The Projecting of Love #1

Standing with the Word

February 4, 1984

	Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, our one desire tonight is to give You
preeminence, to give You glory, to hopefully say those things that are
right and true, to magnify Your great and holy Name, Lord, in this hour
in which we live. We believe, Lord, that’s the object that we have in
mind what we wish to do to bring the people into a state of edification
by way of the truth, as it is in Your Word, not to give ourselves some
cover up or some fig leaf apron, Lord, but to stand in the righteousness
of the revelation of Almighty God, Lord, to know the thing right, and
even as we are known right. We look to that tonight, Lord. We believe
that this is possible. 

	We believe, Lord, that we do not deal in realms of psychology or
psychiatry. We deal in realms of truth, oh Lord, and You are our defense
and our high tower. We don’t have anything else. We bide our case by
that, Lord. We just stand here ready to be judged in that respect,
because we know already that that has been set forth that that is the
Judge, the great Word. So, Father, we just stand in It, and we’re…
What can we say, Lord, but we recognize these things, and we believe
that there must be something right that we would recognize them that we
would know the things of God. So, we just love You tonight with all our
hearts and praise Your Name for Your goodness to us. Bless us now, in
Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen. 

	You may be seated.

	Well, it is certainly nice to be back here. I missed Wednesday and felt
like I hadn’t been in church for a month. I don’t know about you
people. I told you one time I kinda like to stay away from church,
because never was too exciting. Now nothing else is exciting. Nothing
else is health giving, restful, peaceful, joyful, all those good things
are in it; and I believe, that’s the way it should be. 

	Well, we are very happy everybody’s here, and I realize we have our
good Bro. and Sis. Oden and Bro. and Sis. Green come all this distance
and not to mention Toledo folk down to our nice, lovely snow storm.
Well, if you brought it, I wish you’d take it back with you.
[Congregation laughs.] I’m not…a [Bro. Vayle laughs.] Huh, I always
get my anointings messed up. I’m north in the winter time and south in
the summer time or something. One of these days we’ll fly away. 

	Well, praise the Lord! We’ll all go to a better land one of these
days. And anyway, it wouldn’t matter if it did snow when you get a
glorified body. Lord, give me the glorified body. Everything else will
fall into line. I believe that. Why sure…if we… That’s right.
That’s right. Good to see Bro. [Shiva] Tuwari down here from up there
around Ann Arbor, Michigan.

1.	Now I want to bring a message tonight that is quite a bit different,
and I am going to speak from my heart and from my understanding on the
subject, “The Projecting of Love”, “The Projecting of Love”. Now
I didn’t know if Bro. Evans was going to speak on the love of God
Wednesday, but this actually has nothing to do with that subject; so, I
am not saying anything different from him, correcting him, upstaging
him, or anything else, because this subject was what I had in mind. 

	Now Bro. Branham said that “When love projects, then divine grace
takes over.” This is a very basic concept of cause and effect, because
he said that when love projects, you’d have to sow the love, and then,
you’d reap the divine grace. So, it’s a matter of a basic concept of
cause and effect. And, remember; the same thing was brought to our
attention when he said that he a threw a rock up into the air and said,
“THUS SAITH THE LORD,” and he said, “See, you’ve got to do
something to cause something happen.” And that rock literally caused a
suction that started a whirlwind, and then, threw that wind into the
cliff that gouged out actual flint-like rock out of that cliff, which
was a tremendous thing as seen by many people—over twenty people. 

2.	Now, what we’re looking at here, this cause and effect in the
religious world, is called sowing and reaping. Now we understand that
what a man sows he reaps. [Gal 6:7] You have to sow in order to get
something back, and it works that way. In the economic world it’s
called ‘something for something’. You have to… There is no such
thing as a free lunch. Somebody had to pay for it; somebody had to give
something for it. And concerning this divine grace, then, it is not just
something that happens, but something that is made to happen. It is
motivated. Now, that’s what we’re looking at. There is something
that is done in order to bring this divine grace into being, and it is
the projecting or the sending forth of love. And that’s wonderful.

3.	But, when you consider what lay behind Bro. Branham’s message, when
he preached, “Love Projects” back in about 1957 [“When Divine Love
Is Projected Sovereign Grace Takes Its Place”, 1957, Lima, OH,
57-0126E-MP3 Disk #6, #25], it’s all the more wonderful, when you
realize that there is a superior… How am I going to put this? It’s
more wonderful, as in the sense that it’s superior to a simple cause
and effect that Bro. Branham brought to our attention, because we
understand the term ‘cause and effect’ and ‘sowing and reaping’.
But it is completely more wonderful, because Bro. Branham clearly put it
to us that we have the ability to completely turn a singular cause and
effect that we are involved in to another effect by a love process. Now
I hope you’re getting what I’m putting across here, because here a
person sows wheat, he gets wheat; and here a person sows, and he reaps,
and that’s fine. 

4.	But in the sermon that Bro. Branham preached on that, he literally
brought us to a place of understanding that, if we have been in a
certain pattern in our lives, a certain effect, which would normally
take its course, can be obviated by a blessing, which would be placed in
the category of a divine grace, God intervening, intercepting, and
moving in our behalf. 

	Now one of the illustrations in that sermon that gives me this
understanding is when Bro. Branham was mowing the lawn; and, when he hit
the hornet nest and produced a cause that was about to bring a very
hurtful effect, his immediate reaction was, Hey, I am one with you. I
had no wrong intentions. I am sorry, so would you please go back to your
house; and they went back to the nest. Now the genuineness of the
prophet came through that brought this to pass where he could literally
communicate in realms of nature, although that’s normally outside of
our pale. That genuineness came through as a conservationist and a lover
of God’s natural world, wherein he desired to maintain a harmonious
relationship with nature.

	You notice, that Bro. Branham always said, “I am a
conservationist,” and he always talked of a harmonious relationship.
And so, because he was very truthful in his attitude, and in his love of
the true principle of conservationism, and his employment of himself in
that particular area when he ran afoul of the very law of nature, you
noticed that God interposed by a divine grace and set aside what would
have normally happened, which was: he would have been stung, ate up all
over. You see? Now then, you see, normally a bee, a wasp, or hornet
doesn’t care two bits about your love or anything else. So, the
principle we’re talking about is an in-depth principle that goes
beyond the simple cause and effect (See?) a divine grace intervention
because of love. 

5.	Now the same thing, or the agape love, came through when this
demoniac, roughean, and likely a killer, tried to beat him up in
Portland, Oregon, and he said such a love came over him, and he had such
a love for that person that, even though he had to say, “Satan,
because you challenge the servant of the most high God, I command you to
fall at my feet,” the man literally fell at Bro. Branham’s feet.
Those were two of the illustrations. So, we see that, when love
projects, grace takes over. God helps us out. All right. 

6.	Now from here on we want to try to get into a message that helps us
understand how we can project that love that brings about divine grace
in this hour, a love that turns the tide even from evil intent to good
endings. It doesn’t turn it from evil intent to good intentions, (no
way, shape, and form) but it turns the tide from the impress or the
impact of what would be evil endings to good endings. So, here is my
understanding I want to bring; and to bring it, I am going to use
several Scripture in a reading of Scripture. 

7.	We’ll just start with those Scriptures now. We’re going to go to
1 Jn 4:7-21. We’ll start with that, and I don’t intend to get
involved. I intend to get just as simple as I can, but to show you what,
I believe, to be what is in process in this hour on the Alpha and Omega
principle especially, beginning at 1 Jn 4:7.

(7)	Beloved, let us love one another: for (God is love;) and every one
that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

(8)	He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. (And we know
the, “Stature of a Perfect Man”, love that which is perfect is here,
God is here.)

(9)	In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God
sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through
him.

(10)	Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and
sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

(11)	Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought to love one another. 

(12)	No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God
dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

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

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

(15)	Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth
in him, and he in God.

(16)	And we have known and believed (that) the love that God hath to us.
God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in
him.

(17)	Herein is our love made perfect that we may have boldness in the
day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in the world.

(18)	There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because
fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

(19)	We love him, because he first loved us.

(20)	If a man say, I love God and hates his brother, he is a liar: for
he that loveth not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God
whom he hath not seen?

(21)	And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God loves
his brother also.

	[1 Jn 5:1-4]

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

(2)	By this we know that we love the children (and we love God) and keep
his commandments.

(3)	For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his 
 commandments are not grievous. 

(4)	For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and (so on)

8.	Now we want to go back to… Well, we’ll go to John 2, a little
later on. But first of all, we’ll just read those Scriptures that are
pretty tough, the ones that usually cause people to stumble. In the
fourth chapter again:

(20)	If a man say, I love God and (hates) his brother, he is a liar: for
he that loveth not his brother whom he (has) seen, how can he love God
whom he hath not seen?

(21)	And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God
love(s) his brother also.

	[1 Jn 5:1-4]

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

(2)	By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love, God
and keep his commandments.

(3)	For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his 
commandments are not grievous.

9.	All right. We are going to go now to 1 Jn 2:7-11 and then, 1 Jn
3:11-18.

(7)	Brethren, I write no new commandments unto you, but an old
commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the
word which ye have heard from the beginning.

(8)	Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in
him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now
shineth.

(9)	He that saith he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in
darkness even until now.

(10)	He that loves his brother abides in the light, and there is none
occasion of stumbling in him.

(11)	He that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness,
and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his
eyes.

	All right. We go to 1 Jn 3:11-18.

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

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

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

(14)	We have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.
He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

(15)	Whosoever hateth his brother is a murder: and (you) know that no
murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

(16)	Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life
for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

(17)	But whosoever hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have
need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth
the love of God in him?

(18)	My little children, let us not love (in) word, neither in tongue;
but in deed and in truth.

10.	Now these Scripture have been bandied about for a long, long time by
just about everybody under high heaven, and it throws a pall upon the
people, because it sounds very much like you could be born again and
hate your brother, and yet under no condition can you be born again, if
you do hate your brother; and so, therefore, there is the constant
agitation of the problem of strife and things that goes on within the
church. 

11.	Now I want to set the record straight tonight. In 1 Jn 3:12, It
says: 

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

	Now in 1 Jn 3:12, John calls Cain the brother of Abel. Now he calls him
the brother of Abel. That’s what he does. But was Cain, or Cain’s
kind, one of the brethren in the sense of 1 Jn 2:1 and 12 [1 Jn 2:12]
when he says, “My little children.” I’d like to hear John come
back from the dead and tell me that Cain was one of His dear children.
[Bro. Vayle gives sarcastic tone to “His dear children.”] So,
let’s get the record straight. There is something here that doesn’t
ring a bell. Are Cain and his kind one of the sons of God, as in 1 Jn
3:1? Is he in 1 Jn 3:7: little children who do righteousness? or 1 Jn
4:7: beloved? or in 1 Jn 3:9: born of God? or in 1 Jn 4:6: we are of
God? or, as in Heb 2:11-13: both he that sanctifieth and they that are
sanctified are all of one, which is of one source, and He is not ashamed
to call them brethren? or, as in 1 Pet 1:14: obedient children born of
incorruptible seed?! The answer is: absolutely not! Now you may have
yours, but I am having mine. How could Cain be of the evil one and be
beloved, a son of God, born again, righteous, et cetera, et cetera?

12.	Let’s go to Mt 12:46-50. Now this chapter in Matthew 12 is one of
the toughest, strongest chapters in this whole Bible, because this is
our hour when He appears to the Gentiles where you can blaspheme the
Holy Ghost and go to hell, where there is not recourse. [Mt 12:46-50]

While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren
stood without, desiring to speak with him.

(And they) said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand
without, desiring to speak with thee.

But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and
who are my brethren?

And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, (The learners,
learn of me) and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!

For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, (Now
what was the will of God: to believe on Him whom was sent) the same is
my brother, and sister, and mother.

	Cain was not a brother to Abel. He had a different father. He never had
anything to commend him as one in the genealogy—no way, shape, and
form.

13.	Let’s go to John 16. Let’s take a look at It. [Jn 16:1-2]

These things have I spoken unto you, (said Jesus) that ye should not be
offended. (Surprised, then discouraged, hurt, but taken in stride.)

They shall put you out of the synagogues: (They) yea, the time cometh,
that whosoever killeth you will think he (does) doeth God service.
(They, who? The brethren, but not the brothers of Jesus Christ, but
their brethren.)

14.	Now, let’s go here to Jn 16:4 first of all and read this also.

(4)	But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, you
may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto
you at the beginning, because I was with you.

	I don’t want you to be hurt down the road. I am going to tell you
something is going to happen: they’re going to put you out of their
synagogues, out of their buildings, out of their thinking, out of their
heart, out of their mind. They’re going to dispose you to the junkyard
and say, “That dirty, rotten bunch; they dare upset our apple cart!”

	Now he said, “The time is going to come when they are going to kill
you and blame it onto God.” Yes, they’re going to be so obsessed
with the religious spirit that they are going to kill you to do God a
favor, to do God a service, because they have not known the Father nor
me, but they’ll say they do. 

	Are you going to sit here tonight and tell me that Cain didn’t say,
“I know God the Father. I’ve heard from God the Father. I’ve got
the offering exactly right.” 

	Huh, come on. Who are you trying to kid? [Jn 16:4]

(4)	But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come,
(you) may remember that I told you of them. And these things I (did) not
(say to) you at the beginning…

	Ah, you plum forgot. Didn’t you? And I remember… Besides…
Beginning… You don’t recall that John said, “A message from the
beginning, a commandment from the beginning”? Oh, that was just put in
there for fun? 

	“Oh, we don’t believe every Word of God has power. We don’t
believe every Word of God, even jot and tittle means something. Oh, no
we don’t.” 

	But we do around here.

15.	Now you see I didn’t put these things on the line at the
beginning, but He said, “I am putting them now, because they’re
going to happen. I am putting them now after a beginning.” 

	Do you follow me? All right. All these things I said not unto you at
the beginning, because I was with you. See, because He was there in the
flesh. He is going to leave them now; when it comes time for the Spirit.
See? Then, when He comes back in the form of the Holy Spirit, and the
devil knowing his time is short, don’t you think the Bride is going to
sit around in flowery beds of ease picking her eyelashes so she’ll
look glamorous, hallelujah, and curt, and just right—you know, get the
eye shadow on just right. She must look glamorous, you know. Phap.
You’ll be lucky if you’ve got a gunnysack, physically speaking,
instead of trying to look pretty. You better depend on what God will do
for you. That’s right, because by the time He gets back here in the
person of the Holy Spirit one hundred percent, she’s “wretched,
miserable, naked, blind,” a filthy rotten belly dancer, strip teaser,
hula hula... Oh, what did Bro. Branham say? Do you think he saw the
truth? Put it where it is. 

16.	Let’s go back to 1 Jn 3:11, and read It again. Let’s have some
understanding: [1 Jn 3:11]

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

	This is the message from the beginning, and in the beginning they had
something they didn’t have then. It was already kapoot. Like Paul
said, “You’ve lost your first love.” I’m not referring to the
toothaches. I am just telling you the church had lost its virginity. The
antichrists were already there. What John took them back to was the
beginning, and Jesus said, “You didn’t have to contend with this,”
but He said, “now you do; now you do.” That’s right. They’d
already revealed the Judas amongst them. You don’t have to worry about
Judas or anything else. He was there. You didn’t have a problem, and
you heard Bro. Branham say the same thing. He said, “Oh, it’s roses
that I am here, but I am leaving you. You better watch out.
Something’s coming down the road.” See, but what came of John 16:
Judas opposite Christ as Cain opposite Abel, and Cain betraying Abel,
and Judas betraying Christ. 

17.	Now, let’s look at another beginning. Let’s go to Acts 2:4.

(4)	They were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with
other tongues, as the Spirit gave them (languages to utter)—utterance.


	That is nice. They are full of the Holy Ghost. That is the main thing.

18.	Let’s go to Acts 4:34-37.

(34)	Neither was there any among them that lacked (anything): for as
many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the
prices of the things that were sold,

(35)	And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was
made unto every man according as he had (to his) need.

(36)	And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is,
being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country
of Cyprus,

(37)	Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the
apostles’ feet.

	See? They had one of everything.

19.	But, let’s skip over here to Acts 5:7-11.

(7)	(About) the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing
what was done, came in. (Old Ananias there had lied. So, all right.
Sapphira came in.)

(8)	(And) Peter (said), Tell me (what did you sell) the land for so
much? And she said, (Just exactly the price you mentioned.) Yea, for so
much.

(9)	Then Peter said unto her, How is it (you’ve) agreed together to
tempt the Spirit of (God)? behold, the feet of them (that) buried thy
husband are at the door and shall carry thee out.

(10)	(And) she fell down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the
ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, (carried) her
forth, buried her by her husband.

(11)	And great fear came upon all (those in) the church, and (It said,
no man durst join himself.) upon as many as heard these things.

	Listen, that sin was taken right out of the church. Those couple of
Cain birds were taken right out. They didn’t have a place in there,
and people couldn’t even join themselves. But you’ll notice
something the twins started in the church. It already started. It was on
its road. Cain and Abel were twins, two different sources, but they
lived together. They worshipped together. 

20.	The whole problem from the beginning and continuing today is that
‘brethren’ is a community word and does not differentiate between
‘brethren’ from ‘brethren’ as God does, even as there are two
worlds, one the ungodly and one the godly; two kingdoms, one God and one
Satan; two words: the true Word and the false word; two churches, a true
and a false; two brides: a real and a phony; two ministries and
anointings; the whole thing. Jesus said, to bring His point to the
Pharisees, “I know you’re Abraham’s seed, but you seek to kill
me.” He said, “Abraham didn’t do that.” He said, “I know
you’re Abraham’s children,” but He said, “You don’t believe
and Abraham did.” 

21.	Now, let’s get the stars out of our eyes about anything but real
agape love, or the agape love, and look at the full truth. Now, let’s
look at the full truth, brother/sister. What was there in the beginning?
Because we are not to concede anything today in this hour of complete
demoralization, spiritual immorality, and corruption. We’ve got to go
back to the Word of God. We’re going to go back to that Word by going
to Galatians. We are going to read what the apostle Paul says in the
Book of Galatians. We are going to read most of the whole chapter
beginning at verse one. [Gal 2:1-18]

(1)	Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with
Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.

(2)	And I went up by revelation, (God said he could go.) and
communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles,
but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I
should run, or had run, in vain. 

	In other words, every single thing that Paul ever projected, every
letter he wrote, every deed he’d ever done came under the scrutiny of
a certain Word that justified, exonerated, or condemned. You talk about
a plumb line.

(3)	But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to
be circumcised:

(4)	And that because of false brethren unawares brought in who came in
privily to spy our our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they
might bring us into bondage.

 	Ah, there are ‘brethren’, and they are phonies—phoney-balony
brethren—no more brethren than the Lord Jesus Christ and children of
God than a hog should come out of a dog. Now that may sound like rough
language, but I am going to tell you something: seed stays where God
started the seed. It doesn’t change. These were not the seed of God.
They were the seed of the serpent brought in to spy our liberty, which
we have in Christ, that they might bring us into bondage. Paul is
talking about a revelation that he had—such revelation that gave him a
freedom, and anything apart from that revelation brought them into
bondage. Do you understand what I am saying? Now, come on. I treat
everyone as an adult here, so keep your minds on what I am saying. 

22.	(5)	To whom (gave we) place by subjection, no, not for an hour; (Oh,
you should love them and prefer them, and say dear sweet brethren, if
you say so, Hallejuah. Oh, merciful God. What are you talking about?)
that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

(6)	But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it
maketh no matter to me: God (accepts) no man’s person).

	 False brethren, true brethren. How do you like a guy with guts like
that? Wish I had it, not some nice mealy mouth guy. This old boy was
criticized like Bro. Branham, a woman hater, a disturber, a
troublemaker. They didn’t like him. Why he said…

(6)	But of these who seemed to be somewhat (They didn’t add anything.)
in conference added nothing to me:

	Now he went up to talk to the the chief apostles. Hey, Paul, don’t
you know you are talking with John, the beloved? Don’t you know
you’re talking to Peter that opened both doors? He said, “So,
what?” So, what? So, what? [Bro. Vayle knocks on pulpit.] Let’s give
them the Word check. 

	“Oh, I was with Christ.” “Oh, I was with William Branham.” 

	Ha! Ha! Ha! So, was Judas. So was the deity cult. So was Lee Vayle. And
maybe I am one of the few men in the world got the guts to tell you what
the prophet said: “Any person truly full of the Holy Ghost with a
genuine gift can be used by the devil.” I stand here, I believe, full
of the Holy Ghost. I believe I’ve got a genuine gift of teaching; I
could be used of the devil. You better have your ‘Word check’ on.
You better test and see where we are going. Paul had a job to do.
That’s right. I want to tell you something brother/sister that old
apostle Paul that didn’t see Jesus Christ in the flesh and didn’t
eat with him, didn’t sleep with him, didn’t go fishing with him,
didn’t go hunting with him, that one had a revelation that you and I
depend on tonight. You say you believe William Branham. William Branham
had to depend on the same revelation; they added nothing. 

23.	(7)	But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the
uncircumcision was commited unto me, as the gospel of the circumsion was
unto Peter; 

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

(9)	And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars,
perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas
the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and
they unto the circumcision.

(10)	Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I
also was forward to do. (He always did.)

(11)	(And) when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face,
because he was to be blamed.

(12)	For before that certain from James (came), he did eat with the
Gentiles: but when they (those Judeizers) were come (Peter) withdrew and
separated himself, fearing them (that) were of the circumcision.

(13)	And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that
Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

(14)	But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the
truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a
Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why
(do you compel) the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

	What kind of a nerd are you anyway, pulling a deal like this? I should
feel embarrassed and apologize for Peter, but I stick my neck out a long
way. I’ll change it to: what kind of man are you? You opened the doors
you say, “What’s going on here? Where does it line with the Word?”


	Now I want to ask you a question: “Did Paul love Peter? Were Peter
and Paul brethren? Is this how brothers act?” Not according to Sis.
Flutesy Tootsie of the Pentecostal movement, who can shack up with every
creed, and denomination, and spirit of hell, and call it God, because
they smile! Huh, huh, huh, huh, hmm. [Bro. Vayle says snidely.] Well, I
don’t smile. I’ve got nothing to smile about. “Why are you doing
it?” he said.

24.	(15)	We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 

(16)	Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by
the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that
we might be justified by the faith of (Jesus), and not by works of the
law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

(17)	But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves found
sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.

(18)	For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a
transgressor. 

	Now, where is your love? Now It said, “How can you say you hate your
brother, and yet, you say you love God? How can it be?” What if he is
not talking about this. Or, is John defending himself back there in the
Book of John and literally snipping against Paul with his snide remarks,
because now he wants to get back at Paul? Well, come on. Think it over.
I invite you tonight to put on your thinking cap and step right out on
the ice, right in the open glare of the light of Almighty God. Put
yourself on the carpet. Ask yourself the question: Is John snipping at
Paul? Is Paul snipping at Peter? Does Peter conveniently forget what he
boo-booed in when he wrote the epistles, or is there something here you
and I had better get to the bottom of before it is too late, and really
understand that Bro. Branham said, “Compassion is doing the will of
God; love is doing the will of God.”? And you’ll never do the love
of God outside of knowing that Will, because you can do God a service
apart from His Will and go down”? See? Now Paul… Paul is giving us
the truth here.

25.	Now, let’s go to Acts 13:2. I want to look at something in here.
This intrigues me—the man who wrote the chapter on love. And we start
by reading Acts 13:2: 

(2)	As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy (Spirit) said,
Separate me (Paul and Barnabas) for the work whereunto I have called
them.

	Now, let’s go to Acts 15-36-40.

(36)	And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and
visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the
Lord, and see how they do.	

(37)	And Barnabas determined to take with them, John whose surname was
Mark. 

(38)	But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from
them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.

(39)	And the contention was so sharp between them…

	Oh Paul, boy did you blow it. Now you’re kind of a nerd. You’re the
guy that walked all over Peter, and you’re the guy that wrote 1
Corinthians 13, and now you stand there and get in a little old
donnybrook with your brother over a personality, and you split. You
split, even though God said, “Put them together.” 

	Do you believe that, or do you really believe it? I don’t want a lot
of ‘amens’, but I just want you to know: Do you really believe it?
Do you believe God was in joining together, and God was in putting
apart? If you don’t, you don’t believe in sovereignty, and you
don’t believe that God knows what He is doing, because God said to
William Branham, “Take those two boys, Leo and Gene,” (And he had to
take them.) and, when they kicked up their heels, the Board fired them,
and Bro. Branham said, “Don’t you dare fire them. Bring them
back,” because in the ‘Vision Book’ God had said, “They’ll go
into false doctrine. Leave them alone. They’ll destroy themselves.”
I saw the Vision Book. I know what I am talking about: Bro. Branham’s
own handwriting. Does that answer your question? 

26.	Oh my, God does funny things. Doesn’t He? He let John the Baptist
have the Holy Ghost before he was born. You and I can’t even get it
that way. Oh, God is a respecter of persons? You bet your life He is,
because you see what you’re trying to do is take that verse of
Scripture where He’s no respecter and put it in a place where it
doesn’t belong. You better quote the whole thing. He said, “I
compassionate one; I don’t compassionate the other. Esau have I hated.
Jacob have I loved.” Sure. The same One that said, “Don’t make any
images” said “Now, make a brass serpent.” The same God that said,
“Don’t you dare kill a man for a sacrifice,” took His own Son and
killed him. Don’t you tell God what to say! You stand back and listen.
That’s what wrong. People can’t understand a prophet; they don’t
get to first base. They are all mouths—big mouth, big mouth, big
mouth; not Big Foot. Merciful God, who cares about Big Foot on Mt.
Everest or some place else. It’s a big mouth that’s in the Vatican
and the churches that you’ve got to watch out for. 

27.	The contention was so sharp between them that they departed asunder
one from another. And I am going to tell you something, as one person
rightly said, “You never heard about Barnabas from that day on,” but
you heard about Silas. Now where’s the love? Perfect love, perfect
love, absolutely, because the love from the beginning was: It is written
in the volume of the Book, I come to do thy will, oh God, having loved
his own which are in the world, he loved them unto to end. He said, “I
love those sheep, and I give my life for them.” Somebody’s a little
bit all messed up on His thoughts of love, brother/sister. Let’s go to
3 Jn 1-12; that’s the epistle: [3 Jn 1-12]

(1)	The elder unto the well beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.

(2)	Beloved, I wish above all things that you mayest prosper and be in
health, even as your soul prospers.

(3)	For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the
truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.

(4)	I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in (the)
truth. (Hallejuah, this is marvelous.)

(5)	Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the
brethren, and to strangers;

(6)	Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if
thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do
well:

(7)	Because that for his name’s sake they went forth, taking nothing
of the Gentiles.

(8)	We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers
(of) the truth.

(9)	I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loves the preeminence
among them, receiveth us not.

(10)	Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth,
prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith,
neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that
would, and casteth them out of the church.

(11)	Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good…
(I thought old John was suppose to take it on the chin.) 

	[End of side one of audio tape #1.] 

28.	I thought love was just something you could do anything you wanted,
or I can’t see that in the Bible. Now, listen. We don’t have to read
and reread until doomsday to understand the true revelation of the Word
separates, angers, brings murders amongst the brethren—brethren being
both true and false. And I want you to know these men, like Paul and
John, everyone had fault; but there wasn’t one that ever said and
denied, when the Word was brought to their attention, that that was the
Word or ever hesitated to make amends. Always the Word was the judge as
to whether it was love or not love. 

	But people want their own ideas about love, until you’ve got,
literally, a substitution of sex for love. And it doesn’t have to be
the joining of two primary sex organs. It can be just about any other
field. I’m not trying to get vulgar. I’m just trying to let you know
that I know, and you know, that the touching, the handling, the
fondling, the hugging, and all those things that goes on, is a mark of
the world and is not necessarily of God, because the Word is against it;
and the prophet forbad certain things, because he knew just where they
went. It was nothing but flesh and filth in the first place. You’ve
got to get back to the Word—the unadulterated Word,
brother/sister—and that is when you know where love is; and that’s
where Bro. Branham said, “Ashamed of Him. Are you ashamed of Him?”,
and He brought it right down to the reality of the hour whether you’re
ashamed of Him, Who is the Word. 

29.	Now I said, “We don’t have to read and reread, hash and rehash
until doomsday to understand that true revelation is where men abided,
and that was love, and when they got off of revelation, it had to be
corrrected, and that is love. But to count as anything else outside of
the Word as the filter and the guideline cannot be love.” I’m sorry,
but that’s it. See? It cannot be anything else but that. Otherwise,
you pervert the Scriptures, and you talk about men coming in, and you
simply love them, and you take them to your bosom, and there is no
correction. 

	You’d better believe there is correction, because Bro. Branham said,
“Love is corrective.” And, when God corrected Cain, what did Cain
do? He rose up in anger against God and killed his brother, who was
righteous, because of a revelation and that which came out of the
revelation. Let me tell you something. Let’s get this flat: Abel could
no more do anything than what he did, and Cain could no more than do
anything but what he did, and never the twain shall meet. Seeds cannot
cross propagate. There are no white blackbirds and no drunk sober men.
There never have been. 

30.	Now, let’s read a little bit more about love just for the sake of
moving into the subject: Mt 24:12. It tells you here: [Mt 24:12]

(12)	Because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

	It tells you that. At the time of the false prophets, they’ll deceive
many; and, because of that particular iniquity, the love of many shall
wax cold. The love of what? They’ll follow those who are false
prophets, and they’ll deny the very Word of God. Where has Pentecost
come today in the latter rain? 

	“Oh, we’ve gone way beyond the Bible.” 

	Oh ya, they don’t care anymore. They’ve left that. 

31.	Now, listen. This is the end time. We are warning concerning the end
time, and It says here that the love of many will wax cold. In other
words, there will not be much projecting of the love that is real from
the Word of God, which is Word love. The love of the Word is not in
them; as Jesus said, “There is no place in you for the Word.” He was
telling them categorically there was something missing; and, if you
don’t have a love of that Word, if you don’t have a love of that
revelation, if that is not paramount, I don’t care what you think you
are doing, you have got yourself literally into an adulterous and
fornicating affair rather than the agape love of Almighty God. 

32.	Let’s go to Romans 13, and I am just reading a few things here. I
am still laying foundation. I am laying a ground work. Romans 13:10
categorically says:

(10)	Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the
fulfilling of the law.

	Now, just a minute. What law? Anything goes? That’s love? No way,
shape, and form. Love has a law. There is something required of it.
There is something that it does. There is something definitive. There is
something that conforms. So therefore, love has to have a word of some
description. Let’s go to Philippians, and there could be many more.
We’ll go to Philippians to begin with, though. [Phil 1:9-11]

(9)	And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in
knowledge and in all judgment;

	Now, notice where It says here love goes. It goes ‘in knowledge and
in judgment’, or it doesn’t go. That’s right. In plain English, if
‘in knowledge and in judgment’ are not there, it is not love. Well,
come on! There’s something wrong somewhere. I’ll prove it to you.
Let’s keep reading, and I’ll prove it to you.

(10)	That you may approve things that are excellent; that you may be
sincere and without offence (in) the day of Christ; (That’s ours.
That’s right now.)

(11)	Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus
Christ, unto the glory and (the) praise of God. (All right)	

33.	Romans 12:9. Now, watch this one. This will get you what we’re
talking about. [Rom 12:9]

(9)	Let love be without (hypocrisy). 

	All right, then. There is a love that isn’t hypocritical. There is a
love that is hypocritical. Is God’s love hypocritical? The agape love
never deceives. It was a philo love that the serpent brought into the
land, and it’s a philo love now. Listen people, get over that idea
that love humanly is going to fulfill you. It will drag you down and
kill you. 

	Look at your Reader’s Digest. There is a girl that in the crowd…
Like Einstein said… Who needed Einstein to say (It had been said a
million times, I know, before Einstein.) that you can literally die of
lonesomeness in a crowd. The girl in the class excited this man to a
deeper interest and a prompting to teach in depth, because of her very
vivid response to his teaching, only to find out that she committed
suicide shortly afterward. Then, he decided you cannot tell about love.
You cannot just merely go to the place where you talk about it and
think, oh, it’ll express itself. You have got to find a means whereby,
in your discussions, you’ll put it into an action. And he said, being
from a strong Italian family where they did a lot of loving and
especially hugging, he got the people showing, like you see on all the
cards, “Have you hugged your children?” That’s wonderful; but,
don’t hug your neighbor’s wife. And that’s part of the scene
today. That’s part of the idea. You can touch, but don’t touch where
you’re not supposed to touch. The whole thing has gone to a stinking
perversion. See? God’s against it. 

34.	Now there’s a false love, one which is hypocritical. Let’s go to
1 Th 3:12. I am just skipping these things, hitting them. [1 Th 3:12]

(12)	And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward
another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you.

	Now, notice. He set himself up as William Branham, as Jesus Christ, and
said, “You watch me. I am the one that you listen to and follow and
watch; then, you’ll know where your love is.” And Bro. Branham
literally was a woman hater, but he wasn’t a woman hater. He
couldn’t stand the stench that a raw-bone prostitute exudes when she
is messed up with men who walk in off the street. She stinks, mentally,
spiritually, and physically. You’re old enough to understand what I am
saying. I’ll read It again here. Paul said:

(12)	The Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward
another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you.

	He said, “I am setting the example of love.” He set the precept. He
said, “Let any man be accursed that changes this Word, I myself
included or an angel from heaven, let him be accursed.” [Gal 1:8-9]
Come on. And people say love, love, love. 

	Like a woman years ago said, “Bro. Vayle, you know the thing is this,
we should put the Word to one side and just love each other; talk about
Jesus.” 

	I said, “He is the Word.” [Jn 1:1] Sometimes we should get down…
And I wasn’t even fully in the Message. I just knew that there was
something beyond her nonsense. 

35.	You mean to tell me, God gave a Word and died according to It? And
the Bible distinctly says, “All things were made by the Word, and all
things are maintained by the Word,” [Jn 1:3] so that I can
categorically say to you tonight that, if you actually receive this
Word, this Word will receive you; if you stand by this Word, this Word
will stand by you. Now, where is your love? See? We love Him, as He
loved us. [1 Jn 4:19] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God. [Jn 1:1] You got to bring it down to
where it is. And he says:

(12)	…Even as we do toward you: 

(13)	To the end He may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness
before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
[1 Th 3:12-13] 

36.	Now I’ll just take time to refer back here to 1 Corinthians for
just a second; and then, I am going to hit it again later on. Paul says:
[1 Cor 1:7-8]

(7)	(So) that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ: (the apocalypses) 

(8)	(That He may) confirm you unto the end, that you may be blameless in
the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

	And It tells you right here that “He may establish your hearts
unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father at the parousia of
the Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.” [1 Th 3:13] Now He is
telling you right here in this hour that, if you are one with that Word,
you’re blameless, you’re abounding in love, you’re
established—you’ve got it. 

37.	Oh, says somebody, “But I’m looking for this.” 

	Why don’t we just shut up? Listen. Let me tell you something. I
don’t know too much about horses, but I’ve been around them, and
there are horses whom, foom, foom, foom. So, the good old boy that
drives the horse puts blinders on the horse, and all the horse can do is
look ahead: chung, chung, chung, chung. And they say, “Poor horse.” 

	No, good old horse. He’d be this way thiz, thiz, thiz, thiz. 

	We need blinders. We need our eyes open, then blinders. Too many horses
in the bunches, not around here, but around all the country, that say
they believe the Message, and those horses are neighing like horses at
their neighbor’s wives, which in plain English I bring down as
spiritual adultery and fornication. They just can’t wait to go back to
Pentecost or get someplace else. They just can’t wait to to get away
from the Word, all the time talking about Paul and his Word. They’re
nothing but a bunch of Baptists… Presbyterians. Come on. I’ve been
all through that stuff. 

38.	Hebrews 10:24, look at It there. 

(24)	And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good
works: 

	The word ‘provoke’ means ‘to excite to paroxysms’, get people
excited about that love. What love? The agape love, which has
definition, which is not undefined, which has a spiritual backbone of
the Word, which you might say is liquid Word, the life of the Word going
out from you.

39.	We could go on, but we’ll go to Romans 5 now, to solve our
problem. You say, aren’t you finished yet? Nope, just starting, but
hope that I don’t have to be all night in doing it. Romans 5:1-2. 

(1)	Therefore (having been) justified by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ:

(2)	By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we
stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

	Now, listen. I want to tell you something. This man Paul in those two
verses is delineating upon the justification, which means we have been
declared righteous by God through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ,
the baptism with the Holy Ghost, and the eternal presence of Christ. We
stand right there with it all in our hands, looking right to the very
Resurrection, the very glorification, the outworking.

40.	Now: [Rom 5:3-5]

(3)	And not only so, but we (rejoice) in tribulation(s) also: knowing
that (the) tribulation worketh patience; (which is endurance) 

(4)	And (endurance), experience (or maturity, and maturity); and
(character), hope:

(5)	And (earnest expectation) maketh not ashamed; because the love of
God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto
us.

	Now here is what we’re looking at. Here is the process of the
outworking of love or how love will project and bring forth grace, which
Bro. Branham spoke of. 

	Now we know the attribute of the Holy Spirit, called love, is one of
nine fruits: love, peace, joy, long suffering, gentleness, goodness,
faith, meekness, and temperance. That’s in Galatians 5. It’s also
exalted as the chief thing that a man could attain to in 1 Corinthians
13. 

	Now here, this Scripture simply tells how the Bride churches can come
by the projecting of love, and it comes in a series of steps. And this
is to the Bride as a group, as well as individuals within the group,
even as Bro. Branham preached on “The Stature of a Perfect Man”,
that it went through the churches in Seven Church Ages, but also in
every single individual. Now, you remember the sermon. 

41.	So therefore, we start with the definitive revelation of
justification, which, as I said, “The price paid,” and we are heirs
of all that grace produces in and through Christ right up to the Wedding
Supper, as It says in Romans 8 concerning the predestination of the
children of God; and because this is so: “Whom He justified, them He
glorified;” and then, if you are glorified, who dares lay anything to
the charge of God’s elected. It is God that justifieth. Who can bring
us into God’s court? No way, shape, and form, because Christ died and
rose and is now in our attorney. As Bro. Branham said, “He is judge
and jury,” and he said, “attorney, everything else.” The answer
has come back: We are absolutely justified or made perfect with His Own
perfections of righteousness. Now Paul said that. 

42.	Now, listen. Today this same thing has been declared to us by
prophet William Branham. We are declared today as a Bride to be the
spotless virgin bride of Jesus Christ declared to be in our own
testimony, “I and my Father are one,” [Jn 10:30] declared to be in
the ushering in of the Millennium, declared to have fulfilled all the
good things that must be fulfilled. That’s through Jesus Christ our
Lord, because everything under the Thunders will put us into the
Millennium. We are here, as I read over in 1 Corinthians 7:8, and the
very unveiling of the Lord Jesus Christ we have this assurance, we have
this peace, we have the positive understanding, that we are absolutely
righteous as God Himself, and nothing has been imputed to us, for in our
justification it has been explained, “Little Bride you didn’t even
do it. You were trapped into it; so therefore, you are righteous.” 

	As It says also in 2 Thessalonians 1 [2 Th 1:7-8], “You that are
troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from
heaven in flaming fire,” those angels, bringing forth justice and a
judgment in earth. As the widow cried for vengeance, so the Bride has
been calling to God “Avenge me.” And the avenging is: “You are
righteous. I can come here and stand here, and you can stand in my
Presence—the Pillar of Fire that is going to destroy everybody that
comes in my Presence; no man can stand in my Presence, but you can stand
right here and live by grace of the Almighty God.” 

43.	Now, listen. We are there. This is our faith. This is our worship.
This is what we declare. This is how we present it. This is the Message
in this church, which I believe Bro. Branham preached, which I believe I
am faithful to. But, watch what happens. 

	Watch the tribulation, which the Scripture says, “Our glorying, our
understanding of what He’s done, our present truth, which we’re
involved in, all of these things, which make us to know this is of God,
and the love of God shed abroad in our hearts, knowing what God has
done, and we believe it…” Now, what happens? Tribulation sets in,
(What is it?) persecution begins to strike us. Watch those who eat with
us, who pray with us, who worship with us across the country in groups
like this, turn on this Word of faith, (and consequently, us) and try to
destroy us by way of our influence, especially our revealed faith that
puts us into the Rapture. No way. Now, don’t miss this. 

44.	We are going to go to 2 Peter 2, because this is the hour. Now I am
talking about love. I am talking about love. [2 Pet 2:1]

(1)	But there were false prophets also among the people…

	 When? When this great one gets revealed. This prophet, this Elijah
that interprets that, doesn’t bring the Word, but interprets the
Word—reveals It—at the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ, ready for
the Resurrection and the Rapture. Now Peter says there were false
prophets way back there. Now he said what happens after this man comes
on the scene: [2 Pet 2:1-3]

(1)	(There’ll) be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in
damnable heresies, even (saying “No,” refusing) the Lord that bought
them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

(2)	And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the
way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

(3)	And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make
merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and
their damnation slumbereth not.

	Now It tells you right there exactly what is going on in this hour, and
we have already dealt with that in other sermons. See? Watch them run
and twist everything the minister stands for. Watch how they criticize
your efforts and your leadings. The ministers themselves put pressure on
other ministers and church members on church members and pull and pull.
Their lies and their innuendoes are buttressed by their
self-justification, as they stalk like peacocks and tell you how
wonderful they are. But, look at the records. Look at their records;
check their records. A man that has to tell you how great he is and how
wonderful and how he is so truthful this-and-that, you’d better find
out. 

	You better be as smart as Mark Twain was, who said, “When a woman
projects her virtue and a man his integrity business-wise,” he said,
“I cultivate the woman, because she knows she’s an easy pick-up,”
and he said, “I don’t fool with the man, because he knows he’s a
crook.” 

	Mark Twain wasn’t any fool. A man who smokes cigars and cursed
God—died something like an atheist or an agnostic—had a whole lot of
discernment that a lot of people who call themselves Christians don’t.
That’s right. 

45.	With great swelling words they say, “Oh, I was with the prophet.
He told me many things.” 

	I’m going to tell you something: Bill Branham never told me anything
along the lines of what those guys heard. We talked Word. I don’t know
what other people heard. That’s their business. My business was: we
talked Word. We discussed the serpent seed, found out what we could
about the Book of Life, the Lamb’s Book of Life, brought what I could
about the baptism of the Holy Ghost, understood a lot of things that you
people understand—and only by the grace of God—because I was there.

	And you say, “Just a minute, brother.” 

	Don’t you just a minute me! Bro. Branham said, “God could have used
the wind,” even a windbag; but He didn’t. He could have used the sun
and the moon; but He didn’t. He used men. And, whether you like it or
not, I think I am pretty well in the category. [Congregation laughs.]
Yeah, same as you are. So, look in the mirror. See what did it. 

	Trying to be somebody, no way; trying to mislead anybody, no way. Just
trying to find out what’s right; trying to be of a little service.
Vain words make merchandising… Right back to the Roman Catholics: a
measure of wheat for a penny, a measure of barley for a nickel or
whatever it is, selling the lavinas, the masses, the prayers, the whole
bit, the whole lingo. [2 Pet 2:3]

(3)	… whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their
damnation slumbereth not.

	In other words those prints keep coming down the line: the crow and the
dove, the eagle and the chicken; Cain and Abel, Judas and Jesus; false
spirit, true spirit; false word, true Word, keeps coming down the line,
brother/sister. It is understanding, and they’ll pull. Oh, yeah. 

46.	Now, listen; but notice when this comes. Now here’s where we could
fail, but we better not fail, because we we’re suppose to, according
to projecting of this love, getting in the stream of it and knowing what
it is all about. Watch. I want to find it here. Peter says: [1 Pet 1:6]

(6)	Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye
are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

	And that word ‘rejoice’ is ‘to be exuberant’. And Bro. Branham
brought out the same thing in this hour of great rejoicing. Why? Because
we have that Word, and our love is rooted in the love of the Word,
before it makes one move. That’s why he said, “The Bride is going to
have the Word and know what to do with It, or she’ll shut up, and
she’ll stand still,” and preached on, “Doing God a Service Apart
from His Will.” Oh yes, brother/sister. 

47.	Now, watch. Here is where we, who are one in this revelation, stay
with each other. Now I am preaching personal. Now, watch. Here is where
we, who are one in this revelation, stay with each other. Just stick
real close, and don’t get spooked. What am I talking about? All this
talk that comes back all the time, all the meaning of people that have
all the answers, that want you in their camp, that try to take authority
over you, will pull you here and pull you there, (Yup.) who want to
build a church up. 

	Listen, I am not lying to you. When Bro. Branham died, if I’d have
started a local church, they would have flocked in by the scores. I
said, “No way!” 

	And you won’t flock in here either by the scores. We’ve got too
small a building. Check your motives, when you come any distance at all.
I’m not trying to get rid of you. I’m not trying to get you. I just
tell you flat. I’d be responsible for you, because I am. 

	The minute you come to hear this teaching that I bring and believe to
be Bro. Branham’s correct understanding, which is Bro. Branham’s
correct understanding to my knowledge, what God gave him as he got the
correct understanding of what God gave Paul… So, it can’t be done. 

	What if I was wrong? I am not trying to grind an ax. I am trying to
bring this thing down to the place of: “What is love anyway?” and
“How do you project?” 

48.	Now, let’s get this flat. By now you know that God can only answer
according to his Word; and, if he answers any other way, then it is to
the reprobate, and they die with leanness of soul, and you end up with a
lot of gifts, but not the baptism. You end up with a false church that
is so close at the end time to the real, that only the very elect are
not deceived. 

	Now, take your pick tonight, brother/sister, which way you’re going.
Do you really want to find out what it’s all about? I do. God knows
I’m not trying to preach to you people to just get a rise out of you,
because I haven’t finished my sermon yet. 

	Now, listen. Stick with each other. Just stick real close, and don’t
get spooked, because this testing of your revelation gives you
character. 

49.	Now, let’s go back. All right. Let’s read it: You glory in
tribulation. 

	Now it can’t come from a true brother. A true brother says, “Sir,
you’re not in the truth. I got to help you.” 

	He’ll lead you back. If you smart off, he may pin your ears back,
like Paul did to Peter. He said, “Okay, Barnabas, you’re a fine boy,
but out. You respect my leadership. Don’t try to rise up and be leader
over me,” said he. 

	Barnabas said, “The Holy Ghost put me here, therefore, I am just as
good as Paul.” 

	I am going to tell you something. The Holy Ghost can put the deacons
here and the elders here and all you here, but you’ll never come up to
my ministry, if my ministry is of God. Now you understand that or go on
home now, because you are not going to get away from it. Not that Lee
Vayle is anybody, but I happen to know Bible order. Now you can talk
with me, and I can be wrong; but, you see, love is corrective, and love
is fully an outflowing from that Word. It is basic to the Word,
contingent with, and is the Word, because God is love, and God is the
Word. So, you just can’t fool with these things. All right. 

50.	Now It says right here that “tribulation worketh patience,” [Rom
5:3] and ‘patience’ means ‘endurance’. All right. This, what
comes against us, the false brethren, the attempt to take us off the
Word, should not make us go this way-that way, but stand back. Like Bro.
Branham said, “Hey,” he said, “I like a good little argument
here,” he said, “a little contention,” and he said, “a little
bit of something coming against me,” and he said, “I’ve got to
examine myself again and say, ‘Hey, is that just right?’” 

	Now, notice the attitude of a real man of God. That’s what Peter did.
He said, “Paul, I’ve got to admit I was wrong. I am sorry. I am
sorry. I am sorry. I’ll never do it again,” and he didn’t do it
again. Yup. You don’t find Paul in a fight either again, after
Barnabas and he split up either. He had a love affair with Silas; and, I
guess, Silas died and Paul died. You don’t find him getting any more
partners; and, of course, the love affair was in the love gospel of
Jesus Christ. There is nothing derogatory about that statement
whatsoever; they just loved the same Word. All right. 

51.	 So therefore, now you’re enduring, and you’re learning that
you’ve got to stay with It. Say, look brother/sister; there is no such
thing as anybody sitting on a fence anymore. Listen, if you can come
into these where I preach, and the third time you’re not on one side
of the fence, look, do me a favor, just smile sweetly and pretend you
get it. [Congregation laughs.] Just, you know… Look, that’s an awful
insult to my preaching. Look, I believe, one: I don’t believe I got to
preach three times and you not know where I stand. I mean look, Bro.
Branham said so. I knew that way back before I got to know Bro. Branham
real personal. 

	I said, “Don’t tell me about this Word.” I said, “This Word is
so great, a man hear It two times, that ought to do it.” 

	I did. I had forgotten the Bible said, “You give this to a heretic
twice in a row; if that doesn’t do it, forget it.” Just leave them
alone. Bro. Branham said the same thing. He’s got to say the same
thing. Now, under certain conditions there are m  men that just don’t
know too much, and you work with them awhile; and that is true. But
look, you ought to know a few things. We ought to know a few things. 

	Now, listen. This gives you endurance, which is that patience we are
talking about. It makes you stand there with what you’ve got, so
you’re not spooked, and you can stand and watch. I have told you, and
I tell you not a lie. I tell you the truth. I have waited ten, twelve,
thirteen, fourteen years for one point, since Bro. Branham left us. Yes,
and there are laws God lays down in my heart and my mind of what Bro.
Branham taught that have increasingly given me an understanding. And
it’s eighteen solid years, nineteen coming up, since he’s gone—two
complete nines. All right. 

52.	Now, listen. It says that you’re enduring. Your standing there is
doing something that you don’t know what’s going on, and one day
you’ll wake up to it. It is giving you character or maturity, not just
experience. The word ‘experience’ is in the Word of God, and the
word is ‘maturity’, and it is ‘character’. And Bro. Branham
said, “Find me a woman, a Bride of such character as she’ll listen
to the Message or one voice.” Now we’re talking about this
projecting of love. See? 

	Now in here it says the next thing that happens is character and
maturity. She is lying in the sun maturing. 

	Now people say, “Oh, Bro. Branham didn’t say ‘lie in the sun and
rot.’” 

	That’s exactly right; because, if you are really in this Word, my
brother/sister, you’re going to have enough enemies to more than do
your stomach for fifty thousand years. In other words you’re going to
get a belly full. I just might as well bring it right out in
public—little vulgar, little vernacular—but it ain’t going to hurt
anybody. You’re going to have enough. You’ll have your enemies right
there. You’ll be lied about and everything else, and you’ll be lied
to; and, of course, there is always the famous twist of all, “Well, I
didn’t mean it that way,” or “You didn’t
understand.”—everything under high heaven. You’re going to have a
problem with, or you’re going… I don’t care what anybody says;
you’re going to have a problem.

53.	Now the Bride has got to learn to stand there with what she believes
(See?)—what she understands. Now the work in her, the endurance, which
gives forth a character, where she stands in the water to be dressed…
Now, remember; Bro. Branham categorically said, “The sword of the
Lord.” Why, he said, “There is only one, the sword of the King.”
And that’s the Word of God. So help me, bring on your holy vesture
with the holy Word of God standing by. He was telling you, it would take
this Word to dress you, to give you your character, because you don’t
have character apart from the Word.

	Now, beginning with the plan of justification, perfect Word of the
Bride, you stand right there with that revelation that come down to you;
you stand there on the right side of the fence with Jesus. You got to
get off the fence. You got to stand there, and you don’t vacillate.
You believe what you believe. There are things you can’t understand,
but you stand there anyway. You’re getting character. You’re getting
ripe.

54.	Now, with this ripeness comes hope, which means that ‘earnest
expectation’. You come to the place where you say, “Look, I don’t
know how I am going to be in the Rapture, but I know I am going to be in
the Rapture, because I got a revelation of the hour. I’m not going to
die, though I could die tomorrow. I’m standing in the light of the
Rapture. I’ve got an earnest expectation of what this is all about,
which is to put me in the Rapture, or under the Seventh Seal with the
Seven Thunders, which gave us rapturing faith. I’m going to see the
dead come out of the ground, and I am going to have resurrection faith,
which means I am going to be changed, which gives me one thing left,
which is rapturing faith, and I’ve already got it in a measure.”

	And you begin to see here that the Shout is to the living.

	And people say, “So, He is here. So what? Oh, what has it done to the
individual?”

	Oh, I wish that man had never asked that question. I can name him a
dozen things. I’m sorry to hear preachers ask questions like that. It
lets me know they don’t even know what I am saying. There’s no way
of them knowing what I am saying. No way.

55.	Now, listen. She lies in the sun and matures. She knows her
Melchisedec. It is the time of strong meat. She knows who He is: Elohim,
the One Who becomes. She understands all the roles that are going on at
this time. She is privy to the full counsel of God. She stands with the
prophet who said, “Always looking back, always looking forward, never
knowing what’s going on.” She says, “I want to raise my hand. I
do.” She understands. She is ripening in the presence of our Son. The
healing in the wings is starting. Immortality is growing fast—the
pace. And there will be those here whose very atoms will be changed. 

56.	And I was just thinking the other day. Could it be possible that you
and I will be just like Abraham? But, thank God, let’s get this point
across: sexless as far as desire is concerned. They’ll be sixteen
years old each, and suddenly see, and not yet changed to, immortality. I
don’t know if that is going to happen, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
And you would know what no one has ever known before, outside of
Abraham, and stand there in the dew of youth and the beauty of holiness
without one quiver or emotion in the wrong way, and then, you’d know
what Adam could have been, and he blew it. 

	You say, “How do you get that?”

	I don’t say it is going to happen. Wouldn’t it be nice? I am going
to tell you something. Something nicer is going to happen, if that
doesn’t, which is: you’ll know the thrill without loosing one breath
or one beat of the eyeball, one beat of the heart. No way will you loose
any sense of touch or taste or smell or sound or whatsoever; but
suddenly, it will be intensified, because you’ve got that sixth sense
back in perfect functioning order, because you’ve been changed. 

	Oh yes, she knows who Elohim is and what’s going on. She tries the
spirits, and she doesn’t go by feeling, like someone who comes in and
says, “Oh, I don’t feel it is in your church.” 

	And I say, “That is exactly right, because you don’t belong
here,” [Congregation laughs.] because it is not by feeling. It’s
by… You don’t take the Word and judge the Word by the spirit. You
judge the spirit by the Word. And I am going to tell you, if that Word
is lined up in this building, (I don’t care how hard this preacher up
here gets.) I’m going to tell you something: you are in the spirit.
Because they thought Bro. Branham ranted and raved; and they said,
“That man who judged others.” 

	I want to tell you, “Praise God for William Branham. Hallelujah, and
every Word he said.” 

57.	Now, listen. Let’s go a little further. It says in here: Now this
earnest expectation… And earnest expectation makes us not ashamed.
[Rom 3:5] Something has happened. You don’t care what anybody says
about the fact you believe that He is here, the Rapture is already begun
on the grounds that the Lord has descended with a shout to the living,
that the separation is going on, Matthew 24 is going on, and Luke 17 has
been going on and will end in the Rapture. But I believe Matthew 24 has
ended already, because we’re separated and being separated, living
sheep from goats, so to speak. This last time: what is going on—very,
very true. 

	Now It says here, this earnest expectation... We’re not ashamed. Why?
Because the love of God is now in operation. Yeah. Yeah. 

58.	Now, watch. You went all the way from justification, the Word
coming, the declaration of who you are, and what you are, and your
presence, and you are standing with that Word and with nothing else,
because there are no more signs, there is no more evidence, there is no
more nothing. And you can stand right with Abraham, and know that there
is… Oh, come on; let’s go back and read about Abraham. [Rom 4:1-2] 

(1)	What shall we say then (as our father) Abraham (as) pertaining to
the flesth, hath found? (Pertaining to flesh, what he has done?)

(2)	For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory;
but not before God.

	God stood right there, and Abraham said, …“Oh God, I am a wonderful
fellow.” 

	And God said, “Oh, you bet you are. Yeah, you’re wonderful all
right. Phap. You sure took my promise and messed up when you took Hagar.
Didn’t you? What a wonderful guy you turned out to be.” [Rom 4:3-5]

For what saith the scripture Abraham believed God, and it was counted to
Him for righteousness. 

Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of
debt.

But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the
ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

	Justified! You stand there, and you know that you’re justified. You
take the Word for it. Like Bro. Branham said, “Abraham didn’t even
look at his own conduct,” how he ordered himself. Look, you have got
to see this Word and see Christ, and in Christ you see redemption. All
other ground is sinking sand. Where are you going to put yourself? Now
you can stand in His Presence. Watch the pressure come. Watch the
pressure come. Oh yeah, so what. 

59.	You watch everybody kick their heels up. Yeah. Why? They just love
to hear lies about other people, everything they can to twist, because
Satan is coming against us for one reason: to try to get us away from
this Word. 

	There is a certain brother, (I won’t mention his name.) but he got in
touch with me. I sent him some tapes. He was at a meeting. I don’t
expect to ever hear from that man again, because, I believe, he is just
too nice for guys like me. He can’t stand the pressure. He has known
of Bro. Branham’s ministry since Bro. Branham is dead, and before
that, all these years; but he’s never mentioned his name in his
church. [End of side two of audio tape #1.] 

	“Where is it? What did Bro. Branham do?”

60.	Look, there’s the picture of the Pillar of Fire. So, what? Oh, ho,
ho; well, you know, ha, ha, ha. Oh, yeah. What does it mean
individually? [Bro. Vayle shouts.] The camera caught it. What does it
mean? What does it mean? Something’s wrong somewhere—our
expectation. He said so. “Now she is one with the Word. She isn’t
ashamed.” That means she’s not naked. “The shame of thy nakedness
do not appear.” [Rev 3:18] The Bride is dressed. She stands there with
faith in Him. She is one with the Word.” She is clothed in her right
mind.

	She is not insane. Like Bro. Braham said, “The spirit of hell and
insanity has left her.” She will never hallucinate to see those images
come in, those birds that stretch across the heavens, and they scream
out in terror in answer as big as telephone poles, and they imagine
locusts with long hair, because women cut their hair. The Bride won’t
see that. She sees Him. She’s at rest. Oh, yeah; it looks like
turmoil, but she’s at rest. 

	You say, “Lee Vayle, I don’t believe you’ve got any rest.” 

	I’ve got news for you: you’re reading the covers. Get inside the
covers. Get inside the covers. Yeah, she knows who she is, in her right
mind, one with the Word. Here’s where she is. You see, the One who is
Love is here. And I’m going to tell you something: because the Bride
has received Him, He is going to receive her. The prophet said so.
Everybody talks about; “Oh, He is going to receive a Bride.” 

	Haa! The Bride had better receive the Bridegroom—uniting time,
uniting time sign. Here she is. 

61.	I want to stop and make myself very clear here. I want to remind you
I am talking about individuals or members who all together make up a
body, a local Bride church. And I am talking about her attitudes that
determine her conduct in and amongst her members. Don’t get scared.
Just listen. I haven’t got a club over your head; so, just relax. Will
you? I said I am talking about individuals or members who are all
together, make up a body, like a local church here. See? I am talking
about the attitudes based on the Word of a projecting of love that comes
through a series after the revelation. Do you follow what I said? Do you
follow me? 

62.	Now, what I did is, I took you through a process in the Book of
Romans the first five verses, the revelation, peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ, ready for the Millennium, the Bridal Supper. Now
this, what we have, is based upon a manifested proof, the Word of God
revealed by manifestation; so, we know where we’re at. We are now in
earnest expectation of that glorification. That’s what it says. The
minute you come to it with the full revelation, tribulation sets in,
persecution, and problems. 

63.	Now, listen; we are talking about two kinds of brethren:
‘community brethren’ is ‘Cain and Abel together’; ‘brethren of
God’ is ‘Abel’. ‘Brethren of hell’ is ‘Cain’. The crow and
the dove are both birds, generically speaking, brethren are brethren,
humans are human, males are males, women are women; but there is a
difference. There is a haint and a saint. There is a Christ lover and a
Christ hater. There are two spirits: a true and a false. There’s a
heaven; there’s a hell. There’s a kingdom of God, a kingdom of
Satan. Let’s get it straight. So, there are two kind os  f brethren.
Now, remember; it was Ishmael, the brother of Isaac, that tormented
Isaac. Yeah, right. The scoff. Remember Bro. Terry’s sermon? It was
Cain that killed Abel. It was Judas who betrayed Jesus. Ananias and
Sapphira invaded the camp. They got clobbered; but then, it was really
taken over. 

64.	Then, one day a man who wrote the great book on love came up to
Peter, and said, “Peter, you’re wrong.” 

	“Now Paul, just a minute sit down, dear boy. After all Peter is older
than you, and he did walk and talk with Jesus, and you should defer to
him, you see, because you understand.” [Bro. Vayle says
sarcastically.] 

	He said, “I understand one thing. I have a revelation.” 

	And he had the same revelation, and he blew it. I want to ask you a
question. Where does your love go: toward God or toward man? When it
comes to the Word, it’s got to go toward God first; then, it’s going
to work out. Then, there’s no use anybody saying, “I’ve got a love
toward God, if he doesn’t abide in the Word and strictly utilize that
Word, Its power, and Its resources in dealing with his fellow man. 

	Now, deal with your own resources, and you’ll both go to hell. So,
God so loved the world He gave his Son, [Jn 3:16] and you love God and
your fellow men that you didn’t know who was sheep or not that you
were willing to lay down your life and go to a mission field that you
are willing to put your living on the line. You’re willing to do all
those things. Why? Because you’ve got a living Word with you. But the
minute they cross that line against that Word, you’ve got to bring
them right back to the Word. And, remember; God is judging this world
now by the Word, which is Christ Jesus.

65.	Now everybody is squawking today about these judges, and they’re
talking about love, and they’re saying, “Well, that dear boy, he
really didn’t mean to rape that girl and to kill her. You see, what it
was, his parents got divorced and such a traumatic thing took place
that, you see, ‘What if it was your daughter, Judge?’” 

	Well, he said, “You see, I don’t have a daughter, but I have a son
who could do the same thing; so, in great love I must let him off.” 

	You hate his guts, because the man will not clamp down on rape and
everything else. As Bro. Branham said, the reason he had to go against
capital punishment, from the humanistic viewpoint, was “Always the
poor man died, and the rich man got off.” But, let’s get back to the
Word. 

66.	Now we’re talking about a local church. We’re talking about her
attitudes that determine her conduct in and amongst her members, each
one and all together alike. She understands 1 Corinthians 12. She is not
in opposition with anybody, or in competition. She is one. 

	I wish that ministers, especially in my own personal existence, could
understand I am not competing with anybody. I am competing with myself
and the devil and trying to be a servant of God. Why can’t they do
likewise? That’s why I set myself apart, and I just don’t have truck
and trade anymore. They can do what they want. They simply don’t want
to understand, that solves the problem. Forget it. I am gonna going to
go on. 

	Now I, in honor, have preferred my brother day-in and day-out. No man
can deny that record, because God is my judge. It’s the truth; even my
enemies admit to it. But I will not fool around with that which is off
the Word. I have a ministry. Moses, the meekest man in all the world,
said, “Father, I’ll die with those people…” One day men rose up
against his ministry, and he said, “God, if they die the death common
to men, you never even called me.” 

	One day Peter said to Jesus, “Ah, far be it from thee, Lord.” 

	“Get thee behind me, Satan.” [Mt 16:22-23] You don’t go off the
Word, brother/sister. 

67.	The Bride knows we’re not in competition. We’re not. No way. She
understands cooperation. She understands trying to be representative of
the Lord Jesus Christ and be a living idol unto Him, as Bro. Branham
said: “The Stature of a Perfect Man.” She doesn’t talk about a
body ministry anymore, as though everybody’s got some lovely little
part that you seek God for and who cares about the Word and all. She
only knows one thing: give Him preeminence and let Him be the Word in
her; according to that written Word, let it be manifested. 

68.	Now, listen carefully. John talked to a Bride that at the
beginning—at the beginning now—did not have the mixed element. It
was a true revelation that all had—a virgin. So, how could there be a
persecution arisen from within? No way. No way! The hundred and twenty
names comprise the perfect bride of Jesus Christ. There wasn’t any
difference. None. Why? Because it was all Word-centered. 

	A little difference came up over who’s got so much soup and who’s
got so many noodles. Well, they said, “Let’s divide the soup and the
noodles exactly right; take Holy Ghost men to do it. No problem. We’re
giving our self to the Word of God and to prayer.” That’s why
you’ve got noodle feeders in the church that take care of the mundane.
You’ve got men that rise above it and take care of the other, and the
church goes marching on with the Word of God fulfilling her destiny. 

69.	The church at that time was not mixed; it did not have a mixed
multitude. They were one in pristine purity. Then, persecution arose
from outside, and they come together. What they saw in each, made them
cling together. Let’s go to 1 John 4. Now persecution arises from the
outside; then, it starts coming right to the inside. Let’s take a
look. 1 John 4: [1 Jn 4:1-4]

(1)	Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they
(be) of God: because (a lot of folk are trying to get in here. They are
claiming the same thing, because) many false prophets are gone out into
the world.

(2)	Hereby (you) know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: (Now, that’s for
this hour, the fullness of the Godhead bodily manifested in flesh again.
Whether you like that or not, that’s the truth.)

(3)	And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in
the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof
ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the
world. 

(4)	Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because
greater is he that is in you, that he that is in the world.

70.	Now, listen. Bro. Branham categorically said, “I am not the Son of
man. The Pillar of Fire is not the Son of man, but it is a form of the
Holy Spirit.” William Branham stood there. So, the Spirit of God in a
human form, Jesus Christ in William Branham, performed the very
miracles—said the very Word that was suppose to be said. So, we looked
at him. We saw God in a human form. We heard God, God speaking through
the man—not speaking William Branham’s thoughts, but God’s Own
thoughts: God moving because the words of a man wouldn’t do that. Now:
[1 Jn 4:4-6]

(4)	Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because
greater is he that is in you, that he that is in the world. (In other
words he said, “They’ll come, but you’ll know them.”)

(5)	They are of the world: therefore (they speak) of the world; and the
world heareth them.

(6)	We are of God: he that knoweth God (hears me, said John, and men
like me); he that is not of God (does) not (hear) us, Hereby know we
that Spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

	What if William Branham was in that mold, and everybody that turned his
ear against William Branham is out? And, what about those that say,
“Well, I do believe and don’t”? 

	Watch ’em. Now there’s where you’ve got to watch, because, you
see, there’s going to be those that walk right up and say,
“Phooey.” They’re going to come within us, and they’re going to
cause the problem. [1 Jn 4:7-8]

(7)	(Now) Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and
every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

(8)	He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. (All right. Now
that’s a good ‘amen’ to that.)

71.	Now, listen: Romans 5. Here we reverse it. Right back there. It was
there. They weren’t working up to anything. There was none among them
betraying anybody. The influence was on the outside, where It says,
“No man durst join himself to them.” [Acts 5:13] You couldn’t even
come near them. Ananias and Sapphira rose up; they died for it. 

	Now people are looking for all kinds of things like that. I am not. I
believe Ananias and Sapphira are already here. I believe they are
already dead, spiritually speaking; not that something couldn’t happen
physically, but I don’t look for it. I just leave those things be.
Bro. Branham said, “A little word…,”and I let it go at that. Now I
said, “Listen, that started back there with that love.” Now, look.
Paul reversed it, because it was already in the church, mixed up and
messed up.

72.	Now, listen carefully; Bro. Branham said, “Look. When that one or
somebody’s come into your group, and they sit amongst you with the
avowed purpose that they will attempt to destroy, do not click or
clan.” Now, how can you, if your eye is on the Word? If you’re on
personality, forget it. Now I am not sure that everyone here is exactly
perfect concerning personality, because I myself am not. I’ve come to
the place where I can tolerate anything on the grounds I tolerate
something else too, and I believe I know every single one of you, at
least to a degree, where I know weaknesses, and I know strengths, and it
doesn’t bug me anymore. Not one bit. Oh, I may look at it and say,
“Well, phppp, why not do something about it,” but you’re not going
to; so, that’s fine too. But the premise is solely on a Word, not on a
conduct per se, though conduct is a legitimate requirement. You could
show the most wonderful love in all the world, and be a flat-footed
hypocrite. And you could stand like the apostle Paul and say, “Peter,
I’m going to tell you something: as much as I hate to kind of push
your nose into it, you blew it. You blew it.” 

73.	I had to phone a man not too long ago. I knew what he’d already
done—where the fruit was going to go. And he came to America, and I
said, “You blew it.” 

	He got so fa.. He made a phone call almost plum around the world, and
the man said, “Son, I would have told you,” but he said, “I could
see you needed a lesson. So, I let it happen.” 

	That was love. You say, “Hey, the guy should have warned him.” Ah
no, it would have simply caused a fight. Don’t pull up the tares. Let
them grow; and remember, there is a rain that is called former and
latter, and they come together, and it will separate the tare. So,
don’t you bother. 

	You just stick with the former rain that’s falling in the latter
rain, and the tares will go ‘pheep’, because God will go
‘pheep’. And, remember; when you say, “I and my Father are one,”
it’s too much for them. The shuck’s going to pull away from the
grain. It’s ripening, uniting time sign. It’s all over. It’s going
on. This is where your growth has come.

74.	So, there will be none of the taking of sides or clanning. They’ll
be no clicking and no separating, just a pulling together and a going
on, because you know what is taught here, and you believe it, and I
believe it, and this is what counts. From there on, anything which lies
in a difference of personalities can be perfectly adjusted and will be
adjusted, if you simply want to adjust. But I am going to tell you
something: You can’t give yourself a revelation. And, if you’ve got
a revelation, you’ve got the real thing. As Bob Brown put it so
nicely, he said, “It’s no problem to find out how to walk in the
spirit; if you are, live in it. All you’ve got to do is to look at the
Word, and It’ll tell you how to walk.” It’s there. You see?

75.	 Now, listen. Giving love to anyone and everyone until that one
comes in or gets out is now possible, because the one thing they want to
do is get us off the Word, and that is the one thing they can’t do.
So, what does it matter how nice you are? You can afford to be. You can.
You see? Bro. Branham premised this on a love, and He premised it on
Him. He said, “I’m here,” and he said, “you loved,” he said.
Why? Because they had a tie post. Let me tell you something: When the
tie post went, he said, “It’d all went bluey.” Now, look, he said,
“He that is here now is the tie post. He must increase, and I must
decrease.” We have a greater tie post than ever. We have the living
Logos with the revelation, per say, in an ever failing refection that is
bringing us right to the glory of God, to the Wedding Supper. So
therefore, we couldn’t do it before, but you can do it now. 

76.	You can say, “Can I let my hair down?” 

	Oh, yeah. Yeah. I don’t have to tell anybody, 

	Look, if you’re going to leave, tell me now and never come back. I
don’t care if you come and go freely, phtt. 

	You say, “Bro. Vayle, why?” 

	I told you why tonight. I preached to you. I preached a message to this
congregation. I can say like Bro. Branham, you can believe what you want
on the outside or, if anybody did get a tape or anybody here, you do
what you want about what I preach. I am preaching to you people here
that come here under the sound of my voice and listen, who respect me
and believe that I do have a gift ministry of a description, which lies
in teaching, to take the Scripture, to stay with Bro. Branham and
understand, and I believe I can say the same thing now. 

	The devil is not going to leave us alone. But, look; don’t put your
thoughts on the devil. Put your thoughts on God. Don’t worry what
comes in and goes amongst us from now on; because, look, we’ve been
through it. See? 

77.	I’m going to close in just a minute or two here, but I want to
read something, and I’ll try to cut to cut down tomorrow morning, cut
it down real good. But you know that’s an impossibility, the way I
preach. Now, listen: [2 Cor 1:3-4]

Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
mercies, and the God of all comfort; 

Who (comforts) us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort
them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are
comforted of God.

	It tells you right there: Look, we’ve been through it. We can help
others to go through it. We know what’s here. We know what lies ahead.
Let us begin to realize we are not walking in darkness. We are not
unaware of the tricks of Satan.

	Let me see if I can find that one. It’s here somewhere. I wish I
could remember just where that is. I always have the worse trouble in
the world remembering the things I want to remember. Oh, anyway, it
doesn’t really matter… I can find it, I guess, if I just took a
little time here. I could pick it pick it right up, but I haven’t got
that kind of time to bother with it. But anyway, It tells us very, very
succinctly here that we’re not unaware of the tricks of Satan. We’re
not unaware of his methods, of his wiles. We’re knowledgeable. 

78.	Now, look; brother/sister: Here we are knowing the ways of God;
knowing the Word of God; knowing Satan for what he is: antichrist
revealed, Satan revealed; God revealed, all of the revelation, the Word;
here it is. Look, I am going to tell you something: we are not walking
in blindness. We are not walking in darkness. We are walking in light.
And there is not that day or any day that can overtake us unawares, if
we realize the metamorphosis, the projecting, the evolution, whatever
you want to call it, of what we are talking about tonight. See? 

79.	Let love project. Stay with this Word. Stand with It! See? That’s
where the starting point is. Stand with It, so nothing can come in and
take you off of It. Then, from that point on, it is a very minor
decision to stand with these other things wherein we know how to conduct
ourselves, and do conduct ourselves, which is our reasonable exhortation
from God. 

	Now we have come to that love I am talking about. Keep it projecting
and watch God work on our behalf and continue cleaning up and building
up a Bride that He is going to get out of here. This is getting ready
for the squeeze, but also for the Rapture. I do not preach any message
that ‘we have arrived’. There is no way that I believe we have
arrived on… [End of side one of audio tape #2] I believe I am seeing
the Word interpreted by manifestation—a manifestation amongst us. I
believe it is in other churches. 

80.	Now, listen. Other churches tried to clean up and develop a love.
They confessed and cried to each other publicly, and rejoiced, and said,
“This is it.” 

	I said, “This isn’t it.” 

	I saw it happen in churches in Hobe Sound, in Florida, amongst the dead
Methodists or the sleeping virgin; and they hugged and they kissed, that
is, the husband and wife. They made up. They made public confession. No
more near this Word than nothing. 

	Now the churches that did it… Where is one church that did it first?
I’ll tell you what: They made their preacher… He made himself the
archangel Michael, so he’s got a sealing in, and you fall on the
floor. And that is the last understanding I have from good authority.
The other fellow’s church that said that made the great profession of
everything they had and such love, they’ve gone to polygamy. They can
both have it. They neither have it. So, neither do you have it on those
grounds. You have not arrived. 

81.	I am merely trying to interpret to you and show to you the things
the outworking of where we are now. We are in a position that we were
not in a position before. We can relax. We can afford to expose
ourselves, that is, to lay ourselves open for others, but not to a false
Word. 

	To get bitten again would not be the greatest crime in the world,
although I think we should be by that, too. And I mean it in this
respect: How many times would a person have to prove he’s off the
Word? I’m speaking now concerning the understanding. How many times
would he have to be in disobedience to what we follow here is that which
is a natural concept of a Christian conduct to know that person needs
some kind of a relief, and some kind of a help to build him up? 

82.	You see, look. In no way do we believe we’ve arrived. No way do we
go through some emotions and motions. No way, because I saw those
churches do it. The Methodists never moved out of their tracks. These
that are Pentecost amongst us have gone right back and used that as a
cover up, as though they have something. But I see God’s Word coming
to pass, brother/sister, the way it’s laid out here. I see a love
projecting. I see that we’re able, if we only believe, to project this
love like a laser beam at the enemy, and never failing us, never working
ill to the neighbor, never working ill to anybody, but a cost in
overcoming in all things, until the Bride gets out of here. 

83.	Now you do what you want with the Message. I’m not a prophet. I
don’t have any extrasensory gift or anything else. But I do believe
that there is nothing at this moment that is not fully exposed to the
Word, where the Word gives us the literal, beautiful understanding. I
would not say for one minute that this church is ideal, because it is
not. From the top down, it is not ideal. I do not believe for one minute
we have here a fountain of knowledge as though we have all obtained to
the epitome of it, to the apex. I don’t believe for one minute. 

84.	I believe there is much we will have to know as we go down the
trail, but I do believe that what has come to our attention, brought by
Bro. Branham, we believe it correctly, what we see. What we don’t, and
what God wants to give us, He will give us. We are not striving for it,
as though we need to know things. We left ourselves open to the grace of
Almighty God. 

	I believe we understand where we’re at today in this Word; and I
believe, because I understand who and what we are and what position we
have in a certain limited sense, which is still a very wonderful sense,
I believe that there is no reason at this point that we have to be
defensive in any way, shape, or form. We can be open and above board and
all things kind and considerate, because we stay with the Word. And
because each one of us stays with the Word, there can not be any such
thing as hate. Misunderstanding? A little criticism? Grant you. But
there can not be hate. There is no such thing as hating a brother,
because you both love the same One, Who is the Word, Who is here. How
can you? See? 

84.	So, I hope you begin to understand what I am saying. I believe there
is a freedom; and, with love progressing, one of these days the Holy
Spirit will so be in charge of a Bride… And, if we’re not Bride,
it’ll be someplace else or one here and there. But we consider
ourselves Bride. So, we look for that day the Spirit of God moves in
such respect amongst us, there won’t be one that’s not
unhealed—not one sick. No, no more sickness, knowing the Resurrection
is amongst us, the healing in the wings. He’s just further and further
going on. 

	So, the Lord bless you. Let’s rise at this time.

	Gracious Heavenly Father, knowing sometimes it is difficult to express
ourselves, taking more time perhaps than we would want to take, but
knowing some of these things do cause misunderstandings where people can
not realize to put to Your credit and their credit a working of the Holy
Spirit according to the Word of Almighty God, wherein this is the
Message you heard from the beginning, and this is where the love was,
and the enemy came, and came against that love, and murdered the
brother, showing that he wasn’t a brother—false. All down the line,
Lord, we see these things. And we know that so many things have come to
us in a form that just does not cut with the last day Message, but here
it is. 

	The prophet said, “Love is corrective.” Love is doing what you
wouldn’t do, except you do it for God. Love is doing the Will of God.
Compassion is doing the Will of God. And here, there are people right
here, Lord, many places around the world, little groups here and there,
not trying to be Bride, but are Bride and coming to the understanding of
what is going on, what has gone on, and how we’re coming more and more
into that image, more and more into the rest of the Word, more and more
knowing what has been set, what is in order, what your Word is: the
revelation, the manifestation, the proving It out, all these things. 

	So, Father, tonight, if we said anything wrong, we stand open for
correction. If anything the prophet said that denies what has been said,
Lord, and I have been seeing wrong, my thinking is simply wishful that
it is not a manifestation of the Word of God coming into effect, Lord, I
certainly want to disabuse myself and the people of anything that will
be in that category. But, at this moment, we aren’t defending
ourselves, Lord, but believe that we have seen at least a modicum, a ray
of light shining, which we believe is the right direction that there is
a love, a love that would not be recognized by those that have a
dissimulated love, that it’s just not a true love; but, Lord, I can
not understand anybody following Your steps when You said, “The volume
of the book is written of me: to do Thy Will, oh, God.” You went right
to death to do for what was written, right to death for that Word. Then,
how much more will we stand by that Word? Not much more than You. But
how much of an example do we have? There is nothing left for an example.
It is all a reality. So, we honor Your Name tonight. 

	Now Lord, as we partake of the emblems of the Communion table and the
Foot-washing, may this be with a meaning, an understanding, and a depth
that we have never had before, that we can honestly believe in the shed
Blood, the cleansing, the Life that came back, the memorial to that
great, tremendous thing which took place. And now we are receiving the
complete revealed and full benefits of the last hour, and washing of
feet signifying many things we didn’t know before, didn’t
understand, but we’re getting to understand now, and coming into a
fuller revelation. All these things, Lord, we lay at Your feet tonight. 

	Oh God, help us. Help us, Lord, to get the absolute true drift and the
understanding of what I’ve been saying tonight. I cannot give the
people anything other than words, Lord, any more than the prophet could
just give us words. It took You to breathe the Life into it. Father God,
breathe, I pray tonight, if this is Your Word what I preached true, (And
somehow I know a truth lies in there.) something is in there that is
contingent right down in this hour. Lord, breathe on it, I pray, and
bring it into a depth, which every heart is longing to have. And I know,
Lord, that even though this prayer is acceptable, in a sense it isn’t
even necessary to be uttered, because You’re going to do it anyway,
but I say it, Lord, to encourage myself and others who are praying with
me that we will settle down into the depth of the understanding we are
coming up in this way of that love shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy
Ghost, the revealed Word, standing with it now, and altogether the Bride
becomes invincible, and we can afford to love, and let love rule under
every consideration. Not one is going to be deceived; not one is going
to be fooled. No way, because our solidarity and our uniqueness,
oneness, is of a union of the Word, and from It we go on into a conduct,
which we know, and all men have known all these years, to be right. 

	So, Father, we thank You for Your help. We know You’ve heard us, as
we’ve tried to say right, and been careful to say what is right, as
far as we know. Grant Your blessing; in Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen.

	[Bro. Vayle begins the Communion service.] 

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