Messiah & Messiah-ettes #2

The Edifying of the Body of Christ

March 4, 1990

	Shall we pray. Heavenly Father we know that the apostle Paul had the
Word of Life, and we know that was Word by Word as You gave It to him
and he gave It to the others. And we know that he prayed one time,
asking You and asking the people to pray for him concerning his
utterance and boldness of speech. And we know it must have cost him
something, therefore, to say the things that he said which came from
You. And we know that one day he gave his life for the very Word that
You gave him to give to others. That was a great price to pay, but he
was glad to pay it, Lord.

	Now here we are at the end time. We don’t have that price, evidently,
to pay, but we do have a great price of the battle of our minds to come
back to what Paul actually said, which we believe we know by divine
revelation which has been vindicated.

	Now I pray this morning is to help us to say what Paul said, to say it
in the spirit that Paul said it, with the correctness that Paul said it,
Lord. And then may it have the effect that it’s supposed to have at
this end time which will surely exonerate a people for Your Name. We
give ourselves to You, Lord, this morning knowing we already have Your
attention and You’ve already heard us. And we know, Lord, that You
will answer our prayer. May we be in a position to receive that answer.
In Jesus Name we pray. Amen. 

	Now you may be seated.

1.	Now we’re studying this morning further on the little subjects of
“Messiah & Messiah-ettes”. And we put a little bit of Scripture on
the board there in order to give you an understanding as to why Bro.
Branham actually said that we were Messiah-ettes.

2.	Now you look at the thought that Bro. Branham said that the Bride is
Mrs. Jesus. That’s quite easy to understand because He gave His Name
for us and to us. But when you come to the statement where he said the
Bride was Messiah-ettes, individual members, you understand that has to
come through an identification. And that also has to come by the power
of God, doing office work that He wants done in and through a Bride,
which will extend to the world in order to bring others in. And you can
take that too far, or you can take it, as many people do, not far
enough. There’s always a danger of people going to the extreme side of
the roads when it comes to doctrines, especially doctrines like this
particular one.

3.	Now, we started with showing you, as Jesus said, God is a spirit,
He’s invisible; no man has seen God at any time. He’s invisible,
He’s a spirit, and He must be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth.
Isaiah said concerning God, God speaking through Isaiah, he said,
“There was no god before me, there is no god beside, there is no god
after me. I am God.” Singularly, one God. Then we find that God had a
Son. 

	And he mentions that in Ps 2:7. Wherein he said, “I have begotten
thee—this day have I begotten thee.”

	Now this one that he begot was utilized as Creator, God in him
creating. We know that all things were created by Christ Jesus, the
worlds and everything else. And we know that this One here is the very
image of God, the very substance of God because He is the Son of God. He
said, “I came from God and I go back to God.” John said concerning
Him, that no man has seen God, the Only-begotten of the Father has
thoroughly led him forth or declared him by words, or exigesisized him
by words. And then, we find that Jesus himself mentions the fact of the
former glory that He had with the Father: that He emptied Himself of
that glory and became a human being like unto us in order that He would
be able to bring us the complete salvation that God had for us,
glorifying God and actually glorifying us.

4.	Now, there’s a Scripture I didn’t read last night, but over here
in 1 Cor 8:6, It says here:

(6)	But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things,
and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we
by him.

	Now, notice that again.

(6)	But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things,
and we in him; (Now, notice the intermediary capacity there.) and one
Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things, and we (in) him.

	You’ll notice in there that’s the very same thing he said before,
that all things were created by God by Christ Jesus. And we see the
Scripture never ever fails. It’s always in this particular manner that
God is revealing Himself. And not only revealing Himself as a
revelation, but He’s revealing Himself through what He is doing. And
all these things are done through Christ Jesus.

	Now, that’s a great mystery, and there’s nothing we can do about
it, except we accept it. And this One is the Son of God.

5.	Now, as Bro. Branham said concerning Philippians, God poured into
Christ all that was in God. Now, what you’re looking at there is the
fact that he said, “All the attributes of Godhead were in Christ
bodily.” Now, that doesn’t necessarily apply, as far I understand
it, to magnitude, but as to multiplication. In other words, it isn’t
to be expected ‘in Christ’ that when He was on earth here, all that
was poured into Him. You’re looking all the way back and seeing what
He did before there was even a speck of stardust and what He did moving
on down and down. But, as we look at Him in the human form, that is
still there, but you’ll notice He is not creating worlds. He is not
doing those things He did previously, but it all lies there. 

6.	Now, notice also, what Bro. Branham said, which the scholars say:
that all that he poured into Christ He poured into the Church. Now, when
you’re looking at that particular aspect, you’re looking now in the
frame of redemption. So, what Christ poured into the Church was all that
He accomplished redemption-wise, and all that will be done will be done
by Him in the future of New Jerusalem and all these things, because of
this redemption that has been wrought out for us and in us. 

	We went right down the line showing you also what we found in “Who Is
This Melchisedec?” Where we’re going back to see, that as God came
from Christ, not having bypassed the form of glory which He laid aside,
we did bypass it—so that when we were in Him, and the decision was
made for us but in us and through us in Christ, that decision was that
we would not have that form of body that He had, having laid it aside to
come down into a form of earth which He would later lay aside and come
down and redeem us, and take us into a higher position than there would
be in a position which was simply one of that particular spirit body and
whatever it would be involved in. There was a greater involvement and a
greater glory involved and allowed us because of this particular realm
or age that we entered into. All right.

7.	Now, we came down to a conclusion, and the conclusion was found over
in Rom 11:36. And Paul uttered this, and he said:

(36)	For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be
glory for ever.

	Now, that we looked at there was the fact, if this is a simple
statement of fact; and it is: “For of him, and through him, and to him
are all things,” then, whatever he was, as Paul mentions here, then we
are a part of it. That’s what we’re looking at and that’s why I
was careful to take a long time last night in laying a foundation of who
these Messiah-ettes actually are. Now, they end up as New Jerusalem,
which was the Bride coming down from heaven adorned for the Lord Jesus
Christ. And then, from that time on, there would be an eternal kingdom
which was the ultimate, the consummate, the fulfillment of God and also
for us. All right now.

8.	We’re going to go to the Book of Ephesians 3:8-12. Now Paul says
here: 

(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 (Now the word is interpolated, but it means
‘all’, actually the sons, those that are of God.) see what is the
fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath
been hid in God, who created all things by Christ Jesus: (Now, watch.)

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

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

(12)	In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of
him.

	Now you notice in here what we are looking at is an eternal purpose of
God. Now, watch what It says. It says here, “To make all see what is
the fellowship of the mystery.” And I don’t think that’s just
merely all the sons of God, but I think it’s angels and everything
else because It tells you going into a higher level. 

(9)	To make all to see (anything that can see) what is the fellowship of
the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God,
(Now, notice where it started, it was right way back there in God.
Notice:) who created all things by Jesus Christ: 

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

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

(12)	In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of
him.

9.	Now, let’s go back to Eph 1:3. It’s going to be the same thing.

(3)	Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath
blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

(4)	According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the
world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.

	Now we’re right in the Messiah, crucified before the foundation of
the world; we are right in this person, the Son of God. Do you
understand what we’re saying? Now this is a mystery. It’s mind
boggling, and people don’t want it because it limits the atonement. It
limits the Bride. It limits redemption. It limits everything to the
knowledge and power of God, what God wanted and what God is going to
get. 	

	This is not some ceremony where a triune God and the Father made some
kind of a mistake. His children became a bunch of renegades. I do not
believe in one minute concerning the doctrine of reprobation. I am not a
reprobate; I am a Son of God gone astray. I didn’t even ask for it. I
am a sheep that lost his shepherd. 

10.	So, I don’t believe that junk that people preach. And let me tell
you this: the Catholic Church hates this and ninety-nine percent of the
Protestants. You’ve only got a few willy-nilly people out there that
have anything to do with this understanding, that we were in God. 

	They say, “How could you be?” 

	That’s God’s business, and I’m not about to stick my nose in it.
But I’m about to lap up the water of life and the good food, like a
hound dog, that God would give me. 	

11.	All right now, It says right here, “having predestinated us to the
placing of children.” What’s the placing of children? It’s not
that you aren’t children, it’s a placing you. Placing you in a body,
placing you in a Bride, placing you in New Jerusalem. See? According to
the good pleasure of His Will. And it’s got to be done by Jesus
Christ. See? 	

	Look, how does a man have babies? He has it through his wife. How do we
come from God? Through Jesus Christ? I’m not making Him feminine.
I’m just telling you we’re in Him. Because sons would have to be in
Him. Because we’re talking of Messiah and Messiah-ettes. We’re
talking now of a particular position we have which is identical to His
in essentiality but not in volume, and not in degree or pre-eminence. Do
you see? 

12.	[Ephesians 1]

(7)	In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of
sins, according to the riches of his grace;

(8)	Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;

(9)	Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his
good pleasure which he purposed in himself:

(10)	That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather
together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and
which are on earth; even in him:

(11)	In whom we have also obtained an inheritance, being predestinated
according to the purpose of him that worketh all things after the
counsel of his own will:

(12)	That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in
Christ.

	And then It tells you how you get in the body of Christ, and nobody
that is seed will get in there, because the baptism with the Holy Ghost
is reserved for seed: because you are sons. Now you see what you got
here; you got a purpose. You got a purpose of God as to placing of sons,
and with the placing of sons—limitless inheritance. Every single thing
that God could conceive and worked out by Christ, we in Christ did it. 

13.	Now, let’s go to Ephesians 3 again. And notice what It says:

(8)	Unto me, who am the (least) of all saints, is this grace given,
(What grace? The revelation and the ability to preach it, backed up by
God.) 

	Because He said from Illyricum to Jerusalem, and all around the world
know him, He said I’ve got a vindicated ministry. I never came to you
popping off at the mouth. I never came to you telling things I
couldn’t back up. God stood there and backed it up.

14.	Now, listen. Oh, brother/sister, don’t give way to this hogwash
that’s in the world where, “You know, we got a book here and you
know—and since it was written, hallelujah, you know we don’t have to
have any, you know, angels or messengers, or we don’t need prophets,
and we...” 

	How do you know this is backed up? The majority of people don’t even
believe what I am preaching, that Paul was vindicated. He just came,
zoom, like a whirlwind from the Pillar of Fire, and he went to the
heathen and said, “This is so and that’s so.” 

	You know what they’d tell him? “You stupid jerk, we know all about
virgin born sons of God.” Fap! 

	You think the Jews were impressed that Jesus was virgin born? Hogwash!
Well, they said, “We know all about that: the monks get with nuns and
have babies, then blame it unto God.” 

	Listen, don’t ever think for one minute this age is going to close
with anything but the power of God manifested. And, as they’ve lost it
back in those days, they lose it today. Don’t ever kid yourself. Stand
with this thing. It’s the only hope you’ve got because nobody’s
producing anything. And don’t look for a perfect church. I haven’t
got the right to believe everybody here or myself is all going to make
it. We’ve got a right to believe we’re going to. Let’s keep
reading. 

15.	He said, “I’ve been given this...”

(9)	To make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery… 

	Paul stood there and he said, “I’ve got a commission from God
that’s been granted me by revelation which has been vindicated that
the world is going to stand back in the future and all the things that
are brought together are going to stand back and see that I had the
revelation.” 

	You say, “Hey, Paul, you’re a big mouth.” 

	He said, “Come and stand beside me.” 

16.	William Branham did that in Chicago with the Pentecostals and all
the rest of... There’s a bunch of other Protestants, I think there was
a Catholic priest there, too, but I’m not sure. And the Pillar of Fire
hung right there, and he preached one God, and baptism in the name of
the Lord Jesus Christ. He said, “Bring your Bibles and stand beside
me.” And when they didn’t move, he said, “You’ve got more sense
than I thought you had.” You know why? He told me. He said, “Lee,
had one man moved, they’d have carried him out feet first, struck down
by the Pillar of Fire.” 

	You say, “Well, that-that-that man, he was just talking.” 

	Now, why do you believe anything Paul said? You weren’t there two
thousand years ago. You’re just believing a book, and no book ever
proved itself. If that were the case, I’d write anything and say,
“That will prove itself.” 

	Yeah, it’ll prove itself, like a bunch of jerks out here who hear
muttering and mumbles and mumbling and see little blue lights, and they
hear voice and write it down, and people follow by the millions. Like
the bunch of stupid Mohammedans. That’s all right; they take the
sword, they’ll die by the sword. Where do most of those people come
from? They came from lust and sex the same as the serpent seed came in
the Garden of Eden—the Ishmaelites and the Edamites. Edam wasn’t so
bad, but the Ishmaelites were. That was a pure case of hogwash. He never
should have had her in my books. 

17.	Now, he said:

(9)	Make (everybody) see the mystery, 

(10)	To the intent that now unto principalities and powers in heavenly
places might be made known by the church (made known by the church.) 

	In other words, where is God going to work Himself out? The same as He
worked Himself out by Christ Jesus, He works Himself out by the church. 

	The Catholic Church stands back and says, “We’re going to bring the
Millennium on.” Everybody’s running to the pope, running to the
pope. Tell me one thing the pope says that’ll come to pass. Let him
give one evidence, any pope, of ever having anything. Check their
whoredoms. Check where some have their own sisters, and the papal choirs
were filled with illegitimate kids. They’ve got a record of sin and
death and degradation. Protestants are no better. 

18.	I’m just trying to tell you something. God hasn’t spoken in any
church. He doesn’t speak by any church, and He’s not in any church.
He’s in His Word; He only backed His Word. He wasn’t backing the
apostle Paul. Don’t give me that junk that He backed the apostle Paul
or that He backed William Branham. Forget it. He backed His Own Word.
That’s what Paul says right here. He said I’m vindicated, because
I’m bringing you the proper, correct and right revelation. Absolutely.


19.	Now, what we’re talking about, then, from this message which I
backgrounded last night and talked now this morning to you, is the fact
that that’s Messiah that was the full representation of Almighty God,
and in the church lies the ability of what we call the trickle down
economy where Jesus said, “I’m gonna come back to the church. I will
not leave you as orphans.” He said, “I will come, my Father will
come, we will come.” And the Bible said that one which went down into
the lower parts of the earth, and that was not His body, it says that
went up and came down again. And He was there in a Pillar of Fire. And
little pieces broke off when they were baptized with the Holy Ghost,
signifying from that time on, believers would receive the baptism with
the Holy Ghost. Then on the road to Damascus, He appeared one more time,
and He gave the revelation to Paul and He went away. And He did not
return as the Pillar of Fire until the twentieth century. And we have
His photograph. 

20.	You say, “I don’t believe that.” 

	You don’t have to believe nothing. The man was vindicated. You
don’t believe in a God of integrity. This God that Bro. Branham talked
about is in the Bible, and He came and said, “In the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ, THUS SAITH THE LORD.” And it never failed. 

	Now, if that wasn’t the true God backing up that prophet’s words,
which was the Word of God in the mouth of a prophet, then God is some
kind of a sap and a fool. Because you can’t even come to me and say,
“Bro. Vayle, I understand you’re going to give me a hundred
dollars.” I ain’t going to give you nothing. You know why? Because I
didn’t say I would. Then why would God back up a prophet if God
wasn’t saying it?

	You think God—oh you say, “Well, I think that’s to catch the
people.” 

	Huh? What are you trying to tell me? That God will foul His name and
His integrity to fool people? Boy, oh boy. I’ve never heard such crass
blasphemy all my life. Never in my life. But you got ‘em. They sit
with you, eat with you and everything else. They don’t believe what
you’re saying. They’re just waiting for the day, they think we’re
gonna prove you a fool. I’m going to tell you one thing, there’s a
judgment and we’re in it right now. Because the Bible says so. 

	All right, listen; that’s what we’re looking at. 

21.	We’re looking at over here in Romans 11, and Paul is speaking
here, Rom 11:26-36. And he says:

(26)	So all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come
out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
(Now this is Messiah.)

(27)	For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their
sins.

(28)	As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as
touching the election, they are beloved for the father’s sake.

(29)	And for the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

	Now, remember; when you’re talking about gifts and calling, you
can’t simply nail it down to what is in the church. But, remember;
Jesus said, “All that the Father giveth me; and as many as the Father
gives me.” Is that true? So therefore, there is no repentance
concerning the election of God and the adoption. There isn’t one going
to miss it. And let’s get it: there’s not going to be one too few,
there’s not going to be one too many. Because the minute you’ve got
one cell extra or one cell less in your body, you are a fluke. We’re
dealing with God in perfection, not nature—nature which has corrupted
itself by reason of sin, by reason of men.

22.	(30)	For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet now have
obtained mercy through their unbelief:

(31)	Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy
they may also obtain mercy.

(32)	For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have
mercy upon all.

	Now, what’s He done? He’s included all of these elect children in
unbelief. Why? In order to have mercy.

	You say, “Well, just a minute now, I don’t like the idea why God
should do that.”

	No. People don’t like that idea.

	They say, “Well, just a minute, if we’re already sons of God, why
would God do this?”

	As Irenaeus said, being taught by John who was taught by Jesus, “God
being a Saviour, it was necessary to predestinate a sinner in order to
give God a reason and purpose of being.”

23.	If your genes, brother/sister, ask for a big nose, like I got, I’m
going to have a big nose. If your genes ask for ingrown toenails,
you’ll have ingrown toenails. If God’s genes ask to redeem somebody,
there’ll be somebody to redeem. And it’ll be according to God’s
purpose; and there’ll be sons. 

	And everybody wants to fuss about it. But the Bible clearly declares
there is no temptation taken us, there is nothing that can even
overwhelm us by way of trials and those things that beat upon us, but
there is a greater glory that awaits us; such a glory we have no
conception of. And when we get there, we won’t even remember what
we’ve gone through down here. You say that’s a pipe dream. I’m
going to back my pipe dream by that right there because I was with him
hundreds of times and saw hundreds of times THUS SAITH THE LORD, and
never a failure. God standing behind, not a prophet, though that is
true; God standing behind His Word and, consequently, His prophet; but
not because of. For God said I stand behind my Word to perform It, not
behind a prophet. But He stands behind His own Word. 

24.	Now He keeps on saying: 

(33)	O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out! (You
say, just a minute, His judgments? That’s what we’re talking about.
The just and righteous God cannot give an unjust judgment. For the
Bible... Well, let’s keep on reading.)

(34)	For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his
counsellor?

(35)	Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto
him again? (When did you ever give something to God? When did you ever
start something? What you’re seeing here is a sovereign God on
display. See?) 

(36)	For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things.

	And that’s what you’re looking at a Bride. You’re looking where
Bro. Branham categorically stated this particular time, a Bride is made
of Messiah-ettes, made up to have the church fulfill and manifest to the
whole world the grace and the glory of Almighty God as has been given to
us through Jesus Christ in this particular way. Not through, my
brother/sister, not through creator, but what has already been created
and now is getting ready for redemption. That’s the big thing we’re
looking at. 

25.	So, the Bride is not interested in creation. She’s looking at
being a part of redemption. Listen, we read that in the book of Romans
8. Come on. Let’s get this thing understood, brother/sister. Romans
8:14.

(14)	As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

(15)	For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear;
we’ve received the Spirit of adoption (and placing of sons), whereby
we cry, (Father), Father.

(16)	The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the
children of God: (Sure you’re baptized with the Holy Ghost, the Holy
Ghost is given to sons.)

(17)	And if (there is) then heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ;
if so be we suffer with him, that we may be glorified. (Did He not
suffer? Then will not the church suffer?) 

	Now, what is the church going to suffer for? It’s not going to suffer
for its sins because Christ bore them. It’s going to suffer standing
with Him and saying “I believe that’s a genuine Pillar of Fire; I
believe that’s Christ come back in the form of the Pillar of Fire; I
believe that’s what Paul saw; I believe exactly what the prophet said;
I believe...”

	And they say, “Oh boy...” 

	You did it right there; you fried it. You fell right on a red hot
griddle, or they pushed your face in it. 

	I’m going to tell you, there is a God in heaven that answers prayer
(Don’t worry.) and stands with His Word. 

26.	(18)	For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not
worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed. 

	Then, where is the suffering? It’s what people will do to you. Why?
Because you believe this. Now come on. Do the Lutherans believe Luther?
Huh, oh come on. I’d like to find one honest to goodness Lutheran in
the footsteps of Luther. I’m not saying there aren’t any; I’m just
saying I’d like to find one. Old Doc Meyers died years ago, and I
think he might have been the last of that breed. And I don’t even know
how close he followed. You can be an awful good showman, you know, and
pretty smart.

27.	Now It said:

(19)	For the earnest expectation of creation is waiting for the
manifestation of the sons of God.

	They’re waiting for the Bride to manifest something. Then nature
follows. And in the final manifestation where He works through the
Bride, the true church, and also the foolish virgin, according to this
Word, all heaven will stand back in admiration and everything else.
Every created thing with any intelligence and any ability to apprehend
and comprehend will stand back and watch this. 

28.	So, what I’m trying to show you is this: is our identification
with Christ. We definitely, as individuals, become Messiah-ettes. And
the church literally becomes a Messiah in the sense of the trickle down.
As God poured into Christ and Christ poured into the church, you must
identify with redemption, and you must identify correctly, because
‘redeem’ means ‘to buy back that which was previously owned’. It
doesn’t mean ‘to buy back that which was defiled’—although it
was defiled. 

	You understand what I’m saying? ‘Redeem’ means ‘to buy back
what was previously owned’. It’s to go and pay the price of the
violin in the hock shop, and it has nothing to do with the condition of
the violin. You go in there and you say, “Well, that’s my violin.”


	“Well, prove it.” 

	“It was stolen.”

	“Prove it. I ain’t giving it to you. No way. Was it yours
previously?” 

	‘Redeem’ means ‘to buy back’. In other words, the owner himself
must go and pick it up, paying a price. 

	So, you see, the church is manifested. Within it lies all of this which
lay in Christ in this particular area. All right, we’ve covered the
point. 

29.	Now then, let us see a church order. We’re going to look for a
church order, wherein Christ has come back to build a church physical
through a spiritual means, (That’s by the Holy Ghost.) that in due
time He may take headship physically himself over a body of believers
glorified and like unto His Own self. 

	Now, that’s what He’s going to do. In Eph 2:19-21:

(19)	(But) therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but
fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; (What’s
He saying? He’s saying that all the Gentile, ones that were
predestinated are now linking up with the former ones.)

(20)	And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner; (the word stone is put in
there.)

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

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

	Notice, what He’s saying there. Every single individual with the
baptism with the Holy Ghost is forming a temple which will truly set
forth Christ in His true Messiah—Messiahic context. You’re going to
stand right there. 

30.	Now here is how I see it. Number 1, we start with prophets. Prophets
are in the Book of Deuteronomy. And God said to Israel, He said,
“Look, you turn down the Pillar of Fire coming to the whole
congregation. You did well. I’m accepting it.” In fact, God put it
in their minds to do it; that’s the truth the matter is: it got the
living daylights scared out of ‘em. So, that’s what God wanted. 

	You say, “Well, I don’t think I’d be scared.” 

	You’re a liar. You’d be scared. They knew what they were saying.
God knew what He was doing. Said, “Okay, I’m going to take a man
that can come in my Presence, just like that.” 

	So, that’s what God said He’d do from that time on. Now you can’t
change it. 

31.	How did Paul bring us the Bible? Same way. What about John? He was a
scribe. What about Matthew? He was a scribe. James? Scribe. Other men
had a small amount of prophecy, but Paul was the prophet, especially to
the Gentiles. 

	Here is how the Word came. We found it over here in the Galatians 1.
Beginning at verse 6, Paul tells us what happened on the road to
Damascus. He said:

(6)	I marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you unto
the (gospel) of Christ unto another gospel. (Now, who did they leave?
They had Paul.) 

(7)	Which is not another (gospel); but there be some that trouble you,
would pervert the gospel of Christ.

(8)	(For) though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel
unto you than that which (already) preached to you, let him be accursed.

(9)	As we said before, so say I again, If any man preach any other
gospel than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

(10)	For now do I persuade men, or God? (Now here is Paul, can I
persuade God to do something? Can I persuade men? What good would it do?
What good would it do?) do I seek to please men? (What good would it
do?) if I please men, I (would) not be the servant of Christ.

	There you are right there. Now, take a look at the church this morning.
How much do you want to please people around you, or do you want to
please Christ? And now it depends on the Word, because Paul said it’s
going to be a matter of the Gospel I’m preaching. 

32.	Now, let it sink in. I’ve been trying to get you people for a long
time now, and you’re getting worse. I will just lower the boom on you.
You’re getting worse. You’re not getting better at all. You simply
don’t understand yet what I’m driving at. You got your little pink
feelings out there. Who worries about little pink feelings? Well,
let’s be understanding here. See? You say, well there’s... 

	Let’s just keep reading.

(11)	I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which I have preached is
not after man. (It’s not of me.)

(12)	For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it (by a
man), but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

(13)	For ye have heard of my (behavior) in time past (and so on, and so
on.)

33.	Now, let’s go to 2 Timothy. I want to get you there as quick as I
can to show you where I want to go today. Time goes so fast. 2 Timothy
1:11

(11)	Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, a teacher of
the Gentiles. (What’s he talking about? The Gospel.) 

	Okay. 1 Corinthians 4:15. He says:

(15)	For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you have
not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the
gospel.

(16)	(Therefore) follow me.

	Notice again in Ephesians, and I’ll bring this together for you.
Chapter 4, verses 20 and 21.

(20)	But you have not so learned Christ;

(21)	If so be you have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the
truth is in Jesus.

	What’s he saying here? He’s telling you that “I am a prophet and
you listen to what God gave me because I’m vindicated, and when you
hear me you hear God.” Now, how does he hear God? By the Word. It
wouldn’t matter if it came out of a tin horn, the mouth of a mule, or
it came out of the apostle Paul’s mouth—although it does matter in
the sense that God picks what He wants to put His Word through. But
I’m trying to get a point to you.

34.	It’s like Bro. Branham said, when the angel of God appeared and
said to him, “As John the Baptist foreran the first coming, so your
message will forerun the second.” So, I said, “Bro. Branham,
you’re trying to tell me it’s John the Baptist. Nobody but John the
Baptist could forerun the first coming of Christ; so not William
Branham, not John; no, not anybody in particular, but a message would
forerun?”

	He said, “You’ve got it.”

	Now I made very careful of understanding what that man was telling me
because he said, “You’re presenting me wrong. It’s neither me nor
my ministry.” And yet Bro. Branham said, “My ministry is to declare
that He is here.” 

	And the declaration is a message, so the message is: He is here—and
not like in churches where they say: sure He’s in my heart; sure,
He’s here, He’s there. I’m talking about the Pillar of Fire when
Bro. Branham said, “Just think how wonderful, the same Pillar of Fire
that brought the Word to Paul is here revealing the Word to you and
me.” He said, “God did not only go down to Egypt with Moses and
there appear in signs and wonders, but He Himself visibly appeared upon
Mount Sinai; so today.” 

	And there’s His picture. 

	That man, vindicated, said that.

	“Oh, well, Bro. Branham got puffed up.” 

35.	Listen, you don’t know prophets, brother/sister. You are spiritual
jerks. I’ll be honest; get out of this building. I’ve got no time
for you. You just turn my stomach. Not though anybody here that would
say such a thing and be so foolish, but I can’t read your hearts.
That’s not my job. Don’t pretend and never will.

	Jeremiah. God said to Jeremiah, see I put my words in your mouth. He
never put them by his brain. But I’m going to tell you something, Bro.
Branham spilled the secret. He said, “I’m the only living man who
can tell it exactly as it was said, exactly as seen.” 

	He had perfect, total recall. That’s why a man like a prophet had
these amanuenses, these secretaries; male secretaries. Thank God. Oh,
that could be bad, too. Forget it. That man could have maybe a dozen
guys write out what God said; never miss one word. That’s why you got
an infallible book, perfect recall. That’s why God could take a scribe
like John—perfect recall. That’s why God could take a man like
William Branham, and you start to tell your dream, he said, “Hold
it.” I’ve seen him do it. “Hold it; let me tell you the dream.”

	Jesus Christ Himself said, “The Father’s in me; I’m in the
Father.” John reiterated that. We mentioned that, Jn 1:18. Now Jesus
in John 14 tells us the Father in me doeth the works, the Father in me
is speaking, therefore, how can you say you have not seen the Father?
Yet he categorically said “God is Spirit. No man has seen God at any
time. No man can see God and live.” Yet stood right there. What was
it? The prophets are God to the people—plain English.

36.	Matthew 23:32-38. I won’t read It all.

(34)	(Jesus Christ said) Behold, I sent you prophets, wise men, and
scribes: (The prophet brings the Word of God, he reveals It, he tells
what It means. Wise men, they are they that can handle the Word. Then
there’s the scribe; he can do nothing but write the Word.) 

	There you see the New Testament five-fold ministry and the layout of
the church. You see a prophet bringing us the Word. You see a five-fold
ministry delivering, explaining according to what the prophet revealed.
And, if there wasn’t a prophet, there was a reformer—God sending
somebody on the scene. Always it brought bitterness and murder.

	He said, “I don’t know if any Lutherans got killed.”

	They didn’t? You got to be silly. Haven’t you read your history?
What about the Wesleyans? They got killed, too. What about Pentecostal?
They shot them, too.

	You say, “When’s our turn?”

	We may not get a turn. Then we might. Our great conflict is to stand at
this moment in the face of fundamentalism and stand right there and say,
“You are wrong: there is one God. Let me tell you the truth.”
That’s where your test’s going to be, and the test is going to be
mostly in your own head and your own heart. Because you’ll see a
thousand reasons to think you’re wrong. The devil is very good at
doing that.

37.	Now Eph 4:4-16 shows you this five-fold ministry which will bring a
Bride to perfection, not by a five-fold ministry, (Now, listen to me.)
but by the living God, Who came down in a Pillar of Fire, gave the
Message and it’s revelation and interpretation to the apostle Paul,
and continues the Truth in measure through the ages. So, it’s not a
five-fold minister, ministry again, although that is true. It is once
more God working in mankind: God doing His Will.

	Okay. I’m skipping a lot of things on purpose. I got to do it. Not a
lot, but just some. Let’s go to 2 Tim 2:2 and put these things
together. It says:

(2)	And the things that thou hast heard of me amongst many witnesses,
the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall also be able to teach
others.

	Now he’s laying down what has to come through the church ages. There
will always be those who are consistent in the Truth to the degree that
God wants It at that hour. And let me tell you, the Blood has never ever
lost its power. And the Holy Spirit’s never lost its power. There has
always been the Word of redemption, the shed Blood, and the intercessory
power of our Lord Jesus Christ made known, though it has been perverted.
These men could be in the church as deacons and elders because they know
the Word of God. 

38.	Now then, what about the scribe? The scribe is the same person as
the person in the New Testament church who does not write it down
because it’s written down, but he said, “Listen, I will read It to
you.” He doesn’t have to have a revelation which is given to him
whereby he can take the Message and spread It. All he needs to know is
that he is being taught correctly. And you notice, as from the prophet
to the people that do the ministering right down to the very level of
the very last person, and each one of those people will have this
Message in continuity and perfection. Why? Because God doesn’t make a
slip up. 

	And if the Holy Spirit is here to teach us, He’s going to teach us.
And the Bible said you shall all be taught of God, children of the New
Jerusalem. And at the end time there isn’t going to be one error.
There’s going to be a perfect Bride, absolutely there. So, you can
see, first of all, you’ve got your prophet, you got your five-fold
ministry, you got your people that are taught and able to teach, and you
got the people who positively don’t need to do anything, they just
simply take what they are taught.

39.	Now, let’s go to the Book of Romans. And we’re going to go
chapter 10 and show you those people because they’re in the Bible
here. Romans 10:6.

(6)	But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say
not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring
Christ down from above:)

(7)	Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring Christ from
the dead.)

(8)	But what does it say? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and
in thy heart.

	Now, where did they get It? Where did they get It? They got It from the
prophet. And he taught faithful people. But wolves crept in unaware. The
false elders, the wolves in sheep clothing came in and they perverted
the Word, but they couldn’t pervert enough to make it stick. Now,
listen; I’ve got a Dewy Bible, I’ve got a Diaglott, I have got a
Monseigneur Knox’s translation, I’ve got the Roman Catholic
versions. And as much as they try to twist the Word of God to show you
there’s a purgatory, and you can have a pope, it doesn’t work out.
They’re not that smart. 

40.	Listen; God’s not left with no witness. God lives in His Word, and
God stands behind His Word to back It, and He’s going to have a Bride.
He’s going to have a kingdom fulfilled. And He’s going to do it
because He said so, not because of a church. 

	That’s why I like this church that’s called Grace Gospel. Forget
any other name. This is not the house that Satan built. Vatican is
‘va-ti-ca-een’ which means house of Satan. You look it up, you’ll
find it. I’m not mouthing off. I’m telling you. 

41.	Now, listen. 

(8)	(It’s) in your mouth, (What is in your mouth?) The word of faith,
which we preach; (which means the revealed Word given.)

(9)	That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and
believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou
shalt be saved.

(10)	For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the
mouth confession is made unto salvation.

	Now, listen; don’t add to It. “Oh,” says the Catholic Church,
“you got to come through me.” “Oh,” says the Baptist church,
“you got to come through me.” 

	Let me tell you something: you try to come through this church, I’ll
take a four-by-four, and I’ll say glory to God as I bat your brains
out. And I won’t have any trouble, but you ain’t got any brains.
Just a rubberhead. Where do you find any other salvation than revealed
Word? The Catholic Church kept the Bibles from the people. The
Protestants brought the Bible, and It brought light, and It’s brought
increasing light to the end time. But every time light comes, a group
will turn it down. Why? Because that’s their record. How are you going
to change the record? You’ll never change what’s written. It can’t
do it. See? All right. 

	Look; that’s what It says right here. It is something which has been
given to us. It depends upon a Scripture. It does not depend upon coming
to the altar. Show me one place in the Bible where there is an altar
call. 

42.	I got into hot water in Florida in 1952, before Bro. Branham came.
He came and helped us. I saw women rising up and people coming in, and I
knew they were going to destroy everything we stood for. And God knows I
stood for more error than truth, except I stood for Him, Who is true.
So, I preached one day on the altar, and I’m going to tell you they
didn’t like it. I preached it to Pentecost. They got so mad, they
would have tarred and feathered me. And they said “You make it a dirty
place.” 

	I’m going to tell you, it can be a dirty place. Oh, yes. As Terry
preached down there in Beaumont, there were two altars. One was a dirty
altar. Oh, it was beautiful, very nice and all, but disgustingly
unrighteous, bringing about murder. How nice and good is anything that
brings about a murder? 

	“Well,” you say, “Well, it was a man, not the altar.” 

	I beg to differ. There were two altars. The one altar had blood, the
other didn’t. It had pretty flowers, wheat and barley and oats and
apples and pineapples and things. Don’t get fooled, brother/sister.
It’s too late in the day.

43.	Let’s go to Philippians 3. Time goes so fast. Listen, let’s read
Phil 3:15-19.

(15)	Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in
any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

	In other words, It says here: Look, you determine to follow the
revelation that has been given to you, and if any thing is bothering
you, don’t fuss about it; commit it to God. 

44.	I’ve waited as long as twenty years for an answer. And some of you
get so many ants in your pants, you can’t wait till the next Friday
night meeting, so you quit. I might as well tell you the truth, lay it
on the line. You’re not kidding anybody, people here that come to this
church. You’re not kidding anybody. I’d have to be deaf, dumb and
blind to be fooled. Wait for your answer. I’m still waiting for
answers. 

	The toughest answer of all is what Gene asked me to give. I can’t
give it to him. “Give me the interplay of Elohim to the
Jehovah-complex where you’re dealing with the anointing: Christ the
Rock, and God overall.” 

	I can’t understand it, but I’m not going to fuss and drive my
brains out for anybody. He hasn’t asked for an answer, he just said,
“What do you think about it?” And I said, “I’ve thought of a
lot, but I haven’t got an answer for you.” 

	It took me all these years to get the simple answer as Bro. Branham,
“We ain’t Trinity.” He used the word ain’t, and it’s good
enough for me. We ain’t oneness, and we ain’t twoness. Then, for
God’s sake, what are we? We’re one God and His Son. And He was
pre-existent as far as this earthly culture and the things of the earth
are concerned. And we were in Him. And, as He was a full representation
of His Father, we are the full representation of Him. In what degree? In
order to bring about this great redemption, we have a part, by the Holy
Ghost working through the Word of God. Listen, we’re perfect by the
revelation.

45.	(16)	Nevertheless, (what) we’ve already attained, let us walk by
the same rule (word—rule, mind the same thing. Put your minds on what
is there, but don’t try to figure it.)

(17)	Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so
as ye have us for an example.

(18)	(For many walk, of whom I told you often, and tell you weeping,
that they are the enemies in the cross of Christ:

(19)	Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, whose glory is
their shame, (and they) mind earthly things.)

	It tells you something here. The true revelation puts us above this.
I’ve been screaming this for years, I’m depending on it. And if I
don’t get it by the way of the power of the Word, the Holy Ghost in
the Word, forget it; I’m through trying. I say look at this, listen,
and who needs it? If He doesn’t do it, merciful God, I can’t even
grow a hair on my head, and I need a lot of them. I can’t stop my
fingernails breaking. Eat all the calcium or anything, eggshells, you
name it, drink this, drink that, cider vinegar, and in it’s got
calcium. They still break off. Lost a tooth, I’ll have a bridge put
across here pretty soon. Not somebody else’s teeth; I’ll pay for it.
Man-made, first sets. I’m stuck. 

	You think that I can stop myself dying? You think I can get myself out
of the grave? Maybe we all better be Sadducees—no spirit, no
resurrection, no nothing. Not die like a dog. That’s not what
they’re saying. They say, “Hey, when you cross over that’s it.
Then the next step is: look; the next step is bound to be, we’ll come
back somehow.” 

	Now you’re getting into transmigration of souls and reincarnation and
all that kind of junk.

46.	Let’s look at Phil 4:8-9. It says:

(8)	Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things
honest, and just and pure, and lovely, and good report; if there be any
virtue, and any praise, think on these things.

(9)	Those things, which you have both learned, and received, and heard,
and seen in me, do: and the God of peace (will) be with you.

	You know how to get peace? You know why there’s no peace yet? Because
we haven’t come to the full realization of perfect faith, the
demonstration by God on this earth to a Bride, showing her there is
peace. “You that are troubled, rest with us.” Get your peace, get
your relaxation. 

	You say, “Well, Bro. Vayle, what about people coming against me?”

	Ah that, sure they’ll rile you. We’re not talking of that kind of
peace. He said, “My peace I leave with you: my peace I give, not as
the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid.” Listen; because in the heart is the Word of
God, and the mouth says It. And that’s all that’s required. And Bro.
Branham equated Jesus Christ and His Word to one not ashamed. You see it
all come together?

47.	Listen, brother/sister. Let’s go back to Malachi. I’m not on
fire for Lee Vayle, as though he’s got something. I’m on fire for
the Word of God. It’s got something. And I tell you, if I don’t have
it, somebody’s going to have it. I’ll be honest with you; I’ll be
honest. It’s just like there’s Cadillacs out there; if I don’t
have one somebody’s going to have one. There’s a Rolls Royce; if I
don’t get it somebody else will. I don’t intend to have it actually.

	Now they got a waiting line for this new car that’s going to cost,
what is it, two hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars? I think Mick
Jagar’s got his name two years now to get one. Mick can have it and
eat it. Not interested. But if I don’t get it and drive it, somebody
else is going to have it. So, with this Message. There is a Message out
here, vindicated, a life in it. And if I don’t have it, somebody’s
going to have it. But the point is this: If I’ve got what contains the
life, then I’ve got the life. 

48.	Let me read you Mal 3:16.

(16)	Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: (They
weren’t praying to God.) and the LORD hearkened, (He butt his nose in
on the conversation, He said, “I like that, Hey, that’s great.” He
heard it.) and a book of remembrance was written before him for them
that feared the LORD, and thought upon his name. (And talked a certain
kind of a way.)

(17)	And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in (the) day when
I make up my jewels.

	There’s people talking a certain way at the hour of the Resurrection
and the Rapture. And they’re the only ones that God’s listening to
and got any real use for.

	You see why I preach what I preach and say these, the things we must
do? But you’re too happy fussing with each other. 

	I’m not finished preaching. Got another tape ready? See how far I can
get.

(17)	They’ll be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make
up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his son that serves
him.

	That’s adoption. Yes. Bro. Branham said the tutors called in to see
if the Father’s son was the right kind of a son. So, he trains him up
in the way the Father wants him to go. He said, “Now I’m going to
tell you what he said, your name is on the check the same as mine.” 

	What does that signify? Signifies we are firstborn, joint-heirs. Hear
what I said? I’m quoting you Scripture. Do you understand that’s
Romans 8? You understand what I’m saying? I’m quoting Scripture.
I’m not talking through my hat as though Lee Vayle’s got something
to say. Don’t give me that stuff.

49.	(18)	Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and
wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not. 

	But if you’re too busy fussing at each other, you won’t discern
anything. You’re a little quiet. That’s good. Be quiet, because
there’s such a thing as I’m up here getting my stomach filled, too.
Just be honest with you; I’m not going to hide anything. 

50.	Now, listen; in these four divisions which are the prophets, the
five-fold, those below a five-fold who also teach, and those that
don’t have any calling, except that they have the right and the
authority to talk to each other. And it doesn’t mean that you’re all
going to say it right. But what if you talk and somebody knows what’s
right and doesn’t put you right? Oh, there’s your thin skin. 

	Yet, is this body of many members but all one and of one, that compose
Messiah in a figure, the body which in turn is composed of
Messiah-ettes? Therefore, all people in their turn and measure represent
Christ in particular, that’s a particular way, the prophet. That
prophet is God to the people, and he has a part of the Word for that
hour. And he actually manifests Christ. He becomes the living Word of
God in that hour. And we saw the eagle. 

51.	Prophets. Now, when they bring the message, what happens? Those who
fall under the Word become the literal vicars of Christ. The pope says
he’s the vicar of Christ. He’s a liar. He is a crook. He is a fraud.
He is a perpetrator of deception. Let me read what the Bible says about
vicars. Because the word vicar means in stead of. Right? In stead of.
The word ‘antichrist’ doesn’t mean ‘against’; it means ‘in
stead of’. So, a vicar is an antichrist. That jars you doesn’t it?
Because all you know about the word ‘antichrist’ is evil. Before
there’s an evil, there’s got to be a good. Before there’s a rotten
apple, there’s got to be a good apple. All right.

52.	Let’s go ahead. We’re in the 2 Corinthians 5. Let’s understand
what I’m saying here now. But I’m not fooling with anybody. I’m
not taking the Word of God and running anybody down. I’m just showing
you what’s vindicated by the prophet, William Branham, the Pillar of
Fire. You do what you want. But understand at the same time, I’m
pleading for you to line up what has been vindicated. All right.

	Let’s look at It. In verse 18:

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

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

(20)	Now we are ambassadors (vicars, messengers from God) as though God
Himself did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be
reconciled to God.

	Paul said, “I have brought you the unerring Word of Almighty God. And
I am telling you people, as I am here in the stead of Jesus Christ, so
are you in my stead. Take that Word and take it because I can’t.”
From the principle of the prophet being the true vicar of Christ.

	Not some bird like the pope, who said Mary is ascended, she’s in her
glorified body, she’s in heaven. And every Catholic theologian said to
Pope Pius XII, “Don’t do it sir; don’t do it. It’s folly.” He
stood up three times and declared, “Mary has ascended; Mary has
ascended; Mary has ascended.”

	Hogwash! Mary has not ascended. He’s a liar, and the truth isn’t in
him. His friend, the devil, wasn’t even good enough to give him a
break. There were no blue clouds and things floating around his head as
though he had something. His whole body of theologians was against it,
and they’re still against it because it’s fishy. They got to say
what he said. On what grounds? Protestants no better. They’re all
baptized with the Roman Catholic baptism.

53.	For years the Protestants had to go behind the altar to get married
in a Catholic church. They don’t have to do it anymore. On what
grounds? Because the Roman Catholic church has declared truly and
absolutely historically that we invented the baptism in the name of the
Father, the Son and Holy Ghost and if you’ve been baptized that way,
you are a part of us. Come on, get your books out and read them, kids.
Get them out and read them. I’ve done my share of reading; you do
yours.

	Vicars of Christ, mediators. The pope says, “I’m a mediator.” And
he said, “My priest’s are mediators. I’m an intercessor, and I get
Mary on my side because I’ve got her up there in heaven. She’ll talk
to Jesus. And you priests are intercessors.”

54.	Let me find out what the Word of God actually says. Let’s go to
the James 5. Let’s find what the Bible says. Catholic Church says,
“We wrote the Bible.” Then why don’t they believe it? They’ll
lie about anything, Protestants the same way. That’s what I’m trying
to tell you, get your eyes off of your church and off your own head and
find out what that man said, because you don’t know outside of that.
The assured voice of the church. The assured voice of the church. [Said
sarcastically] O God.

	Go raise old Joe Marconda from the dead. Ask him why he left the
Catholic Church. Because old Joe didn’t have enough money to have Joe
Junior buried. In America, I said it was in Pennsylvania. Don’t look
me in the eye as though I’m wrong. I’ll take you and rub your nose
in it. Nobody looked as though I wasn’t telling the truth, but I just
put it for good measure to let you know ‘Don’t challenge me’.
I’m not here lying for one minute. 

	Why did a friend of mine leave the Greek Orthodox Church? The priest
came by and said, “I buried your husband; I’m going to take your cow
for payment.” She had kids that needed that milk. She suddenly
understood the power of a broomstick against the power of the church.
She rushed at him with a broomstick and beat the cob off of him. He
never came back. What kind of a priest is that wouldn’t come back, get
hit with a broomstick? Paul got his head chopped off. 

	“So, I’m going to leave that soul go because you see I’m
offended.” 

	Is that a fact? Christ was offended; came right back on the scene. 

55.	Let’s look at Jas 5:19-20.

(19)	Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;

(20)	Let him know, that he that converted the sinner from the error of
his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of
sins.

	That man becomes a mediator. If I saw someone doing the wrong thing in
a church, you went to him, yeah, you’re a mediator. Oh, I thought you
had to call the pope. Why call the pope? I thought I had to call on God.
Why do you got to call on God? I don’t have to call on God to lift a
piece of paper. He gave me strength to do it. We don’t have to call on
God to turn someone from his sins. He gave us the strength to do it. A
man’s wrong, you help him be right. It’s not that difficult to
understand these things. 

56.	James 5:14-15. Let’s read that one. 

(14)	Is any sick among you? let him call the elders of the church; and
let them pray over him, anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord:

	He’s an intercessor now. So, come on. Jesus, Messiah-ettes. Look, we
don’t even know what Bro. Branham said half the time when he said
Messiah-ettes. And I’m just scratching the surface; I’ll be honest.
This is a scratched-surface sermon. Sit down, write it out, what, two
hours or so, three whatever it took me next day and so on.

(15)	And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, (Actually heal ‘em,
because the word ‘save’ is ‘sosos’; ‘heal’ is the same
thing.) and the Lord shall raise him up; (Now, notice that.) and if he
have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. (Because you acted as a
mediator and an intercessor according to the Word of God, in your heart
and in your mind. And God backed it.)

	They are reconcilers. Look at Gal 6:1.

(1)	Brethren, (again we see) if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which
are spiritual, restore such a one (get reconciliation); considering
yourself. (Reconcilers deputized by God to do the work of the Lord Jesus
Christ by the power of the Holy Ghost, through the Word that has been
given to us which we believe.) 

	All of us, therefore, can exercise or exhibit a certain portion of the
five-fold ministry. Husbands can teach their wives, and the wives
admonish the children. They can say ‘that’s not right according to
the Word of God. Talk to Dad when you get home.’ 

	It’s not a big club; it’s the Word of God. Oh, the big clubs are
sometimes necessary; I admit that. They’re evangelists. Anybody can
evangelize—give the testimony of Jesus Christ, not as though you’re
going to preach to a congregation, but you’re talking to somebody. You
can be an apostle; no matter where you go, you can talk about the Word
of the Lord for this particular hour. You can be a prophet. Yes, you can
be a prophet, as Aaron was Moses’ prophet. 

57.	Now, if you think that’s some form of flattery, I’ve got news
for you. If you call me William Branham’s prophet, I would not be
flattered. Because that’s making me a scribe, and I’m already a wise
man. That’s right, by virtue of the fact I handle the Word of God and
teach It from what the prophet taught. Everybody can be a prophet. The
Bible said you’re children of the prophets. Paul was a prophet. People
had many teachers, but one prophet, one father. Bro. Branham said
concerning Meda: she is my wife, but she is my daughter in the Gospel.
Perfect picture of Jesus Christ. 

	You’re all a prophet. All you got to do is just say what the prophet
said. You become God’s mouth right at that very point. All the
elements are here to carry on what Jesus Christ was and is, and what the
church is. Each member is a member in particular, and all ministries in
the church will complement the five-fold, while the five-fold
complements the prophet and the prophet has complemented Christ, and
Christ has complemented God. And I’m using the term ‘complement’
as ‘complete’, not in ‘paying a favor to’, and some little
thought that’s nice, but I mean actually complementing or completing. 

	Since Christ became us that we might become Him, it is evident that we
must take His place in a measure of grace and of Christ which is Holy
Spirit on this earth as his visible body and means whereby God is
manifested in flesh to others. That’s what It says in 1 Cor 12:27-30.
We are members of His body, absolutely members; bone of his bone and
flesh of his flesh. 

58.	Now over here in Rom 12:4-11, and with Rom 12:3-8, lets you know
that there are ministries. Every single person has something from God
that helps make up the body of Jesus Christ. And, why was the body here?
It was here for redemption.

	Now, what is the Bride doing here? She is here for redemption. She is
here to be enlarged. As Bro. Branham said, the churches cannot stand,
especially Pentecostals. He said they cannot stand the crying, they
can’t stand the screaming, they can’t stand the speaking in tongues.
They don’t want to bring in babies into this world that way. They
don’t want them live born; they want them stillborn. Yet he didn’t
believe in tongues as any evidence. No way.

59.	Listen; one cannot change the Word of God for what I have read in
Scripture. Bro. Branham put into a sentence, “The Son of man
manifested in human flesh is the Bride in every age.” Who was the Son
of man, the prophet? Son of God? Who was the Son of man? He came to seek
and to save the lost.

	I asked him, “Bro. Branham, what do you mean?”

	And I don’t even… I don’t know that I ever heard him say on any
tape, “The Son of Man manifested in human flesh.” He must have said
it to me. 

	And I said, “Bro. Branham, “What is the Son of man manifested in
human flesh?” 

	He said, “The Son of man manifested in human flesh is the Bride in
every age.” And then he said, “If the hand does it the Bride does
it.” In other words, he stood as prophet. He said, “I stand as
prophet here; I bring the Word,” and he said, “Therefore the Bride
does it.” 

	In other words, look; it all trickles down. Pardon the expression.
It’s a gross expression, but it does. Thus there are no great ones in
the Bride of Christ, but there is the great One amongst us today. 

60.	And so with that One within the Bride members and amongst us, the
Bride members surely can go to 2 Th 1:10, because that’s exactly where
we are going.

(10)	When he shall (have) come to be glorified in his saints, and to be
admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was
believed) in that day.

	In other words, the day that we’re looking at right now, the angels
having come down with Christ in center. And over here It says in that
day positively, that is the time when Christ has come to be glorified in
us according to the Word. Now, you can sell it too long, or you can sell
it too short, and you fall in the ditch. But you can go down the middle
of the road, the middle of the King’s highway and come out with
Christ.

	For 2 Th 1:10 is even now being worked out. And surely we can accept,
‘a-c-c-e-p-t’, what the prophet said. He said the seed of God, the
Bride of Christ is Mrs. Jesus, and we’re all members of Messiah-ettes
as he told us.

61.	Now this all sounds very good as a doctrine, but there is an active
faith that comes with the doctrine at every single time. What is that
active faith that we’re going to talk about here? What is it? What are
we looking at?

	Let’s go back to Gal 6:1. And It says:

(1)	Brethren, if any man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are
spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; and
considering thyself, lest thou be also tempted.

	And I’m going to ask you a question: Where was the first temptation,
and what was the first fall? Come on, you know the answer. Eve left the
Word by somebody coming and changing the Word. And Paul in the Book of
Galatians has this one cry, “Why have you left what I said was
vindicated? Why have you changed?” Now he said, “You people listen
and understand, brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault.” Eve was
overtaken because she left the Word. She got from behind the Word.
Anything you do like drinking and smoking and cursing and stealing and
lying and adultery and all of those things, assaulting, all of those
things, they are merely symptoms of unbelief. The unbelief is off the
Word, because the Word alone has the power. 

	Now It says, “Restore such a one in the spirit of meekness;
considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.” There again we’re
going right back to the greatest battle. We’re going back to the
understanding when there is a correction to be made, it’s got to start
with the Word or the correction is no good. There is nothing there for
us. There is nothing at all. 

62.	Now, continue.

(2)	Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

(3)	For if a man think himself to be something, when he’s nothing, he
deceives himself.

	They accused Bro. Branham of that, and they accused me, and they’ll
accuse you, too; so, don’t worry. They accused Jesus. 

(4)	But let every man prove his own works, then shall he have rejoicing
in himself alone, and not in another.

(5)	For every man shall bear his own burden.

	Now It tells you right here that when we look at this what we’re
looking at, which is especially the Messiah-ette, active members in the
Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ, the most important thing in all the
world is to have that Word because without the revealed Word, nothing
else is truly coherent, cohesive and coordinate—coordinative (fly
apart). Now it takes the very special Spirit, which is the Spirit of
Christ, a spirit of meekness, not weakness. ‘M-e-e-k’ is not
‘w-e-a-k’. In fact, ‘m-e-e-k’ doesn’t know the first thing of
‘w-e-a-k’. It doesn’t know a thing about it because it doesn’t
recognize itself; it recognizes God. And you can only recognize God by
Him coming in through His Word. All right. This meekness does not
obliviate the confrontational.

63.	In Gal 2:11-18, Peter was in Antioch; he came down to Antioch. Paul
withstood him to his face because he was to be blamed. Why was he to be
blamed? He turned on the very Word of God that he preached. He opened
the door to the Gentiles, welcomed them, ate with them, but when the
pressure came on, he backed off and went to the Judaizers.

	Now I’m talking about a man that said, “Thou art the Christ, the
Son of the living God.” I’m talking a man who’s the spokesman at
Pentecost. I’m talking of a man who opened the door to both the
Gentiles and Jews by bringing the Gospel as he was commissioned.

	Paul came by only a revelation, and he found that Peter was wrong.

64.	Now right away, you people sitting in church, you be very nice, you
say, “Well, great apostle Peter. I know you were with Christ, so I got
to be very sweet and very nice.”

	I don’t know there is real harmony, though, that what you’re doing
is what you’re saying is right. Now, that’s what you people want.
You’ve told me yourselves. You don’t know what it is to stand for
this Word. You just think you do. Not that I want you fighting each
other or anything like that. But you get offended if somebody’s put on
the right track. That’s why I think there’s undercurrents here. And
there is some undercurrents. The rest are too scared to come together
and talk the Word. What’s the matter with you?

	Jim, you know before I got sick, you’d come and stay till two or
three in the morning, one o’clock, two o’clock, talked. I talked.
Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. And I got so sick all I could do was
sweat. I’m going to tell you something, the greatest days of my life,
except for further revelation is those days when I was into Ephesians
and talk, talk, talk, talk the Word. You’re missing so much, my
brother/sister. Are you listening to what I’m telling you? I’m not
here with axes and spurs and clubs and swords. I’m here telling you:
confrontation is part of your life or forget it.

	Now you can learn to back peddle like Bro. Branham did or Mohammed Ali.
It’s perfectly all right, as long as, when you come out, you can sting
like a bee and not just dance like a butterfly. In other words, you
sheath your sword, so you couldn’t be controversial, or somebody
couldn’t be corrected. I’m not saying you’re establishing doctrine
in the church. I’m saying you’re talking from what comes over the
pulpit.

	Dave wrote down what I preached on one of the “Satan’s Eden”
messages. I can mark you six paragraphs at least, you can sit in any
meeting any night and read that and talk about it for an hour and a
half.

	You say, “Bro. Vayle, you make yourself a real smart guy.”

	I’m not making myself a smart. What are you talking about? I’m only
telling you a few things. Because when I read it, I couldn’t believe
I’d said it, and just let it go at that. I knew it’d need
discussing. See?

65.	Now, listen; let’s go to Titus 3. I want you to understand: I’m
not fussing at anybody. But, if we got to have some hair-pulling here, I
guess we’re going to have some hair-pulling, because look...

	[Bro. Vayle asks for another tape to be put in so he can continue.]

	All right, we’re going here to Titus. We read in Tit 3:10.

(10)	A man that’s an heretic after the first and second admonition
reject.

	Paul said he was a heretic by how he talked the Word. What if some of
you people need correcting but you’re too—you just won’t be
corrected. Did you understand what I read? Are there heretics here this
morning? I talked to some of you people years ago and said, “Don’t
do it; you’re going lose out,” but you wouldn’t listen.

	I’m not crazy up here, brother/sister. God gave me a job to do. How
long I’ll be here in this pulpit, I don’t know, because I’m
getting terribly tired—not of you people. I’m just terribly tired. I
didn’t sleep again last night. Almost always in constant pain unless I
get my mind on something, but it’s about time to get out and go. Where
is the fruit? I’m asking for some fruit. Some of you come you don’t
even know conditions, but you grumble about, ‘there’s an
undercurrent’. There always will be an undercurrent. Why don’t you
come and get counted? Do you think this tape should go out? We don’t
have to send it out. Spoils the image.

66.	2 Thessalonians. Let’s read It. 2 Thessalonians 1:7.

(7)	And you who are troubled rest with us, and the Lord Jesus shall be
revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.

	Now, that tells you where the rest is going to come from, because
before that, there was a turmoil because the Seven Seals have not been
loosed. And the Seven Thunders are in a limbo of mystery. And you’re
saying, “Oh, look here, look there, this way, this way, this way.” 

	Aw, forget it, hey, that, that. Several hundred pages that the man
preached.

67.	Now, let’s keep reading.

(7)	...When he shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

(8)	In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that
obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

	Now It says here, this is the time of that which is Malachi, when at
the time of the burning, the Son of righteousness rises with healing in
His wings. It is a time of Luke 17, the days of the Son of man, and a
Bride is caught away. I want to ask you a question. How many go in that
Bride? As it was in the days of Noah. Then who’s going to burn? The
five billion people that aren’t killed by AIDS.

68.	Do you realize right now the way AIDS are so rampant, that we are
going to lose an entire generation of our kids where AIDS broke out at
age seventeen. And if they don’t stop what they’re doing, their
babies will all die with AIDS. Just a few old codgers like me left, and
a few old codgers like some of you that kept yourselves clean, and
you’ve got some fear of God in your heart and fear of God in your
bodies, and you’re not afraid to tell your kids and lay it on the
line. 

	Because I’m going to tell you: it’s time to scream, and nobody’s
screaming. And the homos are running everything. And this is the most
disgusting thing in the world. The Catholic Church has come full circle,
and they’re the only one that are really screaming against the homos.
When the Catholic Church comes full circle with the gifts (Yes,
they’ve got it.) and their various doctrines, which was original,
it’s all over, because Alpha is Omega. And it’s Alpha and Omega,
both with God and the devil. Sure it is. Come on. You know it’s the
truth. You don’t have to be a genius to figure that one out. 

69.	Let’s keep reading. 

(9)	Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence
of the Lord, and from the glory of his power.

	No more intervening again. It’s all over. You miss this, it’s
missed entirely. You can’t repent; it’s gone. 

(10)	When he shall have come to be glorified in his saints, and to be
admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was
believed) in that day.

	Wind up time. Seven Seals, Seven Thunders, Roman candle, the white
horse rider riding into eternity, called death, the church riding into
eternity coming back on white horses. Judgment, brother. Let me tell
you, let’s get real chummy this morning and understand this: We are
before the white throne, it’s all over, brother/sister, don’t kid
yourselves. It’s over. 

70.	You say, “That’s because you’re seventy-five, Bro. Vayle.” 

	It doesn’t have a thing to do with my age. I can get out of here.
Maybe tonight the Lord will take me. I look in the mirror for the signs,
they say here if you just look, can’t you here, this deep little cleft
mark here, that means you can have a heart attack. I said, Goody, goody,
goody, it’s getting deeper. Goody, goody, goody, nothing happens; my
heart’s still strong. My wife’s got the same thing. She’d get on a
treadmill. They said, “Seventy-six? You can’t be seventy-six.” 

	She said, “Yes, with a hip—with a transplant.” 

	Oh said, “Don’t be silly, you’re not seventy-six.” 

	She said, “I am seventy-six.” 

	“Fifty-five.” 

	Man alive, she’s not fifty-five. She’s seventy-six. She’s like
me: no heart, all liver. That’s where we get our gall. What’s the
matter with people? 

71.	So, listen. It’s over. This is White Throne because, you turn this
down, it’s chaff; it burns. How many of you say, “Well, now just a
minute Bro. Vayle, it’s this way, it’s that way.” 

	Hey, the foolish virgin are very few in number, and they don’t burn;
they’re killed. What do we do with the Word? What are you going to do?
This Word’s vindicated. There It is right there. Malachi 4 is
vindicated. Right? I am preaching a vindicated sermon. Not preaching at
some hogwash. 

	Now we cannot be simply confrontational for the sake of being
confrontational. That’s not it. There are lives to be saved;
there’re obligations to be fulfilled. There is a testimony to be
given, and there is a strength to be received by the exercise of faith
in the Word that has been manifested as correct. To be simply nice and
engaging the people is not the answer, brother/sister. If all we can do
is that, we are nothing but hypocrites. The Bible calls them publicans.
A publican is a guy who is going to gouge you. But he covers up,
evidently. 

72.	In Mt 6:46-47, no it’s not Matthew 6. Where are we? Doesn’t
matter. I can find it here, but I can’t take time for it. He tells you
here, he said, he’s now he said, if you... It’s on the sermon on the
mount here which is in Matthew 5, I guess I just got a little reference
here. 26. 

	But the idea is anyway, he tells you that, if the best you can do is
give a gift that someone gives you back again… If you’re nice to
somebody, somebody’s nice to you, He said, “Where is that? Where
does that get you?” He said, “Don’t the publicans just do the very
same thing?” And so, we’re warned here, in this sermon that Christ
is preaching. We are not to be nice for the sake of being nice. Now,
look; it doesn’t mean you’re going to be rude when you bring the
Word of God, insult and harm. It doesn’t say that, but it says you got
to stand for that which is necessary to be stood for, lest the church be
corrupted. 

73.	Now you people, I’ve had every one of the board members in this
pulpit here. Every person who had devolved upon him to stand up here,
take something Bro. Branham said, bring it before the congregation and
literally be judged by every single person. And remember; I was sitting
there. And I’m not too easily fooled. 

	Now, I want to tell you something. I’ve been teaching here for many
years now, and if we’ve got people in this church who can’t be
watchdogs, there is something wrong somewhere with you men that are
sitting here. I just say, “Shame on you.” Smarten up. Not
yip-yip-yip-yip-yip about things, but a dog that barks, that warns. And
I’m not saying to be mean, you know if I treat you mean, when I’m up
here I’m tough as all get out; down here, hey man, anything goes. 

	My job’s not to ride herd on you. You ride herd on each other. You
don’t believe that, do you? But you better start believing it. My job
is not ride herd on you. Paul said, “You people that see a fault in
the brethren, you see something wrong, there’s something off-color,
there’s something going to hurt somebody, hurt that person, hurt
others, He said, “You.” He didn’t say call on me, bless God, and
I’ll do something about it.” That’s Red Skeleton. That’s not the
apostle Paul. Now, remember.

74.	Let’s go to 2 Corinthians. And I hope you’re not getting too
badly wounded because look, hey, these things have got to be said.
I’ve said them before, got it say it again. And I’ll keep on saying
them, because it’s the only thing I can do. Listen, Paul in 2
Corinthians 10. 

(1)	Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of
Christ, (He said) I beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of
Christ, who in the presence am base among you, but being absent am bold
toward you:

(2)	But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with
that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think
of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

	Now you say, “Well, Paul is being criticized like Bro. Branham
was.” 

	A woman wrote a letter and an article, and it went around the country
saying, “Bro. Branham was drunk when he got killed, and he was a
womanizer.” 

	You got to be kidding. That doesn’t have a thing to do with this.
Where did sin start? Off the Word. Off the Word. 1 Corinthians, “I’m
of Apollos, I’m of Peter, I’m of this, I’m of that.” Oh, he
said, “Shut up.” Why aren’t you of God? 

75.	Up there in Canada when they had the camp meeting where Bro.
Guenther up in Prince Albert or wherever it was, that Lake Kinistino
whatever they call it up there, Ewald Frank would not close in prayer
because he heard something to sort of offend him. He’s a womanizer. He
should be offended. They should have tossed him a young girl. He
wouldn’t have been offended then, I guess, some prostitute. So, it
divided the camp. And the sort of German-element said, “Well, I, he
said, “I side with Bro. Frank.” 

	The Marten boys, they said, “I side with the Marten boys.” And
Harold Marconda said, “You better side with Jesus, who is the Word.”


	Don’t ever come to this church or any message church and think
you’re among a bunch of saints. You might see a whole lot more haints,
Vince, than you’ll reckon with. But it’s up to you son, how you go.
He’s going to be baptized. I love that. In the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ. It’ll be a tough walk, but it’s a good one. 

76.	Listen.

(3)	For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:

(4)	(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through
God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

(5)	Casting down (reasonings), and every high thing that exalts itself
against the knowledge of God, and bringing unto captivity every thought
to the obedience of Christ;

(6)	And having in readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your
obedience is fulfilled.

	He said, “I’m ready for anybody that comes against that Word. I’m
not off to take your hair off and to scalp you.” “No,” he said,
“I’m not after doing those things.” But he said, “I want you to
know and understand where this whole thing came from.”

	Eve got off that Word. I suffer not a woman to teach or take
authority—she’s deceived! Before Adam could get to Eve, the beast
had gotten to her, impregnated her womb, brought forth a monster. And
before Christ could get to his virgin Bride, the antichrist had got to
her, polluted her mind.

	You see what I’m saying? I’m not trying to raise up a bunch of guys
with clubs around here. I’d be the first guy come in and flatten you
if you did that. But I want you to know, you don’t back away from
Truth. Bro. Branham said, as brothers you can quarrel bitterly. “I got
my feelings hurt! I won’t come anymore.” “They treated sister So
and So bad.” “They did this, they did that.” 

	You think I don’t know what goes on amongst you? I’m not happy with
you. I am not happy with you. Have we only got this far? I don’t
understand. I thought there was more to it than this.

77.	Now, listen. 

(7)	Do you look on things after outward appearance? If any man trust to
himself that he is Christ’s, let him think of himself this again,
that, as He is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s. 

	And you’re putting each other out. You’re not putting each other
out; you try to keep each other in. 

(8)	For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the
Lord hath given for us for edification, and not for destruction…

	The attitude is this: Can I come and help somebody, but at the same
time take my stand that they don’t unhelp me? How many people do you
know have got drowned by giving a helping hand to somebody drowning? A
lot of people. A lot of people. Yeah. People tried to save their dogs
and got drowned. One poor man jumped in to get his little boy; sucked
away like the little boy. His son jumped to help him, sucked away. I
think five in the family drowned in a matter of minutes. You know
something? It is better to not know how to swim and understand you
can’t, than to risk your life and lose it. 

	If you don’t know, you ask and you listen, but if you ask for an
argument or just an opinion, forget it. Forget it. These are not
argument or opinion days; these are realities. But you must be patient.
I told you I have that kind of patience. Few men have it. I am so
crack-pot impatient with everything. If the door doesn’t work right
now, I’m ready to rip the door off its hinges. If the fire doesn’t
light, I throw a bucket of kerosene on, burn the house down. But with
the Word of God, I can sit there year in and year out, wondering, but
hardly a ruffle. That’s right.

78.	Let’s keep reading. He said,	“...not for your destruction…”

(9)	That I might not seem as I would terrify you by letters.

(10)	For his letters, they say, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily
presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

(11)	Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters
when we’re absent, but we’ll be there in deed when we’re present.

(12)	For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves
with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by
themselves, comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

	What’s he saying? He said, ‘I preach to you a Word that you go by,
what is all this other fuss? What is all this other thing they’re
bringing up there?’ Don’t you know that Paul is defending himself
against the fact he’s been called a heretic? The next thing he’s
been called off the Word. The next thing he’s been said, “Well,
you’re trying to make yourself somebody.” When nobody else had what
he had. Always it’s that type that rises up. Every place I’ve gone
in the years.

79.	“Well, you see, Bro. Vayle, I have something from God, too.” 

	I said you never had THUS SAITH THE LORD like Bro. Branham. Oh, I had a
vision, and I’ve told you many a time: I could swap him vision for
vision and leave him sticking in the mud at sixty miles an hour passing
him. And I don’t have one vision or experience I would give you a
plugged nickel for anymore, because I don’t know. I don’t know. But
I’ve had ‘em in color like I’m looking at you. Right. I can even
tell you where the devil of epilepsy is; I can tell you right exactly
where he lodges. I saw it by vision. 

	But I’ve got a spirit, too. I’ve got a devil, too. It’s called
arthritis. They’ve nothing to with morals or mentality or
spirituality; they are simply physical. And I wouldn’t be surprised if
eighty percent of you got devils, too, that bother you because, if
there’s life, it’s a spirit. 

	Now, what has that done for you? Nothing. But this will do everything,
having the promise of the life which now is, and the life which is to
come, because it’s Christ, in a form that has been given to us, and
whereby His life comes into us.

80.	And Paul said here:

(13)	We (don’t) boast of those things, (he said,) (beyond) our
measure, 

(14)	We stretch not ourselves beyond measure, as though we could not
reach unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the
gospel of Christ:

(15)	Not boasting of things without measure, of other men’s labour;
but having hope, when your faith is increased, that you shall be
enlarged—we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly.

	You know, Paul knew the same thing. He knew he couldn’t go to that
people and preach a sermon and and they draw anything out of him. He’d
just be slashing with the sword first thing. You know what? This church
here is far better to me than most Paul’s audiences. If you’re
hoodwinked, I appreciate it. But you come here expecting and believing
that God will begin using me by bringing these words to your attention.
And He’s never failed, and He’s not going to fail. There’s only
one thing can hurt: if you turn your back on It. I cannot come to your
measure. Uh-uh. No. 

	People around the country envy this church. You know why? Because they
only hold one thing to attention, that’s Word. It’s very seldom do I
try to bug you, like I am this morning, because you got to understand
where I’m coming from. You got to let this Word have Its course. And
if It’s going to be tough on somebody, It’s going to be tough on
somebody. But It’s going to pay off.

	I could read the rest; I won’t bother reading the rest. 

81.	Let’s go to 1 Cor 14:26.

(26)	How is it then, brethren? (It’s a little kind of a thing here
that the Corinthian church had that was wrong, and yet it was right.)
How is it, brethren? when you come together, every one of you has a
psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, (interpolation). (He said), Let
all things be done to edifying.

	They had it mixed up. They didn’t have the little room for their
gifts of tongues and all. And evidently, even when they had a chance to
come together to be taught and to hear the Word, and back and forth, and
know the things of God, they didn’t take the time to enter into it.
They didn’t take the time to, you know, really go into it, the way
they might have and should have. 

	Also remember; in 1 Cor 12:26, It says: 

(26)	When one member suffers, all members suffer; when one is honoured,
all honour, are (honoured) with it.

82.	Now Eph 4:16. Some of these we don’t get a great deal out of.
It’s just a matter in passing a little point. In 4:16 It mentions:

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

	Now, the point is, what we’re looking at: What is it that came to
this church? It wasn’t the five-fold ministry that came to Ephesus. It
was the prophet with the Word and the five-fold ministry that brings us
to this place. And it is not the minister per se. That is merely a
position God gives him. It is the Word. Because that’s what the
controversy was all about. That’s what the whole thing is all about. 

83.	Now, listen; It says, “the whole body.” Now listen, let me read
It to you—prove it to you, for this ministry.

(12)	For the perfecting of the saints, (to perfection, bringing to
equipment, bringing to maturity) work of the ministry, edifying the body
of Christ: (building it.)

(13)	Till we all come in the unity of the faith, (a single revelation)
and the knowledge of the Son of God, (That is Eph 1:17-23.) and unto a
perfect man (the mature man), unto the measure of the stature of the
fulness of Christ: (There’s no more to come.)

(14)	That we (Now, watch.) that we henceforth be no more children,
tossed to and fro, carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the
sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to
deceive;

(15)	But speaking the truth (holding the truth, speaking the truth) in
love, grow up onto him in all things, which is the head, 

	In other words, you love that Word more than anything in your life.
That’s the one thing where your love is. Now Paul, the apostle said,
“Listen, if you don’t understand,” to the Philippians, he said,
“Put it to one side.” But he said, “Get to the place where you all
speak the same thing and you all know the same thing.” How do I know,
or anybody know if you speak the same thing, if you don’t talk about
it? Well, come on. Then, what if somebody corrects you? 

84.	Bro. Branham corrected me on different occasions, when he couldn’t
tell me, he couldn’t get through because my head was too thick from
other Scriptures that I had gotten wrong. I told you I had to say,
“Bro. Branham, is it THUS SAITH THE LORD, the Bride...” 

	Well, first of all, I could see it was getting dark in the room
spiritually. I could see he was getting hurt and getting nowhere. 

	I said, “Bro. Branham, look, let’s just call it off, but could you
answer one question more, that’s all” 

	He said, “Sure, Bro. Vayle, ask me.” 

	I said, “Bro. Branham, is it THUS SAITH THE LORD, the Bride does not
go through the tribulation?” 

	He said, “Bro. Vayle, it is THUS SAITH THE LORD.” 

	I said, “Thank you, Bro. Branham. That’s all I need to know. I will
find all the answers because you’ve told me the Truth.” 

85.	Ten years later, my answer defies every living Greek student. But
I’m right. Because they don’t understand judgment from judgment.
Retributive wrath of the Great Tribulation is not the wrath and the
judgment of the White Throne, because the White Throne you pass by. He
opens the Book. He doesn’t send fire down upon you. He doesn’t send
plagues or one other thing. He just says, “The Book says your name is
So and So, and this is what you’ve done.” 

	“But I spoke with tongues, I prophesied.”

	The Book says that also-: “I never knew you; depart from me.” 

	They’ll never understand what I know. It’s not given to them. 

86.	You say, “Well, you’re boasting.” 

	No, I’m not, I’m just telling you the truth. I waited ten years.
How many years did I wait to understand that the appearing was the
Presence? 1977, as quietly I sat at my book and said, “Lord, I’m not
going to fuss, not going to try to figure it, if you want to show me You
can, if You don’t want to, then that’s all right by me.” Look,
growing up to the head, where there is no more deceit and no cunning,
and we’re speaking the truth in love. Not because we want to fight,
but is somebody wrong? 

87.	You know something? I wonder, sitting in this congregation today,
does every single person here that is accountable to God understand the
difference between the baptism with the Holy Ghost, the anointing, and
the Anointer Himself, God Himself? You understand before there can be
children, there’s got to be a father. Before there’s a baptism,
there’s got to be a Baptizer. What if the Baptizer came and went away,
but He still left the baptism, then the Baptizer comes back two thousand
years later? Can you understand that? Well, can you? Or are you still
wondering? 

88.	Women are particularly susceptible. They think they hear from God.
I’ve a letter. I think I might have thrown it away, from a lady in
Tucson. Her name is Elsa Larson. She wrote this to Bro. Erickson, and
she said, “I tell you what, you better get yourself a TV, and don’t
listen to Lee Vayle for sure, because he’s of the devil, and Bro.
Branham always made a man a doctor or somebody if he didn’t like him.
So, you better hear and get a TV, and you can see Jimmy Swaggart,
because he’s the next thing to Bro. Branham.”

	 And she’s boasting of her revelation she got from God. Her name’s
Elsa Larson. She goes up there to Harold’s church. I got the thing cut
out. I’m going to send it to her one of these days when I get her
address.

	Sisters, you that are not under husbands, watch it. You can be trapped,
and you will be if you’re not careful. Wives, obey your husbands, but
only in Christ. I want you to know that. 

89.	1 John 3. Always this Word, brother/sister, because that’s where
it left. That’s where it’s left. And you got to get back on track by
the Word. Eden was destroyed by the lack of the Word. Eden can only be
restored by the right Word. Here’s what John says in 1 Jn 3:11.

(11)	For this is the message we heard from the beginning, that we should
love one another.

	Now, what’s he going to talk about? He’s going to talk about a love
that was not exhibited. A passion that killed.

(12)	Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, that slew his brother. And
wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his
brother’s righteous.

	They had a fight over who was accepted by God and it was only too
evident that Abel was accepted because the Pillar of Fire came down and
ate up his offering. And the Pillar of Fire didn’t come anywhere near
the fruit. Forget it. And so Cain killed his brother. He didn’t love
him. Why? Because he hated his brother’s vindicated Word. 

90.	Now, watch; 1 John 3:13.

(13)	Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

	Who was Cain? World. Now you all say today: I believe this Word; I want
this Word; if I’m wrong, I want to be straightened out. Seems like
we’re going to have to take an undertaker to straighten maybe some of
you out. Because when something comes up, you get jittery, you feel
you’re put down and all. Maybe you are. If you’re put down, I’m
going to tell you: the guy that put you down will pay for it. It’ll be
his turn around the corner. But you’re too willing to give up, and I
don’t like it. 

	I paid a pretty big price to come this way. Let me tell you something.
It was peanuts. I can’t even remember what I went through, what I felt
like. With a knife in my back, and one in my guts, my head turning,
dizzy, a vertigo going through it, nerves clashing. I can’t even
remember. Really. 

	I remember the same experience with yeast infection in my blood. And
that never came because of the Word; that was because I was stupid. Ate
too much sugar, took antibiotics, drank coffee, swilled it by the
gallon. I’m a swill fellow. Swilled it right down. My wife’s a swill
girl, too. I said, on her way up in the Rapture, she’s gonna be
grabbing a cup of coffee. I didn’t suffer because of anything I got; I
suffered because I was stupid. Broke all the laws. 

	But I was kicked out of churches because I dared to preach the truth.
So what? Now I just say, try and kick me out of this. I may fool you, go
out before you desire to kick me out. Doesn’t matter any more. 

91.	Now, this Scripture here that I read is based upon Genesis 4, which
absolutely said that Cain had the same ability to know the Scripture as
Abel did. Because the Septuagint—which is a very accurate accounting
of the Hebrew—said, “Thou has rightly offered, but if thou has not
rightly divided, hast thou not sinned.”

	They say, “Bro. Vayle, I believe the vindicated prophet.” 

	But do you believe and understand the Presence even? I’m fought plumb
around the world, on the Presence. They say, “Oh, that is a doctrine
by the Jehovah Witnesses, and therefore, it is wrong.” 

	I say, “Hey, eternal security is a baptist doctrine, so that’s got
to be wrong.” 

92.	Don’t you see where you put Bro. Branham? You make him a complete
fool, because he corrected the error. The Presence is a legitimate
doctrine. It’s His appearing, but it was taught wrong—and is taught
wrong until this present hour. But the prophet said, “My ministry is
to declare that He is here.”

	“I don’t care what William Branham declared. I can declare, too.”


	And be one hundred percent wrong. 

	I can say to some person knows horticulture, that is not a
chrysanthemum. That is a hoozecollun, and bless God, I’ll take a
crowbar and knock your head off. [Microphone is moved/dropped.] Okay,
that’s exactly the truth. Doesn’t make it right because I say it.
The answer is no. But if I can go to my book and prove that that is not
a chrysanthemum and get the authority behind me, (“That’s another
plant.”) then it doesn’t matter, brother/sister, what anybody says. 

	Come across Bro. Branham, he had the authority behind him. Now William
Branham said, “My ministry is to declare that He is here.” And he
said, “There’s no such thing as a genuine healing revival,” (which
is a vindication), “unless there’s a new message.” God does not
come with a true healing revival and then present a dead message.
That’s the “Rapture” tape. So therefore, Bro. Branham told you: I
am talking of His Presence not the way you are talking of the Presence.
Many times he said, “Let’s see if He’ll come.” How could anybody
else do that? 

93.	Now, look; in Hebrews 12, and I’m skipping around, but you’re
following me, I do trust—beginning at verse 3.

(3)	For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against
himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds.

	What was the contradiction? The word ‘contradiction’ is
‘contradico’, which means ‘to say against, to write against, to
say against, to come against’. ‘Contradico’—‘to say
against’. Jesus Christ was constantly fought because of what he said.
What about you and me? 

94.	Now, listen.

(4)	You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 

	Here is a man; he’s an alcoholic by birth. Poor guy, he doesn’t
know his genes are that way. One drink and he’s an alcoholic. That
happens, you know. That’s why drinking is so desperate. One drink. I
can prove it. One drink and you’re gone. You can never even smell the
stuff, stay away. Now, what is this man doing, this alcoholic? He’s
praying; he’s sweating. He’s sweating until almost blood is coming;
he’s sweating. What over? Because he’s an alcoholic, he needs
deliverance. What is this one sweating for? Over the Word, because
he’s going to die for It. How many of us sweat over the Word? You’ll
sweat over It. You’ll sweat over It. Now it’s easier to fight over
It and say, “That’s wrong.” 

	Like the guy, he didn’t know that I knew what I was saying when I
quoted the fact that Matthew 25 is the separation of the people by the
Word, and Luke 17 is the separation, one taken, one left, is the
Rapture. 

	He said, “Aw,” he said, “Lee Vayle made that up.” 

	Yeah, even called my name, which was very glamorous. I’m known. Did I
make it up? Bro. Branham said it. I’d be a fool to make it up. You
know why? I didn’t believe it. When he said it I believed it. He’s
vindicated. You’d be surprised what you find out when you believe
he’s vindicated. 

95.	(5)	Have you forgotten the exhortation speaks unto you as children,
My son, despise not the correcting of the Lord, nor faint when you’re
rebuked: 

	And Bro. Branham said, “Love is corrective.” What corrects? The
Word corrects. This is the battle right here. God help me to get this
Word, get this Word, get this Word. See? 

(6)	For whom the Lord loveth he chastens, and scourges every Son that He
receives.

(7)	If you endure chastening, (training) God deals with you as with
sons; for what son is he whom (his) father doesn’t (train and)
chasten?

(8)	But if you’re without chastisement, whereof are all partakers,
then you are bastards, and not sons.

(9)	Furthermore we had fathers who corrected us after the flesh, (and so
on, right down the line.)

	Okay. It cannot be long before the Rapture, because we have entered a
period of correction and revelation—correction by revelation. But let
us understand this: That correction can bring fear, and it is necessary
to fear in order to have correction.

96.	Revelation 22:17.

(17)	The Spirit and the bride say, Come. Let him that heareth say, Come.
Let him that is athirst come. Whosoever will, let him take of the water
of life freely.

(18)	For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy
of this book, If any man shall add to these things, God shall add to him
of the plagues that are written in the book:

(19)	And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this
prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and of
the holy city, and the things which are written (therein).

	When does this take place? It takes place after verse 10. He says,
“Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at
hand,” when the book that was sealed becomes unsealed, and so don’t
you dare seal it again. I ask you a question: “If Bro. Branham really
unsealed the book, how will anybody seal it again? By adding a word or
taking a word” 

	You’ve got to be open. It can bring anger. It always does. It can
ruffle our pride. It always does. It can induce inferior feelings.
That’s the big one I’m looking at here. 

	“Who does he think he is?” 

	See? It can induce them, but if you’re right, you’re right; if
you’re wrong, you’re wrong, if you get corrected, hallelujah. One
word off. What is sin? Unbelief. 

97.	Ezekiel 3:18-21. The angel comes and said... with the inkhorn. And
he said, “Put a mark on the brow of everybody that sighs and cries
over sin, which is unbelief, which is a wrong revelation or a rejection
of the Word of God.”

	Let me get this in the light of Ezekiel 9. I don’t just want to say a
thing and pass over. And we’re taking a long time. I’m preaching on
Wednesday. We’ll have Roger on Tuesday, and he doesn’t preach long. 

(1)	He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, (crying), Cause them
that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his
destroying weapon in his hand.

(2)	And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which
lieth unto the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and
one man among them was clothed with linen, (and) a writer’s inkhorn by
his side: they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.

(3)	And the glory of the Lord of...(Now, listen.)... the glory of the
God of Israel was gone up from the cherubs, whereupon he was, to the
threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen,
which had the writer’s inkhorn by his side;

(4)	And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city,
through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the
men that sigh and cry for all the abomination that be done in the midst
thereof.

(5)	And the others he said in mine hearing, Go after him through the
city: and spare not, let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:

(6)	Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and
women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my
sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the
house. (And so on.)

(7)	He said, go (now and slay).

	What are you looking at? You’re looking at the end time where the
Spirit of God leaves the church, and the seventh Church Age, where
it’s all gone, He’s outside. And there He is right there saying,
“Come out of her my people, and slay utterly those that stay
within.” And he said, “Spare not the young.” 

98.	I want to ask you a question, you that are worried about your kids.
Do you believe this Message? The man with the inkhorn and the men with
the swords did not go near the children of the people with the mark.
Forehead stands with mind. Whose mark have you got at the end time? The
mark of the antichrist? the creeds and the dogmas? Whose will are you
doing? Now, that answers your question. 

	You see why I teach the way I teach, and press you and press you?
It’s the only hope we got. 

	You say, “Bro. Vayle, are you so sold?” 

	Listen, I am as sold as I can be at this point. I don’t expect any
more from you. But I do expect a little more than some of the things
I’m getting. That much I will admit.

99.	Okay now, I want to use Scripture to express myself as pertaining
how a church ought to accept each other, even those who might have
differences with each other, because it is requested by a minister who
has been responsible to God and hath ministered you food in due season.
I hope you heard what I said. If you didn’t, it’s all right. I can
read It again. But here is Paul to Philemon. 

(1)	Paul a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto
Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer,

(2)	And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and the
church (of his) house:

(3)	Grace (be) to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.

(4)	I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers,

(5)	Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord
Jesus, and toward all the saints;

(6)	That the communication of thy faith hath become effectual by the
acknowledging of every good thing which is in you (by) Christ Jesus.
(Notice? Always telling the good things that God has done, because
He’s in you.)

(7)	For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the
bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

(8)	Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that
which is convenient,

(9)	Yet for love’s sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as
Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

(10)	I beseech thee for my own son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my
bonds:

(11)	Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to
thee and me: (He’s a slave that ran away, and he shouldn’t have done
it. That’s his master, a Christian.)

(12)	Whom I have sent again: that thou receive him, that is, mine own
bowels: (Like my very own son.)

(13)	Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have
ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

(14)	But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should
not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.

	Now Paul lets the guy know. “Hey, he said, I’ve got a right to this
guy in the presence of God, and I’m going to have it. What do you do
about it? You’re my brother. You should do something about it.” Now
that’s pretty high-handed, but it’s not as high-handed as it sounds.
I make it a little bit rougher than what it is. But this man Paul had
every right to ask for the help that this boy could have given him,
because this other man had done nothing. You see? 

100.  Now It says:

(15)	For perhaps he therefore departed (thee) for a season, that thou
should receive him for ever;

(16)	Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved,
specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in
the Lord?

(17)	If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.

(18)	If he has wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that (to) my
account;

(19)	I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit
I do not say to thee how thou owest me even thine own self besides.

(20)	Yea, brother, let me have the joy of thee in the Lord: and refresh
my inner man, the bowels (and so on.)

	Now, what he’s saying here? He wanted this person to be received as
himself on the grounds that there was a privilege extended Paul and a
duty from the person at this Paul’s request. He said, “I would like
you to receive this person from me.” 

101.  Now many times it’s setting in a church, and we don’t have
a... one time they’re going to have—by your own vote, you’ll have
a pastor conclusively. But many times there is that which comes in the
church, and we’re talking about a present situation where you might
have a misunderstanding with a brother that specially... You have all
said, “Bro. Vayle, we want to help you; Bro. Vayle, we want to help
you.” And you know I need help, not so much with the preaching, but
the other things that are so necessary, which we could never get done. 

	Now, if you want me to explain sometime, I’ll just take it from cover
to cover and name every name in the building, and I’ll lay it all out
because I’m not embarrassed. I stand a hundred percent clear in my own
conscience in what I’ve been doing. Now the point is you cannot help
me in some areas, but you can help me in others. 

	Now you say, “I want to help you.” 

	But, when we have a man who could try to do these things, I find some
of you are rebelling. You don’t want him in your homes, you don’t
want this, you don’t want that. Now, look; you say you love me and got
faith and you want to help me. Now, what are you doing to me? I want to
know this. 

	Hey, look; it’s more serious than you think. But I got to turn and
say, what I’ve been doing for eight-nine years with those people.
Where are they coming from? Where am I coming from? Where are we going?
What is the pull on me? Is this a personality cult again? Is this a
deal, or is it the Word? 

102.  Look, Bro. Branham’s been gone almost twenty-five years. Will it
take another twenty-five years? You know, something’s going to happen.
Something’s going to happen so fast, we wished we had taken time to
listen and do what I’m saying this morning, because brother/sister,
it’s happening awfully, awfully fast. You don’t realize what the
eastern bloc is actually doing. It is turning to Rome. The Jews have the
paper; let’s face it. The big companies, all they’ve got is paper.
Everything is going bankrupt. There’s only one source can help us,
that’s the Roman Catholic Church with the gold. It will come
overnight. See? 

	Now, when these things really start to turn, the Bride will get out of
here. But we’ve waited twenty-five years since Bro. Branham was gone.
What is another year? What is another two years? I told you ‘88 was a
crucial year, if there ever was one. I’ll still stand by it, ‘88 was
the crucial. You say, “How do you know?” I didn’t know. Bro.
Branham said you can’t tell anything until the events are in. Looking
at the events, I said that’s a big day. It was, starting in the fall
of ‘87. One year up, ‘88’s been a crucial year. ‘89’s a
crucial year. ‘90 will be even more crucial. ‘90 could be the fall
of all the banks. Your savings and loans are gone. Every economist
knows. You can buy books on it. Hardly a bank is safe. The domino effect
is going into effect. The insurance companies are battling. They’re
going under. What are we saying? There’s nothing but paper. 

103.  What’s going to happen? One day God’s going to rip the table
cloth off, and you watch, while Rome says, “Here’s the gold; you go
buy.”… And I told you I’ve got a few pieces of silver and gold.
They sit there, and I laugh at it. You know why? Because they can take
it away. It’s in the bank deposit box. It’s not even under my name;
it’s Grace Gospel Church. You can have it if you want to stick around
and try to use it. I’m not kidding, I’m telling you the truth. A few
bucks. If they want it, they’ll take it. Because the silver and gold
is corrupting, and I have not been redeemed with corruptible things such
as silver and gold. 

	It’s kind of fun; it’s a kind of a fun thing with me. It started
one day when I suddenly desired, I’d like to own a gold coin, and in
three days was in the mail. When I got the mail, I said that’s my gold
coin. I’m a gold sniffer. What good is it? I should pick a little hole
and put it around my wife’s neck. A bit of a jewelry. I think she
deserves it. It’d be nice. 

104.  Let me close. Well, I’m going to close. You say, “Goody.”
That’s all right. I say goody, too. Don’t worry. And we got a
baptismal service, too.

	2 Thessalonians once again. If we believe what we believe to be true
concerning the mighty angels having come down at this last day... Paul
again says in chapter 1.

(7)	You that are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be
revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

(8)	In (flames of) fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, (but
not on us. That know not God. Why? Because we have a revelation.) 

	At the same time they’re heaping up judgment, the same One is
bringing us revelation to get us out of here. Right. Didn’t Messiah
said, you’ll not cast my soul, my darling, to the dogs? Neither will
God cast his Messiah-ettes to the dogs. No, no way.

(9)	Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence
of the Lord, and the glory of his power.

	That’s sounds like White Throne. It’s not. It’s what set in
leaving neither root nor branch for what is burned now is completely
finished at the Lake of Fire. It starts now and it’s going right down
to the end. Bro. Branham said the whole thing was a Roman candle. The
white horse rider, to red, to black, to brindle goes into eternity. The
lion, the calf, the man, the eagle, into eternity. 

105.  Come on. Let your thinking go; come on, let your thinking go. Get
rid of your thoughts. It’s going into eternity. I’m on my way; I’m
on my way; I’m on my way. Couple of stoppings places, just a couple,
but I’m on my way. Millennium, further sanctification, great White
Throne, on my way, on my way. Caught up in heaven, to the throne. All
the earth dissolved... in heaven, on my way, on my way. Come on back
again, on my way. Here it comes down, on my way. Aw, this is it. I’m a
going concern. I’m a becoming person. I don’t mean a nice person,
like becoming, ‘she’s a becoming person’. I’m talking in the
sense of God. I’m becoming. I’m moving. Having come and going back. 

106.  Listen, “And now we beseech you, brethren, by the presence of
our Lord Jesus Christ; and by our gathering together unto him.” Now
just a minute, what is that gathering together? Bro. Branham said it was
the Message. How could a prophet arbitrarily say, “It’s the
Message?” I’ll prove it to you. “When he shall have come to be
glorified in his saints, and be admired in all them that believe,
because our testimony among you was believed in that day.” The same
One that brought the Word, brings It back. You follow me? You follow me?


	Prophet doesn’t just yap and say, “Oh, believe this because I said
so.” 

	And I’m not going to stand and say, “Oh, believe it because Bro.
Branham said so.” 

	He told us ministers to break it down to help the people. I did it. I
can tell you right now, some of you people waited twenty-five years for
that answer. You got it this morning. There’s your answer. How’s it
in the Message? He tells you. I preached what Paul preached. Our message
is ‘believe’. And if maybe a dozen make it, or five hundred, or five
thousand, then it means that five billion didn’t. And the foolish
virgin are very scarce. 

107.  Now, notice; he said, “Don’t be soon shaken or troubled in
mind.” Because he said, “That day is not present this minute.” Now
we’re going to talk about that the next time I preach on “Satan’s
Eden”. It’s going to go right from this to “Satan’s Eden”,
without a breath, without a punctuation mark. 

	Well, I’m not sorry I kept you because it leaves it a load off my
shoulders, getting it all done at one time. I’ll pay my price;
you’ll pay your price. Tired. 

	Now we’re going to have a baptismal service. Vince Seeley, nice young
fellah. How old are you? Sure thought you were about eighteen, you sure
fooled me. I’m just nice. I hope you... you should look just about
this exactly when he’s into the Millennium. Glorified, you might lose
what, one wrinkle, you got one wrinkle or two wrinkles? Doesn’t much
matter. You haven’t lost any hair. Take a good look at this boy when
he gets baptized. You’re going to see someone that’s getting ready
for the Millennium. And this is just about... pretty well what he’s
going to look like, but there’s going to be a difference in the glory.
This is just his beautiful youth, but you get the dew of youth from the
One who has risen with healing in his wings. It’s going to be that
much nicer. 

	So, let’s rise for a minute shall we? And the brother come forward.
We’ll take you right up here, son, and maybe there’s a place to
change your clothes, the whole bit. Oh, you want to get your clothes?
Very good. Either door you come through then. Bro. Bill [Graham] will
baptize you and just give you a chance to change your position. Give you
a chance to change your clothes, too, Bill. 

	Pretty well, in fact everything that’s in the realm of the spiritual
has a physical manifestation to it. In other words, when there is some
type of Word, there’s got to be some type of life. We’ll let them
sit down for the baptism. Have ‘em, just let ‘em change their
position. 

	So, when we read Scripture, I’m going to read concerning Romans 6,
and we know that water baptism doesn’t do this, but we’re going to
use it as an example. It’s the baptism of the Holy Ghost. We’re
going to switch this back on water. A lot of people read this and they
say it’s water. It’s not so at all because water does not wash away
your sins. Water is simply an answer of a good conscience toward God,
when you the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has washed away your sin,
and now in a justified condition you’re being baptized with water to
rise to be fully sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost.

	Paul said:

(1)	What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may
abound? 

(2)	God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer
therein? 

	Now, let’s go right back to the Old Testament. Right today you may
not be aware of it... But I get the Jerusalem Post, and if you’d like
to read it, I’ll just bring it down here, and you can read it. Because
I read it, then I usually throw it away. But right today they are
baptizing converts into Judaism. And they understand exactly what that
means. It means, as a Gentile, you die to what you were, and you come up
now as a full-fledged Jew. And it doesn’t really matter exactly how
you walk because we’ll help you to walk. It doesn’t really matter
exactly what you believe; that you’ve come this far, we’ll take you
further. In other words, we accept you on the grounds of this particular
institution that says, “Hey, I am not the person I once was. I have
changed literally my nationality. I am no longer in those families out
there; I’m in another family.”

	Now, hey, look, that’s why Jesus said, to Nicodemus. He said, can a
man enter his mother’s womb the second time? He said, “No.” He
said, “You understand water baptism.” He said, “This is what does
it.” The rebirth. Now, this is what you’re looking at. There is
going to be a change, not because you’re baptized in water, but
because of what you have confessed to, and what you are by virtue of
your confession, believing that it is done. And from that time on you
will go on a different person. Now, of course, that’s the true baptism
with the Holy Ghost. But you apply it to water, it’s okay, because
we’re making it a type.

(3)	Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ
were baptized into his death? (Don’t you know, as many as you are
baptized in water, you go down and come back, signifying you have a new
life. See?) 

(4)	Therefore we’re buried with him by baptism into death: that like
as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so
we also should walk in newness of life. 

	In other words, there’s a tremendous glory when God raises the dead,
and there’s a tremendous glory when God brings a person out of
spiritual death back into spiritual life, but living in the same body,
looking for resurrection. 

(5)	For if we had been planted together in the likeness of his death, we
shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection: 

(6)	Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body
of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 

(7)	For he that is dead is freed from sin. 

(8)	Now if he be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live
with him: 

(9)	Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more, death
hath no more dominion over him. 

(10)	For in that he had died, he died unto sin once: but that he liveth,
he liveth unto God.

	And I’m going to tell you something. You know Paul wrote there, in
those, what is it, ten little sentences, ten little Scriptures? He wrote
a whole lifetime—a whole lifetime from the time that you believe that
you’re really born again. That is to say that you’re justified,
you’ve given your life to God, you go into that watery stream, and you
go on to be baptized with the Holy Ghost. As the water ‘signifies’,
the Holy Ghost ‘does’. And we’re looking today at something that
signifies that this boy is a true child of God. 

	And as Bro. Branham said, we don’t look for sensations, we don’t
look for signs, we don’t look for this or that about the baptism. We
only pile Word upon Word because the baptism today is given without
sensation. Now, how many people can believe that? If you do, you’re
flowing right against the Pentecostal brand, right there. You eliminate
every charismatic church, and they’re all charismatic today. They’ve
all got the seed in them. He’ll turn down everything. Can you take it
by sheer faith? Just what God himself said He would do that is done. Can
you and I, like Abraham, give credit to God that it’s so? “He
calleth those things which are not as though they were.” Pile Word
upon Word. Do you realize that’s the true baptism with the Holy Ghost,
piling Word upon Word? If we should be doing anything we should be
piling Word upon Word as it’s never been done before. 

	And we’re going to pray that this young man here, as he’s baptized,
will rise to the occasion by the power of God. In other words, a vessel,
a receptacle.

	Let’s bow our heads in prayer. And I’m sure they’ll be ready
pretty soon.

	Heavenly Father, as our young brother, Vince Seeley, comes to us for
the purpose of being baptized in water, he’s come a long way, many
miles to be baptized, but we believe, Lord, he’s come many a more mile
into Your Presence, not in this building, but previously. He’s already
a long way down the road to seeing and understanding that there is a
vindication, a true vindication, a vindicated Word, and wants now, Lord,
to be full of that Word. We accept him as our brother, as a real witness
in this hour being baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And
that, as he comes out of that water, Lord, we pray that Word upon Word
shall be piled until the boy is completely full of the Word of God for
this hour, for his own personal edification, and therefore completely
full of the Holy Ghost. And Lord, God, no doubt whatsoever, shall be a
part of that great Millennium which is bursting upon us. Yes, we are
already now moving into as eternity and time mixes.

	Lord, I pray there won’t be one person here whose been looking to
You, but realizes that even today there’s Word upon Word being piled
in our very minds, our souls, our very spiritual innermost being. And
that Word one day is going to be so transforming in its power, because
Paul says so. It’s his gospel, Lord, at this hour that’s believed,
it’s going to bring the people into that wonderful position of
glorifying God further by receiving glorified bodies and meeting at the
Wedding Supper. Father, I know that’s true. We commend everybody unto
you in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

	You may be seated. They should be ready right away. [Bro. Seeley is
baptized in water.]

	

	Let’s rise and be dismissed. Gracious Father, we thank you for Your
love, Your mercy and grace, how you helped us in this service today,
Lord. We ask your blessing upon us, everyone here, Lord. May the sick
amongst us be healed, may, God, You be completely glorified. May Your
Word have precedence over every thought and over every thing. This is
what we’re asking, Lord, because You are asking it of us, and we’re
giving it back to You, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen

	“Take the Name of Jesus with You.”

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