King eternal, immortal,
invisible, the only wise God, be all power…" [1 Tim 1:17] How are you
going to give it immortality? 

		(11) 	…this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life,
and this 						life is in his Son.

		(12) 	He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of
God 						hath not life. (Period.)

	Doesn't have zoe. (See?) He doesn't have that zoe. Well, he's already
got zoe, because it's the same word. You've got to have Christ, or when
you die you could run the dangerous …?... death. I'm talking about the
White Throne judgment, because there's that one place there where a man
can come on further, but there's no place where anybody in the Bride, is
ever anything but a part of the First Resurrection.  Impossible. (Verse
13)

		(13) 	These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of
the 					Son of God; (Now, he said, "I've written these things to you
people 					that believe on the Name of the Son of God, that (you)
might)  have 					(clear conception, that you may know that you have)
eternal life, and 					that (you) may believe on the name of the Son of
God.

53.  In other words, that your believing is not vain. That you that
believe, he said, "I'm instructing you to go deeper, so that you know
that you believing right. (See?) 

	[1 John 4:]

		(13) 	Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he
hath					given us of his Spirit.

	That's exactly what Jesus said, and that, "You know that I'm in the
Father, you in me, and I in you."  [Jn 14:20] And that's what he says
here, [1 John 5:]

		(13)	These things are written unto you that believe in the name of the
						Son of God; that( you) may know that (you've) got eternal life,
(that 					He's dwelling in you, and you in Him.)

	Now, right now let's stop right there. You know brother/sister, you can
wonder if you've got Eternal Life, except you really know that Word
about It.  But did you hear what I read? Well, come on. "Hereby know we
that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his
Spirit." [1 Jn 4:13] That's the baptism with the Holy Ghost, John 14:20.
And that's, "You know that I'm in the Father, you in me, and I in you." 


	And then It says, "These things are written unto you that believe in
the name of the Son of God; that  you may know that you have eternal
life, and that you may believe [correction] on the Name of the Son of
God." [1 Jn 5:13] He tells you right here.

54.  You know, John the Baptist had that happen. He went and he said,
"Hey, there's the Lamb of God,  bless God, I had …?... that's the One,
that's the One." He got thrown in jail, said, "Hey, go an ask that
fellow if He was the right one after all." 

	Won't have time to preach the sermon, but Paul the apostle one day,
"Oh, set on fire, fourteen years..."  Why he talked faster than I did no
doubt. He was a whirling dervish for God. And after …?... said, "Hold
it, hold it, hold it, I think I'll go on to Jerusalem and see if I run
in vain. Could I have made a mistake?" (Uh?)  You feel better, or you
feel worse. I feel better …?...  See, don't be a bunch of
Pentecostal's, if you've got to have tongues and this sign, and that
sign and something else coming. The Word tells you, the prophet lets you
know if you has the Holy Ghost or not, like John did. You follow me?
(Huh?) 

	When I'd say, "Praise the Lord."  Say it: [congregation says it]
"Praise the Lord." Oh, that ain't half good enough, say, 'PRAISE THE
LORD."  [Congregation repeats] "PRAISE THE LORD." Oh, that's a lot
better, but you could still do better than that.	

55.	I'm up here dissolving doubts, and you're sitting there as though
I'm trying to heap them on you. I'm rougher than a cob, I know, but I'm
trying to get the barnacles off  of you. If you get rid of some of your
goofy ideas you can listen and get  somewhere.  All the time looking for
something, all the time looking for something. Look at what you've got! 
Who believes the prophet? Don't say 'Amen', because you might not
believe him. You be always looking back, always looking down the road,
never looking at what's here. (Uh?) 

	Well, don't feel bad, John had his troubles. Paul had his troubles. But
Jesus was perfect. …?... You know, Bro. Branham screamed out, "I'll 
go to that cave, I've got to find out." …?... need to find out, he's
just a man. Lots of fine men. He was a great prophet brother/sister. The
same God that going to raise William Branham, is going to raise us.
That's why I look to God. And I thank God for Bro. Branham, because he
came and let us in on the secret that was here all the time. The baptism
with the Holy Ghost is without sensation, and some physical evidence.
Because John had to come right behind and say, "I'll let you know
whether you really got Him or not." And when Bro. Branham preached it,
they said, "Oh, heaven forbid this is …?..."  And heaven didn't
forbid, because it was the truth as it was in God.

	Well, praise the Lord, you better leave.  Shall we go home now? I feel
so good, why preach anymore.  How about we sing a little song: "We're
Marching to Zion." [Congregation sings]

56.  Now, listen you aren't going anywhere without that glorified body.
(See?) You're not going to make that without Eternal Life. Because that
City fills the Temple of the Living God. And the Light is the Life of
the Living God. (See?)

	All right, let's go further, [1 John] 4:15, 	 

		(14) 	And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to
be 						the Saviour of the world.

	Didn't we see the same thing in our day? 

57.	All right 1 John 5:1

		(1) 	Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and 
					every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is
begotten 					of him.

	In other words, the Vertical and the horizontal. If we all could listen
tonight, ever person says he believes Bro. Branham could listen to what
I have said tonight and shows you what the prophet said was right here
in the Word, we'd just automatically love each other, because the
Vertical goes to the horizontal. But the people  stopped the Vertical,
because they want their own horizontal, and  …?... got to see it my
way. We got so much Pentecostal and latter-rain amongst us it's pitiful.
Bro. Branham says …?..., but he said, "It's ninety-nine percent truth
that's the most damming idea. [very low audio] 

58.	 All right 1 John 5:8

		(8) 	…there are three that bear witness in earth,[correction] the
Spirit, and the water, 				and the blood: and these three agree in one.
(We have Him)

		(9) 	If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater:
for 						this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.

		(10) 	He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself:
he 					that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he
believeth not 					the record that God gave of his Son.

	Right down here, we see the very proof of life, it's always zoe, it's
always the same thing,  first to human life, ordinary. (verse 20) 

		(20) 	And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an
under-					standing, (the Holy Spirit came back) that we may know him
that is 					true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus
Christ. (And) 					this is the true God, and eternal life.

	That's why Bro. Branham said, "The revelation was the new birth. You
can't separate, because you're in the Son, we have that revelation. Now
listen, "We know that the Son of God is come," came back in a Pillar of
Fire at the end time, and has given us an understanding, there was far
beyond an understanding, that John had, because the Book was sealed up.
And in this day the Book is open.

59.	Now, as we go to 2 John 7, and It says:

		(7) 	For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not 		
			that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an 			
		antichrist.

	And notice, he said, "Is come in the flesh." That's the Vertical of the
individual, to the horizontal out here, but it's also a manifestation in
a prophet. The very end time.

	[Now:] 1 John 2:23

		(23) 	(Who) denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father:…

	Now, let's go to Matthew 10:32  (The expanded version)	

		(32)	Everyone therefore such a character, he will confess me before 		
			men in the realization of him, testimony of his oneness with me, 				
	I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven, and 					
the realization of testimony of my oneness with him. (See?)

60.	 Now, with that John 11:25-26

		(25) 	Jesus said… I am the resurrection, and the life: he that
believeth 						in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

		(26) 	And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
Believest 					thou this?

	Now, He said, "You'll never die." Now, the body has to go, but that
body brother/sister never actually does go, anymore than the soul and
the spirit goes. Because wherever God's Holy Spirit has touch that atom,
that cell in our body, even go to gasses, God will bring that body back.
Not the same body you've got now, but one that's exactly identical in
another structure, because it has been brought by the Holy Ghost, not by
the wind. You'll come back. Not somebody else.

61.	Romans 8:2

		(2) 	For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus (where is that
life? It's 					in Christ Jesus) hath made me free from the law of sin
and death.

	[Verses] 10-11

		(10)	And if Christ be in the body is dead because of sin; but the
Spirit is 					life because of righteousness.

		(11) 	But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead
dwell in 						you, (I just told you) he that raised up Christ from the
dead shall  						quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that (dwells)
in you.

	You are His redeemed body, soul and spirit. You are sanctified, body,
soul and spirit. You are one with God's body, soul and spirit. Yes sir,
joined right back to God.

	[Verses] 22-23

		(22) 	For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in
pain 					together until now.

		(23) 	And not only they, but ourselves, which have the firstfruits of
the 						Spirit, (and first fruits means, you're going to be just like
Jesus 						physically) even we ourselves groan within ourselves,
waiting for 						the adoption, the redemption of our body.

62.	 [Now,] 2 Corinthians 5:1-5, I read It. And Ephesians, I'll just
read 1:13-14, which you already know. 

		(13) 	In whom (you) also trusted, (and) heard the word of truth, the
gospel 					of your salvation: in whom also after that (you) believed,
(you're) 						sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

		(14) 	Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of
the 						purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

	Now, you can see more clearly now. Now listen, brother/sister, you can
see more clearly why Bro. Branham preached in 'Christ the Mystery of
God', he preached three things: God revealed, God in pre-eminence, God
restoring you back to Eden. (Right?) Three things. You can see therefore
from this Message preached the way I preach it tonight. That, when Bro.
Branham preached 'Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed', one third of
the great plan of God was to restore fallen Eve to Eden where he said,
"Don't let him touch that Tree and stay there forever in that
condition." Because He wouldn't. Plagued by the devil, maybe sick, but
gone on, and on, and on, and on, and on. It was a condition that had to
be removed. [omit]

	If a scientist today, could take out of your body the sentence of
death, you go on, and on, and on, and on, and on. But God couldn't. But
you will, because you were made in that image, to come back and go on,
and on, and on, and on. Because redemption lies in three parts. You've
got two already, you spirit and your soul, it's your body yet to be
redeemed, but it's under the sentence. You hear what I said? It's under
the sentence you got to come back of …?... 

63.	Now, Bro. Branham said, "In Him is the Millennium." For if He is the
Resurrection and the Life,  you cannot separate the two of them, because
they're both components of Him. And when He said to her, "I am the
Resurrection and the Life," you cannot have one of those without the
other. So, Eternal Life cannot be separated from the resurrection body.
It is all in Him, and we Him, and now we are all things. Even to the New
Jerusalem, for there is where the Tree of Life ends up in Revelation
21:22-27 [corrected] and 22:1-2.  Revelation 21:22-27.

		(22) 	And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the 	
				Lamb are the temple of it.

		(23) 	…the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to
shine: 						for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the
light thereof.

		(24) 	…the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light
of it: 						the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into
it. (See, 						that's in the great City where we are, the Bride.)

		(25) 	And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: (there'll)
be no night					there.

		(26) 	…they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.

		(27) 	And…in no wise…any thing that (defiles, enter in, (works)
abomination,  					(makes) a lie: but they which are written in the
Lamb's book of life.

	Only the Bride's there: [Revelation 22:]  

		(1) 	And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal,
						proceeding out of the throne of God…

		(2) 	In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the
river, was 						there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of
fruits, and yielded 					her fruit every month: and the leaves of the
tree were for the healing 					of the nations. (See? And there's no more
curse, for the Lamb of God 					on the Throne is there.) 

	Now, this is what happened when the Spirit came. Even the future, I
mean this is already identified as ours, no problem, even as the future
is already passed as we saw in, (oh, you can read It there,) "In whom He
justified, them He also glorified."  [Rom 8:30] (See?) It's already
written.

64.	 So, as in previous messages we see that when the Holy Spirit comes
and unites the seed with Christ, the Seal, or guarantees of the
Resurrection and Millennium, and it is affixed and thereby one is
completely assured of his inheritance in Christ. We are alive from the
dead, and henceforth we cannot perish. The Scripture says, "We shall
never, never, never perish." [Jn 10:28] And with Job we can say, "I know
that my Redeemer liveth."  [Job 19:25] And He shall stand at the latter
day upon the earth. "And though my skin worms destroy this body, yet my
flesh I shall see God." [Job 19:26] (Now notice, "In my flesh I shall
see God.")  "Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold
Him, not another, though my reins be consumed within me." [Job 19:27] 

	He said, "I don't care if I dying, I don't care if I die, I am going to
stand right here as Job, and   I am going to see my Redeemer myself." 
Now, that’s exactly what the Bible teaches concerning Eternal Life.
You cannot disassociate …?... immortality, because eternality, life,
goes to all three parts, body, soul, spirit.  Soul and spirit redeemed,
the body isn't. Cannot separate, brother/sister.

	That's why Paul himself said, he said, "Look, (he said) I am so sold on
the Resurrection, I am so sold …that is what it's all about, that I am
going to come back and live, as God intended me to be a son of God." And
natural and perfect, living out your life the wants. He said, "If I
don't get it, forget everything else." Forget everything else.
Immortality is waiting, the entire New Testament Bride, because of that
united Life with Christ.

65.	In 1 Corinthians 15:53-54, that's for us in this last hour.

		(53) 	For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal 	
				must put on immortality.

		(54) 	So when this (incorruptibility) shall have put on
(incorruptibility), 						and this mortal shall have put on immortality,
then shall be brought 					to pass the saying that is written, Death is
swallowed (not destroyed 					at this time, but death is swallowed ) in
(a) victory. 

	In other words, God gives such a mighty victory, death stands right
back. And brother/sister we can walk right over to the Tree of Life.
Right now, death the last man. Not death my brother/ sister, but death
the last man. You're filling up the Bride now by the Spirit of Zoe.
(Yeah)

	Did you know that if you're Bride…let's tonight say we're Bride, and
we're going to live for a fee more years, and Jesus is going to come in
one year of course. Do you realize that you're going to have this body
changed?  And that's your Eternal Life. It's not something other
than…look, I'm trying to get across a picture here: the same picture
that Paul had, that we are what we are, human beings. Children of God,
none the less in this particular form, and we'll be never anything but
that. And Eternal Life is the guarantee, see?  And that body is already
renewed the same as the earth was when the Blood fell upon it. And that
earth is just waiting to come back changed, so we're just waiting to
come back changed. But we're coming back. (See?)

66.	 Over here in Romans 2:7

		(7) 	To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory 	
				and honour and immortality, eternal life:

	Not one without the other. The whole body, soul and spirit is
completely wound up in Jesus. He's long…listen, in James, He is
waiting for precious fruit of the earth. That's our bodies, though they
molder in the dust, they're going to come right back. Eternal Life. 

67.	 [Now;] 2 Timothy 1:10

		(10) 	But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus 	
				Christ, who hath abolished death, and brought life and immortality 	
				to light through the gospel:

	You can never separate one from the other. You see, immortality is a
part of Eternal Life, it's the manifestation on It. Just like the Pillar
of Fire was a manifestation of God. The body of Jesus is the
manifestation of God. So you and I have manifestation of God, because we
are sons of God. And the manifestation at this point is pretty shoddy,
because there's skin and everything that's …?...  But when that body
comes back fully redeemed …?... then we got that Eternal Life which
was already there in Adam. And would have gone on and on, and on, and
God said, "Stop that Eternal Life in the body, let the body go down and
then We'll bring it back." But had he taken of the Tree of Life he would
have gone on in that mis-fitting body with sin in it, on and on, and on
and on. (You see?)

68.	Now, it is Life unending, un-detained that lies ahead. Right now
Revelation 22:8-15, let's look at It.

		(8) 	And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard
					and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which
						shewed me these things.

		(9) 	(He said, Don't do it,) I am (your) fellowservant, and thy
brethren 						the prophets, which keep the sayings of this book:
worship God.

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

	Now listen, is the time of what? That:

		(11) 	He that is unjust, (is) unjust still: he (that) is filthy, (is)
filthy still: 						he that is righteous, (is) righteous still: he that
is holy, (is) holy still.					(That's at that time.)

	Now:

		(12) 	…behold, I come quickly; my reward is with me, to give every
man 					according as his work shall be.

		(13) 	I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning…the first and the last.

		(14) 	Blessed are they that (wash their robes,) that they may have
right to 					the tree of life,…

	He said, "Put a cherubim there and stop him getting It, or he'll live
on, and on, and on in that condition."  But here you're just, something
happened. "They without us cannot be made perfect." [Heb 11:40b] So we
get whatever God wants to give us. Which is that inner garment. …?...
is now clothing us inwardly. And when the last member is in, and the
last …?... is up, we will walk to the Tree of Life without blinking
one eye. Without one heart beat missing, without one footstep missing.
But that could have a sweep go over the Bride. The Tree of Life
brother/sister I believe is already here in potential, and is not
standing here in the earth at this moment. It will stand in the
Resurrection, and a Bride is going to walk over.

69.	 The Tree of Life is again on the earth I believe as in Genesis
3:23-24. Now, as in Genesis 1:26-31, let's go and take a look at It.
See,  we got to get restored in Eden brother/sister, you can't get there
without a body, unless you live forever, to get the two together, leave
them just the way they are. (See?) 1:26-31.

		(26) 	And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: 
					and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, fowl of the
air, 					over the cattle, over the earth, and every creeping thing…  

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

	And that's what God is doing again, creating out of the dust; not
through the womb, but through a divine miracle. (See?) 

70.	Let's go to 2 Corinthians 4:6

		(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.

	(15-18)

		(15) 	For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might
						through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

		(16) 	For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish,
						yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 

	Now, that's grace. (see?) Now, what did I read here?

		(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. (That's end time, it
happened there, 					it's happening again.)

	Now, the inward man which has been perishing is being renewed
successively in every age as the light shines. You didn't hear It, did
you? But you did, you didn't know what I was talking about. Bro. Branham
said, "You Lutheran's potentially had the Holy Ghost." Then he said,
"You Wesleyan's potentially." And he said, "You Pentecostal's, but today
He's here." And that's what I'm talking about here. We were nearing the
Resurrection from Luther to Wesley to Pentecost, but there's got to come
a time when It's here. 

 	So, the inward man there was coming up, (see?) to the peak of the
Spirit which would be redemption of the body is now here to redeem the
body. And He's Appeared…that we knew Him brother/sister, been going on
a long time. About four hundred years. Think about the time of Luther.
But we're here. Now: 

		(17) 	For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for
						us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

		(18) 	While we look not at the things which are seen, but the things
which 					are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but
the things 					which are not seen are eternal.

71.	Now, what the day though when it comes face to face? (See?) And it
is face to face. Because that's exactly when that which is perfect is
come, it's face to face. "It's no longer in a mirror darkly, but we know
as we are known." [1 Cor 13:12]

	Then brother/sister, what happened? What happens when face to face? It
said, "We shall be like Him, but we shall see Him as He is." [1 Jn 3:2]
That which has been picking up and the revelation, the inner man being
renewed. He is to the final place of renewal, because the next step is
immortality, you can't beat it. Can't beat it, brother/sister, no way.
(See?)

72.	Now, It's that Ephesians 4:11

		(11) 	And he gave some, apostles; some, prophets; some, evangelists;
some, 					pastors and teachers; (and so on.)

		(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, knowledge of the Son
of 						God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the
fulness 					of Christ:

		(14) 	(And) henceforth be no more children, …

	Now, when you're not more children what are you? You're manifested
…?... adoption. What's the adoption? The fullness comes in the
Resurrection. You're right at it brother/sister.

	Now listen, what is it? It's all heading to the Resurrection. 1
Corinthians 13, I've quoted a little bit. Let's go back to It, 1
Corinthians 13:9.

		(9) 	For we know in part, we prophesy in part.

		(10) 	But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in
part 						shall be done away.

		(11) 	When I was a child, I spake as a child,…(not a child, I'm a
man.)

 	What is manhood? The fullness adoption comes in the Resurrection.
(Uh?) When the adoption…are we in the adoption era now? This is the
age of adoption, the Bride age. You don't marry some little kid off to
Jesus Christ. You get a lot of child marriage that aren't worth a plug
nickel, they all end in divorce. This marriage is  built on maturity.
She know her Mate, He knows her, it's face to face, it's going to be a
good marriage brother/sister. It's physical too. Not spiritual,
physical, He's there, the man, the Bride's there like a woman. Physical.
Eve restored to Eden. (See?)

 		(11)	…I put away childish things.

		(120	 For now we see through a glass, darkly; (Paul said,) but then
face 						to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as I
am 						known.

		(13) 	And now abideth faith, hope, (love)… (faith a revelation, hope
is 						expectation, love, capstone, …?... this point. See?)

	Now, here we are, right to the very end time. 

73.	Now, let's go to Philippians 3:  See, brother/sister, once you start
this last age spin, there's no place to go but in a Rapture. Philippians
3:10

		(10) 	That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the 
					fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his
death;

		(11) 	If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the
dead.

	That's what Paul was talking about. That resurrection, that
immortality. That's why he said,          "If I can't have that, forget
it, what's it all about?" That's why I said the revelation of Jesus, 
because God does not tell us we just still don't know what it's all
about, we know something                 so tremendously there, we
better be a part of it.

		(12) 	Not as though I had already attained, either were already
perfect: but 					I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which
also I am 						apprehended of Christ Jesus.

		(13) 	(Brother), I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one
thing 					I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching
forth unto 					those things which are before,

		(14) 	I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God
in Christ 					Jesus.

	And Paul could press as hard as he wanted, he still couldn't make it,
he had to wait for this hour. But brother/sister you and I can make it.
That's why Bro. Branham said, "Oh, (he said) you people I'm sorry, but I
believe (he said) you're not enough in that Word." He said, "You could
leave everything to one side for that Word, but for the cares of this
life and all these things are keeping you away from that Reality." And
the Reality is this, brothers/sister, that Word is being fulfilled at
this hour. "I am the Resurrection. I am the Resurrection and the Life."
He didn't put the Life first, he put the Resurrection, because that was
the need of the hour. The need of this hour brother/sister is the
Resurrection, because He is our Life. We are going to walk to that Tree
of Life and live forever.  There it is brother/sister, and we are to
confess It. Buried with Him by the Holy Spirit. Risen with Him by the
same experience. How? Now by manner of men, but by the Spirit which He
gives to those who repent and are baptized in Him

74.	 Now, I'm going to read something…in the 'Invisible Union of
Christ', (page 10, paragraph 5) speaking on Christ being the Word. 
[Taken from Word of the Hour.com]

[31]	He was only the manifestation of the attributes of God, for He was
the Son 				of God, and any son is the attributes of his father. And
just as you were in the 				genes of your father, in the body of your
father when he was a young boy... 				You were in him, yet he could not
have fellowship with you, because he didn't 				know you. But then
through the bedding grounds of a mother, you were brought 				forth into
the earth and become in the image of your father; then he could 				
fellowship with you. And so were you sons of God and daughters of God
before 				there even was a moon, a stars, or a molecule; you were sons
and daughters of 				God. For you are only the physical manifestation of
the attributes that was in 				God at the beginning. 

	And if you and I are supposed to be the physical manifestation of the
attributes, then you and I will never be anything but those physical
manifestations forever and forever, and forever. So, you see
brother/sister, Eternal Life, we're going back, hallelujah. You don't
need to worry you're going to get back as a monkey, you're going to do
some kind of thing, or that kind of thing. You're going to come back as
a human being, and you're going to be loving with everybody, everybody
is going to be in love you and in love Jesus. The Lamb is going to lie
down with the wolf, that the thorns will not break forth upon us. The
cactus will open up its leaves, we're going to build our own houses,
we're going to have our own trees, bringing our own grapes. It's going
to be a wonderful time. And we hear a beautiful sweet voice greater than
the angels singing 'Amazing Grace', look  over the hills and the shrubs
out there and there'll be Bro. Bill Branham standing there waving and
shouting, "praise God, praise God, praise God." 

	Amen, that's Eternal Life brother/sister. Don't, don't you believe
anything else about it. (Uh huh) No, Eve's been restored to Eden
brother/sister, she was not in there as some being that didn't have a
physical creation.

75.	 Now listen:

		For there's only one form of Eternal Life, and that was you before...
You didn't				 know  about it; neither did you know when you were in
your earthly father. 

	Then how are you going to know now if you don't stay the way you are?
)Uh?) Oh, brother/sister what a tremendous thing is coming. Wouldn't it
be nice if…I have said the other night, look, I just like to let a
hair down and just be us. Wouldn't it be just nice if you could really
put yourself in somebody's hands and make him put yourself in your
hands. You wouldn't dare be that to anybody but God. Right now, let me
tell you that. But there's a day time. What a day that will be. That's
the real Eternal Life, because It's got to be manifested. (See?)

	Look at us here tonight, if there's none of us serpent seed, (which I
know we're not) we're not going to get that, (you know) …?... talk
about that. But we had one father, Adam. Of course we some easily old
…?... in there you know. But, because Noah was the last true human
being, I mean, that's right in the Bible. The word 'perfectly'
generation means 'genetically so'. His wife had physical problems, his
kids were already messed up with serpent seed, but old Noah was the last
one. But you know what? We're all going to come back as children of God.
(See?) Everyone of us.

	Now,  see, let's just look…we all were of one family, we all came
from one man. We did. Let's say we came from Adam. Let's just pretend we
did anyway. You know, because we really did, but got those bad seeds
mixed up too. Let's just pretend we weren't hybrids. that be sure nice
wouldn't? But you see, that wouldn't be good enough. Wouldn't be good
enough. But if we're all just one sweet family, a little fuss here, a
little fuss there wouldn't mean anything, see, because we're family.

	Like Bro. Branham said, "We Branham's we fight in the backyard, but
(you know) in the front yard that's a different story. Because if we
fight in the back, don't you get involved, you might find that you
just…you know, we turn on you." That's true, that's what a family
does. (See? Uh?) That's right, a family does. 

76.	 But you see, it's kind of rough right now, but if we get this
revelation I'm talking about tonight, because I'm breaking it down right
to the flesh now, (see?) and what a revelation how we love each other,
and be that much sweeter in time. (See?) Sure, it's understanding the
Scripture. When you understand a thing (see?) you're not afraid of it
any longer when you know how it works. (See?)

	Years ago the doctors wouldn't tell you this. You usually went in there
and you looked at them, they looked at you and say, "Well, take this."
Today, the doctor's if he's got half an ounce of intelligence would sit
down and talk with you and guide you and correct you and show you, and
the fear goes. Right? You take little kids to the hospital, you give
them a traumatic experience it just about ruins him for life. But now
they want the parents to go with the kids. And that’s what this end
time was all about. They move all …?... take away all the doubts, get
us all settled down, relaxed under the Seven Seals, and just love each
other and go on. The Spirit of God will move more and more. Because you
see, we're already in to the completion of Eternal Life which means, we
walk right out…like here we are. "Oh, but I feel so different, I feel
so good." 

	Well, it's the same old fellow, it's just a change in the carcass.
(See?) That's what he says here: 

"But you are manifested in His Image, in the Image of God you are made."
And you are manifested for the glory and the fellowship of God. 

	Now, when you were in Him you couldn't fellowship. Now that you're in
Him back spiritually, united which is Eternal Life, in a spiritual
sense, you think He's going to let you go physically? Don't be
ridiculous. He's not going to let you go. That's why Paul said, "Don't
talk to me about no resurrection, you just ruined the whole thing for
me."

77.	He's like the poor old guy I used to know, (you know) years back in
Florida. This old fellow's name was Brooks, and his wife was Clara
Brooks, …?... that aunt Clara, (you know) on the Pentecostal paper
years ago now, maybe you read it. And he came to my home and he just
loved our fellowship and the preaching and treated him so good, because
we loved him. And when I sat one night and told him that I was a
Calvinist and believed in eternal security, he loved me so much he broke
down, "Oh, Bro. Vayle, brother I wish you hadn't told me, you rather of
been disfellowship  spoiled for us."  [said is a crying tone] Well, do
you think God is going to spoil the fellowship? You think He's going to
let us spoil it by not being the manifestation of His attributes? Aw,
come on. My, that's Eternal Life for me. See, …?... 

	And therefore, as sure as your genes had to be in your father before
your natural birth, he does the physical election in the spiritual. Your
spiritual gene had to be in God, because you are an expression of the
attributes of His thoughts before the foundation of the world. There is
no way around it. That is right, but now notice, then that life being in
you, God's Life being in you from the foundation of the world.

78.	Now, brother/sister, what did He say was union? His Life from the
foundation of the world. Where did He put it? In you. Do you think He's
going to let you go? Not a chance. Do you think you're going to be other
than what you are? Not a chance. You're coming right back here the same
as you are, but in a glorified body, and you're going to fulfill every
single thing that wasn't fulfilled in the plan of God in perfection for
man. That makes you love Him more than anything.

	Do you know what, Bro. Branham said, "I was so afraid, (he said) I was
so afraid to leave this earth here even though I loved the Lord. I
thought I might have be a little cloud up there, like a little cloud and
Bro. Bosworth would go by, and Bro. Neville go by, a little cloud."

	Oh, come on, you ain't no little cloud. (Uh uh) And when he got over on
the other side by vision,  there were all these people hugging him.
"Why, (he said) man I can feel them." They were hugging each other,
shaking hands, but they weren't eating and drinking. But they're going
to come back           and eat and drink. Jesus said, "We're going to
drink and eat anew in the Kingdom."  [Lk 22:18] 

	No wonder these martyrs could not fear death. They didn’t give a rip.
Some just wanted to picked off. Sudden death, sudden glory. No wonder
Polycarp had such faith to stand there at the stake and say, "I'll just
stand there here burning." And he couldn't burn, so they poked him
through with a spear, and the blood and water put the fire out.  He had
the same spirit of Paul brother/sister. Oh yeah, God bless you, let's
rise.

	Heavenly Father, we thank You, Lord Jesus, tonight Lord of glory, that
this is not some great mystery far removed, but just a natural part of
the process. Wherein, Lord, You redeemed our spirits and our souls, or
redeeming our bodies. And, Lord, the people are just waiting for us to
get redeemed in our bodies, and they know that the hour is near. So,
Lord, they'll soon be redeemed in theirs and come back, and we'll get
our portions.

	Heavenly Father, we thank You tonight that we can begin to see as never
before that this is the purpose and plan of Almighty God, and are
adjusting to it by faith the dynamism of revelation, Lord, we shall
respect Your Presence, and live a more godly truthful life as never
before. And we shall confess with our mouths even as we believe in our
hearts, for our minds have been illuminated that You…and You have been
raised from the dead. And with Paul we say, "If You have been raised,
and we are raised with You and we're coming back." Heavenly Father,
bless these people  with a new and large and greater vision .

	Now, unto the King Eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be
all power and honor and glory through Jesus Christ of Lord. Amen.

	The 'Lord bless you'. Let's go sing a little song, "Oh how I love
Jesus." That's what we ought to sing, because we love Him, because He
first loved us.   

 

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