Once For All (Gruenthal, Saskatchewan) Bro. Lee Vayle - November 27, 1979 ...Your Spirit, Lord, to come into Your Word, Lord, the study of It, whereby that we might learn the things that have been freely given to us, O God. And not something, Lord, that lies in the future, but which is ours now, Father. Though we don't see it too clearly we know that it is absolutely there, it is ours, and one day in Its proper time It'll come into perfect manifestation. So, Father, help us tonight now to calm our hearts and our minds, and especially, Lord, may Your Spirit have preeminence over our minds. Bring every thought into captivity to Jesus Christ putting down all reasonings, and setting aside all former understandings and just stay with what is in Your Word. In Jesus' Name we pray. Amen. You may be seated. 1. Now these messages have a sort of the title in the series, and the first message was: What happened when the Holy Spirit came. But tonight it's more or less 'What Happens When the Holy Spirit Comes'. Now, in the first message we saw that the Holy Spirit Baptism was responsible for true tremendous and irrevocable experiences. And what I mean by that is they're "Once for All." You do not repeat them anymore than Jesus Christ died upon Calvary more than once, or must die regularly for a person's sins. That once for all death covered the Old Testament Bride and covers the New. And even covers looking forward to the White Throne Judgment. It is Once For All. So there are two great things that happened in this 'once for all' experience whereby we receive as it were, two once for all experiences in the one. Now, the first is where the Holy Spirit united us with God making us one as It says in 1 Cor 6:17. (17) ...he that is joined (to) the Lord is one spirit. And you notice in there, the word is 'cemented'. Cemented. Absolutely joined and cemented. And remember, that God says, "Whatsoever God joins together, let no man put asunder." [Mk 10:9] It's the very same thing you find where It says, "And no man can pluck them out of My Father's hand, for I and My Father are one." [Jn 10:29-30] 2. And we saw this of course very clearly in Jn 14:20, because this is what Jesus said would happen. Now you cannot deny what Jesus said. And you will notice that this is the most important thing, the primary basic major thing that Jesus said. And in verse 20, (20) At that day (you) shall know that I am in my Father, and (you) in me, and I in you. (Now, that's exactly what He said.) So therefore, that is exactly what was to happen. That at the day of being baptized with the Holy Ghost as at the day of Pentecost, that as He was in the Father, and He said, "We were in Him and I in you." It is a complete union. Actually, it is even more than a cementing together. Although that is true. It is almost as though a two tumblers of water were poured into one pitcher. 3. Now, the next thing is He united the members of the Bride to each other with Himself as Head, or as the Husband. And we see this over here in 1 Cor 12:12. (12) For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. (13) For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. And Galatians we have the same thought, "For there's neither Jew nor Gentile, male or female, bond or free," [Gal 3:28] or anything else. In other words, we all becoming a part with Him are a part with and of each other, and that cannot be changed. 4. Now, also in John 17, we see the experience, the baptism with the Holy Ghost that makes us one with Him, make us one with each other. And He says here, beginning in 21. (21) That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they (may be) also be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. You notice, here is the plurality of the singular as found in John 14. It's not just an individual now, it's all, all of them in Christ together forming that body. (22) And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: (23) I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one;... And that word 'perfect' doesn't only mean a conclusion, it means 'a finishing'. The term refers to finishing furniture, or a piece of lumber or something. It's not only done as far as the cutting of the pattern is concerned, but it's brought to the finish where nothing more can be done to it. It becomes an absolute as to the quality and the perfection of those qualities. (23) ...and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. (24) Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. 5. Now, to get a picture of this, we're going to go back to the time when the Holy Spirit fell. And that of course is in Acts 2:1-8. (1) And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. (Notice, all one accord, one place.) Now that's good. That's the way it is in the true Bride. She's in one place which is in Christ Jesus. She's all of one accord, because It's one Spirit that's revealing the One Word and they're all in one place which is truly going a little further than just being in Christ; although, that's the tremendous thing. They will also always be in each age, place and then they are going to becoming on in their own places in the Millennium and so on. (2) And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. (3) And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. (4) And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. (5) And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. (6) Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. (7) And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these Galilaeans which speak? (8) And how hear we every man in our own (language), wherein we were born? 6. Now, in verse 3, of course this is the beginning of the Church, or the true Bride. And in verse 3, It says, (3) And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. Now, I'm not a Greek student, but I understand here that the actual meaning in the Greek goes to the fact that there was one cloud that appeared. Because after all, God is one. Moses never saw two Pillars' of Fire. Now, when Bro. Branham was on earth here the people saw a Pillar of Fire when he got through preaching the Church Ages, and It formed in fire the actual picture that Bro. Branham drew of those Ages. And yet he stood up before the people and said, "You saw one, but I saw two." He said, "You only saw the reflection." It is not given to the individual outside of a prophet to see the Pillar of Fire, anymore than to hear the Voice of Almighty God. No man save a person like Moses can actually hear the Voice of God. Just can't be done. So, here we see, when the Pillar of Fire descended, He would not have come as tongues of fire, or like many little 'ropes of fire' as it were. It was one Cloud that descended. And as Bro. Branham said that this actual Pillar of Fire that he sees so much like the Pillar of Fire that was shown in the [movie] Ten Commandments, you can get a pretty good idea what it is like, how it would be then. There would be one cloud, central cloud, and the whirling flame within there would just break off as it were in pieces and come down upon each individual one. And then they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. 7. Now notice here, one cloud of Fire, tongues broke off, and each one was filled with the Holy Spirit. And then as each one was filled, that said, "They were all filled with the Holy Ghost." [Acts 2:4] So in the first case we see the individuals were filled first, and then corporately, or altogether they were altogether filled. Now, none were there who were not filled in order to become a part of Him, and a part of, and a part with each other. There wasn't one person who could be a part with God, or a part with the Bride without being filled with the Holy Ghost. Every single member of the Bride, the body, the true Church of the Lord Jesus Christ must be full of the Holy Ghost. Now, that's without variance. Now, one cannot be a part then of the spiritual Christ and the physical Christ without this personal baptism of the Holy Spirit. Now you notice what I said there: you cannot be a part of and with the spiritual Christ. That's the actual Holy Ghost Himself Who is God Almighty, one God Who is Spirit. And you cannot be a part of the physical Christ which is His body, which is here upon earth. Now, you can't be a part of Him by joining a church therefore, or by being baptized in water, or by being baptized in the local assembly. Now you'll find many people literally baptize people into the local assembly. Now that is absolutely ridiculous. There is no Scripture for it. There is nothing to it, it is insanity. There is nothing to it at all, but many people believe it. Others are baptized into local doctrinal formulas. They have no baptism at all, but they believe certain things. And some do have a baptism believing other certain things, and they put you into it by you joining a church or shaking their hand, or something like that. So neither can you be in the Bride of Christ by some sort of good moral living. It is absolutely a rebirth. You must be born again. Or as the Scripture says, "You must be born from above." See? 8. Now, we go a little further beginning in the middle of verse 4. [Acts 2:] (4) ...all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. (5) And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. (6) Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. (7) And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these Galileans which speak? Now, you'll notice here in verse 4b, the middle of verse 4 to verse 7, what we saw in the above Scripture, that is the Pillar of Fire, God coming down in that veiled form letting the people know that He was there. Then those tongues of fire coming off showing that God was distributing Himself, or giving of His Own Life to each individual, bringing them into Himself and making them one with Him even as He said they would be, this was It. So, what we saw in the above Scripture was the vertical. In other words, God dealing from the top down on a person to person basis in the vertical. And then what we see in these other verses is on the horizontal. Because they were speaking with other tongues as the Spirit of God gave them the languages to utter. Then you see as they were down there on the street and the people began coming, then the Spirit of God took the very words that the Galileans were preaching, turned those words in midair and they actually heard them prophesy, though it became tongues to the individual hearing. The miracle lay in the hearing, not in the speaking at that time, though there was a miracle in the speaking, because they were speaking under the anointing of the Holy Ghost. So now you see from the vertical to the lateral. See, the vertical is God dealing with individuals. Or God first manifest, or reveals Himself to the individual, and then the members on the horizontal level, (that in the Bride,) manifest Him, Who came to them in the form of the vertical. That's the whole thing, is to have a Bride who manifest Him. See, that's why He's got to have a physical body, you see? 9. Now notice, in verses 37-41. (37) Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what (will) we do? (38) Then Peter said, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and (you) shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Now listen, he didn't say, "Repent everyone of you and be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and at some later date, oh way down the road, or when you get convenient, or when you're stirred up, or when there's some great revival, I want to tell you some folk, there's a little something down the road for you called 'the Holy Ghost'." That is a lie my brother, my sister. The reason you repent and get baptized in water is to receive the Holy Ghost, that's what It is all about. See? And you begin to see why Bro. Branham preached under the Anointing so hard when he preached 'The Token', and said, "Branham Tabernacle," he said, "there are many of you here, perhaps most who have received the Holy Ghost, but I wonder if all of you have." And yet Bro. Branham always opened that pool. He never gave an altar call, he gave a 'water call'. The water call is that you will receive the Holy Ghost. And as the prophet said, not parroting, but simply quoting what is true. All men of all ages have said, "If you obey the first two, God is duty bound to answer on the third," because God alone can baptize you with the Holy Ghost. You see, you shall receive the gift. (39) For the promise is unto you, (Jews) and to your children, (Jews) and to all that are afar off, (Gentile) even as many (both Jew and Gentile) as the LORD our God shall call. (Notice, the Lord our God shall call.) 10. Now, I'm just going to forget my notes for one second and just show you exactly the truth of this statement here by going to Galatians 3, and beginning: (13) Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that (hangs) on a tree: One: (14) That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; (in order) that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. The ultimate is, that we might be baptized with the Holy Ghost. And the ultimate brother/ sister is what I mean. The ultimate is not the New Jerusalem. No sir! Uh, uh. The ultimate is not a dedicated life. The ultimate is not a power ministry. The ultimate is joined to God, and in Him is everything. See? I want to get stirred up tonight to believe this, and some of you folk maybe men meet with men, and women with men and start praying. Like old Bunko buddy Robertson, "God if you don't give me the Holy Ghost, when You come back here You're going to find a bag of bones." See? Exactly, what It's for. "You shall receive, the promise is unto you." [Acts 2:38-39] And when many, in other words, did he testify ...?... save yourself from this untoward, and the word in the Greek is 'perverted'. Save yourself from this perverted bunch. This bunch that doesn't know God and hasn't got the Holy Spirit. We've got the biggest perversion under high heaven again. 11. We go to the Scripture [Acts 2:] 46 and 47, (46) And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, (47) Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added daily to the church such as should be saved. Now you see, the point is this, when the Holy Ghost filled those men from the vertical, It began to go out, or He, God began to go out in the horizontal. Out through the people in order that they would know what was the will of God which those outside the Bride, called of God, would receive the Holy Ghost. Receiving their own experiences of Almighty God. 12. Now, let's go to Acts 8:14. (14) Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: (15) Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: (16) For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Jesus (Christ.) (And notice: 'only' isn't good enough.) The fellows that played baseball only maybe get only as far as first base. Only as far a second base. Only as far as third base. Lest you get to home base, [it] doesn't count. That's all. That's as far as they got. (17) Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost. 13. Again, also notice in [Acts] 13:46-48. Now there again, you see from the vertical to the horizontal. (46) (When) Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. (47) For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou (should) be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. (48) ...when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and many as were ordained to eternal life believed. Now, the question is, what was the eternal life? The baptism with the Holy Ghost. Because that's what it's all about. "The promise is unto you, Jews, your children Jews, and all that are far off, when the Gentiles were far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call both Jew and Gentile." [Acts 2:39] And when the one group turned It down, then God turned to the other. And ever since then there has been very, very, very few Jews ever coming in. It's the Gentile making up that Bride. 14. Now, we go also to Eph 2:19-22. (I might perhaps have left this for another time to read It, but I'll come back to It.) (19) Now therefore (you) are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; (20) And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; (21) In whom all the building... Notice, all the building. Every single stone. And at Pentecost, every single individual one had his own private confrontation with God from the vertical experience, wherein God Himself came down and gave a part of Himself to that individual starting right in his soul. Now It says, (21) ...(all together they are) fitly framed together groweth (into a) holy temple... Now, what's in the holy temple? God is in His holy temple. So that God is not just in the individual, there is a frame work as it were, a building, a pyramid, a pyramidal structure which is the temple and the Holy Spirit is in it. So that the individual, heir of God, make the whole Bride heir of God. No wonder Bro. Branham screamed and hoped for the day when the Bride would have one mind. If you can see with what one person can do with the Holy Ghost dedicated, what could a group of people do? Oh, we've got a Church coming up like that brother/sister. I believe so. And It says, (22) (You're) builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. A man says his church is a spiritual temple, and people get up and say their group is, and deny the true baptism with the Holy Ghost, which is "repent and be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ." [Acts 2:38] Well, you can see that's no more the temple of God than nothing. That's why you always give the spirit the Word test. You don't give the Word a spirit test. If you people were given a spirit test here, a test in the sense of what your spirit might be to see if you're a tremendous person, a bunch of people here, well, you'd be pretty dull for a lot of folk. There's not enough speaking in tongues and jumping up and down, prophesying on the floor, and hallelujah marches and other things. Forget it. You can have all of that, but if it's not under what the Word say, you know there's a phony spirit there somewhere. You see? Now a temple...imagine this brother/sister, what I'm trying to do is stir up your pure minds tonight by my constant repetition to get you to see that if you begin to see what God says and believe It, something is going to happen. See? And I started out Sunday morning, went that way Sunday night, and I'm repeating and going this way on purpose tonight to lead you into a place where I know we can be. 15. Now, let's go back to Acts 1:8, which of course is a great favorite Scripture, and It's perhaps one of the most quoted Scripture there is in the Bible, especially for the people to whom It spells out that soul-winning is the evidence of being baptized with the Holy Ghost. And It says: (8) But (you) shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and (you'll) be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part(s) of the earth. Now notice, that there is an absolute prophetic promise and command here involved as to positively what is there in the baptism with the Holy Ghost when the people receive that tremendous baptism. Now, we can see here that this is not the evidence of being baptized with the Holy Ghost, but the necessity for being filled with the Holy Ghost, especially in the light of what Jesus said. Now remember, the Word interprets the Word. Now It says, "You're going to be witnesses unto Me in Jerusalem Judaea, in the uttermost part of the earth." That's just like He said, "The promises are to you Jews and to your children and all those that are far off." 16. Now, we're going to see that...the Holy Spirit is necessary for this fulfillment. So we go to John 17 again, (which we read the other day a couple of times,) and we look at verses 21-23. (21) That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. (22) And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they (all) may be one, even as we are one: (23) I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, (that) thou hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Now notice what He said here in John 17, "That they all may be one; as Thou, Father art in me, and I in Thee." Now, that's what He said about the individual baptism with the Holy Ghost, and the true baptism with the Holy Ghost. And especially the last day sealing off has got to bring this to pass. Now Bro. Branham mentioned that, the writing of the Holy Spirit in 'Spoken Word is Original Seed' is what we go by. See? Now notice He said here: "That the world may (believe) that thou hast sent me." And again in verse 23, "That the world may (believe)." Now, that's what we saw over here in Acts 1:8. "When you receive the Holy Ghost you'll be witnesses unto Me in Jerusalem and Judaea." What is it? It's the Holy Spirit in the individual permeating through the Bride becoming one. They're got to believe something's got to happen. You say, "When is it going to take place?" Now a lot of folk want to put it in the Resurrection. I'm not going to put it in the Resurrection. I'm not going to put it anywhere. I'm putting it right in the Bible. He said so, I believe it. Now if you're smart, you caught something. If you're half as smart as I think you are you caught something. Right? I don't need to say anymore. 17. All right. John 14:20. (20) At that day (you) shall know that I am in (the) Father, and (you) in me, and I in you. And that day is also expressed in this hour Bro. Branham said so. In this day the world is going to know that He was sent. Now you say, "I'm going to put that all personally on Bro. Branham on the great ministry." Didn't say that. That's just part of it. See, there's something coming. Now, "The Son of man must manifest Himself in human flesh in every age." Now that's a quote that I'm quoting you. You're not going to find it on tape I don't believe. Doesn't matter to me. I went to Bro. Branham, I said, "Bro. Branham, what do you mean?" Now this would be more in private conversation when the terms were used. "So what do you mean when you say, the Son of man manifesting in human flesh?" He said, "Bro. Vayle, that is the Bride in every age." And we see it right here. The Son of man said, "I'm going to come back, the Son of God. And I'm going to fill each individual. And I'm going to fill a Church, and when that Church individually, corporately truly filled the world will know, because (He said,) I am going to manifest Myself in and through that people." Now, before the end of the week is over we're going to get into why the church can't function because of the spirit of competition and of the enemy that's come into our ranks. See. Got to let that rise, just letting you hint, because I gave you hints Sunday morning. The Son of man must manifest Himself in human flesh in every age. That's the Bride. 18. Now, with this we're going to view Eph 4:4-16. Now, that's my statement. Talk about the vertical to the horizontal. The vertical is to every single individual, but it's the same Holy Ghost that unites you to Christ. Unites you to each other, makes you that body. The One that puts you in the spiritual, puts you in the physical in order that He who is in the Spirit might manifest as though He were here physically. See? Now there's a Bride. Okay Eph 4:4-16. (4) There is one body, and one Spirit,... (no more, one.) Notice, there is a unity here. And He doesn't begin talking now, in this vein as he does in 1 Corinthians, there's an arm and a leg, and an eye and a tongue, and a liver, and a kidney, and this and that. No. He's bringing out the cohesiveness [sticking together] of a Bride, of a body where one Spirit with one mind is manifesting in a group. It's just a commander general that teaches] an army. And he has every one of those soldiers so thoroughly inured, [accustomed to, hardship] and so thoroughly trained, that when he speaks the whole army goes into action. (4) There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; (5) (There is) One Lord, one faith, one baptism, (6) (There is) One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. 19. Now, that is the way it is then brother/sister. Then every single thing that's said here is through the one Father, God, Who is above all, and through all, and in all. Now, that's exactly right what I've been preaching. He's in every single one of us that's born again. He is through us all as a corporate group. And He is above all directing as the Head. See? So there is just one. Now, a while ago you're singing, 'I'm so glad I'm one of them'. Which one of them are you? "Well, I'm one of them that's one of "His'n." See? And you go beyond that, you're wrong. "Well, I follow the Tucson faith." "I follow the Jeffersonville faith." " I follow the Gisborne faith." "I follow the Guenther faith." "I follow the Vayle faith." Hogwash! You haven't got the Holy Ghost then. There's something wrong somewhere. You need to be re-trained all over again. Missed the whole point. See? One God! One people. There's only one of everything. There is one Adam, and Eve was in him. Oh, I like that. One Christ! And one Bride in Him. See? One. (7) But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Now, It says right here, that this may be hard to swallow, but you've all got grace to do it. (8) Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. 20. Now notice, ascending on high that One that went up, is the One that came down. And He gave unto the Church. Notice: (10) He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things, (with all things. And we are all things.) In other words, we might become the literal Living Word of Almighty God. That's why He came back as the Holy Ghost. You see why I keep on shouting on what Bro. Branham said? "If we're not Bride, there's a Bride out there somewhere." There's got to be, because there's a God in Heaven Who wrote a Book that was vindicated in a prophetic ministry. See? And I want to say like Bro. Branham, "If I'm not Bride, by the grace of God I won't stand in her way." I want to stand back or shout and scream, "Hallelujah that every knee is going to bow, every tongue is going to confess." [Rom 14:11] And I don't want mine to be called into judgment. I want to be willing to scream and praise God Who took the vertical and the horizontal, sent the Holy Spirit back to indwell a Bride of many members. And when He looks down, He calls her one. Now listen, we better learn to start calling ourselves one like He did. (11) And he gave some, apostles; some, prophets; and some, evangelists; teachers; (and so on.) (12) For the perfecting of saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Now notice, all those three things are in there and the word 'edify' means 'to build up', or to get that Bride coming in. Now, the ministries do it. And in 1 Corinthians the 12th chapter through the 14th positively these are placed in here as ministration by one Spirit. That's why you won't find a dozen preachers at the end-time preaching a dozen different things. Unless the Bride of Christ has got a five-fold ministry I can count on three fingers. Oh, that was a good one. I'm not tough on the people. I'm sure tough on the preachers. I'm one of them. Why people want to run around and teach, teach, teach. A lot of them aren't even called for it, knowing the teacher receives the greatest condemnation of any of the five-fold ministry. You think I'd be up here teaching if I wasn't made to preach? I've got to weigh my words and know what I'm saying. I'm going to be called in judgment on everything I say to you people if you believe me. Of course I'm not giving you a dodge when I say your pastor disagrees at any time, you believe him not me, because he is responsible being here to help you. I am not. Actually, I am more called in here to help him with the ministry, I'm to help you. He's the one that helps, you listen to him. But I'm responsible just the same for what I teach in case someone catches something. 21. Now listen, "To perfect the saints, the work of the ministry, the edifying of the body of Christ." [verse 12] Because they can't come in without these ministries. Can't be done. (13) Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: Now, the knowledge of the Son of God, I believe that refers back over here where Paul is preaching that Spirit comes into the Church, "that you may know the hope of His calling and the riches of the glory of His inheritance of the saints." [Eph 1:18] In other words, it's a "Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ," [Eph 1:17] till you come to that place. Now, at that time we come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. In other words, there's no more to come in. The Word is all here. The Holy Spirit is all here. The people are all here. And at that time, (14) ...we (are) no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; (Now that happens at this time.) 22. Many a time I told the people back home, I said, "You no more believe the Bible than nothing." And we've got some sweet little Pentecostal ladies, God bless their pea-picking hearts. Anybody from Europe or anybody else can write a sweet little letter, and oh my, they just go to pieces over it. The guy can be living in adultery or anything else as long as a sweet little letter. I am not sweet with that kind of sweetness! Nor do I intend to be! And I said, "You don't believe the Bible, I can prove it to you." Said, "There's not one of you sitting here that believes any person will lie and wait to deceive you." You know why? Because they're deceivers, and deceiver ...?... and I keep preaching all these years. Eve was not raped. She was seduced. Eve was not raped, she was seduced. Yeah. Sweet. This is the day when people lie and wait to deceive. Don't worry little Bride, you got no problems. He'll fool the one that can be fooled. There ain't no Bride going to get fooled. There's a Bride at this Age that does not fall. A virgin of God's Word. We'll see were the virginity lies before it's over. It's right here in the mind. 23. Now, (14) ...in cunning craftiness they lie in wait to deceive: Their computer minds goes click-a-te-click, click-a-te-click and all the fact, click-a-te-click, click-a-te-click...here it is. Now they know how to fix this group, how to fix that group, how to get that group up there. You say, "Bro. Vayle could you do it?" Hmm, good question. You bet I could, if it were my nature, but I'm too easy caught off of guard. Serpents lie in wait to deceive. The Bible speaks of that adder lying there causes the horse to jump and the rider to fall. Right? "Lying in wait to deceive." Listen, I'm not throwing off on anybody, I'm telling the truth, because this is the truth. (15) But (holding) the truth in love, (This is the age where they don't love the truth, so they turn to the foibles and the genealogies and the vain things that men would say.) (and) grow up not into him (because they're already in him, but unto him,) in all things, (the whole entire Word being filled in the Bride) which is the head, even Christ: (16) From whom the whole body fitly... (fitly, they fit, they fit, they fit.) I'm not talking about personality differences, I'm talking about things God places the people in the Church, they exactly fit. I tried to get a bit of this across Sunday morning. Bro. Branham came with the Word of God and liberated the women, and the women still want ministries. What ministries do you women want anyway? Shut up! Oh pardon, I'll take that back. Just be quiet, sweet, please. Take your husband's and kids. There's a little bit of restless, I see you moving around. That's good for you. Wiggle for all I care. Don't you know you were liberated? The pressure is off. The pressure is off, the Head has returned. Not the physical, but the spiritual. Men are in the same boat now. ...?... "Fitly joined." Oh boy, we could be hours here, this is getting too good... could just quit right now. If I go on I'll quit meddling so to speak, get to preaching. (16) ... fitly joined together and compacted...(this is not like a compacted tooth with pain.) It doesn't say that. It's just like everything...it's just like the Solomon's temple which was built many, many miles away, when the bricks, the lumber and the gold and all came in...[makes a whoosh sound] to get it dovetailed. See? Now: (16) ...by that which every joint supplieth, (Seven Church Ages) according to the effectual working in the measure of every part,... Every Age has exactly what it needs, and every single person has exactly what he and she needs. 24. How many folk are baptized with the Holy Ghost you believe, let me see your hand? Good now repeat with me. I'm going to repeat it first: "I have exactly what I need." Say it, [People respond] "I have exactly what I need." Thank you. That's exactly right. You think God's a liar? Said right here. I can read other verses of Scriptures, 2 Corinthians. Paul said, "Who is ablest?" We are. Able ministers by the Holy Ghost. See? Now that, see what you're missing the point. Everybody says, "Well, Bro. Vayle, Bro. Branham talked about this thing and that thing." And you know what happened when he talked about 'this thing and that thing'? They got carried away like Mattson Boze. Great big tremendous thing and brother and say, "Hey Mattson, you got fooled on your own vision." The great big thing came in such simplicity. Chicago was rocked, and you missed it. And the simplicity is the Holy Spirit is here, and you're liberated to be women the way you should be women and men to be men. "Bro. Vayle, I think I'd like something different." And I wonder who's got the Holy Ghost? That's right, I'm not kidding you. Bro. Branham said in the Seven Seal opening is relaxation time. If it were relaxed ...?... You say, "Bro. Vayle, you don't seem relaxed." Listen, I'm going to tell you something, as far as the ministry is concerned which is my life, I am relaxed. I know what I'm called, what I'm called to, got no problem. I've had problems all the time before, but not now. Sure I've got some worries, a few things that's nothing. Nothing at all. That's just processes. Now, It says right here: [Ephesians 4:] (16) ...according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase the body unto the edifying of itself in love. In other words brother/sister, in every single Age there always have been exactly from the vertical through the horizontal, everything that was needed, nothing, nothing ever missing. Now we're coming to the end-time. And unto the end-time to bring the Bride back to virginity, we have exactly what we have need of. See? 25. All right. There is just no way that one can be a true child of God, unless he is filled with the Spirit of Christ. You could no more be someone else's child than nothing, unless that person is your father. Not one can be added to and become part of the body of Christ outside of the Baptism with the Holy Ghost. It simply can't work. As every human body member such as each arm, leg, eye, heart is a part of the body, because of that specific kind of life that's in the body, so is each member a member of Christ, because God's Own Life is in that Bride. Now, the reason that I've got arms, legs, feet and so on, and there's a certain life one life within, so with every single member in the body of Christ, there is one life which is the Life of God. Let's say, "I have the Life of God." [congregation says with Bro. Vayle] "I have the Life of God." Well, if you haven't, you better get It. You see, people get embarrassed to say these things. That's where the devil's got them. I'll show you in a little while, don't worry, I'm leading up to my points. Just keep everything in line the way I'm preaching It. See? 26. Now, because Eph 5:30 says, "We are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones." Why? Because It's His Life. Because it's His Life. Do you realize there is no different, absolutely none between the life that's in us, and the Life that's in Him now behind that Throne? What do you think He's living by? Didn't He say, "Because I live, you shall live also?" [Jn 14:19] Doesn't It say, "That Spirit that raised Him is the same Spirit that raises us and quickens us?" [Rom 8:11] Then alright, It's the same Life. That's why we are His body. Let's say it: "We are His flesh, we are His bones." [congregation says with Bro. Vayle] "We are His flesh, we are His bones." Good! Now, we're getting there. My, we've got a little ways to go yet. Look what fun we're having. His Life, is in us, or we are not a part. For we see in 1 Cor 15:37-39 the explanation in the natural. (37) ...that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: (38) But God (gives) it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. Who's seed are you? Say it, "I am Christ's Seed." [congregation says with Bro. Vayle] "I am Christ's Seed." "Therefore, we are Christ's body." [congregation says with Bro. Vayle] "Therefore, we are Christ's body." That's exactly right. See? 27. Now, let's go back to the original law. We go back to Gen 1:12. Now, let's stop this nonsense of being afraid to say the things of God. You say, "Bro. Vayle, I worry about my life." You read what Paul said about Abraham. Abraham...if you talk about good works have for out to glory, but not before God. Oh, don't try it before God my brother, my sister. God doesn't allow any nonsense. See? Genesis 1:12. (12) And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. In other words, you've got a law here. And Bro. Branham in 'Spoken Word is the Original Seed', set forth that law of the seed, and the seed is 'sperma', and sperma means 'life'. See? 28. All right. Now, I'm going to draw a conclusion that's perfectly Scripture. Now you say, "Bro. Vayle, we don't draw conclusions." I don't mean that kind of conclusion. I'm going to teach you further on this subject from Scripture. All right. We're going to see 1 Cor 12:15. Now keep everything in mind what I'm dealing with, if you please. (15) If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? And in 27, (27) Now are (you) the body of Christ, and members in particular. Everyone of you that's born again is a particular member. And since the woman typifies the Bride, and women are what Bro. Branham talked about mostly today. "Who's that loony guy running the city there telling everybody that's he's the father of nations? Now he's such a swell fellow, really such a nice guy, (prince of a guy,) but he is nuttier than a fruit-cake. He keeps telling people he is what he ain't." But he was. You know why? Because God said so. When God said to Martha, "You believe I'm the Resurrection?" And she said, "Yea Lord." He was. You got to give back to God...remember, I told you the other day when Bro. Branham was talking about those squirrels and things, and Sis. Wright, (Hattie Mosley) she said, "Bro. Branham, that ain't nothing but the truth." He just whirled, and he said, "Say what you want, you got it." Say what you want. Do you want to be assured a part of Him, say it? Confess it. I don't care what your experience is, experience is, remember, look it, I got to read this again to you, because how many believers we got here? My God have pity. 29. [Romans 4:] (1) What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? (2) For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath (a lot to) glory (of); (But don't try it) before God. (3) For what (does) the scripture (say,)... "Oh well, who cares what the Scripture says after all." ...?... You egotistical slob. I'm talking of Lee Vayle. See, I've been over this forty two years it cost me, not any more. I am His righteousness. I am enjoined to Him. I am Bride. I'm it. Sorry about you folk. You want to come along, I'll be glad to have you. Just love to have you. But you got to wake up yourself. I've been through forty two years of hell, forget it. I'm still as mean as ever, but that's His responsibility. I don't got no sweetness. It's His. You say, "Show it." I don't worry about it, let Him show it. (3) For what saith the scripture? (What does It say anyway?) Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. (4) Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. So let's quit working, except our jobs, by the grace of God. 30. Heb 13:6, 13-20, I read, and with It Heb 10:21-23 and I read It a while back for you so you understand we're going into there. (21) ...having an high priest over the house of God; (22) (We) draw near with a true heart in (true) assurance of faith, (Why? Because it was His Word is proven to us. We've been) sprinkled (no more the) evil conscience,... In other words, every thought and submission to His. All the mind pulled out, they all say what God said. God said, "I'm an ambassador, I'm righteous. I'm this, I'm that. I'm Bride. I'm a respected member. I'm one with those...amen that's it." That's it. Because He said so. And to confess means to say the same thing together, and He's the High-Priest. And the high priest is the boss. He sets the rule. He sets the orders. He's the One that went ahead and cleared the way. You just follow right behind, see. (23) Let us hold fast the (confession) of our faith... 31. Now, once more, Heb 6:20. Now, listen: (20) Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. All right, the High-Priest has entered. Now, we go back to John 17:24. (24) Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; (He's already there and we're going to be there too. Yep.) Oh brother listen, don't think ...I'm not fooling you. I'm not trying to give you some hocus- pocus here. I'm going to prove it to you. God have pity. Listen: "Through faith..." He talked about Sarah and Abraham and Jacob. Then in Heb 11:12, (12) Therefore sprang even of him (and him) as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. (13) These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on earth. (14) For they that say such things... They that say such things, "Well, I don't know if he really meant it. You know the Word always sounded so good. But you know, we have a habit of just not being able to work it just right, and maybe God doesn't want everybody to have something. Some, yeah... don't know." And It says in, "Oh, come on..." It says here, "They saw them, they were persuaded, they embraced them and they confessed them." (14) For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. (New Jerusalem.) Now listen: (15) And truly, if they had been mindful... (No sir!) And truly if they had kept in mind and confessed wrong, they had all the opportunity to go on right back. And that's why this bunch of Bride we look on this day is so green and so hay-seedie, because they won't say what the prophet said. They won't say what the Word of God said. They'll argue doctrine and fuss about this, and fuss about the other instead of what he said about them concerning Jesus Christ. And let's stop all the nonsense, because it's just nonsense. These people weren't haranguing and fussing and fighting, and everything under the book and wondering what did Bro. Branham say. "Well he said this." But I've got a little saying, "He also said..." So don't try to catch me on Bro. Branham said. Because he also said. See? 32. Listen, It said right here that they died in faith, but before they died, or in other words, before the promise even of the Resurrection come, before even the people walk to the Tree of Life and go in a Rapture not even having died, It said they got to see the promise which is the revelation. They got to be persuaded like when Jesus said to the folk when they turned their back, because He said that "eat my flesh and drink my blood." [Jn 6:54] And He also told them, "I and My Father are one," [Jn 10:30] and they left him. And he said, "Will you go also?" And they said, "Well no, we ain't going." And He said, "Why not?" "Well," they said, "we've been there. There ain't no use going back, yesh." You know, some people don't believe that they want to run back right now ...?...? Come on. This appalls me. This appalls me. Latter Rainer's amongst us trying to go back with their tongues and interpretation and all of that stuff. Come on back by Sunday, we'll get into the Word of God and tell you what Bro. Branham said certain things. I've got no problem. I didn't say it, he did. Said it right in the Word too. Trying to conjure things. And women running things. Yeah, come on, women with their tongues and all these things. I'm not going to name church's, my God, and haven't you got enough brains to know what I'm talking about? You're not dead. You know what goes around the country. People still prophesying, even marriages and things. Oh shoo. Shouldn't tell them all these secrets should I Bro. Neil? Let them be happy the way they are. They don't even know it. I'm going to warn you, don't let it come around here. Go on back. "We've been there." Oh, I've been there brother/sister. Forget it. Forget it, forget it. And I'm not talking now about something I'm ashamed of as something was dirty. I have had a ministry, the prophet of God himself said, "Lee," he said, "you had tremendous amount of correct discernment, but you did make some mistakes." And he said, "A true gift of God does not make mistakes." And he told me flat, "That anybody that discern in public was liable to be a false anointed." Because that was his ministry. His said, "Cut it out." He was already going down the hill. The closer I got the Word it [discernment] just went out the window. Hmm? Go on back? Go on back. 33. I got a good buddy in Ohio, you ought to have him around as a pastor. Not that Bro. Neil isn't Johnny on the spot. Believe I tell you about him you see, don't think Bro. Guenther had this problem. This one guy was always listening to somebody, just running back to Pentecost. So one day Bill said, "Look fellow, I've gone and got you for the third time. Our church has launched out, picked you up for the third time. One more time you lie there, we're finished. As far as I know he has been walking straight ever since. See, go on back. Say, "We've been there." Where...you could look down the road. They said, Uh, uh, uh, uh. We've got a persuasion that Thou art the Christ, and You're the One with the Word." That's where I stand. Look, I don't know what's ahead, and I really care too much. Because what I've got now is it. I'm not worrying about it see. Now listen, you're goodie, goodie, gum-drops. "For they that say such things declare that they seek a City." And It said, "Truly if they kept in mind, bringing in to captivity (see, the thoughts) they would have gone back." In other words, the opportunity is always there to deny what God said and confess different. And when you do, you're back-slidden, whole. Well, luke-warm, put it that way. Yep. 34. Now, I read Jn 17:24... (I'm just going to stay with my notes and I'm going to quit after this, because it would take another hour I imagine.) (24) Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, (that's the New Jerusalem, we're going to It. And they that confess those things and stay with it, they will be there, because God loved them from) the foundation of the world. Brother/sister, let me tell you something, our confession is the most important thing in the world, "By your words you're justified, and by your words you're condemned." [Mt 12:37] "Thou should confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, believing in thy heart that God hath raiseed Him thou shalt be save." [Rom 10:9] The confession is what we do, because He's the High Priest of it. Now listen, once Heb 6:20, with Jn 17:24, (read it to you,) they're there, all of us behind the veil, that's where He is, and in the Presence of the Shekinah Glory, we come to 2 Cor 4:13. (13) We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore (we) speak; (by our words we place ourselves brother/sister.) There you are. You see now why I belabor the point? He therefore who is of such character, that in the realization of and the testimony to, is ...?... to me. He said, "I'll bring that right back." And remember brother/sister, listen, the former Rain comes with the latter Rain already here. The latter Rain fell in 1906. The former Rain came under Bro. Branham's ministry. They are uniting at this time. And this is that hour where the revelation is uniting with the dynamism of Almighty God. The Bride says, "I and my Father, are one." Because the shuck has got to pull away, and the shuck will not pull until God dynamize's in human flesh. "I and My Father are one." [Jn 10:30] Because that's what it took back there. 35. Now, so is not at all difficult to see the great work of the Holy Spirit on the two levels. In the vertical as from God Himself to the individual, and then the horizontal of God in the individual reaching out to other individuals both in the Bride and outside the Bride. See? But we must confess at this point: "I am part of Him, and we are part of each other. There is a Bride, and by the grace of God we hope (which is earnest expectation) with thoughts of grace I am a part of her." You see? Now, give me a few more minutes because I've got something important I want to bring up to your attention. In our original message of the Sunday evening, which was really a continuation of the Sunday morning, we saw that the Holy Spirit Baptism with the Holy Ghost assured us as ours personally a hundred percent guarantee that everything that Jesus accomplished on Calvary was ours and sealed in to us. We saw that in Hebrews. We saw Son-ship and eternal security. We saw us a part of the First Resurrection. We saw ourselves in the Rapture. We saw ourselves in the Millennium. We saw ourselves in the White Throne as judging with Christ. We saw ourselves in New Jerusalem. In short, we saw ourselves as Eph 1:3-12, and Rom 8:32, (I'm going through this rapidly, because we went through it the other day.) and it does not end there, by no stretch of the imagination. And I'm going to cover one more point and we're going to call it quits, because I can't take all the rest. 36. The next thing I want to deal upon is this: when the Holy Spirit came, He became your personal teacher of the Truth as it is in Christ. We go to John 16. I'm doing this for a purpose and then when I'm finished I'll just maybe tomorrow night we can kind of double check again and do something else. I hope we get into the Spirit and eternal life. But Jn 16:12-15, let's look at it. (12) I have yet many things to say unto you, but... (you haven't got what it takes.) That's exactly what It says. And no man has what it takes of himself to ever hear from God. No, he has to be foreknown, elected and predestinated and therefore full of the Holy Ghost. (13) Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: (that's when you got what is necessary) for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that (he'll) speak: and he will shew you things to come. (14) He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. (15) All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you. Jesus personally guarantying by the Holy Ghost that every single thing that God was in Him and He has of God is ours, shown to us. Why does He show us? We're heirs with Him. See? This is not some little game He's playing. 37. John 14:26. (26) But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. 1 John 2:27, the same great apostle of love. (27) But the anointing which (you) have received of him abideth in you, and need not that any man teach (it)... Because no man can teach you. He can teach you as it were by rote, or he can explain certain things that you can get mechanically. But we're talking now about teaching in the sense of revelation. Nobody can give it to you. Nobody can give it to me. Not even a prophet, only the Holy Spirit you see? Now, the Holy Spirit and the prophet can bring us the true revelation. That's mechanical for us to grasp the reality and the Truth of what He's saying is also in our mind the mechanical. But when the Holy Ghost anoints it, it becomes alive in us, and we become that part of the Word of God in our flesh which is living Word of God manifested like a prophet was, then we're getting there. You see, the reality is there. Now: (27) ...(you need no) man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and no lie... Now, God has said certain things about us, then that is true, and the Judge standing there. And remember, Bro. Branham's great ministry was discernment, which means 'judging between'. See? (27) ...even as it hath taught you, (you) shall abide in him. Now he lets you know what the evidence of the Holy Ghost is right here as whether you are in Him or not absolutely depends on your true revelation of the Word of that hour, which was truly revealed in the mechanical form, yet vindicated in our day. Now there's nobody can deny the vindication of the mechanical (that is as Bro. Branham spoke it) and that word was dynamized, because It came right to pass, God backed It right up. Now let that Word get in the individual. Bro. Branham said, "All that Word needs that I gave you, (that Word dropped in you is fully fertilized,) fully alive. It just needs the proper soil and we are God's husbandry, (he said,) the sun and rain will bring It forth." And Christ is that sun and rain. 38. Now, the reason is John 6:63. Now we know what that says there. (63) It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. (Notice the identification.) In John 1:1. (1) In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God. So therefore, if the Holy Spirit teaches us faithfully concerning God, we are witnessing, seeing the very face of God, because the Son reveals It. See? Now, I won't read you in 1 Cor 2:9-15, but you know what It says there, "that the Spirit of God is given to us that we might know the things of Almighty God." [verse 12] Now I just better get back there a little bit. I might want to see one verse. Now, and then It tells you here as It goes on, "the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolish to him: neither can he know the spirit to discern." [verse 14] Then It says, "but he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. [verse 15] Now, here's something we've never learned, is Spirit-filled people that are filled amongst us. That whatever we believe with this Message, we keep to ourselves, and whatever the other fellow believes, he keeps to himself. You get what I said? I'll prove it to you. "He that is spiritual, (full of the Holy Ghost) judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. [1 Cor 2:15] Because God is teaching him. You say, "Bro. Vayle, you don't agree with Bro. So and So." And let Bro. Vayle and Bro. So and So keep their mouths shut as concerning an argument. Let them both preach what they believe, and let God finish it off. I'm a little tired people coming behind me and trying to correct me. I don't come behind anybody, correct anybody. There's nobody correcting anybody, so the Holy Ghost does. Might tell you flat. 39. Now, let Bro. Branham brought out some evidence of the Holy Ghost. Let us bring out the evidence of the Holy Ghost right here. How much can you and I keep our mouths shut? No we've got to proselytize. Proselytize. Proselytize. Proselytize. If that's not the lowest form, I don't know what. It's pilfering, it's stealing. It's chicken stealing. Turkey stealing. Sheep stealing. Eagle stealing. Whatever it is, it's stealing. A bunch of carnal thieves. "Come and believe it my way, and you've got it. Believe all the prophets said, believe it my way." You don't have to believe anything my way. I take my stand, I preach hard, but you are not obligated. What God shows me is my business. What He shows you is His business and yours. Because it says right here, that you and I sit there under the Holy Spirit and the thing comes to us and we judge it, discerning right here. And you discern one thing, and I discern another and nobody can judge each other, because "the foundation God stands sure having this seal, the Lord knoweth them which are His." [2 Tim 2:19] And there is no physical evidence as to the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Right or wrong? Tell me. One of the mysteries of the Seven Church under the Seventh Seal, was there is no physical evidence. Now what are you going to do? Now you learned something tonight I hope for the last time I'll ever have to say it here ever again. I'll be satisfied that this is the truth, you and I learned to shut up, and stop proselytizing and judging and this fooling around. Now, when a guy...now as I said a while ago, when a guy tell lies as far as I'm concerned I ...?... You do what you want about it. 40. Matthew 16:13-17, which I read awhile ago now, going back to It again. I'm going to bring some points out here. So just bear with me. I've got a reason for this. (13) When Jesus came into the coasts (and said,) Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? Now, who do men say? See? Now, here men get together and say, "Hey, I think that's so and so. I think that's so and so. I think that's so and so." What does the Holy Ghost say? See? "Now, but who do you say?" He said, "Well, you throw yours in." And he said, "Well, I say You're the Christ the Son of the living God." And He answered right back and He said, "Flesh and blood did not reveal it unto you, but my Father which is in heaven." The Holy Spirit revealing. See? Only God can do that for us. 41. Now, Matthew 11:25-27. (25) At that time Jesus answered and said, O Father, Lord of heaven, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. (26) Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight. (27) All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. You and I can argue till we're black and green, and blue in our face, there's one God and His Name is the Lord Jesus Christ. That Jesus per se, was a man, he was not God until God indwelt Him. Then when God left him, he was a man again. And God raised Him from the dead and they'll look at you and say, "Now listen, don't tell me that there are three Gods in one." Now use arguing. If this Holy Spirit does not reveal It, you are not going to get anywhere. See, the Holy Spirit must do the revealing. And He does the revealing. 42. Now, let's go to John 1:18. (18) No man hath seen God at any time, (then who is going to talk about Him?) the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, (and that's Who is the very heart of God,) he hath declared him. And the Word is stated plainly in words 'exegeted'. You say, "Well they saw Him." No they did not. No sir. When He said, "He that has seen me has seen the Father." He was not talking of the physical. He was talking of the works that were done. It was the physical body. Because He said in John 15:24, (24) If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. (What they saw was the works. That was God, as God shows Himself through nature.) But now, when the Holy Ghost comes, It is the Holy Spirit teaching through the Word revealed that reveals God. See? God Himself revealed. The Holy Spirit doing it. 43. Now with that, we go to John 16:13-14. (13) Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. (14) He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. (That's exactly what the Bible said.) Now, know, especially in the last day, here's what I'm leading up to for this portion in the message. In the last day... We go to Rev 3:19-21. (19) As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. (20) Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: (and) if any man open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. Now, let's look at this thing here, to the last Church Age He's got a Message... (19) As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: (I stop in their tracks and I train them) be zealous therefore, (even) repent. Now, let's get this straight once and for all with no back talk from anybody. The word 'repent' means 'change the mind'. Don't tell me it needs to feel sorry for sin, because the Bible said, "Godly sorrow worketh repentance." [2 Cor 7:10] Godly sorrow is not repentance. Right? All right, let's not have any hogwash and backtalk, and foolishness. I want to tell you why; repentance has to do with the mind. Right? Thank you. Your 'amen's' are alright, you don't even you don't know why you're saying it, except you got faith and you ...?... approve. 44. I want to ask you, what part of the body was Bro. Branham at the end time? What goes up and looks down? The eagle, right? What did he say the last moving part of the body is? Eye. And what is above the eye? Then what is the last age? Mind age. Right, he said that. The zeal of this age is to bring the mind under the Word of God by the Holy Ghost. We need to repent every day a thousand times. Not for our physical fornications, but for our spiritual fornication. Not for our physical stealing, but our spiritual stealing from the Word of God. See? Not from eating unclean flesh and unclean things, but mentally eating. Now, Bro. Branham categorically said, "That the right mental attitude to any promise will bring it to pass." I'm going to go further than what Bro. Branham did, I'm taking the same principal Bro. Branham took and I'm going to go to Rom 12:1, and I'm going to read It for you. (1) I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that (you) present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable (sacrifice). (2) And (don't you) be (fashioned) to this world: (and remember he spoke on the fashions of Hollywood,) but be (you) transformed (that speaks of metamorphosis, change from the caterpillar to the butterfly, to walk over to the Tree of Life and be completely changed,) by the renewing of your mind... (the metamorphosis of the caterpillar Christian to the butterfly Christian is by saying what God said and forcing your mind to take it and your lips to say it.) Bro. Brown in Lima quoted the verse I've used for years and years on my series in faith, "The man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his lips. And with the increase of his mouth shall he be feed." [Pro 18:20] It comes out here, it goes in here. And you say, "Hmm, that's great." And it comes out here, and it goes in here and it comes out bigger. You say, "Hmm, that's great." And it comes out here, why? Because it came from here. Yep. We've got tongues to talk, but the tongue that talks right is over here in the Book of Malachi. 45. Let's read It. Let's find out what God said about His Bride. Come on. Mal 3:16. (16) Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another:... Didn't speak to God. Now they weren't up there praying up a storm, although that's fine. There's a special kind of language that these people have that God liked. (16) ...and the LORD hearkened, and (He said, "Hey, listen to what's going on down there." My I like that. So I'm going to write ) a book of remembrance (about those people that talk that way, because they fear) the LORD, and (they think) upon his name. He said, "They're mine." Oh, He just chuckled. He said, "Look at those kids of mine." He said, Nah, they've got ...?... That's what He chuckled over Job. "Hey," He said, "Satan, come here you rascal. I hear you've been running around the earth these days looking at things." "Yeah, I've been looking things over." He said, "Have you noticed my servant Job?" "Oh, I noticed him, so what?" Right now He's looking down and says, "Hey Satan, you notice those people there, they're talking the way I'm talking. Notice those folk there in Gruenthal, they're my kind of people." (17) ...they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son... And the day of the jewel making brother/sister, is the day of Mount Zion, the Rapture, and after that comes what? The Great Tribulation. So who is He sparing and discerning between? What I read in Revelation 22, when the Seals are open and the people begin giving back to God as Bro. Branham said. "The Bride gives back to the husband what he provides." And then you see, he blesses it. And that's what we are doing. Giving back to Him. And God's in it. He said. "Are they giving back to Me what My prophet said done what I told them:" People are all talking, giving back to God," He said. And then the Spirit of God can fall on it, and you watch them, they're going to be changed right on this earth without missing one heart beat, one step, one wink of the eye. They're going to go right to the Tree of Life, was right here already, because It's got to come back where It was. That we can eat and be changed and be taken away. And a man's belly, that's the innermost being, that life be satisfied with the fruit of his lips. You say, "Bro. Vayle, I've been a Christian and satisfied a long time." Just start saying what I've been talking about tonight. Start giving back to God His Word's, "I am one with the Father." And don't be ashamed to say, "And my Father is like His Father was." He's a very special kind of a Father to which He isn't that kind of a Father to anybody else. Sure He's the Father out here by reason of creation. But by reason of re-recreation, the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, sealing us in, bringing us to the pre-feast, you know, the Wedding Supper kind of, a pre-feast. See? And He said, "They talk a different kind of language. They talk about one God. They talk about Elijah having come. They talk about a Bride and a Bride Tree. They talk about serpent seed. They talk about being one." You see, that's when Jesus gets very happy. Get's so excited He almost got to get off the Throne, because He says, "Hey, it's just about over now," He said, "They're all saying what I told them to say, they're one." They've got that character Bro. Branham talked about. Look, as far as I'm concerned I could tell you this brother/sister, it wouldn't be one bit of good, but when it's the Word of God, the Word of God is living, breathing, It's God Himself. It's got to come to pass. The Lord bless you. I'm not going to continue anymore, that's enough for tonight, but take It with you. Don't leave It by the way side brother/sister. I'm going to tell you one thing, that is the truth. If I have told you a lie, and you still believe it and practice it, you'll be a million times better off, than you are right now. So you can't lose from winning. But I haven't told you a lie, because the prophet said, "I don't call you church anymore. I don't call you saints, I call you Bride." You know something? God said before Sodom and Gomorrah, He said, "That fellow Abraham," He said, "I just got to talk to him, tell him my secrets." And Jesus said, "I don't call you servants anymore, I call you friends, because a servant doesn't know his master doing, but (he said,) the friends do." He said, "You're my friends." You know something? I've used that Scripture for years in my preaching, but this is a time that's reasonably now. I want to ask you a question, let's be honest see, I like to let my hair down, what I've got of it. A lot of you folk don't have too much either. Let your hair down with me, it'll be a ball. Let's get real chummy. Do we believe that we're one with each other? You know, I am a very funny person, you know, the way I preach. I don't let people get near, I laugh and even kid even in the pulpit, because I don't want you to get near to me. But that's got to go. Yeah. Why, I don't expect you to take into my heart and tell you everything. Look it wouldn't matter, I could tell you, what's the difference? Could shout It from the house-top. It's not that bad I can't find somebody else that's worse, and it's not that good I couldn't find somebody else a million times better. But look, I want to ask you a question. Do you feel a little more like the fact now that you are one with Him? Do you feel a little more that you're not only willing, but that you're going to believe and exert your faith toward the end that you are one with your brethren? That the argument's over, it's settled as far as God's concerned? That as long as someone believes this Message and doesn't (you know) live in sin and all, oh even that could happen, he has to be corrected and brought back. What I'm trying to say here, look, it's about time that whether we believe that Bro. Branham is Revelation 19, which I can't believe that he is I'm sorry. Bro. Branham himself said that was Jesus Christ, or this or that what's amongst us. Can we just begin to see this is the hour to confess I am one, not of them, but I am one with Him, and we're all one with the Father. I don't know about you, but I believe with all my heart brother/sister, that we're in that hour now and it's happening. I don't understand time, I told you before, that every time that I've seen time through the eyes of God, it throws me plumb for a loop. I can never reconcile it to mine, because it seems like it's going to be tomorrow, it could be years when I get a little revelation of what is going on it happened many years ago. My, it took thirty five years that I thought it happened tomorrow morning to come to pass. What happened a year ago may take three years to come to pass. Four years. I don't know, I don't know, but I believe with all my heart it's not just that we're nearer than when we first believed when Bro. Branham left us, but it's a whole a lot nearer. See? I believe that we're just so close to the breaking point where the squeeze has got to come on down. And he said, "When that squeeze comes you watch that third pull." In other words, that fully revealed Word in that Bride begin to move right in. I want to be ready and I believe He showed me how to do it. Showed us how by the Word, begin to confess what He said. Take him at his Word tonight. Quit looking at yourself. Maybe by the grace of God I'll get time to preach the sermon 'Looking', I don't know. I can't say. I don't know where I'll be after this week, maybe I'm going to be at Bro. Pete's Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday as far as I know. Where I go from there I don't know. I'm just open for the Lord to lead. I don't know what's going to happen. But I know one thing brother/sister, there's a time to take one last look. Remember what God said to Lot and his wife and daughters? "Don't turn back, take one last look and go." I preached that sermon one year ago last September. I believe I was supposed to take that last look then, I waited a year. I don't believe we're to keep looking back. Take that one look and go on. Well, I talk all night because I'm wound up. Let's go. Merciful God, gracious heavenly Father, God of the universe, but God of each life tonight, that's what we're interested in. God of the little one, God of the young one, God of the older one, God of the middle one. God of each one of us, and God of all of us as a Bride. We've lost our identity, Lord, as individuals, we've lost our identity as a group. For now, Lord, we are those for whom You died, sons of Almighty God, risen in the power of Your Resurrection from sin, the world and the devil, to live in a new body corporally with each other where we are not our own, but we are of each other. In honor preferring each other, looking for each other's good. When one rejoicing, all rejoice. When one is suffering, all is suffering. We're acknowledging it yet tonight, Lord. I don't care, Lord, what the world sees, and I don't care what we see. I'm ready for the one last look, Lord. One last look leaving Sodom and Gomorrah, going to the hill country, going to New Jerusalem. Bless Your people tonight, Lord. Our eyes are closed, our heads are bowed... [Bro. Vayle goes into calling for individuals to receive the Holy Ghost...] Once for All - Page PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 26