Life

Easter Message

April 19, 1992

	Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, we think of that time when You appeared
to Abraham on the Plains of Mamre before the great destruction; and
Abraham knew why You were there--to be worshipped and served--and we
trust that as children of Abraham which by faith we believe we are, we
might also worship and serve You in spirit and in truth and therefore be
very accommodating unto You. 

	We know, Lord, that there are many things we want and we don’t get
them but You have Your way in all things and we want to realize that
this morning and, therefore, be all the more accommodating to You, Lord,
in Your desires and Your wills and come even to the place where Bro.
Branham said, “I always do what I want, which is, I always want to
please Him.” We know that that’s a great testimony... How would a
man even dare to say that, except that he knew that he was in that
harmony with You, Lord, at the last day even as has been declared unto
us; we’re one with You and one with each other, one with that Word,
Lord. 

	And so, may we find something this morning in Your Word, Lord, as we
try to worship You in spirit and in truth. And come into that close
union with You that we’re for walking the light as You’re in the
light; we’re having fellowship one with another, blood of Jesus
Christ, God’s Son, cleansing us from all unrighteousness. Just going
more and more unto the perfect day, which, perfect day, Lord, we know
we’re in and we’re just at the very end of it, coming to that more
perfect day which leads us to even more perfect day until the Father
becomes all and in all in the New Jerusalem. We know that’s with us
this hour. We pray we may see it, O God, (and it may) not only see it
but it may become the great part of our lives. In Jesus Name we pray.
Amen. 

	You may be seated.

1.	Now, last Friday we were talking about the fact of the “Responsible
God”, which I again want to caution you, I am not trying to make a
doctrine out of that. Bu, we do know that God is absolutely responsible
and He did take upon Himself the actual responsibility for the
completion of His own ultimate program, of which we are a part, if not
the ultimate of his satisfaction, to see His children brought into that
perfect relationship which is now being entered into by people living
who shall not perish but walk right into immortality and continue to the
Great City of God, the New Jerusalem and the new heavens and earth.
Fully responsible, because as Creator, he would have to be responsible.
And He most certainly was, even to the extent of taking upon Himself the
shedding of His own Blood, His own life, taking the penalty upon us,
becoming sin offering for us--He who knew no sin. Thereby actually
becoming, as it were, also in type the scapegoat.

2.	Now, this morning we want to continue by going into an Easter message
of LIFE, because this is the hour of life. Now, every Sunday of course,
we come together and we worship the Lord because as Bro. Branham said,
“We commemorate the Lord’s resurrection.” But today, it’s a
little more special, because this is the day that we commemorate the
actual resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ when He arose from the dead
and lead captivity captive; He brought out those righteous ones that
were His brothers and sisters, brought them forth from the grave.
Brought them into Jerusalem where they all walked the streets together,
where Jesus was seen about five hundred people, many at one time over
forty days. And the saints that came out of the earth like Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob, Joseph and those great ones, Job, no doubt also walked
the city and were seen of many; and it was a great testimony to the
resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

3.	So, we celebrate the resurrection of the Lord this morning. And we
look at the word ‘resurrection.’ and it actually means (there are
about three meanings, which we don’t have to look at all three of
them), but the word ‘resurrection’ coming from the Bible means to
stand up again. In other words, that which went down--was either knocked
down, thrown down, fell down--rises again. And then, of course, the
meaning gets a little more sure and true, it means to be raised from the
dead. It also means to make a recovery. And of course, you know that we
use that word ‘resurrection’ in an offhand manner to mean recovery,
but we don’t really mean it in the literal sense of something which
has died and possibly, actually decayed. And as Bro. Branham said,
“Can even go back to gases,” or go to gases... That’s true, the
deterioration of bodies causes gases until actually there’s nothing
left but a bit of ash, if you can find that; and out there in the
atmosphere there are those gases that passed away. 

 	So, we’re looking at a resurrection. And Bro. Branham clearly stated
what resurrection is and this, of course, comes from the vindicated
prophet. He mentions that a resurrection means whatever went down into
the grave comes up again from the grave. And I remember he took his
handkerchief and he dropped it and he said, “Now I dropped this
handkerchief and if something else comes up instead of the handkerchief,
that is not resurrection.” 

4.	Now, that’s what you’re looking at. And you are to understand
that as basic. And you are to apply it to yourself as an individual.
Normally we look at resurrection as across the board, and we count
ourselves by grace as a part of an event. Now, you can not do that in
the light of this message by a vindicated prophet. You must look at
yourself, and you must look at those who have gone before. 

	And you say, “They went down, they are coming up, and when I go down,
I am coming up. I am coming back.” You know how people get mad at each
other? They say, “I am going to come back and haunt you.” You know
what? Becomes very personal. Ho, ho, I’m going to get my dibs in after
you. How come when it comes to the spiritual truth of the Word of God we
don’t say with such conviction, “I am coming back”? See? Oh yes,
the devil is tricky and I think maybe we kind of fall for his tricks
like Eve did, instead of the pure Word of God. So, it is not an
exchange. It is that which went down is coming back. So, according to a
vindicated prophet, resurrection means a return of the same body, same
person.

 5.	A perfect picture of exactly what the resurrection is, is when a
group of people found Lazarus dead after suffering in some type of
sickness. They put him in the grave, and after four days they knew his
body was rotting and stinking, and Jesus came by and He said, “I’m
going to raise him from the dead, so roll the stone back.” And they
said, “Well hey, there’s no use.” As Bro. Branham said that no
doubt the nose had begun to fall in, the body turning to liquids and
smelling to high heaven. And they said, “No, he--he’s just so stink,
don’t roll the stone back.” He said, “Roll it back.” And you
know, this man came forth from the grave and He said, “Now loose the
grave clothes”. And they loosed the grave clothes; and this man looked
exactly like he looked a few days before he got sick. 

6.	Now, you notice I didn’t say that--that he came up looking like a
young man, because he didn’t. He never came up appearing like a
nine-teen or eight-teen year old man, because he didn’t. He came up
looking exactly like he was. And I think maybe this is one reason why
the Jews tried to kill him. Now, if he had come back looking like a very
young man, this would have been such a phenomenon that it would have
turned all of Israel up-side-down and in-side-out and the Roman Empire
likewise. But he came back looking like old Lazarus was before he went
down and then, of course, right away then they suspected some kind of
trickery, some kind of Houdini act as Bro. Branham said; and this would
look very, very bad. So they wanted to get rid of him. 

7.	Now, when Jesus came back, He was changed to a young man. That’s
why they didn’t recognize Him. I used to wonder why Bro. Branham
quoted Josephus. Josephus said that using the Scripture of John, that
they said, they said to him--when he said that before Abraham was I Am.
And they said, “Hold it, Bud, you’re not even fifty-five years
old”. And Josephus said, according to the understanding that he had,
that Jesus looked like an old man before His time. And Bro. Branham came
around and corroborated him. 

	And I thought, now, Bro. Branham, you’re a vindicated prophet, but I
don’t think it’s... Hey, why would you read Josephus and put that in
there? You see how stupid you are, I am, not you. But, you see, He did
look old. And when He went to that grave at age thirty-three, he was
looking fifty-five and maybe hanging on the cross, sixty-five or
seventy-five. And when He came back looking like an eight-teen year old,
certainly they didn’t know who He was. And the only way they could
tell who He was, by what He did. Now, that Jesus is risen amongst us,
the only way you can tell who that is, is by what He does. There is no
other way. 

8.	All right. Now, that’s why they couldn’t recognize Jesus, because
He never came back like Lazarus. Because, Lazarus though in a genuine
resurrection (because that’s what it was, because the body was, you
know, messing up already, wasn’t comatose and lying there on a cake of
ice or something; it was rotting) it qualifies, but it’s not a perfect
resurrection. See? 

	And now Jesus Himself actually does not qualify as the epitome of a
resurrection where the body deteriorated, because the Scripture said
concerning him, to make it all the more real, His body would not
deteriorate. In fact, it reversed; went back to nine-teen, eight-teen
years old from thirty-three and a half looking sixty-five. Who knows how
old He looked?

9.	Now, while talking about how old one looks when he is resurrected,
brings us a question. What about those that do not die? They’re
standing here waiting for the rapture and they’re changed from mortal
to immortal; from corruptible to incorruptible; and literally are
resurrected as the old or outer man that was perishing; gets renewed.
Now, you see, that’s where resurrection can be recovery. Right?
Because that’s what it means. A recovery. How would you like to
recover your lost years and utilize the experience that you gathered,
knowing that you really could, honest before God, you would utilize that
experience and you’d walk the straight and narrow? You’d say,
“I’d like that.” Well, I’m going to tell you something. You
bypass the word form that would have allowed you to walk perfect, and
now you’re going to go and get it eventually. Isn’t that nice?
Recovery. So recovery is part of resurrection. See? Okay. 

10.	Now then, we’re looking at this picture. The outer man is
perishing and the inner man is being renewed to put then with the
complete inner man, back to where he was, which is going back to a seed
state. Now listen, going back to a seed state it is recovering, goes
back to the genuine seed of God, which must bring forth the body
commensurate. Why, you’re going to live and never die again. You see
the science of what I’m telling you? Absolutely scientific. 

	Now if you don’t believe that... If you could take that rose there,
and let’s say that rose was on the bush that it grew from, and that
rose turned around and died. In other words, you see it faded. And you
said, “Turn around and go back where you came from”. What would it
go back to? The original life that brought it forth in the first place,
but subject to problems which would put it where it is now, in its
death, but we’re not going to have that. You understand what I’m
saying. 

11.	Now, the old testament pointedly shows us what we are going to look
like in the resurrection. Naaman, who had cancer--well leprosy, which
was the disease of that hour--that signified the separation of death,
where men were rotting. Let’s get it now, the body is rotting. When
does your body rot? When you die. This man’s flesh came again as a
child. 

	What do you think of AIDS? You’re walking rotting. Will there then be
a resurrection in our hour? Amen. AIDS is a sign of a resurrection.
Negative, perhaps, but a sign. 

	What about Abraham and Sarah? He’s about a hundred and she’s
ninety. Together that’s a hundred and ninety. They turned back to
six-teen year olds. The King that looked at her fell in love with a
ninety year old gal. ‘Cause she looked sweet six-teen. What happened?
Recovery, reversal. What about Job? Clean as a whistle, went back to a
young man, married again, had a family. All right. 

12.	In this our day we are about to see 1 Cor 15:51-53, which is:

(51)	I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be
changed,

(52) 	In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: (And
so on).

	We go to 1 Cor 4:13, It says,  [1 Thessalonians 4]

(17) 	... we which are alive and remain (are going to get our change and
be caught away.)

	So, we see them all being completely fulfilled in this our day. 

	Now, just looking at some Scripture. We go to... I’m going to read
these and then we’ll talk about them. Mt 10:28.

(28) 	And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill
the soul: but rather fear him that is able to destroy both soul and body
in hell.

	Again, Mt 6:25,

(25) 	Is not the life more than meat, and the body more than raiment?

	And again in 2 Cor 5:1-6:

(1)	If this earthly body vanish away, it dies, it’s corruptive and
goes away, we have a body eternal waiting in the heavens for us. 

	So that we do not become unclothed, we simply go to another clothing.
You understand what we’re saying?

13.	And again in 1 Cor 15:12-20, you’ll find the apostle Paul telling
you there in no uncertain terms: 

(12) 	If Christ be (preached from the dead, how can any raised from the
dead, how can anybody say there that we’re not coming back? ) 

	But He said, now listen,

(13)	 (If there’s no resurrection, He said then Christ did not come
back.)

(14)	And if Christ did not come back, (He said our preaching is vain.)

	Paul had a ministry of preaching which said resurrection. Now a while
back he said, “I came with you in fear and trembling.”  Had only one
message: That was the power of the cross; that was Christ in him
crucified. But now he’s gone on, he said, “My message is gone from
the crucifixion and the death, because this [is] in the past now and
we’re hitting the resurrection.” And William Branham said, “My
ministry is to declare that He is here.” And people cannot pinpoint
the understanding of the revelation of the hour. 

	You go to most Branhamites and you say, “Hey, what is what is this
voice? What is this shout? What is the message?”

	 They say, “Oh, it is this and it’s that”. 

	 Huh uh, the message is, “He is here.” 

(15)	 (And in Him are all these things we talk about. And He said,) Yes,
we are found to be false witnesses of God; (and so on)

(16)	 If the dead raise not, Christ is not risen:

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

(18) 	They, (ah,) those that are fallen asleep are perished.

(19) 	If in this life only we have hope in Christ, (He said, “It is a
mess, it is a hundred per cent miserable for all of us.”)

14.	And then in John 5, you know what John 5 is. That is the chapter of
Jesus speaking concerning the resurrection. Talking about the dead
coming up. And 28     and 29, He says here,

	(28)	Marvel not at this: the hour is coming, in which all that are     
        		in the graves shall hear his voice,

	(29) 	And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the        	
		resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the 				
resurrection of damnation.

	That means, where have your bodies gone into gases? Somehow your body
has ears to hear. Yeah. You’re going to come back. 

 	Now, the reason for all of these verses is to simply show, that the
body spoken of in each scripture would not have existed except for a
living person--a life whose life processes contained in a seed form that
body as a vehicle of expression for that life. That’s why He said,
don’t fear the thing that can destroy your body. Don’t worry about
it. That’s taken care of. He said if you got a worry, you worry about
the one that can destroy the body and the soul. So He’s telling you,
where is the life? It is in the soul and it is that soul life, no matter
where it came from, that makes the body. You know, people don’t even
believe that in this message. 

15.	There’s a man I met years ago; I believe I met him. He preaches
what we preach, gets the tapes all the time and when he caught the
understanding he said, “This is theological truth. It’s nothing I
discovered.” It’s been preached for centuries that the soul makes
the body. 

	And the people say, “Oh no, the soul can’t make the body. It’s
sort of out there flying around.” Ho. Don’t mind me. You just wonder
why I get sarcastic, you heard it. 

	The reason for all these verses is simply to show that the body spoken
of in each Scripture would not have existed, except for a living
reality; a person, an entity whose life processes contained in a seed
that God placed that in, form the body as a vehicle of expression of
that life. And I’m talking of expression and I mean expression. If it
contains--something contains a myriad lights (like a crystal when you
throw a light on it), I’m talking about that expression. So you
understand what I’m saying. What’s that thing they put your eye and
they turn around, you know what it is, you know you look in them? Huh?
[Someone in the congregation says “kaleidoscope.”] Yeah, well
that’s one of the words. All right, you twist it. And a little light
hits it and you see a pattern, a little teeny twist, another pattern and
another and another and another and another. I’m talking about that.
You understand what I’m saying? Not mad at you. 

16.	All right, the life or the real person had to have and has to have,
presently, a body to express itself to its potential and cannot be
satisfied but actually goes into a state of despair, disappointment,
dysfunction and even perhaps death, yes death, in the presence of every
other value including God. Let me read it again. The life of the reality
had to have and has to have (there’s a continuity) a body to express
itself to its potential and cannot be satisfied, but actually goes into
a state of despair, disappointment and dysfunction, even in the presence
of every other value, if there’s a greater value than what’s
intrinsically there, included is God. You say, “Bro. Vayle, that’s a
terrible statement.” 

17.	Let’s just find out. Paul said, “If in this life only we have
hope in Christ we are of all men most miserable”. And he’s talking
about the resurrection even in the face of the fact, he said in 2
Corinthians chapter 5, let’s read it now, because here is where you
get the impact. I didn’t read it before, I just merely quoted some
thoughts. Here’s what he said.

	(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:

	Say, “Well, hey, just get me that far and I can stop.” You ain’t
fit for a resurrection. You ain’t going to make it. Because you
don’t believe the Bible. Paul said, “I’m in a strait betwixt two
desires. I want to stay here and help you folks, I want to get away and
be in the presence of Jesus.” And turns right around here in the
doctrine and says, “If in this life only we have hope in Christ”,
and he’s talking about a resurrection. Now get that flat. You follow
me what I’m saying? 

	Don’t get your thinking out of context, brother/sister. When I’m
talking about elephants, I am not going to describe a baboon. When I
tell you I am eating sauerkraut and spareribs, I’m not going to be
talking about potatoes, and jam poured on my bread. We’re talking
about a resurrection; we’re talking about the man who said, “I’m
going to go to a spirit body.” And he said, “If my hope does not get
me returned from the dead, I am miserable; I’m dissatisfied; I’m in
dysfunction; I am not complete.” 

18.	Now I’m preaching way beyond my knowledge. And you know why? I got
to. And I’ll tell you why, because, every single Scripture that God
ever gave, He gave a manifestation that that was His Word. And after the
man delivered the Word he had to explain it; and after the explanation
they had to get it, and we ain’t yet got the resurrection. But for
what I get from a prophet, this Word of Almighty God, I know what I am
talking about. And I’m going to fit in perfectly. I got more
scripture, too. Don’t you just think I haven’t. 

	Now, now what is this life that demands and will not be satisfied,
except it get its body resurrected? Well, that started way back in
Genesis, when, “God said, Let’s make man in our own image, after his
likeness: created them male and female he made them,” and it was one
single person, the two within one and He called their name Adam. Then in
Genesis 2,He puts them into a body. Yep. 

19.	Now, let’s get over here in Genesis 3 and see what happens after
the fall. All right, Genesis 3, after the fall. It said, 

	(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
of the tree of life, and live for ever:

	 Now, how could he live for ever if he wasn’t made to live for ever?
If what was in Him could not produce eternal immortality, this is just a
goofy, stupid statement. Did you get what I said? 

	I say, “Roses, stretch your wings and fly.” 

	You say, “What kind of a nut are you?” 

 	Listen, I’m reading the Bible. God’s Word that said this man could
stretch forth his hand in that condition, and get a hold of what he
wanted. There was that within him, already. On and on and on, you know.
Adam knew what he missed. I’m not off Scripture, oh no. I’m a
hundred per cent on Scripture. 

20.	Let’s go to Psalms. You follow what I’m saying? Amen. You with
me? You understand what I am saying? If you don’t, I can’t preach it
again, because I’m going to be taking a lot of time as it is. Twelve
pages, and two pages, well I’m on four now. But don’t worry, I slow
down. Psalms 17, is what I want, I do believe. And in verse 15.  

	(15)	As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be 			
satisfied, (and not before, no matter what) in thy likeness.

	[1 John 3:]

 

	      Beloved, now are we the sons of God and it hath not appeared 			
what we shall be, but we know that when he shall appear, we 				shall be
like him for we shall see him as he is.

	 And Paul said. “I have been condemned for my hope in the
resurrection, I, Paul am coming back.” 

 	And they said, “Well, Paul, it’s possible, because we believe in
reincarnation also.” 

 	Talked to a good friend of mine, a doctor, and I said, “Doc, I
can’t go with your reincarnation bit.” 

 	He said, “You mean you believe in one--one shot?” 

 	I said, “Yep, one shot, doc.” 

	“Well, maybe transmigration.” 

	Forget it. My uncle wasn’t a monkey; he acted like one. Neither was
my sister an ant, a-n-t, instead of a-u-n-t. I don’t buy that. 

21.	Look at the book of Acts, chapter 2. And in there we find the day of
Pentecost, and Peter is preaching and he’s beginning to speak at the
22nd verse, and he is talking to these Pharisees and he said:

	(22) 	Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a 					man
approved of God among you by miracles and wonders					and signs,
(proving he was that prophet) which God did by 					him in the midst of
you, as you yourselves know:

	(23)	Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and fore-

		knowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have 			
crucified and slain:

	(24) 	Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: 			
because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. 					 He
couldn’t keep him.)

	(25) 	For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord 					always
before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I 					should not be
moved:

	(26) 	Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad: 				
moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:

	(27) 	Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither suffer 				
thine Holy One to see corruption.

	(28)	Thou hast made known unto me the ways of life; thou shalt					make
me full of joy with thy countenance. (There you are.)

	(29) 	Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch 	
		David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is 					with
us unto this day.

	(30) 	Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn				with
an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to 				the
flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

	(31) 	He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that		
		his soul was not left in hell, neither did his body see corruption. 		
		(And there will be those whose souls are left in hell and their				
bodies will be burnt... lake of fire.)

22.	You see, there is a life what we’re talking about. Okay, now with
this we go to     1 Corinthians chapter 15: and you will notice in here
Paul is speaking of the fall of Adam, and so on. But now he refers in
verse 20.

	(20)	 But as in Adam all die, But now (rather) is Christ risen from the
           		dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

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

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

	Now the understanding is this: This man Adam was dying in the flesh; he
went to the tree of life to try to get his immortality, which was
already his according to Almighty God; it was already in his genes, in
his soul, but he blew it. Now, we’re going to get it because of Jesus
Christ our Lord. And it says, “In identical manner as they all died in
Adam, in identical manner all come back in Christ.” Nine-teen years of
age--a hundred per cent perfect in flesh. And those who are standing at
that day of the resurrection, their bodies, like Christ, will not
corrupt, but go through a tremendous change and come forth completely
rejuvenated--what you should be, which was to remain at the age of
nine-teen or twenty (whatever it is) for many, many years. 

23.	Now look it, in John the 10th chapter and in verses 10-18, we get
the picture here. And it says,

	(10) 	The thief cometh not, but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy:
I 				am come that they might have life, and they might have it					more
abundantly.

	(11)	 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd gives his life for the	
		sheep.

	(12)	 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the 	
		sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and			
flees: and the wolf catches them, and scatters the sheep. (And 				so
on, down the line.)

	Now he says in verse 17,

	(17) 	Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life,			
that I might take it again.

	(18) 	No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have 			
power to lay it down, and power to take it again. This com-					mandment
have I received of my Father.

	All right, there we see the perfection of the resurrection, and we see
Jesus identified Himself with the life that is in man. He identifies
Himself that of the life which is in man exactly as Paul did when he
said, “As in Adam all died, they all are made alive in Christ.” So
the life in Jesus is a hundred per cent identified with the life of the
sheep. That’s already there. You follow me? Predestination,
foreknowledge, election, children of God, showing the divine, consummate
purpose of Almighty God. 

24.	Now, I want us to make sure to notice that this life which is in us
from a certain source--we’ve identified it--is the same life that is
in Christ Jesus and is all of God and demands, demands (can’t help
itself) a body,and is commanded to propagate through bodies. In other
words, a stream of life identified as a species amongst all other life
has its genesis in a certain source. And let’s get this flat: Every
other life the genesis is in creation; ours was not created. Huh? Ours
is a gene of God and God wasn’t created. God never created His life;
He was life. 

	Now, that life in the Greek is Zoe, and Zoe refers to the eternal life
of God, of Jesus His Son and of us. But notice, in the actual true
meaning of the word, which is Zoe, it is used of all life, because
that’s where we get our word zoology. Even God is included in it. Now,
I’ve gone into that, different times. 

25.	 In John 1: notice:

(1)	 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,   and the
Word was God.

(2)	 The same was in the beginning with God. 9 Now notice;

(3) 	All things were made by him; and without him  was not any thing
made that was made. 

	Now listen, He’s talking about a purely creatorial Creator and a
purely creatorial act. Notice, it describes Him and now watch what it
says, “In him was Zoe.” Life within life, life within spirit: it’s
a designation, it’s like there ain’t ...?... Father, Son and Holy
Ghost as three people, but it’s one spirit designated as to offices
and to roles and to titles. Now, He’s already living. Can you conceive
of a God that’s dead and doing something? Hey!

	My sister died a week ago, eighty-some years old. I’m going to go to
her grave.  I’m suppose to say, “Hey Annie, I want to talk to
you.” If I listen hard enough something will talk to me, but it
won’t be Annie. Dead. I can go and say, “You’re the sweetest
sister God ever gave a man.” She ain’t going to say, “Hey, I’m
glad you said that, honey.” 

	 I say, “You’re the biggest bum of a sister God or devil ever gave
a man, phooey on you.” 

	And she’s not going to say, “Hey, you bum, I treated you nice when
you were a kid.” She’s Dead. 

	I’m trying to show you something. God is alive. He’s living. And
yet it says, “In Him is life”. I take a glass of water, “Hey,
there’s water in there.” Stupid, I can see it. You get what I’m
driving at? You don’t have here a statement of fact as though nobody
knew that He was a living God. The Psalms is full of a living God. This
man John is not an idiot. Everybody knows that God’s alive. So, He’s
trying to tell you something: that in Him as Creator, He gives his life
and identifies Himself with all life. You understand what I’m saying?
Now listen, “In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.” In
Him was this Zoe, and this Zoe is the light of all men. 

26.	Okay, the Bible is a complete unit of explanation, though you
don’t find the whole thing written out in every place. It’s like
Bro. Branham said, “A jigsaw puzzle.” 

	 So let’s go to the jigsaw puzzle that the Holy Ghost gave a part of,
of our good      friend, Apostle Paul too. And it says here, “For the
wrath of God is revealed from heaven  against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men will hold the truth back in unrighteous-   ness,
because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has
showed it      unto them for the invisible things of Him from creation
of the world are clearly seen, being understood.” 

	S, God associating Himself with Zoe, with the whole plethora of life as
Creator--the association. You understand what I’m saying? Creation is
a light that no man can reject; there has to be a God. Now, what God is
doing, is associating and taking credit for every single form of life
that there is, even the life that goes out of hand. 

27.	Now, notice in here, “The light shineth in darkness and the
darkness comprehends it not.” In other words, all around us is the
evidence of Almighty God and men shut their minds up and they couldn’t
see God for nothing. Bro. Branham told a lot of little stories about
that. It was very pretty. 

	“Then there was a man sent from God whose name was John.” He was a
witness to the light--every prophet is. Now, what is that light He’s
talking about? God, in manifestation, bringing the people to himself. So
therefore, God must have a means of manifestation. And it’s all around
us, but in a very special way it’s with man, because we came from God
himself and we’re a part of Him and in His mind; in the genes of
Almighty God. Now, we could go on and on, but you know what I’m
talking about here. 

28.	Now, this is the secret of Rev 3:14, the beginning of the creation
of God; God in the very beginning with the form, the birth of Jesus
Christ; God creating all things through Him, finally saying, “Let us
make man in our image,” God associating himself with all of His
creation, and especially man, where God himself will now take on a form
brought on by His own creative power to give the things on earth here,
which are necessary for His own body. Well if that is not Emanuel, God
with us, you tell me what in the world is it? “This is my beloved Son,
I’m going to indwell Him.” 

	I know people get thrown by the fact that a voice came from heaven. The
word heaven means, “’an elevated place;’ that’s all. It actually
means-- ‘place of authority’ and what have you. So, the voice
that’s speaking is no great thing. So, here is the secret then of Rev
3:14. “And the birth and death and resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Emanuel, God with us.” 

29.	Now, let us consider: Zoe is life; life is a spirit; life is spirit.
But, we will not necessarily go into that. And you’ll notice that Bro.
Branham in talking about tuberculosis and other diseases, called them
spirits. So all right, life is spirit form. So, we just look at life as
all conclusive and it is visible spirit. 

	So then, this life is invisible, but with genetically coded circuitry.
Spiritually, the genetic spirit, the genetics of the spirit. So this
life then is invisible spirit, but with genetically--born with it,
created with it,--coded circuitries that can take created, chemical
substances and transform them into the exact features that are required
to manifest exactly what kind of life it is,--with all its variations as
to color and height and weight and longevity--actually all that we see
besides just barren earth out there. This invisible life also responds
to the temperature, to the atmosphere, so that the visible manifestation
of life manifests best in the climate that, that life is best adapted to
according to creation. 

30.	Look at the tiny seed. It’s in there. Bro. Branham says an orange
seed, “It’s that life in that little orange seed.” He said,
“That it’s going to produce every single life, every single orange,
that’s in there.” It’s got the possibility.  Now notice, the life
only, the life only, speaking of nature, was created, and the body of
that life is not created but formed through chemicals reacting to the
life according to what that life is exactly. Understand what I’m
saying? No wonder Bro. Branham could say with Einstein, “We can
create.” Why? Because our life is of God. Now there’s limitations
placed on it the same as God limits Himself. You understand what I’m
saying? That life is within us. 

31.	How fantastic this earth must have been when Adam and Eve first took
it over. It was, as has been said, in all its glory. And what a glory
that was when all the original life coming through original seed then,
seed covers, coming through it, that life stood upon earth and all
according to their perfect patterns, were formed into bodies according
to the life that was created. And now must bring forth after its kind
which it could not do without a body. Now, that’s the law of God. 

	And everybody stand back and say, “Well now, you know, would be nice
if God had done so and so.” 

	What are you talking about? The ultimate of God’s wisdom is at stake
and we’re calling Him a dunderhead? 

	 “O Lord, I could have told you something if you had of asked me.” 

	 If you’d have been back there, if He’d have asked you, you would
have given Him the right answer? 

	And you’d said, “Lo, a body he’s going to prepare for me,
hallelujah! I don’t care how it comes, let her come.” 

	Well it’s going to come through the channels of degradation, because
man’s going to fall. Let him fall. Understand what I’m saying? 

	See, the human mind doesn’t want to go agree with God, and go with
God. 

	 “O God, You could have done better. O God, this wasn’t your plan,
Satan came and ruined it.” 

	 Well, who created Satan? That’s what I preached on
“Responsibility” Friday night. You think God hasn’t become totally
responsible? You, man, you missed it. 

32.	They sing, “All to Him I owe, sin left a crimson stain, He washed
it white as snow.” As though they’re putting something into it. As
though God suddenly found a way out of His dilemma. Ho! God doesn’t
have dilemmas. We have dilemmas, because we simply don’t believe; we
won’t get simple. Get to where Bro. Branham brought us to. “He knew
every flea and how many times it bat its eyeballs and how many it would
take to make a pound of tallow.” I give up. That’s what God wants us
to do. Hey, Lord, have Your way, You’re going to have anyway. 

	You know what a backsliding heifer is? Ephraim. A backsliding heifer is
where the farmer has a young calf, heifer, male, doesn’t matter; and
he decides to lead the calf one way and the calf decides to go the other
way. Now, he’s got a rope around the calf’s neck, and the calf digs
his hoofs in and pulls and the farmer says, “You ain’t going to do
it to me.” And pretty soon that calf will be a-snorting and
a-hollering and a-snuffing and bellering on his side and choking. And if
that’s what the calf wants the farmer gives it to him, pulls him in
where he belongs. Saul at Tarsus had that experience, but God won. 

33.	All right, now, whatever the life- manifests, that is, brings it to
its ultimate, is the glory of that life for glory means assess,
a-s-s-e-s-s; it means to judge, to qualify, to attribute to as to rank
and to status and compare and so on. In other words, a judgment is
required. See? Because, you’re talking about glory and when you do
you’re talking in the sense of the superlative. 

	Now, you see, there’s a very pretty rose there, and there’s maybe a
prettier rose, all depending on what you yourself call beautiful, as to
your standard you are assessing it. And you’re saying the glory of
that little seed is that rose. In the other words, that flower is the
ultimate of that life, because that’s what a rose is all about. 

34.	You say, “Bro. Vayle, I prefer to eat the rose hips.” Well,
that’s your business. That’s your glory then. Contains vitamin C,
good for you. I never think of the rose hips when I see those roses. In
fact, I don’t think they actually produce rose hips. It’s the wild
ones that do it. A rose hip is a little pod, you know it, has the seed.
When you were a kid did you go up there in the prairies, if you had a
prairie like I did, and you found a pretty orangey and red rose hip; and
I didn’t know what I was doing, but we liked the taste. And we, you
know, carefully, like Jack Bell says, the mule eating buckberries, puts
his lips back and gets his teeth out so that the sprout, you know the
little thorns don’t pick him. We used to take those little things off
and nibble around. It tasted good. Pete you were from the prairies. Hey,
man, you go to Idaho, you look out and you see great big ones. I got
just salivating right when I saw them, several years ago. Never got
them, couldn’t relive my childhood. 

35.	 All right. 

	See? We may look at one manifested form of life and marvel at it and
then see another form that is far more overwhelming (that’s in our
eyes) and we see then that one glory can be greater than another glory
though both are glorious. 

	Like the church ages. What a glory when Luther came out. A greater
glory when Wesley came out. A greater glory when Pentecost, but for its
deliverance, what a glory there is today. And people look around and
say, “That Branham hogwash. What is that about a Pillar, a Pillar of
Fire? What is that about angels? What is that about being called
(te-hugh)? Why I spoke in tongues, Bless God.” Don’t mind me, I came
out of Pentecost, just thank God Pentecost came out of me. 

36.	Paul mentions in 1 Corinthians 15, “The glory of the celestial is
one glory, differing from the glory of the terrestrial.” And he said,
“Even in the celestial there is the glory of the sun, there’s a
glory of the moon, there’s a glory of the stars.” So is the
resurrected body. And the Bride has sections of glory, but every glory
is the perfect glory that God put in that particular one. 

	See? We’re jaundice today. How about, remember that song?
“Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes, I’ll never love blue eyes
again”--or have I got it opposite? See? You can... Your songs will
tell you. Somebody loves violets, little shrinky, pretty little velvety
purple violets. Where I come from they also had yellow ones. I guess you
got them here. And they got white ones. And a person looks at them and
replies, “Oh splendiferous.” And somebody sees a rose, forgets the
violet. And what about the Choy man’s and the Swiss with their
yodeling? They climb the Alps and see the, what is it, the Edelweiss?
From what I’ve seen a picture, wouldn’t give you a nickel for it.
You know what makes it so great, far as I know? It’s there up in the
snow--beautiful, under the condition. 

	I’m trying to show you something here: Glory is an assessment and we
can be a million miles off in our assessing. Because, everything God
made was perfect, therefore, everything was glorious and fully
appreciated. 

37.	What does America appreciate today? Dollars, dollars, dollars. So
Bush gets us in the Gulf war and everything else, because they’re
dollars, dollars, dollars. All Bush has got in his eyes (he’s a cash
register), and all he’s got in his eyes is dollar signs. And he’s no
different from Bill Clinton. If you think he is, you’re crazy. So I
don’t care who you put in office, I ain’t voting. Bush is going to
get in anyway. And the pope is going to take it over. He already has.
You want me to tell you something?  I don’t like to... You always cut
in on things. Aw, I’ll save it. A good preacher never diverts. I’m
not a good preacher. 

	So, the glory of the sun. You know something? You’re a couple of
young lovers, you’re out there in the sun, you can’t wait till the
night comes down and you can sit under ... a little hammock, or little
bitty swing, under the lilacs, under the moonlight, “moonlight and
lilacs”. Where’s the glory of the sun gone? But it’s glorious
there. 

38.	See, I want to try and show you something. There is nothing that
isn’t glorious. In other words, assessed and meritorious in its own
particular situation and in place and the sun is far glory as to its
intensity and brilliance. I admit it, far above the stars and all. But
listen, brother/sister, one day the sun will not give its light and the
moon will darken and the suns will fall, the heavens roll back as a
scroll, and the earth will vanish as a vapor; then the glory will be
gone--the manifestation. They’re going to perish. 

	Now watch. Both sacred and secular history is one long record of faded
glory and disappointment. The disappearing of glory, even as it is doing
now; today we are facing, not only faded glory, but a complete
annihilation of it. As thousands of species of original life have
already died and are now dying, never to be seen again on this present
earth. And even man is on his way out, because AIDS is a problem with
productivity; reproducing. Venereal disease kills you in four
generations. You could have three generations of babies before the last
one died an idiot. But you get pregnant with HIV one, two, and God knows
how many more, and those kids, those babies are dead. Man’s gone too
far, because, you see, the genetic pattern in the sprit demands certain
chemicals, certain chemicals only, in their own definitive measure, in
their own definitive way; and reproduction is a part of it. 

39.	So, let men and women go to sex and let them die, because they
don’t fear Him who can cast body and soul into hell. All they fear is,
O God, I want my body to have my fun. And that’s what the homo said,
and I heard him right on TV. I wasn’t watching TV, but I got my
daughter to give me, get the thing off on her TV. You say, that’s not
nice. She’s going to watch it anyway, so don’t fuss about it. And
those homos met with the congressmen, which, Dan O’Meir was one, and
his father Boyd in Cincinnati, great big fat blimp that didn’t have
the guts to stand up for anything, said, “Humph, humph, humph”. The
senator knew more than anybody, stood right there when they said,
“Listen, you birds. We like our sex, we’re going to have it our way
and when we get disease, you’re going to raise the money and you’re
going to cure us so we can do it all over again.” And I just say one
thing, they’re on their way out; and the whole human race. You say
what you want, I don’t care what you say, I go to the Bible. 

40.	So, we notice something here; Life reproduces itself until the last
means of reproduction is gone. There is no more strength. The seed runs
out. Now the usual run of life, reproduction, is by seed. In the spring
we plant our seeds; we see the glory of the life that is in the seed
come to maturity or its Epiphany. 

	Christ is in His Epiphany right now in the human race as to salvation.
Coming in to the Epiphany at this moment, it begins to rise in a
crescendo, until everybody comes out of the grave in the first
resurrection and we are changed--going to the general resurrection,
where the foolish virgin come out. In the meantime we meet at--when
another crescendo where we meet Him in the air and crown Him King of
kings, Lord of lords. Epiphany: the flash, the brilliance, an ultimate.
Now, in harvest time, we get the ultimate; the glory is faded. We’re
right back to the genetically coated pattern that was there in the
original, perhaps, not any more. But it has produced a carrier, so life
goes on. 

41.	Notice, like Christ’s ministry, look at Moses’ ministry. It was
a great ministry. We see Christ’s ministry in Moses. We see it in
Christ Himself. We see it in Paul, and in this day we see the ministry
in William Branham. Now that is a glory and it is a time of maturity, so
whatever is there, can reproduce itself for the final time. And the
final time is resurrection. 

	Now, what did Christ’s ministry do in Moses? It brought forth the
Word. What did it do in Paul? It brought forth the Word. What did it do
in William Branham? It brought forth the Word. And it’s the original
Word now in the people with the mind, the womb of the mind, thoroughly
clothed in the period of gestation to bring the inner man by the Word to
the place where He renews the outer man. That’s right. You say what
you want, I know I’m right. I don’t care what anybody says. I could
quote the prophet day in and day out, just get Dave on the computer,
tell him what to do. Bring them all up. I can’t quote, I know what
I’m talking about. I don’t have to quote. 

	But as we have stated, what if the last manifested form of a carrier is
eliminated? Like the passenger pigeon. And today thousands more. What
then? What then? It’s over, and anything left is valueless, it’s
‘burned’, quote. 

42.	Hebrews. Where am I going, tell me, what chapter? Oh come on you
scaredy cats, chapter 6. Come on, come on, come on. Verse 4.

(4) 	For it is impossible for those who were once and for all
enlightened, (that’s 	the seventh church age messenger)  and have
tasted the heavenly gift, partake of the Holy Ghost,

(5) 	Tasted the good word of God, the powers of the world to come, (In
other words, something starts at the endtime, goes right into eternity.
Blast off.)

	Now, what does It say?

(6) 	Having fallen away, they can not be renewed to repent; seeing  they
crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open
shame. 

(7) 	For (the reason is) the earth which drinketh in the rain that come
oft upon it, and brings forth herbs meet for them by whom it idressed,
receives blessing of God: (He’s got two hands, righthand and left
hand. One is blessing, one is cursing.)

(8) 	But that which bears thorns (the right hand we heard about,
blessing,) the left hand bears thorns is rejected, and is nigh to
cursing: whose end is to be burned. 

 	That’s the end of the carrier. Bride’s gone, foolish virgin is
killed, everybody else, go where? To the lake of fire.) 

	That’s why it says in Malachi: “Leaving neither root nor branch.”
And Bro. Branham categorically said, “There’s your lake of fire.”
All right. Yes, what then? That is the question. For there is no
manifested life that can not come to an end, when the last carrier dies,
which means the substance for that life, reproduction, accorded to the
created life or the uncreated life, within it, is gone. And life can no
longer form a carrier. You understand what I’m driving at? 

43.	What happens when you get HIV? It goes to the seminal fluids.
You’re finished. Everything is polluted, everything contaminated as
the days of Noah. The earth was polluted and therefore it brought forth
violence. Read it for yourself. Why are kids the way they act in school?
Because they get pure sugars; they get chemicals in their body that
destroy. 

	If I make a U-turn in the wrong place, they’ll fine me. If I spit on
the floor, they’ll fine me. If I pull a little deal on the fire
insurance, say, and I burn a little building down and collect money, I
get thrown in jail. If I rob a bank all the FBI and everybody in the
United States come and shoot me down. No problem. Ain’t no problem at
all. They got all kinds of laws, brother/sister, they’ll get you for
and everything else for. They’re out to get you there. 

	But what about this end time now. Hey? The endtime now comes under
judgment of Almighty God. The end time seed runs out. The end time seed
can get away--that is, just the worldly seed out there. They will induce
drugs in the school, it’s okay. And they’ll deny it. They’ll deny
everything under God’s high heaven. But as I said, you and I do a few
things, we can get thrown in jail, slapped with fines, everything else,
when it’s not consequential, really consequential. 

44.	Now, what is in the world today is so thoroughly destroyed mankind
that Bro. Branham said, “There’s nothing left in the soil.”
Everybody knows that. And he said, “Therefore, if the body turns to
mush what about the brain?” So what I’m trying to tell you is the
law does not protect us; the FDA does everything they can to produce
drugs and destroy us so we’re going to have to go to a doctor pretty
soon to eat a carrot, because it contains vitamin A. It’s finished.
There’s nothing left with life. So life ceases. 

	It goes back to the bank of God now. That’s what the Bible said.
“The spirit goes back to God who gave it.” How many robins did it
take to make billions of robins? Two. How many sparrows to make billions
of sparrows? (God knows He got trillions.) Two. Where do magpies come
from? Two. Life goes back to God. How do the animals come out of the
earth, and the fish out of the sea? They were there. God just put bodies
on them. The life genetically, spiritually padded, coded, brought it
forth. 

45.	You see, now, what I’m trying to show you: All Zoe is both life
and physical property. One without the other is not tenable. The very
life was made in order to have a carrier and a body. The invisible
things of God and their myriad’s and multitudes--there’s millions
out there--can be seen visibly by chemical products of the earth. 

	You tell me, anybody here, that you’ve got a chemical in your body
that wasn’t created by God, I say you’re nuttier than a fruit cake.
Where’d you go? Well I went up to Mars and got it. Well God made Mars,
too. Armstrong brought it back from the moon; God made the moon, too. So
I went to the Dead Sea and I got all those chemicals, like the goofy
latter-rainers, some of them anyway, they’re going to make, they’re
going to get a pill out of the Dead Sea. It’ll kill you. Going to make
you live for ever. I know, I know what they’re thinking of. That’s
Pentecost, they don’t care about the Word; they left it long ago. From
life’s creation, it is predestinated to some form of a body. 

46.	See? Zoe is both life and physical property. From life’s creation,
that’s spirit, it is predestinated to some form of a body. It
absolutely is. Form is as essential as life, because one is not without
the other, period. This is a hundred per cent Scriptural as we read in 2
Corinthians 5, we do not want to be disembodied. The natural instinct is
get into something else--a body. We even notice that in the two accounts
of creation in the forming of man, was, one was a spirit man, then the
spirit man was put in a body in order to propagate the species. 

	Spirits must have bodies in order to function. As Bro. Branham said,
“If a spirit, a wrong spirit comes in this room, he’s hopeless,
he’s helpless, until somebody gives way to him.” I saw that in Iowa.
Bro. Branham went to the arena that day and he just wanted to see, look
at the building, see what the acoustics were and see how the people were
going to be formed around him, because he just wanted to know like an
ordinary man. And lo and behold here was a couple in a wheelchair. For
so, Bro. Branham being a gentleman, went over to say, “How do you do?
God bless you.” 

	And a man standing by said, “Ha, ha, see how he does it? It’s all
ahead of time and then he puts notes and blah, blah, blah.” 

	 And that spirit got that man and it all but destroyed that whole
meeting. You never saw a meeting tougher than the hubs of hell itself. 

47.	That town died, until people from the outside came in and made the
meeting, like it was in Lima, Ohio. Nobody in Lima cared two bits for
anything. We prayed and--we prayed hour by hour (little Baptist church);
we prayed from five o’clock in the morning till ten o’clock at
night, and the last few weeks we had every night to pray. And a little
band of hard-shelled believers came in and God brought back the gift of
miracle healing, for the first time in five years; had fifty miracles in
fifty minutes. You can do that any time you bring the spirit out. 

	You say, “Bro. Vayle, do something.” 

	You do something. See, my gift isn’t for myself. I’ll leave this
meeting, forget what I even said. 

 	People phone, say, “Lee, you said so and so.” 

	 I don’t say , “Hey that sounds great it’s got to be true.” I
just say, “Oh that, thank you, I appreciate that.” Look, I’m
telling you, I’m telling you the truth. No man has a gift for himself.
Nobody has a gift for himself. But, I do thank God I remember some
things. 

	But as we said, “What if life runs out?” For the carrier is gone.
That is the question that Job asked. That is what Paul speaks of in 1
Corinthians when he proclaimed what Job asked about. Now, you can read
that in Job 14:1-15, Job 19:23,27, 1 Cor 5:19 and 2 Cor 5:1-5, which
means... Look it, I am not here as a disembodied spirit. I did not come
from a little tiny seed in God’s mind to come into the full
personality that God wants me to be; and I had to become that in a body.
I’m not getting rid of my body now; I want something to be in. See? 

48.	Let’s go to Job, just the same. Because, I think I remember
something about Job. I hope so. If I don’t, well, I’ll take the next
portion of Scripture. Okay, in Job, let’s go to Job 14 first. All
right. He said,

(1)	 Man that is born of a woman, (and so on.)

	 He’s talking about people, things coming up and things dying and how
that “Will a man live again?” You see. Notice in verse 10,

(10) 	But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and
where is he?

(11)	 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth
up:

(12) 	So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more,
and they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

(13) 	O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep
me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set
time, and remember me!

(14) 	If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed
time will I wait, till my change come.

(15) 	Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire
to the work of thine hands.

49.	Now listen to me, the spirit form was created, but the physical form
was formed by God’s hands. So Job said, “I am going to wait till
what God did with His hands, which is, my body comes forth.” Now
listen what he said in the 19th chapter. 

(23)	Oh that my words were written! oh that they were printed in a book!

(24) 	That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock
forever!

(25)	For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand as
latter 			day upon he earth:

(26) 	And after skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall
see God:

(27)	Whom I shall see for my self, and mine eyes shall behold, and not
another; though my reins be consumed within me.

50.	Let me tell you, we saw God when we saw William Branham. You say,
“Bro. Vayle, now you yeah--yeah--yeah--yeah, now you’re
blaspheming.” 

	Aw, shut up and go home. I’ll challenge you. You say you believe this
message, I’ll check it up, you come up and stand beside me. Come on,
have the guts. I’ve got the guts to challenge you. You’ve got about
250 people here. Not afraid of all of you put together. When you saw
that man doing those miracles concerning man’s, that was God in the
flesh. God was in that man. 

	Don’t try to finagle around, think you know the Word and you’re
somebody. Some stupid jerk sitting,

	“Well I got the Holy Ghost, Bro. Vayle, I spoke in tongues.” 

	You did? So did I. “Oh I had a vision.” 

	“How many?” 

	Compare yours with mine. I challenge you, all of you put together. And
I’ll bring witnesses. Come on, look I don’t know who you are,
brother, I challenge all of you. Get your witness, I’ll get mine.
I’ve got a phone right here, four, five phones in this building. Go
now. I’ll trace them down through the earth. 

	Prophecies, end upon end, one after the other. Dreams that I told,
right to pass, technicolor. Visions. I ain’t got nothing. Got nothing.
Not compared. You say, “Bro. Vayle, you had a bit of glory.” I saw
the glory that excelleth. I thank God that He gave me a dime’s worth,
although all the gold in your world couldn’t buy it. I’m making
comparison now as to glory. I stand with Lot, getting mad at the bums in
the street, but not moving away. You know what I’m talking about. 1
Cor 15:19. I don’t like to hurt anybody’s feelings that I make
challenges here, but I just want to know where I stand and where I want
you to stand. 

51.	Look, brother/sister, we are at the end; we are at the final glory,
as Bro. Branham said (this glory, I mentioned a while ago, there was
Luther, there was Wesley, Pentecost), he said the glory went, but he
said this glory will never fail, and it’s rising and rising and
rising. Oh yes, beloved brother/sister. I’m nothing but a
‘who-done-it’ from nowhere, or ‘who-didn’t-do-it’ from
nowhere. But don’t you get me confused with William Branham, the
prophet, the great man of God. 

	[1 Cor] 15:19 says:

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

	 If this is it. If I don’t come back as me, if you don’t come back
as you, you know something, the resurrection... 

	Hey look, we talk about the fact, Bro. Branham said, “How we ought to
love each other, how we do love each other because of this Word.” 

	And I know that that’s true. But it’s not ultimate truth in the
realization of what the real truth is when it goes into its right
manifestation. You understand what I’m saying? In other words, we got
the potential, but we aren’t quite there yet. 

52.	How would you like to have this Word just come through you this
morning, and just let your hair down and just really love everybody,
that love this Word? You say, Bro. Vayle, it wouldn’t be so hard if I
really knew some people’s hearts that really love the Word. Well, just
give them a chance, maybe they’ll come to it. Maybe they’re the
nickel, little five, little one cent piece like Lot. You know, even
Jacob got to be acting like a two-bit piece when he should have been a
silver dollar. Abraham blew it, so did Isaac. 

	Yes, we’re looking for that body. We can not be content without it,
because listen, it was in that life created and uncreated, eternal,
where those genes, (they were spiritual DNA and the RNA were) which is
the genetic circuitry that brought that to pass. 

53.	Now at this point, as I have said many times, concerning this hope
of the resurrection--that means earnest expectation--the simplicity of
God’s plan goes over our heads. Our ultimate is not to be unclothed.
Our ultimate is not to be unclothed. The ultimate is to be clothed with
what God ordained in the beginning and which lies within us to come
forth under its season appropriately under the right atmosphere. Huh?
Well that’s plant life. Now that’s--that’s every life. 

	You know what they did? Let me tell you. They made a test years ago on
cattle. They had some cows pregnant and they fed the first one wheat,
and they fed the next one corn, and the next one was oats, and the next
one was barley, and so on. Anyway when the tests came out, the cow that
gave birth with no problem, and a good calf, was corn. And the next was
oats. Wheat almost aborted. So I’m trying to show you something. All
life is the same way. It has something in it inherently from the
creation that demands certain specifics, and when it gets it, it comes
out. 

	That’s why Bro. Branham brought the Word, Spiritual Food in Due
Season. And has to come back to the place of recovery in order that the
man within us can now renew the outer man, because the inner man has now
the required nutrients that he needs in order to come forth and produce
a resurrection in that part of our body which is dying. So I’m trying
to tell you this, what life is all about is a body. 

54.	You say, “What about life?” I’m trying to tell you, you
can’t separate them. And if you’re separated, you got to go right to
the body which you bypassed, which is a Word body. And when they’re up
there, they want to come down here. And Paul said, “If I don’t come
back here, what’s been the use?” You see what I’m trying to do
with our minds this morning? To get us to understand what’s really in
the Bible, and not say, “Well you know, Bless God, I’d be satisfied
if I could just have this here.” Why don’t everybody just shut up
and become dumb before God and say, “Lord God, what is it that I’m
supposed to have?” 

	You know,...?... she was a sweet little kid. I don’t believe in women
preachers, but it’s okay, because she didn’t understand. As a tiny
girl her mother might say, “Now, what was her first name? “ ...?...
she was called...?... she was the old daughter. She married Clevron.
They produced every child who was a genius. Anyway, I can’t remember
names. But she--she would... Her mother would say, “Well dear, how
would you like to go to town with me, now downtown, down to the store
and we will buy you a new dress? And she said, “Mother, whatever the
Lord would like me to have, I would like that.” And she wasn’t some
little prissy, snot-nosed little kid that said, “Mother, whatever the
Lord wants me to have that’s what I want” and then...?... kick her
sister when her mother’s back was turned; or pinch, or steal a cookie.
The kid meant it. That’s why she was one of the most unique people
that ever lived. 

	And Bro. Branham...?..., he said, “I always have my way. I always do
what He wants me to do.” So, we’re talking now in the intimate terms
of the ultimate in God’s mind, which at this hour, according to
Scripture we have. You understand what I’m saying? I know you do
because, hey, enough of you have heard me preach enough times that you
got to know by now. All right, we understand that then. 

55.	All right, listen, now at this point as I have said many times
concerning this hope of the resurrection, the simplicity of God’s plan
goes over our heads. Our ultimate is not to be unclothed or in any way
be separated from what our stream of life brought forth, which means our
bodies. 

	The truth is seen in Gen 1:26 and 31, Gen 2:89, Gen 3:22, 24 and Rev
22:10-14. And you all know what those in Genesis are, first in the
flesh, I mean spirit, then in the flesh and then he tries to get to the
tree of life. See? An interruption took place. 

56.	Now in Rev 22:10-14, the seals are opened, and from that moment on,
when the seals are open, the righteous are righteous, the holy are holy
and so on, whatever they are, and they walk to the tree of life. What
does it? Wash their garments. What washing? Blood? Yes and no. They’ve
already been blood-washed and the blood fell upon the ground. What’s
it doing now? By the washing of the water of the Word for presentation,
Ephesians the 5th chapter. See? 

57.	Okay, now Bro. Branham spoke of God in simplicity. Or people always
missing what God is doing in this day, because it is so simple. The
simplicity of the Easter morning is under the seventh seal of a Roman
candle nature, whereby, Rev 10:1-7 comes into full effect with Rev 10:7,
shooting plumb off into eternity, because time now runs out by blending
into eternity and we have a strange mixture. 

	There’s a part of us who are Bride who are becoming eternal right
now. In the sense of our bodies, yeah. Okay, thus time and eternity are
both going on at the same time; with eternity taking over more and more
and more, there is now no more interruption. Eve interrupted the
program. What was the program? Get to the tree of life and live forever.
Not in a state of innocence anymore, but of righteousness. 

58.	 In other words, the full attributes of the life of God coming forth
into manifestation naturally, normally because the atmosphere and
everything is there is normal. And as Bro. Branham said, “During the
Millennium the devil is chained by circumstances.” And if the devil
was not destroyed, it wouldn’t make that much difference. He
wouldn’t bug us anyway. 

	Can I say to the rose, “Rose, fly”? 

	Say, “Hey, I’m not meant to fly.” 

	Oh, you aren’t? Well, hum, that’s new to me. 

 	Say, “Bro. Vayle...” 

 	Don’t Bro. Vayle me, I’m telling you the truth, because we as
Christians act pretty stupid at times. There will be no more
interruptions. Bro. Branham said so. 

	It began shooting off into a glory, into another glory and higher and
higher. It will take us right to the resurrection. It will take us
through the resurrection. It will take us to immortality. It will take
us to the gathering--the assembling. It will take us in the rapture. It
will take us to the marriage supper. It will bring us back on earth and
take over one thousand years and go on and on. It will take us to the
White Throne where we become attorneys. More and more into the image.
Why? Because, it was in the genetic pattern. As Bro. Branham would say
after...?... O hallelujah, as he looked forward. And the only reason I
say it, is not because I feel it, I knew he did, and I’ll say it for
him. That’s what we’re getting at. That’s what we’re seeing. 

59.	That is why Bro. Branham said, “Just live Godly lives in
simplicity, don’t look for great things.” The great thing is going
on in us if we’re born again and Bride. “Well Bro. Vayle I want this
gift, I want that gift.” Want all you want. There’s going to come a
day when He’s going to say, “Hey, what about... O well Lord, listen,
hey, hey, hey, now don’t count me out because I raised the dead, I did
miracles, I prophesied in Your name, I spoke in tongues, I did this and
I did that.” He said, “Get away, I never knew you.” 

	Do you realize that doing iniquity, the speaking in tongues and all of
these things, and Bro. Branham said--iniquity, said, “There is
something that you know to do and you don’t do it.” And you can just
reverse it, there is something that you know you shouldn’t do and you
do it anyway. It’s called sins of omission and sins of commission. You
say, what--do they know better? The prophet told them said, “I never
knew you.”

	 Jesus stands in the congregation, and he sings praises unto God, and
he’s not ashamed of us fellows out here. Why? We’re his brethren.
Oh, you mean we suffered and died and we lived? Oh no, no, you came from
one source. Genetics. That is why Bro. Branham said, “Just live those
good lives.” 

60.	The great thing has already occurred, proven and chronicled. We know
about it. It’s going on, already since Rev 10:4 was given. The book
was sealed and opened at Rev 22:10. We are actually now, as I have said,
in Rev 22:11-15, going to the tree of life and becoming immortal. The
separation has already occurred by the Word, the Judge has already
pronounced condemnation upon everybody but the Bride. For even the
foolish virgin (now get this flat and understand and don’t think you
know something that the prophet didn’t know) because the prophet said,
“The foolish virgin is classified right there with the unrighteous and
the filthy.” 

	 Say, “Bro. Vayle, I just couldn’t believe that God would do
that.” 

	Well, you see, He did it. His fan is in His hand; He’s thoroughly
purging the floor to gather the wheat into the garner. 

	Listen, you can not understand Hebrews , and what went on in this world
and not know that the wrath of God is now upon those who hold back the
truth in unrighteousness; and unrighteousness is an act of worship
contrary to the revealed Word of God. You say what you want, I’ll take
you right to the Book. Because, the whole thing has to do with worship.
It ends up in a time of worship. Notice, how the whole world has gone
religious. It is now Christians against Mohammedans. Yeah. 

	Will get you something, where is it? Oh yeah, Galatians, if I can find
it. You know I’m a very poor Bible student, can’t find things Yeah,
here it is here. It says... He’s talking about the seed, Abraham’s
seed by two women. And there’s an allegory. One born by free, one born
free woman, which was by promise, the other by a bond servant. And it
says now, Mount Sinai, that’s Hagar... which is Jerusalem now and in
bondage with her children. 

61.	Now listen, that is one of the progenitors of all that eastern bunch
that the Semites, that came from Shem. Arabs, the whole bunch of them,
and they have become absolutely militant. And that’s where the whole
destiny from now on is centered in a religious center and all religions
are going toward it. Forget your politics. What happened to Russia, see?
Don’t fool with it; it isn’t worthwhile. So...?... you see there
then. 

	Now, Bro. Branham said categorically, “We are now Easter.” Did he
or did he not? Didn’t we just finish Easter Seal a while back? We
finished one of them. I never remember what I preach on. What
twenty-three sermons on Easter Seal? Oh it wasn’t The Rising of the
Sun, it had to be Easter Seal, because it’s right here. He said, “We
are Easter.” The resurrection is on via the shout. Right. 

62.	John 5, we read it, 28 and 29. “The hour is coming and now is,
when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God.” He said,
'”It’s coming,” and it is and He said the same of Elijah. He is
coming and he is, with a shout. Who came down? Jesus. Not the Jesus that
you see in the body. We’re talking about Jehovah Himself, Elohim, with
the redemptive understanding, role and title. He’s down here and He is
putting all things under the feet of Jesus. Which means, He’s making
everything propitious for the Bride so that she’s a hundred per cent
susceptible and ready for the marriage supper. See? 

	That hour now is, because there is a repeat.  It has occurred, and is
occurring by 1 Th 4:16. We know that. And in 2 Th 1:7-10, we have the
mighty angels coming down and the vindication that, “You that are
troubled rest with us when the Lord--(and relax,) when the Lord Jesus
Christ shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flames
of fire taking judgment on them that believe not the gospel of the Lord
Jesus Christ:” But He says He’s going to bring you in at the same
time. That exactly is the Judge. Bro. Branham, behind the curtain of
time, he was up there. And in there when they... 

	He said, “Well...” 

	They said to him, “You’re going to be judged by the gospel you
preached.” 

	 He said, “I preached exactly what Paul preached.” 

	And they said, “We’re resting on that.” 

	 See? They were waiting to come back in a resurrection.  

63.	Now listen carefully. Bro. Branham had another vision, not a vision,
I beg your pardon. He was standing on a platform and Bro. Arganbright
took a picture, and, it was in California; I’m not quite sure where it
was. Anyway, out there, California. It’s a picture of those lilies;
became magnified through the camera. Now, this was not a Polaroid to my
knowledge. It was a regular good camera. Polaroid’s can fool you. The
lilies were magnified. There were nine licks of fire upon the altar;
there was a special buckler around him; there was a man who looked like
a death’s head in the back. There was another man, looked like a young
man in front. 

	And one day Bro. Branham was sort of being critical; well what it was,
it was self-pity, is what it was. He was getting feeling sorry for
himself, and he thought that he wasn’t being encouraged enough, and
God said, “Well just a minute, why should I further encourage you?”
The angel came. “So why should I further encourage you, when you
disregard the encouragement I gave you?” Well he said, “What
encouragement did you give me?” He said, “Pull out the picture from
under your bed in your briefcase.” 

	So he pulled out that briefcase and there was this picture, magnified.
And He said, “See?” And He explained, He said, “See those nine
licks of fire? There’s the nine gifts of the spirit. You haven’t
lost one of them.” Then he told what the buckler was all about. And
then he said, “See that in the back?” He said, “That’s the outer
man perishing, and the one in front is a new man--is the inner man being
renewed.” 

64.	Now listen, he missed standing here, because prophets invariably
die; they’re taken away. But it was the picture that you and I now
glory in. Now, the inner man doesn’t go by feelings. It’s the outer
man. The inner man only goes by revelation and the outer man can help
him, because you got a skull and you got a brain in there. And you got a
mind and the mind is part of the spirit; and it is the spirit that
brings you contact out here. Now remember, before you were born, you did
not have a certain physical life that you got when that spirit was there
waiting to receive itself into your body. But you did have another kind
of life there, which was the soul life. 

	Remember the Mormon that Bro. Branham talked to--flying him around. The
Mormon--the young Mormon, he was bemoaning the fact that his wife just
about brought a baby to birth and then lost it. And he said, “Don’t
worry,” he said, “You’ll see the baby in the resurrection.” Baby
wasn’t born, was jerking muscles and nerves. 

	The soul that built a house, but you’re tripartite. So, now you got a
soul that built a tabernacle, and the tabernacle must now have that
which is able to contact out here in the sensate, yet being spiritual.
So spirit receives him. Bro. Branham intimated, could be a doctrine, I
can’t say, sounded like it was a doctrine. And God made all those
angels and one-third fell, and two-thirds stayed right. That they’re
actually those angel beings that inhabit the bodies as we come down.
That sure could tell a lot of things. And that sure explains to me
exactly why homosexuality is in the land. The dirty, rotten homosexual
devils down there in Sodom and Gomorrah, they’re taking billions of
kids right from birth. Science is saying, “Hey, it’s genetic.” Oh
I love the Bible, it just opens up everything. 

65.	All right. Beyond the curtain of time in the vision there, shows we
are in, what Bro. Branham said, “Easter” Now let’s conclude. And
I’m concluding with maybe a few minutes, yeah, few minutes. From this
day on may God give us grace or a gentle shove;  or better still, a body
and soul-shaking dynamic shove in our spiritual conscience to look    at
our hands and faces and see them before us as Naaman, or Job, Abraham
and Sarah, through the God-given faith that’s vindicated and lies
within us. Our footsteps becoming light, a spring in our walk, and a
vision of all of our loved ones coming up to our doors to greet us. And
they knock on the door and we see them, and it’s instantaneous mutual
joy, because we know we’ll soon be in the resurrection with them. 

	And all of us resurrected in an ultra-sensate glorified body (that’s
our portion), going to the marriage supper and crowning that great
God-spirit that’s in our midst, King of kings and Lord of lords,
who’ll be the Son of God, the Son of Man, the Son of David, the
altogether lovely, the Alpha and the Omega, the ever living God. Today
is Easter; it is resurrection. The very presence and ministry of the Son
of Man has proven that Jesus has risen from the dead, and if as Alpha,
He brought forth the Old Testament Bride, as Omega, He’s obligated to
bring forth the New Testament Bride. According to Bro. Branham, it is
going on now. 

 	The Scriptures of Rom 8:11 that tell us the spirit that dwells in us
now is the same spirit that raised Jesus Christ from the dead, has
guaranteed us the resurrection even as it says in Eph 1:13 and 14. The
same Ephesians book tells us that that same spirit that’s in us in a
modicum way, showing that we are the Sons of God, sealing us back to
God, the very Progenitor, the very Creator, the very God Himself is here
in our midst revealing Himself to the end that there will be a
resurrection. 

66.	Now brother/sister, listen to me. Let us ask God this morning to
believe this as we never have believed it before. When Paul said, “You
received the Holy Ghost, which is the earnest of your redemption of the
purchased possession unto the praise of His glory.” Which means the
resurrection of our body. 

	He said, “Listen, I always praise God for you, making mention of you
in my prayers that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
glory, may it be your portion.” He said, “As the true Bride, that
the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of Him...” Now
this is not the baptism, this is the spirit of God coming at another
time; and I’ll tell you when He comes. [Ephesians 1:]

(18)	The eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you may  know
what is the hope of His calling and what the riches of the glory of His
inheritance in the saints, 

(19)	And what is the exceeding greatness of His power to usward who
believe, according to the working of His mighty power, 

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

	It says right here when that spirit, right there caught in that
picture, is in the midst of the church, He is here for the purpose of
giving us the true revelation which is going to bring about a
resurrection. You say what you want. That’s the Bible. That’s THUS
SAITH THE LORD, from the written Scripture and that’s exactly what
Bro. Branham taught. 

67.	And who’s going to say we’re not in the resurrection now?
“Well, Bro. Vayle, I don’t feel it.” Well, actually, you’re not
asked about your feelings. You’re not asked. You, now, you’re not
asked to advise God or give a comment. You know when heaven is full of
what? Holy, holy, holy, amen, amen, amen, hallelujah, hallelujah,
hallelujah. You say, “Well, God’s got a bunch of yes men.” O God,
and I hope I’m one of them. I hope. I have said, “no” too long.
You think my mind doesn’t go haywire? Come on, I’m human. More human
than you are, more gullible. 

	I came out of Pentecost, you know. Open the refrigerator door, your
wife does, and it’s black and you say, “Oh my God, my wife’s
backslidden.” Then you go over there and open the refrigerator door
and the light goes on. “Ho, ho, thank God. She’s backslid, I’m
okay.” Or vice versa. “Oh pray for me, dear, because I’m backslid.
The light didn’t go on.” 

	What a foolish thing to compare any gift, or anything we have or might
have, along with the understanding of God speaking by a prophet, giving
an absolute vindication that it is God, that it is His man, that it is
His Word. 

	 And Bro. Branham said, “Listen, we are resurrection.” And I have
news for you from the Judge Himself, “You are the perfect, righteous,
sinless, spotless Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ.” You didn’t even
do it in the first place, it was all a trick foisted upon you. And Jesus
stood there as a scapegoat. He didn’t do it either. He took the blame.
God taking full responsibility. 

68.	Listen, is God responsible for that? Is God response--who is, what
is? You, that have had your troubles, mostly up here, rest with us, calm
yourself down, relax. You’re in the resurrection. The Judge stood at
the door, standing at the door. You union guys, don’t worry about your
wages, you’re not going to get them. Forget it. “Go to, you rich
man, weep and howl, your misery’s come upon you, because you held the
wages back. Listen, let’s get to the Bible. Come on. 

	Let’s open our hearts this morning and say, “God bring us back to
Your Word, just bring us back to your Word, clear all the debris out.”
I want that. I don’t know if I’m going to get it this side of the
resurrection, but is anything I’ve cried for all of my life and all of
my days, and Bro. Branham said, “If there’s a deep calling,
there’s got to be a deep out there to answer it.” God just get me
one with Your Word and away from everything else because nothing else is
worthwhile. 

	Job came to the same place, “I know one thing, I’ll be satisfied
what day when I wake in Your likeness.” And his soul cried out, “I
know that I’m going to stand on earth”, and we already are standing
with him, for the Pillar of Fire will lead us to the Millennium. 

69.	Now, ask you one question. Jesus gave a parable, He said to Israel,
He said, “Israel, I want to tell you something; I found a piece of
land for you. I cleared out the stones. I fertilized it.” He said,
“I made it beautiful, I had it irrigated.” He said, “There
wasn’t anything I didn’t do; and I planted you as a vine.” But
when the time came to get the grapes, just a few sour grapes. And He
said, “What more could I have done?” 

	Now, lets answer the question once and for all, in the light of what we
believe to be a vindicated prophet who brought a message. What more
could God have done? What more could you and I ask? And the first thing
your lips will come to is the lips of a human being that said to Jesus,
“Give us a sign.” 

	 And He said, “You’ve had it.” 

	And Bro. Branham said, “You had your last sign.” 

70.	You say, “Bro. Vayle, you leave me in a kind of a numb
condition.” Huh? I can’t do anything for you; I can’t do anything
for myself. But there is a thing we can do, is make a decision to give
one last look to the pit of denomination, fundamental theology, corrupt
divination’s and all else; one last look--and we don’t even need it,
but if we have to look at the pit from whence we are digged, and from
that time on march toward the greater glory. Because there isn’t
anything else left. We’re going on. Let’s bow our heads in prayer.

	Heavenly Father, we want to thank You for the time we’ve had together
in Your Easter morning. And we know, Lord, that because it signifies
resurrection, and that is what You want for us, and that is what Your
children are going to get, then anything else, short of that is going to
be an abortion. And anything over that is going to be a cancer or a
tumor. So, we’re not between a rock and a hard place, we’re in a
good place. We know what Your decision and Your omnipotent and
omniscient essentiality has brought forth as a true parent for his own
issue. Lord, we may be talking just with our tongues and off the top of
our head, but thank God, at least we’re this far. 

	To believe, as the prophet said, we got the mechanics, we’re waiting
for the dynamics which is true now, that the dynamics are coming even
more and more into the true mechanics, because he said all the seed
needed was to be properly fertilized and properly brought together under
the correct fertilization, which certainly would be the soul of man and
the spirit of God coming together. Put in the correctly fertilized
ground, which we know positively we’re in that particular hour and
period at this point, all it needs is the sun and the rain, which we
certainly have; because we’re in Your Presence it will bring forth as
he said, “I the Lord God have planted, watered, unless any man pluck
it out of my hand. 

	We believe, Lord, that’s our lot this morning and we’re making
confession with our lips, no matter what any influence might bring;
anything might be a contra-indication, it doesn’t matter, we stand
with vindication, as the prophet said we would have to come to, live,
die, sink or swim. The minds, the hearts, the souls are closed to
everything else. 

	And like blind people that know they’re irrevocably blind, no longer
seek something that pertains to a natural light. It’s gone. There’s
only one thing now and that’s the inner light. Down in our hearts it
can lead, guide and direct us, which Word we have hid in our heart--the
revealed living vindicated Word--we might not sin against Thee, but walk
in the directed paths with the light in the lamp of Your Word that we
might not stumble. Correcting our ways when dubious. Knowing that there
is a voice now within us based on that uncorrupted Word that teaches us
as we go down the way of life. This is the path, walk ye therein. 

	Lord we’re casting all our cares upon You this morning, according to
Scripture, that you said, “You that are troubled rest with us.” And
there never was a more troublesome time than this, especially in the
hour of understanding through the ignorance of mankind and the perverted
theology of the churches. There never was a more troublesome time. Yet,
Lord, in the highest tempest upon the sea, you went right to sleep,
knowing that you’re going to go right through every single storm. Help
us, Lord, to become absolutely sleepy and just sleep in the boat as it
progresses through the storm with You at the helm. As Bro. Branham said,
the boat absolutely is able to crest every wave; the sails have been
properly set; the ballast is exactly right. We’re going right on
through. 

	We say with Bro. Branham, Lord, which is the truth, he said, “If
we’re not Bride, there’s a Bride out there somewhere,” and by the
grace of God we won’t stand in her way. That’s our stand this
morning, Lord, as a people one--all of us together. 

	We thank you now, Father, we believe you heard and answered our
prayers. John told us if we know You hear us, we know we have the
answer. And I know, Lord, You always hear Your Word, and if we’re
wrong, you’ll correct us. Because that was told us by vindication.
Accept us this morning, Lord, just as we are and may we turn over to You
the full responsibility of our lives and respond to Your grace in every
measure. That’s what we really want, Lord. 

	We don’t just want eyes that look out and look in at the same time.
We’re getting cross-eyed doing that, Lord. That’s no good for
anybody. It gives double vision, puts stumbling blocks out there. God,
we want an eye single to You this morning. I believe that’s guaranteed
to us. So we praise Your name. In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.